[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event)

[The sweeping monk]

✽ Sennin's orderliness

A tired but still valiant Sennin will welcome everyone in the monastery's small and eclectic library, with a word of encouragement for all, and acute advice about which texts to look out for pointers about the questions Sensei Wu has asked.

A precious help, as answers are split over a great variety of works and subjects: A digression in a medical article about pressure points, a legend about a bō master in a book of tales, a practical application of a half-forgotten philosophy in an obscure treaty, and so on. The wider the scholarly culture of the character, the more likely they are to connect the dots.

TN3 Any non-Sentiment Scholar skill (Earth 2)
Wisdom of the Ages (Asako Loremaster School Ability), Friend of the Brotherhood, History, Researcher, Military History, Famously Lucky, Whispers of Poverty, Fukurokujin’s Blessing, Fukurokujin’s Curse, apply.

If you succeed, gain one Impression point plus one for every two bonus successes. Also, any subsequent attempt at this action using the same skill will have its TN increased by 1 (cumulative).

✽ Mother Tokiko's respite

In such a small community, the abbess often does her fair share of helping out directly, and today is no exception.

Her audience chamber has been converted into a study room where calm and silence are mandatory. Characters can come here to think back without distractions about what they know or just learned about the hijinks of bōjutsu, and compose their answers in peace. Tea and writing furniture are quietly provided by the abbess herself sneakily going in and out of the room.

TN3 Meditation or Composition (Fire 2)
Ally, Friend of the Brotherhood, Famously Wealthy, Whispers of Failure, Tea, Precise Memory, Enlightenment, Perfectionism, apply.

If you succeed, gain one Impression point plus one for every two bonus successes. Also, increase by 1 the TN of any subsequent attempt at this action (cumulative).

[The sweeping monk]

✽ Sensei Wu's game

The sensei is technically available to help... If you manage to find him.

The monk has sneaked out immediately at the end of the dawn meal, and has since been sighted in numerous places. Playing go in the village. Going for a stroll in the mountain. Mediating by the shrine. However, in most cases, by the time the prospective student had rushed there, the sensei has already departed, sometimes leaving behind him a paper crane with a hint of where he'll be next.

The old man is clearly enjoying this little hide-and-seek game very much.

Choose two distinct skills among the following: Fitness, Sentiment, Skulduggery, Survival, Tactics
Then roll for both skills against TN2, using two distinct rings of your choice.

If you succeed both checks, you catch the sensei. Gain 2 Impression points, as well as 1 point per two bonus successes accumulated over the two rolls. Also, for any subsequent attempts at this action, you may not use any of the skills or rings with which you just succeeded (there is however no TN increase).

Kitsuki's Method (Kitsuki Investigator School Ability), Born in the Saddle (Shinjo Outrider School Ability), Expert Tracker, apply to both checks.
Hero of [Village], Loathing for Peasants, Kisshōten's Blessing, Kisshōten's Curse, apply to either the first or second check (your choice).
Well Traveled (Miya Cartographer School Ability), Animal Bond, Hunted by Chikushō-dō, Navigator, apply to the other check.

✽ Sensei Wu's other game

Art: https://tinyurl.com/y3smawk8

In parallel to the sensei showing up and down, a mysterious character has also been sighted here and there in the vicinity. The strange individual shares Sensei's Wu silhouette, gait and voice, but is wearing a basket-like mask over his head, and they are playing the flute, so it's totally not him.

They can easily be approached and talked to, and are revealed to be quite chatty in the latter case, assailing their conversation partner with a flood of puns, jokes, tongue-in-cheek, and impromptu musical pieces. They even spice the conversation with a few veiled references to one's personal past, suggesting they're either very good at cold reading, have heard a few things about the guests from their good friends in the world, or both.

Among that flow are hidden surprisingly useful information for whoever is able to decode them.

TN3 Games or Performance (Water 2)
All disadvantages with Interpersonal as their sole Type (Bitter Betrothal, Blackmailed by, etc.) apply.
Born in the Saddle (Shinjo Outrider School Ability), Famously Successful, Whispers of Doom, Wordplay, also apply.
Sixth Sense applies but is inverted [Core, pages 100-101] here, being treated as an Adversity rather than a Distinction in exchange of the character gaining a Void point at the end of the check regardless of success or failure.
Reminder: Two Adversities do not stack, two Anxieties do not stack, but one Adversity and one Anxiety can stack.

If you succeed, gain 2 Impression point plus 1 for every two bonus successes.

[The sweeping monk]

✽ Shenanigans

Similar options as the previous day:

Unless otherwise specified, each of these options can only be attempted once.
Secrets can apply to any option allowing to earn a Tidbit, but only once this event.

✿ Spiritual spies

A character with Commune with the Spirits can use it as per its normal rules [Core, page 212]. If they choose the Spiritual Knowledge boon, they gain an Information Tidbit. Roll 1d20 to know which one.

✿ Glimpse of the future

Changed. Does not require dedicating an action to it anymore (see "Special > Spiritual" rules in the opening post).

✿ Ancestral insight

A character with Lord Bayushi's Whispers or Lord Togashi's Insight can use it, gaining an Information Tidbit if they pass (roll 1d20 to determine which one). They can spend opportunities to activate the additional effects of these techniques (respectively informant and TN reduction).
Criminal Connections applies to Lord Bayushi's Whispers.
Fortune Telling applies to Lord Togashi's Insight.

✿ Uncouth spying

Peeping, eavesdropping, all the dirty work.

A character must forfeit Honor points equal to their Honor rank to pick that option.

TN2 Skulduggery or casting Secrets on the Wind or casting Dominion of Suijin
Air or Any : Your actions go unnoticed (see below).

If you succeed, you gain 2 Information Tidbits. Roll 2d20 to know which ones.
Regardless of success or failure, if you did not spend the opportunities to go unnoticed, your behavior starts arising suspicion. Lose Glory equal to your Glory rank.

Otomo Schemer characters don't need to forfeit Honor the first time they pick that option.
Soshi Illusionist characters don't need to spend opportunities to go unnoticed if using Invocations to spy.
Kitsune Impersonator characters reduce by one (to a minimum of zero) the opportunities they need to spend to go unnoticed.

This option can be repeated but the cost in Honor has to be paid every time.

[Boku]

Focus 4 = 4 Actions

Action 1 - Sensei Wu's game roll 1

D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Sensei Wu's game roll 1
Survival (Fire) | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2


Success, 2 Strife, 1 Opportunity towards information

Sensei Wu's game roll 2

D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Sensei Wu's game roll 2
Fitness (Earth) | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2


Success, 2 Strife, 1 Opportunity towards information

2 Impression Points

Action 2 - Mother Tokiko's respite, Distinction (Friend of the Brotherhood)

D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Action 2 - Mother Tokiko's respite
Meditation (Fire) w/ Distinction (Friend of the Brotherhood) | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1


1 Impression Point, 1 Strife, 1 Opportunity towards information

Action 3 - Sennin's orderliness

D3, Seeds of Knowledge: Action 3 - Sennin's orderliness
Theology (Earth) | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 0


Fail, 2 Opportunity towards information

Action 4 - Haruhi's demonstration, Seizing the Moment, Adversity (Blindness)

D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Action 4 - Haruhi's demonstration
Martial Arts [Melee] (Air), Adversity (Blindness), Seize the Moment | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 4


1 Impression Point, 4 Strife, 1 Opportunity towards information, 1 Opportunity to reduce Strife

Spoke with 3 different people but not 5: 1 Impression Point
Did not become Compromised: 1 Impression Point

Final:

6 Impression Points
8 Strife
6 Opportunity towards Information = 2 Tidbits (D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Tidbit 1 | 1d20 ⇒ 13, D2, Seeds of Knowledge: Tidbit 2 | 1d20 ⇒ 7)

[Moto Taka]

Taka has time to really think on how he would handle the sensei's tasks, so he keeps an open mind as he wanders through the monastery.

The sensei not hard to find to pick his brain. Well, the person who was absolutely not him was. Wink. Anyway. There are a few quips, but Taka thinks he holds his own.
D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Sensei Wu's other game-Water/Performance-TN 2 - 3 Extra strife from Interpersonal anxiety| TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2


[Pass for 1 Impression point]
[Strife: 5/8]
[Action 1/5]

-

Catching the man in his usual persona was a different challenge, but not an impossible one. Now that Taka knows the game, it's not too hard to exploit the rules. Humans all must follow the call of nature, and accidentally bursting on the man in the lavatory on "accident" might have been a touch rude, but it meant there was no hiding behind a mask. Taka thinks that the man might have even been a mix of flustered and impressed.

D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Sensei Wu's game part 1-Water/Survival-TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1

D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Sensei Wu's game part 2-Fire/Tactics-TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 1


[Pass with 3 bonus successes for 2 Impression points. Using opportunity to reduce strife]]
[Strife: 5/8]
[Action: 2/5]

-

A different tack was needed for Mother Tokiko. She is looking for energy, put it placed into a creative mindset. Taka picks up a notebook and begins to write down whatever thoughts come to mind. Before he knows it, Taka is pouring his emotions out on the page, his observations, his desires. More desires.

Man that's a lot of desires

Seeing it all down surprises him, causing him to lean back in surprise. He catches a glance from Mother Tokiko who offers him a knowing smile.

D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Mother Tokiko's Respite-Fire/Composition (untrained) - Friend of the Brotherhood Distinction | TN: 2 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 4


[Pass with 2 bonus successes for 2 Impression Points, opportunity to reduce Strife]
[Strife: 8/8]
[Action: 3/5]

-

Taka is not the most studious of persons. Really, he just is. Not. The idea of slogging through something to get to the good part has no appeal to him, but at least has some self-awareness about it so he smooozes Sennin to ask about what would be a good fit.

The lack of studiousness is not lost on Sennin, but the politeness means that Taka is permitted. He glances through dozen of books, and actually gets a few ideas about battle records. He doesn't have the time and patience to dig into them at the moment, but it looks like something that could be really useful at some other point.

D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Sennin's Orderliness- Water/Government (untrained) - Friend of the Brotherhood Distinction | TN: 3 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2

[Failure. Failure triggers the Curiosity Passion to remove 3 strife. 2 Opportunity carried for Information Points]
[Strife: 7/8]
[Action: 4/5]

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After a day of reflection, Taka presents himself to Haruhi, already known for her talent with the movement. Excited, Taka picks up a mop of his own to copy her movements, learning from the forms that she subtly is demonstrating. It's not the most obvious way to learn, but Taka manages to match some of the motions that Haruhi is trying to convey, and the action means that he gets to overhear chatter.

D2-Seeds of Knowledge-Haruhi's Demonstration-Air/Melee-TN 2-VP spent to Seize the Moment | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0


[Pass for 1 Impression Point. Opportunity spent for 1 Information Point]
[Strife: 7/8]
[Action: 5/5]
______

All in all, Taka feels fairly accomplished, a pleasant bit of tired after a day of learning, and with some new tidbits picked up. Fortunately, he feels up for his date that night!

Impression
Impression points from rolls: 6 Impression Points
Cross Referencing Sources (Five people contacted): 2 Impression Points
Knowing Oneself (Did not exceed Strife threshold or unmask): 1 Impression Point
Total: 9 Impression points

Information
3 information points for 1 tidbit: D2 Seeds of Knowledge - 1 tidbit | 1d20 ⇒ 2

[Kakita Sumire]

(will add fluff text later, just wanted to get post in)

(ooc: rolls
Action 1 - Sensei Wu's game:
Roll1 D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 1 - Sensei Wu's game roll 1. Survival/Air. Tn2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2
passed 1 opportunity to heal strife
Roll 2 D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 1 - Sensei Wu's game roll 2. Skullduggery/Fire. TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1
passed 1 opporunity for info points

2 impression points
1 info point

2 Strife

Action 2 - Sennin's orderliness
D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 2 - Sennin's orderliness. Theology/Air with VP. Famously Lucky. TN3 | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 3
opportunity to take away 1 strife

1 impression point
4 strife

Action 3 - Sensei Wu's other game
D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 3 - Sensei Wu's other game. Performance/water TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0
pass

2 impression points
Disadvantage triggers here - 3 strife gained (compromised) and vp back

Unmask to reset strife, -2 impression points (3 total)

Action 4 - Hiro's explanation
Action 4 - Hiro's explanation. Aesthetic/Air TN3. VP spent | TN: 3 | Success: 5 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2
passed with 2 bonus success

2 impression points


Action 5 - Mother Tokiko's respite
D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 5 - Mother Tokiko's respite. Composition/fire TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1
failed - curiosity heals the strife. 2 opportunity for information points

0 impression point
2 info points

Action 6 - - Mother Tokiko's respite (again, but didn't past last one so no increase)
D2 Seeds of knowledge event. Action 6 - Mother Tokiko's respite (again, but didn't past last one so no increase). Composition/fire TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 1


for talking to Tokiko again - one info tipbit D2 even d3 roll due to talking to Mother Tokiko twice | 1d3 ⇒ 3

running total:
action 1 - 2 points
Action 2 - 1 point
Action 3 - 2 points
Unmask - -2 points
Action 4 - 2 points
Action 5 - 0 points
Action 6 - 1 point

Interacted with 3 characters - 1 point
Interacted with 5 characters - 1 point

Total:
8 impression points
1 Strife
3 information points converted to tipbit
D2 even tipbit roll for 3 info points | 1d20 ⇒ 12

[Kitsuki Kindaichi]

....

With the first series of challenges issued to the candidates, I decided to start by tracking down the source of the challenge, the Sensei himself. While the sensei does seem to revel in evasion and being cryptic, I would be a discredit as an investigator if I couldn't track down one man and glean information out of him. And I am not a discredit...

....

Having spoken at length with the Sensei, I decided to track down one of his current pupil's. Sister Haruhi was willing to demonstrate a bit more of what she demonstrated yesterday. I don't believe my discussion with Soshi-san during yesterday's demonstration prejudiced her against me, but I gained no further insight into her personally. As shown by my cousin's questioning, she can be difficult to get to know. Then again, interacting with monks is a different sort of challenging.

....

After the demonstration I took to Mother Tokiko's audience chamber for a moment of respite. I took the time to compose a letter to my magistrate reporting on my initial discoveries. Mother Tokiko seemed pleased with the effort, though her demeanor kept any conversation with her very polite and short.

....

Finally, I went to the library to find any more answers I could locate. While the librarian was quite occupied with the efforts of other candidates, my eyes were immediately drawn to a rather plain looking book on the shelf. It's contents were quite illuminating. While I didn't get to converse with the librarian, he did seem at least somewhat pleased that I hadn't been overly disruptive.




Sensei Wu's Game

Water/Sentiment 3 Opps, 3 successes, 3 Strife

2 opps used for Shallow Waters to gain a tidbit about Sensei Wu. 1 opp used for Information

Earth/Fitness: 2 success, 1 opp, 1 strife

2 Impression Info tibdit about Wu #3 1 opp leftover for info gathering

Haruhi's Demonstration

2 success, 1 strife

5/10 strife
+1 Impression Point

Mother Tokiko's Respite

2 successes, 2 strife

+1 Impression Point
+1 Impression Point for meeting with 3 different people

Sennin's Orderliness

1 success, 2 opps, 1 strife

0 Impression, 8/10 strife, 1 more info tidbit gained

+1 Impression for not ending the event compromised or unmasking

Info tidbit #6

Total Results: 6 Impression Tidbit #3 about Sensei Wu, General Tidbit #6

[Soshi Naoko]

Reading the lists, Naoko's eyes crinkled with hidden laughter, though she did her best not to smile, to be a properly serious student as everyone drifted off to the corners of the monastery.

She didn't want to begin with the monks' quietly philosophical conversations about the questions, she wanted to go directly to the questioner, and knew she'd hardly be the only one. Tracking him was simple. A master of the staff he might be, but he was obviously still a student when it came to forestry. Nobody could be good at everything.

And he was fast and crafty, she'd give him that. Once he knew she was on his trail, she needed to anticipate some shortcuts to already be behind the boulder he ducked behind to hide. "Hi there!" she offered with a broad grin." She didn't like the tenor of some of the conversation as she steered into supernatural possibilities for solving a few of the puzzles. Nothing she could quite put a finger on, left her feeling a bit shaken, and with the sense that perhaps her secrets weren't so secret. Sensei Wu was the one grinning when the Soshi broke off and declared she ought to get back to the monastery before everyone'd already claimed the best scrolls in the library for their own studies.

Which did take her to the library, her mood much improved by the trot back through the forest. Sennin's realm, it seemed, as she strolled through and poked into corners, until he was there with a librarian's 'can I help you?' with an implied 'please stop pulling out scrolls and putting them back onto random shelves.' And while she'd hoped that a few, "so everyone says that..." statements with laughably incorrect beliefs would draw out some enlightening answers, it honestly just seemed to frustrate the poor fellow. She learned a bit on the side, certainly, but found herself frustrated as well and heading to the sort of sanctuary the abbess had prepared.

Honestly, she was curious to see a bit more of the woman, given hints and whispers elsewhere. She didn't find a meditative state _at all_. But sitting with your eyes closed let one focus more on listening...at least for as long as she could stand sitting still like that. It wasn't long before Naoko shook her head and left to just go question the flames directly to see what they could tell her.

Armed with these bits and pieces, she went searching for the Sensei again with more pointed questions, trying to put herself into his mindset and determining where he'd go--which honestly just reminded her of those questions again, and soon she could feel the tufts of her ears press against the wooden mask, the prickle of claws. Instinctively, she slipped along the shadowy spaces of the giant cavern with some mischief in mind.


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Sensei Wu
Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge Sensei Wu's Game: Survival (Air) Expert Tracker applies, TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 3


Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge Sensei Wu's Game: Fitness (Water) Expert Tracker applies, Void used, TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2


3 Impression points (success plus 2 bonus successes)
2 Opportunity to negate 2 strife leaving 3/6
Action 1/5

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Sennin
Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge Sennin's Orderliness, Theology: Air, TN 3 | TN: 3 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0


opportunity for 1 information point
Action 2/5

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Mother Tokiko
Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge Mother Tokiko's respite, Meditation (Fire), Void TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2


2 opportunities for information points (total 3)
Strife 5/6
Action 3/5

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✿ Spiritual spies
Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge: Shenanigans: Spiritual Spies, Theology (Fire) | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1


Success for an Information Tidbit
Opportunity for an Information Point (total 4)
Strife 6/6
Action 4/5
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Sensei Wu
Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge: Sensei Wu's game (second time): Sentiment (Fire) TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2


Fail
2 opportunity for information points (total 6)
Strife 8/6, compromised

Day 2: Seeds of Knowledge: Sensei Wu's game (second time): Skullduggery (Water) TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0


One more opportunity for an information point that doesn't do much
Action 5/5

1 impression point for interaction with 3 people

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Totals:

4 Impression points
3 Information tidbits (1 plus 6 information points)
16, 18, 19
1 Tidbit for attempting to interact with one character twice (1d3=1)
Compromised (Strife 8/6)
Void used
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[Shosuro Keiharu]

Initially, thinking himself clever, Shosuro Keiharu attempted to observe the other attendees and capitalize on their efforts to locate the elusive Sensei Wu.

It was a wild failure, with the young shugenja never coming close to the revered sensei.

Well, sort of never. Since finding "not Sensei Wu" was quite straightforward. Although what Keiharu came away from the interaction with was not so much an impression made on "not Sensei Wu" as a list of leads to pursue in the community that was growing around him. Which was perhaps what the sneaky Scorpion had really wanted anyway.

In the end, unwilling to let the opportunity pass, Keiharu went hunting for Sensei Wu himself and successfully found the wily monk. The young Scorpion managed to keep up with the older but quite nimble man as he continued to move about, earning a bit of recognition in the community as well as a touch of pride in himself for overcoming earlier frustration and finding success.

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Rolls (up to Focus 4)
1. Wu hunting: Total wiff (https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6849)
Choose two distinct skills among the following: Fitness, Sentiment, Skulduggery, Survival, Tactics
Then roll for both skills against TN2, using two distinct rings of your choice.
Oh, but I can roll the second one to see if there are spare opps:
D2 event, Sensei Wu hunting roll 2: Fitness, Fire, TN 2. Fire 2, skill 1 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

Fail, but gain 1 strife and use 1 opp for 1 Information point
1 Information
Strife: 1/10

2. Not-Wu hunting: Performance (Water 2)
D2 event, Not-Wu hunting: Performance (Water) TN 2. Water 3, Perform 1 | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 1

Fail to make any impression, take 1 strife, 3 opps => 3 Information points
Cum. Totals
4 Information
Strife: 2/10

3. Haruhi's demonstration
TN3 Martial Arts [Unarmed] (Air 2)
D2 event, Haruhi's demonstration roll: MA Unarmed (Air TN 2). Air 2, skill 1, Subtle Observer distinction, use void point | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

Successful = one Impression point, 1 opp for 1 Information point
Cum. Totals:
1 Impression
5 Information
Strife: 2/10

4. Second run at Sensei Wu hunting
Choose two distinct skills among the following: Fitness, Sentiment, Skulduggery, Survival, Tactics
Then roll for both skills against TN2, using two distinct rings of your choice.
More patient Skulduggery pays off:
D2 event, second try for Sensei Wu hunting, roll 1: Skulduggery (Earth) TN 2. Skill 2, Earth 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

Success, plus 1 opp for 1 Information
Cum. Totals:
1 Impression
6 Information
Strife: 3/10

Keeping up with the Sensei (Fitness Water):
D2 event, second run at Wu hunting, roll 2: Fitness Water TN 2. Skill 1, Water 3 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1

Success, plus 2 opps for 2 Information
If you succeed both checks, you catch the sensei. Gain 2 Impression points.

Grand total:
5 Impression points (3 from actions, 1 from 3+ sources, 1 from not Compromised)
8 Information points = 2 Information tidbits (roll in PF)
4 strife accumulated on 10 Composure

[Seppun Hibiki]

The Imperial with the wide brimmed hat and flute encountered the mysterious man with a basket and a flute. Naturally, they had to share a tune. Hibiki found it difficult, and confusing, to follow the man's song, but she persevered. While breathless in the end, she felt she left an impression.

In the library, the Seppun focused on whatever medical information she could find. Perhaps there was something pertaining to her personal needs. Sennin's guidance, however, kept that distraction from misleading her.

Hibiki found Hiro in the garden, interested in speaking with him again. The conversation was not quite what she expected, but it wasn't that different from their previous discussion. There was so much he wanted to say, more than needed to be said. She understood that compulsion, however, and listened patiently.

Today, Hibiki chose to commune with the spirits of the mountain air. She listened with interests to the whispers on the wind.

- - -
[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Divination Ritual, Targeting Hibiki, Theology (Void)TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 3

2 used to remove 2
Omen of the Vermilion Bird

4 Actions

[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Sensei Wu's other game, Performance (Water) TN 2]
I completely missed the Sixth Sense inversion
Original Roll:
[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Sensei Wu's other game, Adversity reroll | TN: ? | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

And then, I kept the blank die by accident.
Final result should be:
| TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1
+1 from Omen of the Vermilion Bird
1 used to remove 1
2 used for +2 Infomation Point
+2 Impression Point

[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Action 2, Sennin's orderliness, Medicine (Air) TN 3 | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 3

+1 Impression Point
+3

[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Action 3, Hiro's explanation, Courtesy (Void) TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

1 used for +1 Infomation Point
+1 Impression Point

[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Action 4, Shenanigans, Spiritual spies, Commune with the Spirits, Theology (Air) TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2

2 used to remove 2
[D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event), Action 4, Shenanigans, Spiritual spies, Tidbit | 1d20 ⇒ 8

Cross-reference your sources: +1 Impression Point
Knowing one's limit: +1 Impression Point
3 Information Points = [D2] Seeds of knowledge (Event) Information Tidbit | 1d20 ⇒ 2

2 Information Tidbits (8, 2)
6 Impression Points
3 Strife

Note: As can be seen above,, I made a couple of mistakes on my first action. I tried to correct them, but will reroll if necessary.

[Doji Riri]

Riri had not even been there when Sensei Wu first said his questions - chasing that fox had taken a long time, after all. But when she saw them, she knew how to start approaching them.

Some people were studying, or trying to compose answers in writing. She looked at those in the library and shuddered a bit. She might have to do it as well. She probably would have to.

But first...

She went to the practice area to find Haruhi there demonstrating some more moves. That was definitely the way to start looking for answers - doing, not thinking.

Or well, maybe thinking while doing?

It took some effort, and she wasn't sure if that would count as answers, but she at least thought she had learnt something after a rather long time practicing with the young nun. Hopefully about what Sensei Wu expected of them... but if not, at least about Haruhi herself!

Later in the day she found Hiro in the rock garden, apparently open to answering questions. That much she had learnt in Shizuka Toshi - you can learn many things by talking to others that you'd have a hard time learning in books.

What she didn't expect was how frustratingly cryptical his answers were. Or how slowly he spoke. Or how excited he seemed to be about walking at a snail's pace about the rock garden while doing it!

He did seem nice, though.... and after some "Aha!" moments she thought she had managed to understand some things. But HOTEI'S BELLY was that a frustrating process. She thanked Hiro politely at the end, and tried to do it with a friendly smile - something she'd heard today when the young monk had stopped by as she was training with Haruhi had made her rather curious about him. But to an attentive observer, her relief when she left the rock garden was quite obvious!

As the day drew to a close, she happened upon that an man playing melodies on a Shakuhachi, a basket covering his head. She was almost sure she'd heard him in the monastery...

... she was almost sure she had seen and heard him somewhere. But more importantly - his remarks and jokes were apparently a game of some sort! Sadane? Although the way he moved around... was it a dance of some sort?

She tried to pay attention to his words and movements at the same time, and while the series of witty remarks was met with some offhanded comments that made him laugh, in the end it made for more of an interesting conversation - including some "a little bird told me" moments about the people in the Monastery - than an enlightening one.

Although when she made her way back to the common room, she had some more "Aha" moments as she put together some things the old man had said, Hiro's comments and Haruhi's lessons.

Hm... Interesting!

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Action 1 - Haruhi's Demonstration
D2 Event; Action 1: Haruhi's Demonstration. Martial Arts (Melee)/ Air vs TN 2. Speaking in Silence grants 1 Opp | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 3

Failed!
Total 3 strife, 4 opp (3+1 from speaking in Silence)
3 opp cancels 3 strife
1 opp for information
Running strife 0/8
Running Information: 1/3

Action 2 - Haruhi's Demonstration (again)
D2 Event; Action 2: Haruhi's Demonstration (again). Martial Arts (Melee)/ Air vs TN 3. Speaking in Silence grants 1 Opp. VP to Seize the Moment | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2

Success! (TN for second attempt correctly noted as 3 in the description although I forgot to change it for the roll itself)
1 Impression point
2 strife, 1 opp
Opp cancels 1 strife
1/2 VP spent
Running Strife 1/8
Running Info 1/3
Getting to know you: gains 1 Info Tidbit on Haruhi

Action 3 - Hiro's Explanation
D2 Event; Action 3: Hiro's Explanation. Courtesy/Void vs TN 2. Speaking in Silence grants 1 Opp. VP 2/2 to Seize the Moment. Impatient! (+3 Strife, +1VP) | TN: 2 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 3


EDIT: Adding Kichi's assistance with GM permission:
D2 Event; Adding Assistant's help to Action 3 with GM Permission. Kichi is a Spiritualist, so help with Courtesy counts as unskilled assistance (so a Ring die). | TN: ? | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0

LOL!

Success!
2 Impression points (1+1 for 2 bonus sux)
3 Strife, 1 Opp
2/2 VP spent
1 opp cancels 1 strife
3 Strife from Impatient Anxiety; gains 1 VP
Running Strife 6/8
Running Information 1/3

Action 4 - Sensei Wu's Other Game
D2 Event; Action 4: Sensei Wu's Other Game. Games/Water vs TN 2. Speaking in Silence grants 1 Opp. VP 3 to Seize the Moment (gained in Action 3) | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 2

Fail!
2 strife, 3 opp
2 Opp for Information, 1 cancels Strife
Running Strife 7/8 (not compromised, haven't unmasked)
Running Information 3/3

Final Results
3 Impression from actions
1 Impression from cross-referencing sources (met 3 people)
1 Impression from "knowing your limits"
Total Impression: 5 Points

3 Total information becomes 1 Information Tidbits
Information Tidbits gained (2) | 2d20 ⇒ 13 (6 and 7); GM considered 7

"Getting to know you" - Met Haruhi twice
"Getting to know you" for Haruhi - 1 Info Tidbit about her (had already rolled 3 before!) | 1d3 ⇒ 1

So information Tidbit 7, plus 1 of 3 for Haruhi

(Riri had already gained Tidbit 6 and Tidbit 3 of 3 for Haruhi before. Not sure if that means she gets a repeated Tidbit or if she gains something else from the repeated 6 on 1d20)

EDIT: Speaking in silence is once per scene, as Ceithir reminded me! Edited with GM permission. Also added Riri's attendant's assistance, with GM permission (a blank die XD).... sorry for the mess!

[Kitsuki Ketsudan]

Across the day, Ketsudan calls in with several of the staff of the monastery, and though he does not necessarily acquit himself well, he does not do so poorly, either.

Along the way, he manages to bump into Sensei Wu. The exchange is brief, fleeting, not entirely satisfactory, but it happened, and that's got to count for something, right?

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First Interaction: Haruhi's Demonstration
Air / MA [Melee], TN 2, passes at 3 sux / 1 opp / 1 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6861; +1 Impression, spend Opp for Information Point

Second Interaction: Hiro's Explanation
Fire / Courtesy, VP, TN 3, fails at 0 sux / 3 opps / 0 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6862; spending 3 Opps for Information Points

Third Interaction: Sennin's Orderliness
Earth / Gov't, TN 2, fail at 0 sux / 1 opp / 1 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6863; spending Opp for Information Point

Fourth Interaction: Tokiko's Respite
Fire / Composition, TN 2, passes at 2 sux / 0 opps / 2 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6864; +1 Impression, net +5 Strife, +1 VP

Fifth Interaction: Sensei Wu's Game
Fire / Survival, TN 2, passes at 2 sux / 0 opps / 1 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6865; Navigator applies, so net -2 Strife
Water / Fitness, TN 2, passes at 2 sux / 0 opps / 0 strife, https://sakkaku.org/rolls/6866; +2 Impression

Addenda
Interacted with 5 NPCs, so +2 Impression
Did not get Compromised, did not Unmask, so +1 Impression

Overall
7 Impression
5 Information--earned 1 Tidbit, #17, https://sakkaku.org/dnd-rolls/6867
Net Strife 5/8
Fatigue 0
Void 0

[Seppun Akimitsu]

D2 event Haruhi's demonstration Martial arts Melee/air tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2

1 impression point 2 opps for Info
2/8 Composure
2/3 info

D2 event sennin's orderliness government/Earth tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 5 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 3
2 impression points
5/8 Composure

D2 event Wu's game skullduggery air tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0
Fail 1 opp for info
5/8 composure
1 tidbit

D2 event wu's game fitness/fire tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0
Fail 1 opp for info
5/8 composure
1/3 info

D2 event sensei's game tactics/air Void tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1
Pass 1 opp for info
5/8 composure
2/3 info

D2 event sensei's game fitness/Earth Void tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1
Pass bith rolls 2 impression points
6/8 composure
2 tidbits

Rewards
Cross reference (sennin, Haruhi, Wu): +1 point
Know your limits +1 point
Total 7 impression points

2 info tidbits
D2 event tidbit 1 | 1d10 ⇒ 4
D2 event tidbit 2 | 1d10 ⇒ 5

Getting to know you, interacted with Wu twice
D2 event tidbit Wu | 1d3 ⇒ 3

[The sweeping monk]

Impression points earned so far:
Moto Taka: 9
Kakita Sumire: 8
Kitsuki Ketsudan: 7
Seppun Akimitsu: 7
Boku: 6
Kitsuki Kindaichi: 6
Seppun Hibiki: 6
Shosuro Keiharu: 5
Doji Riri: 5
Soshi Naoko: 4