[LM8] - Test of Piety

[Kitsu Masaru]

Masaru grew up among the Kitsu. They were an intensely spiritual family and though he lacked their connection to the spirits and the ability to communicate with then he was still taught the importance of communing with oneself.

Masaru had been taught how to meditate from a very early age and while he often struggled to empty his mind he did seem to like making his mind fluid, still with form but flowing from one thing to the next gently shifting from thought to thought some significant some not. Some of the thinking touched on painful places, thoughts on the weight of expecting, now and in the future and this showed on his face before he returned to the more successful losing himself in his own thoughts.

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Test of Piety theology air tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 3
1 Piety point
3/10 strife

Test of Piety meditation water tn 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 2
0 points 3 opps
5/10 Strife

Test of Piety meditation water | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 3
1 Piety point
8/10 Strife

2 Piety points
3 opps
8 Strife

[Doji Nanako]

Nanako was cursed.

Her failure in an event involving the favor of the gods was, of course, pre-ordained.

It was inevitable.

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S1: TN2 Theology (Void)

LM8 - Step 1: Theology (Void) with Anxiety (Superstition: Void) and Seize the Moment | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0


Failed, +1 Void Point

S2: TN2 Meditation (Earth)

LM8 - Step 2: Meditation (Earth) | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2


Basic Success, +2 Strife

S3: TN3 Meditation (Earth)

LM8 - Step 3: Meditation (Earth) w/ Seize the Moment | TN: 3 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 0


Failure, +3 Opp

[Kitsuki Jun]

Clear his mind... Jun can do that. Eliminate distractions... check. Make an empty space for insight to take shape... for all that he isn't the most patient of Dragons, that's an ability he has cultivated and finds useful.

But... commune with the universe? That would require the universe to take an interest in communing with Jun. Might as well expect to be able to hold a conversation with a rock. (Jun does know people who can hold conversations with rocks, actually--some of them blood relatives--so maybe that isn't the best analogy. Or maybe the rock in this picture is him...)

Anyway, while much practice has made Jun able to endure long meditation sessions with enough stoic stillness to demonstrate to any Dragon or Scorpion preceptor that he's trying, this is not going to be the day that the heavens open and transcendence gleams down on him. And that's okay. He hasn't embarrassed himself, which is pretty much the best he'd hoped for.

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D8 LM Test of Piety--step 1, Theology 0/Void 1, Kitsuki Method +1 skill, StM, Momoku | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0

Super fail, that gamble did not pay off
+1 void, I guess!

D8 LM Test of Piety--step 2, Meditation 1/Earth 3 | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

Pass, 1 point.

D8 LM Test of Piety--step 3, Meditation 1/Earth 3 | TN: 3 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 3 / Strife: 0

Fail!

Final tally: 1 Piety point (step 2, Earth)
4 opps on kept dice
0 strife on kept dice

[Ender]

Yogo Kou's eyes open instantly. They say nothing about the method used by anyone who participated. Their ringed staff is tapped three times against the stone floor of the Temple.

"Shiba Ichiro-san. You are in third." They say the words as they stand before the young Phoenix. Then moving to find the Sparrow, they look into her eyes, almost boring into her soul. "You are in second, Suzume Rin-san." And then finally finding the other Phoenix Priest.

"Isawa Natsuko-san. You have won the Test of Piety." They extend their hand, and offer her a small prayer book, with a set of beads wrapped around it.

"The test is over."

Outcome:
3rd Place - Shiba Ichiro, 1 Topaz Point, 1 Glory
2nd Place - Suzume Rin, 2 Topaz Points, 2 Glory
1st Place - Isawa Natsuko, 3 Topaz Points, 3 Glory, 1 well worn Scorpion prayer book.

[Ender]

Favored Approaches

Void, Earth, Void