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[ZBridges]

Get a referral from our current dojo for a more advanced dojo that teaches a martial art that involves the type of weapon that we just acquired.

[Devastator]

(As superdorf voted for that previously, will do that next.)

You manage to pick up a referral from your Wind School trainer.  Or one of them at least, the school has quite a few and they rotate around, almost too many to keep track of them all.  This one seems good, however, the school is supposed to teach a simple standard of sword fighting, suitable for mixing in with other martial forms, rather than a style belonging to one of the specific schools of the Dao.  A few more questions has you reassured that the school is certainly for more advanced students, but that not follwing a great school simply means that it teaches a blended style instead of simply following one of the Four Great Masters of the Dao.

That said, you are not given a specific referral, but told that the master there will choose to teach you, and mostly gets annoyed at other students clutching pieces of paper and using them to get admission.

When you head over, to examine the dojo for yourself, you have to head to the Foreign Quarter.  It seems the dojo also trains some of the ceremonial performers for state affairs and demonstrations, in addition to providing more practical training.  You also meet the school master, Won Jin, who has about a dozen students being currently trained.

Won Jin isn't the intimidating person you expected, but a somewhat casual looking middle-aged man.  It takes him shouting, interrupting one of his students practicing behind him, for you to realize that this guy is a serious instructor.  At that time you are informed that he currently isn't accepting students.  You can get on the list, and try again on week 11, when he'll hold tryouts.  Training will take 2 actions/week, and cost two silver per week, too, contigent upon being accepted.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Week 8

Assets and Abilities:
Prestige = 2
29 silver.
Concealable fighting dagger
Shun Ziji's dark blade.
Steel Dao.  +1 Combat.
Assassin's signet ring.
Adventurer's diary (partially studied)
->Information on southern jungle nations
->Secret locations in southern jungle.
->Information on spiritual beings, spiritual being society, spiritual being outlook.
->Information on animal life of the southern jungle
->Information on magical beings of the southern jungle
->Instruction on spirit-related magical rituals.  Versatile dust triggering rune.  Thought communication? rune?  One ritual remains.
->Instruction on an unknown magical field.
->Instruction on wilderness survival methods
->Instruction on what seems to be the language of the southern jungle nations.
->Instruction on an unknown language.
Miscellaneous magical diagrams, captured from one of your dreams.  Uncertain accuracy.

Skills:
Charming, +1
Combat, +1/+1.  Unarmed combat training.  Also applies while armed.
Magic:
Versatile Dust triggering rune.

Allies:
Huan Zhang, diplomat, 2 prestige, 0 favors.
Li Song, martial arts student, 0 prestige, 0 favors.
Upscale Weapon Shop.

[ZBridges]

That's certainly an option once we hit week 11.  It wouldn't hurt to get put on the list.  In the meantime, this guy probably knows of another school that actually is taking students.

Attempt to use charm to get him to accept us immediately, or at least allow us to try out immediately.

[King Zultan]

That's certainly an option once we hit week 11.  It wouldn't hurt to get put on the list.  In the meantime, this guy probably knows of another school that actually is taking students.

Attempt to use charm to get him to accept us immediately, or at least allow us to try out immediately.

+1

[Devastator]

You approach Won Jin more firmly, attempting to force him in giving you a yes or a no.  It takes a lot of work, and the look in your eye, but you eventually convince him to give you a few minutes.

In the end you manage to convince him to give you a chance, although you'll be arranging things a bit differently.  It seems he trains people in groups, and usually with an eye to a certain amount of coordination and mutual assistance.  Being off-set will make things much harder.

But, he does have a different arrangement.  You'll still pay the usual fee of two silver, and spend the usual amount of time of two actions, but he'll have one of his graduates train you, as part of her efforts to learn more about the dao.. teaching others is a way to improve further, after all.  You'll be introduced next week.

It would be a grave insult to not show up or cancel, so you're booked.

Spoiler: status (click to show/hide)

Week 8

Assets and Abilities:
Prestige = 2
29 silver.
Concealable fighting dagger
Shun Ziji's dark blade.
Steel Dao.  +1 Combat.
Assassin's signet ring.
Adventurer's diary (partially studied)
->Information on southern jungle nations
->Secret locations in southern jungle.
->Information on spiritual beings, spiritual being society, spiritual being outlook.
->Information on animal life of the southern jungle
->Information on magical beings of the southern jungle
->Instruction on spirit-related magical rituals.  Versatile dust triggering rune.  Thought communication? rune?  One ritual remains.
->Instruction on an unknown magical field.
->Instruction on wilderness survival methods
->Instruction on what seems to be the language of the southern jungle nations.
->Instruction on an unknown language.
Miscellaneous magical diagrams, captured from one of your dreams.  Uncertain accuracy.

Skills:
Charming, +1
Combat, +1/+1.  Unarmed combat training.  Also applies while armed.
Magic:
Versatile Dust triggering rune.

Allies:
Huan Zhang, diplomat, 2 prestige, 0 favors.
Li Song, martial arts student, 0 prestige, 0 favors.
Upscale Weapon Shop.

Enrolled in advanced Dao training, -2 actions a week, -2 silver.

[ZBridges]

That should be an interesting opportunity.

Study instruction on an unknown magical field.

[Naturegirl1999]

That should be an interesting opportunity.

Study instruction on an unknown magical field.

+1

[Devastator]

It's night again.  You are surrounded by pages full of your brushwork as you attempt to decipher what's in front of you.

It's madness.  The words are there, but they don't make sense, like every third word is something new and invented.  It has meter, and if you read it in the right way, it has rhyme, but only if you read it in the correct manner.  There are some parts you can almost make sense of, but then it turns completely sideways and into odd diversions, talking in riddles or with words you don't know what they could mean.

I mean, here's a dozen lines about a sunny beach.  Here's a dozen lines about a mountainside cave.  Here's a dozen lines about fruit trees in an orchid.  Here's a dozen lines about forest clutter in a bamboo forest.  There are understandable things in it, like how this is important, but it's all wrapped up in confusing riddles with no clear answer.  Today was simply frustrating and profitless, as if you needed to understand the field in order to understand the field, proverbially stranded trying to levitate yourself by pulling on your shoes.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Week 8

Assets and Abilities:
Prestige = 2
29 silver.
Concealable fighting dagger
Shun Ziji's dark blade.
Steel Dao.  +1 Combat.
Assassin's signet ring.
Adventurer's diary (partially studied)
->Information on southern jungle nations
->Secret locations in southern jungle.
->Information on spiritual beings, spiritual being society, spiritual being outlook.
->Information on animal life of the southern jungle
->Information on magical beings of the southern jungle
->Instruction on spirit-related magical rituals.  Versatile dust triggering rune.  Thought communication? rune?  One ritual remains.
->Instruction on an unknown magical field.  Confusing. You lack context? Base knowledge?  As of now, you can't figure this out.
->Instruction on wilderness survival methods
->Instruction on what seems to be the language of the southern jungle nations.
->Instruction on an unknown language.
Miscellaneous magical diagrams, captured from one of your dreams.  Uncertain accuracy.

Skills:
Charming, +1
Combat, +1/+1.  Unarmed combat training.  Also applies while armed.
Magic:
Versatile Dust triggering rune.

Allies:
Huan Zhang, diplomat, 2 prestige, 0 favors.
Li Song, martial arts student, 0 prestige, 0 favors.
Upscale Weapon Shop.

Enrolled in advanced Dao training, -2 actions a week, -2 silver.

[ZBridges]

Great.  Sounds like life.

Seek out a spiritual arcanist to get a quote on identifying the special properties of the black blade.

[King Zultan]

Great.  Sounds like life.

Seek out a spiritual arcanist to get a quote on identifying the special properties of the black blade.

+1

[Naturegirl1999]

Great.  Sounds like life.

Seek out a spiritual arcanist to get a quote on identifying the special properties of the black blade.

+1

+1

[Devastator]

Seek out a spiritual arcanist to get a quote on identifying the special properties of the black blade.

Well, you do so.  You travel to the Magic Quarter, and begin looking around.  There are tinkers, merchants, "Wizards", "Magicians" and various fine distinctions of magic-users who run shops or have offices.  Arcanists are much rarer.. you pass on a Thunder Arcanist and you are rebuffed at a general "Arcanist" office, being told by the receptionist that the arcanist isn't a Spiritual one, which leads you to be directed to a three-story building with a particular guild sign on the front, which provides no obvious indication there would be an arcanist within.

You then are shunted to a particular waiting room, and interviewed by someone asking why you need a Spiritual Arcanist.  You then mention that you need to get a particular spirit-infused item fully identified, as the nature of the enchantments and how it is activated.  You then end up showing it to the questioner, who brings out a sort of magnet-like thing that sticks to the item.  Satisfied, you are taken to an upper-floor office, a quite dull place of plain wood except for the obligatory hat stand.  It seems spiritual arcanists use blue and gold tassels, and this particular person has three tassels in total, two blue and gold and one white and red.  There are also red, green, and yellow bands present on the hat, and these ones you do know, they represent basic competency degrees for particular energy types.  Oddly, you thought you'd see a different colour for spiritual energy, but maybe that works in a different manner?

Anyway, you are quoted a price of eight silver if you want an appointment later today, or four silver if one next week will suffice.

[Naturegirl1999]

Pay 8 silver for today

[Egan_BW]

Do it next week.

[Naturegirl1999]

Do it next week.

we have something next week that we should not cancel