Fortune's Lost-Mirumoto Seiji - Kaze no Shiro

NAME: Mirumoto SeijiCLAN: DragonSCHOOL: Agasha ShugenjaRANK: 3Age: 23 Sex: Male Height:5'5"Physical Description: Stoic-looking until heopens his mouth, wild hair he occasionallyshaves when he remembers, slightlyheavy...think "Rokugani Chow Yun Fat."FIRE 4 AIR 3Intelligence 4 Awareness 3Agility 4 Reflexes 3EARTH 3 WATER 2Willpower 4 Perception 3Stamina 3 Strength 2VOID 3GLORY 3.8HONOR 2.6INSIGHT 185TN TO BE HIT 15SCHOOL TECHNIQUEYou have 1 Free Raise to all Fire spellsWounds Dice Penalty____(0-6) -0____(7-12) -1____(13-18) -2____(19-24) -3____(25-30) -4____(31-36) Down____(37-42) Out____(43-48) DeadADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGESSee next page.EQUIPMENTKimono, sandals, traveling pack, scroll satchel,15 scrolls and 4 blank, writingimplements, wakizashi (Str + 2k2), aiguchi (Str +1k2), 3 koku, a nice fan, a horse ("Kintaro"), alantern, fire-starter, hand-held mirror, papiermâchépaste, 3 firecrackers, a disassembledflare, stale bun, mixing bowl, an umbrella, twodried plants you saw on the road, purple dye,four shiny quartz lumps, pet cricket, a scroll ofunspecified magic.Among the blind, even the honest lie about thecolor of the sky.-Scorpion proverbSKILLSAdvanced Medicine 2 Kagaku 2Battle 1 Kenjutsu 3Calligraphy 2 Law 2Craft: Mitsugusuri 2 Lore: Shugenja 2Defense 3 Meditation 2Etiquette 1 Nazodo 2Explosives 2 Shintao 2History 2 Sincerity 1Investigation 3 Spellcraft 1SPELLSSenseCommune (innate)Summon (innate)Transform (innate)CounterspellEarthquake (Earth)The Fires from Within (Fire)The Fury of Osano-Wo (Fire)Amaterasu's Blessing (Fire)Katana of Fire (Fire, Innate)Call Upon the Winds (Air, Innate)Calm Mind (Water)The Path to Inner Peace (Water)Nature's Touch (Water)ADVANTAGES

Daredevil (in risky/impossible tasks, you have a+10 to the result 50% of the time)Ambidextrous (no off-hand penalties)Innate Ability (marked)True Friend (Shiba Kiyoshi)Ally: Mirumoto Hatoshi (retired former sensei,lives in this area)DISADVANTAGESJealousy (Shiba Kiyoshi, friendly competitionover everything)Benten's Curse (-2 to social rolls)HISTORYYour Family"No, Seiji!""Seiji, what in the name of every Fortune thatever lived is going on here? Were you trying tokill yourself?""Seiji, don't play with those peasants!""That is not what a tanto boken is for, and quittelling all the girls such filthy things.""Ew, here comes the freak again..."That was your childhood. Ten thousand adultstelling you no, and a herd of kids giving youglares and grossed-out faces. What was wrongwith putting cicadas in your mouth, saying,"Look! I've got Taint!" and coughing them up?There was more to your life than immaturepranks, but you have always wanted to discoverthings. How ants worked. How you could putshochu on your arm and set it on fire, and itwouldn't hurt for a few seconds. How sprays ofwater made little rainbows in the sun.Well, your parents...when they werehome...didn't care for such things. Your fatherwas off at war all the time, and he died there,leaving all those arguments unresolved. Yourolder brother Shincho said you had to come tothe Mirumoto school with him, but after the firstthree years, it really didn't hold your interest.Everyone there was obsessed with being aninvincible bushi and fighting a whole lot ofpeople, which seemed to you a radicalinterpretation of the Tao.After a boken shot that knocked out a toothand broke your nose, you decided you'd hadenough. If you just sat there, they couldn't makeyou fight and they couldn't make you commitseppuku. When Hatoshi- sama finally askedwhat you were trying to do, you told him youwanted something more in your life than swordsand armor and macho prancing.So he sent you to the Agasha.Who sequestered you in an absolutely boringmonastery -- practically a death sentence -- andspouted a lot of butterfly and cocoon analogies.You tried to be good and pray to theFortunes...at least whenever the sensei werethere to check on you. They would let you out,they said, when the Fortunes started answering.It wasn't long before they did. You startedturning air to gold and light into swords. It wasodd to think of light as fire (you think there's adeeper principle there somewhere) but making itdo what you wanted wasn't so hard after all, andpretty soon, they started you working one onone with the sensei. They said you would beinstrumental in the fate of the Empire, but youlistened at the door after, and they told a lot ofkids that.You're not really sure if you're looking forenlightenment, because the harder you look, thefurther away it gets. So by taking time off fromthe search, you're getting closer, and thussearching without knowing about it. You know allis one and one is for all, and the energy of theOrder will make your decisions for you so youdon't have to worry. That's not exactly what yoursensei taught, but you fell asleep whilemeditating a lot.Becoming a MagistrateThe Dragon mountains are about the mostboring place in Rokugan, and chatting with Earthspirits didn't liven it up much. So after youimpressed the court, you asked to travel alittle...and got drafted for battle.Due to a clerical error (there are evidentlyeight Mirumoto Seijis from southwest DragonLands), you got put in the bushi unit. Well, youweren't about to disappoint your ancestors, soyou started blowing up bridges, conjuringdaishos of fire, electrifying rivers, and callingdown rains of jellyfish, frogs, and blood. It madethe Lion hesitate; the Dragon annihilated themand you were granted a boon."I want to see the world," you told yourcaptain, and he made you a magistrate, trying toorganize who got what after the three-wayMirumoto, Shiba and Matsu war.It was there you saw Shiba Kiyoshi, anescaped prisoner of war, claim a Matsu stole hiskatana. He was obviously exhausted andstarved and lost the duel, after which hecollapsed on his knees, a broken man.But you've always liked fixing things.You knew he had fire left in him, but if youdidn't spark it right then, he would slink off undera rock somewhere, so you taunted him inprivate...getting him mad enough at you that he

forgot to feel sorry for himself. You kept at it fora while, letting him know he still had a reputationto protect, and more, a sense of self-worth. Itwasn't the best "mysterious Dragon who knowsyou better than you know yourself" routineyou've ever pulled, but you pretended you knewthe meaning of life like all the guys from upnorth, and it worked out. Just a few months ago,you dragged him out for some real fun, and bythe end of the week, both of you were inside aTogashi-shaped float made of firecrackers, withan underage Isawa and two bottles of shochu,running for the carp pond, 'cause the fuses werelit.After you got out of the cuffs, you got a newassignment in Ryoko Owari. Armpit of theEmpire it might have been, but the EmeraldMagistrate, Doji Himeko, made you feel right athome. ("No, Seiji!")It was there you and Kiyoshi began yourintellectual games. Go, word games, puns, Taoquoting,Tao-altering, bushido debating; it takesmany forms. You want to push him to hisintellectual and philosophical limits, becauseotherwise, who will? It's sometimes frustratinghow well he pushes back. You never metanyone so close to your match in either school.After some time, Himeko moved to advanceher career, and invited your present group totravel the length of Rokugan as her assistants.You accepted: how else could you see theworld? And now it's taking you near your oldsensei. How's that for cosmic turnaround?About Your Unknown MagicIn Shosuro lands, you had to solve a murdercase involving a beheaded Kitsu sodan-senzowith forged papers and a lot of scrolls in code,so you couldn't really identify him to get hisscrolls back to his family. You didn't reallyunderstand the magic, but it reminded you ofsome stuff you'd always wanted to try. So yourewrote it.It has something to do with living animals, acentered effect on your body, precious metals,expulsion/intake processes, and it might mutatethe scroll's ink as it goes along. If cast slightlywrong, all the elements involved ...and you'renot sure which ones those are...may transforminto their polar opposites. Maybe Void, too.In any case, you've never cast it.leads to fights, cannibalism, and one guy alwayshogging the water.Shiba Kiyoshi: When you decided to put his lifetogether, you never thought you'd play such abig part in it. But you two just keep ending uptogether, and you really can't think of anyoneelse you'd rather work with...or have on yourside in an argument. There's not much youwouldn't do for him, as long as it keeps you frombeing as moody as he is.Bayushi Hayato: The path of blood is a circle.He should choose whether he wants to be in it,on it, or out of it. He's also great fun -- tell himthere's a Unicorn molesting peasants in thetannery and watch him run.Doji Himeko: She measures kindness as giftsof rice, not the pair of mirrors that surround her.Ironically, she might understand you better thanthe rest of them, and boy, wouldn't it piss her offif you told the other Cranes that.Iuchi Li-Hsu: The delicate flower has beenplanted oddly, with a harder stem and deeperroots than anyone realizes. Might it be up to youto water her? And maybe prune and weed andtie and other things that her grouchy brotherwould disapprove of?Akodo Ryuko: It is said, "Study the Tao andstudy the Emperor; in one you will find theother." Does she know what she serves? Hasshe ever laughed in her entire life?Her nine-year-old ward, Seppun Ichiko knowsmore about Shintao than you. You can't havethat...Dragons everywhere are counting on youto look enigmatic. Blow her mind.WHAT YOU THINK OF THE OTHERSMost of them need cheering up. You need toensure they don't turn into a pack of angry bushiout here, 'cause short tempers in the mountains