[Anglais] Mizuguri

[Okuma]

Alchemy

The Agasha family hold the secrets of Agasha’s journal during centuries, creating the arts of the Kagaku, Mizuguri and Hanabi, know collectively as the alchemy. Now, both the Agasha and the Tamori holds the secrets.

The skills used to create such are craft : Mizuguri or craft : metsubishi for some special ones (see crafted metsubishi page 164 of the 3rd edition), for kagaku it’s the explosives skill. Drinking a potion take one action, glass bottles are expensive and fragile. You can be under the effect of one potion at a time, drinking a second potion can create a poisonous effect. Both potions are now without effects and you suffer a snake venom poison effect (l5r 3rd edition page 162).

Some parts of this work have been inspired from Malempo’s ideas.


Explosives (Intelligence) Craft skill
This is a high skill for Tamori and Agasha when creating Kagaku.
Emphases: Kagaku, Polvora
Emphasis Abilities : Polvora is the Gaijin art of gunpowder, and can create 3k3
smoke bombs. This skill is extremely rare.

Creating an alchemic product require a roll and one hour for every multiple of 5 of the final TN (each free raise adds one hour). You need materials, a laboratory and a recipe. You can take a recipe as emphasis, giving you one free raise and the ability to prepare the actual product without the written recipe. Recipes having a TN lower than 25 can be prepared with a mobile laboratory, but in this case you can’t make any raise other than your free raise. More difficult recipes need an equipped and expensive alchemic laboratory.
Few recipes can have raises others than the 2 you can take to create an additional dose. All products require 2 bu of others components who are so easy to get that they are not listed.


Kagaku recipes list :

Black Arrows (see the Dragon’s ya) :
Tn: 25
Duration: instantaneous
Components: coal, saltpepper, an arrow, two doses of dry red vine and one dose of sulfur.
Effect: On impact, a black arrow explodes into a black cloud of smoke that lasts one hour and affects an area 30 feet large (the cloud dissapear as soon as any kind of wind blows).

Hanabi
Tn: 20
Duration: instantaneous
Components: coal, saltpepper, three doses of dry red vine, one dose of dry sunflower, one dose of dry bear’s bane, one wet dose of bara (Rokugani rose), one dose of saffron and one wet dose of kuzu (Kudzu vine).
Effect: create colored fireworks if used with a rocket.

Rocket powder
Tn: 20
Duration: instantaneous
Components: coal, saltpepper, three doses of dry red vine, two doses of malachite and a box made of shakudo (copper and brass alloy).
Effect: create the rocket powder used for the rockets for hanabi and military use.

Mizuguri recipes list :

The Dragon's Ya: (1 CP for Dragons Characters)
Tn: 25
Duration: instantaneous
- Components: coal, saltpepper, an arrow, two doses of dry red vine and: See each arrow’s description for aditional components.
Effect: Any arrow can be used only once and is fragile. To ignorant onlookers, they appear to be classical Ya (Willow Leaf).
Arrow types:
Blue Arrows: On impact, these blue arrows explode and create a 5-foot diameter cloud that puts to sleep anyone failing a Willpower TN 20 roll. Anyone failing the roll awakes if someone gets too close (< 1 foot) or if they are attacked. (Coniferous’ sap and the pollen of the dreams of the merchant plant)
Yellow Arrows: On impact, yellow arrows explode and create a 10-foot diameter
cloud that causes a + 10 TN penalty to all rolls for individuals trapped within the
cloud. (three doses of poison ivy and one dose of sulfur)
Red Arrows: On impact, any red arrows explode into a raging inferno and
inflicts burst damage (3k3 damage) to everything within 3 feet of the initial
explosion. (one more dose of dry red wine, 2 fireflies and one red salamander)
Green Arrows: On impact, a green arrows explode, releasing a 3-foot diameter
cloud of pollen. Anyone in the affected area must make a Stamina TN 20 roll or is
blinded for 1 round. (5 doses of pollen of a plant and some coniferous’ sap)
Black arrows are created with Kagaku.

Bayushi’s Bane
Tn: 15
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: 2 Bu of medicinal herbs and one dose of tsanuri (black viper)’s venom.
Effect: can cure one poison, depending of GM.

Brother of Air
Tn: 20
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: 2 doses of dry bellflower’s powder.
Effect: The drinker is immune to the effects of air spells.

Brother of Earth
Tn: 20
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: 2 doses of swamp mud plants
Effect: The drinker is immune to the effects of earth spells.

Brother of Fire
Tn: 20
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: 2 doses of lava powder
Effect: The drinker is immune to the effects of fire spells.

Brother of Water
Tn: 20
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: 2 doses of dry sea weeds
Effect: The drinker is immune to the effects of water spells.

Brother of Purity
Tn: 25
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: one dose of jade, one dose of dry chrystanthemum.
Effect: The drinker is immune to the effects of maho spells.

All the Brother of <element> potions have the following additional effect: All those spells have now their TN increased by + 15 against the drinker.

Crab’s Skin
Tn: 15
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: crushed shells of 2 differents crabs species, many possibles combinations.
Effect: The drinker earn a carapace level 2.

Crane’s Tongue
Tn: 15
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: three handfulls of Crane’s feathers and one dose of waterlily.
Effet : The drinker have 2 Free Raises for social rolls.

Dragon’s Breath
Tn: 15
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: 2 fire salamanders, one dose of malachite and one dose of cedar.
Effect: The drinker can breath a cone of fire (15 feet lenghth and 15 feet large) dealing 3k3 to everyone in the area and 1k1 to himself at his next action.

Ki-Rin’s Speed
Tn: 10
Duration: 1 hour
Components: some horse or pony’s mane, some wheat
Effect: for the duration of the potion, the drinker is considered to have a water ring increased by 2 for speed.

Lion’s Heart
Tn: 15
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: a great feline’s blood and some ivory powder
Effect: The drinker reduce the fear rating of his opponents by 3.

Phoenix’s Spirit
Tn: 25
Duration: 1 hour
Components: one feather of houou (the non-shapeshifter phoenix)
Effect: For the duration of the potion, the drinker have an affinity to one element of his choice outside of Void.

Scorpion’s Kiss
Tn: 15
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: three scorpions sting and one dose of some snake venom, even if not mortal.
Effect: the kiss of the drinker now gives the stolen breath (see l5r 3rd edition page 163) to the first kissed on lips.

Endless Watch
Tn: 10
Duration: 1 day
Components: two handfull of black tea of the Seikitsu mountains and some yak milk
Effect: The drinker can now sleep only 3 hours today, or have a + 15 bonus to resist to sleep for the duration of the potion.

Incense of harmony
Tn: 25
Duration: 1 hour
Components: honey, honeysuckle and cherry blossom
Effect: one character have 2 free raises for all meditation (void recovery) checks when the incense is used.

Light of the firefly
Tn: 10
Duration: 45 minutes
Components: 3 fireflies, one dose of carmine and some moonstone
Effect: this potion can light like a torch for the duration after being shaked.

Ravening Waters
Tn: 20
Duration: 3 rounds
Components: a stomach of a giant frog and some tsuchimon’s skin (a blue creature with 12 legs that live in caverns, sometimes around the Zokujins).
Effect: this potion is a really powerfull acid that react to air. Once opened the potion will start working, creating a 3k3 damage to one target at contact and 1k1 per round for the next 2 rounds

Tea of calm
Tn: 15
Duration: 3 hours
Components: white tea of the Mantis islands, one dose of opium.
Effect: this infusion of tea, who is legal, give the drinker a temporary quiet mind that gives him a free raise for any activity that need to have a relaxed state, or to resist to emotions like anger.

Breath of Suitengu
Tn: 15
Duration: 30 minutes
Components: two carps and three doses of fujibakama (ague weed).
Effect: The drinker can breath underwater.

Blessing of Hotogitsu
Tn: 15
Duration: permanent
Components: a mix of morning glory, yarrow, bramble, one rooster’s feather and granite.
Effect: the plant will be considered to have one month of good fertilization.

Inari’s Best
Tn: 10
Duration: 2 hours
Components: a good quality saké, some rices and some sandalwood’s leaves.
Effect: This saké will now get the drinker drunk if he fails a Stamina Tn: 25 roll after a few drinks.

Breath of Fukurojin
Tn: 25
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: 10 doses of medicinals herbs, pearl powder.
Effect: The drinker is healed 2k2 wounds.

The Crab’s persistence
Tn: 25
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: 1 bottle of Sochu, some crab’s meat and hariju root.
Effect: The drinker reduce the wound penalty by 3 for the duration of the potion.

Earth Hammer
Tn: 15
Duration: 5 rounds
Components: some iron dust, some boar’s tusk powder and some panther’s blood.
Effect: The drinker roll 2 additionnals dice for strength related rolls.

Liquid Smoke
Tn: 15
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: one dose of sulfur, one dose of coal, powder of kiki’s tears drops.
Effect: this potion explodes at contact, creating a yellow smoke that works like a blindness and nausea poison metsubishi (see l5r 3rd edition page 163).

Liquid Fire
Tn: 30
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: one dose sulfur, one dose of coal, 2 doses of dry red vine and some malachite.
Effect: this potion burn as soon as it get in contact with air. It burns for a 2k2 damage to the target and keep dealing 1k1 + 5 until the die give a 1 or the target spend one round stopping the flames.

Plants :

- Red vine : this vine lives on coniferous trees in the northern forests of the Phoenix and Dragon’s clans.

- Bear’s bane : this grass lives in every wet plains in Rokugan and is known to create a discret smell that keep bears at bay.

- Dreams of the merchant : this rare blue flower grows on the side of the roads where a permanent puddle is created when the roads starts to not be perfectly keep in state. It have been named like this because the flower looks really beautiful but starts to smell really badly 2 days after being cut.

- Kiki’s tears : this little flower seems to drop tears in the morning, in fact that some honey substance to attire ants so they can carry around his seed.

[Bayushi_Ribio]

A chouette, merci beaucoup. Je me disais y a pas une heure que je devrais compiler ce genre de merveilles en feuilletant les différents elixirs.
Merci, les alambics font chauffer...

D'ailleurs il faudra que je vérifie si les plantes necessaires aux elixirs sont egalement présentes sur l'aide de jeu, le traité d'herboristerie, fourni par Iuchi Mushu-San. Histoire de boucler la boucle.

[Bayushi_Ribio]

Et c'est aprés avoir dit n'importe quoi, que je me dit :
"Y a besoin de plantes au moins ?"

[Okuma]

Oui, ça demande des plantes et d'ailleurs j'ai écrit des plumes de sandalwood au lieu de feuilles de sandalwood ...

[Ben]

pourquoi l'anglais ?

[Okuma]

Parce que je poste sur les forums aeg.

[Mugen]

C'est pas Mizugusuri ??

[Bayushi_Ribio]

Ca va plus vite comme ça. , petite coquille pas bien méchante au vu du travail abattu à côté...

Sinon tu coté des suppléments web, chez aeg il devait sortir les techniuqes de combat mains nues. Est-ce bien prévu pour un supp web, et y-a t'il un ordre d'idée pour la date ?
Je suis un peu à la rue là.

[Murata]

Hai Okuma Sama

Pourriez-vous préciser ce que vous entendez par usage militaire de la poudre pour feux d'artifice. Il me semblait que cet usage était interdit. Auriez-vous des informations méconnues sur le sujet ?

Selon vous que peut-on penser des effets apparus dans La Voie du Dragon concernant le Kagaku ?

Domo Arigato

[Okuma]

Le Dragon est connu pour utiliser des Misuguri pour alimenter de l'artillerie, c'est expliquer dans clan wars le jeu de miniature et aussi dans le jeu de cartes.

[Murata]

Arigato Okuma Sama

Je ne connais Clan Wars et le JCC que de nom.

Concernant ma question sur le Kagaku, elle manque de précision. Je voulais votre avis sur les effets décrits dans la Voie du Dragon. Quels seraient, selon vous, les nouvelles règles les concernant ? Et vos commentaires sur leur emploi éventuel par les membres du Clan du Dragon, par rapport à l'honneur et aux dogmes de la société Rokugani.

En espérant avoir été plus clair

Arigato Gozaimasu

[Okuma]

Mais quels effets ? Je ne me rappelle pas avoir laissé un quelconque effet non-adapté...

[Murata]

Je faisais référence aux artéfacts de Kagaku tels que décrits dans La Voie du Dragon p88, Ekitai Kemuri, Hinemuri et Moeagaru, ainsi que toute utilisation similaire du Kagaku.
Il ne me semble pas avoir vu de réadaptation de cela dans vos écrits Okuma Sensei.

[Okuma]

Bin, comme j'ai pas la voie du dragon parce qu'on me l'a pas rendu, ça m'avance toujours pas.