1st Scroll - The Will of Nobles - 1st - 3rd Days

[Marullus]

Yes he does.

Taisho and Akemi carry the box.
Ito and Omi carry the bamboo poles with the weapons and armor. (Five suits, right?)
Kentaro carries the unconscious bandit leader.
...we make it to the woodcutters and the horses and then reapportion.

[ffilz]

Taisho is honored to help carry the load, though he thinks to himself that we must hire some porters.

[jemmus]

Yes, 5 suits and the heavy samurai armor if you want it. Details and weights, to help with deciding what to do.
5 Partial Light Ashigaru (60 lbs)
1 Full Light Ashigaru (20)
1 Heavy Samurai (40)
Total - 120 lbs

1 katana (average) (The bandit leader's original one before looting the yojimbo's better one). (5 lbs)
2 han-kyu (6)
2 yari (20)
1 wakizashi (average) (3)
2 wakizashi (inferior) (Including the bandit leader's original one). (6)
2 naginata (24)
Total - 52 lbs

Combined Total - 172 lbs.
86 lbs per bushi.
Ito - 135 lbs carried (Encumbered at up to 150 lbs)
Omi - 145 lbs carried (Encumbered at up to 132 lbs, after that Over Encumbered)
For every 10 minutes characters remain Over Encumbered, they
will take 1D10 of Subdual damage, keeling over from exhaustion
when this reduces their Hit Points below 1.

It's about a quarter of a Nippon hour (half of a modern hour) to the charcoal burners' camp, if traveling by daylight. It's around 4:30 PM. The trail under the trees should be visible for most of another Nippon hour.

We'll need Omi's and Ito's decisions about carrying armor and/or weapons, of course.

[jemmus]

I just remembered that arrows for dai-kyu and han-kyu aren't interchangeable. If Kentaro wants to use arrows from the bandits' quivers, he'll have to use a looted han-kyu.

[Marullus]

Erg. Yeah, I dispensed with that rule in my game. The Hankyu arrows go in saleable items and he will go with out arrows until town, then.

[ffilz]

Can Taisho do anything to help pack the load to be less burdensome? He is of merchant background with Commerce skill...

Also, how heavy is the kuge's chest? Taisho isn't all that strong... Not sure how strong Akemi is

[jemmus]

Kentaro could temporarily use a han-kyu if he wants. Kyujutsu skill seems to cover both types of bows. But your call, of course.
Taisho could bundle and tie the weapons together to make them easier to carry, but the weight would still be the same. The trunk weighs around 30 lbs, so Taisho's share would be 15 lbs. He'd partially encumbered carrying it.

[Marullus]

Kentaro could temporarily use a han-kyu if he wants. Kyujutsu skill seems to cover both types of bows. But your call, of course.

Is one of their han-kyu a 3-man bow? I assume they don't have one strong enough for Kentaro to use and he can't mod that. Also, by-the-book half the arrow types aren't available in han-kyu style (like your 19 willow leaf arrows). If there's a proper 3-man han-kyu bow, he'll swap out for now because its better than having no arrows.

[jemmus]

I forgot about that. All of the han-kyu arrows are willow leaf, no armor piercer or bowel raker ones. Both bows are 3-man. You could also reuse the 5 (correction, 6) dai-kyu arrows that hit the bandits if you want to use your dai-kyu instead. The last one that his was a bowel raker, I think maybe the others were willow leaf.

[jmacatty]

OMi and Ito will both lug heavy stuff, provided it is bundled in such a way to allow them to drop immediately.

[Marullus]

Sheet updated. Kentaro had no willow leaf arrows, so recording 1 bowel raker and 5 armor-piercers. Added 1 (three-man) han-kyu and 26 willow-leaf arrows for it. Added the superior katana.

I'm all for us walking a quarter hour to get to the woodburners before dark.

[jemmus]

If Omi and Ito carry the armor and weapons, Omi will take 3d10 subdual damage for Over Encumbrance.
If Taisho and Akemi carry the weapons instead and the trunk, each will take 3d10 subdual damage for Over Encumbrance.

Other options are to lighten the load, or to make two trips. It's around a 30 minute (a quarter of a Nippon hour) hike each way, so two hours for two round trips. You have 1.5 hours of daylight left. The charcoal burners' camp shouldn't be that difficult to find in the dark. Perception of Hidden Things rolls, but at 3x the BCS. Anyone with Tracking skill can add their Tracking BCS to the PoHT BCS.

Here's the itemized weights of everything. viewtopic.php?p=581446#p581446

[ffilz]

Let's make two trips. Taisho can carry a lantern to illuminate the way once darkness falls if we have a lantern we could use.

[Marullus]

When they reach the woodburners, Kentaro will stay to guard the prisoner and the Kuge noble while Ito, Omi, and Taisho make the second trip.

[jemmus]

The travelers carry their first load and easily find the charcoal burners' camp . The are horses where they left them, safe and unharmed. They shake their heads and snort, complaining about having had no grain and only weeds to eat. The hut is empty, and it appears the occupants have taken their possessions with them. Three sleeping mats remain, but no blankets. Even more wretched than the other one, the kuge says. Akemi layers the three mats for him to sit on, at the farthest end of the room. On the second trip, she adds straw mats, blankets, a cooking pot, and dry rice to the two carrying poles. Ito, Omi, Taisho and Akemi return to the camp with the second load.

Gakusho, you will heal my wounds as soon as you are able, the kuge says. Akemi arranges mats for the other travelers at the other end of the tiny room, away from the nobleman. They will have the indignity of having to sit and sleep almost on top of each other. Akemi prepares a meal of plain white rice and mountain bracken fern. Ronin, play your shamisen for, says the kuge. Something from your rustic homeland, a song we don't hear in the capital.

Actions? Do the PCs spend the night at the camp? Do they set watches? If so, Akemi offers to take one and the kuge of course doesn't. Do you let Akemi take a watch?

[ffilz]

Taisho still has 4 power left, so he can do some healing before everyone beds down for the night. What is everyone's state?

[jemmus]

Ito - 18/25 HP
Omi - 21/37 HP
kuge - took 3 HP subdual damage
Everyone else is at full HP.

[ffilz]

Ito - 18/25 HP
Omi - 21/37 HP
kuge - took 3 HP subdual damage
Everyone else is at full HP.

What are the options for healing subdual damage?

[jemmus]

I think it's the same as for healing lethal damage. The difference in the damage types is subdual damage knocks a character unconscious, instead of killing it.

[ffilz]

I think it's the same as for healing lethal damage. The difference in the damage types is subdual damage knocks a character unconscious, instead of killing it.

Subdual Damage is healed much more quickly than is Lethal Damage.. If the character rests completely, he regains his base Healing Rate for every 10 minutes he rests.

Taisho will encourage the Kuge to rest and will administer to him while resting. He should recover the 3 subdual in at most 30 minutes (depending on his base healing rate).

Healing on Omi:

(-2 for wounds) fail
(-2 for wounds) fail
(-2 for wounds) success

6 points are restored.

Healing on Ito:

(-1 for wounds) success

5 points are restored.

I don't know if there's any opportunity for special effect for the 1s...

Has Taisho used bandages and healing salve yet? If not, that's 2 more points of healing each (only mentions lethal wounds)