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 +<- tenwa:tenwa-chapter2|The Start of the China Adventure ^ tenwa:tenwa|Tenwa ^ tenwa:tenwa-chapter4|Buddha on the Yangtze ->
 ====== Adventures at Xi'an ====== ====== Adventures at Xi'an ======
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-=== Week 1 / 1 First day of the New Year (Year of the Rat) ===+ 
 +==== Week 1 / 1 First day of the New Year (Year of the Rat) ====
 The god Techo-Buja declares his blood feud with us. Oops, I should have wiped him out fully the first time. We celebrate for 3 days. Then intend to set off, with the silk merchants, to Xi'an. More of the warrior priests with tattoos show up on day 3, 20 or so proceed to attack us for breaking their religious artifact a long time ago! When they have been stopped a Taoist priest called Tsu Tsi asks to join as a tutor and fellow of the party. He seems to be a reasonable person. We sleep! The god Techo-Buja declares his blood feud with us. Oops, I should have wiped him out fully the first time. We celebrate for 3 days. Then intend to set off, with the silk merchants, to Xi'an. More of the warrior priests with tattoos show up on day 3, 20 or so proceed to attack us for breaking their religious artifact a long time ago! When they have been stopped a Taoist priest called Tsu Tsi asks to join as a tutor and fellow of the party. He seems to be a reasonable person. We sleep!
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-=== Week 1 / 4 (Year of the Rat) ===+==== Week 1 / 4 (Year of the Rat) =====
 he merchants are already loading the boat when we arrive. It's covered in silk but it most certainly isn't all silk! Lee Ho take a tutor in Xi'anese by the name of Shang Pijin-ker. he merchants are already loading the boat when we arrive. It's covered in silk but it most certainly isn't all silk! Lee Ho take a tutor in Xi'anese by the name of Shang Pijin-ker.
  
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 The party continue there journey. The party continue there journey.
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-=== Week 2 / 4 (Year of the Rat) ===+==== Week 2 / 4 (Year of the Rat) ====
 Landfall at Woo Han. Met blind Taoist Abbot Gita (lowcast) he is coming with us. Landfall at Woo Han. Met blind Taoist Abbot Gita (lowcast) he is coming with us.
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-== Week 2 / 5 (Year of the Rat) ==+==== Week 2 / 5 (Year of the Rat) ====
 Arrive at Xi'an? Arrive at Xi'an?
  
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 We land at the port. Pijin-ker takes us to to a nearby coffee shop. We discover sugar! To go with the coffee. We find the Yeeuch Temple is in the North East corner of the Winter Palace. Lee Ho buys a umbrella for Mi-Lan and hankie for Krappi. See ?Molsers? for the first time. We land at the port. Pijin-ker takes us to to a nearby coffee shop. We discover sugar! To go with the coffee. We find the Yeeuch Temple is in the North East corner of the Winter Palace. Lee Ho buys a umbrella for Mi-Lan and hankie for Krappi. See ?Molsers? for the first time.
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-=== Week 2 / 6 (Year of the Rat) ===+==== Week 2 / 6 (Year of the Rat) ====
 Still looking for long term accommodation in or here Xi'an. We travel to Yeeuch Temple, out side the temple there is a cage full of skulls. Lee Ho buys a farm (20 acres) for housing the horses and samurai. Still looking for long term accommodation in or here Xi'an. We travel to Yeeuch Temple, out side the temple there is a cage full of skulls. Lee Ho buys a farm (20 acres) for housing the horses and samurai.
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-{{ tenwa:page3f.jpg |Scan of the front of page three of the notes}} +==== Week 2 / 7 Week 5 / 10 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
----- +MeBe and Krappi spend the month training 
-{{ tenwa:page3b.jpg |Scan of the front of page three of the notes}}+ 
 +Lee Ho spend the month looking for Lacewings. 
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 +And one god blood feud. 
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 +==== Week 6 / 1 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Still looking for way of getting into Yeeuch Temple. Farm beginning to settle. Lee Ho meditate on skull cage, it appears to be a pile of skulls filled with spirits which are slowly breaking the skulls down, to what purpose we do not know. 
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 +==== Week 6 / 4 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Lee Ho meditates at the gates to soul cage. MeBe is trying to have a pair of Suko made. Krappi meditates outside the Yeeuch Temple. Gates have Kanji written on them. Lee Ho start to decode, he sends the Yamabushi searching for an ancient Kanji book.. They fails to fine one for him. 
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 +==== Week 6 / 5 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Yamabushi 1 gets his gloves fitted?. Lee Ho try to find a book and fail, then Meditates till dawn. 
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 +==== Week 6 / 6 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Leave Mi-Lan at temple and return to farm. Continue running farm until week 7. 
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 +==== Week 7 / 1 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Krappi almost completely breaks down under the strainI teach samurai / Yamabushi some religion while they are staying at the farm. 
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 +==== Week 8 / 1 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Lee Ho meditates as form of test, "to maintain the core, and to not ignore the periphery"... But what is the periphery? Study Gnana-yoga! Periphery is his associate. 
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 +==== Week 9 / 1 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Lee Ho continues to meditate and teach. Everyone starts learning some thing different! Lee Ho learns Jujutsu, the others continue to learn Kanji...! 
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 +==== Week 12 / 1 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Lee Ho throw a 10 Gold Piece party? It doesn't help Krappi but who cares. We send Mi-Lan off to deliver the scholar back to Nanking. It might be her who is the periphery! Lee Ho meditate on whether the associates are "some" but not all or one. It's true, only "some" associates. we learn the name of the metal we are hunting for it is called Gun Lai. 
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 +While we considering, Lee Ho's meditations, 6 large bears come over the walls and attack us. While we fight Techo-Buja shows up in a smoke screen and steals Krappi. Tsu Tsi holds Techo-Buja's attention while Lee Ho get him in range and then exorcise him. He leaves rather quickly without a) saying good-bye b) Krappi's body. Krappi awakes and explains that we need to shin in our own right to solve the next Test of Tenwa. 
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 +MeBe discovered, during combat, that the potion acquired (Week 34 / 1 Day 69) turns him into a catThe next day we use this facility to get him into the temple at Xi'an. Having discovered that the staff is wooden with green bobble and they have another Tenwa Tapestry, we launch a cunning plan. Krappi draws a picture of the tapestry and we commission a replica tapestry. While it's being done we start earning money. Krappi paints, MeBe works and Lee Ho train and look for Lacewings. MeBe seems to changes into a cat at odd moments. 
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 +==== Week 13 / 4 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +Lee Ho purchase 4 months fire-wood and oil for his temple. He start's fire he invites the villagers for a barbecue every Friday (10<sup>th</sup> day). We study / learn / work for 5 months while the tapestry is being done. Lee Ho make some religious scrolls, one a month for 3 months. The harvest is good, about 400 Gold Pieces worth. Lee Ho gives lots of money away an buy 2 neighbouring farms (+5 RI) giving peasants security of tenure. Lee Ho improve the the temple a bit and get a few novices (4). Krappi meets Mongol official. It starts badly but improves when Krappi give the Mongol a gift of a very good horse. 
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 +==== Week 26 (Year of the Rat) ==== 
 +he rain dragon shows his displeasure at the lack of a harvest tribute We buy 100 Gold Pieces of pearls and sacrifice them. Lee Ho meditates and tries to talk to him, eventually he succeeds. Lee Ho finds dragon bones on land, and pottery figures, he then hire two scholars to investigate Kanji on bones. Krappi paints pictures of important people and makes some money. 
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