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Power Cost: 0
Participants: Unlimited
Timeslots: Early Night
Description: The Festival of Bones, some quasi religious tradition of the desert peoples, but the most important part is the Race of the Vusa, where skilled riders parade for the crowds and test their mettle especially those that challenge the Path of Bones… are you a bad enough rider for the Path of Bones?
Rules: Before you can begin the race you must impress your beast, you must do the dance of the vusa!
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Dance of the Vusa: This is very coordinated and dramatic dancing where one must whoop like a vusa and impress the creature! This is a Coordination or Athletics check at Average with a setback due to vusa being very picky. If this roll is failed, you will suffer a setback die on all race rolls because your vusa is not impressed with you.
Next you must call your vusa, give a Whoop!
The Big Whoop: This is a Leadership check at Average, if successful the vusa will obey your commands and you can ride. If failed you can try to race by forcing the creature but all roll difficulties are upgraded once.
Now that you have your vusa it is time to race! This will consist of four Survival rolls and picking a course. The Leisure Course, the Rider’s Course, and the Path of Bones. It is bad form to wear armor during the race, so don't be that person.
Leisure Course: The most popular course for tourists and native alike you parade around the parade grounds and have great fun the difficulty is Easy, you have a great time but this is non-competitive. At the end you are rewarded with a bottle of spirits.
Rider’s Course: This is a more difficult course for experience riders and the Difficulty is Average, failure at a roll on this course will have you fall and sustain 5 wounds and 5 Strain per fall. The wounds can be reduced by soak, the strain cannot. Completing the Rider’s Course with 12 total successes over the 4 rolls will allow the rider to keep the vusa as their own.
Path of Bones: The most dangerous course, the difficulty is Daunting for each roll and a failure means one falls and sustains 10 wounds and 10 strain, the wounds can be reduced the strain cannot. This is not the path for the faint of heart along a narrow chasm if one completes it with 12 successes they are rewarded a vusa, considered a Master of Bones, and the talent below:
Master of Bones: Once per session may ignore any one Critical Injury for an encounter.
Rewards/Outcome: Fun and enjoyment!
Trust Modified: N/A
Power Modified: N/A
Duty Gained: N/A
