#New Exploration Schools (探査流派) — Section Index
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#§ Check Procedure (reusing the core)
Checks for this section's 6 skills (Scouting, Survival, Geography, Perception, Disable, Herbalism) are handled with the core 03-09 Non-combat Check, Target Number 11-17 table + 04-01 Skills, applied. This expansion introduces no new Target Number table; it adds only school bonuses.
Mapping-policy source: 00-05 §14 Undefined-Concept Core-Reuse Mapping.
#Identity
The core 6 exploration skills (Scouting, Survival, Geography, Perception, Disable, Herbalism) have no schools at all. This expansion newly establishes schools for all 6 skills. Exploration skills have many out-of-combat checks, making them decisive for tactical positioning, information warfare, and threat prediction.
#Design Goals
- 6 skills × at least 3 kinds = 18+ kinds of new schools.
- Per-skill detailed goals:
- Scouting: 3–5 kinds. night, forest, desert, urban, snowfield
- Survival: 3–5 kinds. mountain, extreme (north/south), maritime, poison-land, Spirit Realm
- Geography: 3–5 kinds. astronomical, feng-shui, cartographic-tracing, Nanban cartography
- Perception: 3–5 kinds. auditory, olfactory, qi-sense, mind-sense, feng-shui
- Disable: 3–5 kinds. lock, trap, Sorcery seal, Spirit Realm seal
- Herbalism: 3–5 kinds. materia medica, herbal medicine, Nanban botany, alchemy, poison-herb identification
- Herbalism schools partly overlap with 19-Mystical/Medicine schools and Poisoncraft schools — they are distinguished within the schools.
#§ File List for This Section
ex2-17-01-scout-schools.md— Scouting schools, 4 new kindsex2-17-02-survival-schools.md— Survival schools, 4 new kindsex2-17-03-geography-schools.md— Geography schools, 4 new kindsex2-17-04-perception-schools.md— Perception schools, 4 new kindsex2-17-05-disarm-schools.md— Disable schools, 4 new kindsex2-17-06-herbalism-schools.md— Herbalism schools, 4 new kinds
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — exploration 6 skills
- Shinobi (忍) — shinobi exploration linkage
- Scholar (學者) — scholar (Geography, Perception)
1st expansion:
- Spirit Realm Weather Hazards — The Skies of the Five Hells — Spirit Realm environment (exploration use)
- Toukatsu-ryu (等活流) — format
Within this expansion:
- Mystical School Expansion (神秘流派) — Section Index — Herbalism/Poisoncraft crossover
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
#§ Scent — Two Marks
A deep mountain, one fog-thick dawn. An archer from Sherwood — a remnant yeoman who drifted east after the Hundred Years' War ended — was inspecting a long-set trap.
The trap he had set yesterday. A simple snare laid across a boar trail. The line was intact. But beside it was another trap.
A trap of exactly the same craft as his own.
The same knot, the same line thickness, the same camouflage — even the way the line was hidden with fallen leaves was identical. The archer paused for a while and examined the trap. It was clearly set by someone whose hand was not his own. Yet the result was no different from his own hand.
On a rock beside the trap was a small knife mark. A mark. Not letters but a simple symbol — a bow-shaped carving. The archer knew it was a hunter's mark. Similar to his own mark, but a different hand.
He drew his own knife and carved a reply on the rock beside it. His own mark — the arrowhead shape of Sherwood, England. Two marks were carved together on one mountain.
A few days later, on his way down the mountain, the archer met a righteous soldier. A righteous soldier of Joseon. A survivor who drifted into Manchuria right after the Imjin War. The archer mimed the mountain trap and the mark with gestures. The soldier nodded — "I set that."
The two could not understand each other's words. Yet both knew. That on the same mountain, they had been hunting the same enemy.
Exploration is not a lonely art. One who reads the same trail is a comrade wherever they are.
"Exploration takes the blade's place. For if you know, there is no need to cut."