#Quick Reference (早見表)

Contents

Authority. This document is a Summary — a summary of the volume's data, and it makes not a single line of new rule. When a number written here diverges from a card's source text, the source text always wins. The authority of the summarized rules (Variant, narrow Canon, Scene Tool) and the GM-permission premise are all the source documents' — fc cannot override co Canon. And in this volume this is the one and only document permitted to be laid open on the table and referenced during a session. The rest are books read before the session; this one sheet is the book looked at during the session. The spine sentence is set down once more — this book is not a book that makes the modern person strong. It is a book that gives the drama of a future being consumed. This document is the ledger of that drama.

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#Scent — A Ledger on One Sheet

#Opening Fragment — Roll Call (點呼)

On an evening after the rain had cleared, a campfire rose beneath the eaves of a ruined temple.

A woman drew an oiled cloth bundle from the topmost compartment of her backpack. Unwrapped, it was a single sheet of paper — its corners worn, the marks of charcoal erasures piled layer on layer along each line.

"Roll call," the woman said. At that one word the party each drew their own load in close.

"Rifle rounds."

"Twenty-nine," answered the man with the gun on his shoulder. The day before yesterday it had been thirty-one. "At the pass, two rounds."

"Antibiotics."

"Two." The one who had been a doctor answered without even opening his bag. That number was memorized too deeply to need opening to see.

"Flashlight."

"Two ticks. — The moon is good tonight, so we don't switch it on."

The woman drew a line of charcoal through each row to erase it, and wrote the new number beside it. A ronin warming himself at the side-fire — a man of this era, hired as escort as far as the pass — watched the movement of her hands a long while, then asked.

"You spread it out at the same hour every evening — is that paper your sutra (經)?"

"It is a storehouse," the woman answered, holding the paper up to the firelight. The number of every line was smaller than yesterday's, or the same. There was not one line that had grown.

"Light, for a storehouse."

"A storehouse that records what grows lighter," the woman said, wrapping the paper back in the cloth. "A storehouse that wastes away though one knows it and cannot stop it. — Still I record it. The numbers I have set down, at least, do not lie."

The ronin asked no more. Only, from that night on, he took up the habit of counting the arrows in his own quiver.

#Scent — Before the Session and During the Session

Every number in this volume lives in some card — firearms in Firearms, the inside of the bag in Equipment and Supplies, the sets in the six documents of the 02 series. Before the session, read those. But after the dice are on the table, the hand turning the pages cuts the scene. So this document exists — a one-line summary of all the volume's data (§1), the half-page of degradation and maintenance (§2), six lines of the sets (§3), and a remaining-count record sheet to copy and use (§4). The record is the PL's part, and the GM does not count it for them — exactly as the Depletion System decreed.

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#§1 — Depletion-Resource Overview Table

The starting remaining count is the card default — adjustment is the part of the Depletion System §Operation Dial (Fast: half / Standard: as is / Slow: milestone scenes only) and the GM Guide. The effect and degradation columns are a summary — the detail is always the card source text.

#Firearms — Remaining Rounds Counted Separately by Cartridge Type

Common: fire Energy 2, 2d10+Archery+modifier >= 11, damage is Wounds. The breakdown check is the firearm formula 2d10+Finesse+Archery. The gunshot rule fires on every trigger pull — stealth ends + encounter drawn in at scene's end, d10. There is no suppressor in this volume. A black-powder reload round is recorded on the sheet, distinguished by the single character black (黑).

Starting remaining-round adjustments, one line each — Self-Defense Officer combat-deployment type: rifle 60·pistol 15 / disaster-deployment type: rifle 0 to 10 (GM) / relic or seized: d10×3 rounds / scenario reward: 30-round cap at once. The detail is Firearms Law 3.

#Equipment and Supplies — The Inside of the Bag

The cardless leftovers — handcuffs, baton, whistle, hatchet, rope, a set of medical instruments, thermal blanket — do not wear down. They only get lost (see each set document).

#Electronics — The Category the Clock Is Strictest On

Common triggers: drop, submersion (submersion is always harsh). The breakdown check is the base formula 2d10+Finesse+Disable. The double-edged rule of light — switch it on and infiltration ends, the one who holds light becomes a target, and after a scene lit all night an encounter check comes once more (Equipment and Supplies). The double-edged rule of the lens — to photograph is to capture, to spread is to feed (Electronics Law 3).

#Vehicles (All Cards GM Only — Double Clock)

The Fuel Clock is 1 at the end of every scene of running, the Degradation Clock 1 every time the month turns — either one at 0 is silence. The piloting and breakdown check is the vehicle formula 2d10+Finesse+Horsemanship (roll only for rough handling). Ignition = gunshot rule applied. There is no resupply — only transfer, and degradation follows the more-dying side.

#Drifted Relics — Outside the Reckoning

The cards of drifted relics have, in principle, no [Depletion] — they are objects that have already passed the end of depletion. They take neither degradation nor maintenance, and bond conditions and tatari take that seat instead. The one and only exception is recorded here in one line — the Last Single Round [Depletion 1·rounds]. The smallest remaining count in this volume, and the heaviest remaining count.

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#§2 — Degradation and Maintenance Summary

The source text is Depletion System Laws 2 to 3. Do not confuse the two axes — the remaining count is "how much is left," degradation is "how much it is dying." Even with rounds left, a gun can die.

#The 4 Degradation Stages

#The Breakdown Check — Only When There Is a Trigger

• The 5 triggers: overuse / drop and submersion / disassembly by a non-specialist / black-powder substitute / GM declaration. Up to 1 time per scene on the same gear.
• Check: 2d10+attribute+skill >= Target Number — base formula 2d10+Finesse+Disable, a firearm is 2d10+Finesse+Archery, a vehicle is 2d10+Finesse+Horsemanship.
• Target number: Intact 11 / Worn 13 / On the Verge 15. A harsh trigger (submersion, black-powder substitute) is +2.
• Failure: degradation advances 1 stage. Fail at On the Verge, and — Silence.

#The Maintenance Check — One Stage Only, 1 Time per Interlude

• Condition: half a day of non-combat time + suitable tools. Check: 2d10+Wisdom+Disable >= Target Number — Worn→Intact 11 / On the Verge→Worn 13.
• Limit: turns back one stage only. 1 time per interlude on the same gear. No worsening on a failure, but no retry in the same interlude — the only exception is the engineer's spare-parts pouch.
• Target: implements only. Consumables (ammunition, medicine) cannot be maintained — there is only the road of substitution.
• The engineer's exception: Emergency Repair is maintenance check +2, and is the only thing in this volume to turn back two stages (On the Verge→Intact).

#The Clock and Substitution — The Whole of the Road That Refills

• Clock recovery is in principle impossible. The only things that open it are the two cards auxiliary battery and solar charger — electronics only.
• Time itself is the enemy. For fuel, medicine, and batteries left to sit across a season, the GM can declare an interlude decrease of 1.
• The three roads of substitution — ① smithy collaboration: a revival traded for permanent weakening. ② black-powder reloading: interlude + tools + case, powder, primer, 2d10+Wisdom+Disable >= 13 per bundle (up to 10 rounds). The number of primers held is the cap — primers cannot be made in this era. The reload round (黑) loses the hit modifier and takes an additional -1, range reduced by 1 zone, an automatic firearm fires single-shot only + a harsh trigger. ③ leather-and-cord modification: the effect stays the same, it grows more familiar in the hand.
• Revival from Silence is the domain of the scenario. There is no complete resupply — bit by bit, it becomes a thing of Japan.

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#§3 — Identity-Set Summary Table

The source text is the Set Overview and the six documents of the 02 series. A set is 1 per character, only at creation, GM permission required — each set is a separate unit of permission.

Common to all sets — these lines are the whole of this volume's balance.

• An ability gained by replacement is Licensed (3) capped. However, if the replacement result is an ability on the canon's master-eligible list (e.g. the medical worker's Medicine) the ceiling follows the canon. The canon's master-eligible list (Stratagem, Medicine, Negotiation, Perception, Deceit, Survival) is invariant.
• The set technique is a tier 1 / tier 3 choice-instead, not an addition. From tier 5 on, every set merges into the canonical modern person's technique list.
• Energy Transfer and the ability-score special (Courage/Finesse/Physique -1, Wisdom/Presence/Fate +1) are the skeleton of the occupation — they do not vanish by any choice-instead.
• The only set that grants direct combat power is the Self-Defense Officer, the one — and that too is time-limited, bound to firearms and [Depletion].
• Can be used alongside the background Memory of the Modern Age — point to the same ability twice and the background perk is forcibly moved to a remaining ability.
• The color of Adaptation — fast path (exemption from the first borrowing) / blocked path (no exemption): the Self-Defense Officer is samurai/shinobi, the rescue worker Wildman/shinobi, the medical worker Pure Land Monk/killing arts, the scholar scholar/shinobi, the engineer Artisan/the domain of the mysterious, the civilian blank delegation/agreement on the opposite pole.

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#§4 — The Remaining-Count Record Sheet

A sheet to copy and use — copy it onto paper, or copy the table by hand. Examples of entry are also served by the six blocks of the sample drifters.

#Five Lines on How to Write It

1. The record is the PL's part. The GM does not count it for you — the master of the hand that counts the magazine is you.
2. rounds — 1 each time you fire. Record separately by cartridge type, and distinguish a black-powder reload round with black (黑).
3. uses — 1 each time you tear open, jab, swallow.
4. Clock — 1 each time a scene of meaningful use ends. The smartphone and digital camera have no leniency — a scene switched on is a scene.
5. Inspect each interlude — the GM decrease declaration for things left to sit, the maintenance check (1 per interlude), and the check of the degradation column.

#Personal Record Sheet

Give a line even to drifted goods without [Depletion] (tools, books, glasses, wallet) — leave the remaining-count cell blank, and record only degradation and loss. The drama of a thing that does not wear down is the drama of losing it.

#Communal Stock Record Sheet — The Group-Drift Variation

For a table that uses the communal-stock special (Variant — premised on GM permission) of the GM Guide. Life supplies are one communal Clock per item — the tick is not a scene but a day. 1 decrease each time the group spends a day. Ammunition is communal rounds by cartridge type exactly per the law of Firearms — 5 decrease recommended per 1 volley of a rifle squad. Replenishment is not a roll but a scenario. The record is one PL's part — the very role of quartermaster is drama.

Quartermaster: ______ — the hand that holds the storehouse key is the first to be doubted on the day the storehouse empties.

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Grief cannot be counted, but what remains can be — this one sheet exists for that reckoning, and for as long as one counts, one goes on living.