#Performance and Earnings — How to Run a Stage

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This document belongs to the front. All rules below are Variant (opt-in) — they apply only when the table adopts them, and they do not replace the combat maneuvers of the Entertainer class. This covers performances outside of combat.

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#Rule — Performance Check [Variant]

Scene Tool. An optional rule layered on top of the non-combat check (co-03-09). It decides in a single roll whether one performance on stage landed.

Check.

Performance check = 2d10 + Grace (美) + Bearing proficiency bonus  >=  audience target number

• The base axis is Grace (美) + Bearing. The Bearing proficiency bonus follows the canon: Novice +0 · Trained +1 · Licensed +2 · Master +3, and if you lack even Bearing Novice, unskilled -2.
• For composed arts (renga, waka, kodo discernment, etc.), first set the work's grade with a Wits (智) non-combat check, then decide the occasion of presenting that work with the performance check above.
• Aid (GM discretion): a fitting prop (03) +1, a supporting skill suited to the occasion such as [Negotiation], [Disguise], or [Medicine] +1~2, a worn-down state, unsuitable stage, or hostile audience -1~3.

Result. Doubles (雙目) on 2d10 follow the canon Critical Hit/Fumble rules as-is.

Fame. This issue does not turn fame into a heavy numeric system. The GM manages it as a soft track that rises and falls one notch at a time per person, troupe, and region, and once enough has accrued, reflects it as [GM discretion] on [Negotiation] aid or unlocking stage tiers. It is separate from Renown (the 10th-dan capstone title).

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#Table — Stages and Audience Target Numbers

The target numbers follow the canon's odd-numbered difficulty ladder.

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#Rule — Performance Earnings [Variant]

Scene Tool. Layered on top of the detailed economy (1 gold = 10 silver = 100 copper). A table not using the detailed economy uses the right standard (gold only) column.

Base earnings on success. Double on a Critical Hit. On failure, minimum (in parentheses) or 0.

Reference point: a domain lord's reward for one scenario is roughly 30 gold (co-08-07). One street-corner performance is a meal's to a few days' worth of copper. An entertainer's stage is an economy of steady small change and rare jackpots.

Show splits — whose stage you stand on.

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#Rule — Performances for Spirits (Requiem, Summoning) [Variant]

Scene Tool. A stage for an audience that is not human. It connects to yoma and the Spirit Realm.

• Requiem (鎭魂) — Soothes onryo and bound spirits. Target number 19 (or the target's will/Defense). On a Critical Hit, the spirit calms and passes on, and the spiritual pressure of the place is released. On a Fumble, the spirit grows more agitated instead.
• Summoning (降靈) — Calls a spirit to the stage with mugen noh, Heike recitation, or a shirabyoshi's dance. On success, a door to dialogue with the spirit opens, but what you called must be sent back. On a Fumble, what you called does not leave.
• A performance for spirits yields no money. Its reward is a barrier released, a grudge (恨) closed, or a newly opened danger.

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#Example — In Performance: The Shirabyoshi by the River

A 3rd-dan shirabyoshi PC, Ayame — Grace (美) 4, Bearing Trained (+1), carrying the famed seven-color fan.

She stands on the Sakai Guild stage in a castle town. The show troupe's base target number is 9, with troupe patronage -2 → 7.

• Roll: 2d10 = 6, 6 (doubles!).
• Total: 6+6 + Grace 4 + Bearing 1 + fan 1 = 18 ≥ 7 → success, and since they are doubles, a Critical Hit.
• Earnings: the show troupe's base 1d10 silver → if a 6 came up, 6 silver, doubled on the Critical Hit → 12 silver. The troupe takes half, so Ayame 6 silver, troupe 6 silver.
• On top of that: fame rises two notches, and by the Critical Hit special effect a merchant in the audience offers patronage for the next show.

If at the same occasion the roll had been 3, 5 = 8: 8+4+1+1 = 14 ≥ 7 → an ordinary success, 1d10 silver (no doubling), one notch of fame. Since they are not doubles, there is no special effect.