Ashigaru skill

Skill 'ashigaru'.

• Group: 'fightmaster'.
• Execution delay: 3 seconds.
• Costs: mana 100, moves 50.
• Available to classes: samurai 35

Format: ashigaru

The samurai calls an ashigaru, a foot soldier from a peasant family sworn to serve him. Only one can serve at a time, and after a call some time must pass before the next. The ashigaru follows and fights like any other servant; he can only wear armour on the body and head, a weapon and a shield. A samurai who bears shame cannot call one. At harakiri an ashigaru standing beside his master acts as kaishakunin: he ends the suffering with one stroke, and the death is clean. A samurai who dies without one pays twice: the death counts double, and his ghost wanders three times as long. Old customs gave this duty to a trusted peer, not to a conscript, but in these lands one takes the hand that is there. When he leaves his master, whatever he carried stays where he stood. Not to be confused with the ashigaru set of armour. Ask your ashigaru for sake -- say or tell him 'give me sake' -- and he brings you a masu cup, free of charge. For a whole tokkuri bottle he needs money: sake costs three silver, so give him three silver and he runs to buy it. There is never any change.