Impact Subplot Escalation #1 (Tutelage of Mataora)
Scene Purpose:
-Main Character and partner disagreement escalates into conflict
Legend has it that the human man, Mataora once beat his supernatural wife. She ran to the home of her father Uetonga. After trials, tribulations, and begging for forgiveness, she took him back, and her father taught him the art of moko. He is therefore the source of knowledge for all human moko.
Ingo knows this. He also knows that Mataora and his wife are miserable. They had a lover’s affair, and now they are stuck together and hate each other. Ingo sent Kō here not to learn about moko, which Ingo’s tohunga could have taught her, but to see how miserable “love” can make people.
Kō is educated about her moko: Mataora explains that the moko is the mark of a chosen warrior. One gives her power over water, and the other power over fire. She can now swim underwater without being overcome, and she can pass through non-magical fire without being burned.
Also, the moko gives her access to the whole range of abilities via the figurines described in the ability system.
About Pete
Plucky polymath, software engineer by day, dreamer of dreams by night. Longing to behold and beget beauty and love, Kōtiro is an expression of my passion for the magic of the world in which we find ourselves.