The Temple of Inari XXXV

[Fenric]

You have entered the temple of Inari, in her capacity as the Goddess of Foxes.

You walk down an elegant white gravel pathway between full-grown pines. Stone lanterns provide a pure white light to the path, while casting elegant shadows among the trees.

At the end of the pathway, a bright red gate stands. A large fox carved from white alabaster gleams at each side of the gate. As you pass between the foxes and through the gate, you feel the presence of the goddess. Gentle and caring, but mischievous and lighthearted, you are never quite certain what will happen.

Past the exquisite formal gardens, you finally step into the pagoda itself. There, at the end of chamber is a raised dais. There rests a statue of a beautiful werefox woman, flanked by two snow-white celestial foxes. Offerings of rice and incense stand before the statue.

In a niche off to the right side of the door sits a Fox-Cola vending machine. Next to the coin slot, the sign reads "10 cp";.

To the left side of the door is a magic mirror. This mirror is actually a portal to Trog's Tavern.

Temple Map

Spoiler

Show

Temple View

Spoiler

Show

Profile for Inari

Spoiler

Show

Alignment: Chaotic Good
Primary Domains: Good, Plant, Chaos, Healing
Secondary Domains: Magic, Sun, Animal, Trickery, Knowledge, Water
Forbidden Domains: Evil, Law, War, Death, Destruction

Goddess of the cultivation and growth of rice, including rice products. This gives her minor coverage for fertility. She is also the racial goddess of foxes, werefoxes, and kitsune.

Priest Granted Powers

Rice Paddy: Once per day
As Entangle, but the ground changes to knee-deep mud, and instead of creepers, mature rice plants twist and writhe to grapple anything in the area.

Sushi Bar: Once per day
You create rice, fish, and sake. You can create enough to feed one medium sized creature for each two caster levels.

Summon Celestial Fox: Special
You summon an image of Myobi (if you are a priestess) or Myobu (if you are a priest). The fox has HD equal to your level plus your wisdom bonus. In combat, the fox fights the same as a normal fox, but with appropriate bonuses for HD.

Cumulative Fox Abilities
{table="Head"]Priest Level|Times per Day|Special
1|1|Fight, scout, and Cure Minor Wounds
3|2|Cure Light Wounds
5|3|Status
7|4|Magic Circle Against Evil
9|4|Cure Serious Wounds[/table]

Temple Facilities

Everything but the Sanctuary and Garden has Dimensional Lock. The entire facility is Hallowed as per the spell with the Bless effect.

- Sanctuary: the main sanctuary has the altar. This is where you must pray to speak to the goddess directly. There is a general magic circle in the center of the room.

- Meditation Gardens: accessed through a door at the far end of the sanctuary. This is a standard zen garden with raked gravle, shady nooks, picturesque pines, stone lanterns, and small intricate bridges. An artifical stream hosts large koi, and a grand cherry tree resides on a picturesque island in the middle of a good sized pond.

- Priest's Quarters: accessed by going down the stairs "halfway down the sanctuary, to the right", which leads to a covered pathway (technically under the garden).

- Summoning chamber

Priests

Spoiler

Show

High Priest: Fenric (PC)

Council of Head Priests
{table]Chairman / Head of Services|Exachix NorZilliar (PC)
Head of Clerics|Atreyu, The Masked Llama (PC)
Head of Accounts|Valathe (PC, Hoseki)
Head of Healers|Elya (PC, Earin)|Head of Facilities
Head of Facilities|Hachiro (NPC)
Secretary|Anna (PC, seftsirag)[/table]
Priests

Aramir (PC, Kyrian/Ares)
Rain (PC)
Aikidu (PC, guest cleric: not a priest of Inari)
Voxendi (PC, Gezina)

Knight Defenders of the Faith

Spoiler

Show

This is a prestige class developed with the help of Fenric, Earin, Kantur, Planeshifter, Rilik, Exachix, and Psionic Devotee. Here is the SRD-style Description.

Earin (PC)
Ilias (PC)
Aikidu (PC)
Conrad (PC, Kyrian)
Karsen (PC, Exachix)

[Destro_Yersul]

((Repost))

Oh, probably. Go ahead. I'm too happy to mind. Destro holds out one arm and continues grinning. Hey Atreyu, how have you been? It's been a while.

[Fenric]

Karl grins, and bites Destro on the arm to see if "Shock the RAW" is enough to get him infected, then he heads off to bed.

(( goodnight ))

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

"Its been good. I kinda, sorta, became a god of hay, but I don't think I have worshippers, so I just create hay for kids to play in and I always have something soft to sleep on now."

"how about for you? Anything interesting?"

[Destro_Yersul]

You know that floating thing that showed up a while ago? It belongs to the Nine, who wanted to kill me, and I ended up crashing it a couple days ago. That was fun. Anyways, I've now become Necromancy, replacing the old Necromancy, who was the one fueling the whole "kill Destro" thing. Unlife is good. Destro drops his arm and grins.

((Oh, this is going to be awesome. Were-lich!))

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

"Thats great. I ....never cared for it, but I only have vague memories of being a zombie. I need to get some sleep and think over this kit mess. Maybe sometime we could talk about posters to advertise for me."

(Sorry, Destro. Dead tired right now.)

*The llama falls asleep, dreaming of kits and zombies and zombie kits who all want to play*

[Destro_Yersul]

Sure thing. Goodnight Atreyu. Destro grins at the sleeping llama and leaves the temple. Purely as a joke he leaves half a dozen large fluffy pillows covered with images of kits surrounding Atreyu before he goes.

[Exachix]

Exachix wakes and wanders into the Sanctuary, starting today's dawn ceremony.

[Cathrindir]

Daerbain/Dareln appears in the gardens in a blaze of fire. He looks around, breathing heavily, flame covering his body. "The...I..." He stumbles backwards and makes a grab for a small plant, which bursts into flame with a touch. "...I couldn't find it...in time..." He crashes to the ground and looks up, eyes rolling back in his head.
"The Kent...the Kental Sty-" He goes unconcious.

[Deadly]

Grace flies out into the garden, carrying a plate with fish and rice. She sits down against the wall of the sanctuary, looking out over the garden while eating.

[Exachix]

Exachix finishes, late, for no other reason than he's been offline alot, before looking around and slumping into a chair.

[Deadly]

Ilias appears in the sanctuary and looks around. Spotting Exachix he smiles and waves Hi. Tired?

[InaVegt]

Voxendi wakes up and enters the sanctuary, he even has the smallest hint of color this morning.

[Exachix]

Exachix smiles fainly.

"Not very much, but slightly."

[Deadly]

Ilias nods politely to Voxendi before turning back to Exachix Well, any news around here?

[InaVegt]

Voxendi waves towards the others in the snactuary before starting to pray to Inari.

[Exachix]

Exachix grins.
"I think, well, I know, that Krystal is going to have kits. And I think, Myobi, and the other female Kits are all having kits." He smiles and waves to Voxendi.

[Deadly]

Ilias blinks All of them? At the same time? Already? Oh my... he looks quite stunned

[InaVegt]

Voxendi can't help but smile when he hears this.

[Exachix]

Exachix smiles.

"Yeah, all around the same time."

[Kyrian]

I am too, Exachix...

Sayuri and Conrad enter the sanctuary.

[Exachix]

Exachix smiles.

"Sorry, I'm slightly forgetfull, I wonder who else would be then..."

[Deadly]

Ilias grins Well, congratulations to all. This is great, though quite unexpected he says and looks thoughtful

[Exachix]

Exachix smiles faintly to Illias.

"So how are you doing?"

[Deadly]

Ilias shakes off his thoughts of more dragons to keep track of and turns to Exachix Not bad. Aside from Fenric's expedition and the kids it's pretty peaceful.

[Exachix]

Exachis smiles.

"Hmm, ok then."

[Deadly]

Ilias smiles and sits down

[Garden]

Arden flies over and sits down next to Grace, who's found some more fish in the kitchen. They talk quietly while watching the garden.

Down by the pond Rhune is busy drawing figures and obscure symbols in the water.

[Exachix]

Exachix sighs and closes his eyes, before opening them suddenly and smiling faintly.

[Deadly]

Ilias looks at him Something's up?

[Garden]

Selene falls down from the branch she had been resting on. She lands with a yelp and looks around before diving into the pond.

[Exachix]

Exachix smiles at Illias.

"I was just thinking." He surpresses a yawn. "Just thinking..."