Pinball Table

Introduction

• A mechanical pinball table that Tang Weiyuan (Fourth Senior Brother) brought back from the Kongtong Sect. It was originally a toy Yu Zhu set up for children at the Kongtong night market, one wen per play.
• You get a free trial play the first time in "Fourth Senior Brother's Peddling". After that, talk to Fourth Senior Brother to play, 200 Silver Taels per game.
• Prizes are exchanged for the total score of three rounds. The item you get at the same prize tier differs each time.

Fourth Senior Brother's Peddling

Trigger Conditions
Early May Year 1 to Late Dec Year 2 (daytime)
Fourth Senior Brother and the protagonist are both at the Tang Clan
Cumulative Shop spending of 5000 Silver Taels or more

Fourth Senior Brother has just returned from Kongtong and peddles Kongtong's old goods to his fellow disciples.

1. A Flying Heaven Gate expert's "Flying Heaven Shoes"
   • "Ew, someone else wore these": Worldliness +1, Cultivation −1, Mouth Power +1, Tang Weiyuan −1
   • "No comment": none
2. Iron finger guards used by Mystic Skill Gate disciples when playing the iron Pipa: the same option only appears again if you chose "Ew, someone else wore these" in 1, with the same effects.
3. If you chose "Ew, someone else wore these" both times: Mouth Power +1, Tang Weiyuan −1
4. Morality < 40: Cultivation −1, Mouth Power +1
5. Fourth Senior Brother switches to the pinball table and asks you to try it
   • "Cut it out, you're definitely up to something": Temperament −1
   • "Fine, I'll give it a try": none
6. After he explains the rules ( "Say that again" replays them), you play one round.
   • The trial play gives no prize. After it ends, the pinball table is unlocked, and you can play by talking to Fourth Senior Brother.
   • If you shake the pinball table to pieces during the trial play, see Breaking the Pinball Table.

How to Play

• One game is three rounds, eight marbles per round.
• Hold to charge, release to launch.
• There are eight slots at the bottom; their scores from left to right are 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3.
• In the same round, when a fourth marble enters the same slot, that slot's score is added tenfold as a bonus (the 3-point slot adds 30). From the fifth marble on, only the base score counts.
• If the eight marbles of one round each enter a different one of the eight slots, you get an extra 150 points. That round alone gives 14+150=164 points, more than the 100 needed for the grand prize.
• The scores of the three rounds are summed into the total score, and prizes are exchanged by total score.

Shaking the Pinball Table

• You can shake the pinball table. Shakes are counted cumulatively across the whole game.
• On every 3rd shake, pegs fall out (1 peg on the 3rd, 2 on the 6th, 3 on the 9th...).
• On every 5th shake, a post between two slots breaks at random, for −5 points each.
• Once a post breaks, the slot to its left and the slot one further left no longer trigger the "fourth marble tenfold" bonus for the rest of the game. The 150 points for "one marble in each of the eight slots" can no longer be earned either.
• There are 7 posts in all. When the 35th shake breaks the last one, the pinball table is broken and you get no prize.

Prizes

Play Conditions
Pinball table unlocked (trial played)
Silver Taels ≥ 200
Fourth Senior Brother and the protagonist are both at the Tang Clan

Each play costs 200 Silver Taels. Each prize tier counts its own number of times separately.

Total Score	First Time	Second Time	Third Time Onward
Grand Prize (100 or more)	Nickname, Reputation +3	Reputation +2, Sect favor +1 with Qingcheng Sect, Quanzhen Sect, Emei Sect, Kongtong Sect, Songshan Sect, and Diancang Sect	Same as the second time
Second Prize (60–99)	Secret Manual "Plum Village Offerings"	Mohele Doll (Red)	If Yu Zhu is at the Tang Clan: Xiao Zhu Labor Bond (given only once) Otherwise: Sugarcane ×3
Third Prize (30–59)	Secret Manual "Hand-Copied Quanzhen Sword Technique"	Mohele Doll (Green)	If Yu Zhu is at the Tang Clan: Xiao Zhu Labor Bond (given only once) Otherwise: Sugarcane ×2
Thanks for Playing (29 or below)	Sugarcane ×1, Tang Weiyuan +1	Same as left	Same as left

Grand Prize Nickname

The first time you win the grand prize, Fourth Senior Brother promises to spend money to have people spread word of your nickname. The nickname is decided by a dice roll; afterward it is always Reputation +3.

• 【<40 So what's your brilliant suggestion? (angry)】
  • Temperament < 60: nickname "Whatever"
  • Temperament ≥ 60: nickname "Steel Ball"
• 【<75 It's Marble Hero, no haggling】: nickname "Marble Hero"
• 【≥75 A serious nickname】: nickname "Marble Star Hand", Mood −10

From the second time on, the grand prize is Fourth Senior Brother putting in a good word for you before Wulin seniors while peddling.

Prize Descriptions

Prize	Description
Plum Village Offerings	Secret Manual (Special), 5 levels in all, Cooking +2 per level. Someone's cooking miscellany, divided into the Cold Food chapter, the Full Meal chapter, and the Picky Eater chapter, covering everything from street snacks to mountain delicacies and rare seafood.
Hand-Copied Quanzhen Sword Technique	Secret Manual (Internal Skill), 10 levels in all. The same as Quanzhen Sword Technique, plus Cultivation +1 per level. Someone's hand-copied Quanzhen Sword Technique, in exceptionally elegant handwriting.
Mohele Doll (Red)	A wooden figure someone carved by hand, made with more care than the green one.
Mohele Doll (Green)	A wooden figure someone carved by hand, roughly made.
Sugarcane	Sugarcane cut from the back mountain; chew a stick in your spare time to cool off and beat the heat.
Xiao Zhu Labor Bond	A labor bond Xiao Zhu was tricked into signing in a daze by the unscrupulous merchant Old Fourth Tang. The description says that ordering Xiao Zhu around directly raises Contribution and pays off the bond along the way (the Second Prize is worth two bonds).[1]

Breaking the Pinball Table

When the pinball table breaks you get no prize, and what happens afterward depends on whether Yu Zhu is at the Tang Clan.

Yu Zhu Not at the Tang Clan (including breaking it during the trial play)

Tang Weiyuan −3, Cultivation −3, Worldliness +2, and Fourth Senior Brother demands you pay for it.

• "Pay up" (Unlock Condition: Silver Taels ≥ 1000): Silver Taels −1000, Cultivation +1, Tang Weiyuan +3
• "I can't afford it": Contribution −50 (the Sect Leader rules that you take over Fourth Senior Brother's shifts to pay off the debt)

Repairing the Pinball Table

If Yu Zhu is at the Tang Clan, the first time you break it you go to Yu Zhu. Yu Zhu recognizes it as the marble table she made and fixes it on the spot. No stat changes.

Yu Zhu says that when she set up this toy at the Kongtong night market she charged only one wen per play, but later a child who played badly complained to the Soul-Stealing Gate that she was cheating, and her stall was ordered shut down.

Breaking It Again Later

Yu Zhu still fixes it, but her favor drops.

• Worldliness ≥ 60: Yu Zhu −1, Mouth Power +1, Cultivation −1
• The first time you break it again after a repair: Yu Zhu −1
• From the second time on: Yu Zhu −3

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1. TODO: The scene where the Xiao Zhu Labor Bond is used has not been confirmed yet. ↩︎