The dice would be a general effects roll. It's protocol on the forum that the referee gets to roll the dice, although it's protocol at live games that the player gets to do so unless there's a reason the player should not know the dice were rolled.
"Well, of course you want a husband. Who will care for you otherwise? Even geisha eventually find a nice noble and marry, usually then retiring from their profession. Silly girl--what else do you think you would do?"
--M. J. Young
"I don't know, if I am to be a chef, couldn't I live a comfortable life working like that? Why could I not support myself?"
"Working as a chef? Of course, not, silly girl. You could work with your husband who is a chef, or you could be a peasant serving in the kitchens, but there are no women chefs. Besides, if you are nobility, why should you lower yourself to labor? The peasants do the labor. We rightly live by their service."
--M. J. Young
"What if the wife of a farmer wishes to be a seamstress? Is that not acceptable?"
"Well, of course the peasant wife of a farmer would make clothes for herself and her family, just as I make most of the clothes for our family, although I do sometimes trade with some other women who make excellent clothing. An unmarried peasant might find a position as a household servant somewhere, where she could be fed and clothed and housed while she is useful, but then when she is old she would have to find someone in her family willing to receive her in her old age when she would have nothing of her own."
--M. J. Young
"I don't know if I understand why you should place so much value on getting married." I say, continuing to eat
She smiles, perhaps a bit patronizingly.
"I'm sure you will. Perhaps you are not old enough yet."
--M. J. Young
"Maybe." I say, drinking my beer.
"Well, you should get some sleep. Do you wish to be called at any particular time tomorrow, or will you just find the servants when you awaken?
"I'm sure you can find your way to your room; or sit in the tea garden out back for a while if you wish. I am hoping to catch a new play featuring a young kabuki actor I've been eyeing lately."
--M. J. Young
"Oh, thank you. You've been so hospitable. Where is the tea garden?"
Your hostess directs one of the maids to escort you to the tea garden. The girl, about your age, asks if you will need anything else.
The garden is much as you might expect, open to the sky but with a high blind fence around it to block prying eyes, not much larger than a bedroom, cultivated flowers lining the walls, a stone garden (stones decoratively placed on sand with tracings to suggest ripples) in the center, a bench and two chairs, padded and covered with a brightly-colored waterproof material which might be vinyl. A small roof is suspended over the stone garden, probably to reduce damage from rain. There is no exit from the garden to the world beyond, only the connecting door to the house and a bay window from a sitting room. The lawns between the stone garden and the flowers are well-maintained, level and trimmed. Of the adjacent houses you can see nothing, as the walls are high enough to block any view out from, and presumably into, the garden area.
--M. J. Young
"Why is the garden so blocked off? I mean, the walls I understand, but why is there a roof?" I ask, walking in.
Miscommunication? The roof is over the sand and rock arrangement in the middle; the garden between it and the walls is open to the sky, which is starting toward dusk at this point.
--M. J. Young
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