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Post by sprinkles on Oct 31, 2011 16:02:14 GMT -5
Sprinkles attempted to create a wall of fire between himself and the faceless, having no idea if the elements would work here.
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Oct 31, 2011 20:08:30 GMT -5
The wall of fire sprung up in front of Sprinkles as he had done so many times before.
The faceless beings looked through the fire at Sprinkles. Again tilting their heads in confusion. Then seeming to come to a conclusion they spoke: "You have magic! You know more than you ssssay! Tell usssss what you know! Fire ssshould not haarm usss, but we have not seen it since our change..."
One single being out of the group continued its march forward towards the wall of flame. Nothing happened as it got closer, the time seemed to stretch on and on. As it passed through the flame wall, it was clearly not as immune as it would think. The smoldering smell of flesh coming off of the faceless being was more putrescent than one who has smelled burning flesh before would have thought. The entire mass of faceless beings moaned in pain along with its single member that had passed through. The single one dropped to one knee in front of Sprinkles the arm he isn't balancing on reached out for Sprinkles.
"please...tell...ussss...."
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Post by sprinkles on Oct 31, 2011 21:49:47 GMT -5
"It is as you say you are bound to one another. But perhaps I can free you all. But you must obey me."
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Nov 1, 2011 11:45:26 GMT -5
All the beings looked back and forth at each other. It was now obvious to everybody who had been watching them that they had some form of mental communication between themselves. They focused back on Sprinkles, completely ignoring the samurai around the throne.
"We...we will obey you for the time being. We make no promisssse to obey you forever, without clearer terms, we will not be foolissssh. We want to know what you know. Now tell ussss what you have sssseen with your eyes unclouded by your physical limitationssss."
The beings had stopped moving forward, but their heads were twitching from side to side. The court chamber was another matter, it kept moving in that same subtle way. Some plates of food slid off of the rocking tables and crashed to the ground, shattering into several pieces.
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Post by sprinkles on Nov 2, 2011 23:20:43 GMT -5
"You have all been bound to each other, and the boy. If he leaves you will die. But I may be able to set things right. I'll have to prepare for a ritual."
Sprinkles set the trappings of the ritual he saw in his vision. But added a few things. He took a container of sake and poured it out. He then drew his onyx dagger and slashed his hand open and began bleeding into it. "I'll need the blood as a binding agent to our world . It is not maho my samurai friends. This is a gainjin ritual."
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Kakita Sojiro
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Nov 3, 2011 1:55:38 GMT -5
(ooc does a Shadowlands score of 48 tell me that you're lying?)
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Nov 3, 2011 2:09:34 GMT -5
[OOC]I'll say 48 is good enough to say that it's not a maho thing that you've ever seen before, so there is that chance he is telling the truth. But that sure is a pretty shiny BLACK dagger he's wielding... Play it out however you want, Sojiro. ^_^ You are allowed to be paranoid about those kinds of things.[/OOC]
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Nov 3, 2011 2:16:45 GMT -5
Upon seeing the black dagger Sprinkles pulls out, Sojiro immediately goes for his katana. Sprinkle's explanation that it is not in fact a Maho ritual stops him from drawing, but his hand does not leave the hilt of his katana.
His eyes are now locked on the ritual Sprinkles is performing.
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Post by sprinkles on Nov 3, 2011 6:20:08 GMT -5
"If you kill me, Master Crane, then the Emperor's soul will be stuck here. Please lets not be too hasty."
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Post by Zeure on Nov 7, 2011 23:22:28 GMT -5
Sprinkles had arranged a small circle of light sources present in the room and had wrapped his hand after bleeding into the jug. He spoke several words in his gaijin language. He continued his chant, which seemed to be trying to urge the spirits into action. As he continued to chant the room light up with a sort of etherial green light and the occupants of the room could see a silvery blue chain that was attached to each of the faceless beings that ended in one huge lock, which was then connected by a much larger chain to the Hantei. Sprinkles strode forward towards the lock that was binding the chains together. The faceless beings writhed and moved in a fluid motion that was not unlike a snake nest. The moved and jumped together, and as the group could see the chains connecting them one could see the waves of the chains directing them. Sprinkles raised his knife and around it there was a sort of smoke that circled the blade and the look of it was the same silvery blue light that the chains seemed to be made of. He plunged the dagger down into the lock and it shattered. He pointed the knife at the Hantei and then at the jar and made another utterance in his gaijin language that sounded like a command. The end of the Hantei's chain that had so recently been severed from the lock was drawn into the jar and began pulling the Hantei towards Sprinkles. "Just a moment more, samurai and the boy will be free of this place." Sprinkles said aloud. The chain was nearing it's end and the Hantei was so close to the jar and then there was a flash of light that surrounded Sprinkles and he was no longer standing there. The green light faded, the faceless beings were gone and the Hantei rose towards the ceiling and passed through it. The court room shook violently and it was apparent that all those contained within that did not want to be there as it fell in on them had better leave very quickly.
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Post by Iuchi Ozora on Nov 7, 2011 23:45:23 GMT -5
Standing alongside the edge, watching the whole spectacle, Ozora just stares blankly up towards the ceiling, wonderment and intrigue obvious on his face.
With the shaking starting, he looks at the others present and starts to break for the door in a move to escape the imminent collapse.
In his movement to get out, it is noticed he is wearing Unicorn travel leathers under a haori with the Unicorn clan mon on the back and the Iuchi mon on the front. Across his back is a bow and quiver. At his hip, a scroll satchel is tied to his leg securely. All common modifications when traveling.
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Post by Daigotsu Thrakhath on Nov 8, 2011 13:58:23 GMT -5
The first thing Thrakhath noticed when he awoke was his pulse.
It was a strange sensation, feeling something thumping inside his chest when for such a long time there had been nothing there. He had been so enthralled with the idea that he was no longer dead that he hardly paid attention to his surroundings. He remained unnoticed in the background, as his training had not entirely left him, but he found himself sniffing the air and running his hands through his hair repeatedly just to experience the new sensations. His hair, he found, was loose, thick and alive, nothing like the coarse, scraggly mess he was used to.
His beard itched. It actually itched.
When the other samurai entered the court of Hantei the 40th, Thrakhath first took notice of his state of dress and opted to remain away from the others for now. He inspected himself, and frowned. The armor and clothing he wore was blatantly of Unicorn design and style, but the purple was stained with red and the trim was dark gray rather than white. His skin was still an unhealthy-looking pale color. His scimitar was at his side, but when he reached back his ono was not to be found. There were no visible mons that he could find, Unicorn, Spider or otherwise.
It was during this self-inspection that Thrakhath first smelled the food in the throne room. He stood there dumbfounded for a moment. He was about to enter the throne room, training be damned, when the gaijin in the doorway began chanting a ritual. Thrakhath knew enough about kami magic not to interfere in such things, and with great effort he managed to suppress the urge to charge into the room and devour everything in sight.
Then everything went to hell, and he was nearly run over as people came charging out of the throne room. If they had failed to notice him before, there was no way they could miss him now.
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Post by Zeure on Nov 9, 2011 14:36:19 GMT -5
As the group made their way towards the entrance chamber, there was a spinning disk of light, very similar to the portal that had moved them into the Hantei's domain. It was growing smaller by the moment. Several Samurai had already moved through some stood there for a moment, seemingly considering going back the rooms they had used to remove their travel clothes, where they had left most of their gear.
This chamber too had begun to collapse, it seemed that the moment that the faceless beings had dissipated that this had started to happen. One could surmise that they had been keeping this place together by sheer force of will; and with the master of the realm gone it was being held together only tenuously by the remaining energies that were quickly diminishing.
The samurai that were still standing had a choice to make, go back for their gear, or ensure escape by leaving immediately.
Edit: [OOC] Please, if you decide to go back for your stuff, make that one post. Don't grab stuff and then dive out of hole in one post. Thankies. [/OOC]
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Post by Iuchi Ozora on Nov 9, 2011 21:50:03 GMT -5
[OOC]So...didnt read that part of leaving stuff behind....so in that case.....I don't have the bow and arrows or traveling clothes, but still has his satchel. [/OOC]
Knowing and not knowing the full impact that this place will have on reality, Ozora takes the chance and leaves everything else.
Looking at the others for a second, Ozora makes for the portal, passing around those who are still staring blankly at the events surrounding them. He observes the disk for but a moment and then clambers past the other milling samurai to make an escape into the portal.
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Nov 9, 2011 22:42:30 GMT -5
Sojiro kept his hand on the hilt of Hoshikazuchi, watching the ritual closely as Sprinkles completed it... and then struggling to find his footing as the place began to collapse around him. Looking around, he saw that several new faces had arrived, but Sprinkles had vanished.
Sojiro grabbed Chad by whatever appendage he could get his hands on and stumbled his way out of the collapsing room as fast as he could manage to.
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