IZOU'S PALACE

[goei]

KYOTO BAKUMATSU PALACE
You find yourself in historical Kyoto at night. The city is shadowy and beautiful, elegant but hostile. It's a sophisticated city, but you don't belong there and it knows it. Everyone knows it. You are being watched.

Worst of all, a terrible demon haunts the streets of this powerful capital city.

Eli Walsh, Kirumi Tojo, Still Sunrise, Argenti, Yi Sang, Celeste, Mafuyu Asahina, and McGillis Fareed, do you dare journey into hell?

 

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[goei]

[The shadow man shakes his head.]

That demon doesn't even fight with a proper sword style. So unrefined…

[He holds out a shadowy hand. There's a small metal object within.]

You'll need this to find him, if you're going to take him on.

[cleansewithfire]

[ ...Huh, this is turning out quite differently than she was expecting. Sunrise reaches to take the metal object. ]

I am curious. How is it unrefined when I have heard that the demon is also a sword genius?

[goei]

[Help I wasn't expecting her to make conversation. Anyway, the metal object is thin and flat, shaped like a segment of something round (like a pie slice). The round outer edge is gilded like the flat surface, but the straight sides are just the raw darker metal underneath.]

That's just what he says. He's like a dog picking up scraps of sword technique wherever he can find it.

[cleansewithfire]

[ She's examining it quite a bit, partially because professional curiosity has her wondering what sort of metal it is (though, this being a mindscape and all, maybe it doesn't really matter).

But, huh... ]

...So it is unrefined because it is not only one school of swordplay?

[ Sunrise will not claim to actually know much about swordsmanship except perhaps the very basics (or more accurately, an understanding of the physics involved even if she would not know to call it physics), purely because she's had to repair swords before. ]

[goei]

[If Sunrise has familiarity with swords, she might actually think this looks like it could be a segment of a katana guard also known as a tsuba

The shadow, meanwhile, has nothing more to say.]

[cleansewithfire]

[ ... ]

Thank you.

[ Even if he has nothing more to say, she'll still be polite and bow before leaving with McGillis in tow to reconvene. ]