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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[beathollow]

Yes. Sunrise and I got one as well.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ For this being Izou's horrible and likely to be depressing heart palace, Eli sure is having a good time. First, taking that guy out with one shot, now getting an Important Item. He beams at Mafuyu. ]

Great! Think we have all the ones we need?

[beathollow]

... I'm not sure. We needed all of us to cross the bridge- maybe we each need one of these as well?

[fullmoonmutt]

Could be. Let's put the ones we have together and see how many pieces are missing? That's, like, a thing, right?

[beathollow]

They are only pieces... Let's try.

( OKAY BOSS HOW DO THE PIECES FIT )

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Sorry, the Boss (Mabosstiff) is not here, only Eli. He'll still hold his piece out to put it together with any others, though! ]

[beathollow]

( boss caitie but i can understand the confusion )

[goei]

[Help. I am Mabosstiff now it's fine.

Anyway, the three pieces fit together! They seem to form half of a complete guard. To save you the math, that means you need three more.

On top of that, though... The ones holding the pieces together will watch them stick together... and then start to tug the holders towards the next street over as if they're pulled there be magnetic force.]

[beathollow]

--Oh!

(



fuck it we ball, she's letting herself be tugged BYEEEEEE )

[fullmoonmutt]

Wait, what the f—?!

[ Guess he's going, too. Byyye. ]

[beautifulknight]

[ OH SHIT TIME TO FOLLOW?? ]

[cirquedesang]

[Absolutely time to follow...!]

[idealitas]

[ Wait what, time to follow the puzzle pair...

(WHO GETS TO HOLD THE BRAINCELL NOW) ]

[kandata]

[Things sure happen! Let's follow]

[goei]

[McGillis and Sunrise surely followed along as well, so everyone welcome to... some other street! It is much the same as the first street, but slightly more different. And slightly busier, actually? More cramped.

Here's the bad news: Everyone now feels like they are being watched. The disease has achieved 100% proliferation. Alas. Maybe it's fine?

Here's the good news: With everyone surveying the crowd, you immediately can see two different shadowy figures amidst the crowd on this street. The only problem is it might be hard to get to them without bumping into other passersby.]

[vogelfrei]

[ Hm. The watchitis is really unnerving. So while McGillis would normally not have scruples about making his way through a crowd, he's now thinking twice about it. Will bumping into people be a wrongdoing in the eyes of this entity? ]

I'll go ahead. Wait here for a moment so we can see what we are dealing with.

[ So what DOES happen if he bumps into somebody on his way to the shadow? ]

[goei]

[McGillis manages to carefully avoid bumping anyone, but at the expense of it taking a while (11), so he's only halfway to the shadow man and will have to roll again to continue his trek, or adopt a different strategy.]

[vogelfrei]

[ WELL, with a 16 McGillis continues - maybe even at a slightly better pace??

There's a combat encounter over with the others and he briefly considers turning back but actually, no, this is a good distraction. ]

[cleansewithfire]

[ So this feeling is not a typical experience for Sunrise, but every time she's felt watched before, it was usually not in pleasant circumstances, to say the leasy.

It's probably because of this that Sunrise is going on ahead to try heading towards the other shadowy figure without saying a word. If she's already being watched, it's already a little too late anyway, right?

(She's almost definitely going to bump into someone since she's carrying an instrument case that's longer than she is tall on her back.)

[goei]

[Yeah... Yeah she bumps into someone almost immediately. The person she bumps into shouts in alarm!!!

But this time, the person doesn't turn into a monster! Rather, this other ghoul shows up.]

HALT, IMPERIALIST SCUM!

[I think he wants to fight! On the plus side, the crowd is clearing away from the fight?]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Rip Sunrise.

She's reaching a hand up for the strap on the case she's carrying, but also, because Sunrise has to say this on account of not being 100% sure what imperialist even means: ]

But I am not?

[beathollow]

( oh cool, more eavesdropping opportunities. with how crowded it is, surely it's okay that someone just tries to get her bearings to the side, right? though she'll have to focus very hard to make it all out amongst the crowd.

4.




too much crowd. :( )

[goei]

[Yeah :( It's too loud.]

[beautifulknight]

[ Well, there are two different shadowy figures amongst the crowd...

He will waltz on through the crowd (20) to try to get to them. ]

[goei]

[Goddamn, French Man.

Yeah! He manages to carefully navigate the crowd without bumping into anyone!!! And reaches the shadowy figure. They hold out another guard piece.]

All that demon does is copy others. I'm faster than him, I could take him down if I wanted. But you should.

[Nobody likes this demon, damn.]