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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[beautifulknight]

[ An excitable nod from him. ]

I shall make certain to heed your advice well!

[beathollow]

( mafuyu nods and... well. she doubts they can just eavesdrop so easily in this place, so she's going to make her way forward, quiet and regal. bye. (except not really, come with her please folks-) )

[goei]

[Well glad you guys had fun admiring your new outfits, because as soon as the group starts actualling heading further inside, the doors slide open once more, and five more shinsenghoulmi burst in!!!!

One of them shouts at the group;]

Hand over the Tosa kinnou-tou and no one gets hurt!!

[But if you can't do that, apparently people are getting hurt. Also, with several of them gathered together, everyone with watchitis can sense that this is the source of the feeling of being watched.]

[fullmoonmutt]

More of these freaks?!

[ Eli is immediately squaring up for a fight, though it isn't without first shouting at them for daring to even demand... anything, really! ]

No one knows what the hell a tosser kinny toe is!

[kandata]

[Oh, five at once...not good. Kirumi is already subtly looking around herself, evaluating if the surroundings, enclosed as they are, will be favorable for a fight against these five.

In the meantime, stall a little:]

Please calm down. We do not have to escalate this further.

[vogelfrei]

That is wise, but I am not certain we can de-escalate it either. Combat seems to be the way to proceed through these worlds.

[ It's what apparently worked in Aubrey's case, and it's what this version of Kyoto itself strongly indicates already. ]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Sunrise has learnt her lesson from the last encounter, so she's lowering that instrument case to the floor to open it. Predictably, it does not hold an instrument; there's what looks like a musket rifle in there, as well as a bayonet. She's taking both out and attaching the bayonet to the rifle. ]

[cirquedesang]

[Well then.

Ideally, Kirumi's efforts at de-escalation would be successful, but given that they do not have a "tosser kinny toe" to hand over, and do, instead, have Eli yelling and Sunrise arming herself (and McGillis wisely pointing out that the most likely path forward is combat)...

Yeah, gonna kick one of his wooden sandals at the shinsenghoulmi that shouted at them. (20!!)]

[beautifulknight]

[ Jade-red eyes narrow at the perceived threat to innocents, palace or not. ]

You will have to fight us honorably, first.

[ Argenti tosses two of his footwear at the folks his way as well, just because he can...but he misses entirely (5) and (6) for both of them. ]

[vogelfrei]

[ IS THIS HONORABLE????? THROWING SHOES?????? ]

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti is ~*honorably*~ throwing ✨shoes✨ ]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ can't believe this guy can successfully murder a twink but can't aim a shoe wowee ]

[kandata]

[it is because the killing was honorable but the shoe throwing wasnt]

[beautifulknight]

[ You are all speaking factoids rn



And he is better at short-range- ]

[idealitas]

[ Yi Sang was gonna sit and watch for what the others are going to do...

Some of them sure are doing. Okay then, he can be motivated to do something before it all goes to hell. ]

Persona.

[ Masukunda (13) aka the multi-target hit rate debuff, hopefully your rolls eat shit or some such. Yi Sang hits 2 of the 5.

Also if the whole-ass fox spirit in the room provokes them over shoes, sure why not. ]

[goei]

[Putting the results here...

So Yi Sang's debuff made two of the ghoulmis dazed, they're staggering about, and because of that, their attempts to attack Yi Sang (5) and Mafuyu (3) both miss completely. Dang!!!

Another one takes the chancla attack direct to the face, which knocks his whole skeletal head off! He is still moving and attacking, but without a head, he's not able to aim well, and just barely misses his attack on Celeste in retaliation (13 - 3 = 10).

So those guys are doing bad. One of the remaining guys shouts;]

Witnesses report seeing you speak with suspected conspirators! Since you won't turn them over or come quietly, we'll take you by force!!

[That guy and the fifth one launch attacks on Argenti (18) and McGillis (13). White Men Save Us. By taking the attacks. If you wish, you can try to Dodge by rolling at least one point above their attack roll.]

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis is considerably debuffed by the geta that he didn't take off and toss, so he does not manage to evade properly (8). ]

Nghh--

[ However, he is also a big tough men so regardless of whatever pain is coming his way, he is summoning his persona to counter attack. Fenrir growls.

Garula to the face, ghoul! (16). ]

[beautifulknight]

[ Dodge? Argenti isn't really going to be doing much of that, because apparently one of the guys manages to take him by surprise (3) and he manages to get slashed.

...Normally even a strong attack wouldn't phase him much because he's armored, but he is currently not-armored, so he is actually surprised that he ends up bleeding. Not that it's fairly obvious he got hit hard since he doesn't even make a sound. He has taken worse hits before, he will just take a moment to recenter himself, and get back in the game.

Which, apparently, Argenti does, and he is going to just try to run the other guy through with his spear (18) ]

[kandata]

[Alright, guess that means nothing about the surroundings is favorable for the fight, got it.

Since there are five, it's for the best to try to subdue as fast as possible, and the way to do that is damage as many as possible. Mafrei, go!

Rolled an 18 for hitting Nagakura, all other potential targets missed]

[beathollow]

You'll do nothing.

( its a soft-spoken statement, yet it has a chilling firmness. but she's going to just cast media, healing mcgillis and argenti and i guess technically herself and one other person who isn't hurt right now. )

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Seeing them speak with suspected conspirators, huh? ]

...so those guys were the tossers.

[ He has connected the dots (he has not)! Regardless, it's a fight, and that's what Elis are made. ]

Garm, c'mon!

[ Similarly to McGillis, he, too, summons his giant wolf, though he's diving directly into brawling range with his fists held up and covered in icy claws (Overruff, 11). He'll be aiming to intercept the one flailing uselessly towards Celeste. ]

[cirquedesang]

[Between the ghoul not having a head and him bouncing backwards out of slashing range, Celeste is distinctly aware of just how lucky he keeps getting in regards to, you know, not getting hit, here. On the way, he does kick off his other shoe in the general direction of one of the other ghouls, just in case he gets another lucky hit... he doesn't (10), but, you know, worth a try.

Our headless friend is a bit too close to really attack with his weapon, though, so he attempts an Eiga on him, and... apparently he was too close for that, too (2). Get it together, Ba'al.]

[cleansewithfire]

[ ...Yes, she really needs to put all of them down, is what she's thinking as she watches that headless ghoulmi try to attack.

She summons Ushas and casts Magaru, aiming to hit Saito, Okita, Nagakura and Kondo (19, 15, 12, 13). ]

[idealitas]

[ Whichever of the gumi one that went for Yi Sang is getting stabbed with his dagger (15) in response. You lost the clash buddy, pay for it by taking damage. ]

[beathollow]

...

( yeah, no, this is going to go so poorly. mafuyu casts marakukaja, raising the defense of the entire party. )