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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poem/room recap!

[cirquedesang]

[Since they've been getting passed around anyway, Celeste will take them, sitting on the ground to lay out the pieces - the ones with orders clearly marked in one column, with space left for what should go there, and the others in a second column, so they can reorder as needed.]

The demon flits between the hells, where he goes this rhyme can tell...
"First along the shadow's edge, the demon follows somber threads" Does seem to be referring to the black thread hell, but since he wasn't found there first, that must mean he didn't start at the beginning.

[Goddamn it, Izou.]

"Third he twists all upside-down, over the chasm voices sound" Must be endless, and
"Fourth now darting two and fro, avoiding boulders crushing foe" is crushing. We have yet to run into him in either place, but at least the poem tells us their order.

"Seventh quick he must take care, the traps his kin have left in there" could be the room you were just in - he believes himself to be a demon, after all, and the hooks... [Great Burning, for our reference, since he's not mentioning it by name here.]

[And over to the other row--]

"Next chasing distant screams, amidst the fires panic seems" must be screaming, though we didn't run into him.

"Now spies upon turning pyre, charred flesh no sinner will desire" [Pointed Look up at Yi Sang - Burning Hell]

And "Then to hell in iron bound, he burns his feet upon the ground" Is where he started, in Reviving.

It would seem we're missing the line referencing the snake room, which would be two after this one.

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti takes pause...

You know isn't this a complex game of hide and seek when you think about it- ]

...Do we have an idea of where he'd be right now in the meanwhile?

[idealitas]

It would be the eighth and final line.

[ Yi Sang has a notebook to write these all down, along with the order and where/when they saw Izou.



He tears the page out so it's easier for people to read. Here's also a direct image link just in case, because imgur is dead to me. ]

...Something like this?

[beathollow]

I think so. We could finish this quickly if we prepare enough, I think...

[beautifulknight]

...That sounds accurate to me.

[fullmoonmutt]

...I don't get how this tells us where he is.

[ don't even have to roll for stupidity this time, he is le confused ]

[idealitas]

[ Not even upset. ]

Izou changes rooms based on the poem order. Not all of these lines are numbered, but I kept track of when we found them, and it makes a sufficient order for the poem.

However, he didn't start in the Black Thread room that corresponds with the first significant line of the poem. He started in the Reviving room that aligns with the sixth line, which we mistook for the first line of the poem when we encountered him at the beginning. After the eight line, he starts from the beginning.

The order he went through the rooms was: Reviving, Great Burning, Great Screaming, then Black Thread. The next room he'll be in is the Screaming Hell room.

Does that make sense?

[ LA if you wanna roll for the first part I won't even be mad. I think the last sentence is straightforward enough, hopefully. ]

[fullmoonmutt]

You mean he isn't even following the rules of his own damn poem?! That jackass!

[ Okay, he understood enough to be angry at Izou again (did he ever stop who even knows). ]

[vogelfrei]

[ HELLO, he is here and he is still bleeding from the injury he sustained in his epic solo standoff against the demon that happened entirely off screen. It was so cool, trust me on this.

Mafuyu gave him a heal and he's also casting a heal on himself, but the injury is deep and he's still gonna need to get this cleaned when all is said and done. For now, it's the kind of thing he can tough out.

He seems to be... having fun, even? He's grinning a little. ]

I'll go to Screaming, then. Best finish what I started quickly, before he has time to recover.

Who else?

[beathollow]

I think we could set up an ambush in the room to come after, actually... We have multiple long range fighters, after all. This gives us time to position ourselves.

[cirquedesang]

And then we wouldn't have to maneuver around the fires...

[If he even stayed in the room that time.]

[fullmoonmutt]

An ambush? Right. I'll go with rich boy and tin can to help drive him your way.

[idealitas]

I will go with you three as well.

[beathollow]

... A-admittedly I did mean more as a group...

[fullmoonmutt]

You'll still have a group. We need to drive him to the room you're going to or he ain't moving.

[beathollow]

... After he leaves, then, move to the room after ours. We can keep it up, I think, until he's defeated.

[fullmoonmutt]

He won't know what hit him!

[ ...pause. ]

Which one is after your room again...?

[beathollow]

If we're correct, Crushing... though someone can correct me if I misremembered.

[cleansewithfire]

That is correct. Then the "Burning Hell" after that.

[beautifulknight]

[ Someone's having fun, aren't they? The wonders of a Battle Frenzy...

Argenti looks over in his direction and honestly...he's itching for a fight. He waited in that room for reason, ok. ]

I shall accompany you, naturally.

[idealitas]

[ Live your best life, buddy. If that's going into palaces and doling out crits, we support you. ]

I will go with.

for real this time dklnfd

[fullmoonmutt]

Alright. I'm with you. Let's get his ass.