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| − | === Session Two: The River of Despair ===
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| − | Date: Still the 25th of Descending Earth
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| − | Hayyoth and Inari set their plan to break into Eastfield into motion. Step one, of course, is reaching Eastfield itself. The pair slips down to the river with Inari's breaking and entering equipment. Inari fires a line arrow across the water, and the two climb their way across, just over the waves. Once inside Ivory Flats, they start to slip through the streets; unfortunately, Hayyoth fails to notice a cat in his path... and trips over it. With lightning reflexes, he sprints over to a small wall keeping a merchant's house safe, and, leaping it in a single bound, hangs from the other side as guards approach to investigate the noise. Finding nothing, they decide to leave, and the two heroes let out a silent breath of relief. The rest of the journey through Eastfield passes basically uneventfully. <br>
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| − | Meanwhile, Deedee's team has decided on a different approach. Walking down to the river, Deedee activates her Spirit-Detecting Glance, and converses with a small river naiad. After a short discussion, during which it becomes clear that the naiad is appallingly stupid, she convinces it to fetch Blackriver, the god of the river. Blackriver appears, looming out of the river, and then shrinks himself down to a reasonable size, and Deedee manages to convince him to let her across, as she can stop a demonic summoning (she pretends to be a god-blood, not a Solar). Blackriver makes her promise to tell the Immaculates of this attempt when they get back in town, which they are not at present, and then momentarily stops the river to allow Deedee and her friends to cross unseen. They slip into the sewers, and aside from an unfortunate smell, make their way uneventfully underneath Ivory Flats and Eastfield. <br>
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| − | Back aboveground, Inari and Hayyoth have reached the Eastfield wall, twelve feet tall. They scale it carefully, hop over the side when the guards aren't looking, and slip down the other side. In Eastfield, they slide quietly through the streets like a pair of shadows, reaching the Wulian manor and hopping the iron-grilled fence. As they cross the lawn, Wulian's dogs begin to growl, but Hayyoth calms them with a smile and a Charm. The two reach the manor, and, seeing that there is only one light (on the second floor), begin scaling the wall. <br>
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| − | Penu leads Deedee and Akee through the sewers, using his navigational sense to reach underneath Eastfield, and the trio also makes their way to Wulian's manor. They hop the fence as well, and also make their way across the lawn. This time, it is Akee who calms the guard dogs, allowing the trio safe passage - they head for the stables to slip into the house through that entrance, noticing to their concern that there are three carriages present from other Houses. The stableboy is fast asleep, and the group easily gains entrance, finding themselves in the servant's quarters.<br>
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| − | Upstairs, Inari and Hayyoth explore briefly, discovering only a handwritten note: "Jared, I won't be able to make the ceremony tonight. I have sent my manservant in my place. Good luck. Yours, Malcolm." Uncertain where Jared Wulian is, they head downstairs to grab a servant and find out... and bump right into the other three heading towards the basement. The five converse briefly, and Deedee recognizes the Malcolm as probably belonging to Malcolm Jasper, of a larger noble house. Regardless, the five agree to work together on this, and slip downstairs, where the ritual is likely being held. As it turns out, they are right. Tucked behind a wine cellar is a door, and the group can hear the word "Shikara" being chanted repeatedly, followed by "Terberius". As they discuss briefly, Inari uses a mirror to take a peek into the room, and sees five people in white robes standing in a star around an altar. On the altar are a young man and a young woman, bound in an embrace and unconsious. Surrounding the five men are seven in gray, and four men-at-arms are on each wall. The chant abruptly shifts to "Akianshi", and the group bursts into motion, charging into the room. <br>
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| − | Unfortunately, they hadn't been able to see the two demons standing at the far wall. <br>
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| − | The woman was beautiful, and looked sad. Her skin was blue, and her hair waved as though underwater. Her eyes were solid amythests. The man was tall, and his body was jet black, shining like obsidian. He was completely hairless, and wore rainbow robes that raised strange feelings of guilt and shame in all five heroes. As the Exalts began to take action, the demons moved to intercept, Shikara yelling that they would not prevent the birth of her child. <br>
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| − | The battle was short but furious. Hayyoth, Inari, and Akee took charge of the demons, while Deedee and Penu focused on the guardsmen and the white-robed cultists. The man-demon, Terberius, kept shifting forms, first into a water-aspected Dragon-Blood whenever attacked by Hayyoth, then into a wood-aspected one when attacked by Inari. Shikara, the woman, turned the full sorrow of her nature upon Hayyoth, nearly taking him out of the fight through sheer despair. Still, the three managed to keep the two mostly on the defensive, and Penu killed two of the five cultists, injuring two more. Eventually, Inari managed to kill Shikara, and she collapsed in a heap. Terberius, roaring with rage, stood astride her corpse and battered at Inari, almost killing her, before dying himself. His body melted into Shikara's, and the two dissolved into nothing. <br>
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| − | The group captured and questioned two guardsmen and three of the seven gray-robed cultists, learning that they were worshippers of the Yozi, and that they knew only a few of the other members. Deedee made them promise to never again worship the Yozi or consort with Yozi-worshippers, and to take up honourable professions, and when they swore it, she bound it with her anima before letting them go. She also realized that, if this was a demonic birthing ritual, and the two humans were meant to be lovers, the deaths of Shikara and Terberius could, conceivably, fulfill the condition. This would be bad. Hayyoth gave chase to those who had fled, as Akee destroyed the statue and altar in the room out of concern for any power they might have. Hayyoth was unable to catch the fleeing cultists, however, leaving one more small problem to face the group in times to come...<br>
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| − | "Inari, why do you have all this stuff to break into places?" <br>
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| − | "To do good works. Sometimes you need to do something good without people knowing you're doing it."<br>
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| − | "Oh. Okay."<br>
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| − | - Hayyoth Emblazoned With Fury and Inari, who is totally not lying. Really.
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