Story So Far - Late June

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The Story So Far!

Beach Party! Less a story event but it was still an important thing that happened! After all the stress the turf war and the haniwa invasion was putting on the city, the Daitengu planned this event to help ease tensions and butter up a potential peace talk between Tamamo and Shuten that he and Sakamoto Ryoma had been planning. It honestly went off without a hitch, something of a miracle. It wasn't until the party was over that bad things happened...

Cursed City This takes up the meat of what happened this month. The haniwa that had been gathered in the containment center in the 8th sublevel of Kaigo no Bou had been set off like a bomb, the containment sabotaged. This spread massive cursed energy all throughout the city, causing manifestations of nightmarish origins, blood rain, and a frenzy state that could easily kill characters if left untreated. A few important things!

Emily, Aerith, and Shylock worked together using their abilities and skills to develop a treatment/sedative for the frenzy. They also developed an incense that could be used to stave off the cursed energy in general, in small areas. This becomes very important later.

Bishop discovered that the cursed energy did not go deep into the Underground, and basically wouldn't touch any of the offices below or anything past the currently still sealed doors that lead further into the city sublevels.

Herlock (and others, tbh), were able to get Captain Shiki to tacitly admit that the biggest suspicion about how this all happened was internal sabotage. There is a traitor within the Department. Or it was possibly done by one of the clay soldiers. We'll talk about them further down!

You can read all the related questions here!

The Tower Mission Two teams (Toraguma, Cloud, Andy, Anna, Felix in one team. Daitengu, Cain, Minato, Hu Tao, Billy the Kid in the other) were selected to carry incense chalices and Hihi'irokane forged daggers into Kaigo no Bou. One went up to the Enma's office, the other down to the containment center. They were able to successfully stop the "heart" of the cursed energy AND the entity that caused it. A few takeaways!

The black-clad youkai that had carried out the hit on the Daitengu at the Night Parade were revealed to be haniwa soldiers. There were several in the sub levels and were possessed by the cursed energy, fighting to defend the "heart". It is possible one of these soldiers is who sabotaged the containment center. They appear to be something created by the Department. The Enma is not available to answer questions at this time.

The employees inside the tower were kept alive. Why this is, when the frenzy of being that close to the "heart" would kill almost anyone, is unknown.

The entity that caused all of this had enough power to seal the Enma, and were apparently engaged in some week-long staring contest with them while this was happening. They were not asked about their intentions, but rather the Daitengu's team just attacked them outright. The current assumption that this is the entity that holds a grudge against the city itself, though the details aren't known.

Their last words to both teams before disappearing were "They cannot save you". The meaning of this is currently unknown.

You can read the log here!

Moving forward The city is saved, but is in a bit of a mess. TDM prompts will focus on the fallout of this event. On an OOC level, the next two months will be more relaxed, since doing something as intense as this takes a lot of energy on both our and y'alls part, lmao. Still, we've got plot related stuff cooking to happen during this, so look forward to it!

Questions if you have questions, feel free to ask!