12th Day of Mid Summer 1303
Day of Reckoning!
Between Yuki, Lady Shiriahata, (with their Feng-Shui knowledge), Roka (donating a number of fine gems), and Najin (with his Assembling Efficiency Process), the craftsmen are able to construct a graceful stone shrine over Kurokawa’s Spirit Well in a matter of hours, harnessing its energies and sealing it off from any more marauding Yori.
Lady Shirahata then drops a few silver charms into the focal point of the Shrine, explaining that in a day or so, they’ll be fully charged Luck Charms.
With the sun just about to dip behind the mountains to the west, the Samurai and craftsmen ready themselves to head back through Yuki's Gate to Sendai.
Before anyone steps through however, Yuki suddenly feels a titanic movement of Ki Energy on an almost incomprehensible scale. It is as if the energies of the land and mountains themselves, of not only their immediate area – but of all Nippon – are suddenly being drawn into some great and mighty magic – the likes of which seem to rival even the power of the very gods!
Then the ground starts to tremble and with it, a booming roll of thunder echoes across the sky. Villagers nearby, look to the south in horror, as the quaking of the earth shakes them off their feet – there, the horizon begins to darken and flickering tinges of red can be seen dancing below a colossal rising plume of boiling ash – two hundred and fifty miles to the south, the ancient and terrible mountain Fuji has just erupted!
A moment later, those Samurai who share attunement to the Naga Shrine (Yuki, Roka, and Udo), feel a sharp pain in their hearts – and know in that instant, that Yunikawa has just died.
Yuki meanwhile, observing with her Sorcerer’s Sight, sees the Samurai’s lines of attunement surge brightly for a moment, then almost die out sputtering, before returning to normal once again.
Slowly, the rumbling of the ground stops and the villagers lay still a moment, before picking themselves up and hurrying together around the Samurai to find out what it all means.
On the other side of Yuki’s Gate to Sendai, the Exalted Patriarch pokes his head through and asks – “Did you feel that? Something big just happened.”
Then seeing the rising plume of ash and fire, he adds in awe, “I think Sendai is going to be needing her Samurai now. You had all better come back through the Gate.”
Lady Shirahata meanwhile turns to Yuki and Roka – “We need to talk. You need to tell us (and General Meji) what is going on. What is happening to Sendai? What is happening to Nippon?”
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Topic: Mythic Nippon Adventure VI (Read 183670 times)