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[downswing]

( Dark and damp and Lan Wangji's pallor strained under moonlight. Behind him, flickers of broad, long temple columns — and the smoke smears of... ghosts, gathered. He seems short of breath, the silvered sheen of his sword half drawn from her scabbard, a spate of parchment papers littering the walls: active talismans. )

They have crowded their halls of the dead, to excess.

Here, the key withholds itself. Who hunts the other locations?

( And a pause, hesitant — whether to find his words or, absently, slap another talisman on the spirit that looms with a gaping maw behind him. ) Ke-Waihu stands safe?

( ooc: forwarded dated to the group's incursions in Ke-Waicai. Feel free to run into him in person, if you're also chasing the haunted temple key! )

Comments

WOW rude

[deathcough]

[AND WHO'S HERE TO STOP HIM?? He gives Hijikata a side-eye look and then stifles a yawn, before waving his hand dismissively.]

Yeah, yeah. I'm going. This better be worth it. Why are we bothering with these guys...

[THEY'RE NOT CHIZURU OR THE SHINSENGUMI!!]

[ensanguines]

Because they're the only things resembling allies we have.

[ You DO remember what happens when we run short on those, right, Souji?? ]

[deathcough]

We could find other allies... [He grumbles, trailing off. He knows they likely couldn't have allies handed to them as easily here, but come on! Look around! These guys were weird!!]

Maybe less bizarre ones? Or yell-y? We have you for all that.