Start of #youkai buffer: Thu Jun 04 22:25:23 2009 [17:54:29] [Saturday] [17:54:39] [Yesterday, you visited Shizuru at her home.] [17:54:51] [Today, it seems is largely free of any plans] [17:55:02] [Lunch begins] [17:55:04] [Session Start] [17:56:52] * Kentaro is slouched forward in his chair, staring out the window as the lunch bell rings. He turns towards Berny, hooking his bag over a shoulder. "Hey, wanna head down?" [17:58:48] * Berny seems kind of zoned out, too. She starts when Kentaro starts talking. "Huh? Oh, yeah. It's lunchtime, isn't it?" [17:59:04] * Berny picks up her bag and stands up. [18:00:00] * Kentaro nods, and stands up, swinging his bag fully onto his back. He heads down to the cafeteria, looking for the usual table [18:05:40] * Emmy moves to the cafeteria, trying to look for anyone who might still be at school. Spotting Kentaro and Berny, she walks up to them to greet them. "Hey, just the people I'm looking for. How are you two today?" [18:06:03] * Megumi is already at the table, eating. She looks up and waves, mouth to full to say anything. [18:06:44] * Kentaro begins walking slowly to Megumi's table. "Little tired. What do you need?" [18:08:29] * Emmy just smiles and says, "Well, I figured since we're not getting anywhere with the tree, we could move hastily and act on what little information we have." [18:10:34] And do what? [18:11:20] * Kentaro sits at the table across from Megumi. "Hey, Megumi, what's up?" [18:12:18] * Megumi swallows. "Nothin'." [18:13:15] * Emmy sits down and says, "I can attempt an exorcism on the tree, since it is likely that the spirit is the thing that's buried under it. It's not like we need to know who it belonged to do that." [18:13:41] * Emmy pauses. "It would HELP, but not required." [18:15:11] You seriously wanna try exorcising that thing? [18:15:49] I thought that the tree said it's been around for a long time and only woke up after the skeleton was removed. [18:16:15] I bet it's been sitting around for way longer than foxes have been breeding the kudagitsune [18:16:56] Helping spirits finally go to rest is a noble and traditional job. And I can tell you that even if it had been there for a long time, it's not SUPPOSED to be there. It's not part of the natural order of things. [18:20:45] If it's been there for a long time, I'm not sure I trust you to try and yank it out, and I trust myself to help even less. If it goes wrong, the cure could be worse than the disease. [18:21:45] Yeah, what if you piss it off or somethin? [18:24:50] * Emmy struggles to find the words to explain it. "Well, that's why I want to ask you guys to protect me while I exorcise it. It's... unnatural. It somehow got there by breaking a rule of nature. I don't know how to say it better." [18:26:55] None of us except maybe Berny have any idea how to do that stuff. How could we even help? [18:27:31] Well hey, if you wanted me to punch something, why didn't you say so in the first place? [18:28:20] * Emmy shrugs. "Just stand there, honestly. I'm pretty sure I can do the actual exorcism myself, but you can lend me some spiritual energy just by being there. That, and just in case Megumi gets to punch stuff. I AM a trained professional of this kind of thing, you know." [18:32:50] I dunno, I guess. If this gets weird, I'm running, though [18:33:10] * Berny gulps and looks sort of paler than usual. "I-I don't know if I can do anything like that. I see stuff and talk to kami and spirits and ghosts and things. I'm pretty useless otherwise." [18:33:11] Well, let's hope it doesn't get weird. [18:33:32] I don't want to hurt the tree, though. I don't think it's evil or anything, even though it looks sort of creepy. [18:38:18] I don't want the tree hurt either, but it's likely hurt because it has to co-exist with something it's not prepared to co-exist with. [18:40:24] Well, okay, but if you make it mad, I don't know if I'll be able to do anything about it. [18:40:27] * Berny gulps again. [18:45:35] * Megumi shrugs. "We'll be fine. Looks like we got the physical and the spiritual covered. No worries!" [18:45:58] Okay, sure. After school, then? [18:46:31] * Kentaro shrugs. "Sure." [18:46:33] * Emmy nods. "Getting this over as soon as possible would be nice." [18:46:54] * Berny nods. "Okay." She eats her lunch. [18:48:21] [After school, you head over to the tree as quickly as you might feel like.] [18:49:07] * Emmy brought a few things with her, and is dressed as a shrine miko. [18:49:39] * Kentaro is lying on the ground near the tree, having changed out of his school uniform and jacket and into a t-shirt with what appears to be the end-user liscence agreement for AOL written on it in heavily-overlapping English. [18:52:29] * Berny stands nearby the tree and gives it a friendly hello. [18:53:23] * The tree stands firm [18:53:31] * Megumi has ditched her uniform for a blue hoodie and is standing there glaring at the tree, arms folded. [18:54:11] * Kentaro rolls on a side to look up. "Hey, guys." [18:54:15] * Emmy walks up to the tree and says, "We meet again. Today, I'm going to attempt to set you free from your Earthly bindings and give you the rest that all spirits earn." [18:54:38] * Berny waves to Kentaro. She's the only one still in her uniform. [18:55:25] * Kentaro notices Emmy about to begin and rolls up onto his haunches, apparently ready to run [18:59:51] * Megumi stares a little at Emmy. [19:00:09] * Berny steps away from the tree and stands farther back. [19:00:44] * Emmy started by planting weird looking sticks around the tree in a pentagon shape, each around 3 to 4 foot away from it. She muttered a few words when she placed each of the sticks down, and made sure no kami were inside the kekkai she was making. [19:02:56] * Emmy then told the others, "Alright. I'm going to start. Please make sure you're not within the area of the kekkai, and don't do anything until the spirit is completely out of the tree, no matter what happens." [19:03:55] * Megumi blinks. "Oh, right." She takes a couple steps back. [19:04:17] * Kentaro frowns. "What do you mean 'don't do anything?'" [19:04:22] * Berny nods and steps further back. [19:05:34] * Emmy nods and then focuses on the tree. "Alright. here we go." She moves to the north side of the tree, where she started praying to the kami of the North to arrive and witness her actions. She then did the same for the other directions, all the while walking clockwise. [19:07:45] * Emmy ends up on the North side of the tree and mutters some ritual words that some people who has approched shrine people may have heard, but some were barely even understandable. [19:10:42] * Emmy brings out an ofuda, waves it in a pentagram and then THROWS IT ONTO THE TREE!!! "Let the spirit that was sealed in an unnatural form be released and leave this realm for the next!" [19:14:57] * Berny watches and steps back a few more feet. [19:15:33] * Kentaro does so as well [19:15:54] * Megumi watches curiously.. [19:32:14] * The ofuda glows, and each stroke seems to burn with a brilliant fire. A shimmering light seems to open up in the tree, and a humanoid form starts to grasp the sides of the hole and drag itself out from an unnatural darkness within. Its form is indistinct and vague. The tree warps back to its previous shape, then starts to lighten up and appear a great deal more pleasant. [19:33:06] * Kentaro backs away, staring at the form [19:34:40] * Megumi stares the shadow down, putting her fists up. [19:37:00] * The form sinks into the ground. Behind, it leaves behind, on nice sanitary plates, what appears to be your ACTUAL favorite foods. [19:37:33] * Emmy holds herself in the position where she threw the ofuda and looks at the spectical in front of her. "Hmmm. So it's a spirit greater than a familiar. Another reason why a tree can't balance itself in nature as its existance wasn't meant to hold such a spirit." [19:37:57] So, uh, when it just sank into the ground. [19:38:04] That doesn't seem like it's going away. [19:39:05] It was sucked into the existance of the tree. Now it's turned to the Earth. Though I should probably double check. [19:42:29] * Megumi lowers her fists. "Well, I wasn't really expecting that." [19:43:48] * Emmy wasn't about to admit that she wasn't expecting that either, so she carefully made her way towards the tree, and carefully placed her hand on its trunk to check if it's 'clean' now. [19:44:19] * Looks clear. [19:45:03] * Emmy sighed in relief. "Alright, looks like the spirit has finally rested. The tree and this area should return to normal soon." [19:45:51] * Kentaro walks over and picks up the plate of tempura noodles, sniffing curiously. "Poor guy." [19:47:29] * Emmy picks up a plate, where half of it is a dish of steamed tofu with some veggy dressing, and the other half is a mix of fruits - of which a lot of it are cherries. "At least it left some nice gifts. Though how I'm going to eat this is a question..." [19:47:36] * Emmy starts popping cherries. [19:50:32] * Kentaro balances the plate on his hand like an expert waiter and begins pacing. "I still wanna know what this thing WAS. It seems nice enough, but I've dealt with enough bad juju over the years taht I'm still curious." [19:51:32] * Emmy shrugs. "It could be a lot of thing. Though that familiar might actually be a clue in this case." [19:51:53] * Megumi picks up a plate with a ridiculously juicy steak on it and gives it a sniff. "Well, I guess it was thankful after all?" [19:54:32] * Kentaro nods, shrugging and adjusting the plate in his hand to keep it level as he does so. "I guess." [19:54:59] I still think we should read about town history to try and find out about it in case it comes back. [19:55:50] * Kentaro shrugs again. "Maybe I could ask Shizuru and Natsuki to ask their kyuubi while they're at it. Maybe their families have been around here a while." [19:57:15] * Emmy nods. "It would explain some things... It's likely that what we saw was the owner of that familiar. But I'm just guessing here." [19:58:17] * Kentaro nods. "Let's see, local legends... There's... Swordguy Whatshisname and the Magic Oni Food, and there's, uh...." [20:00:58] * Kentaro holds the plate out to the side as he slouches down, crossing one leg over the other as he stands, and then propping an arm on his crossed leg, then propping his chin on his fist. [20:01:50] * Emmy finishes off the fruit side of the plate and then starts picking up the stuff she placed around the tree. "Well, either way, I'm done for the day. No more supernatural stuff for me today." [20:02:22] * Megumi shrugs. "Hell if I know. I'll let the smart people figure it out." [20:03:37] * Kentaro unfolds from the pose. "Sounds like a plan. Let's head back home, I ought to go chill with Miki." [20:04:00] * Emmy tries to eat the tofu with the plate, but ends up just biting it chunk by chunk. "Ya, and tell your friend about this, will you? They might be interested to know." [20:13:18] * Berny nods. "I guess the exorcism was a success." She picks up the strawberry tiramisu and stares at the plate wonderingly. [20:13:54] * Berny searches the earth for the indistinct figure from the tree. [20:20:21] * She can't find any sign of it [20:20:39] Well, mystery solved? Sort of? [20:20:45] I guess. [20:26:04] * Berny nods. "I guess I'll go home and do homework. See you guys tomorrow?" She takes her plate and prepares to walk to the train station. [20:26:54] * Emmy packs up everything while finishing off her tofu. "Well, I'll definately see you guys Monday. I'll keep an eye out on the things here tomorrow, but I'm busy with the Church otherwise." [20:26:57] Yeah, later. [20:27:23] * Kentaro nods, beginning to head back. "Yeah, see you guys tomorrow, I guess." [20:27:27] * Megumi jogs off, waving. [20:28:08] * Berny waves and trots off toward the train station, bag and plate of tiramisu in her hands. [20:28:37] * Emmy (senranda@bas1-unionville55-1177733463.dsl.bell.ca) has left #youkai [20:41:48] * Megumi is now known as Yon [20:45:33] * Berny is now known as Cheeseball [20:46:13] * Kentaro is now known as Charles [20:53:08] * Cheeseball (mahamari@adsl-67-125-22-7.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net) Quit (Quit: zZzZZzZ) [21:01:38] * Yon (dlarmour@wnpgmb1303w-ad03-40-123.dynamic.mts.net) has left #youkai End of #youkai buffer Thu Jun 04 22:25:23 2009