"You are tougher than you seemed."  He repeats the gesture, aims briefly, then releases the new missile.

[Private to GM: 04:42, Today: Chou-Zhen Mou rolled 9 using 3d6.  Lightning, roll to cast (15).
04:43, Today: Chou-Zhen Mou rolled 9 using 3d6.  Lightning, roll to hit (12 +3 Acc).
04:45, Today: Chou-Zhen Mou rolled 2 using 1d6-1.  Damage (burning).]

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 433):

The creature collapses into a deep torporous state, its eyes wide open and its tongue lolling

19:11, Today: Chye Isuel rolled 15 using 3d6.  stealth ~ 15.
Chye in his zeal, nearly blunders, but is able to stealth his way behind Iskander.
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Chou-Zhen waits beside the seemingly unconscious Yokai, watching its movements and searching his memory for what kind of creature it is.

[Private to GM: 19:55, Today: Chou-Zhen Mou rolled 8 using 3d6.  Hidden Lore (Demon Lore) (14).]

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 436):

Hidden lore spirit lore would be more effective... you do have wild talent...

Ales finally snaps out of his confusion and makes his way towards Chou.

12:26, Today: Ales Konstantin rolled 8 using 3d6.  Perception 13, to figure out what is going on.

Chye casts a handful of the purified rice onto the bathhouse floor.
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In reply to Ales Konstantin (msg # 438):

Chou-Zen is standing over a small blackened green semi-material creature with tuffted hair and a filthy mouth and long toung, that appears to be uncounscious, and is crackling with electrical energy.

Spirit lore anyone?

Iskander watches Chye from hiding, waiting to see how the being making the footprints, responds...
15:28, Today: Iskander rolled 13 using 3d6.  Undead Lore ~ 12.
He isn't familiar with these particular types of spirits.
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In reply to Iskander (msg # 441):

The damp spot on the wall grows until it is human sized, and then begins to shrink. Something walked through the wall...

"Ah.  I had hoped you might bring Chye or Miko.  My mother is Sahudese, but I grew up in Northport, and did not associate much with her people until I was an adult.  One of them might recognize this thing.

"It was not particularly difficult to stun and it seemed the bright light actually harmed it slightly."

[Private to GM: My Wild Talent is Focused (Magic Only).]

In reply to Iskander (msg # 441):

If the rice was thrown in front of the footsteps, they pause in front of them, with dripping water starting to pool, until it washes away the rice, at which point they continue to the oppoiste wall from their entry point, and disappear as a large damp spot forms on the shoji wall, as if having passed through.

"Kodokuna Otome...?"
Chye speaks the name of the drowned maiden...

Ales finally catches up with Chou. He sees the badly hurt yokai on the ground and is puzzled by it. "I wish I could help you identify it, but I am as much an outsider on these issues as you."

Ales grabs a stick and gently pokes the yokai. "Are you still alive?", he asks the yokai.

"I believe it is stunned by my lightnings, as well as badly hurt.  It may even be unconscious from its injuries."

Ales, moved by compassion for the pitiful creatures wonders if first aid can be applied to the creature.

Ooc: Private to GM.

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 445):

Something steps wetly outside of the bathhouse on the other side of the wet wall...and slowly turns toward Chye, a woman in soaking pale robes, her long black wet hair hanging in her face.
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"Konbanwa..."
Chye bows to the spirit.
"Am Chye Isuel. Your story is known to Chye and friends, who have come from afar.
We're going to try and find what became of Fuun'na Nakama... We believe that he fell victim to the great beast. At least that is what the shaman thinks... We will find the truth, and it is our mission that you find your peace. Chye asks, in the meanwhile... If you will relent, and not harm the villagers? There is much sorrow here..."

"I believe we could easily kill this creature, now, though it may require magic to do so.  Whether it is necessary is in question, along with whether it is possible to restrain it, since it seems partly insubstantial."  Chou-Zhen speaks to Ales in Aralaise, since no one else is around.

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 450):

The spirit turns to face Chye and stares, then turns back the way she was walking.

Iskander withdraws from his position, having observed the whole encounter. This whole thing was definitely Sahudese. He could only hope they could all make good on Chye's promise...
(the spirit must have had a very good reaction to Chye, if the +4 he gets from Sahudese, was factored in.)
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Chye will remain bowed, until the spirit goes her way, then he will arise.
he will seek out the shaman, to tell him of the encounter, and also to ask where the woman's grave in the village might be, so he can see that there are fresh flowers placed there, and proper offerings made.
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"I would like not to kill the yokai if possible. But I have no clue what exactly it is, or how to deal with it?"

"I do not know it either.  It is the one that has been licking people here in the privy, causing them to develop boils and such.

"I have some rope I do not mind perhaps soiling beyond repair; you could attempt to tie it, though I am unsure it is substantial enough for ropes to hold.  If it begins to wake, beware its tongue."

Iskander returns to the commode, seeing the now motionless yokai.
"Tie and gag it, to be sure. We should let the elder and shaman decide what to do with it."