(D4, EM) Seeking the Unbound (Open)

[Utaku Kheree]

"Oh ,so it was the portrait that was haunted, and not me " she says looking more sharp now as she follows the talk there

[Susaki Tanabe]

Tanabe stood where the moth had asked, which was right where he was and stood attentive eyes vigilant to the surroundings. He was a better sumai than he was a yojimbo but he wasn't half bad at the second one either. Yasu seemed a little tense while she prepared her spell. as they talked about their findings he watched over the group talking.

When the Unicorn talked he gave her a curious look "How likely was it that you were haunted Unicorn-sama? Is that a regular thing for you?" he asked with an amused smile.

[Kaikoga Koi]

Koi turned to her cousin. "Twice in the space of a few days I have had two dreams that showed me images of Seppun Unsei-sama and the Scorpion in the painting. One of lanterns of all clan colours altogether except a lantern representing the Imperial Mon seperate smaller and isolated which I knew to mean Seppun-sama." Koi looked to the petals and the painting. "Next to that smaller lantern was a very large lantern red as the shade of Scorpion. Two days later I dream of Utaka-sama and Seppun-sama sitting here, facing the painting talking. Utaka-sama sensed something but it was brushed aside after Seppun-sama spoke. The painting the whole time was watching you Utaka-sama with desire in it's eyes, and when the sensation of a spirit was dismissed it smiled at you at the same time Seppun-sama did."

Koi chewed her lip and said dead seriously to her Cousin. "Twice now in both dreams, Allul the baku spirit that touched me...that saved me from Yume-do.." She pointed at her vitiligo patch delicately. "Twice in the space of two days out of no where. I have never had another encounter with Seppun-sama prior to our meeting in the Sake house that one night in which Tanabe-sama was there, beyond that I never met them again so this isn't some dream of wanting or needing."

Koi rose from her position and turned her jade eyes on the Unicorn cold and resolute. "What is it that you know, Unicorn-sama? I dreamt of you last afternoon, I never met you before to this day but I knew you as if you were my long lost friend. Yet I dreamt of you, before this painting speaking with Seppun Unsei and there was something wrong with this painting. You sensed something, but it was not me what is it you know? What happened when you were here? It's important."

[Utaku Kheree]

Koi turned to her cousin. "Twice in the space of a few days I have had two dreams that showed me images of Seppun Unsei-sama and the Scorpion in the painting. One of lanterns of all clan colours altogether except a lantern representing the Imperial Mon seperate smaller and isolated which I knew to mean Seppun-sama." Koi looked to the petals and the painting. "Next to that smaller lantern was a very large lantern red as the shade of Scorpion. Two days later I dream of Utaka-sama and Seppun-sama sitting here, facing the painting talking. Utaka-sama sensed something but it was brushed aside after Seppun-sama spoke. The painting the whole time was watching you Utaka-sama with desire in it's eyes, and when the sensation of a spirit was dismissed it smiled at you at the same time Seppun-sama did."

Koi chewed her lip and said dead seriously to her Cousin. "Twice now in both dreams, Allul the baku spirit that touched me...that saved me from Yume-do.." She pointed at her vitiligo patch delicately. "Twice in the space of two days out of no where. I have never had another encounter with Seppun-sama prior to our meeting in the Sake house that one night in which Tanabe-sama was there, beyond that I never met them again so this isn't some dream of wanting or needing."

Koi rose from her position and turned her jade eyes on the Unicorn cold and resolute. "What is it that you know, Unicorn-sama? I dreamt of you last afternoon, I never met you before to this day but I knew you as if you were my long lost friend. Yet I dreamt of you, before this painting speaking with Seppun Unsei and there was something wrong with this painting. You sensed something, but it was not me what is it you know? What happened when you were here? It's important."

"It was two days ago, in the hours after the noon when I was walking these hallways as I felt a strange feeling as if someone was watching me , as I was standing there the honored Seppun joined me, having felt the same strangeness.
And as we where waiting before this portrait." she indicates it. " Having a woman in it at that time. " I felt a touch on my shoulder as if someone had tried to softly pull me but there was none around beyond us two. I had some fresh sap on my kimono where I was touched like this but beyond it. Nothing more had happened. It was not the first time in my life that I encounter something strange, but it was not the most dangerous one either, and so we talked about apeasing a spirit and methods to do so. But beyond that I had neither dream nor nightmare touching me."

[Kuni Yasu]

Yasu listens, nodding. "If these are forest flowers, sap fits as well." Though all the prophetic dreams were another thing. Still, she was starting to suspect mortal tricks and dangers, or at least corporeal ones. "Tanuki tricks, if not our hosts offering more than plays to entertain."

[Kaikoga Fujiko]

Koi turned to her cousin. "Twice in the space of a few days I have had two dreams that showed me images of Seppun Unsei-sama and the Scorpion in the painting. One of lanterns of all clan colours altogether except a lantern representing the Imperial Mon seperate smaller and isolated which I knew to mean Seppun-sama." Koi looked to the petals and the painting. "Next to that smaller lantern was a very large lantern red as the shade of Scorpion. Two days later I dream of Utaka-sama and Seppun-sama sitting here, facing the painting talking. Utaka-sama sensed something but it was brushed aside after Seppun-sama spoke. The painting the whole time was watching you Utaka-sama with desire in it's eyes, and when the sensation of a spirit was dismissed it smiled at you at the same time Seppun-sama did."

Koi chewed her lip and said dead seriously to her Cousin. "Twice now in both dreams, Allul the baku spirit that touched me...that saved me from Yume-do.." She pointed at her vitiligo patch delicately. "Twice in the space of two days out of no where. I have never had another encounter with Seppun-sama prior to our meeting in the Sake house that one night in which Tanabe-sama was there, beyond that I never met them again so this isn't some dream of wanting or needing."

Koi rose from her position and turned her jade eyes on the Unicorn cold and resolute. "What is it that you know, Unicorn-sama? I dreamt of you last afternoon, I never met you before to this day but I knew you as if you were my long lost friend. Yet I dreamt of you, before this painting speaking with Seppun Unsei and there was something wrong with this painting. You sensed something, but it was not me what is it you know? What happened when you were here? It's important."

Fujiko thought about all this for a bit before clicking her tongue in annoyance.

"Are you telling me all of this is because of a damn love triangle with a painting of all things?"

It would fit her own vision painting, but... come on, a love triangle? With a painting? What was up with that castle and the Deer? As much as a clan had a right to decide to stick to a theme, there was a point where it got excessive, didn't it?

Also, she hated love triangles.

[Kaikoga Koi]

Koi was annoyed, and felt tension building in the base of her neck into her head causing pain to flash through her as a migraine sat in. She turned away from her cousin to hide a deep frustration that was building in her shoulders as she looked at the painting it. Studying it.

She walked closer, allowing her eyes to judge the piece with an artists judgement. She cancelled out all the talk and just stared into the piece.

D4 EM; Is this even the same painting? Water/Aesthetics. TN 3. | TN: 3 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 3

1 used for additional clues
1 used to remove 2 strife. 1 total strife taken.

Koi remains quiet, as her eyes widen in shock before turning to the group and says sourly. "It is a fake. A falsehood. It is closely the same but the artist made a few errors, look at the brushstrokes here and the petals are different." Koi said her own curiousity increasing.

[Susaki Tanabe]

Tanabe nodded "not sure what to make of all the dreams and stuff but the painting being a fake, switched out in the night makes more sense than a spirit or something." He said looking at the painting "the question would be why? Just to mess with us? Or is it a puzzle our hosts have laid out?"

[Utaku Kheree]

"Would that also means that we could find something on the original art? This being a test after all does not quite make sense with your dreams there."

[Kaikoga Koi]

Koi seemed confused and concerned.

She turned to a guard, bowing respectfully after all she wanted their co-operation for now. "Shika-sama, excuse me. Your vigilence of this hall, how long was your rotation? When did it start? Who came before you?"