#Norowareta Yuki

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The Spinner’s Connection.

It started with a meeting, Jessie Wildflower had been following some mysterious murders that were very similar to the way the Spinner’s Shears had killed people in the past. Then flat out copies began. However, she was no fool she knew she could not handle the Assassin group that had entirely killed her old free company. Now, she was part of the Astral Advent and sought their help.

At first was a meeting where she introduced herself and introduced a good number of the newer members to the threat that was the Spinner’s Shears. While discussing the matter, Ciel mentioned that the spirits that the Yuki Clan had been having the Astral Advent hunt down could possibly be responsible for the murders as well, as the last one was the “Spirit of Murder.” Jessie was unsure about the suggestion, not being involved with the previous jobs. In the end, the present Agents agreed to help Jessie investigate the three locations that Spinner’s Shears’ activity had occurred.

Berrod, Ciel, and Reks join Jessie in going to Aleport to investigate the two murders there. They met on the dock and quickly made their way to the building that both occurred in. Berrod took watch just in case the assassins returned while Ciel and Jessie examined the scene. Reks took it upon himself to aethericly examine the scene. Just as Reks had come to the conclusion that the assassins were no strangers to this place and Ciel and Jessie determined the second murder did not take place in the room, but rather the body was brought there, Berrod was attacked.

A Spinner’s Shear posing as a Yellow Jacket shivved his side and was about to finish him off when Ciel interceded. Jessie and Reks quickly worked to bring Berrod into the room and tend to his wounds while Ciel faced off with the assassin. Quick as he was, he was unable to take out the elezen as easily. He shot her through the shoulder, but her aim was far more precise, his heart. However, before he could perish, the assassin, called out “For Mother” and slit his own throat. Instead of bleeding out, red aether flowed out and disappeared into the sky. The Agents elected to teleport away before any more could arrive and to tend to their wounds.

A few suns later Jessie met up with Akhutai, Aoki, and Louma’li at The Gold Saucer. This time a murder had just occurred a bell before their arrive, the third at the Gold Saucer. Jessie was held up answering questions by the local security while the other three traveled to investigate the fresh murder scene. Akhutai took up the role of bruiser and look out after the first group was attacked on their mission. Louma’li and Aoki examined the body, but it was not very long until they had an unexpected visitor.

The entire room froze in place as a veiled visitor joined them at the body. She called it and offering and art. Naturally, that caused immediate questions about who she was. She introduced herself as Mother Nymeia or as they would more likely know her Satsujin no Seishin, Spirit of Murder. The three were immediately put on edge, but the woman was quite calm and forthcoming. The Spinner’s Shears were really a cult created hundreds of years ago worshiping her and now that she has returned they began to start offering murders once again. Aoki pressed her for a way for her to return to slumber and end all the pointless killing, but the spirit laughed and expressed that she had no desire to slumber until hundreds had been offered to her. However, the Agents could avoid being victims of the random killing if they promised to leave her children alone. Aoki express it was not her place to make that decision, and the spirit left. Jessie believe it was something higher ups would need to decide and told the group to return home.

Finally, in Ishgard, Autgar, Gideon, and Geofri found Jessie in the Forgotten Knight. She was quick to fill them in on what occured in the Gold Saucer. Jessie made it very clear if they continued the investigation likely it would be considered saying no to the deal. All the parties agreed to continue even if it meant risking the company. The death of hundreds was not a weight any of them wanted to have to bear.

Their investigation led them down into the Brume, but unlike the other two groups, thanks to the sharp eyes of Geofri they caught two Spinner’s in the act of attempting to create another offering to their “mother.” It was a short brawl between a child assassin with knives and a monk. Jessie worked with Gideon in stabilizing the victim and Geofri and Autgar engaged the assassins. After a few injuries on both side the Elezen Assassin called to the child that they failed and slit his throat just like the one Berrod, Reks, and Ciel encountered. The child was about to do the same when Autgar and Geofri subdued her and took her captive. An odd tomestone was dropped that later was discovered to be map to the Spinner’s Shears base.

With the three investigations completed Jessie Wildflower decided she would speak to the Yuki Clan when they came by for a update meeting on the job. The Spinner’s Shears and the Satsujin no Seishin were connected so it was time she joined in the investigation. A large number of Agents showed up, but their guests were quite late. She took the time to update the entire group on each groups findings, but still the Yuki Clan was missing.

Berrod received an SOS from Yukino, Norowareta Yuki’s retainer, about how the Yuki Airship was shot down, and they were under attack in Southern Thanalan. The Astral Advent jumped into action assuming it was the Spinner’s Shears. Jessie remained at the company house to serve as guard as Berrod, Aoki, Autgar, Reks, Martin, Suwan, T’dras, Tiergan, Geofri, and Crooked made their way to the dunes of southern Thanalan.

The Yuki airship had crashed, taken down by a Dragoon: Everret Black. The very same Spinner’s Shear who had been hired by Iron Jaw during the fall of Astral Agents. He and several other Spinner’s had already killed a large number of the crew by the time the Astral Advent arrived to provide assistance.

Geofri and Suwan quickly engaged the mages of the Spinner’s, Autgar and T’dras went after two knife wielding assassins, and Tiergan engaged a rather large man with a great sword. Berrod, Reks, Crooked remained as support while Martin tried to shoot the dragoon before he vanished into the sky.

The battle was push and pull as the knife assassins vanished and Everret kept launching into the air and out of sight. Reks suffered the most as assassin after assassin stabbed him and even Everret took a chance on impaling the Miqo’te. Tiergan kept the hulk occupied even as it came back to life. Martin and Crooked helped as they could while T’dras, Suwan, and Geofri took down the Black Mage.

The second mage worked on retrieving some object the Spinner’s Shears were after, and even as he was railed on by spell, fist, and round succeeded before killing himself. One by one each of the Spinner’s Shears were taken down by the Agents until the second mage retrieved a knife. Once the knife was retrieved Everret Black retreated, leaving the wrecked airship, bodies, and survivors being tended to by Aoki.

Lord Norowareta stepped out of the wreckage and tended to the dead men and women of his crew, eventually asking Suwan to teleport the bodies somewhere where he could get things arranged to take them back to Hingashi. Berrod, Autgar, and Aoki filled the Hingan lord as to why they were attacked and who the Spinner’s Shears were.

In the end, Norowareta charged the Astral Advent to kill Satsujin no Seishin by retrieving the knife, her vessel, from the Spinner’s Shear and stabbing her with it. Rather than sending the Spirit of Murder to slumber…. The Agents would need to murder her.

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[Pics] YOSHITSUNE ~呪われた英雄~ (yoshitsune ~norowareta eiyuu~)

visuals under the cut^^

Cast:

Kimura Atsuji as Yoshitsune (義経)

Miyamoto Hidemitsu as Senri (千里)

Kanno Yuuki as Musashibou Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Tanaka Minoru as Satou Tsugunobu (佐藤継信)

Ichinose Yoshihito as Satou Tadanobu (佐藤忠信)

Okuyama Keita as Minamoto no Yoshitaka (源義高)

Tanaka Hyouga as Minamoto no Yoshinaka (源義仲)

Sakamoto Shinichi as Fujiwara no Yasuhira (藤原泰衡)

Satou Shinsuke as Higuchi Kanemitsu (​樋口兼光)

Yoshihara Hideyuki as Byakuya (白夜)

Kajiwara Wataru as ??? (幻行)

Nakagami Kazuyasu as Fujiwara no Hidehira (藤原秀衡)

Hachifuku☆Mizuho as Matsu (まつ)

Nishikawa Misaki as Okiku (おきく)

Nishitani Mashiro as Oohime (大姫)

Mita Yuki as Houjou Masako (北条政子)

Toyonaga Minori as Omitsu (おみつ)

Shimazaki Hiromichi as Santa (三太)

Minai Yuuto as Imai Kanehira (今井兼平)

Shimizu Hiroki as Kotarou (小太郎)

Kitamura Yuu as Kitchi (吉)

Akaba Mio as Kagetoki (景時)

Suzuki Shoon as Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝)

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Meeting with Yuki part 2, featuring Rosalinde, Suwan, Balthius, Yuki Norowareta and loyal retainers/guardsmen. 

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Three Missing Tsukumogami

Takara no Hako’s Mighty Hunt… (for treasure)

The Astral Advent was still recovering from their skirmishes on the edge of Ala Mhigian lands. A good number of them remained unfit for new work, but work comes regardless. This time it was in the form of a job looking for a ghost of sorts.

Fuyuno Kashin of the Yuki Clan, sent by his Lord Norowareta, arrived at the Advent Hall after meeting with Sarij Rahzersyn and securing a time to present a job to interested members of the company. Rosalinde, Aoki, Sergei, Balthius, Koh’li, Barabaen, and Suwan attended the meeting with the Hingan Roegadyn.

Their guest explained that he was there to hire the Advent to locate and encourage a divine spirit to return to its vessel, a treasure chest. The Yuki Clan guarded a great number of tsukumogami, but a rival to the clan had stolen and important trio, Soul of Adventure, and separated the divine spirits from their vessels. Fuyuno came to the Astral Advent to seek their aid in sating the desire of Takara no Hako to return to its vessel.

Unfortunately, while it was no challenge to locate the spirit, the spirit refused to return to slumber because the Hingan was “boring and no fun.” So, after explaining the situation and acquiring the aid of the present members of the company, Fuyuno sent them off to the Golden Saucer to find the “Box of Treasure” spending its time playing games.

Rosalinde took partial leadership to get the members passage to the Golden Saucer to hunt down a spirit with the only description of ‘out of place’ and ‘having fun.’ The Agents quickly separated and searched the various floors and rooms of the Golden Saucer for the divine spirit. Often, they could hear an odd voice shouting in glee about rewards or annoyance about something being quite ‘boring’ or ‘no fun.’

Eventually, Sergei was able to corner a large armored man who seemed exceedingly interested in games, but before he could get the man to speak the man ran off to an open Gate. Fortunately, that Gate had a queue and the man could not jump into the game immediately. There was enough time for the company members to assemble and make an educated guess that this man was Takara no Hako. To keep the spirit occupied, Balthius challenged it to a game of Triple Triad.

Which he lost. The spirit cleverly picked rules that shifted favor to the spirit despite Balthius’s superior deck. In frustration, the highlander blurted out how he knew the armored man was a ghost. Takara no Hako took great offense and threated the group with a frightening katana. The Astral Advent members immediately tried to calm the spirit down, though for no need as it swiftly became clear it was all an act, and the spirit was merely playing a game.

Shortly after the brief chance of conflict, it was revealed the man in armor was merely a giant golden pig. It took quite a while for Barabaen to cease his laughter. Once matters were settled, the Golden Pig declared they would help it with a mighty hunt for a mighty treasure, but they were not ready for the MIGHTIEST OF MIGHTY treasures so they could do other things first.

The Golden Pig appointed Aoki to be the GREAT PROTECTOR of the group, even offering her his katana, which was more of a great sword for the small Raen woman. Then he appointed Suwan to be the GREAT CARETAKER with a Ring with Rings in it so he could make sure no one was harmed. The Advent members could barely voice approval or disapproval before the Golden Pig “booped” a nose and the whole group were teleported far from the Golden Saucer.

There was little time for them to take in the Azim Steppe when they arrived, there was treasure to be found. Aoki did not enjoy the matter in the slightest when as soon as they began the hunt creatures seemed fixated on her and her sword, but little harm seemed to come to the woman as the Agents dispatched the beasts guarding a great chest. Unfortunately, the rewards did not please the Golden Pig and he repeated the process twice more, once back to the Lochs and then finally to the Peaks where what the Pig was looking for appeared.

A portal to what the Golden Pig described as a world of mighty treasure floated above the treasure found in The Peaks. It did not take long for the Advent members to be pulled into another world.  It appeared as if they were on a roulette wheel of sorts that. Each time they spun it they fought horrible beasts, voidsent, and giant… walking turnips? Every successful spin filled the room with more and more treasure, much to the happiness of the Golden Pig.

Eventually, they completed the strange game and were rewarded with pocket and bags full of coin. A few even found strange vases for flowers. Very few wished to linger, Aoki exited the odd treasure world and the horror of battle caught up to her and it did not settle well in her stomach.

 Suwan asked the Golden Pig to return them to the Golden Saucer. The spirit relented but asserted that he would not return to his slumber until he had seen the legendary treasure: Pauper’s Prize. In an instant after, the Advent members found themselves back in the yard of Advent Hal with Yukuno inside waiting.

Most of the Agents had some fiery words of the Hingan, between ruined dresses, lack of warning of what the spirit could do, and how they never wanted to be made to do something like that again. Koh’li informed Fuyuno of the spirit’s demand before he would rest again, and Suwan offered any help to help locate the other two and what Takara no Hako wished. Eventually, the Agents said their farewells to the Hingan and collected their pay on top of all the treasure they had gained with the Golden Pig. Though for now, what the Pauper’s Prize was or where it was remained unclear.

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((Thanks to Suwan Berrod and Viktor for Screenshots!))

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Three Missing Tsukumogami:

After a somewhat botched adventure in retrieving three missing Tsukumogami after they were stolen, the Yuki Clan of Hingashi have found themselves in a bit of a bind. Three powerful divine spirits once hosted in three several century old artifacts now roam free. The nature of the the three spirits forced the Yuki Clan’s hand into finding willing adventurers to help sate the nature of each of the spirits so they return peacefully to slumber into the artifacts.

With such powerful spirits it meant they could not simply rehire the adventurer that aided them the first time. It would not be a task so easily handled by one or two. Lord Norowareta Yuki has assigned a Fuyuno Kashin to seek out capable adventures to a least manage one of the Tsukumogami gone missing.

Fortunately, the spirit Takara no Hako, who belonged to a rather ancient treasure chest made no effort to hide itself. Fuyuno was able to meet with the spirit, but discovered it refused to return to its artifact unless it had its fill of fun and the Yuki Clan were no fun. So at Lord Norowareta’s request soon will visit the Astral Advent to see their aid… in helping Takara no Hako have ...fun.

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