Our fishing boats are not fast enough to catch up with a junk that size.

Shimura and Leylek know that if there was a way of confirming the ship direction, it could be faster to sail northeast a little while and then rush across the country to the other coast.

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He then looks at Onka.

Dancer San, my house it is at your disposition, rest. We'll take care of everything else

Then he looks at Ahalya and bows, The man starts unwrapping the small chest, it looks heavy in his hands.

You must understand Shimura Sensei, we accept the gold because we thought they were honorable samurai...

The chest looks made of brass and engraved with demonic figures. The man opens the lid with the chest facing towards you. But where the man saw gold, you only see bones, fingers and phalanxes bones white clean.

The man follows your look down to the chest and drops it, startled, the bones spread on the ground.


Spoiler: OoC Detect magi and such.
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The chest emanates magic, Illusion and Necromancy.
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Chest of the deceiver (CL 10) Activation: Standard. 1/day you can activate the chest to generate a major image effect inside the chest, any object inside the chest looks and feels real, once activated the effect lasts 8 hours. Tainted Magic: Increase the DC for disbelief by 5 by placing human bones inside the chest, this also adds a weight illusion to the normal effects of Major Image. If used this way, the user must succeed a Will Save equal to the modified Disbelief DC or gain 1 point of taint.


This beautiful Silk scarf is decorated with classical images of courtship and lovers in intimate conversation, it emanates Necromancy and Transmutation:
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Lovers' embrace: (Cursed silk scarf of the Penangolan CL 12): Penangolan use this scarfs on young women and men who they enthrall with their domination effect that makes them easier to control. The scarf places a curse as in bestow curse, no save, -4 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks. It has to be given as a present, and it bounds the giver and the receiver. If anyone else other than the giver tries to remove the scarf, the scarf chokes the wearer as a rope of entanglement. An entangled creature can break free with a DC 20 Strength check or a DC 20 Escape Artist check.





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Regardless of your actions, when you finally fall asleep, the magic lingering in this place invades your rest.

The Dreams:

Spoiler: Shimura
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A surreal scene of the stronghold where you grew up takes you back a decade. There you are, before sunrise, training with other young samurai, practicing the clan secret techniques. The voices of your mentors repeating the Dragon's creed, their eternal words of wisdom: there's an entity moving between the young samurai, proudly watching over them. Suddenly: it looks at your eyes and into your soul:

What comes is what has been
the wounds are old as the world itself
Honor will not be served, for the sacrifice is great
The warriors of old are the fate of the morning

When you wake up next morning, you can feel the presence of your ancestors, almost material.




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The thunder rolls in the vast steppe calling forth the rains that may the grass grow and the animals thrive. The thunder rolls and masks the sound of an horde, galloping free and wild in the immensity of a world once was yours. But as you fly to join the proud, you see their mounts! The horde is riding Onikages, demonic horses, and they are no longer human but shadows. Lighting illuminates the sky and sets the prairie on fire the riders come as a tornado and surround you, you forget everything and become a frenzied whirlwind. This is not your past, it is the future. You feel it in your hollow bones.

You wake up rattled and agitated. but somehow feeling stronger and more resolved.



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In your dream you are a flowing river, a Kami of water sprung in the mountains. You feel the trout dancing against your currents, and the mills feeding on your stream. Dance is the only natural movement, the portal to the original form of things and beings. Dance is how snow thaws and filters into the springs, it is how Kami greet the land and touch the heavens. You dream the movement of the Kami, the steady current behind the illusion of individuality: you have ran so far atoning for crimes that only men measure that you forgot Kami don't dwell on individual losses. Not when shadows rot the land.

You sleep placidly, so much, the others have to wake you!



Spoiler: Ahalya
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The night swirls around you, the ceiling becomes transparent and your mystical eye elevates toward the dark sky. It is the moon, full and bright, that traces shadows. From above you see it: the complexity of lines and the intensity of shades is possible under the brilliant moon. It reveals what's hidden in the night. Yours is not a dream, is a premonition, the spirits reach to you and map out a timeline. It is the moon, there's not much time left before its light draws the world in solid shadows.