bando: first blood

[bypartisan]

... tell me, is there an award for earliest, most ignominious death in a jaunt? Because I think I may have won that anti-prize.

Those of you in Nakamiyo, tread lightly around Gyakusatsu Izanami. And see if you can hide my body? I'm on the outskirts of Mibu Village, on the disused path near the Sentai clanhouse. If I'm lucky enough that no one but Izanami knows I died then perhaps I can slip back into my overlay's life.

[Sorry, By. That's not going to happen. Given that it took about a day for you to resurrect in Liminal--must have been Bai's fate as a pincushion that caused the delay--not only do all the Sentai siblings know about your death, but so should most of Mibu Village.]

Comments

[solvethepuzzle]

That was fast. What an unfortunate prize to win. [Yes, thank you, Near.]

[bypartisan]

[Amazing how one can give the psychic impression of grit teeth.]

Yes. It was.

[solvethepuzzle]

[It certainly is. Unfortunately, it isn't like Near cares. He's capable of broadcasting tone, but . . . well, consider who you're talking to, here.]

I'm not in Nakamiyo, but I'll take the warning anyway. Since you've been made aware that re-assuming that identity isn't viable, what are your plans?

[bypartisan]

Disguise myself and head north. It's the only option besides sticking around here in liminal, quite frankly.

[solvethepuzzle]

Yes, the latter would render you only marginally more effective than remaining dead.

A summit is being held in Koroshima, amongst prominent members of each provinces forces, so some bloodshed here is only to be expected sooner or later.

[bypartisan]

Lovely. Perhaps I'm only the first of a bloody tide of dead Infiltrators.

[solvethepuzzle]

Given how little provocation it seems to take for murder to happen here, it isn't an unreasonable assumption. [Near assumes he might be on someone's hit list already, or failing that, he's probably at least being followed.]

[bypartisan]

... yes, well, what do you expect when you confine a bunch of criminals, political dissidents, and their descendants to a single peninsula and then build a very large wall to keep them out of the rest of the empire?