The eclectic entourage of samurai that tromped into the Snow Maiden in the late evening was a somewhat obviously poor fit for such a nice place -- why, they looked like they'd been in some kind of battle! The samurai engaged none of the staff as they passed straight through to Akodo Akihiko's room -- Wait, is that carried one unconscious?

Leaning heavily on one of the minor clanners, Akihiko unlocks the door and stumbles inside, hissing from the pain in his left shoulder when he bumps into the desk. He waves Hide toward the bed with his other arm, then awkwardly and painfully lays on the floor, the uncomfortable meditation cushion under his head.


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OOC:
Healing needed for:
Eriko - a lot. We don't know how much.
Akihiko - took 27 but only needs like 14 to be good.
Akemi - took 21.
Shion - took 17.

Hide did as instructed, placing Eriko on the bed very carefully. She didn’t like seeing the Kuni in such a rough state, and even thinking about the torture she had to have gone through stirred some very hot and angry embers inside of her.

“Soon, friends. And... Thanks for coming to help.” She looked to the group, a sad smile crossing her features. “Especially you, Suzume-san. We hadn’t really met before and you still came to our aid. You are certainly a selfless one.”

Mumei shows up at the hotel after Hide's message, and of course the scruffy Osprey needs to wait in the lobby, while they ring the room to see if she's *really* visiting a guest here. While she waites, she types in a message to Hide, letting her know she's there.

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(ooc. Mumei's presence here is assuming nothing re-ignites in the ritual thread, and that we're not arrested by the magistrate, or anything like that. But wanted to get rolls handled tonight.)

At the buzzing sound, Akihiko groans from the floor. "Matsu-san," he says roughly, "please give the desk staff this, and tell them exactly who needs to be sent in." His voice wobbles erratically. "Sent in--No. More. Buzzing." As soon as she takes the koku, his arm hits the floor with a dull thud.

Hide looked to Akihiko and then to Eriko. Well, Eriko wasn’t going to get healed without Mumei in here, so she took the koku from the Akodo and made her way down to the front desk to inform them of their expected guests.

Which included Mumei. “Ah! Mumei-san. Caught you just in time.”

"Just in time? That bad?" She looks worried "What happened?"

Granted, she'll see soon enough when they head up.

“I meant that we haven’t been here very long.” Hide led the way up to Akihiko’s room, knocking politely before entering. She kept the door open for Mumei to enter first, however. “She seems to have been... Tortured.”

Akemi collapsed on a chair and set aside the otori cloak she had used to hide her body up from the city vicinity to here. She had removed her armor and mace and left them in her bike's trunk (with instructions from Kyoko to retrieve and clean them) but outside of that she was still very much looking as she was at the end of the fight: Sweaty and splashed with blood, not all her own.

She was only wearing her military tanktop above the waist at the moment, making it obvious her fleshcraft did include the shoulder in full and that it had take quite a bit of bruising this very fight, with radiant and sword impacts visible. Her only, if impressive, flesh wound was a radiant burn in the chest area around it.

"Damn. Got lucky there. Had I got shot on the other side, damages would have been way worst. Metal took the most of the blow."

She bowed her head to the Sparrow:

"Indeed. Incredible shot. Was a bit curious when Koseki called you as backup but he chose well. Having a sniper on our side really shifted the tides of battle in our favor."

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Akemi might or might have brought katana lady on her, carrying her on her shoulder as if she was a drunk person. Assume she dumps her on a servant's couch if that's the case.

EDIT: Didn't see other posts have been made while I was writing, assume this happened before Mumei's entered the room, not that Akemi just casually ignores reference to torture.

Mumei looks sharply at the Matsu, then nods. "Right..ok. Just know there's wounds I can't affect there, probably."

And then she enters the far too fancy for her room, taking in the scene for a long moment before bowing, she's not exactly sure to whom. "OK...sorry to meet people like this, but..." She's a bit torn as to who needs help first, "ah, I don't have medical training as such, so if anyone's bleeding out, please don't be polite about it and just tell me, ok?" Her holoslate is already in hand, tattered around the edges. She wasn't sure there was time for an offering. She'd make one tomorrow...many, actually.

"Eriko. First," the Akodo groans from the floor. He's clearly alive and still conscious, but he hasn't moved since before the shugenja arrived.

With a nod, and a few long steps, Mumei is quickly across to kneel by Eriko, hissing to see the damage. Kneeling, she recites the familiar invocation, nodding at the weak response. They're well up, and there's the smell of blood on the air.

She wishes she'd grabbed something on the way to use as an offering. Well..make do. She recites with greater urgency and a mental promise of more tomorrow, breathing easier as they rush through. Rising, she feels the ache of joints reminding her that the kami are perfectly capable of taking if there's nothing specified.

She moves to the Lion on the floor, making some very reasonable assumptions about his condition before dropping more heavily than intended to kneel on the very soft carpet beside him. "Not a proper introduction, but...Nakauchi Mumei, and the kami are a bit sluggish up here, so we'll see what they're ready for."

This time, the awakened kami are already listening, she can feel them gather as she chants, and begins to worry just a bit that she's calling on more than she's prepared to handle as condensation beads along her skin and Akihiko's, the nearby table, the fine, plush carpet fibers. They seem almost eager to knit bruised and broken flesh, smoothing the veins to run as they should once more, soothing the burns of rifle blasts.

Mouth parched, despite the water everywhere, Mumei sits back a bit overwhelmed. She swallows to have some kind of voice available, though it's still rough. "right, ok. So there's a bit more I can do, but not much." She looks from Lion to Crab and sighs, asking anyway. "Rooming with Kuchiki Satoru though, solid training even without invocations. I can call him, if there's still injuries." She asks as if there's no reason anyone ought to object to the aid of a skilled doctor, as if the name didn't matter.


D10 LE PTIP for Eriko: 5d10o10k3 19 9 wounds healed
D10 LE PTIP for Eriko #2, Void for 1k1: 6d10o10k4 36 26 wounds healed.

D10 LE PTIP for Akihiko, Void for 1k1: 6d10o10k4 47 37 wounds healed

"Hnnng..." Eriko could only say if she was addressed to. It was as they said, she was tortured, the evidence of broken fingers and waterlogging were there. That was also on top of the beating that incapacitated her. She was not looking good but should live and recover easily enough with the aid she was given. Admittedly, probably not the first time she had received healing under the counter without the local authorities knowing too.

Eriko was at 52 wounds and is now at 17 wounds, currently at nicked.

Her fingers reset and her bruising disapated thanks to the kami. She was just extremely exhausted at the moment.

Atena arrived at the Snow Maiden as it was now to return the favor Akemi had done for her. She was sent to Akihiro's room. She knocked on the door to enter the room. When she is let in she looked at Akemi and the gathered. "Konban wa..."

The Matsu offered a polite bow to the Moshi, “Thank you for coming at such short notice. We still have a few people injured in need of aid.”

She then situated herself at the bedside, obviously still worried. Hide watched Mumei work, her eyes glued to Eriko. She was amazed at how the injuries just faded in the matter of moments.

“Mumei-san, I owe you several drinks for this at the very least.”

Akihiko's wounds heal dramatically, and the tight strain throughout his body relaxes. He only half hears Mumei talking about someone else coming, and the distant sound of Atena arriving. Half confident that everything is on track, as they'd planned on the ride back to town, and half still too worn out to care, the Akodo groans lightly and rolls onto his side. Dimly he realizes that someone must have removed his damaged armor, but he gives it no more thought.

[OOC: Sorry I just saw your PM Mumei. I don't think we need Satoru, and IC Akihiko wouldn't want him, but he's inn no position to object. He trusts Hide and the others at this point. I think it's whether Eriko would want a spider doctor.]

She looked at the Kuni who is badly wounded, not quite surprised. "May I..." She said her prayers and let the water kami do their thing.


//D10 LE P2iP on Akihiko: 5d10o10k3 24 14 wounds healed Mistke on the player name Will heal Eriko

Akemi nodded at the Moshi's arrival and help.

"Thanks Atena. I think Suzume-san would like your help. And if you've got a bit of energy left... Well, me too."

She tried a bad joke to lighten the mood.

"Classier than last time bar isn't it? We're climbing the ranks as far as our makeshift hospitals go.

And I'll definitely own you a karaoke session for real after that. Sorry about last time."

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Shion is at 7 wounds not 17, she voided that.

Atena moved to the Susume since Akemi insisted and made her prayers to the water kami. Still had the favor of the kami to help Akemi.

Atena was a bit paranoid with all the happenings around so she looked at the gathered. "Would you like me to ward the room?"

//D10 LE P2IP Shion (Assuming she is in the room): 5d10o10k3 19 9 wounds healed to Shion

D10 LE P2IP Akemi: 5d10o10k3 23 13 wounds healed to Akemi

A flicker of some emotion crosses the Osprey's face. But she sighs and slips her slate back into a pocket before rising to see how Eriko's doing. "Nothing owed, Hide-san. The water kami rejoice in surging to fill the holes we make in one another. Make those offerings to Jurojin."

To the Moshi she notes. "Can't hurt. Don't suppose that's a ward vs...nevermind." She didn't know everyone here well enough to make dark remarks about the head magistrate's eyes and ears.

"Uhn?" Akihiko groans from the floor. With an effort he sits up, still ginger with his left shoulder, although the kami have fully healed him. He sits with his back against the side of the bed for support, blinking his eyes as he adjusts to the lack of pain. "What's..." An Ospreu. A Mantis. Wow. What a day.

"Uh, wards. This could be detected by other shugenja?" Akihiko's brain is still foggy and his speech off of normal, but improving. If his face shows anything but exhaustion, it's curiosity.