The Day of Thunder

[Togashi Satsuki]

"The others got a better look at the scroll, but it briefly described what the writer...Chouri I guess was trying as a ritual. There are details in a cipher that we haven't managed to break yet. Maybe Ohta..." Reo shakes his head.

"But in the cave is a deposit of Dreamstone. Its dropped into the lake that feeds the river, which is probably why there are memory problems to those who drink from it. It's effectively a spiritual power base, perfect for a ritual: either to activate what Chouri was doing to do, or to cleanse it. If we want to cleanse it, that's a loooooooooooooot of Jade unless we start pulling out some of the dreamstone to reduce the load.

(sorry, missed this post in my round)

Satsuki looked at Reo, then shook her head. "No, we won't need to pull it out. If I understand what the kami told our shugenja correctly, and how this ritual will work, if the ritual works, it will cut Yume-do off from bleeding into this place. That means shugenja will be able to purify it through proper rites, turning the dreamstone into harmless stone."

"Tai said the stone told her "The die is cast and the veil melts away... The dream and the real will overlap... but dreams may be bound away into legend... leaving only the land...". Starting a mining operation won't be necessary."

[Hisomu Reo]

Satsuki looked at Reo, then shook her head. "No, we won't need to pull it out. If I understand what the kami told our shugenja correctly, and how this ritual will work, if the ritual works, it will cut Yume-do off from bleeding into this place. That means shugenja will be able to purify it through proper rites, turning the dreamstone into harmless stone."

"Tai said the stone told her "The die is cast and the veil melts away... The dream and the real will overlap... but dreams may be bound away into legend... leaving only the land...". Starting a mining operation won't be necessary."

Reo slowly nods.

"Do we have anyone who can break the cipher so we can understand the ritual? And what do we need?"

[Ryoshun Nao]

"Just tell me what you need from me cousin." Nao nodded. "I feel like there's a lot about the history here that we haven't discovered."

[Togashi Satsuki]

"I have already decoded it with Naraku's help," she nodded to the Hiruma princeling. "I already understand what the ritual will entail, and have shared that with the daimyo here."

"As I told Lady Otaku and Lady Makime now, I will have an outline of what will be needed tomorrow." Satsuki looked to Nao now. "I imagine the lessons Lady Agasha taught you will be needed."

[Otomo Akutou]

This's gettin' o'er my head, Akutou thinks. I barely un'erstan' half o' what they're sayin'. Guess I ain't cut out f'r leadin'.

[Ryoshun Nao]

"My knowledge and abilities are yours." she smiled. "Does the scroll have any indication that the ritual had been done previously?"