The Floating Palace of Shogun Otton (Basement Levels)

(From here)

Kaede continued down into the basement levels of the Floating Palace. She could sense a dark presence from the dungeon above with the others and decided to head off this evil by herself, as she could handle such with her powers. If worst comes to worst, I'll contact Momiji from the temple... but as it stands, I should be fine on my own... Kaede could very well defend herself against the likes of the monsters and yokai, but she noticed it got very swampy the further she descended. It made sense, given she'd be under the mud of the swamp outdoors. It was leaky, with knee deep water, and it was also very dark. Stone walls lined the passage of tunnels, and a rotting wooden stairwell lead into the dark muck ahead of her.







"Sounds like a cave down here..." Kaede absently noted, as she yanked out a talisman to use as a light source, entering the disgusting dark water as she took in her surroundings. The surrounding structure the further she travelled began to look more elaborate and non-Beijionese, almost Hazorian in construction.



She could see human skulls, floating barrels filled with... gods knew what. She wrinkled her nose at the filth and continued deeper in...

"Hm?"
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...where the bugs began to pester her.

"Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!"

Shrieked the Onmyoji Priestess, who shook herself and swung her body around violently in protest to the giant glowing bug which landed on her breasts! "GET OFF!! GET OFFFFFF!!!!" Kaede screamed, running down the tunnel, brushing off the glowing blue bug as she looked for someplace that wasn't knee deep in shitty water! I can sense magic seals around here... they're probably part of a larger magical construct that defends the palace or worse, protect this 'Shogun Otton'! I need to stop playing around with bugs and get to work! She quickly created a ring of fire around herself with her talismans, burning any bug that came close to her!

"Okay... lets get to work, Kaede..." she told herself, digging out her dispelling talismans from her cleavage.

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"There's one..." The Onmyoji said, her voice echoing throughout the hall as she saw the glowing pentagram like symbol:



"Hmph!" she grunted, tossing one of her talismans on it, dispelling the seal which caused the palace to shutter somewhat! "There's one... there's likely five." Kaede thought out loud, and began work to locate the next four...

A solitary Frognobi (Frog + Shinobi) hung from the ceiling, looking down upon the woman who was intruding on the Clan's stash of Meeb-Meeb! Ameba-tar, as it was more commonly called, was a black tar like substance made from ground up Jube Fly Jelly, Jube Fly-Spawn & mashed Muck-Muck and sometimes spiced with human entrails or pulped human liver, it was black as ink and usually frozen into thin squares for personal carry. It was the best ration a frog-man could ask for! This wench will ruin the fermentation process...!! It mentally screamed, dropping down from the ceiling and unsheathing the pair of wakizashi which had been mounted on its back! It was going to chop the woman into bits for the next batch of Crimson Ameba-tar, which was more human than Jube Fly in mixture!