Exorcise Morikage Toshi

Ghost Hunt

This takes place in the Phoenix castle Morikage Toshi (location p17)(pages 15 and 296). Sometime in the late Eight century (we're now in the 12th) a Phoenix lord abused his former dragon wife. The former dragon wife took her life, consumed by grief the mother of the wife cursed the castle and the lord that ruled it. The caste became over run with plant life and the ghost of the former dragon still haunts the palace. It was used sometime in the 11th century to hide the kidnapped Totoru I. Giving even more fuel to wanting it cleansed so it would not be used in such a way again.

The characters will include a phoenix shugenja who is a direct decedent of the castle's Lord, when it was cursed. The castle belongs to her family and her family daimyo wants it back. So she must go with an assembled group to cleanse the castle of it's curse. The shugenja is assigned her group at her daimyo's request.

Of course the daimyo's first precaution was to assign a Phoenix bushi yojimbo to protect the young shugenja. The yojimbo has fallen in love with the shugenja and is quickly becoming the jealous scorn lover.

After that, a direct decedent of the dragon that cursed the castle is going. He however is a brash young bushi of house Mirumoto and doesn't want anything to do with this quest. He's only going out of duty.

Lastly, a young Mantis bounty hunter, one who knows some secrets of ghosts, and not afraid to enter the cursed castle. This young Tsuruchi goes to mend some mantis-phoenix strife.

Characters

Tsuruchi Takahide Mantis Clan Bushi

Shiba Hikaru Phoenix Clan Shugenja

Agasha Noritada Phoenix Clan Bushi

Mirumoto Toichi Dragon Clan Bushi