Rooftop Renegades

[Moto Ichiro]

"As good a guess as any, lets head to it." he said craning his neck to look at what Nesrin was pointing out.

[Utaku Ichiro]

"Let's go!"

[Utaku Nesrin]

Nesrin scrambles up, and hurries across the roof toward their goal. She returns to the street when they run out of roof, scrambling back up any time they need to take their bearings up above the darker streets.

"Never been in anyplace with so many people tucked behind walls. Can't say I want to spend more time than necessary in cities." she says as they weave through the cramped streets and smells of Hirosaka.

[Iuchi Prashant]

The Iuchi follows suit. "Yeah... It's definitely a different way of living. Not sure I could deal with such a life for a long time!"

"So... Do we have a plan? Just go inside and do it?"

[Utaku Nesrin]

"As much of a plan as I've got! I figured I'd make anything else up as I went along."

[Vutall]

The Grinning Mujina looks raggedy and run down, but there are no guards that would prevent any of the students from entering.

[Utaku Ichiro]

"Spirits from a spirit makes sense I suppose... if you ignore every folktale against it."

He grins to the rest and moves inside.

[Iuchi Prashant]

Prash grins at Ichiro's joke, then pauses for a moment

"I ... Might have an idea. Hm..."

He looks as if thinking about something as he enters with the others.

[Vutall]

The inside of the Grinning Mujina is loud, dim and dank smelling, a thick cloud of heavy smoke filling the air. Patrons all look disheveled and unkempt. Ever so often, a customer at a table raises there hand and holds it into the air, shouting for more sake until one of the servers comes and delivers their order, taking payment upon delivery.

[Iuchi Prashant]

Prash was there for the adventure and the feeling of companionship rather than the sake proper... But they were there, and they had a goal.

He looks around for a while. Could he maybe see someone buying a bottle? Or a sign or something informing how much for a bottle?

He muttered to Nesrin and the Ichiros "Maybe we can find a bottle and leave them the payment without much drawing much attention to ourselves?"

[Utaku Nesrin]

Nesrin wrinkles her nose at the smell inside. Smoke was common within a yurt, but the stale, spilled sake and not terribly clean patrons made for a sour stink. "That seems like a great idea." Watching the servers for a moment, she moves to follow one heading away from the tables. Wherever they are going to get the sake should make for a quicker transaction.

[Iuchi Prashant]

Prash tries to follow him along with Nesrin. "Any idea how much we should leave for the bottle? Or have you seen prices somewhere? I... think I might have a way to find that out if not... and I might also try to find some info on a good way to get the bottle and leave the coins behind without much ruckus, maybe. I mean... maybe the sake itself might know something about when the ones serving it leave it unattended for a moment?"

[Moto Ichiro]

Ichiro followed them as they moved through the dank and odious establishment "the shorter time in here the better, dont see why people enjoy hanging out in places like this." He said quietly to the unicorn around him, pitching his voice to not catch the ears of any nearby patrons.

[Utaku Nesrin]

"I figured they'd take the 3 bu. How much could it possibly be worth?" Despite the Unicorn being a wealthy clan with quite a few merchants, it's obvious Nesrin has not gotten any of that training. "But if you've got a way to find out, sounds like that's a task for you, Iuchi-san."

[Iuchi Prashant]

"I'll try then!", he says, still as low as he can. When/ if they find a bottle of sake lying around somewhere, he tries to walk a bit closer to it, gets a small wooden sphere from his satchel and whispers something, looking through it towards the sake.

"Sake no mizu no kami, good night! I would be most honoured if you could share with this one some of your reflections"

OOC

Using the wooden sphere to cast Commune with Water if that's alright. No roll should be needed (assuming it's a possible use of the spell).

[Vutall]

The bottle bubbles and swirls at the talisman

((You have 2 questions))

[Iuchi Prashant]

"Er....", he thinks for a moment before speaking. "Sake-no-kami-sama, I've heard sometimes a human gives some pieces of metal to another person, then receives a bottle such as the one that's holding you. Might this one ask how many pieces of metal are usually given for one such bottle, and what these metal pieces look like?"

OOC

Whoops! Sorry! Hadn't seen your answer, moving the second question to another post

[Vutall]

The water swirls to make one bubble

[Iuchi Prashant]

After the spirit's answer, he mutters to Nesrin and the Ichiros: Right... from what the sake spirit told ... er.. showed me, it's usually one coin. I'm... not sure which type of coin, though? Maybe one bu?"

He then speaks towards the sake bottle in a low voice again:

"Thank you, kami-sama! Also... he thinks for a while again, taking a bit longer this time. Then he finally speaks, his expression still showing some uncertainty. "Is there a place or moment when you or other bottled sake-no-kami such as yourself are left alone and untouched for some time while the sake house is as busy as it is right now?"

Ah... Did I word that right?,he thinks to himself...

[Vutall]

The sake bottle bubbles some more, but the dark glass makes it hard to see what the shape is of the bubbles coming together.

(Investigation/perception, TN6)