Los Amaya Diablo
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:37 pm
Beneath the offices of Diablo Valley Undertakers - Juniper Street
The hilly Peninsula upon which the city of San Fransisco was built was made up of unusual bedrock of red, green, gray, black, blue, yellow, and brown rocks called the Franciscan, below the ground the territoiry was riddled with caves and fissures created by frequent tremors from nearby fault lines.
Below the cellar that functioned as a crypt for the funeral home above, lay one such set of caves, the Franciscan in the walls creating a Kaleidoscope of colours, the largest cave had been laid out as a traditional Taoist ceremonial space, the floor paved with tiles denoting the Ying, Yang and hell orientations converging upon heaven, in the centre.
The New Promise Mandarates leaders sat within their respective orientations, it had been a difficult task to get the ruling Dharmas of the Blood and Flesh Courts to agree to work together and volunteer Wu for the endevour and only the accompanyment of an Ancestor from the Gold Court had prevented machinations or open warfare from breaking out.
However that was not to say that the collected Wu were on friendly terms, quite the opposite each Dharma held opposing tradition in gaining Heavens forgiveness, some denied seeking the blessing of the celestial emperor and then the Wu themselves had their own goals.
Their purpose was simple the Middle Kingdom was beset by the influence of invading colonial Shen and civil war that was sending thousands to the afterlives, whilst the ruling Golden Court struggled to repel the invaders and defend themselves against the warfare, the Mandarate was to explore new territory could its territiry and chi be claimed for the Courts, even used against the foreign and internal foes of the Courts.
The past few days had been bloody, whilst the Mandarate shought to use the Scarlet Screens to effect peaceful takeover of the key locations, due to its prominent location within the Ring of Fire the peninsula was contested by multiple Shen both native and colonial.
The city for all its pretense of civilisation was lawless, a wilderness where life was without cost even the lives of immortals and the Shen both living and dead ready to resort to tooth and claw without any respect for decorum, propriety or rules.
The destruction of several running monkeys was to be expected, the one thing the civil war provided were more souls dragging themselves back from Yomi, however the mandarates forces total destruction would result in an unacceptable loss of face, for an endeavour that was already derided as foolishness in the face of such great troubles in the Middle Kingdom itself.
The hilly Peninsula upon which the city of San Fransisco was built was made up of unusual bedrock of red, green, gray, black, blue, yellow, and brown rocks called the Franciscan, below the ground the territoiry was riddled with caves and fissures created by frequent tremors from nearby fault lines.
Below the cellar that functioned as a crypt for the funeral home above, lay one such set of caves, the Franciscan in the walls creating a Kaleidoscope of colours, the largest cave had been laid out as a traditional Taoist ceremonial space, the floor paved with tiles denoting the Ying, Yang and hell orientations converging upon heaven, in the centre.
The New Promise Mandarates leaders sat within their respective orientations, it had been a difficult task to get the ruling Dharmas of the Blood and Flesh Courts to agree to work together and volunteer Wu for the endevour and only the accompanyment of an Ancestor from the Gold Court had prevented machinations or open warfare from breaking out.
However that was not to say that the collected Wu were on friendly terms, quite the opposite each Dharma held opposing tradition in gaining Heavens forgiveness, some denied seeking the blessing of the celestial emperor and then the Wu themselves had their own goals.
Their purpose was simple the Middle Kingdom was beset by the influence of invading colonial Shen and civil war that was sending thousands to the afterlives, whilst the ruling Golden Court struggled to repel the invaders and defend themselves against the warfare, the Mandarate was to explore new territory could its territiry and chi be claimed for the Courts, even used against the foreign and internal foes of the Courts.
The past few days had been bloody, whilst the Mandarate shought to use the Scarlet Screens to effect peaceful takeover of the key locations, due to its prominent location within the Ring of Fire the peninsula was contested by multiple Shen both native and colonial.
The city for all its pretense of civilisation was lawless, a wilderness where life was without cost even the lives of immortals and the Shen both living and dead ready to resort to tooth and claw without any respect for decorum, propriety or rules.
The destruction of several running monkeys was to be expected, the one thing the civil war provided were more souls dragging themselves back from Yomi, however the mandarates forces total destruction would result in an unacceptable loss of face, for an endeavour that was already derided as foolishness in the face of such great troubles in the Middle Kingdom itself.