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Yokai Hunt [[Welcome Exorcist!|Welcome Excorcist 2]] How to read: Click the hyperlink text to continue the story. To return to this page at anytime, click the '[[return|Welcome Excorcist]]' which will appear at the bottom of each page.

You sure you have all the needed [[supplies|Got everything 2]] for tonight's hunt? [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You sure you have all the needed supplies for tonight's hunt? The purified salt? The protection charms? The prayer Staff? Have you memorizied all the [[right|Got everything 3]] chants and sutras? [[Hmmm?|Got everything 5]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You sure you have all the needed supplies for tonight's hunt? The purified salt? The protection charms? The prayer Staff? Have you memorizied all the right chants and sutras? Is [[your|Got everything 4]] robe and hat put on right? [[Hmmm?|Got everything 5]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

I'm not your mother? Well, fine then! If your gonna take that kind of attitude I'll stop nagging and let you be on your way then. [[Not my fault|Got everything 6]] if you get hurt or lost then. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You sure you have all the needed supplies for tonight's hunt? The purified salt? The protection charms? The prayer Staff? Have you memorizied all the right chants and sutras? Is your robe and hat put on right? Oh! your shoe strap is about to break! Make sure to fix that! [[Hmmm?|Got everything 5]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

I'm not your mother? Well, fine then! If your gonna take that kind of attitude I'll stop nagging and let you be on your way then. Not my fault if you get hurt or lost then. Ah! but just to make [[sure|Got everything 7]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

I'm not your mother? Well, fine then! If your gonna take that kind of attitude I'll stop nagging and let you be on your way then. Not my fault if you get hurt or lost then. Ah! but just to make sure... Yes! Yes, I know but this is the last [[question]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Where are you hunting for unearthly spirits, those dreaded Yokai, this night, [[mighty excorcist|exit 1]]? [[The city streets]] [[The forest]] [[The mountain]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

<img src="https://static3.depositphotos.com/1001594/133/i/600/depositphotos_1337800-stock-photo-the-night-sky-with-heavy.jpg"> As you walked down the sidewalk, the moon and stars were covered by ominous, dark clouds, obscuring the [[night|The city streets 2]] and cloaking all who come out to play once the good fearing people have turned to bed. You kept your [[eyes peeled wide|encounter]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You treaded through the maze of trees, careful not to step on branches or patches of dry leaves. A light breeze swayed the low-lying fog that creeped along the forest floor, making the [[forest trail]] near invisible to you despite the light of the lantern that dangles in your left hand. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

"That place? your not strong enough yet. Go to some hunting grounds that are actually at your level." [[The city streets]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Where are you hunting for unearthly spirits, those dreaded Yokai, this night, mighty excorcist? What? You object to being called mighty? Then you aren't the right person for this job! People die hunting Yokai if they aren't strong or prepared you know? So, are you [[mighty|question]] or are you [[weak|https://www.google.com]]? [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

As you walked down the sidewalk, the moon and stars were covered by ominous, dark clouds, obscuring the night and cloaking all who come out to play once the good fearing people have turned to bed. Up ahead was a [[lamp post|The city streets 3]], illuminating the small space of [[pavement|The city streets 4]] below it. You kept your [[eyes peeled wide|encounter]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The [[imps|encounter 2]] and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

As you walked down the sidewalk, the moon and stars were covered by ominous, dark clouds, obscuring the night and cloaking all who come out to play once the good fearing people have turned to bed. Up ahead was a lamp post, illuminating the small space of [[pavement|The city streets 4]] below it. It flickered, that lamp post whose fugacious bulb made the starless night tense. You kept your [[eyes peeled wide|encounter]]. <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/cc/0d/48cc0d8d14bc0dc8658f28a585627cd8.jpg"> [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

As you walked down the sidewalk, the moon and stars were covered by ominous, dark clouds, obscuring the night and cloaking all who come out to play once the good fearing people have turned to bed. Up ahead was a lamp post, illuminating the small space of pavement below it. It flickered, that lamp post whose fugacious bulb made the starless night tense. The sounds of weary shoes [[quickly|The city streets 5]] scrapping against the pavement echoed loudly into the night You kept your [[eyes peeled wide|encounter]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

As you walked down the sidewalk, the moon and stars were covered by ominous, dark clouds, obscuring the night and cloaking all who come out to play once the good fearing people have turned to bed. Up ahead was a lamp post, illuminating the small space of pavement below it. It flickered, that lamp post whose fugacious bulb made the starless night tense. The sounds of weary shoes quickly scrapping against the pavement echoed loudly into the night. You shudder not just from the nipping wind as cold brushes against your nape. You kept your [[eyes peeled wide|encounter]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the [[whispers|encounter 3]] of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Glued to the spot as though your feet had become one with the ground, your head swiveled like an owl in each direction. [[look left]] [[look right]] [[look behind]] [[look up]] [[look down]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the whispers of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. [["Poor wight"|whispers 2]] Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the [[whispers]] of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. "Poor wight" "This is gonna be fun" "hehehehe" "Blood! Blood!" "The show is gonna start" "wretched Excorsist, die!" [["hahahehehe"|whispers 5]] Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the [[whispers]] of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. "Poor wight" "This is gonna be fun" "hehehehe" "Blood! Blood!" [["The show is gonna start"|whispers 6]] "wretched Excorsist, die!" "hahahehehe" "I call dibs on his eyeball" "I want his heart!" "Death! Death!" "Will they answer right?" "Bet they'll scream" "like a girl!" Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the [[whispers]] of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. "Poor wight" "This is gonna be fun" "hehehehe" "Blood! Blood!" "The show is gonna start" "wretched Excorsist, die!" "hahahehehe" "I call dibs on his eyeball" "I want his heart!" "Death! Death!" "Will they answer right?" "Bet they'll scream" "like a girl!" [["Quiet!"|whispers 7]] Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The imps and stitchers of fate did not show mercy to you. And the [[whispers]] of countless unseen eyes crescendoed like noisy cicadas, climbing, building, mounting, and matching pace with the hill of dread that arose within your heart. "Poor wight" "This is gonna be fun" "hehehehe" "Blood! Blood!" "The show is gonna start" "wretched Excorsist, die!" "hahahehehe" "I call dibs on his eyeball" "I want his heart!" "Death! Death!" "Will they answer right?" "Bet they'll scream" "like a girl!" "Quiet!" "She's here..." Your eyes [[stayed]] peeled wide. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Your eyes met with a wall of black miasma, out of which stared countless onlookers, whose gaze was pivoted on your frozen form. Gulp. <img src="https://catswilleatyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012_09_09_eyesonthewall_best.gif"> [[you continue to panick|stayed]] [[you steel your nerves]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

<img src="https://thafreebird.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/go-and-see.jpg"> The familiar countanence stares back at you, it's features pale and tense, in the warped glass of a building's window. Sweat begins to dampen the back of your neck. [[you continue to panick|stayed]] [[you steel your nerves]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

<img src="https://cdn.hipwallpaper.com/i/21/12/SjZ9QC.jpg"> An empty sidewalk ends a short distance away, however the road is blocked by a thick wall of black fog. It's deadly aura keeps you from approaching. [[you continue to panick|stayed]] [[you steel your nerves]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

<img src="https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wiaa/files/styles/x_large/public/201901/image__6_.png"> There are no ropes to safe haven, only the cold smile of the crescent moon and the unblinking stares of the distant stars. [[you continue to panick|stayed]] [[you steel your nerves]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The sidewalk is as pale as your now trembling hands. The lamp post illuminates the whiteness of both, acting as a dreaded spotlight. <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2a/de/28/2ade2831a2f40ca9c49f2c31d8be56d5.jpg"> [[you continue to panick|stayed]] [[you steel your nerves]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Taking a deep breath, you calm your trembling hands. Then, the sounds of foot steps slowly approaching resound in front of you. [[look forward]] [[start to panick again|stayed]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

It began to emerge from the wall of deadly miasma, it's appearance out of place this cold winter night. It wore a white Sunday dress more suited to summer weather, long hair the color of tar that gently swayed with each step, and a mask that covered up the lower half of the face. The delicate frame of what was assumedly a young girl in her early twenties stopped six paces away. [[listen]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

As if on an unseen cue, it began to [[speak|listen 2]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

"Am I pretty?", that dreadfully lilting voice asked <img src="https://bloomreviewsblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/kuchisake_onna_am_i_beautiful.jpg?crop"> [[yes|listen 3]] [[no|exit 2]] [[stay silent|listen 3]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Beaded sweat trickles slowly down the side of your face and the feeling of dread begins to tighten it's noose around your neck. The thing reached up and slowly removed it's mask, revealing a wide, wide smile Your hands tighten around your prayer staff as you stare at the [[yokai]]. <img src="https://cdn.imgbin.com/24/20/9/imgbin-kuchisake-onna-carved-fan-art-slenderman-ghost-kuchisake-onna-NaPg83Qnt5eiaeSYmt7bG8KX9.jpg"> [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The things body swayed, as if unsteady on it's feet. Suddenly, its arm flashes out towards you. A flash of light from the lamp post reflects off of the small knife grasped in her hand. It has cut your neck and now mutters above you "you need a better smile my dear" As blood gushes out onto the cold, hard ground, your mind [[fades|Welcome Exorcist vr 2!]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

A hand waves in front of your face. Startled you take a step back. "woah! Hey you ok? Spaced out on me for a minute there. Anyways just answer this one last question for me ok?" "Where are you hunting for unearthly spirits, those dreaded Yokai, this night, mighty excorcist?" [[The city streets]] [[The forest]] [[The mountain]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Beaded sweat trickles slowly down the side of your face and the feeling of dread begins to tighten it's noose around your neck. The thing reached up and slowly removed it's mask, revealing a wide, wide smile Your hands tighten around your prayer staff as you stare at the yokai known as the slit-mouth woman. It opened that joker's mouth of a smile, the stithes streched and bloody, and like a broken record "Am I pretty?" was heard again <img src="https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/018/000/673/large/callie-berndt-asset.jpg?1558116167"> [[yes|exit 2]] [[no|exit 2]] [[silence|exit 2]] [[maybe]] [[Try to distract it]]

"really?" the spirit asked, her voice wavering like the nervous, young girl she appeared to be. "Well, everyone's perspective and sense of aesthetic is different. Personally, I think you look much prettier than some other types of yokai but my opinion, or anyone else's for that matter aren't important." you [[reply]].

You throw some candy in it's direction, slightly to the left, in the hopes that it will turn to [[retrieve]] the candy and give you time to prepare to [[excorsize]] it properly. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The miasma dispersed along with the spirit of the young girl, cleasned by the truth of the world. You sigh in relief and continue down the sidewalk as the moon smiles down upon you, it's glow a gentle and comforting prescence. <img src="https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/media-library/2020/01/200121-skywatching-moon-venus-banner.jpg"> [[end|Welcome Excorcist]]

Sadly, the yokai has no interest in the sweets that now lie on the floor. In fact, you have [[angered|exit 2]] it. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The spirit dashed towards the fallen candy, its emaciated form surprisingly fast despite it's weak appearance. [[You reach for some talismans]] [[try to run]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You reach into your robe's pocket and quickly pull out the talismans while beginning the chant for purification. The spirit shrieks in terror and agony as the talismans text begin to glow a bloody red. You finish the chant and throw the now activated talismans at the spirit who has begun to try and crawl away from you. When the talisman hits the spirit it yells out one desperate "No!" with tears streaming down it's face before it dissolves into ash and blows away in the evening wind. A bitter taste is left in your mouth but nonetheless you continue on with the hunt. <img src="https://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/7670689/thumb/1.jpg"> [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You spun arond and began to sprint as far away from the yokai as you can despite knowing the wall of miasma blocked your path, finding yourself totally unprepared to try and fight it. In your haste to get away, you trip and begin to [[fall]] forward. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Startled by the sense of vertigo, you jump out of the dream and find yourself staring up a blank cieling, panting from the imagined fright. <img src="https://hhp-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/03/GettyImages-1134270597-scaled.jpg"> Taking a few breaths to calm yourself, the residual terror of the dream fades and the memory is forgotten [[go back to sleep|Welcome Excorcist]] [[get out of bed]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

You get up as morning has already come and it is time to start your day, fears pushed back to the recess of your mind until the next night. <img src="https://www.interiorzine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/masculine-bedroom.jpg"> [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Hello newly appointed excorsist! Tonight you will embark on your very first yokai hunting expidition! They've been a lot more active as of late and ranks are spread quite thin; so, you'll have to go alone despite it being your first time. Are you [[ready|Got everything?]] for this evening? [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Following the well-worn path that hikers use to tread through the forest, eventually a [[lake]] comes into view [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Following the well-worn path that hikers use to tread through the forest, eventually a lake comes into view No reflection of either moon or stars is reflected as the fog has [[covered]] the lake [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Following the well-worn path that hikers use to tread through the forest, eventually a lake comes into view No reflection of either moon or stars is reflected as the fog has covered the lake Nay, the fog appears to be coming up out of the lake. Almost as if it is an outstretched hand or a net of ethereal threads to [[lure]] the [[lost]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

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The wind blows through across the lake and reveals numerous bones on its shores. The moonlight grants those [[poor bones]] a milky white color that contrasts with the sullied black earth they were so unceremoniously [[left|lure]] upon. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Your feet bring you [[closer]] to those poor fragments of a person who used to breathe, who are unable to lie to rest. Your mind is clouded by grief for these lives lost that are beyond help. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

[[“crack!”]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

Looking down, you see that you have stepped on a bone, it’s resounding snap drawing you out of [[woe]]. Quickly, you step back, away from the bones and awful lake that hides what lies beneath the surface. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

But it is already too [[late]]. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

A hissing turns your head around and a gruesome sight greets your [[gaze]] [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

The open maw of a giant snake rushes towards you, its needle point fangs reflecting a face who knows [[death]] has come. [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

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"Thank you..." she said, seemingly not sure what to do when faced with such an honest remark. Seeing her frightening aura begin to diminish, you decide to continue. "I understand, given your [[history]], why validation of your appearance is so important to you; but, you know, the only opinion that counts is yours. You shouldn't ask others and take it out on them if you don't like the answer. It's about accepting yourslef and being ok with who you are, no one can do that for you" you reply. The spirit begins to shine as tears flow down it's face, which is now unmarred by cuts and stitches, instead framed by a [[lovely smile]]. <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6b/6a/75/6b6a75a33fe8770b868863c01bea1808.jpg"> [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]

I recall the tales of the slit-mouth woman, the kuchisake-onna, [[return|Welcome Excorcist]]