Michio

Someone take these dreams away That point me to another day A duel of personalities That stretch all true realities Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails

Michio

Full Name: Kobayashi Michio Apparent Age: 20s Occupation: Layabout Demeanor: Bon Vivant Flaws of Note: Otherworldly Taint Advantages of Note: Fetish, Gifts, Rites, Totem, Umbral Maps Plot Hooks ♦ Barrio Chino/Chinatown: A member of chinatown's Japanese community. He offers boutique courier service under the banner of Yatagarasu Courier. He doesn't live in chinatown, though - instead, he lives somewhere up north. ♦ Occult/Religion: A mystic of some sort. Something about an affiliation with a Tsubaki Grand Shrine? ♦ Street: A lingering presence on the street, ministering to the less fortunate. The Middle Kingdom "Never trust a Yama King. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent." "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit." "There are 12,800 hells located under the earth – eight dark hells, eight cold hells and 84,000 miscellaneous hells located at the edge of the universe. The Kuei-Jin bring a piece of each hell back to the Middle Kingdom with them." "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit." "They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls." "The souls of the deceased endure after death and must be kept happy by offerings and honor. If a spirit is not kept happy, perhaps because it had a bad death, an improper burial or has no descendants to perform the proper rituals, it becomes a hungry ghost." Gallery