I know Misukume is less than likely to be able to find Ushiwakamaru, but what about Kiyomori? Can she scry him to get us a better picture of what he's doing and where he is? What about Sutoku?
I mean, you could scry them, but it would look like a scene from Jojo with Kiyomori staring down over the city, menacing floating up in the captions.
Man, that wasn't even something I considered. I thought that Kiyomori would probably be in the main building or whatever it's called.
You know there are ninjas to the east, likely assassin class servants or still living heroes. You know Atalanta believes Jack the Ripper is somewhere in the singularity. You know that Ibaraki-Doji is to the north, but she wont lift a finger at this point in time.
If Jack the Ripper is somewhere in the singularity, then getting her could net us a sizable advantage over our enemy at night against the mooks. I'm unsure whether that investment is important enough to bother going for it.
You have Shuten, a unknown class great demon who will attack Kyoto.
She will probably go for Sutoku ASAP, and will be a huge distraction.
You know that Ushiwakamaru is somewhere in the singularity. You presume Atalanta was successful and you have a army of nature spirits on the way. You know that there are at least two, possibly ten members of the seishingumi still alive, all of whome would qualify as still living heroes.
Ushiwakamaru is, as stated many times, a risky move. We'd waste a lot of time to
maybe find her, when we need her on our side.
If Atalanta was successful, that will be a huge help against the mookery, so that's good. I don't know much about the abilities of nature spirits in Nasu, so that's pretty much all I can say on the matter atm.
The Seishingumi sound like they could be very helpful against the big guys, since we will have to take down a demon god. But I can't find anything on them, I might be entirely wrong.
You know Einzbern and Idael have left Kyoto and are heading soemwhere. You know they have about 300 people, whether thats split between them or not you dont know.
300 people isn't much in the grand scale, but it's something. If we wanted to really push our luck, we could maybe use them to distract and lead some of them out of the city. That'll probably only work beyond the immediate short-term if there are important people there.
The enemies stre gth is Kiyomori, a Blackened Lancer, and Forneus, a Demon God. Kiyomori has opened the Rashomon, and at least one greater demon known as Sutoku crossed over. It is likely Sutoku is unkillable, given the discussion between Misukume and Astolfo. Its reasonable to say that Kiyomori cant be reasoned with. They have disputable control over Kyoto, given that a rescue effort was even possible.
We don't know the Blackened Lancer, and Kiyomori and the Demon God are the big boys. Sutoku, I've been over before, try to take advantage of his fight with Shuten, try to make it happen if it seems unlikely, with a possible back-up plan of telling him that the next Emperor will make sure he's enshrined as a kami, or perhaps (now this is definitely not something I'd bank on) we could meet him beforehand and get him to at least turn neutral.
Given that their control is disputable, that's a good sign, since it shows that they aren't truly in control yet. That means that there might be rogue elements in there to hopefully take advantage of, and not be screwed over by.
There's also the very slim possibility that we could (at least briefly) drive Kiyomori out of the city into the open, where we'd fight him there. I don't count on this happening, since Sutoku.
You know that Forneus used the Sea of Life, and might be able to do so again. Forneus was part of the imperial court, so they could have any number of traitors inside the city.
Speaking of rogue elements, this is what I was thinking of. Sting operators who could
maybe get Kiyomori out of the city if we got into contact with them (and get lucky), and others who could help us once we get inside.
That's all I've got for the moment.
