( He's loud. Good god almighty, he's loud but can you blame him? Up in these trees, he feels like he's king of the world. What a rush! What a thrill! He's following behind some of these adventure seekers, loudly encouraging them to keep going after an initial stumble. )

Gahaha! C'mon, c'mon, it's not an adventure if ya don't trip a li'l bit! Lead the way!

( Is this really helping? I mean, if you think about it, what good is it going to do anyone if these guys get stuck up here? These rope bridges can only hold so many people at a time and there's only so much space. The best solution is to try to push everyone to get off as quickly as possible so they can untangle this bridge again. )

( There's an ayakashi out here somewhere and he sure wishes it would show itself already. Initial searches of the stage and backstage area brought up nothing and after enough dead ends, he and his god have decided whatever is responsible for all of this is probably waiting until show time to really mess people up.

Standing backstage, watching the stagehands run around, triplechecking all of their equipment, Mutsu crosses his arms and waits for anything out of the ordinary to happen. Up above, there's an ominous creeeeeak and Mutsu looks up just in time, calling out to whoever is with him, )

Up there!

( That sure is an ayakashi trying to bring one of the lights down. )

( Who needs a traffic flag when you're bright red and blue? He's given up his usual clothes for modern threads and as stylish as he is, a group of first graders seem more interested in tugging at his fake tail... )

Hey, hey...! That's enough already!

( He doesn't sound too bothered. )