Shenyo

Shenyo appears in Ghost Rain. The first meeting grants Kikasa. After that, a gate umbrella appears on the sides of the main world and can be used to enter Ghost Rain again.

Combat details are on Legendary · Kikasa.

First time: the story umbrella

After world generation, an umbrella stands near spawn, planted in a black puddle. It keeps clear of the Himayo torii. They do not spawn together.

This umbrella is visible if the inventory does not contain Kikasa and the player has not already been marked as granted. Walk within about 9 tiles. The prompt is [Right Click] Hold umbrella into the rain.

Right-click and rain covers the current world. This is a local rain layer, not a map change.

First rain layer

Umbrella ghosts are in the rain. Contact deals damage.

Either path reaches the deeper layer:

1. Walk up to the ghost that is chasing the player and right-click. The prompt is [Right Click] Seize umbrella. After the water curtain closes, the player enters the deeper rain layer.
2. If the first-meeting dialogue has not finished, being downed by an umbrella ghost is not a real death. The player wakes one layer deeper at about 40% life.

After the first meeting ends, being downed by an umbrella ghost on the first layer is a real death.

Meeting Shenyo in the deep

In the deep layer the rain pauses briefly and Shenyo speaks. When the talk ends, the rain opens a path, returns the player to the surface, and grants Kikasa. If the inventory is full, the item drops at the player’s feet.

After the grant, the story umbrella stays hidden for that player. Other players who still need it can still see it.

Gate umbrella: going back

Once Kikasa has been obtained, a gate umbrella appears in a band around the left or right third of the main world. It looks colder, the puddle is larger, and the eye barely closes. It moves each dawn and may swap sides. It will not spawn near spawn.

The first time the player walks within about 21 tiles, Shenyo stops them for one talk. Right-click cannot enter during that talk. After it ends, walk within about 9 tiles and right-click. The prompt is still [Right Click] Hold umbrella into the rain. After a white flash, the player enters Ghost Rain.

This visit changes maps. Each visit is regenerated. Nothing is saved. It is night, and the black rain does not stop.

An exit umbrella stands on the west side of the spawn terrace. Right-click. The prompt is [Right Click] Fold the umbrella and return. The player returns to the main world in about half a second.

Dying in Ghost Rain

If life reaches 0 on the gate-umbrella map, no items drop and no gravestone is left. After a short restart sequence, the player is pulled back to the main world. Debuffs are cleared. Life and mana refill.

A wake-up line appears in chat.

After obtaining the umbrella

After the matching Sinking Feast trial is done, Shenyo appears again and delivers a rain-calling talisman. The 24 seats and the scapegoat doll are on Shenyo gifts.

The main menu has a ghost-lake night-rain theme. It only changes the menu. It does not change world progress.

Three things called Ghost Rain

Name	What it is
Rain on the story umbrella	A local rain layer on the main world, used to meet Shenyo and obtain the umbrella
Ghost Rain after the gate umbrella	Another map. Leave by the exit umbrella. Dying pulls the player back to the main world
Ghost Rain on the Kikasa skill	The domain form after a Blood Lake tap-flip. The player is still in the original world

The Ghost Register also has a wraith named Ghost Rain. That is a different system, not this map.

Related pages

Topic	Wiki
Story umbrella, first meeting, gate-umbrella return	This page
24 gift seats, scapegoat doll	Shenyo gifts
Ink rain, Blood Lake, Ghost Dream overlay, talismans, trials	Legendary · Kikasa