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>Lunasa Prismriver, Poltergeist Violinist, Dies of Injuries in a Beating
>Lunasa Prismriver, an violinist whose brief career influenced musicians all over Gensokyo, died Monday night at the Bamboo Thicket clinic.
>Ms. Prismriver had been comatose since being beaten during a fight at a local mansion, according to Reisen Udongein Inaba, a nursing coordinator at the medical center.
>Ms. Prismriver's rapid-fire fingering techniques and composing talent earned her a reputation as one of the top violin players. At the peak of her career she toured with the Prismriver Sisters.
>The police said the beating occurred before dawn on Sept. 12 after Ms. Prismriver tried to enter a mansion from which she had been barred. The guard of the mansion, Hong Meiling, was arrested Friday on a charge of aggravated battery and released on 円500,000 mon bond, the police said.
>Early in her career, Ms. Prismriver had disdained drugs and alcohol, saying they impaired her playing. But colleagues said she later, after being introduced to the Hakurei shrine's parties, began to drink heavily and for months before her death was penniless and unemployed, often sleeping in a local park.

I know. Using an IRL subject is a bit too tasteless. I noticed it by like the second paragraph. But I had already started, so...