20 | Shopping Frenzy!

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Helping a grand opening go well
When: August 21
Where: The Near Shore
Summary: The owners and employees at a new shopping center are begging for help. Bad luck has plagued them, and their grand opening is this weekend! Gods and shinki alike have been asked to respond to their prayers on Opening Day, find the source of their misfortune and ensure that the opening goes smoothly.



The Yamada Corporation is opening a new, high-class department store in a Tokyo suburb. They've been running advertisements for weeks and excitement among their prospective customers is at a fever pitch. Unfortunately, things inside the project aren't going so well. Construction has been delayed, deliveries are wrong, employees keep getting sick or hurt on the job and it's starting to look like the grand opening will be a grand disaster. Their fervent prayers for help have reached the Heavens, who are passing them along to you to be granted... but with an addition: Heaven, too, is very interested in learning where that bad luck is coming from.



Maintenance Madness

For a brand-new building, Yamada Department Store is having a lot of maintenance issues. Toilets are overflowing, lights are burning out, stair railings are coming loose, and either the air conditioning is set so cold there's frost on the vents or it's not working at all. The overworked maintenance crew needs all the help they can get! How many gods does it take to change a light bulb?

Secret Shoppers

Are you really going undercover to make sure you stop problems before they start, or just enjoying a day of high-class shopping on Heaven's dime? Whatever your real motivation is, all expenses are covered... but you'll still want to keep an eye out for mishaps. Unfortunately, the grocery and bakery in the basement are under construction (they've had some flooding problems) but there are still six floors of designer clothes, consumer goods and restaurants to enjoy.

Retail Rescue

Between mysterious accidents and that nasty flu that seems to be going around, the department store is badly understaffed. Grab an employee uniform and someone else's nametag and pitch in before the lines get too long. There are positions open in every department, from the restaurant on the top floor to book sales on floor one.

It's not just sales and service you have to worry about: thanks to the store's misfortune, displays are toppling over, the wrong orders are coming in, fancy candies are melting all over the shelves and ink tags are exploding on their own. This is hard work!

Intrepid Investigators

The Heavens aren't just sending so much supernatural help to this department store to keep their faithful followers happy. They have reason to suspect that there's something more sinister behind this mysterious streak of extra-bad luck. Between keeping the lights on and the customers happy,
you've been asked to search the store and investigate all of the "unlucky" incidents in order to determine what's going on. The shinki who brought you this request hinted that Heaven would look favorably on anyone who uncovered something particularly useful....

If your character is investigating the department store and needs to know what they have found, please comment to the "Investigations" thread below with a link to your thread. Your hint will be provided.

Investigation threads longer than 10 comments will earn 200 followers for every god in the thread and 20 exp for every shinki. Once your thread reaches that length, please turn it in by replying to your hint under the "Investigations" thread to let us know you've earned the bonus.

In Summary:

• Keep the lights on
• Take some time out to enjoy a shopping trip
• Make sure the customers are happy
• Discover the cause of the bad luck
• Have fun~

Comments

dick gumshoes

[yousaytron]

[Okay no this is what he's here for.

If so many of the incidents are related to upkeep of the building, then it really makes sense to try and comb through any information available on the people running the show, right? It would be kind of weird to just leave evidence of your wrong doings at the work place, but looking can't hurt. Really, he feels kind of like he's in his element, here. Sneaking around and trying to soak up information. He's even gotten himself a notebook and pen from one of the stores in the building, ready to jot down anything they might uncover worth remembering.]

[isayvol]

[Lance holds up a pair of pants he's just found in a locker, rifling through the pockets.]

...no dice. I'm only finding a wallet.

[He holds it up, tilting his head at Keith.]

Do you think there'd be anything in the wallet itself?

[yousaytron]

[There are so many totally mundane things in here, nothing out of the ordinary, no matter how much he inspects the contents of each locker. How frustrating...]

Maybe some receipts? Someone could have spent some serious money on getting this sabotage set-up. [Sounds reasonable, right? A receipt with a large total on it would be worth checking out.]

... What's this? [In the back of one of the lockers, something catches his attention out of the corner of his eye while he's putting a book back in place. Something unusual looking, wrapped up in plastic? Time to pull it out and look it over.]

[isayvol]

True! Oh man, what if it's like... a legit crime syndicate and we're coming in all, "Hands up, police!" ... except we're not the police, of course.

[He's so busy with his little fantasy that he doesn't realize Keith has found something until a few moments later. He looks around to see Keith holding that plastic package.]

Whoa, whoa. That looks like something suspicious...! Open it up!

[yousaytron]

[Well, you know, they could probably scare 'em with that threat well enough They're like. Cosmic police. Or something. No, that's really stupid, they aren't doing that at all.]

Way ahead of you. [With no shame at all, Keith is opening up the plastic while doing his best not to damage or unsettle anything that couldn't be put back together quickly if need be. The package is undone, and inside is...] A robe? [A robe and a belt to be exact.]

That's. Weird. [Definitely weird.]

[isayvol]

[Bless Keith's lack of shame, tbh. Lance leans forward, watching intently.

And then he frowns at the contents of the package.]

S-seriously? That's like... top-level creepy cult stuff. Maybe this guy's just... um... a weirdo?

[yousaytron]

It could be...

[Something in his gut tells him that it's worth noting, though. He regards the robe a little longer before jotting a note down in the notebook he's got on hand. A quick bit of info about the robe, the locker it came from... and with that, he folds the thing back up and slides it back into the plastic.]

Let's keep looking.

[isayvol]

[With renewed fervor, Lance starts digging through the lockers again - going through some of them a second time - and he finds another bag, just like the one Keith found.]

Holy crow, dude! There's another weirdo here!

[He holds up the robe with a disgusted look on his face.]

And man are they tacky.

[yousaytron]

[What on Earth...?]

Okay, that can't just be a coincidence. [He narrows his eyes a little at the robe, suspicious, before shifting his focus to the name on the locker. Quickly, he jots it down, and asks,] Anything else weird in there? Or just that?

[isayvol]

[Lance shifts through everything again, trying to see if there's anything else.]

I dunno, man. Seeing this robe makes me think everything else is weird too. You know?

[Weirdos do weird things, okay?]

[yousaytron]

[Fair.]

I'm gonna keep looking in the other lockers, just let me know if anything in particular stands out.