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

[lookingforhead]

[Celty is in the middle of removing all the padding she wound up using as armor in the incident at the sporting goods store, and while she'd normally turn Nanako's offer of aid away....


How can you possibly say no to someone that cute?

She gives the bitty detective a thumbs up!

(ooc: I have the incident and investigation prompts on my own top level if you want to use that space)]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako stops short and blinks at Celty a moment before approaching with a curious look. ]

Are you okay? What happened? What's all this? [ A gesture to the padding to indicate which 'this' she was asking about. ]

[lookingforhead]

Ah. The owner of this store wanted me to help model the equipment after he saw the helmet. He said it was important to show off the variety of stuff he sold.

This is before I got attacked by everything else.

[welcome_home]

Ohhh. Was modeling fun? [ It sounded like it could be fun. But then her eyes widen at the rest of it. ] Something attacked you? In here?

[lookingforhead]

[Celty's shoulders shrug a bit at the first question. Maybe it would have been more fun if she hadn't been pressganged into it. Or if she had looked cute instead of silly.]

After I had all of the padding on. The balls and hockey pucks started flying at me.

[If it was anyone other than her they might have gotten seriously hurt!]

[welcome_home]

[ Her mouth drops open in surprise. ] Oh no! That's terrible! Was someone making it happen? This place... it's not haunted, is it? [ Now she looks around them a little nervously, fingers clutching at the edge of her cape. ]

[lookingforhead]

I'm not sure. Ayakashi maybe? Or a ghost?

[There's a pause and then she types something in just a touch more furiously and with a tinge of panic.]

Or aliens! I bet it's aliens!

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako's mouth drops open at that, surprise on her face. ]

Are those real? Why would they come shopping here?

[lookingforhead]

Of course. Different governments try to keep it secret, but there's videos of the autopsies and stuff out there. Not to mention things like crop circles and abductions. It's all real, you just need to know where to find the truth.

[No Nanako. Don't believe her. Celty's the gullible dork here.]

There's probably aliens among us right now, but you'd never know because they're hiding it.

[She's probably partially correct about that one.]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako's eyes are wide at that and she might step a little closer to Celty, looking around her with alarm. ]

Hiding?

[ There might be a slight squeak in the middle of that word as she ducks behind Celty's leg. ]

[lookingforhead]

Well they wouldn't fit in with their normal bodies. Short thin grey forms with big black eyes. Some can shapeshift. Others hide in places. The worst can steal people's bodies, or they kidnap somebody and replace them.

In the movies they say they come in peace and that's usually to convince people to let their guard down so they can invade.

[SOMEONE PLEASE STOP HER FROM FRIGHTENING THIS SMOL CHILD ANY FURTHER!]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako just stares at her, looking mildly horrified at all this. And maybe clutching her magnifying glass a little tighter. ]

What do we do?

[lookingforhead]

[Celty leans in now, as if she were whispering conspiratorially with Nanako.]

We have to be diligent and watch out for things that don't make sense. They'll make mistakes and we need to be able to catch them when they do. That's how we can help keep everyone safe, even if they don't believe us.