thenearshore | 006 | High School Debut

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006 | High School Debut

Who: Everyone!
What: Substitute teaching
When: All day April 5
Where: A large public school in Tokyo
Summary: There are too many teachers sick and the Far Shore residents need to help fill in!

For some reason or another, many teachers have gotten sick just as the new school year is starting! In a panic, the school is seeking out every substitute teacher they can find, which is still not enough, and so the gods have to step in as reinforcements. And the Heavens are insisting on Far Shore residents helping strictly because this sickness seems so darn suspicious.

So anyone who looks old enough is being asked to step in as a substitute teacher and anyone who looks young enough is being asked to blend in as a new student, all to help the school and find out what exactly is causing this mysterious illness plaguing only the teachers of this school. There are many subjects open to teach and all Far Shore residents are expected to act as if they properly belong in this school while conducting their investigation. That means you'll have to teach properly or attend classes, depending on which role you've taken on.

Some gods might even find it useful to try and get information out of students by possessing one of their own, therefore guaranteeing the trust of the others around them. It's all up to you how you choose to investigate!

Newcomers will find the following note in their pockets as they are transferred to the school:

Greetings and apologies for the strange introduction.

I am sure you have many questions and concerns, but you have appeared at a very inconvenient time. Please attempt to help us, if you can, and we will reward you to the best of our abilities.

If you have any questions, you can seek out the counselor. Too many students underestimate what a good counselling session can do towards helping to alleviate their fears and uncertainties.

Kindest regards,
☼ Amaterasu ☼

Classes

Being a big school, there are dozens of different subjects available. As teachers, you can practically teach anything you would like to, and as students you are facing a constant stream of completely different kinds of information. Maybe the school needs to tone it down a bit on how many different subjects they offer...

Hallways

The hallways are always a great place to mingle and get to know the other students in the school. You'll see all sorts in the hallways, ranging from the beautiful girls being followed by their fanboys all the way to the delinquents who are promptly making their way away from the classrooms for the rest of the day. Hopefully somebody around here will be able to give you a heads up as to what's going on.

Lunch

Lunchtime is the easiest time to gather gossip and information. Whether you are staying in the classroom with a bento or heading to the cafeteria to wrestle for some bread or spending your lunch in the faculty room with the rest of the not-sick teachers, you will find that both the students and the faculty are more prone to chatting during lunch. And a lot of them talk about a curse laid on the school because of the late principal...

Counselling

Surprisingly enough, there is a white-robed shinki in the counselling office of the school, and the golden chrysanthemum of Amaterasu can be found on her tunic as well as on the door to her small personal office. Oddly, all of the other students and faculty keep passing the door by, but the counselling shinki simply continues to smile gently all the same.

FINAL BOSS

Turns out there is something causing the illness in the teachers, and it's an exceedingly large ayakashi, one so large that no single god could possibly take it down. You'll have to all work together to weaken it enough for the rending to work on it.

The battle for the FINAL BOSS will be posted on the OOC date of July 17, all threads involving destroying him should go there when it is posted. All other events leading up to the FINAL BOSS battle should slowly build to figuring out that an ayakashi is at work.

In Summary:

Blend in
Make sure to go to class
Don't forget lunch!
Investigate the illness
Seek counselling if you need it
Defeat the FINAL BOSS
Have fun~

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[Kija... has never been to school. He can't be certain of this, naturally, being a shinki, but he has a pretty good feeling that sitting silently at a desk with a bunch of other people sitting silently at desks is something he'd at least consider familiar, if he'd done it before.

So: what is this???? What is he doing?? He spends a good several minutes staring at each other student in turn, until one of them finally notices him, at which point he holds up a notebook, on which he has written a very simple message:]

DID YOUR CHAIR COME WITH A CUSHION?
[Listen, he's uncomfortable in this plastic chair. This is the best thing to sort of pass notes about, isn't it??]

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[Memories, questions, confusion - all of that aside, Kija has taken away one thing about this endeavor to figure out what's wrong with this place above all others: try to blend in. He's trying very hard, but it's harder than he apprecites when one of his arms is abnormally large and covered in white scales.

In the hallway he can be found either: trying to tug his sleeve down unsuccessfully over his big hand, or standing completely still with his hand behind his back as a group of students have a conversation right in front of him. They don't notice him at all, and he's pretty sure that's because of his incredible stealth. Looking at him during this will get him to speak, when the ordinary students have moved on:] Why must you stare so persistently? Are you trying to ruin everything?

[literally no one has looked at him all day, but he's CONVINCED!!]

[Look, ankh stares. It's kind of his thing, as is to move in a particular stalking way or eating a lot of ice cream, or just generally being a little weird. He was particularly interested in why he was trying to hide his arm, it wasn't like anyone would notice it that much, and even they did, they would soon forget.

But sigh, he was going to have to spell it out, and by spell it out, it means to shift his right arm to the more comfortable Greeed form of talon, scaly, feathery, and winged appearance. And he will jab it in Kija's direction with a flourish to the wrist, palm up so that the eye in the center of his hand could get a good look at the guy too.]

And acting like you have cooties doesn't make you stand out?

[Same arm? Same arm!!

Kija is busy being put off about uncalled-for staring, actually, though the abrupt presence of another strange arm trying to get in his business is a good distraction. But the eye in the center is kind of concerning...]

Cooties...? [WHAT are THOSE] Do I appear ill? Is this a serious ailment that the local children have-? Is it curable?

[Is he going to die again!!]

[He rolled his eyes, making a very loud tch sound as he did so. Why did he always had to run into people that needed some form of education? Granted some of the stuff like how do Greeed work wasn't like common knowledge, but still, he felt like no one was trying to adapt.]

It's what children say when they don't feel comfortable with being around others.

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