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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[What is safety when you're already dead anyway?]

Oh--

[Yamato does not have a partner at his desk, because someone in heaven has some common sense, maybe, perhaps. But that also means there's nobody to keep a handle on him, and that means...

Well, long story short, something's on fire.]

Now where do I put this? [He purses his lips thoughtfully, looking around at the other students. No one else has set anything on fire (does that mean he's an advanced student?), but you put candles in glass holders sometimes, right? And this glass bottle has water or something in it, so it should be fine.

Explosion incoming in 3... 2... 1...]

[ Out of nowhere, something streaks through the air next to him, knocking that bottle of probably-not-water off the desk and onto the floor, where it naturally shatters and gets all over the place. The mystery projectile seems to have vanished.

Ukoku's at the desk a second later with a little one-handed fire extinguisher, though is posture is languid and unworried. He sprays the flames down with a blob of foam, smiling. ]

You almost died!

[ He sounds way too chipper about that. ]

[ALAS, Yamato will never know what was in the bottle. Probably a good thing--with that much fluffy hair, he's definitely highly flammable.

He also doesn't seem aware that that wasn't his intended task, nor is he bothered by the cheerful tone. He simply smiles himself, tapping his cheek.]

Well, I've already died once, so I suppose I have practice. [Yamato stop] Can something like this kill a shinki?

[ What a good question! Ukoku was expecting none of this and he is delighted. It's too bad actually letting a student almost-die, whether it killed them or not, would draw attention to him. ]

I don't know! I think your god might be upset if you were to die, though, no?

[It probably would, alas... explosions and blood flying everywhere would probably get them noticed, even by regular old humans.]

Oh, yes. [A very serious nod.] I think Commander-kun would destroy heaven if that happened.

[It's said with an utterly straight face; not a hint of humor, but nothing egotistical, either. It's something he truly believes would happen, should the situation arise. Sorry heaven, Shepard > you.]

Well, we wouldn't want that. [ Or would we. Bring the fire back, die for science. ] You have a lot of faith in Commander-kun.

[HE'S NOT GONNA DIE FOR SCIENCE... nor does he want Shepard storming heaven for his sake, but presumably he's dead in that scenario so his opinion doesn't really count.

That comment earns Ukoku a laugh, though.] Of course I do, she's the best god there is.

[Yes, he says this to other gods all the time. No, he doesn't care that everyone is tired of it. Please don't introduce him to the existence of door-to-door marketing, he's already annoying enough as it is...]

The best god! [ He laughs right back—it couldn't possibly offend him; he's not here to be a good god. ] I'm jealous.

[ And if he ever meets this person he's absolutely going to call them Commander-kun. ]

[HE WOULDN'T EVEN BE THE FIRST.]

Oh, are you a god? [It was pretty obvious Ukoku's from the far shore, but most shinki he knows don't have their names blatantly visible, so Yamato has yet to learn how to tell the difference by sight.] What's your name?

[Did he say it at the beginning of class? Maybe. Was Yamato paying attention? Not at all.]

[ Based on this entire encounter so far, Ukoku's already expecting stupid questions—and anyway he's sort of at fault; instead of putting his name on the board, he's drawn a bunny face and written safety first!

Meanwhile, there's a bunch of broken glass and mystery liquid all over the floor. ]

Yes, I am! I'm Doctor Ni. And you are…?

[Everything about this is truly legit.

(Hey, none of the other students are in a rush to clean up either. Yamato's doing a great job of blending in, right? Right.)]

A doctor? [Yamato definitely looks interested at that, for reasons that are probably obvious. Having a doctor around is handy, even if their most serious problems can get washed away with holy water.] It's nice to meet you, Ni-sensei. I'm Yamato no Kami Yasusada, Mórrígan-sama's shinki.

[Except he calls her Commander-kun. For reasons.]

[ "Safety when and if you feel like it" is closer to Ukoku's actual approach to science, but that wouldn't look so great on the board, you know. ]

That's quite a name! Do you mind if I call you Yamato-kun? [ He moves right along, since he's gonna do it anyway. ] Your Morrigan-sama sounds— [ Vengeful, military— ] protective. Is she a war god, by any chance?

[He's gotta come up with a catchier slogan then!

And no, coincidentally, he doesn't mind! He nods happily, and it would seem like arrogance, if not for the genuine devotion on his face. More of a "I was hiding under your porch because I love you" than a "my master can beat up your master" type of shinki, this one.]

Yes, that's right. She's an Irish war goddess. [Shepard is not from Ireland, but Yamato doesn't know much about the world outside Japan, let alone off the planet, so.] But Commander-kun would only go after someone who deserved it.

[Just like him, which is why it's fine to start fights in the middle of a class, right? Right.]

Oh, good—I won't get in trouble for talking to her shinki, then. [ He glances over his shoulder, jokingly, like ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴀɴᴅᴇʀ-ᴋᴜɴ might be there. ] Have you been with her very long?

Oh, no. [Shepard encourages it, even! Probably because it means he's not nipping at her heels at 5am when she's got a hangover.] We're supposed to be talking anyway, aren't we? Blending in, it's part of the assignment today.

[And what better way to blend in than to converse with someone else who is also practically invisible?

That question gives him pause, though. He frowns thoughtfully, lifting a hand to tap at his lip.]

Hmm... it was winter when we met, so... a couple of months? [Time is tricky to comprehend when you're a spirit, and also dead.]

[ Ukoku is patient, watching him think. ]

She's lucky to have gotten such a devoted partner in all this.

[ He leans back on the desk and tilts his face toward the ceiling. ]

I haven't been assigned a shinki yet. I hope I'll have such good luck when it happens.

[A god without a shinki? Another time, and Yamato might've asked more questions (or one question, specifically, the only one that really matters, "how can you fight without a shinki?"). But after Tsuzuki, who'd been careless enough to get his shinki killed-- after Gojyo, who'd been cold and dismissive and totally unapologetic-- hell, after Yuuki, who hadn't done a single thing and still woken up in a different god's possession one day, there other things to be concerned about.]

You'll treat them well, won't you? When you get a shinki of your own. [His gaze isn't imploring, like a sweet, earnest hero determined to see the good in everyone. It's just steady, expectant, blue eyes as unnaturally bright as ever. Ukoku will say yes, or he'll say no. Yamato isn't going to make assumptions.]

[ The sweet-and-earnest hero would have been in line with the rest of the conversation, as Ukoku perceived it—this, whatever it is, is more interesting.

He just looks at Yamato for a second, assessing. That's not a question that comes from nowhere. ]

Of course. I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't, right?

[ The rubber band in his front pocket would probably say otherwise, if it had enough of a soul to care. ]

[There's a pause--an assessment, perhaps--and then Yamato smiles again. It's a smile that, even months after death, looks like a practiced imitation of someone else's face; but at the same time, it's genuinely polite. Whatever persona he may or may not be wearing, it's clearly not intentional.]

Right. It would be awfully irresponsible to go into battle if you and your weapon don't trust each other, wouldn't it?

[There are no open threats, but the implication of one? ...Well, it's not entirely unlikely.

Still, whatever tension he'd gathered around himself is gone. Now, he's back to the simple kid that nearly blew them all up. Yamato has no strong feelings towards doctors either way, but it's a respectable profession; a doctor's someone you can trust, right? Right.]

I'm sure you'll have a very good shinki, sensei. I hope we can fight together someday!

That might be fun.

[ He's slouched back against the desk again, smiling now that the atmosphere of the conversation's gone back to normal. ]

Oh! I just thought of something. How do you feel about explaining things to new shinki? I'm not much of a teacher, and you have months of experience. Maybe when I have one we could come and find you.

[ Him and COMMANDER-KUN. ]

[Well now that's gotta be in all caps all the time.

But Yamato looks surprised at that, pointing at his nose.]

Me? [He wouldn't be his own first choice, anyway... but that's because he knows shinki like Yukine, who've been here for much longer. Still, he won't turn down any such request.] Of course, I'd be happy to assist any shinki.

[He doesn't have his phone yet, so meeting in person it is...!] I teach a class at Menrva-sama's school during the week, if you'd like to bring your shinki by.

[ Well that's not nearly as convenient, but it's good enough. ]

Thanks! I'll remember that. [ He taps the edge of the desk with finality. ] Well, I'd better go find a broom.

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006 | High School Debut

chemistry class

lmfaosifka good

this is already a disaster I love it

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