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thenearshore2016-04-15 06:57 pm
godsoffortune) wrote in thenearshore2016-04-15 06:57 pm
Entry tags:
- !intro log,
- event log,
- raichi todoroki | daiya no ace,
- ω asato tsuzuki | yami no matsuei,
- ω commander shepard | mass effect,
- ω dal dal choi | girls of the wild's,
- ω elsa randall | power rangers,
- ω flynn | shin megami tensei iv,
- ω hajime ichinose | gatchaman crowds,
- ω hakkai cho | saiyuki,
- ω hope estheim | final fantasy xiii,
- ω killua zoldyck | hunter x hunter,
- ω ky kiske | guilty gear,
- ω otegine | touken ranbu,
- ω ren suzugamori | cardfight!! vanguard,
- ω ross | senyuu.,
- ω sheryl nome | macross frontier,
- ω sho minamimoto | twewy,
- ω slaine troyard | aldnoah.zero,
- ω yukine | noragami
003 | Save The Boats
Who: Everyone!
What: It's a few days after Hinamatsuri - time for a party!
When: Late evening (March 5, 2016) into early morning (March 6, 2016)
Where: The banks of the Kamo River
Summary: The Heavens have thrown together an outdoor party to celebrate Spring and ALSO to ask the Far Shore residents to keep the boats from Hinamatsuri from coming to shore.
Hinamatsuri is celebrated in Japan on March 3 every year. It is a festival to celebrate all of the young girls of Japan, not as important as their own birthdays, but certainly a big day for all families with a little girl among their household. It's perfectly normal for all of the cuties to dress up and get all sorts of delightful treats out of the day.
One of the normal festivities is a ceremony during which ornamental dolls are placed on tiers on boats and floated down the river. It is thought that all of the bad luck for the coming year floats down the river with the dolls, taking that bad luck away from their young girls to keep them safe for another year.
But the boats don't always make it all the way down the river like they're supposed to, and the Heavens sometimes like to make sure that the year will be full of less bad luck for the people of Japan. So they have decided to have the almighty gods do some legwork and disguised it as a fun Springtime party! They expect gods and shinki alike to push the boats away from the shoreline wherever they see them venturing near.
New gods and shinki will have been ushered immediately to the party as well, given all of the normal information, and then left to mingle among their new cohorts. This is a perfect opportunity to introduce the newbies to both their co-workers and the kinds of jobs they'll be expected to perform.
Buffet
A luxurious buffet is set up for everyone to enjoy. There are all kinds of foods to enjoy, though they all seem to be of a local variety. The Heavens have apparently used the funding from their own temples to purchase local food and support local businesses at the same time. In particular among the food and copious amounts of booze, you will find some Hinamatsuri staples - hina-arare, hishi mochi, chirashizushi, and a salt-based clam soup called ushijiru. Among the booze you'll find shirozake, a sake made from fermented rice, also a regular fare of Hinamatsuri.
The Boats
As if they are literally overflowing with bad luck, the boats seem to be making a desperate attempt to land themselves upon the shoreline. They are reluctant to make their way back into the water and will gladly run people down if they're allowed to and are happy to ram into someone over and over again to try and get their way. When they are finally pushed back to the center of the river, they will begrudgingly continue on their way. Of course, some of them will simply sink because of the weight of all that bad luck, but who can really blame them.
Children
As expected of a day dedicated to celebrating children, there are dozens of children running around and playing games during the festivities. It's hard to distinguish, but some of them appear to be human children while others are shinki. They are happy to let anyone in on their games and will gladly bother adults to come play with them or to let them try some of the liquor. (Mods will be available to play out any child interactions you may want, just flag us down.)
Counselling
Off to the side, there is a tiny table set up with a small, nicely written sign that reads "Gentle Counselling". On the other side of the table is a sweetly smiling shinki who is willing to listen to your problems and answer any questions you might have. She is also here to help out any gods that are having a hard time dealing with knowing about how their shinki died and any shinki that is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they are dead.
In Summary:
What: It's a few days after Hinamatsuri - time for a party!
When: Late evening (March 5, 2016) into early morning (March 6, 2016)
Where: The banks of the Kamo River
Summary: The Heavens have thrown together an outdoor party to celebrate Spring and ALSO to ask the Far Shore residents to keep the boats from Hinamatsuri from coming to shore.
Hinamatsuri is celebrated in Japan on March 3 every year. It is a festival to celebrate all of the young girls of Japan, not as important as their own birthdays, but certainly a big day for all families with a little girl among their household. It's perfectly normal for all of the cuties to dress up and get all sorts of delightful treats out of the day.
One of the normal festivities is a ceremony during which ornamental dolls are placed on tiers on boats and floated down the river. It is thought that all of the bad luck for the coming year floats down the river with the dolls, taking that bad luck away from their young girls to keep them safe for another year.
But the boats don't always make it all the way down the river like they're supposed to, and the Heavens sometimes like to make sure that the year will be full of less bad luck for the people of Japan. So they have decided to have the almighty gods do some legwork and disguised it as a fun Springtime party! They expect gods and shinki alike to push the boats away from the shoreline wherever they see them venturing near.
New gods and shinki will have been ushered immediately to the party as well, given all of the normal information, and then left to mingle among their new cohorts. This is a perfect opportunity to introduce the newbies to both their co-workers and the kinds of jobs they'll be expected to perform.
Buffet
A luxurious buffet is set up for everyone to enjoy. There are all kinds of foods to enjoy, though they all seem to be of a local variety. The Heavens have apparently used the funding from their own temples to purchase local food and support local businesses at the same time. In particular among the food and copious amounts of booze, you will find some Hinamatsuri staples - hina-arare, hishi mochi, chirashizushi, and a salt-based clam soup called ushijiru. Among the booze you'll find shirozake, a sake made from fermented rice, also a regular fare of Hinamatsuri.
The Boats
As if they are literally overflowing with bad luck, the boats seem to be making a desperate attempt to land themselves upon the shoreline. They are reluctant to make their way back into the water and will gladly run people down if they're allowed to and are happy to ram into someone over and over again to try and get their way. When they are finally pushed back to the center of the river, they will begrudgingly continue on their way. Of course, some of them will simply sink because of the weight of all that bad luck, but who can really blame them.
Children
As expected of a day dedicated to celebrating children, there are dozens of children running around and playing games during the festivities. It's hard to distinguish, but some of them appear to be human children while others are shinki. They are happy to let anyone in on their games and will gladly bother adults to come play with them or to let them try some of the liquor. (Mods will be available to play out any child interactions you may want, just flag us down.)
Counselling
Off to the side, there is a tiny table set up with a small, nicely written sign that reads "Gentle Counselling". On the other side of the table is a sweetly smiling shinki who is willing to listen to your problems and answer any questions you might have. She is also here to help out any gods that are having a hard time dealing with knowing about how their shinki died and any shinki that is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they are dead.
In Summary:
- Keep the boats off the shore
- Enjoy the food and booze and spring atmosphere
- Have some fun with cute little kids
- Seek counselling if you need it!
- Flag the mods in the top thread if you'd like an NPC
- Have fun~
Booze?
Yukine watches with bland contempt at the guy moving down the line of sake trying one after another and pulling faces like a kid eating broccoli.
If you don't like it, don't drink it. You're gonna get a hangover on stuff that you don't like?
... Hm. Let him help with that. Why not.
It takes not long at all for Yukine to find an empty sake bottle, fill it with water instead, and return to the line of alcohol. With a smooth movement while the redhead is grimacing he changes out one bottle for his water.
Drink up.]
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Then he pulls it back to stare at it.
He looks between the bottle he's holding and one a few bottles down that seems to be the same stuff.
And then lets out a whoop.]
Yes! It finally tastes good enough to drink!
[And he'll start chugging the water. Congrats, Yukine.]
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Yukine can't stop himself snickering, and he decides to speak up.]
Instead of trying everything you should just give in to the fact that you don't like the taste of alcohol.
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That's where you're wrong. I like this one!
[He holds up the bottle.]
Besides, if you drink enough you stop tasting it.
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[And seeing as the guy's holding the bottle out like that, he'll just snatch it away from him and take a drink himself.]
It's water, dumbass. I put it in there myself. Good job, saying the tasteless liquid tastes good.
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And then he dramatically holds his face in his hands.]
Nooooo!!! How could you trick me like that?!
[He drops to his knees with a heavy sigh.]
I guess I just... wasn't meant to be a drinker...
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You could say shinki are meant to look out for the well-being of others. So I helped bring you to that realization. I really don't think you're meant to be a drinker either.
What's so cool about it anyway? You smell gross, you act like an idiot, and you feel sick afterwards. Yaaaah, sounds like a great time.
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He frowns at the ground for a couple of moments before sighing and pushing himself up to his feet, sticking a hand in his pocket and looking at Yukine.]
That's kind of an awful way to go about it though, don't you think?
[Oh looks like the dramatics are done.]
And the point is to lose yourself in it. Haven't you ever just wanted to stop thinking for a bit?
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Yukine's expression shifts at that rather unexpected question being directed to him.]
Sure, I've wanted to stop thinking all sorts of times. Distracting myself just made it worse in the end though. It really sucked.
What are you trying to get away from that makes this gross stuff [he gives the sake bottle a little shake at him] look good?
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I dunno. It seems like the right thing to do. Seems like it'll be scarier to just keep thinking about what might've happened...
[Oh, that was a lot more sobering than it ought to have been, hurk.]
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Well, now things are different. Are you a shinki, or a god?
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[Battler sighs, rubbing the back of his neck like he's got a nasty knot there.]
'sides, if I was a god I think I'd probably remember more than just... being here and being dead.
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The best thing to do is just look forward. It's a fact we're dead, but we have a life to live now.
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And then grins, putting a hand in his pocket.]
That's a pretty enlightened sort of way to look at it. I'm guessing you've been at this for a while, huh?
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He called him enlightened-! That... (that's a new one) that makes him feel kinda warm and fuzzy inside. (Which might show through by a shine in his eyes for a moment. But-- back to normal. Nothin' to see here.)]
Yah, for a bit, but a lot happened. So that's why I can say something like that.
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Even if it's a short time, if enough happens it can really cause someone to grow. That definitely makes a lot of sense.
[He grins a moment later.]
I'm Battler Ushiromiya, by the way.
[And he'll hold his hand out to the kid.]
Nice to meet you.
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[He holds out his own hand to return the handshake. For all that he’s not well-practiced at it it’s pretty average, on his end. (Just a bit on the firm side.)]
Nice to meet you, too. And I hope not ‘a lot’ happens to you here, although given the circumstances I wouldn’t bet on it.
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[He looks pretty sure of himself on that at least.]