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[churchbelle]

Who: Hazel and u
What: small priest is heckled by trees and literature
When: May 21~23 or so, flexible
Where: Far Shore places
Warnings: hazel and jae-ha have an active sex life
Summary: heckle

I. spooky trees
[It is what it sounds like: somewhere on the Far Shore, anywhere on the Far Shore, where Hazel is and where you, the witness, also happen to be, Hazel is making his way downtown around minding his own business like a man being followed. Or: he keeps looking over his shoulder, or stopping abruptly to look suddenly off to one side, or do all manner of things that look very much like he's trying to catch someone sneaking up on him.

But there isn't anyone there, because of course there isn't. Eventually, exasperated, he just comes to a natural stop and announces to the air:] Even the dang trees're nosy.

[have you ever been stalked by a spooky forest]


II. what kind of dewey decimal is this
[There's a library and new gods are being invited to come. That's enough for Hazel to finally nose around in there, after staying very much away from anything involving being within spitting distance of the old gods before now. He's a sight to behold when any individual old god passes by and expects a greeting, all manners and flattery and unpleasant looks the moment their backs are turned. He'd give them a rude gesture for the road, but that's far too improper for him.

But when he's not making childish faces at other gods' backs, he's trying to find... anything at all worthwhile in this place. There's nothing in order. It's a wreck. He can't find a single thing, and for all his practicing there are still plenty of kanji he's never seen before, so the older books in particular are brutal...

He pauses, picks a book up off a shelf, and frowns at it.] I can't even remember lookin' for this, it was so long ago.

[He has been here for Hours.]


III. wildcard
[hello what would you like to do? please ask and I can deliver]

Comments

[churchbelle]

Oh, that. [Because it can't be looking at books...]

Well, kidnappin' ain't all that nice either, but no one's gettin' their just desserts for draggin' us all here. If ya really think about it, I'm downright harmless in comparison.

[minogame]

( Opening his mouth aaaaand closing it. Look, he's seriously thinking about this and weighing out things on the wrongness and not very nice scale and it's easy to see which way the scale tips but, )

But it still wasn't nice...

( It's just a mutter because two wrongs don't make a right but this isn't the hill Urashima's going to die on. He's really not trying to die again anytime soon, thank you very much. )

... What're you reading?

( Casually changing the topic to something nicer. )

[churchbelle]

[Nobody said it was nice, in Hazel's defense!! A dirty look never hurt anybody, so there.

Anyway, this book.]

Oh- this and that. This one's about... history, I think. [His kanji level is still so weak...]

[minogame]

( It almost sounds like Hazel needs a native speaker with a solid grasp of kanji... )

You think?

( He's curious so he's going to come on over and try to catch a glimpse of what Hazel has. He's probably reading upside down and still from a bit of a distance (because he doesn't want to get all up in Hazel's grill) but he's able to slowly make out some kanji, he's turning his head to the side to make out a few more characters, )

Foreign policy and trade...?

( Sounds heavy. And boring. )

[churchbelle]

Oh. That's a lil too specific, I was lookin' for somethin' about godhood... y'know, the ones that apparently need replacements these days.

[Why is kanji so Hard... He shrugs and tries to look casual about how he can't read words properly, still.] My tutor's run off and disappeared, so I'm back to studyin' the words alone.

[minogame]

Like... all of the old stories about the gods and spirits?

( Myths and legends and folktales... Urashima is actually here for similar reasons but he's more interested in the stories themselves than the histories behind them. )

If it's those... I can help you, if you want. I'm looking for stories too.

[churchbelle]

I reckon they're not stories if they're the truth. Ain't that how it works? [That's how the Bible, A True Story, works, so why not apply this to all deities. Makes sense to him.]

But sure, I'll take the help. Uh—maybe we oughta get us a ladder.

[They're both Small.]

[minogame]

That just means the stories are real, old stories.

( He lives in a simple world. But nodding! They can go look for a ladder together. In the mean time, )

Is any old book okay?

[churchbelle]

Any old book about the proper information, sure.

[Meanwhile, Hazel has located a ladder... with wheels. Nothing could go wrong here. He wheels it over, like, check it out.] Get a load of this contraption. Who'd've thought they still had these wheelin' hazards around?