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thenearshore2016-12-31 03:26 pm
volksdaemon) wrote in thenearshore2016-12-31 03:26 pm
[Open] Break my back till the mornin' comes
Who: Schuldig volksdaemon etc.
What: Helpful!Schuldig (thank you Eros) is out and about helping gods & shinki answer their prayers and other miscellaneous desires
When: May 27+
Where: Near Shore for most Open Prompts
Warnings: none currently but new CR please fill out his powers & permissions post.
Prompts are in Action format, but I can switch if you'd like.
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[Closed Prompts in comments]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Grisly Kabuki Show
[A long time ago, okay two weeks ago, someone had anonymously suggested to Schuldig that he go to see a kabuki show. Not just any kabuki show, though - Yotsuya Kaidan, the Ghost Story of Yotsuya - on the promise that there was 'plenty of grisly revenge for you there.'
Now that he's being subtly encouraged to get out and about more, he's planning to see it. If you see him on his second or third watch, he might even be outside of the theater conning scalpers out of their own money - a deal that's not a deal sort of thing where he buys 7 at the cost of 10 - so that he can give them to people waiting in line.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Beach Bum
[Schuldig's pale skin is getting tanned and those sunglasses he's normally only wearing like decoration are actually getting use, finally. Feel free to notice him lounging or trying to chat up the lifeguards.
Then there's the matter of trying to be a good-hearted God of Mischief down here. If he notices that there are people haggling down 'tourist' prices from the locals, he uses his telepathy to calm both parties down. If he sees kids playing pranks, he'll help them not get noticed by parents or authority figures as they run off. That sort of thing.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Ayakashi
[If you've wandered near that fishy ayakashi and gotten yourself trapped, he'll definitely notice, or try to keep you away from it if he notices you wandering too close. He can hear the thoughts of ayakashi getting closer - the raw, tangled mess of raw emotions that is - as well as those of gods and shinki without strong mental shields.
If you actually do manage to get yourself trapped, he'll have to call a shinki to get you out of there, but he might still do it. Depending on who it is and depending on if you got yourself trapped so that one of his followers didn't get caught.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Fireworks
[Trying to get a better spot to watch? Schuldig might use his telepathy to convince some noisy neighbors on a blanket to take their drinking elsewhere so you can have that one. Or he might be able to get a crying baby to fall asleep. The line for drinks & food could be a lot shorter as soon as he decides to go there, standing behind you in line. If you're trying to get an adult beverage and you're not an adult, he has no problem getting you one. Drinking customs in Europe are different, so he doesn't care.]
[OPEN] Far Shore: Anywhere But His Temple
[Even while very empathetic towards the human race now - specifically his followers - Schuldig doesn't plan to invite people out to his temple. As a result, he's out wandering. Specifically, he's combing the place for one of Amaterasu's lackeys somewhere down the chain of command with low enough mental shields that he can read their minds. It's a promise he owes Jae-Ha, actually.
As a result, Schuldig could be found just about anywhere standing off to the side with a thousand-yard-stare as he canvasses small sections of the Far Shore for just such a lackey.]
volksdaemon etc.What: Helpful!Schuldig (thank you Eros) is out and about helping gods & shinki answer their prayers and other miscellaneous desires
When: May 27+
Where: Near Shore for most Open Prompts
Warnings: none currently but new CR please fill out his powers & permissions post.
Prompts are in Action format, but I can switch if you'd like.
---
[Closed Prompts in comments]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Grisly Kabuki Show
[A long time ago, okay two weeks ago, someone had anonymously suggested to Schuldig that he go to see a kabuki show. Not just any kabuki show, though - Yotsuya Kaidan, the Ghost Story of Yotsuya - on the promise that there was 'plenty of grisly revenge for you there.'
Now that he's being subtly encouraged to get out and about more, he's planning to see it. If you see him on his second or third watch, he might even be outside of the theater conning scalpers out of their own money - a deal that's not a deal sort of thing where he buys 7 at the cost of 10 - so that he can give them to people waiting in line.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Beach Bum
[Schuldig's pale skin is getting tanned and those sunglasses he's normally only wearing like decoration are actually getting use, finally. Feel free to notice him lounging or trying to chat up the lifeguards.
Then there's the matter of trying to be a good-hearted God of Mischief down here. If he notices that there are people haggling down 'tourist' prices from the locals, he uses his telepathy to calm both parties down. If he sees kids playing pranks, he'll help them not get noticed by parents or authority figures as they run off. That sort of thing.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Ayakashi
[If you've wandered near that fishy ayakashi and gotten yourself trapped, he'll definitely notice, or try to keep you away from it if he notices you wandering too close. He can hear the thoughts of ayakashi getting closer - the raw, tangled mess of raw emotions that is - as well as those of gods and shinki without strong mental shields.
If you actually do manage to get yourself trapped, he'll have to call a shinki to get you out of there, but he might still do it. Depending on who it is and depending on if you got yourself trapped so that one of his followers didn't get caught.]
[OPEN] Near Shore: Fireworks
[Trying to get a better spot to watch? Schuldig might use his telepathy to convince some noisy neighbors on a blanket to take their drinking elsewhere so you can have that one. Or he might be able to get a crying baby to fall asleep. The line for drinks & food could be a lot shorter as soon as he decides to go there, standing behind you in line. If you're trying to get an adult beverage and you're not an adult, he has no problem getting you one. Drinking customs in Europe are different, so he doesn't care.]
[OPEN] Far Shore: Anywhere But His Temple
[Even while very empathetic towards the human race now - specifically his followers - Schuldig doesn't plan to invite people out to his temple. As a result, he's out wandering. Specifically, he's combing the place for one of Amaterasu's lackeys somewhere down the chain of command with low enough mental shields that he can read their minds. It's a promise he owes Jae-Ha, actually.
As a result, Schuldig could be found just about anywhere standing off to the side with a thousand-yard-stare as he canvasses small sections of the Far Shore for just such a lackey.]
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[He says as if he'd been there earlier today when he hadn't. He just scanned the mind of the shop owner of the place that he was planning on going.]
I mean, you're welcome to come along and pick it out.
[Because yeah of course he didn't check in her mind to see if she would follow, but start walking away he does, just backwards to see if she'd come along.]
Should I not call you Natsuru-chan?
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[The longer this goes on, the more convinced she is that he really is being genuine. It's a bit hesitant, but she even starts to smile. And she moves to follow, keeping a respectable but not excessive distance, as he walks.]
No, it's fine! Lots of people call me that.
[... She thinks. There's only a few confirmed cases here, but they're most of the people she knows that even use honorifics.]
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[He's not a Linguist by profession, but when you know at least three languages, it's hard not to pick up on some things, and one thing is Japanese honorifics, which he uses with names that he's pretty sure are Japanese. It helps him pass for 'normal' in his default mood, but on a day like this, he's just looking to use whatever makes her the most comfortable.]
Are you one of these people who'd never even heard of ice cream before, or is this old news for you? I mean, before living in the Far Shore - of course you'd know about ice cream from that store prayer.
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[Well, that answers his question. Obviously, she doesn't actually remember much of her own life before the Far Shore, but ice cream is thoroughly covered in her remaining, more general memories.]
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Oh yeah, definitely. Like, you can generally tell who they are because they're pre-TV, pre-phones, pre-cars even sometimes. At least that doesn't include you.
[He takes his spot in line.]
No offense with shinki losing their memories and all, that's just become my baseline for a lot of things. Before and after modern technology.
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[She's mostly met other modern people among the shinki, as far as she knows. So she hasn't really thought about this yet.]
I didn't know there were shinki from before all of that too.
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[And because he doesn't want to just fling visions around into people's minds lest he out of himself.]
You end up spending an extra 10-15 minutes just trying to explain what they don't know about in really obscure ways.
[He buys her ice cream and hands it off to her.]
For example, you probably know what "brain freeze" is? Imagine trying to explain that to someone who's never had ice cream. I think it makes them frustrated easily.
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[Having no memories and being unfamiliar with so many everyday things must be even more of an adjustment.]
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Then again, people like you are willing to give people a second chance.
[He raises his own ice cream in a kind of toast.]
It's much appreciated, Natsuru-chan.
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It's not a big deal. If you hadn't apologized, I might still be kind of upset, but...
Well, it was only one time.