[Open] Break my back till the mornin' comes

[volksdaemon]

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.]

Comments

[Closed] Goten: Prayer #23, May 29

[volksdaemon]

[Schuldig hadn't been checking up on the yakuza he'd invited to the bakery awhile back, when he'd answered the bakery owner's request for more business and used Nagi's help to get them in there. That was a problem for one big reason -- Schuldig had used his telepathic influence to keep the police away, to stop them from noticing just how much ground the yakuza had expanded into.

So now he gets prayer to track down some yakuza. Are they from 'his' gang? That gang had become followers of his. If other people found that gang's hideout, the police may just wipe out the gang. Schuldig can't let that happen to his own followers, not now that he's genuinely empathetic towards them. How can he get the new person praying to him to have that answered while not killing off his own followers? But neither of his current shinki are going to be of much use to silently cover as much ground as he needs to to find the yakuza in question. Neither Munechika nor Jennifer can, on their own, travel that fast.

Then he thinks about someone he knows can fly. There's just one problem - the kid hates him. Schuldig can't focus too much on WHY the kid hates him thanks to the spell on his heart, but he knows it's going to be... difficult to say the least to convince Goten to work with him. But he has to try.

Schuldig tracks Goten down to Aditi's temple and has just enough patience to wait until Goten appears, wandering near the chicken coop and the very mean rooster, before calling out to the boy.]

'It's Loki. Hear me out. I'm not here to hurt you or anyone else.'

Near Shore: Grisly Kabuki Show

[countingthecost]

[During one of his wanderings in the Near Shore, Yamanami had seen a flier advertising the show. Curious to see if kabuki has changed much since the Bakufu period, he's been in line for a good hour to try his luck at tickets. Someone teach this old man how to book tickets online.

Imagine his bad luck though that the last ticket was bought out just as he reached the front of the line!! Yamanami takes the news like a champ, smiling and telling the ticket sales representative that there's no need to apologize, he'll just come by for the next showing. But when he's walked a few steps away and out of sight, he lets out a sigh.

He really wanted to see the show.]

Near Shore: Beach Bum

[thirdbeauty]

[Clearly, the absolute best scenario for everyone involved here is for Natsuru to run into the guy who had been borderline creepy about her work costume a while back at the beach, of all places. While she is, of course, wearing even less. Though, to be fair, so is mostly every other woman on the beach today. So there's less reason to be awkward here, especially when the living still kind of glance over her like she's invisible.

Still, her eyes meet his briefly and she immediately glances away, unsure of what to do. It's not that she's nervous - she can handle him, if he decides to make pervy comments again. She's just not exactly jumping at the chance to speak to him again, and maybe hoping he doesn't notice her any more than the other guys around do.]

Prayer 20 I'm so sorry this is late

[eternalshield]

[Zeno runs right past Schuldig, actually. Doesn't see him, because right on his tail is a grimy gruesome spirit he's disturbed. Something something young people felt an awesome responsibility to... clean, he investigated despite not having a shinki, and. Now he is being chased.]

How old are you?

[He laughs, because he can run forever, his body already recovering. And he sympathizes with the ayakashi, oddly. Poor thing didn't ask to be disturbed.

It's just, you know, flooding the place with polluted water, and that can't be borne.]

Zeno needs a weapon...

[Closed] Goten: Prayer #24, May 29

[volksdaemon]

[Continuation of this thread.]

[Schuldig starts wracking his brain. Now's when he needs Goten the most, really.]

I need you to fly around and look at these yakuza recruits - see if you can notice anything strange about them. I can give you names and descriptions long-distance if you'll let me, or you can do it the hard way. I just want to find the common thread.

[That's when he sighs.]

And not even the higher ups here at their headquarters know enough about all of the new recruits for me to find them through telepathy. At best I'd be dealing with third- or fourth-hand information. That's not good enough to get all of them, let alone see what's going on around them.

[So he looks to Goten, trying to figure out if any of that makes sense or sounds reasonable, while still realizing that Goten is a child.]

Late to the beach

[returnedfromtheline]

[Walking along the beach is usually a pleasant enough pass-time. But now that the weather is warming up the vendors are coming out in force.
Yukine can hear it just as he comes in view of the storefront- haggling is not really a thing that happens in Japan, but these guys are doing their loudest and best. Yukine rolls his eyes as he walks. It doesn’t even look like rain for the moment, so why fight so hard over an umbrella?

And then suddenly, the voices tone right down. He might not have even noticed, but for how abrupt it was. Half-afraid that it’s an ayakashi appearing to make things worse Yukine takes a careful look around, but it turns out that the vendor and the customers are just …calmer.
Well, that was weird. But welcome.

Shrugging to himself Yukine continues walking down the sparsely peopled street.]

[Closed] Goten: Prayer #25, May 29

[volksdaemon]

[Continuation of this thread.]

[Schuldig could of course just tell Goten that he knew that, he knew that Goten wanted to protect them. But after all, he kind of already had, right? He'd admitted as much when he promised Goten the blackmail, giving him a way to protect Sousuke and Rin that was far, far better than 'his word.' That wasn't why Goten flared up, though. It was a show of power that Schuldig didn't back down from. He'd gone toe to toe with a pyrokinetic, flames licking his skin, and didn't back down then either. Snapped the guy's neck. His moral compass hadn't magically been fixed with Rin's spell, just Schuldig's priorities and what he'd do to accomplish those things being mitigated by the cost that could potentially befall his followers if he failed.

When Goten agrees, he holds up one hand to start the naming spell.]

Not just find it - Rend it into pieces.

[And he raises his hand, the light seeming to brighten in the space between them while their surroundings darken.]

Then you'll know my true name. For now, I'm just Loki.

[And what vessel form would Goten transform into, he wonders?]