014 | A Whole New World

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Exploring the world
When: All day June 26
Where: The Near Shore (All Over)
Summary: So many shrines have popped up! Go visit your homelands!



The Heavens have received reports of many shrines to the "new gods" they are harboring appearing all over the world. These shrines seem to be additional, new shrines to those gods. Older shrines to those gods still exist, but these ones are shiny, new, and way more compatible with the "new gods". God characters, as well, will have felt the sudden pull towards their homelands and be compelled to travel to them. But the Heavens have taken it a step farther, offering the Meeting Hall as a place for gods and shinki to group up and go out for the day to the various places that are now calling out to them.

Please ignore the fact that they are mostly doing this so that you all will collect information for them without their begging for it or having to reward you.



Meeting Hall

The Meeting Hall is being used as a sort of hub right now. Any groups that are planning to meet up and travel together can meet here, but you might also find someone who's going somewhere you'd like to and tag along with them. Additionally, the Heavens have provided packed lunches for everyone to take with them, should they desire to. This also serves as a meeting place for all of the new gods and shinki.

Locals

Local pantheons have been alerted to the impending visitors. They are happy to welcome their brethren home and are likely to make a big fuss about their brothers and sisters staying with them. Local gods are welcome to be interpreted however you would like, just be sure not to NPC any god that is already taken by a god player. Also, you may find yourself running into some local spirits during your sight-seeing - including local ayakashi and various folklore spirits.

Flyers

They may not stick out at first, but those who are paying attention will notice that there are a large number of flyers being left around at their new shrines. Heck, even walking through the human towns, you will find flyers scattered on the ground and pinned to cork boards and nailed to telephone poles. All bear the same message: "Down with the Heavens. Down with Amaterasu." The locals gods are well versed in the flyers, saying that there have been some strange characters around throwing these flyers at anyone who will give them the time of day. Even humans will note that some shady-looking people have been putting up these strange posters.

Destruction

Whether you return early because of boredom, never left because you're uninterested, or late because you've been having fun, the middle of the night will bring an interesting sight to all. The Heavens will find themselves under attack - in the form of a large fire set at the temple of Amaterasu herself. The entire home is going up in flames and no one knows where Amaterasu is. They're asking for help in dousing the fire or even entering the burning home to find the small goddess and possibly look for the saboteurs, though the only people who are still around are Amaterasu's shinki, in varying states of distress and consciousness.

Note: Who will discover Amaterasu will be decided randomly on 3/20/17 OOC. At that point, a follow-up post will be made by Amaterasu herself.

In Summary:

• Explore the world
• Get to know your homelands
• Investigate insurgents
• Deal with a riot
• Save Amaterasu
• Have fun~

Comments

[nibelungvalesti]

"I am less familiar with that one -- particularly its location." This world was nothing like Midgard proper, and though after these expeditions she expected to know more... well, she simply hadn't had time to cruise around it, somehow. "Can you tell me where it is?"

[kokuyoyo]

At some point, it seems he's become a teacher of some sort... How annoying. Chikusa sighs quietly, but already knows of a quick solution. Teach a man to fish, after all... "Do you have the phone that the Heavens give everyone...?"

[nibelungvalesti]

"The communications device." In perhaps the most normal gesture she has ever displayed since coming here, the Valkyrie drew it from her pocket.

[kokuyoyo]

Ah. That makes things easier. Carefully, Chikusa maneuvers his so that she can clearly see where his fingers are moving as he carefully taps along the screen. It’s time to teach a god how to use Google.

[nibelungvalesti]

Lenneth observed him in impassive silence, trying to process just how this device contained so much information. It was like the head of Mimir, save -- not a head. Still, the idea that one could ask questions of it and receive answers was logical enough...

[kokuyoyo]

At least some people can learn quickly. Once the appropriate question has been input and the answers revealed, Chikusa tucks his phone away again. "You can input more vague things, like a single word.... But that tends to get you more widespread offers of information... So it's up to you to learn how to use it most efficiently..."

[nibelungvalesti]

"So the more specific the query, the more specific the answer. But why does it provide so many?" She had seen the list of results, and its extensiveness baffled her. "The map it displayed seems to be answer enough for all purposes."

[kokuyoyo]

"Different places, with different reasons for providing maps.... and some with different maps from one another's." He shrugs. "Why do stores that share similar stock exist near one another? It's not that different from that sort of thing..."

[nibelungvalesti]

"So this is not like Mimir's head," she mused, a frown darkening her countenance slightly. "It does not answer the questions, but it lists answers others have given to the questions -- each with their own bias or agenda."

[kokuyoyo]

"A library in the palm of your hand, with no one able to actually stop what books are put into place..." He tips his glasses further back. "That's just how it is. It's up to you to compare information and decide what to trust..."

[nibelungvalesti]

"I do not question is value, merely that it is not the provision of simple fact I had at first believed." Lenneth was not one for libraries in general, nor critical research. She was a battle goddess, did not even have hobbies.

[kokuyoyo]

Well, it's not like Chikusa would judge if he knew that. It's not like he has any hobbies either. Instead, he just shrugs. "Anyway... Now you know how to use it, and get to wherever you need to..." He's done his Good Deed (tm) for the day.

[nibelungvalesti]

"Your lesson is appreciated and I thank you for it."

Lenneth was, as a rule, so imperious that this statement could potentially seem sarcastic, but no -- she meant it. She was just bad at being, well, anything less than herself.

"Are there limits to it I should be aware of?"

[kokuyoyo]

A long, careful, thoughtful pause.

“...Certain places on the internet can essentially infect your phone like a disease, causing it to not function as it should. They usually have to do with showing off sexual acts.”

So be careful in your porn habits, Lenneth.

[nibelungvalesti]

The Valkyrie paused for so very long that Chikusa could very well be forgiven for thinking she had turned to a pillar of stone right there and then.

"....I do not believe I will encounter this problem," she finally said, still so very very confused and perplexed. Maybe she should just not even think about this.

[kokuyoyo]

Chikusa waits her out, used to his bluntness startling people. When she finally speaks, he shrugs. “Good,” is all he says, before he shuffles away. Now that she knows, there’s no reason for him to stick around any longer.