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

[fullcowl]

[Izuku looks at him oddly for a moment.]

... We're not speaking Japanese right now?

We'll probably go to Athens for a bit too. There's probably not one for Aidos, but you never know.

[She was an incredibly minor goddess.]

[missingache]

[Roxas shrugs.]

I can't read a lot of Japanese, so I don't think it's the language I speak back home.

[He thinks this over before nodding.]

Check a courthouse?

[fullcowl]

[He's sure he's speaking Japanese, but this place is weird.

... He'll leave it alone for now.]

I'm more likely to find Dike, Astraea, Nemesis or Themis there. It couldn't hurt to check though.

[missingache]

[rp logic

No need to get a headache.]

Do you know if there's a sign or a sigil she has?

[fullcowl]

As far as I've seen she doesn't have anything in particular.

[A very, very minor goddess.

But she still had altars in Athens and Lacedaemon.]

[missingache]

Really? Then how did people know where to go for worship?

[SORRY ABOUT ALL THE QUESTIONS ALL THE TIME you're a lot smarter, Izuku.]

[fullcowl]

... I mean Athens has temples to almost every god, right? There was probably a well labeled alter to her once.

[He certainly doesn't mind questions.]

[missingache]

I was thinking of checking out the Acropolis. There's gotta be something around there. I can text you if I find something?

[fullcowl]

Sounds great.

I'll... well, you're Artemis, right? I'm sure there's still a lot of temples to her.

[missingache]

There's a ton! Kairi and I went on a mission, and the closest shrine to where we were going was in a place called Sparta. I should go back there and check it out later.

[Someone should tell him about Sparta.]

[fullcowl]

Sparta has a lot of history attached to it. If you're interested I'm sure there's' a bunch of books on the subject.