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

[bartenderizing]

Huh. They really filled you in on a bunch of stuff.

[ Meanwhile, they just pushed him along to go on his way. Even if they might have mentioned how he was supposed to find his god, it was nowhere near as much as she found out. He still thinks that everyone's dead. ]

Uh yeah, they packed a bunch of lunches over nearby. You allergic to anything?

[ Do allergies matter in the afterlife? Apparently eating does, which is still baffling to the man. Still, he goes to lead the young goddess over to the dwindling selection of food. ]

[darkestbefore]

Allergic. No, I don't think so?

[ Not that she'd found, at least. Then again, most of her food had been carefully prepared and chosen for her most of her life and after that... well, the cuisine options on the road had been far different and there wasn't really a lot of room to be picky. At least Yoon had always been talented at making a meal out of what they could find. ]

Anything should be fine. I'm not sure I'd even recognize the names of dishes in this place. Do you see anything familiar?

[bartenderizing]

[ Of course this reminds him that it's very possible that people wouldn't remember if they're allergic to things. That's with the current misunderstanding that everyone starts off in the same way- dead with no memories.

No one really corrected that. Some found it convenient to leave be. ]

Most of the things're just different lunches. Some sandwiches, some things are a mix of small things like eggs, different meats and rice. It's all pretty familiar and basic as far as I can tell.

[ Which just tells Yona that this place was catered more to the kind of world he was from than hers. ]

[darkestbefore]

[ Very little in this place seemed catered to the world she'd known before arriving here, but she's doing her best to adapt as quickly as possible. ]

Why don't you pick out whatever you think looks good? I'm not very picky when it comes to food. Just having some is always a relief. I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever you select.

[bartenderizing]

[ It'd- It'd sound really snobbish or bad to say that he already looked at the lunches and they didn't appeal, wouldn't it? He'd sound pickier than he really is, because none of it looked bad, but his mood kept on making him want something different.

The 'just having' comment really set that in further, as if being unfamiliar with the meals wasn't enough. What if he managed to find the one thing that could kill her, just because it never came up wherever she was from? ]

Ah, yeah... Maybe something that's usually easy to eat.

[ He'll just head over to where the bento lunches were set up- though they were similarly bagged to the others as there were different fruits packed with them as well. Also, maybe to keep everyone from flocking to one or another particular lunch by the way it looked. In fact, he'll grab an extra, just in case she gets hungry afterwards. Make it easy on them both. ]

Anything else that needs doing before going to this Ireland place?

[darkestbefore]

[ She won't judge you for being a little picky, Shizuo. That is allowed, after all. Once they get more settled they can work out a better idea of what will appeal instead.

At his question, she glances up with a smile and shakes her head, holding out her hand to him. ]

I think that should be everything. Shall we go find our travelling companions, then?

[bartenderizing]

[ It's not embarrassing exactly, but it's something- an emotion he's not really sure of- when Yona holds her hand out for them to go along. He wouldn't know why, couldn't even question it, but there's something about his psychology that doesn't expect that kind of human interaction.

Yet it's also warming, just as much as it's unexpected. ]

Y-yeah. Just gotta look for the big sign, right?

[ He accepts the hand as gently as possible when walking up to stay besides her, though it was a little impossible to not be a little ahead due to his wider strides. Despite how gently he was obviously being (though done subconsciously,) it's easy to tell that there's a kind of strength from even just that. Maybe it's the conviction of his promise, or it could be literal.

Yona was certainly going to know better in time. Probably sooner rather than later. ]