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thenearshore2017-03-25 02:33 pm
erogappa) wrote in thenearshore2017-03-25 02:33 pm
Hello! My name is Elder Sha (open log)
Who: Gojyo and whoever he runs into!
What: Snooping around the Far Shore to try and learn more about why they're all here
When: The days following the temple fire (March 27-31ish)
Where: All over the Far Shore and select spots on the Near Shore
Warnings: will update
Gods and shinki both are disappearing, the priest had said. And nobody knows why. As if being told that he was a) dead, and b) a shape-shifting monster hunter wasn't bad enough (although, to be honest, he was really on board with the monster hunter thing. How cool was that?) Without any memories to draw on -- without even really knowing what he knew and didn't know -- he didn't see a lot of options available to him.
(open to anyone:)
1. He could go talk to Amaterasu. She was the head god around here, as far as he'd been able to determine, and given that somebody had just set her house on fire with her in it while papering the neighborhood with DOWN WITH AMATERASU flyers, he was going to go out on a limb and guess that she knew something about the whole mess he'd found himself in the middle of.
Now if he could just find her.
(Open to anyone:)
2. He could -- and he really loved this word -- crowdsource. Whoever was responsible had to be watching the network -- they'd be a fool if they weren't -- so in-person conversations was the best bet. And yeah, okay, he felt a little stupid at the idea of walking up to one random temple after another and asking the gods and shinki there what they knew about the disappearances, but he also turned into a goddamn staple remover, and there was nothing stupider than that.
(Locked to Yuri and/or Neji and/or Hakkai:)
3. He could feel out the resistance. Sharak Sanzo had all but dumped an invitation into his lap, and she'd made it pretty clear that the swamp elf was a part of it, too. Confronting the guy seemed like a potentially dangerous way to spend an afternoon, but he was already dead, right? What harm could it do? And eventually, if he asked around, somebody would have to know where the creepy smiling guy covered in plant tattoos lived.
(Locked to Sharak:)
4. He could blow the whole goddamn plan off, and go find someplace to get a drink.
(ooc: If none of these prompts work for you, feel free to wildcard and make your own!)
What: Snooping around the Far Shore to try and learn more about why they're all here
When: The days following the temple fire (March 27-31ish)
Where: All over the Far Shore and select spots on the Near Shore
Warnings: will update
Gods and shinki both are disappearing, the priest had said. And nobody knows why. As if being told that he was a) dead, and b) a shape-shifting monster hunter wasn't bad enough (although, to be honest, he was really on board with the monster hunter thing. How cool was that?) Without any memories to draw on -- without even really knowing what he knew and didn't know -- he didn't see a lot of options available to him.
(open to anyone:)
1. He could go talk to Amaterasu. She was the head god around here, as far as he'd been able to determine, and given that somebody had just set her house on fire with her in it while papering the neighborhood with DOWN WITH AMATERASU flyers, he was going to go out on a limb and guess that she knew something about the whole mess he'd found himself in the middle of.
Now if he could just find her.
(Open to anyone:)
2. He could -- and he really loved this word -- crowdsource. Whoever was responsible had to be watching the network -- they'd be a fool if they weren't -- so in-person conversations was the best bet. And yeah, okay, he felt a little stupid at the idea of walking up to one random temple after another and asking the gods and shinki there what they knew about the disappearances, but he also turned into a goddamn staple remover, and there was nothing stupider than that.
(Locked to Yuri and/or Neji and/or Hakkai:)
3. He could feel out the resistance. Sharak Sanzo had all but dumped an invitation into his lap, and she'd made it pretty clear that the swamp elf was a part of it, too. Confronting the guy seemed like a potentially dangerous way to spend an afternoon, but he was already dead, right? What harm could it do? And eventually, if he asked around, somebody would have to know where the creepy smiling guy covered in plant tattoos lived.
(Locked to Sharak:)
4. He could blow the whole goddamn plan off, and go find someplace to get a drink.
(ooc: If none of these prompts work for you, feel free to wildcard and make your own!)
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He flexes an arm instead. "Just a humble swordsman before all this. Nothin' godly about that. But, rooting out trouble-makers... that I know a little about." Of course, some of the trouble-makers turned out to be his brother and friends...
"Problem is that too many folks come and go, I think. Some of 'em have been keeping track of everything way better than I ever would have. You see what that kid Deku put together two days ago?"
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"I stay off that thing," he says, with a grimace of disgust. "My second day here I tried answerin' some kid's question, right? Little shit started talking sex talk at me." His shudder is theatrical, but the feeling of being grossed out is clearly real.
But enough of that topic! "But if somebody's keeping track of when people arrive and when they vanish, that sounds like as good a place to start as any!" He rubs at his mouth with two fingers -- his body still wants him to be a smoker, and it's getting harder and harder to ignore the ingrained habit. "You said his name was Deku?"
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Dokugakuji allows himself a laugh at his brother's expense. The overdramatic grimace and all is amusing, especially since it's about sex. He's not about to pry on that subject, but some 'little shit' starting trouble? "Sounds like that BBS thing alright. Tough luck."
He tilts his head to one side then, still thinking but not about to stop the grin on his face. He notices the two fingers. Of course he does. What he doesn't know is why Gojyo doesn't have a cigarette there anyway. "Yeah, Deku. Young guy, but smart." Detail-oriented, but to when it comes to tracking stuff like that, same difference to Doku. "Course you won't see his name on the BBS as 'Deku', right? Or when looking around for his temple. It'll have to be Aidos."
His expression says he expects Gojyo to have figured that out by now and he's just over-explaining things for a newbie. Gotta razz him how he's allowed.
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If Gojyo had actually been using the BBS, Doku's joke wouldn't have landed. But as it is, he's got no idea about the way that names appear on there -- hell, the one guy he talked to didn't even have a username!
Temples, though... he knows a little about temples. "What, 'cause he's a god?" Gojyo shakes his head, tucking his hands back into his pockets, a sure sign that he thinks he's being messed with. "Nobody I've talked to has used god names for temples." Well, that's not entirely true, is it? "Except for the old gods, like that Bishamon babe." Damn she's hot.
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He jerks a thumb at himself. "Except me. I toldja this is 'The Shrine of Ksitigarbha's Vow' didn't I?" But Gojyo has a point. "Bishamon's not even her oldest name, from what I heard. When I was at her temple doing some training, a few folks called her 'Vaiśravaṇa' - then we had to run around to our new temples, right? I met a guy who suggested I do some research beyond just Ksitigarbha. Surprise, Vaiśravaṇa showed up. Got herself a name change just like the newer gods at some point, I guess. Don't know how I feel about this incarnation business they tell us, but that's gotta be part of it. Changin' names and all."
His speech was slipping into more casual around Gojyo. Hopefully not too fast to seem suspicious. Doku really doesn't mind talking to Gojyo about anything if it gives him more insight into how he's handling being a shinki.
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He doesn't follow anything about running around to new temples, but that's fine, he'll worry about that later. "Was she the same person, though? When she was Vaisray-whatsits, and now that she's Bishamon." Because the new gods, from what he can tell, are getting name changes only when they get assigned to their god roles, and not after.
"I mean, you were some guy named Dokugokukuji, right?" Or something like that, anyway. "And then you died, and came here, and now you're doin' the job of Shitty Gerbil. But you weren't a different god before." He peers at Doku. "Were you?"
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"Hmm. I don't know if she was the same person, to tell you the truth." That'd be a question for her or her shinki, but he also has to give credit to Gojyo for thinking about it. He'd taken for granted that someone as powerful as her probably could live as long as the books he read indicated. And in the end he doesn't know her all that well, despite getting her attention when it came to multiple shinki trying to work together for one god.
As for him dying though... "Did your god tell you that? That gods die before showing up here like shinki?" There's no way he'd know about Doku himself and his final moments, not as a shinki based on everything he knew so far. There's just no way, he tells himself. Meanwhile, a misunderstanding that gods had to have died first... "I was just some guy, yes. I wasn't a god before now." That much is safe to explain. If he weren't on edge about the death thing, he might have even laughed or snickered at Shitty Gerbil.