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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 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.