godsoffortune: (mom and baby)
The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-05-16 06:59 pm

016 | The Good Old Days

Who: Everyone!
What: Ageswapping
When: July 15-17
Where: Everywhere
Summary: A breach in the space-time continuum is messing things up.

Edit: OVERFLOW is here!



The Far Shore has been dealing with a lot of space-time pulsating through the past week or so and everything is culminating on the night of the 15th, even though the Heavens are preparing for an all-out Obon bash. They had planned to have the celebration on the 15th itself, but Amaterasu asked to postpone a day due to the horrible feeling that is permeating the Far Shore.

And it turns out she was right to postpone everything. In fact, it will have to be postponed another whole month at this rate...



Before

    Late in the day on July 15th, the new batch of shinki will arrive to a Far Shore with a thick, tense atmosphere. All night on the 15th it feels like something is about to happen - and it's difficult to tell whether that something will be good or bad. Any attempts to contact the management of the Far Shore have fallen on deaf, slightly harried ears and so everyone is left to their own devices to try and figure out why things are so tense.


July 16

    Just after midnight, an explosive shock wave rips through the Far Shore, bringing on the age changes with it. Even the spirits of the Far Shore seem to be affected - for example, the library goblins are either toddling around on wobbly legs or are dragging themselves from place to place and looking decrepit. There are a few gods and shinki that seem to have been exceptions from the change, though it is not clear why.


July 17

    Another wave of energy comes in the early morning of the 17th. Fewer people are affected this time and it seems to alter those people's ages a second time. There is no rhyme or reason to who is being affected further. Several of the library goblins have just dropped dead from severe old age. Oops.


Aftermath

    Late on the 17th brings about one final burst from the energy that has been plaguing the Far Shore. For a short moment, every new temple glows with a soft light, seeming to beckon to their owners. But the light is gone quickly and everyone will find themselves back to normal with complete memories of everything that happened during their age adventures. The goblins that died, though, are still very dead. Looks like the library will need to get some new help soon.




In Summary:
  • Meet the newbies
  • Get aged or de-aged
  • Deal with other too young/too old people
  • Try to handle the consequences
  • Have fun~
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-20 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Acceptable.

[ She has to use her big words, now. That is what Princes do. It means she has to think longer before she speaks, but that's okay, too. Princes also only say cool things that are worth waiting for.

She considers this situation with all the gravity it deserves. ]


Your name's Tsuzuki?
sweetdeath: (think this might be love)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-21 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Asato Tsuzuki.

[He smiles at her, and offers a hand to help her up.]

Okay, so if I'm walking you home, you'll have to tell me where you live.
kurukuruchan: (permuda)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-21 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki holds onto that hand a bit tighter than a Prince probably should, but when she catches herself, she stops. Don't. Even if he made the bad thing go away, he's a liar. Just by virtue of being a person. ]

This way.

[ And she starts to walk. ]
sweetdeath: (friendship and flowers)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-21 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[Tsuzuki keeps pace with her carefully, trying not to let his much longer legs outpace her. She's trying to look stern and brave, but she's holding onto his hand awfully hard. She must not be over the whole bad dream thing just yet, he thinks, and smiles.

Cute kid. Imperious, but cute.]
kurukuruchan: (curious)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-21 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki thinks as they walk, and as they walk, it becomes increasingly obvious there's some kind of gigantic Disney castle monstrosity thing on the horizon and getting closer. Whoever could that belong to.

Thinking about her castle, and the fact that she's pretty sure it's hers, makes her think about some of the other stuff she just Knows but doesn't know how she Knows. She's fuzzy on the details, but... ]


You should have another name.

[ It kind of. Sticks with her. That that's what people do with servants here?

Maybe???? And then that will show he's not allowed to disobey her! ]
sweetdeath: (say what?)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-21 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Another name?]

Why do I need another one? I like Asato just fine.

[Unless she means his shinki name, of course, but that's just for Sakura's use, so he doesn't need to tell everybody about it.

At least, not as far as he can tell.]
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

this is a joke btw (unless you don't want it to be)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-21 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
But it doesn't mean you serve me.

[ This concept is growing on her. What should she name him? "Goat"....?

That's weird. She has no idea why she just thought of that. ]


I want proof.
Edited 2017-05-21 04:08 (UTC)
sweetdeath: (talk to the meat bun)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-21 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Like... what kind of proof?

[What the heck? This kid is weirder than he'd thought at first, and when he first saw her she was being chased by dancing fruit puns.]
kurukuruchan: (shadowed)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-21 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki drops his hand. She steps back. The words - there are special important words. She is pretty sure. No, she's positive! Princes know everything. ]

My name is Hibiki. Grasping your true name, I bind you here. With borrowed name, I dub you my servant....

[ It's not as Fancy as it should be. She's focusing just on remembering how this was supposed to go. And none at all on the fact that she shouldn't know it.

Or that it's kind of a jerk move. She should probably be stopped. Or at least talked to first. ]
sweetdeath: (oshit topped!)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-22 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa! Wait, I --

[-- should have figured out what she was talking about, that's what he should've done --

He stumbles back a step, wide-eyed and flailing both hands in a no-please-wait gesture. He's not actually trying to stop her, though, mostly because, well. She's a kid. Who wants a friend. He can't tackle her and make her stop, that would just be too mean.]
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-22 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She looks over at him through squinty eyes. To show her Derision and Superiority. Or her new villainous character design. ]

Is there a problem?
sweetdeath: (plotting my escape)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-24 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got a god already!

[He's not a cheater! Or something like that....]

Look, I just - um - how about I just walk you home, I bet you've got your own shinki already, it's fine, really--
kurukuruchan: (shadowed)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-25 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Then, were you lying?

[ A frown. ] About becoming my butler?

[ You've already got somebody. You don't need Hibiki.

Is that what you're saying? She knew it. ]
sweetdeath: (bad feeling about this)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-25 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're the one who said you wanted a butler....

[Can't he just get her home...

He rubs a hand over the back of his neck.]


Look, why do you need to give me a name? I mean, I don't want you to be out there all alone or anything, just... it feels weird.
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-25 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
If I don't give you a name, you'll leave.

[ A cross frown. ] You're just staff, after all.
sweetdeath: (toppled)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-25 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not true! I offered to help you out and you're the one who decided I was staff.

You don't even know me....
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-25 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't want to listen to me, then go.

[ She thinks of the most hurtful thing in the world. The most hurtful thing she can imagine in her tiny little head.

Saying it makes her feel stronger. ]


I don't need you.
sweetdeath: (crows calling)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-26 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[She throws I don't need you at him like an accusation. Like it's the worst thing in the world, which is weird, because Tsuzuki can think of a lot of things that would be worse.

But it also makes him wonder if she needs to be needed, if she's trying to be important, even though she's little.

He sighs.

The worst part is, she was all alone out here. She probably does need somebody.]


Look... I guess it's okay. If you won't let me help otherwise, you can give me a name.
kurukuruchan: (pri)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-26 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

[ She says it like she wants to say "good." And draws herself up to Declaim again. ]

....with borrowed name, I dub you my servant. The name answers, the vessel to sound. I call you as my divine servant.

The name,
Tsuzuki. The vessel, Kabe.

Come, WALLKI!


[ That should do it. She had picked a strong name, and everything.

A strong name to keep all the bad things at bay. ]
sweetdeath: (abuh?)

cw; reference to suicide

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-26 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Did she seriously just name him 'wall' --

-- is all he can think before the character forms, bright red, in the air between them and imprints itself on his chest.

She'll see a flickering series of images: Tsuzuki slumped on an examining table with his face streaked with tears and a white-haired man leaning over him. Tsuzuki dropping a knife smeared with someone else's blood. Tsuzuki sitting against a wall and raising his arms as if to embrace a massive black snake with jaws wide enough to swallow him in one bite. The snake warning that he will burn.

Then, fire.

Meanwhile, Tsuzuki shivers into fog, and re-forms in her hand, in the shape of an extremely ordinary meter stick.]
kurukuruchan: (shadowed)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-26 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ wait no no what is this she takes it back she takes it back somebody, anybody, make it stop, she takes it back

--except there's no going back, only forward. Hibiki swallows and tries to watch dispassionately, purposefully cutting herself off from the images. It's not real, she tells herself. It's all false anyway. Over, done with. And not her problem. See? She's calm. Her heart might be pounding, her fingers might be trembling, but she's keeping her composure -

And her reward for her sangfroid is a completely mundane instrument. Hibiki turns the meter stick over in her hands, examining it. ]


I thought you'd be more impressive.
sweetdeath: (what does the big red button do?)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-26 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Her hands are shaking a little. With a tangible flush of concern, Tsuzuki thinks at her:]

Are you okay? -- Hey, you don't know what I can do yet! I could have a cool power!

[He could. Admittedly, he has no idea what it could be, but he's, what, a stick? He feels sort of like a big, flat stick. Perfect for hitting, or maybe for pointing dramatically.]
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-26 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is true. Hibiki grips the meter stick in one hand, brandishes it like a scepter. Which both helps with her shivers (a little) and makes her think of something. ]

....The pun is pretty ridiculous.

[ She's a prince

with a ruler, you see.

Does raising it above her head and swinging it around do anything? ]
sweetdeath: (abuh?)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-05-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
What pun?

[You're going to have to walk him through this one, Hibiki.

He's not the swiftest on the uptake with jokes. Being swished through the air like he's a sword or something does make him feel very dramatic, though.

(She might notice, as she swings him around, that she's growing taller, bit by bit. Not older; just bigger, as though she's taken a careless bite of a cake in Wonderland.)]
kurukuruchan: (boyish)

[personal profile] kurukuruchan 2017-05-26 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki snorts. ] It's bad enough I had to think of it. I'm not about to say it....

[ Wait. She feels peculiar. Hibiki looks down at herself. She stares at her free hand. Opens it, closes it. Looks at the ground. Is it...further away now?

She stares at her meter stick, thinking hard. ]
More of that, now.

[ Bigger. ]

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