Open ♔ My pri may be pri, but it’s the pri in “prince”, pri!

[priforprince]

Who: Hibiki and you, pri
When: July 27, pri
Where: Harajuku, pri
What: An unusual ayakashi is preying upon Japan’s cutest citizens, pri.
Warnings: Pri-ating the dead horse that is Hibiki's phobia, pri. (Live horse also included. Pri.)


[ In an area of town as style-conscious as Harajuku, various fads come and go. The latest craze, however, seems to be completely involuntary: anyone visiting these two particular blocks of the area will find themselves compelled to add a cutesy suffix or “sentence ender” to the ends of whatever they say. What’s worse, the effect doesn’t seem to wear off for quite some time after leaving, and the longer people use their sentence enders, the fonder they grow of them.

This is causing no end of additional discord to erupt as friends and loved ones slowly cannot stand being around their affected acquaintances anymore.

Particularly adept or powerful gods and shinki may notice an ayakashi-like smoke issuing from people’s mouths as they use their sentence enders. The source is somewhere in town, hiding out. Lurking. Enjoying inflicting itself upon its unsuspecting victims, and growing stronger from ingesting said smoke. Why, it's even affecting any gods and shinki who wander into its territory...

Into this mess, preoccupied by dreams of revolution, rides one Shikyoin Hibiki on a literal white horse. (Don’t ask.) If she’s going to attract PriPara to the Near Shore, she imagines it’ll be touching down where Parajuku should be, as it’s the closest PriPara location to her shrine. Best scope out the area to be sure there’s nothing of use there right now….

But what is this chill in the midsummer air, and this deep-rooted sense of terror-stricken foreboding? ]

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[priforprince]

[ The horse tosses its head and whinnies in distress. It's on the verge of taking off, honestly. There's too much going on, and the person on its back has just gone completely deadweight!!

Hibiki's head cocks to the side from the horse jostling her around. It does not look like a particularly healthy angle.

And she's twitching.

Now that she's listening, there are

there are sentence enders everywhere! ]

[talkbirdytome]

[Luckily Hiyoko is good with animals, even without her god power helping. She puts a comforting hand on the horse's neck.]

Shh, it's fine. Just hold still a sec.

[And then reaches up with her other hand to poke Hibiki's leg.]

Hey, what's wrong?

[pokepoke]

Did you fall asleep?

[More poking.]

[priforprince]

[ At Hiyoko's poking, Hibiki's whole body begins listing to one side. Her expression does not change.

She is now in the process of falling off the horse. ]

[talkbirdytome]

Whoa!

[She reaches out to grab Hibiki's arm, to try to steady her. Or at least angle so that she's falling off in a direction that Hiyoko can catch her.]

Hey, snap out of it! Is it the ayakashi?? Twitch once for yes and twice for no!

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki twitches three times. She is an overachiever. She is also hanging off this horse by Hiyoko's arm alone.

More black smoke drifts by. The twitching gets worse. ]

[talkbirdytome]

[Impossible! How could her foolproof twitching system of communication possibly fail??]

Three? Is that a maybe? Or is it yes three times? Are there three ayakashi?

[Because that is a worrisome thought. Hiyoko starts helpfully shaking Hibiki back and forth in the hopes of snapping the her out of whatever fit she's having.]

[priforprince]

Hrggh....

[ Hibiki flops around uselessly. Now, on top of having a headache, she looks like she's getting nauseous. ]

[talkbirdytome]

Geez....


[Okay, this clearly isn't working, so the next step is to try to gently ease her off the horse. Better that than falling off. Especially if there are ayakashi nearby. Possibly three of them. Hiyoko is pretty athletic, but this still an awkward task.]

Easy... easy...

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki slumps a little.

Then Hibiki slumps a lot. Gangway! And please don't mind the purple flowers falling out of her jacket pockets. She's got a lot of them in there.

Oh, and one red one. Whoops. Must have grabbed that by mistake. This error does not register, however, as she's too busy being dead weight on top of Hiyoko. ]