godsoffortune: (kanji2)
The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-07-02 12:59 am

018 | Season Spirits

Who: Everyone!
What: Season spirits and spooky things
When: IC August 1-15
Where: The Near Shore and Far Shore
Summary: It's the time for spirits to get a bit more 'lively'.



August is a spiritual season in Japan with many people preparing for the Obon festival but many others get into the spirit in another way. All across Japan, people have begun to share their favorite summer ghost stories. Movie theaters advertise the hottest horror flick of the season, teenagers challenge each other to do trials of courage, haunted houses begin to pop up, and it feels like you can't change the channel without switching to some ghost hunting urban legend special. All of this talk about spirits comes at a cost, though.

July comes and passes easily enough but it's almost as if as soon as August begins, so do the incidents. There's an increase in spiritual activity and shenanigans on both shores. Some of them are harmless spooks but others are much more sinister. Arm yourselves with all of the ofuda and omamori you can find and get out there and restore peace!



Possessed Possessions
Inhabitants of the Far Shore may awaken to find their sheets trying to strangle them and shoes stomping on the floor around them. Others may go about their day and find out their teapots suddenly only serve lukewarm tea or their weapons are trying to take swings at them. They're just playful spirits that will abandon their hosts if you shove any ofuda/omamori at them or yell loudly enough. They aren't malicious spirits... they were only just trying to have some fun.


Spirited Festivals
There's a festival every weekend and some of them have set up haunted houses for patrons to visit. You have your standard haunted house thrills... costume make up, jump scares, special effects smoke, the usual! But it looks like some real ghosts have made themselves at home here. Visitors are going in and emerging hours later absolutely traumatized. It looks like once you enter, the real spirits walk you around in circles and give you real scares. There are some spirits here just to have fun thrills and these are spirits that can be chased away with regular ofuda. But it looks like the more violent ones are actually ayakashi out for vengeance. Be careful in there!


Cursed Charms
There sure are some weird trends out there, huh? The latest one is buying cursed trinkets off the internet and passing them off as gifts to unsuspecting victims whether it be to prank a friend or get revenge on an enemy. Cursed mirrors, dolls, fake ofuda, VHS tapes, and so on are being passed around the Near Shore and spreading all sorts of curses.
  • Bad luck. As long as you're in possession of the cursed item, you'll be followed by bad luck to varying degrees depending on the quality of the charm.
  • Fear. Holding onto this charm results in intense, crippling fear. The fear can manifest as an intense paranoia at all times or being frozen with fear in the face of danger. Some say you can even die of fright...
  • Sickness. This charm is pretty straightforward. Having this charm just makes you feel incredibly under the weather and your health will worsen the longer you have the charm.
  • Evil. Holding onto this charm results in you being followed attracting evil instead of warding it. Suddenly, you feel as though you are always being followed, as if something is stalking you and clearly out to get you. You begin to run into smaller ayakashi at first but they keep growing in strength and number until you can't fight anymore.
  • Bad romance. Someone's meddled with a romance charm so it ends relationships instead of making them! People stuck with this charm are suddenly hyper aware of the faults of others. Everything gets on your nerves and you can't stand being around that person because they're just that annoying. It doesn't just work on couples! It also works on friends and relatives too.
  • Bears? An oddly specific curse. It looks like someone has taken a protection from bears charm and made it so now you attract bears where ever you go. Some of them are nice but others...
You can try to destroy the charms but you will find that unless you have purification powers or rend it, the effects last. It looks like most people have been able to shake off the effects by simply disposing of them at temples and buying another charm to counter the effects.

Haunting Hour
There are reports of violent attacks at night-- people being pulled into alleys and attacked, school children being chased by slashers while walking home from school, homes being broken into-- and all of it is done without a single clue left behind to explain who did it. People are warned to be careful at night and as the sun begins to set, something happens. The hour between sunset and dark is supposed to be the scariest hour them all. At this time, the shadows are suspiciously bigger and darker and you constantly see things just out of the corner of your eye. Suddenly, the wind blows cold and there's a rotten smell in the air like blood. It's Oumagatoki, the hour evil spirits meet. Small time ayakashi and spirits on the verge of becoming ayakashi spill into the streets and begin to terrorize others. Protect the people of the Near Shore and watch your own backs.*

* These are just generic ayakashi! Nothing special, nothing specific. Feel free to make up and NPC your own two-bit ayakashi.


THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
In the evening, everyone will receive a set of coordinates and a message from an Anonymous sender,
I want to talk about the
mysterious things that have been happening
lately.
OF course, i
NEED
EVERYONE to come. so don't be
late! see
yoU.
:)
Everyone receives it and there is no way to track where the message came from. If you follow the directions, you'll arrive at a small temple on the outskirts of a city. A sacred fire is lit on the grounds for people to dispose of any cursed or old charms they may have collected. Hang around a bit and it'll become obvious that no one knows who has gathered all of you here tonight. The only ones around are gods and shinki. It doesn't look like any evil spirits are around so other than being invited to the middle of no where at night... there's nothing to worry about. If you wait around, nothing will happen. So while you're here, you might as well discuss the strange happenings! Or tell ghost stories around the fire.


Wildcard
Choose your own adventure! Feel free to make up your own prompts. Ronald Knox's player ([personal profile] diehardreaper) has offered up their temple as a test of courage in the Far Shore for those who want to try their luck. Check out their description under the Baron's manor.




In Summary:
  • Beat the heat by feeling a scary chill
  • Deal with cursed and spirit-imbued items
  • Keep the Near Shore people safe
  • Chat about your scary encounters
  • Have fun~
priforprince: (oooone!)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-07 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
An attentive audience deserves a greater reward.

[ This guy is sharp. She's still on the fence, but he seems worthy of witnessing Apollo in her full godly splendor.

Not that something this paltry will require that, however.

A pair of horrified screams arise from the haunted house. And Hibiki keeps strolling towards it like she's out for a Sunday walk in the park. ]
blizzardrock: (chain link)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-07 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He jerks slightly at the screams. Maybe he should have...taken more precautions... (Sobs internally.) Being with someone so self-assured is something, at least.]

Is that get-up part of your powers? [Not that he's one to talk, but he knows enough about that kind of thing to note how directed it is.] Regal and shining, bold and confident... "King" aesthetic...?
priforprince: (brilliant)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-07 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The usual term is Prince.

[ Granted, she has occasionally used "king". Not averse. But fair maidens find it easier to dream of, and idolize, a Prince than a King. ]

Lately "god" has seemed more appropriate, however.

[ "Somebody save us!" someone yells from inside the haunted house. This does not affect Hibiki's tempo. ]
blizzardrock: (seven star)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-08 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...that makes more sense. [Both things, that is.]

...Is it really alright to be going this slowly? [Now he's going to say something. Having a god who responds more or less immediately to that kind of thing... Not to mention the usual, instinctive response when hearing a person in distress.] That's some composure you've got there. Do you do this often?
priforprince: (elegant)

both of us taking turns controlling the spoopy stuff inside?

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-11 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki lifts her chin. ] I'm dealing with this petty a difficulty in person. Our success is foreordained.

[ An explanatory hand lifts, too, since this guy has been so tolerable thus far. ] Taking that into consideration, where's the need for a fuss?

[ At last, the door. Hibiki smirks, moving to push it aside.

Magnificently. Gracefully.... ]
blizzardrock: (chain link)

let's do it! o/

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-12 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heh.] That's true, but...I feel sorry for whoever's inside... Fear's not that easy to deal with, you know?

[Which may be an understatement. But he stands aside as Hibiki opens the door, feeling a little like he should bow or something. He's not dressed for this...]

[As he heads inside after her, he takes stock of the surroundings. Or rather, decorations. More mundane than he expected. So far, so good...]

[...Wait. That's not actually a good thing. But as he thinks so, he slips on something and crashes to the ground. WHO PUT THAT PUDDLE OF OIL THERE???]

[(He miiight be in possession of a bad luck charm. Whoops...)]

Go on without me... [He says tragically, making no effort whatsoever to get up.]
priforprince: (announce)

\o

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-13 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki blinks and looks down. Finished already? By a pratfall, no less?

...That's mildly disappointing, but, overall not an issue. ]
As you wish.

[ She seems perfectly willing to do exactly as asked. Look, here she goes.

And here, from behind her, comes a shadow sneaking up. ]
blizzardrock: (call of the haunted)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-14 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[No hesitation!! He can respect that in a person! But he does not actually want to be left behind right now, so–]

[Uh.]

...I think there's something behind you. [Sorry, Hibiki, he's as useless as he looks... He can't borderline.]
priforprince: (part 1)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-15 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hm?

[ Hibiki turns. The shadow pounces -

And finds itself spun around and captured by the waist with one of Hibiki's hands and the wrist in the other, in a deep bend as if they'd just been dancing. A bar of konjac dangles uselessly from a string in their grip. They blink in surprise, hood of their black sweatshirt falling down.

Hibiki, meanwhile, smirks at the captive high-school girl who'd been helping run this haunted house. And brings her mouth close to her neck. ]


Take care, mademoiselle. Save such a deception for when the customers are already frightened, or you might end up a victim of the night instead.

[ "Y-yes..."

Hibiki props the girl up against some nearby scenery, then turns back towards the haunted house proper. She steps in front of Fubuki on her way deeper in. ]


I'm continuing.

[ You do whatever you want to do. ]
Edited 2017-07-15 02:01 (UTC)
blizzardrock: (ten-man)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-15 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[CRISIS AVERTED]

Hm? Nice moves! [He gets up. (He's made a perfect recovery, you see)]

Er, not to criticize, but...where'd you come up with the idea to get that close to her neck?

[The fact that it turned out to be a mundane scare is a relief, but if that really was one of the things trapping people— Wait, no. He got that turned around.]

[...But still.] ...Do you do that often?
priforprince: (contemplate)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-18 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki shrugs and chooses to answer the first question instead of the second. ] It's a horror-themed set. Evocations of vampirism seemed appropriate.

[ She says this perfectly calmly, like it's the kind of thing any logical human being would decided when put in that position. She also doesn't even glance back, walking forward with a rather flat expression.

This is all in a day's work for the mighty Apollo, it seems. ]
blizzardrock: (ten-man)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-18 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, is that all it was? No reason to get freaked out, then! Aha...ha...]

[Even so, he trails behind a little, because even though the last time he'd met a vampire he'd been in front of him, he'd feel better if he could see her turn around. And asking her to warn him the next time she does it would just give away that he was affected by it, and he has an image to maintain. (*Said image may or may not exist except to himself.)]

[A few steps later, though, and he looks up at the ceiling. It was pretty dark already, but—] Is it getting darker?

[And while he won't discount the possibility that the sudden fog came from a fog machine, it's also...really thick...] The technicians won't be able to see in this...
priforprince: (smugger)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-18 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The corners of Hibiki's mouth turn down, but she's not especially worried. Instead, she raises a hand. ] Illumination is the sun's domain.

[ So she snaps her fingers. She has every intention of conjuring illusory lights, but instead, nothing happens.

Hibiki's brows furrow. She concentrates. Light. Fill the whole place with light.

Still nothing.

For the first time since this whole escapade began, she frowns. ]
blizzardrock: (ten-man)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-19 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm guessing that didn't work?

[He's not worried just yet, since although he can guess at her intentions from what she said, he doesn't actually know what she was going to do or how it works. Instead, he looks back the way they came. The exit—]

[Where's the exit? Covered by fog?? But no, he can clearly see a wall.]

[...Now he's starting to get worried.] I guess now we know why people were getting stuck here for hours...

[As he says that, he takes a step back and nearly slips again, catching himself just in time. More oil? ...That wasn't a spill earlier, was it.]

I don't suppose you brought a flashlight?
priforprince: (snap)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-20 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
A god requires no such props.

[ And she walks forward into the pitch black darkness. Right. Visual illusions are out, but, no matter. As long as they keep moving ahead, they will reach either the exit or whatever is troubling this attraction. So simple, one likely needn't even be a genius to discern it!

But perhaps one needs to be a genius to thwart whatever's waiting. Hibiki is prepared to ad-lib.

And to ignore if it, say, starts getting colder in here. ]
blizzardrock: (seven star)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-20 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Be careful of the oil. [...Was he just unlucky that he's the one who keeps stepping in it? Who knows but it's not like it'll hurt to say a warning.]

Prop it may be... Do you think the technicians are carrying them? [He's not saying they should have taken the opportunity to take it off the earlier girl's hands, but he can't see her anymore, either. Chances are, she's gotten lost, too?? And cold??]

[He rubs his hands together.] Which direction are you headed?
priforprince: (recognize)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
The exit.

[ Obviously. She has picked this direction, so it must be correct. Now, what is all this nonsense about -

There is an audible splash noise from this area of the darkness. ]
blizzardrock: (seven star)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-21 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Did he just hear a splash.]

Are you alright?

[Would she be the type to answer honestly if she weren't, is the real question here, but not saying it might give the wrong impression, especially since it's gotten so dark. They're not going to be able to see each other if it gets any worse. Which, wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if this weren't a haunted haunted house and couples could come here without fear of getting trapped, but...it is in fact a haunted haunted house.]

[...Which is his justification for doing what he does next.] Oh no~ How will I ever live without seeing your ~gorgeous face~ one more time?

[The lights come back on. ...Welp.]
priforprince: (apologize)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-22 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They come back on to the sight of Hibiki, skid marks clearly visible on the floor from where her foot had found a large puddle of oil, balancing herself one-legged against a prop well that, presumably, people emerge from to scare others. The post appears to have been abandoned, but the well remains.

She corrects her posture, takes out a handkerchief, wipes down the soles of her sandals. ]
Such tiresome juvenelia.

[ Something in the air giggles. ]
blizzardrock: (dragon's shrine)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-22 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you're unhurt.

[He'd been assuming malicious intent, but maybe the ghosts here are just having fun?]

[...No, but people had been stuck here for hours, and there had definitely been screaming. It was clearly not fun for at least some of the people that had gotten caught in it.]

[But since he now knows that the ghosts are listening, he goes over so he can lower his voice.] Let's use them to our advantage.
priforprince: (hikyoin)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-23 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki doesn't remember this venture turning into anything involving the word "our". She frowns. ] You really think that'll keep working?

[ It's not a bad idea, but she's trying to figure out whether it would fit in her aesthetic. Tricking people into doing what she wants....Hibiki's not above that, but it's not magnificent. A foe should be vanquished more grandly.

Besides, she doesn't need help. ]
blizzardrock: (swing of memories)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-24 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's give it a shot.

[He straightens and raises his voice.] I agree!! It's too cold to stay! At this rate, we might just leave~!

[And now the temperature is rising. That might have been risky, considering the ghosts might have tried to get them to stay more forcefully, so good thing it didn't backfire on him! Ahaha!]

Let's hurry before they change their minds. [Unaware of what she thinks about working together, he goes ahead.]
priforprince: (fingertips)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-25 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ A sigh. She's picked up a troublesome audience member, hasn't she.....Believing this is participatory theater.

Ah, well. She's committed this far, she may as well keep going. Hibiki folds her hands into her sleeves and heads in the same direction as Fubuki, keeping up her own relaxed pace.

Now that there's confirmation something out there is listening, however, she herself is more open to her environment. Where....? If she thinks of the spirit as the number-ONE thing she needs to find....then her sensitivity to that number...

Where is it?? ]
blizzardrock: (seven star)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2017-07-25 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Meanwhile, in front of her, Fubuki goes crashing to the ground again. WHO PUT THAT PIECE OF PAPER THERE???]

[...He picks it up.] It says "Behind you."

[The only person behind him is Hibiki, so—] Is there something behind you?
priforprince: (floof)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-07-26 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki snorts, concentration (for the moment) broken. ] An amateur's trick! They wait for you to turn around, only to --

[ Something looms up behind her. ]

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