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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~
thevanguard: serious emotions attitude (139)

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-12 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yata rubs a hand over his face. ]

Please don't jinx us any more than we already are.
lostinshadows: ([77])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Think that isn't already too late for that?

[A blink when he sees a hand outstretched towards him from the floor, a croaking sound escaping from the ghost. He quickly slams the door.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-14 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, you never know when you can be jinxed worse. It's a thing, okay?

[ He jumps at the slammed door, and then lets out a nervous laugh. ]

Heh. Not the way out, I take it?
lostinshadows: ([28])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-14 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Or your luck is just that bad.

[He shakes his head slowly.]

Not unless you want to see a ghost crawling towards you from the darkness.
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-14 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yata shudders. ]

Not especially, no.

Look, let's not get into how bad my luck is right now. That's probably scarier than all the ghosts in this place combined.
lostinshadows: ([39])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-14 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
....And you told me not to jinx it.

[There are so many doors in this place. He hopes one is the way out.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-14 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Considering the door starts shaking and shuddering and creaking on its hinges before Lavi's hand even gets all the way to the doorknob?

Yata's guessing that's a no. ]
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-14 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[....He drops his hand and kicks at the door again.

It earns a shriek, similar to a banshee's scream, actually before the door rattles again.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-19 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeeah, I think that door's a bad choice.
lostinshadows: ([39])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-19 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
There are far too many doors here to check.

[He backs up from the door, looking around.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-19 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've got a better idea, I'm all ears.

[ Because at the moment, he's not sure what their options are other that finding a way out through one of them. ]
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-19 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
If shinki spells worked on spirits, that'd be great.

[A pause as he glances at him.]

How good are your Borderlines?
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-20 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Lavi gets cast an irritated look at that, even though the other shinki didn't know any better. Just the topic in general tends to make Yata annoyed. ]

Nonexistent. But I can set them on fire instead.
lostinshadows: ([55])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-20 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He thinks about it.]

Then let's form some flaming walls. [If Yata can manage that.] We can open doors and set up a fire wall to prevent any spirits from getting too close. At least that way, it might deter them from getting too close.
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-21 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! Flaming walls I can do! [ All too easily, actually. Since those are always what appear whenever he tries to borderline. ] Where do you want them?
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-21 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Lavi gestures to a few doors specifically.] There and there.
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Then steer clear of those.

[ Yata gives a nod and focuses before making a gesture at the places indicated.

A moment later, flickering flames spring up, creating a wall almost as tall as the doorways themselves. Although they don't seem to be burning anything around them. Yet. ]
lostinshadows: ([40])

[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-21 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[When the flame walls come up, Lavi eyes it at first to see if it might spread.

When it doesn't seem like it would, he goes to check the remaining doors. A pause as he glances at Yata.]


How long can you keep those up?
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-21 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno. Until I lose my concentration or pass out. Whichever comes first? [ e hasn't actually successfully tested time limits very well because his fire seemed to work on will rather than a reservoir of power. So far he hasn't really hit its limits, he's pretty sure. ]

Either way, let's hurry.
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-21 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[A nod and Lavi's going to open up doors.

Eventually, he does manage to find the exit and he signals Yata over.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-21 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Which is good because the longer this goes on the more it looks like Yata's about to jump out of his skin, trying to keep an eye on every direction at once. Especially when random doors down the hall keep banging and creaking and rattling with no warning, howls and other noises emanating from behind them. ]

What the hell is in here? [ He grumbles under his breath, even as he jumps forward when Lavi finally motions to him, relieved.]
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-21 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, just this way.

[He spares a glance over his shoulder when he hears a door being torn apart.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-24 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yata heard it too and he has no idea if that's one of the doors he's got behind a barrier or not. And he's not really interested in sticking around to find out. Which is why he grabs Lavi's arm and drags him with him the moment he reaches him. ]

Hurrying's probably a good idea right about now.
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[personal profile] lostinshadows 2017-07-24 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lavi's initially surprised when Yata grabs his arm, but he doesn't hesitate to start moving. The faster they get away, the better.

Behind them, there's a sound echoing behind them.]
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[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-26 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, shit.

[ He doesn;t know what that is and he doesn't want to find out either. ]

Run!

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