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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.
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,
Wildcard
Choose your own adventure! Feel free to make up your own prompts. Ronald Knox's player (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:
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
Spirited Festivals
Cursed Charms
- 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...
Haunting Hour
* 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?
I want to talk about theEveryone 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.
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Wildcard
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~
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Or outsmarted whatever's causing this, same thing. ]
It's about time for the final curtain to fall.
[ And if they're playing tricks with time and space, she'll just have to think of a better trick.
....Give her a second. ]
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[While Hibiki's thinking, Fubuki tosses his captive cloth-twist at the place he suspects is a wall. It bounces off, and—]
[The wall shatters??]
...Is that the back of the house? [Where there used to be a complete vista of a pit, now it's half a vista of a pit, interrupted by what looks to be wood paneling.]
If we didn't turn around at any point, wouldn't this mean they hid the back of the house outside somehow... [He has to commend that commitment to their work, he supposes, if that really is the case.]
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She closes her eyes, the better to concentrate. Not long afterward, a girl who hadn't been in the yukata room, completely nondescript except for the look of fear on her face, creeps into the room, her expression pale.
"H...help..." she murmurs. Hibiki smiles to herself and keeps off to the side, focusing very hard on something. And waiting.
The temperature in the room begins to drop, so she doubts she'll have to wait long. ]
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[When he glances over to Hibiki, he notes that she hadn't...really reacted; given her reaction to the girls in the other room, that doesn't seem quite right, so he assumes it's Hibiki's doing.]
[He whispers as he falls in next to her.] Warn me when you do something like that.
[Well, considering they're in the final act now, that may not even come up again, but it...did startle him a bit. Ahaha...]
[Aaand, on the heels of the cold, here comes the fog.]
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[ Yes, she's lying. But this needs to not look like her doing (and keep attention away from her) to be an effective ruse.
The fog swirls around both of them, and around the girl who has dropped to her knees in fright in the middle of the room. "D-don't come...." she whimpers.
Hibiki touches her forehead lightly - not a headache already - but keeps concentrating. And a shadow looms up. ]
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[When the shadow looms up, he hasn't put it together yet that luring out the mastermind-ghost is the plan, so—] Is that really going to be okay?!
[It has huge teeth and everything!!]
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[ Ah. The last boss. Hibiki knows, of course, that she can't dispel the thing without her shinki's involvement, but at the very least she can chase it away from the haunted house.
The girl scrambles to her feet and runs from the ghost, which begins bearing down on her. It looks like it's done just scaring people. This one, it wants to swallow alive!
And Hibiki still isn't moving. ]
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Cutting it a little close? [As much as he can appreciate dramatic timing, there is such a thing as "too late"!]
[...Unless the idea is to make it tire itself out chasing illusions. Hibiki was holding her head, though, so...probably not...?]
...I'm carrying holy water, if the idea is to weaken it...
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[ She then proceeds to pull an antique sword from essentially nowhere. It flashes in what little light the room still possesses - or perhaps with its own light. The illusion of the girl vanishes, leaving the ghost exposed, confused, and angry in the center of the room. ]
This ends here! [ Hibiki has a glove in her free hand now, which she tosses through the ghost's head. ] For besmirching the name of this entertainment, I challenge you to a duel!!
[ Yeah, you can. You can throw that holy water whenever you want. She will not complain. ]
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[And the glove went through the ghost, so will that really...?]
[Oh, the spirit has picked up the discarded yukata rope, which, for their parts, seem to be holding themselves rigid like a pole. And with the spirit holding the "pole" up with one hand, it looks like...]
[It looks like the spirit has accepted the challenge...]
...Does that make me the commentator...?
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It's a very showy, theatrical form of fencing, but come this point that is likely no surprise.
The opponents appear evenly matched! Hibiki is blocking each strike with ease, but she also hasn't been able to exploit any openings....She keeps pressing on, however. There is no way she'll lose! ]
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[He waits for a few moments to pass, then sneaks off around the fight to the back wall.]
[He'd thought that the ghost made it darker for atmosphere...and that could still be true, but there's nothing saying it has to be... Ah, there's a hatchet over here, leaning against the wall. That's pretty convenient! Almost too convenient! This is almost guaranteed to be a trap somehow!]
[Another glance at the fight to make sure the spirit hasn't noticed, and...here goes. He gives the hatchet a mighty swing, and smashes through the back wall, letting dim light through.]
[Looks like that got the spirit's attention.]
ugh i mispaced this, sorry i didn't give him a chance to commentate :(
The ghost swivels towards the light, and Hibiki turns to see what's happened as well. In a moment, however, she notices the chance she's been given, and thrusts. ] Haaaah!!
[ The ghost is already fainter from the light streaming through when Hibiki's sword pierces it. She turns her illusion powers on to make the blade glow for good measure, and the creature screams.
Hibiki twists the blade. She isn't actually piercing anything physical, but it's the idea that counts. ]
lol he wouldn't have anyways, no worries!
[He ditches the yukata, picks up the hatchet again, and widens the hole with another few swings.]
[...Which may have been a bad idea. Ow his arm ow—]
[The ghost is starting to retreat, though.]
—Catch! [He throws his vial of holy water in Hibiki's direction. (Ow ow his arm—) She's closer to the path of retreat, so he tossed it to her just in case!]
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Still making eerie screaming noises, the ghost splits in half around Hibiki's sword and then reforms free from impact. It tries to flee out the door, but Hibiki has already positioned herself in the way, so it shrinks itself to a pinprick of shadow and rushes out the hole Fubuki'd created instead, in search of some shadow, anywhere, amid all this light.
The atmosphere loses its uncanny pressure. Hibiki lowers her sword, sighs, tosses the vial back at Fubuki. She needs that hand free to wipe her sword off with a handkerchief.
Roll credits, presumably. ]
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Do you think it'd just find another haunted house tonight...?
[He catches the vial with his off hand, and, after pocketing it, rubs at his shoulder while he goes over to peer through the hole.]
[...As for the hole itself. ...No one has to know he's the culprit.]
Are you going to go after it?
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It's sufficiently weakened. By the time it rallies its strength, this event will have concluded. It has nowhere to run.
[ And if it's not gonna just start this up again, then tracking it down sounds like effort. Effort is anathema. ]
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[He turns back to the haunted house at large.]
I'm going to go retrieve the card I left behind. [Maybe check if there's anyone else here, too.] What are you going to do?
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[ Her work here is d-o-n-e done. ]
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[He says, like he's certain she wants to. But he's not one to pay attention to things like that. He gives a cheerful wave as he heads back the way they came.]
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[ Hibiki nods. She'll be as slow leaving as she was in arriving, so he shouldn't wait up for her or anything.
She doesn't have any especially pressing plans for the evening. ]