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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~
mermaiding: (They're all so happy and smiling)

Ota!

[personal profile] mermaiding 2017-07-02 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Possessed Possessions]

[Oona doesn't like clothes, this much has always been obvious. On nay given day Oona will wear the least amount of clothing possible, enough to claim she's covered and therefore no one can complain. The short chiton dress and sandals were chosen mostly because it offered a lot more freedom of movement and matched with her being a greek goddess now.

It didn't mean Oona liked them much more than other clothes, but it was Acceptable.

Until her shoes started moving on their own.

They were enchanted anyhow thanks to Forrest, just to try and make walking a little less painful for her, so she didn't particularly want to lose them but... Where were they even going??

Oona can be found trailing with a slightly stiff gait after the shoes as they wander around. At first she was amused, but now she's just annoyed
] Funny, at first, but now... Stupid shoes! Stop! [Her feet and legs are beginning to ache even more from the constant moving, but she's stubbornly pushing through despite how obvious it is that she's growing more and more pained.]

Hey! [If she sees someone near-by she immediately points to them and then the shoes:] Stop shoes!

[Spirited Festivals]

Stupid humans. So scared of everything! Sure is fine. Will go through, just fine, you will see! Nothing will scare!

[That was Oona's smug, bold claim just a few minutes before sauntering on into one of the haunted houses. And roughly 2 minutes before there's a noise that probably isn't even part of the haunted house--someone coughs or someone's shoe accidentally scuffs against the ground--and Oona...

Oona yelps and clings tightly and suddenly to the person who's entered with her
] What? What was?!

[Cursed Charms -- Bears??]

[Who's buying anything? Fuck that, Oona's just straight up lifting a pretty necklace off a table where one woman was showing it off to another. It was her fault for being distracted and not seeing it being taken to begin with!!

But it's pretty and shiny and Oona seems pretty happy with it! She grabs a crepe as it's being passed from vendor to customer and nibbles on it happily until she realizes, as she wanders more to the fringes of towns and countrysides, she's starting to gather some... followers.

They seem pretty benign at first, but they just keep...trailing her... Oona squints at them and bares her teeth in warning, but they actually seem really friendly, or maybe just really interested in her crepe? She's gonna assume that and she jumps back with a scowl
]

No! Stop! [Scolding the bears nbd] Is mine, stole fairly! Go away!

[She waves her free hand ineffectively at the approaching little group. There's probably like 3 or 4 of them just happily bumbling along, but she is definitely about to fight these bears over a crepe.]

[THEN WHO WAS PHONE?]

[oona's curiosity has gotten the better of her, so of course she's followed the instructions and showed up at the spot. She loiters around with her hands on her hips, looking more irritated as more people arrive and nothing's happened.

So, it's Time To Complain
]

Booorring.
revolutionfalcon: (unexpected company)

Shun Kurosaki | OTA

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2017-07-02 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[A: Possessions, August 1st]

[Somewhere in the back of his mind, Shun had noticed they were getting into haunting season, but he hadn't been too concerned about it affecting the Far Shore. When at least half their number were technically ghosts anyway and they already have the creepy forest for that sort of thing, he'd been mostly preparing for an upsurge of potential spirit activity on the Near Shore instead.

The wrongness of that assumption is evidenced fairly early on the morning of August 1st, when he's interrupted on the couch by one of the pillows in the pile on his loungeroom floor hurling itself at the back of his head.

Apparently, Shun's policy is that if spirits are taking up residence, they might as well make themselves useful, and soon enough, he takes them and himself outside. Anyone passing by his temple may be party to the sight of a stack of pillows throwing themselves at him, occasionally one by one and occasionally not so politely, as Shun kicks or punches them out of the air, or occasionally backflips over them.

Judging by the faint, reedy sound of laughter from the pile, the spirits are sufficiently amused by this, but that also isn't necessarily going to stop them from hurling themselves at anyone else nearby, either. Better watch out.]


--

[B: Haunting Hour, Sunset August 2nd-5th]

[It's a little unfortunate how neatly the sudden upsurge in random spirit attacks coincides with Shun's evening patrolling, and he's prepared himself as appropriately as he can once he starts hearing the rumours and noticing the increase in activity. Additional blessed water to ward off ayakashi is one part of it, and given the abundance of superstition becoming real, he's picked up an evil-warding omamori to see how well it works against them. While the ayakashi aren't likely to feel a thing, it seems to keep most of the smaller-time spirits healthily away.

Unfortunately, this also means Shun is, if possible, even more on his toes than usual, and anyone approaching him too closely at this kind of time is likely to get maybe within a few feet before he either turns (or, in closer cases, backflips over them), and pulls out his blessed water-soaked dagger with no apparent fear, but all apparent suspicion.

Once he recognises they're not an ayakashi or spirit, he lets out a breath and returns himself to a more normal, but still wary bearing.]


About time more people started looking into this.

--

[C: who was phone, Late Evening August 2nd-5th]

[On one hand, Shun isn't stupid enough to just roll up to the location specified in a random anonymous text and not expect something bad to happen. On the other, he's a little too curious who sent it not to pursue the lead, so the result is that he ends up lurking in a tree a little way away from the fire. It would be a difficult spot to ambush him, despite the fact that the fire light makes it not too hard to pick his form out among the branches.

If anyone approaches, he'll look them over before nodding towards the fire.]


Has anyone figured out who set this up yet?

--

[D: Wildcard]

[[Shun would likely also be chasing the smaller-time spirits out of haunted houses if anyone wants to assume running into him in one of those. If you'd like to do something else or something with these prompts but further along in date, feel free to hit me up at [plurk.com profile] reviseleviathan!]]
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A

[personal profile] fullcowl 2017-07-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Izuku picked up a doll mostly because somebody threw it directly at him while assuming he was empty air. Oh, the "joys" of being a Far Shore resident. And wow he has never felt so grumpy in his life. Every single thing is getting on his nerves and when a spirit throws a pillow at him he glares in the pile's direction.]

Can't you control where those are going?
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Davesprite | OTA

[personal profile] redotiertwo 2017-07-02 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[A: Spirited Festivals, August 1st-4th]

[So maybe not all of the harmless trolling spirits turned up just with the haunting season. Maybe some of them have been secretly here the whole time. And also maybe Davesprite is trying to clear some of these people out before they hit the parts of the haunted houses that have the actual threats in them.

Either way, anyone investigating the haunted houses might hear a few screams as a gaggle of young teenagers bolts out of the haunted house. Entering the room they just left will reveal an etherial, intangible afterimage of something large and winged, pale enough that it's more like a shadow than anything even if it has a distinctly orange look about it. There's also some words scrawled on the wall in intentionally scratchy, overdramatic handwriting, which is also neon orange and quite literally glowing. Unfortunately it's in English rather than Japanese, so the full message might not have gotten across, but Davesprite at least had the courtesy to avoid the flowery language here and just put it in straight terms of threats of death and eating people and whatever else sounded right for whatever's lurking deeper in here.

There also definitely isn't the twitch of a much more solid, orange feathery wing behind the next doorway as more writing appears below the original message, still scrawled but in a way that reads as more natural handwriting.]


Come on, dude, don't walk in on people while they're changing, even if it's just scene changing.

--

[B: jesus christ it's bears get in the car Charms, August 5th]

[Okay, so maybe Davesprite picked up one of these charms to try and get into the spirit of the occasion. And it also might have been a cursed one, because Davesprite has never been a particularly reverent person when it comes to superstitions.

He is definitely reconsidering that attitude now that he's somehow managed to draw two black bears to the bottom of the tree he's now curled himself close to the top of.]


Alright, alright, fuck, okay, the bear charm works, now can someone take it away before I have to fuck up what I'm sure are some perfectly nice bears.

[He could also fly away, but that risks someone getting attacked while the bears wander back to...wherever they came from.]

--

[C: existential phone memes, Evening August 5th]

[Well, Davesprite sure did manage to finally toss that bear charm into the blessed fire. It was kind of cathartic, all things considered, even if he did mostly answer the text to see who exactly the fuck thought sending a text like that out was a good idea right now.

Now he's laid himself out right near the fire, both wings stretched away from the fire so he doesn't accidentally get toasted by a stray spark. If anyone approaches him, he'll offer a somewhat half-assed wave before dropping his hand.]


So. Bears. How was your day. [He sounds about as done as it's possible to be while still being completely deadpan.]
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Urashima | OTA

[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Spirited Festivals
( He'd told everyone he was going to go to the haunted house and nothing is going to stop him! As he waits in line with someone else (he'd either run into or invited along), he listens to the screams and sobs coming from inside the haunted house. )

Uuu…

( He was feeling pretty brave when they first got here. He was feeling brave the whole hour they waited in line! But now that their turn is coming up, he's beginning to get the chills and he glances back. )

Did you feel that? ( He looks a little spooked, ) I felt a chill down my back…!
( Its not too late to abort?! )

Cursed Charms - Bad Luck
( For the most part, Urashima is a lucky kid. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that fluffy tailed turtle he's always with is a rare and lucky symbol here in Japan. But today is just not his day. He'd picked up a lucky charm from a temple to hopefully keep him out of trouble but it looks like he's grabbed the wrong one. This is a fake charm and he's had nothing but bad luck all day.

He's running around trying to chase away all of these menacing spirits when he suddenly had to stop…

You can find Urashima crouched next to a storm drain, missing one slipper, and trying to figure out how to get his shoe back.
)

WHO WAS PHONE?
( At the temple with everyone else, Urashima hadn't even thought about the message. He wasn't the only one who received it and he'd decided to come along the moment Oona said she was going to go too. He's sitting next to the fire watching people dispose of their cursed and old charms when he begins to catch some of the conversations around him. Huh? No one knows who invited them?

He pulls out his phone and scrolls through the message a bit as if hoping to find some sort of clue. Nothing. There's no way to track the sender?
)

Huh… ( He was just listening to others talk but now he's thinking out loud, ) What if the phone sent the message?

Wildcard
( Choose your own adventure! If you want to plot, hit me up on plurk at [plurk.com profile] eski! )
Edited 2017-07-02 07:07 (UTC)
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Sakura | OTA

[personal profile] festal 2017-07-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Spirited Festival
( Being a priestess, she's always had a strange sense for these things. She was drawn to the haunted house and only wanted to confirm that this strange feeling she was sensing was coming from it. But she'd wandered a little to close and had been pushed inside with the next group of patrons. )

W-wait, no…! ( She tries to go back but the crowd pushes her in like a wave. She manages to escape, stepping back and turns back to leave through the entrance only…

It isn't there anymore?
) Where…?

( Someone sneezes. A thundering sound effect rumbles through the haunted house. And when she hears someone approaching her, she shrieks, turning around to slap whoever is coming towards her. )

S-stay back!

Haunting Hour
( Sakura hates being afraid. She's frightened very easily and she doesn't want to be out here at this hour. The shadows are bigger and there's something strange about all of them. There's a rotten smell in the air and she just wants to turn around and leave. Maybe she can head back to that festival? She'd only wanted a moment to clear her head and still her heart…

She's heading back to the festival when she spots you,
)

Um…! Wait, I d-don't think you should be out here alone!


WHO WAS PHONE?
( There's a sacred fire and this is something she knows she can do. As others begin to arrive, she'll go to take their charms and help dispose of them, tossing them into the fire. As the charm burns, she lets out a sigh of relief,. )

Good riddance…

Wildcard
( Choose your own adventure! If you want to plot, hit me up on plurk at [plurk.com profile] eski! )
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Tatsuya Enomoto | OTA

[personal profile] hackberrydragon 2017-07-02 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
a. I thought they were native to Australia?

HEY! NO! BAD BEAR!

[ If one would be wandering past a local park today, one would be able to catch sight of something quite unusual: Enomoto playing tug of war with a medium sized black bear using the saber he has strapped to his side. ]

Come on... give it back... good bear. Give!

[ And as he's tugging the sword, he's starting to back away and seems to be heading to a tree where another bear is standing in the branches. Said bear seems to be waiting for the right moment, as if wanting to get the ...drop... on Eno. ]

--

b. All up in flames...

[ Good freaking riddance. At least the bears are gone. You can find him by the fire, sitting and inspecting the scabbard of his sword. There's a small grumble as he holds it to the light.

There are tiny bite marks on the scabbard. Nothing too big but if you're picky, they're definitely there. ]


...you'd think a bear charm would keep the bears away...
Edited 2017-07-02 07:44 (UTC)
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Maria Cadenzavna Eve | OTA

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-02 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
[A: Possessions, August 1st-3rd]

[It's really quite something waking up to see one of your dresses dancing and twirling like it's having the time of its life in the middle of your room. Maria's waking call on the first day of the haunting season is exactly that, and it only keeps happening the next few days, various skirts and shirts and dresses carrying themselves away to drape themselves out over an awkward branch or splash into the river by the temple.

Occasionally, one of them will find its way out the top of the cave that houses the temple, floating down to the ground outside with Maria in pursuit after she climbs the tree up far enough. The wayward clothing is definitely going to be floating itself towards whoever happens to be nearby, but not before Maria hurls herself off the outside of the cave walls to crash-tackle it to the ground.]


Got you! [It's a tone of immense frustration, though it clears up some when she turns her head to whoever she just did that in front of.] Sorry. It's been like this all morning.

--

[B: Charms (Fear), August 4th-5th]

[Considering the talk of curses a bit of harmless fun compared to what goes on in her world, Maria picks up a "cursed", but rather nice-looking mirror on the 4th. It's not until she's passing by the setup for one of the weekend festivals that anything seems amiss - the very sight of the decorations puts a shiver down her spine, and as she starts to back off and think about maybe walking back to her shrine in another direction, it's entirely possible she'll back into someone she's not looking out for.

She doesn't quite scream, but she does gasp very loudly and in obvious panic before rounding on the person behind her...before realising that it's indeed a person, and immediately breaking out in an embarrassed flush.]


Couldn't you have spoken up? It's the middle of haunting season, isn't it? [It's politer than most people probably would have made it, but she still sounds a little ticked at having been scared like that.]

--

[C: no john you are the phones, Evening August 5th]

[Thankfully, when Maria gets over her sudden and crippling fear enough to head out to see what that message is all about, she spots others throwing objects into the fire and still has the presence of mind to realise what that probably means. Nice mirror as it is, she's been more and more on edge since she found it, and though she stands well back as if the fire might bite her if she gets closer, she tosses it into the inferno.

As soon as it's consumed, a weight seems to come off her chest, and she breathes out in relief before sitting sharply down on an abandoned tree stump, looking very haggard all of a sudden.]


I've heard of a magic mirror before, but honestly...
revolutionfalcon: (the hell do you want)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2017-07-02 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets a rather dry glance from Shun.] If you want to try talking to the spirits, I won't stop you.

[Said as he rather casually punches one of the pillows to the side again. Izuku might be grumpy, but Shun's the kind of person who generally takes that in stride unless it's frustrating to deal with or offends him personally somehow.

Still, it is very strange coming from Izuku.]
Would've thought this week would get to you sooner than this.

[That is very much the tone of someone who doesn't think that's actually what happened here. If Izuku was going to snap from pressure, he would've done it by now.]
fullcowl: (121)

[personal profile] fullcowl 2017-07-02 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He's right, Izuku has had a very long week, he's tired and cranky. And usually he'd just pass out at home and get over it. He's not the type to snap at others.

Usually.

But everything seems to be annoying him today. And he spares a thought for Bakugou- before getting even more annoyed.]


My week's been way longer than it's supposed to and you assuming things doesn't help either.
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Spirited Festivals

[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not nice...

( It's the last thing he says before he follows Oona inside the haunted house. He'd thought it was a good idea to come see the place because everyone else was saying how much fun it was going to be but now that he's here, people have been saying it's way scarier than he thought it would be.

He isn't feeling this anymore but if Oona is going in, he isn't going to let her go in alone! And now that he's actually inside, it feels worse. There's a chill going down his spine and he senses something is out there. He's more focused on this feeling now, keeping on alert when she suddenly grabs him.
)

Ah! ( he grabs her right back so I guess they're just holding each other in the dark now. ) I don't know!
Edited 2017-07-02 13:52 (UTC)
revolutionfalcon: (declaration of intent)

bad luck

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2017-07-02 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[At this point, Shun's thanking his good sense that he managed to actually get a legitimate omamori when he went out looking for one instead of whatever the charms that are giving people hell are. He's just on his way to check out another suspicious area when he passes by Urashima...apparently very focused on a storm drain.

Given the current circumstances, his first assumption is entirely different from what's actually happening, and he heads over to peer alongside him into the drain.]


There'd better not be more of those damn things hiding down there. This place is already in bad enough shape.
revolutionfalcon: (derisive)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2017-07-02 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Definitely weird. Shun kicks a pillow back into the pile hard enough to knock the whole thing flat briefly before turning most of his attention to Izuku. Not all, because he doubts it'll take long for pillows to start flying again. Either way, he's eying the other boy with a rather wary look.]

I've been there for most of your week. And you've had every single reason to have cracked earlier than this. So no, I don't actually think this is to do with your week, or at least not entirely.
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Misaki Yata | OTA

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-07-02 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
A. Spirited Festivals
    [ Yata is here on a dare.

    Mostly because that is literally the only way he would be caught at one of these things, and from the tense and almost paranoid way he keeps glancing around him as he waits in line for one of these Haunted House tours, it shows that he is not enjoying himself at all. Especially when someone comes up and taps him on the shoulder and he jumps nearly a foot in the air in his surprise, despite the hyper-vigilant watch he'd been keeping. ]


    Shit, man, don't sneak up on someone like that!

B. Cursed Charms
    (( OOC: Dealer's choice on which you want to play! Preference for bad luck, fear, evil or sickness, but will take any! ))
    [ Yata has considerable bad luck on most days ending in y anyway, so the fact that he ends up with a charm that is cursed should be a surprise to no one. In fact, he keeps seeming to stumble across them and ending up with them with increasing frequency (Maybe that's his bad luck being doubled and triples? Does this status effect stack? Apparently yes.) Which is why during the span of a few days, he finds himself in possession of a number of them until he figures out what's going on, but that doesn't mean he's any less affected when another one somehow finds its way into his possession.

    ....He's beginning to suspect this is a conspiracy. ]

C. Haunting Hour
    [ The last thing Yata wants to be doing is hanging out anywhere ghosts might show up and scare him more. But at least he's here with a purpose tonight. Still looking jumpy and paranoid, he's at least got a trusty bat with him this time as he skates down one of the streets, just as a cold wind sweeps by him, carrying with it a scent that sets his teeth on edge, the hair raising on the back of his neck. ]

    Dammit, show yourselves so I can beat the shit out of you assholes!

D. THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
    [ He wants no part in the ghost stories. He'd mostly shown up because he wanted answers (because someone was obviously behind all this trolling of him, right?) Although once he got here and just found more people as clueless as him, he started to suspect that he wasn't going to find what he was looking for. By this time, it's more than obvious he's been having a Very Bad Week.

    Oh well. At least, the fire at the shrine was a great place to burn the rest of those cursed charms... ]

E. Wildcard!
    (( OOC: Hit him up with anything! Yata hates scary things like ghosts and spooky stuff, so obviously I am open to people tossing all manner of things at him to exploit this. )) ]
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[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
( When Shun approaches, Urashima looks up. He looks pretty helpless like he's at a total and complete loss as to what to do right now. It's almost the same look he gave Shun after he was punched in the face and didn't know what to do... except this time, he isn't dripping blood from the nose. Actually, even though that only happened a few days ago, he looks as good as new! )

What... you think there are things down there too?

( He's whining but only because he's tired. He's tired, Shun. )

Uuu... ( He leans closer to the drain. Well... there's his slipper still and no spirits in sight. Of course, as he leans down, the turtle on his shoulder begins to slip and that's weird because she never slips off his shoulder. She falls onto the ground with a clunk and in her shell. ) Himechan--!

( He fumbles to pick her up and




into the drain she goes.
)

HIMECHAN...!
mermaiding: (but my jolly sailor bold.)

[personal profile] mermaiding 2017-07-02 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[OONA ISN'T NICE, URASHIMA, WHY HAVEN'T YOU LEARNED THIS BY NOW.

But somehow him grabbing her back just scares her more and she screams again, giving him a little shake. The only reason she doesn't shove him away or something more violent is because she does unconsciously recognize that it's him, winning out against the instinct to attack.
]

What do you mean don't know! You are spirit thing, yes?! Talk to other spirit things! [She doesn't fucking know how spirits work okay, she is a simple mermaid.

there isn't even any spirits in this area, and probably they've managed to walk into the only 100% normal haunted house of the lot anyhow
]
minogame: pixiv: 1890357 (pic#9986595)

phone memes

[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
( He gladly tossed this no good awful bad luck of a fake 5 yen coin into the fire and takes a seat net to Davesprite with a loud, heavy, sigh. Boy is he glad you asked because he sure does have a story to tell! )

A vending machine took my money then I lost my wallet and then my shoe fell down a well and Himechan fell right after it and I almost got hit by a bunch of bicycles and then someone threw water out their window and it hit me...! And a bunch of spirits chased me in the haunted house too and I couldn't get out!

( It's been a no good awful bad day. )

It was awful!
alchemists: (smile)

Elfnein | ota

[personal profile] alchemists 2017-07-02 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Possessed possessions

[ Books were falling off shelves, chairs weren’t in their places and a weird white noise was also playing. Elfnein’s library temple was slowly becoming a place where it would be hard to study and read books. Of course, this was happening everywhere and it wasn’t only this temple that was being tossed around. ]

“If you have issues with the current spirits making a mess please see Elfnein.”

[ She had used her power to write a bunch of flashing notes in the air in high traffic places. If there was one thing Elfnein knew how to handle it was talking to people and trying to solve the issue with science. It’s ghost busting time, or ghost reasoning time. ]

2. Wild card

[ ota ]
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[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
( She's nice sometimes! He's shook. She's shaking him and he's shook but knowing that it's Oona, he's doing his best to not look too scared... you know, besides clearly being spooked. He's standing in front of her protectively while also holding onto her hand or something. He's brave! He's a brave sword spirit! )

I don't know what I'm talking to...! ( Some recorded laughter echoes in the distance and he yells, ) It's not funny!

( And then there's real laughter coming from all around them. )
mermaiding: (I disdain all glittering gold)

[personal profile] mermaiding 2017-07-02 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay at first she was scared, but now she's just sort of angry]

Laughing? Is laughing? At us? [She sounds mortally offended by this.] Stupid thing is playing with us! Urashima! Should destroy it, right away!

[She gives his hand a tug, fully prepared to march on ahead, but as she steps over some trigger, a cardboard cutout of a monster pops out from the wall.

Oona promptly screams and shoves Urashima ahead of her again
] Kill it!
redmare: (don't look)

Spirit Festival

[personal profile] redmare 2017-07-02 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chinatsu watches him as he grew more and more regerful the closer they got to their turn. It was pretty amusing though.)

You don't have to go if you really don't want to senpai.

[She rests her cheek against her hand, a tearful look on her face.]

I guess I can go in by myself...alone...facing who knows what.....in this terrifying house...
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[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

( This escalated quickly. He's looking around in the dark now and... surprisingly, he's able to see pretty well!
He can tell that the place has done its best to be as dark as possible but he's able to make out a lot of things using the little bit of light available. He can see rugs covering cords and curious switches all over the place as well as some really suspicious looking walls...

But before he can really have a chance to process everything, he's suddenly being shoved straight ahead at some cardboard cut out and he screams
)

Ah! ( And

...punches...

it. It actually falls off the wall considering it wasn't very sturdy begin with and he yelps,
)

--Sorry! I'm sorry!

( He didn't mean to break it.

Cue more laughter.
)
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[personal profile] minogame 2017-07-02 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
( Look, he'd tried to be cool but at the end of the evening, he's just a kid! And he's kind of scared? He looks relieved when Chinatsu says they don't have to go in but then she's making a face like she might cry and he's jumping at the chance to make it right, )

N-no! You don't have to go by yourself! ( Hook, line, and sinker. ) I'll go with you if you really want to go!
redotiertwo: (backs away slowly)

bears because bear hell

[personal profile] redotiertwo 2017-07-02 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[So guess who might have maybe picked up a more traditional version of the bear charm. This guy. Though he also picked it up because it was supposed to be cursed and is now regretting his straw skepticism given he just escaped his last bears and now here are even more.

It might help Oona's attempt to save her crepe that the bears at the back turn their attention to Davesprite as he gets closer, to the point he pulls up. Once he notices their attention is divided, though, he looks from them to Oona before somewhat pointedly floating himself a little above bear-mauling level.]


So. You didn't happen to grab some kind of random charm or definitely-not-cursed item off one of the not quite as hokey as I was hoping vendors hanging around, did you.
redotiertwo: (attention gained)

[personal profile] redotiertwo 2017-07-02 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that reaction from someone like Urashima pretty much answers Davesprite's question before he even gets there, but he lies there and listens to it anyway. Honestly, at this point he still doesn't really have the energy for anything else, even if he hadn't been chased by bears.]

To be fair, vending machines will take your money nine times out of ten. The other shit sounds pretty bad, though, condolences on your day of getting fucked over comprehensively.

[Short pause, then:] That thing you threw into the fire wasn't one of those cursed charm deals, was it.