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Sha Gojyo ([personal profile] erogappa) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-08-01 10:07 am

KINYOBI is open for business!

Who: Gojyo and anyone!
What: Drinking, fighting, insulting this disgusting bar...
When: Any time from August 9th through the end of August
Where: KINYOBI, in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Warnings: Please put warnings in the headers of your comments as they become relevant.




1. Friday nights at Friday's
Kinyobi is a small, dark bar, located on a street that was never nice, not even when the plant across town was open. This is an industrial area, and this used to be a blue-collar, industrial bar -- the floors are permanently sticky, there's dents and gouges and names carved in every wooden surface, the restroom is a horror movie, and the booze is either watered down or rotgut, depending on the day of the week and the mood of the bartender.

Still. It's home.



2. Shinki Sundays
Gojyo looks up when the bell on the door chimes, and smiles broadly at the newcomer. "Hey, come on in!" he calls. "You're shinki, right? Lemme see your mark."


3. Wildcard?






And some images to give an idea of what the inside of Kinyobi looks like:


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Edit as of October 6th, in-game: there is now a bar dog.


sweetdeath: (t-that's nice for you)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
There's a flash of light, and Tsuzuki manages to inhale a lungful of crappy plaster and dry-rotted sawdust when he gasps in surprise. He hacks, chokes, and curls into a rib-rattling cough as the wolf, swatted by the metal -- shovel? Spear? What is that thing? -- releases his shoulder and backs off. The other two are backing away behind it, watching the weapon in Gojyo's hand with a wariness that's beyond mere animal fear.

Ayakashi really freak him out. Tsuzuki wipes his good hand over his mouth, leaving a dirty streak on his cheek but clearing the worst of the mucus from his lips, and rolls up to his knees. His other arm's hanging limp from a mauled shoulder, and he can't move it without stabbing pain, but it'll heal. They'll be fine. Gojyo's next to him and he's got a weapon.

... Gojyo has a weapon.

Halfway through fumbling his phone out of his pocket with one hand to place a frantic post for help, Tsuzuki shoots him a disbelieving glance. The back storeroom's messy, sure, but it's not messy enough that he'd miss something like that.

"Where'd you get that thing?"
sweetdeath: (wary watcher)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-16 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The wolves aren't going anywhere, and that's good, because it means they're not going to attack anyone else coming in. It's also bad, because there's no way the two of them are getting out of the storeroom now.

Tsuzuki tests his leg. It hurts, but it hurts like blight and not like it'd been chewed on, even with the blood chilling on his pants and sticking the fabric to his leg hair. He can put his weight on it with no problem, and he does, standing slowly.

Sakura, here, fighting a pack of wolf ayakashi? He cringes at the thought.

"She's not a fighter and I turn into a spoon." He'd been thinking of posting a general cry for help -- but what if no one's checking the BBS? What if it scares off their customers, just when the place is starting to get a little busier?

He swallows. "What's your god's number?"
sweetdeath: (bad feeling about this)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-16 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right." Sha, Sha-- there it is. Weird name, he thinks, and taps in a fast text.

At bar with Gojyo. Ayakashi attacking. Please come help. He punches a finger against the send button, and then, in belated practicality, also sends the address. The two wolves towards the back are spreading out to either side, heads held low and ears back as they growl. Those teeth look even bigger than they had before.

Tsuzuki drops his phone and slashes his hand down.

"Line!" This one is uncomfortably close to them, and three more shelves go tumbling bisected to the ground, but it'll hold for a couple minutes, he thinks, if it has to. He blows out a breath, and catches his balance as (to his surprise) he realizes he's listing to one side.

"...so, Gojyo," he says, watching the wolves pace and snarl, "next time, let's just throw out the weird old sake bottle, okay?"
sweetdeath: (bad feeling about this)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-17 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not blaming you!" Tsuzuki's taking the chance to breathe, and shuffling a few feet to the side to lean against the wall as he catches himself listing again. His shoulder is killing him. "I mean, I did warn you, though..."

And it's at least as much his fault for not objecting more strenuously. He'd been the one who'd actually known there was something weird going on with the bottle. Glancing over at Gojyo, he tries a weak grin.

"Help me get this blight off once we're out of here and I'll call it even."
bussounoshima: (Where the fuck are they?)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-08-17 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard to avoid the wolves in a tight space like this. There's a lot of them, it's dark, and there are large, sharp weapons being waved around. All of a sudden there's a third human-ish body in the small, dark storeroom. Sharak Sanzo appears out of thin air, gun in hand and ready to be a hero before she trips over an ayakashi and falls over backwards onto the floor, crashing into some debris.

"Shit- fuck- what the fuck are you idiots doing?!"

The possibility for a dramatic entrance ruined, Sharak scrambles backwards from the ayakashi towards Gojyo (she thinks). Luckily the side of her body closest to them is mostly covered by her robes, but already she's joined Tsuzuki in needing a wash in holy water after this.
sweetdeath: (toppled)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-21 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Tsuzuki won't even fight getting somebody to take a closer look at those bites once he's been dipped in shrine water. They ache. This is the worst day on the job ever. He casts another hasty borderline inside the door of the increasingly crowded storeroom, and stays mostly sagged against the wall, his free hand clenched with determination.

"Hi," he says to Sharak. "Long story. Are you okay?"
bussounoshima: (Hi)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-08-22 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sharak ignores Tsuzuki- sorry, Tsuzuki- in favour of grabbing Gojyo by the arm to pull herself back up to her feet. She fires a shot at an ayakashi that makes a move for her leg, but while that's enough to make it jump back, it isn't enough to kill it. She can't quite assess how many of them there are in the dark nor what the best, fastest solution is.

"Shaki." She growls, tightening her grip on Gojyo's arm. It's one less body in the room, at least.
sweetdeath: (did you hear that?)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-23 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Gojyo vanishes and reforms as a knife -- sword? His blade's broken halfway down, and Tsuzuki's immediate reaction is a flash of concern. Is he hurt? Is he blighted? What makes a shinki into something broken --

But there's nothing in that glow that looks sickly or damaged, so Tsuzuki swallows back his worry and turns his attention back to the wolves. They're still close, and he lets his borderline fall again, looking out past the doorway. There are still more out in the bar. They're going to have to get out.

"What's the plan?" he asks Sharak, his voice a bit uneven. His shoulder is killing him. "I can keep them off with borderlines..."

Or split the group up, and distract them so she doesn't have to fight them all at once. Gojyo looks wickedly sharp, but she'll have to get up close to fight with him.
bussounoshima: (Tiresome chanting)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-08-23 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, wonderful. She can see. She also has Gojyo's commentary in her head, which helps catch her up on what she's missed so far and the various things to worry about. Three wolves out in the bar, endangering civilians. The leader here watching them. Tsuzuki hurt and their only support.

"Stop them from grouping up. Keep them off my back, if you can, and try not to move around too much." Sharak holds Shaki's hilt in both hands, linking her fingers around him as she raises him up. The glow lights up her face eerily. "We'll cut them down."

She can't just run up to them all and stab them, that'll get her blighted to hell and she can't afford to be immobilised from pain.

"On marishiei sowaka-" A wolf leaps at Sharak, tired of waiting, when the spell cuts into it in midair. A few others are hit as well, cut apart by an invisible strike. It doesn't so much more lasting damage than shakujyo, but it's enough to knock them down and make them yelp with pain while Sharak drives Shaki's blade into the head of the nearest wolf. "Rend."
sweetdeath: (wary watcher)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Tsuzuki might not be much use as a weapon, but the concentration and precision that comes with casting a borderline come naturally to him. When the two wolves come snarling and snapping through the doorway, his hand lashes out.

"Line!"

He half-sags, free hand going to his shoulder, but the borderline stays up, and the two ayakashi veer off to either side. Their howls of pain are eerily human.

One of them goes after Sharak, and the other, frustrated by the barrier, whirls and jumps for Tsuzuki. His back, as he jolts away, hits the wall he's leaning against, and that's it: there's nowhere to go.

He does manage to get his arm up to shove its snapping teeth away from his throat and face, but he doesn't have the strength to shove it away. He's had better plans.
bussounoshima: (TAKATAKATAKATAKA-)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-08-28 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Sharak lashes out at the wolf attacking her with Shaki, managing a thin scratch across the thing's muzzle that has more effect than the sandled foot that follows it. Sharak curses under her breath at the small distance that manages to put between her and the creature before she's quickly distracted by the sight of it's companion leaping at Tsuzuki.

There's not much time for thinking. Her hand snaps out and grabs the wolf by the scruff of it's neck and she sharply yanks it away from the shinki. The wolf and Sharak both yelp in unison as she immediately lets go because- ow! That hand is basically useless now, stained with blight, Shaki still tightly gripped in the other.

"For... fucks sake-" Sharak puts herself between Tsuzuki and the growling wolves, sword out in front of her. "Keep that barrier by the door up!"

Eventually she'll manage to just stab them both, so long as they can't move too much. Crushing them between a rock and a hard place- in this case, a borderline and a Sanzo- isn't even the worst idea anyone's had today.
sweetdeath: (my what a big **** you have)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-29 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes ma'am!" Tsuzuki gasps, straightening up. The borderline had fallen when the wolf had jumped him, and his arm is killing him, but he casts again, and this one stays bright and solid. Two wolves in the room with them. One borderline blocking the door.

He's still catching his breath against the brand-new blight ache in his arm, and Sharak must be in pain too -- she'd grabbed it with her bare hand to throw it back. Still, after a moment, something registers as wrong. There's just two wolves in this confined little space with them.

Hadn't there been three?

"Where's the other one?" he manages between pants, watching the wolves advance by Gojyo's eerie light.
bussounoshima: (The calzones)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-08-30 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Throw you?" Does Gojyo really think he's a throwing knife? He's a fucking sword. A broken sword. At least Tsuzuki gets a small insight into the conversation between god and shinki there.

At least he's doing what he's told. Two wolves trapped with them, the third... "These two first, that one next."

One problem at a time, boys. One wolf growls and snaps it's teeth at Sharak and she just about growls back at it. She can't afford touching it again. She could keep casting her own magic, but it's a temporary solution that won't cause any real damage and gives the creature outside more time to escape. She doesn't have time to cast spells in close quarters like this.

Apparently it's a day for dumb fucking ideas. She pulls back her arm with a huff and throws Gojyo at a wolf's neck.
sweetdeath: (Default)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2017-08-31 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice!"

Throwing Gojyo had sounded crazy, but even if the throw itself didn't land, Gojyo'd managed it after all; Tsuzuki's open-mouthed and genuinely impressed. That's one down. There's just one ayakashi left on its feet in the storeroom, and it's howling its rage at the damage to its comrade as it lunges at Sharak and Tsuzuki.

He lets the borderline at the doorway fall, and casts another, fast, right in front of them for the wolf to bounce off of. This'd be easier if he could keep more than one up at a time, but the concentration it takes means he can't quite get it to work that way.

Still -- he's not the only one hurt. Sharak's hand is purple-stained and she's starting to move like it aches: with both of them vulnerable, protecting them is more important than keeping the wolf from getting away, just now.
bussounoshima: (Chanting intensifies)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-09-07 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sharak wants to scold Tsuzuki for leaving the doorway open, after she told him to keep it sealed. There's a reason she's standing in front of him, damn it- she's his shield for the moment. But the wolf being thrown gives her an opening, one she's used to picking out and taking advantage of in fights like this.

"Shaki!" Gojyo is summoned back into Sharak's hands and she brings both back up in a complicated pose. "On marishiei sowaka!"

From her hands and the glow of the snapped sword comes a dozen invisible blades, hitting both wolves dead on and cutting down the one just about to escape. With that, Sharak steps forward, kneels and drives Gojyo into the skull of the gutted wolf to finish off his work.

"Rend."

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