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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-09-01 06:54 pm

20 | Shopping Frenzy!

Who: Everyone!
What: Helping a grand opening go well
When: August 21
Where: The Near Shore
Summary: The owners and employees at a new shopping center are begging for help. Bad luck has plagued them, and their grand opening is this weekend! Gods and shinki alike have been asked to respond to their prayers on Opening Day, find the source of their misfortune and ensure that the opening goes smoothly.



The Yamada Corporation is opening a new, high-class department store in a Tokyo suburb. They've been running advertisements for weeks and excitement among their prospective customers is at a fever pitch. Unfortunately, things inside the project aren't going so well. Construction has been delayed, deliveries are wrong, employees keep getting sick or hurt on the job and it's starting to look like the grand opening will be a grand disaster. Their fervent prayers for help have reached the Heavens, who are passing them along to you to be granted... but with an addition: Heaven, too, is very interested in learning where that bad luck is coming from.



Maintenance Madness

    For a brand-new building, Yamada Department Store is having a lot of maintenance issues. Toilets are overflowing, lights are burning out, stair railings are coming loose, and either the air conditioning is set so cold there's frost on the vents or it's not working at all. The overworked maintenance crew needs all the help they can get! How many gods does it take to change a light bulb?


Secret Shoppers

    Are you really going undercover to make sure you stop problems before they start, or just enjoying a day of high-class shopping on Heaven's dime? Whatever your real motivation is, all expenses are covered... but you'll still want to keep an eye out for mishaps. Unfortunately, the grocery and bakery in the basement are under construction (they've had some flooding problems) but there are still six floors of designer clothes, consumer goods and restaurants to enjoy.


Retail Rescue

    Between mysterious accidents and that nasty flu that seems to be going around, the department store is badly understaffed. Grab an employee uniform and someone else's nametag and pitch in before the lines get too long. There are positions open in every department, from the restaurant on the top floor to book sales on floor one.

    It's not just sales and service you have to worry about: thanks to the store's misfortune, displays are toppling over, the wrong orders are coming in, fancy candies are melting all over the shelves and ink tags are exploding on their own. This is hard work!


Intrepid Investigators

    The Heavens aren't just sending so much supernatural help to this department store to keep their faithful followers happy. They have reason to suspect that there's something more sinister behind this mysterious streak of extra-bad luck. Between keeping the lights on and the customers happy,
    you've been asked to search the store and investigate all of the "unlucky" incidents in order to determine what's going on. The shinki who brought you this request hinted that Heaven would look favorably on anyone who uncovered something particularly useful....

    If your character is investigating the department store and needs to know what they have found, please comment to the "Investigations" thread below with a link to your thread. Your hint will be provided.

    Investigation threads longer than 10 comments will earn 200 followers for every god in the thread and 20 exp for every shinki. Once your thread reaches that length, please turn it in by replying to your hint under the "Investigations" thread to let us know you've earned the bonus.




In Summary:
  • Keep the lights on
  • Take some time out to enjoy a shopping trip
  • Make sure the customers are happy
  • Discover the cause of the bad luck
  • Have fun~
pure_radiantics: (convo] slight blush again)

Secret Shoppers

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-09-02 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[BUMP!]

Ah-!! I'm-

[Kairi spins to face the young man.]

I'm so sorry, I wasn't paying attention.

[She looks a little sheepish.]

I haven't been out a lot lately...
fortunesmiles: (Just don't let the fire die)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-09-04 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Komaeda smiles at the girl in friendly enough fashion.] Ah, it's fine - I should probably apologize for being in the way! I wasn't exactly paying attention either...
pure_radiantics: (convo] all smiles)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-09-21 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
But you can see me! So you must be from the Far Shore too. I haven't met you before, though.

[She smiles back and offers a hand to shake.]

My name is Kairi. I'm a shinki.
fortunesmiles: (Like a match in the dark)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-09-21 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Nagito Komaeda. I'm a god - Averruncus, to be more specific. God of averting, or causing, disaster!

[He sounds quite cheerful over having such an eyebrow-raising dominion.]

Nice to meet you.
pure_radiantics: (convo] happy smiling blush)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-11-11 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my! Well... Uhm, what name do you like going by? Averruncus? Or Komaeda, or maybe Nagito?

[Possibly none of those things. After all, Deku has nothing to do with Izuku so far as she knows.]
fortunesmiles: (There were days when each hour)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-11-14 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Komaeda is fine. [He smiles.] Out of curiosity, what god are you a shinki to?
pure_radiantics: (convo] flat smile)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-11-17 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's ah...

[She almost said Artemis. Again.]

Neith. Her real name is Hajime. Have you met her at all, Komaeda?
fortunesmiles: (Do you ever really crash)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-11-22 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a momentary glint in Komaeda's eyes before he laughs.] No, I don't think I have. Tell me - it wouldn't be the same Hajime that Davesprite is shinki to?
pure_radiantics: (convo] uhhh ohhh...)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-11-25 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh you met Davesprite! Yes, Hajime is our goddess.

[She imagines that maybe Komaeda and Davesprite are friends, but Kairi always assumes positive intentions from people.]
fortunesmiles: (Just don't let the fire die)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-11-28 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes. We met when people were finding all those cursed charms...he was hiding from some bears in a tree. [Komaeda smiles.] He's very thoughtful; even though he could fly, and the bears couldn't reach him, he was worried about what would happen to people on the ground if he flew around with the charms...

He's a remarkably kind person. He even worried about a worthless being like myself.
pure_radiantics: (convo] uhm)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-11-30 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
That's... really nice of him!

[A little surprising to her because she doesn't know him that well, but it makes sense to hear a story like that, and yet--]

But you're not worthless! No one is. If someone said that to you, that's just terrible!

[She's never felt so angry at the thought of what someone else said before!]
fortunesmiles: (And you'll never stop 'cause you know)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-12-06 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Komaeda seems a bit surprised by her vehemence, but he simply smiles.] It's just a fact. There are those with talent and skill, those who create hope and make the world a better place through their very existence...those are people with worth. And then there are people with no talent, no skill, whose meaningless existences don't better the world or who actually make it worse, existences that invite nothing but stagnation and despair...those are people without worth. I simply know what I am.

It's impossible for everyone to have value, after all. The only way a concept like value can exist is if there are also things that have no value at all. It's like having one without zero! So for some people to have worth...worthless people like me also have to exist.
pure_radiantics: (convo] huh... let me think about that.)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-12-09 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs, feeling a little helpless in how to respond to him.]

I'm not sure what sort of life you've lived to make you feel that way, but I can only say that I don't feel the same.

[She puts her hand over her heart.]

Especially for a shinki, they may have talent or skill that they just can't remember. And even for a god, I would think that a person brings something to the world.

[Then she folds her hands in front of her skirt.]

So if nothing else, you have worth to me. That's all.

[And she smiles then, too.]
fortunesmiles: (But you'll fight with a passion)

This is such a clash of values

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-12-13 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Komaeda blinks a bit at her speech, seeming mildly surprised...then he smiles.] You seem...ultimately kind, you know...

Still, though - shouldn't you get to know someone before you decide what they're worth? I could be a mass murderer, after all...would you still think I had worth then? Wouldn't that sort of person be worth less than if they'd never existed at all?
pure_radiantics: (convo] puppy eyes say please?)

It really is, and kinda great

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-12-21 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Kairi's mind immediately goes to Hakkai and his ablution she was witness to, but it parallels a lot of what ended up happening with Axel.]

Well...

[She fidgets a bit, unable to voice all of that as she was sworn to secrecy. Time to get vague.]

It's hard to explain, but I guess I have a hard time believing there's anyone out there without a spark of anything good in them.

N-not that being a a mass... not that that would be a good thing! But sometimes... people change for the better.

[Or so she can hope. She knows Hakkai as the person who founded a school for shinki, not as the person who confessed all of those things to the three shinki who helped him out.]
fortunesmiles: (I've learned to slam on the brake)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-12-28 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
And does someone changing for the better excuse what they've already done? [Komaeda is mildly interested in this girl's philosophy, even if it's coming off as a bit naive.] How much would it take to redeem someone like that?
pure_radiantics: (convo] serious talk)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2017-12-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She tucks her lips to one side while thinking.]

Excuse it? No, I don't think that's the right word.

[She's at least choosing her words very carefully.]

I want to believe that the point at which someone has enough of a conscience to feel bad about that kind of thing... they might try for the rest of their life to put some good back into it after they took so much out of it.
fortunesmiles: (I've learned to slam on the brake)

I am so sorry, he needs to stop but insane creepy rambling is kind of his thing

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2017-12-30 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that's entirely possible...but what do you do with people like that? Obviously they wouldn't have much of a functional conscience while doing those terrible things...so how could they develop one? And how do you handle them until they do? Does their potential to reform preclude their being punished for their actions? Because obviously, even someone who'd only killed one person can't receive a punishment equally as severe as their crime without killing them. Someone who's killed dozens, or hundreds...they can't possibly be punished to a suitable magnitude. Can any atonement they seek possibly match their crimes, either? And do they deserve to be allowed to try and make up for them? Does everyone deserve absolution? Or is denying them the chance to ever seek atonement, or to be known for anything except for their crimes, actually the punishment itself?
pure_radiantics: (moves] as for myself)

I mean, she got captured by Org XIII, she's got this

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-01-05 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Kairi thinks a bit longer.]

No, you're right, they probably wouldn't know what doing good things would look or feel like on their own. I think that's why we need to be kind even to them - to show them an option they hadn't considered before. I think the right people will be curious enough about what 'atonement' - to put it that way - looks like that they'll start trying to do better on their own, with help and guidance and friendship to encourage them to make better decisions.

No one's perfect. A killer may be as cold-hearted as you say. But I also don't know what's in people's hearts. Maybe someone who killed just once was doing it in defense of another. We can't know that kind of thing. But a choice, a second chance to prove they aren't defined by one moment... yes, I think everyone deserves that.
fortunesmiles: (And we'll watch the sky)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2018-01-09 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Optimism is all well and good, certainly, but aren't you being kind of naive? [Komaeda tries not to look quite as skeptical as he feels, because even he's sure that level of dubiousness would be rude.] Do you really think people who do terrible things do them because they've never considered the option of doing good things? Do you really think people like that will change their behavior simply because someone demonstrates a positive example to them?

But I suppose I come from a very different world than you. In the world I come from, someone set the ultimate bad example, and she was so influential that the whole world followed her down into despair...so I think people are much more likely to be influenced by bad examples than good ones.
pure_radiantics: (convo] serious thinking)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-01-15 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She frowns sadly, because she's not doubting what he's saying... it's just sad that that happened.]

I can't tell you exactly what happened in my world. I only know that there are people who take in a lot of the feelings around them - if they see overwhelming looming despair, they may be the type who're going to follow them into despair. But in that same moment, if there's another person who can be that hope in a sea of despair... they may follow that person too. Why do people do bad things in the first place? You're right, I'm sure that there are people who just don't want to do good things. I just think that some people also don't do good things because they think they don't have a choice.

Those kinds of people would benefit from a good example - and a friend to guide them through a similar journey. [Here she smiles again.] After all, that's ultimately what we can agree on, right? If anyone ever did decide to change - for any reason at all - I know it wouldn't be easy. And if they've done those bad things, they may not have the kinds of friends willing to support them through a change. The kind of people able to be hopeful in the face of despair... those are the kinds of friends they'd need.
fortunesmiles: (Where the ashes and embers are cold)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2018-01-20 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Komaeda looks briefly skeptical, but then he smiles.] You know, you're right - that is the one thing we can definitely agree on! I don't think people who can conquer despair with hope necessarily need to be some kind of example to others - and that's certainly not their most important function - but they're absolutely the most amazing kind of person there is! And if they can spread that amazing hope, obviously that's fantastic!

I think we just disagree on what kind of influences people fall to most easily...in my experience, despair is like giving in to gravity. Anyone can fall into despair. Hope...hope is more like flying. You're fighting against natural forces, against what would be the easiest thing to do. Your efforts might certainly inspire others, but it'll never spread as easily because it's much harder for other people to do. It's a sad truth, but a hundred people could probably fall to despair in the time it takes to inspire a single person to hope. [Then he smiles, spreading his arms.] But don't you see? It has to be that way! The very act of hoping, of trying to spread hope, is full of despair! Despair that you have to overcome with your own hope!
pure_radiantics: (convo] mild surprise)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-07 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She wants to protest that being hopeful is one of the most pleasant feelings she's ever experienced, when she's telling others not to give up and how they can win if they stick together, that sort of thing. On the flip side though, she can also acknowledge that there's another kind of hope she has - that she'll see Sora and Roxas again. She does want to, but is it likely? Her hope that that will happen seems to erode every day.

Out of the corner of her eye, she glances for the exit to the room, suddenly uncomfortable with the idea that Komaeda may have a point.]


I think you're right about where we seem to disagree. I'll have to think about what you've said some more on my own, if that's okay.

[But she gives him a smile as she starts to back up toward the door.]

I hope you have a great rest of your day, Komaeda.
fortunesmiles: (Just don't let the fire die)

[personal profile] fortunesmiles 2018-03-09 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. I know I think about these things more than most people do...I think they've shaped my life a little more dramatically than they do with most people.

[He gives her a smile and a friendly wave. His...intensity from when he was talking about hope and despair seems to have cooled off.] Have a nice day, Kairi!