20 | Shopping Frenzy!

[godsoffortune]

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~

Comments

[papillonprincess]

[ Trippy. She's never seen anything like it before... as far as she knows, at least. ]

I can only imagine the level of identity crisis one would have so many halves...

[ It's a Sennheiser, what she has on hand. Less flashier but apparently better stats? ]

Though you have a point, it just seems to be a waste to get something complicated just for home use... Mostly to drown out sound and learn songs, really.

[redotiertwo]

Probably at least as many levels of identity crisis as halves they have. And then probably a new one for every way their different halves interact, so that's a shitload of identity crises.

[This is clearly a subject Davesprite has put a lot of thought into and definitely isn't bullshitting stuff about.

Nonetheless, since Hime knows what she's going for, Davesprite can help her a bit there, and he taps at the set she has in her hand.]

If you're going for something like that, these are a solid brand, and since someone else is picking up the bill, you can go up the scale to their pricier casual ones. They do a lot of studio shit too, but that just means they know their way around a pair of headphones.

[papillonprincess]

I've been looking up some good brands, actually so I recognize the name but there are more selections than I thought there would be to begin with.

[ But his advice is solid and she's sure he knows what he's talking about so she'll set what she has down, deciding to look through everything else they have on display. Though she'll have to take his word on the halves bit. ]

So... how have things been going with you?

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, headphones are a pretty packed market, hard to get a monopoly on an industry where there's gonna be so much difference in what people want out of them. As long as they sound good enough, they're just as valid a player as any other company's.

[Or really, if they sound like shit and look good. It really depends on what people are prioritising. In any case, Davesprite hands her back that pair and returns to browsing the studio headphone models as he answers that question.]

Alright. Hajime had another shinki move in recently, but I haven't seen the other guy who's supposed to live with us since last night. I'm trying not to assume the worst, but you kinda assume the worst when that happens around here.

[Davesprite doesn't sound particularly broken up, even if he sounds serious enough - he didn't dislike Yuto, but they'd never really gotten on.]