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Sha Gojyo ([personal profile] erogappa) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2016-07-06 07:41 am

Daylight licked me into shape [OPEN]

Who: Gojyo and anyone who wants to join him!
What: Various and sundry (see prompts below the cut)
When: Between April 2nd and April 6th, in-game time (any time between the sakura party and the July intro log)
Where: Various places in the Near Shore
Warnings: Will update
Format: I've posted these prompts in past tense prose. If you'd prefer present tense and/or brackets, please feel free! I'll match your formatting.




Prompt 1: The Park
Wine hangovers were markedly different than beer hangovers, Gojyo was discovering. While the beer hangovers tended to settle in the gut (yeah, he got the farts after too many beers, but who didn't?), the wine ones seemed to like to sit right in the middle of his head, stabbing behind his eyes.

Beer hangovers could be appeased by a big greasy breakfast and a lot of black coffee. So far, the best thing Gojyo had found to cure the wine hangovers was simply time. Time, and a bit of heat. And that's why he was in the park that morning, arms draped over the back of the bench and face to the sun, idly working his way through his pack of cigarettes.

Being dead wasn't so bad after all, some days.

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Prompt 2: Downtown
Why couldn't the little bastards attack in the middle of the night?! But no, they had to decide to come out of hiding in the early evening, when all the offices were closing. So there was a sea of dark suits as roughly eleven million salarymen and -women shuffled off to their trains, and there was a swarm of glowing puffball ayakashi, drifting towards the residential area on the other side of the train tracks... and there was Gojyo, a bright spot right in the middle of that weary ocean, blood red hair and leather pants and waving an old Chinese sword like a crazy person. Good thing mortals didn't tend to see them, huh?

"Get th'fuck out of my way!"

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Prompt 3: The Liquor Store
This whole not-being-seen-by-mortals things was really starting to get on Gojyo's nerves. It had been cool at first -- he could pretty much steal anything he wanted to, whenever he wanted to (not that he took advantage of it or anything. A couple packs of cigarettes, a bowl of ramen from a booth... but it just didn't feel right). So if he wasn't going to steal stuff from the Near Shore, he was going to have to buy it, and buying things took money. Which meant a job.

The bell on the door chimed, and Gojyo turned apathetically toward the incoming customer. "Welcome to Lawson Station," he droned, slouching in his itchy uniform shirt. Hating his uniform visor. Hating everything about the job, really. But there were only so many jobs available to an unskilled foreigner, and, unlike a factory job, at least working at a convenience store gave him the freedom to chase after ayakashi whenever they appeared. Not like any of the customers seemed to notice he was there anyway. Not even when they were standing right in front of him. Yelling for him. In his face. "Please enjoy your shopping experience."

There had to be a better way to earn cigarette money than this.

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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-07-26 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
After a few minutes of seemingly futile attempts, Nagi has a feeling it's probably not going to work. He's certainly never had to strain so hard to get it floating. Though to be fair, there's no telling how long Nagi's had to get this far. It might have taken him years to shift a rock.

"Do you have other powers?" he asks, glancing up from the stationary can to study the guy's face.

"Maybe they're interfering."
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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-07-27 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
What is he doing wrong? Nagi is no mind-reader, unfortunately. (Though he has a feeling that those kinds of people exist. Because why not? He's telekinetic).

"Can you feel the can? Like when you look at it, does it feel tangible?"

It's sort of how it works for Nagi. He concentrates hard enough on an object, it begins to feel solid. (This makes sense in his head).
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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-07-30 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
"A summon weapon?"

That's new. Well, not exactly. Nagi's seen them before, but only in video games. Gojyo doesn't seem like much of a video game hero. They tend to be a little more put together. Maybe he's judging him too harshly based on his sword flailing. With the proper weapon, maybe he's competent.

"I guess? I've never had a summon weapon before."

He's curious.

"How did you get it?"
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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-08-02 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Magic?" Nagi says with a slightly dubious tone. Though really: why should he think magic is unreal, after becoming a living dead person who can draw borderlines and turn into a laptop? It's a force of habit. He'd much rather come up with a scientific explanation for materializing equipment. Though he has to admit, it's more sci-fi than reality in the current state of the world.

"I guess that's kind of like how it is with me," Nagi says, shrugging. His power, he just knows he can do it and it happens.

"... What happened to it?"
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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-08-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's not like every god here died, so Nagi isn't sure why he acts like it should be obvious. He doesn't bother to correct him, though. He does wonder though, if it's better to not remember your own life and death. Though instinctively, he thinks that even if he did remember, he wouldn't be so hung-up on it like some people seem to be.

Like this god, who's reminiscing over a pole-blade thing. Is it so special? It's just a weapon. Though Nagi must admit, he's never seen anything like what the god describes before. He was probably much better at wielding it than a sword, at least.

"You can't find another one here?"
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[personal profile] cyberfly 2016-08-07 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The annoyed look on the guy's face just gets ignored.

"I'll let you know if I do," is how he replies to the magical artifacts remark. The god probably said it sarcastically, but Nagi isn't going to rule out anything. Maybe 'magical' weapons might be out of his usual scope, but he does actually know how to find weapons of other kinds.

He shrugs.

"I can try. But if you'd rather have a weapon, I can see what's out there."