Science has gone too far!

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Who: Anyone!
Where: Anywhere!
When: All of October 2nd
What: Add's experiment starts to affect the Far Shore, causing rifts and mutated ayakashi to begin appearing all over. Please refer to this post for details and questions.

Spatial Tears

The first few cracks are small, barely anything noticeable, but by morning the tears have widened enough to start leaking a chaotic and unsettling energy. Spend too much time around them and you'll start feeling strange. Memories get foggier, emotions start to run wild or go missing entirely... whatever's causing this, it's not good.

Luckily, magic seems to be enough to force them back, and a bit of holy water can seal up a weakened tear in no time. Better get to work!

Freak Ayakashi

Ayakashi are rare on the Far Shore, but not completely unheard of. The ones that linger too close to the tears receive a much more sinister effect compared to gods and shinki—the energy seeps into their bodies in the form of glowing blue patterns, granting the ayakashi even more strength and the power to spread more tears and corrupt energy with their blight. These ayakashi are aggressive and will attack heavenly beings on sight.

... but many of the ayakashi will be very familiar to the older of the outsider gods and shinki. A large number of small Noise ayakashi have ended up in the mix somehow, resembling the ones that escaped from the chocolates way back in March. They're small, but incredibly dangerous, and it'll take a coordinated attack to put any kind of dent on them.

Henir's Temple

A massive tear can be seen looming over Henir's temple, and it grows larger and larger as the day goes on. The temple grounds are a mess, and it seems like this might be the source of the trouble. Is there something inside the temple that might put a stop to all of this?

Later in the day, a piercingly bright golden triangle shines through the darkness of the giant rift. Whatever's going on in there, it's not just Add that's involved.

((If you want your character to investigate the temple, please contact me first! I can be reached on plurk at BlueFlewFedUQueen, by PM, or you can respond to the event OOC post. This is just to keep track of who's going where, so if you've already spoken to me about it in some capacity you're A-OK :|b))

Comments

[lostinshadows]

Are you okay?

[Lavi frowns as he looks at Shun, studying him.

While it's not odd to see Shun so focused on the task at hand, there's something else about this, too. It's as if he's simply moving mechanically, as if he really doesn't seem to care about what's going on, and that he's simply going through with the motions.]

[revolutionfalcon]

I'm fine. [Even in his normal condition, that probably would've been Shun's answer considering how he tends to think of being asked about his condition. Still, this time he somehow pays it even less mind than usual as he starts to head off towards where a few more of the rips are visible in the distance.]

Don't lag behind. [Because apparently he thinks Lavi staring at him is going to make that a problem.]

[lostinshadows]

[He scoffs, but follows.]

Staring at you isn't going to make me lag.

[But he's still bothered by how Shun is acting.]

[revolutionfalcon]

It's unnecessary when there's other things to pay attention to. [As usual, Shun is scanning the area around them, but even then he usually spares at least a moment of attention for the person he's actually talking to. In this case, he isn't, primarily focusing on the tears he can see around them and how soon they're going to reach them.]

[lostinshadows]

.... [This does nothing to ease the ill feeling pooling inside of him. He knows Shun, knows the little gestures he makes, and knows that Shun actually pays attention to the people he's talking with even if it is met with annoyance. It makes Lavi grow silent, his lone eye focused on studying the god, but aware of the tears still ongoing around them as well.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Unsurprisingly, Shun doesn't pay much heed to Lavi going silent, since it's not relevant to doing what they need to do right now. As soon as they get near one of the portals, Shun focuses fully on it, and the edges of it start to warp and distort.

The grass around it is rotting at the same time, as well. It seems like Shun is more focused on getting this done quickly than self-control or making sure he's not spilling over onto things he's not trying to use his powers on.]