thenearshore | Science has gone too far!

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Science has gone too far!

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))

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You said it, not me.

--wait a minute! I'm the most badass freaking Overlord in the entire cosmos! EVERYONE loses to me!

Is that so.

[ Hibiki looks around at the fight, seeming to notice it for the first time. Is it living up to that claim?

If not, she'll try to wander off again. ]

[Honestly, the battle is going reasonably well. The ayakashi have numbers and relentlessness on their side, but Zetta -- for all his flaws -- all his many, many, many, many flaws -- is not incompetent on the field of battle. The lines hold, even as Zetta eyebeam-Rends another ayakashi into ash.]

...Look, if you take off, you're going to get hurt!

I see.

[ She'll just settle down on the ground, one leg propped up like ~~sailor uranus~~ an asshole, and wait for you to be done, then. ]

Asking you to help would be too much, wouldn't it.

[Zetta wonders, balefully, if this is passive-aggressive resistance, or if she's just naturally like this no matter what.]

[ A vein twitches. ] I don't know a single thing about myself.

This is an important time for dramatic reflection!

[ There is still a Hibiki in there, somewhere. ]

What, and you can't do that in the middle of badass combat? You're nuts! That totally augments it. You strike down foes, all the while never losing that pensive, thoughtful expression. It makes your combat look effortless!

I was in servitude to this deluded a master....?

[ Hibiki looks horrified. And lost.

It breaks her heart to think she might be someone

pathetic. ]

Are! And there's nothing deluded about that. Perfect, detached calm in the midst of chaos is an ultimate expression of control!

I suppose so.

[ Hibiki blinks pointedly at whatever the nearest other minions happen to be doing. Is that, perchance, "perfectly detached calm" over there? ]

[Nope. The minions are in a delightful orgy of violence and mayhem, looking for all the world like they're enjoying their work.]

[Zetta catches that look, too.] They don't count! They're just minions! They're contrast!

[ This is a complicated organization in which she has found herself ensnared. Hibiki considers this. Staying close to this....book....might be useful, since she still knows nothing about herself.

And yet.

The decision is quick, and, admirably, requested with that sense of composed, detached calm. ]

I'd like to apply for a severance of contract.

[Zetta doesn't even bother to be indignant.] Traditional demon rules: to escape from the yoke of your rightful lord and master, especially when you got that position by losing a battle, you have to actually defeat said rightful lord and master.

Then, consider this my challenge.

[ Hibiki checks her pockets to see if she has a weapon to brandish. She finds a million flowers and a single white glove.

Retrieving the glove, she stares at it. Then tosses it right at Zetta, matter-of-factly.

As it touches upon the hole in her memories, her recollection is hazy. But she's pretty sure this is how this goes. ]

Okay, hold on a sec -- ZETTA REND!

[Zetta sweeps his brutal eyebeams across the battlefield, bursting ayakashi into so much spirit dust as the blasts wash over them. It's poor experience compared to a longer fight, but details details.]

[Battle subsided, Zetta draws himself up to regard Hibiki from his floating perch.]

Hmph. All right. Since I'm the challenged one, are you prepared to hear the terms?

If you're quick about it.

[ She's the sort of person who carries around a lot of flowers. Hibiki is more interested in seeing what kinds she has on her than in listening to Zetta.

Purple roses, red roses.....Ah, these red lilies are lovely. What's their name again?

...Casablanca. There is no way that is not the name for these bright red flowers. ]

[Within an instant, the minion army has surrounded Hibiki -- not with weapons raised, but more as the conventional 'arena formed by people'. Also many of them have popcorn, because of course they do.]

The challenge is as follows:

[Out of the mass of body steps a Prinny, who strolls on up to Hibiki with a cheerful wave of one flipper, while Zetta speaks.]

Get through a conversation.

[The Prinny stops, then turns to face Zetta with a puzzled look.]

Dood, wait! Seriously? She keeps screaming and passing out every time I say anything...

[As the book glares balefully down, the Prinny lifts its flipper to its mouth thoughtfully.] Ohh, I get it now! Awesome plan, dood!

[ Agh! There's that - that inexplicable pain again. Hibiki grabs at her head and glowers.

This book's reputation for villainy may not be exaggerated, but she isn't thinking about that right now. No, only one thought fills her aching head: ]

What is that despicable verbal tic?!

I'm a Prinny, dood. From what they tell me, we all have the souls of people who led worthless lives in us, and now we've gotta work off our sins in the Netherworld for below minimum wage! It sucks, dood!

WHY WOULD ANYTHING THERE MAKE YOU DO THAT?!

[ Pardon Hibiki if she doesn't care. She's too busy trying to protect her ears and failing. ] Make you add that....that....

[ Hibiki shudders. ] Is there even a word for that habit?!

[ ....Sapara. Ponora.

No. No, that isn't it. Neither of those are.

What is it?! Or, dare she not even discover that much?! ]

[The Prinny ponders this, then shrugs its tiny penguiny shoulders.]

Comes with the territory, dood. [But then, with a careful glance at the Overlord, the Prinny leans in with one flipper to the side of its beak for confidentiality.] But it's partly translation! In Japanese we just ended everything with '-ssu', dood!

"-SSU" WOULD BE PREFERABLE!!

[ oh god it's doing the thing directly into her ear she feels like she's going to faint ]

What, you really think so? No way! Check this out!

[The Prinny claps its flippers together above its head, turns a shockingly neat rotation on one pegleg, then throws its flippers wide with a triumphant:]

Prinny, dood!

[ Hibiki's eyes roll up in her forehead and she unceremoniously begins to pitch over. ]

[You know, Zetta normally isn't such a jerk that he'd let her just topple down. Unless it was funny. But this is a challenge, so she earns her KO and everything that comes from it.]

[No one told the Prinny, though.] Dood! [It scrambles forward to try to catch her.]

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