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Entry tags:
- chikusa kakimoto | katekyo hitman reborn,
- event log,
- garry | ib,
- ginia | original character,
- hibiki shikyoin | pripara,
- ken joshima | katekyo hitman reborn!,
- nagito komaeda | dangan ronpa,
- raichi todoroki | daiya no ace,
- wendy | kuroshitsuji,
- ω archer [emiya] | fate stay night,
- ω caster [ch chulainn] | fgo,
- ω ichiru kiryuu | vampire knight,
- ω itachi uchiha | naruto,
- ω kanade amou | senki zesshou symphogear,
- ω mikleo | tales of zestiria,
- ω mikoto suoh | k,
- ω nephenee | fire emblem radiant dawn,
- ω ross | senyuu.
26 - The Gods' Month
Who: Everyone!
What: Helping the Heavens prepare for the yearly Meeting of the Gods
When: October 20 - 21
Where: Around the Heavens (and maybe some mortal shopping trips, too!)
Summary: Amaterasu has been told that the newly arrived residents of the Heavens want to take a bigger part in security and administration, so she's convinced her shinki to let them help with preparations for the big yearly gala. It's also time for shinki to rate their gods and gods to find out what their shinki really think of them....
Security Precautions
Event Preparation
Rate Your God
Heavenly Record Keeping
In Summary:
What: Helping the Heavens prepare for the yearly Meeting of the Gods
When: October 20 - 21
Where: Around the Heavens (and maybe some mortal shopping trips, too!)
Summary: Amaterasu has been told that the newly arrived residents of the Heavens want to take a bigger part in security and administration, so she's convinced her shinki to let them help with preparations for the big yearly gala. It's also time for shinki to rate their gods and gods to find out what their shinki really think of them....
Security Precautions
- The white-robed shinki guards are working hard to secure the Meeting Hall for the arrival of all the gods of Japan. Hard-working shinki are scurrying everywhere! Despite Amaterasu's orders, they're still a little unsure of and standoffish towards the strangers who they're supposed to work with, but there's a lot of work to do, so they're happy to hand out jobs to small groups of newcomers before returning to their own duties.
- Help clear out any small spirits who might have sneaked back into the Meeting Hall after the spring cleaning, from sootsprites to nekomata, animal spirits from the park or well-camouflaged plant spirits.
- Check the magical writing worked into art or inlaid in wood all over the building to protect the Meeting Hall from attack, and make sure none of it is scuffed or damaged.
- Join in on the patrols around the building or spend some time guarding one of the gates. It's boring, but the shinki appreciate the help.
- Test the integrity and extent of the magical protections with glass balls that turn purple outside the protections on the Meeting Hall and clear inside them. But don't drop your glass ball! They're fragile.
Event Preparation
- It's not just security that the shinki are asking newcomers to help with. They also have plenty of work to do getting ready for the festivities! The Meeting Hall floors need to be swept and scrubbed, the gardens need to be trimmed and tidied, artwork needs to be dusted, flower arrangements arranged, damaged furniture repaired and rafters cleared of cobwebs. Anyone with particularly good handwriting can help write out invitations and name cards, too.
Besides cleaning and calligraphy, there's lots of food and beverages to purchase! Grab a shopping list, a wad of cash, and head to the Near Shore to pick up the necessities. (Don't forget to keep the receipts.)
Rate Your God
- Shinki have the opportunity to submit surveys on their life with their new gods before the big event, and even request a transfer if they want one. Early in the morning, every new shinki will be visited by a small white dove carrying a scroll that, when unrolled, reveals the following questionnaire:
- What is your name?
What is your god's name?
How do you see your duties as a shinki?
What is your favorite part of life with your god?
What is your least favorite part of life with your god?
What advice would you like to give your god?
Do you wish to be assigned to a different god? []Y []N
Fill it out, discuss it with your fellow shinki, forget about it until you find it under a pile of junk mail in two months: the choice is yours! Gods will receive a copy of the answer that their shinki submit to "What advice would you like to give your god?" -- there's no name attached, but they might be able to guess.
Heavenly Record Keeping
- Gods don't get to skip the paperwork entirely! Although the Heavens aren't asking them to rate their shinki, new gods don't have all of their vital statistics on file quite yet, so they get a questionnaire too. The same white doves will drop their scrolls by in the morning, with the following set of questions:
- What is your name?
How many shinki do you currently have?
What are your areas of divine responsibility?
How do you see your duties as a god?
What traits do you most want in a shinki?
Do you wish new shinki to be assigned to you? []Y []N
Unlike the doves attending on the shinki, the doves who drop off the gods' scrolls will remain close by and chirp loudly until they finish and submit their questionnaires. If a god is particularly lazy about it, they might even start pecking.
In Summary:
- Help protect the Meeting Hall
- Lend a hand cleaning and shopping
- Rate your gods
- Help Heaven keep its records up to date
- Have fun~
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Why would they be having us do it if it was pointless?
[Surely there's some good reason for it. One he hasn't bothered to try and think up himself, but there's no reason not to trust that heaven has... at least some idea of what it's doing.]
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Heh.
Even if they pay attention, what are they really going to do with that information. The only answer on there that might or might not get more than an idle glance is the portion for the god--if they send it out--and if that's what you want to do then you might as well tell it to his face. It's not as if he won't know where it's coming from.
[Piccolo sure as hell isn't filling one out. So there's only one real option to chose from when it's from a shinki at this temple.]
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[Shoot, it's not like Piccolo isn't making good points - he definitely is, or at least sounds very much like he's sure that he is, which essentially has the same result. Raichi's own approach to it isn't so nihilistic, though it's more of a 'why not' instead of a 'why'.]
Maybe...! Maybe if they know he's doing a good job, Gohan will stick around a lot longer!
[Yeah, okay, that's pretty sound reasoning, right?]
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What do you mean 'stick around a lot longer'? Where's he going to go?
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[For such a noncommittal statement, he definitely sounds a little more frustrated than anything else.]
I've had three gods before this, though! All of 'em just disappeared, so if this will stop it from happening again, I'll fill it out!
[Not that there's... any proof of that being the case. It's a nice thought to entertain, at least!]
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They all just...left this place? Never to be seen again? [short beat] Every single god you've ever been assigned to?
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[The way he phrased that last thought stirs up some concerns Raichi's been doing his best to discard, that it's something related to him that's been causing them to vanish like that. Like he's bad luck or something. So, there's a moment of pause before he speaks back up again.]
Their temples and everything just... disappear. Any other shinki they had, too, except for Kairi! [As if Piccolo should know who that is. Nice.]
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Who's Kairi? [No, more importantly:] How often do gods and shinki simply disappear?
[He seemed to recall hearing about this sort of thing happening. But just how often was it happening? And why?]
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One of my second god's other shinki! She's really amazing!
[But, okay, on to the actually important question posed.]
I'm... not sure, actually. Sometimes it's kind of fast, sometimes it's not? [Helpful.]
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[Less important it may have been, but having all the information at hand never hurt in Piccolo's opinion.]
What do you mean by 'fast'? Do you mean some individuals stick around less than others before disappearing? Or do you mean sometimes there are warning signs before they disappear?
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[Thank you for not disappearing, Kairi.]
Well, it's like... Nobume wasn't here for very long, but Roxas was. [Elaborating on who these people are would probably be nice, but he probably just assumes Piccolo will figure out they're his past gods. Or maybe just doesn't quite get that the extra information would be nice to have confirmed.] Narumiya was... kind of in between? I don't know if there are any patterns or signs to it!
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So in other words, some people stay longer than others and there's no obvious pattern. [That Raichi was aware of.] Hmm. That's a bit disturbing. Maybe there's something else...
[He trails off in thought and if Raichi thought Piccolo was going to finish he was sadly mistaken.]
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He does wait a beat or two for Piccolo to finish his thought, but apparently that's not happening, so after a suitable pause, he speaks up.]
Yeah! It's really weird, but if there's something else, I don't think anyone's figured it out.
[Otherwise it... might not happen at all? Who knows.]
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Regardless, I doubt your filling that questionnaire out will make any difference. If anything, that just proves it moreso.
[Yeah, he's still a tactless, ruthless jerk despite their briefly 'civilized' conversation. Sorry, Raichi.]
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W-well! I still don't think it'd hurt to try!
[He is not so easily discouraged!!]
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[But he clearly thought it was a waste of time. And with that dismissal he walked away.]