006 | High School Debut

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Substitute teaching
When: All day April 5
Where: A large public school in Tokyo
Summary: There are too many teachers sick and the Far Shore residents need to help fill in!



For some reason or another, many teachers have gotten sick just as the new school year is starting! In a panic, the school is seeking out every substitute teacher they can find, which is still not enough, and so the gods have to step in as reinforcements. And the Heavens are insisting on Far Shore residents helping strictly because this sickness seems so darn suspicious.

So anyone who looks old enough is being asked to step in as a substitute teacher and anyone who looks young enough is being asked to blend in as a new student, all to help the school and find out what exactly is causing this mysterious illness plaguing only the teachers of this school. There are many subjects open to teach and all Far Shore residents are expected to act as if they properly belong in this school while conducting their investigation. That means you'll have to teach properly or attend classes, depending on which role you've taken on.

Some gods might even find it useful to try and get information out of students by possessing one of their own, therefore guaranteeing the trust of the others around them. It's all up to you how you choose to investigate!

Newcomers will find the following note in their pockets as they are transferred to the school:

Greetings and apologies for the strange introduction.

I am sure you have many questions and concerns, but you have appeared at a very inconvenient time. Please attempt to help us, if you can, and we will reward you to the best of our abilities.

If you have any questions, you can seek out the counselor. Too many students underestimate what a good counselling session can do towards helping to alleviate their fears and uncertainties.

Kindest regards,
☼ Amaterasu ☼



Classes

Being a big school, there are dozens of different subjects available. As teachers, you can practically teach anything you would like to, and as students you are facing a constant stream of completely different kinds of information. Maybe the school needs to tone it down a bit on how many different subjects they offer...

Hallways

The hallways are always a great place to mingle and get to know the other students in the school. You'll see all sorts in the hallways, ranging from the beautiful girls being followed by their fanboys all the way to the delinquents who are promptly making their way away from the classrooms for the rest of the day. Hopefully somebody around here will be able to give you a heads up as to what's going on.

Lunch

Lunchtime is the easiest time to gather gossip and information. Whether you are staying in the classroom with a bento or heading to the cafeteria to wrestle for some bread or spending your lunch in the faculty room with the rest of the not-sick teachers, you will find that both the students and the faculty are more prone to chatting during lunch. And a lot of them talk about a curse laid on the school because of the late principal...

Counselling

Surprisingly enough, there is a white-robed shinki in the counselling office of the school, and the golden chrysanthemum of Amaterasu can be found on her tunic as well as on the door to her small personal office. Oddly, all of the other students and faculty keep passing the door by, but the counselling shinki simply continues to smile gently all the same.

FINAL BOSS

Turns out there is something causing the illness in the teachers, and it's an exceedingly large ayakashi, one so large that no single god could possibly take it down. You'll have to all work together to weaken it enough for the rending to work on it.

The battle for the FINAL BOSS will be posted on the OOC date of July 17, all threads involving destroying him should go there when it is posted. All other events leading up to the FINAL BOSS battle should slowly build to figuring out that an ayakashi is at work.



In Summary:

• Blend in
• Make sure to go to class
• Don't forget lunch!
• Investigate the illness
• Seek counselling if you need it
• Defeat the FINAL BOSS
• Have fun~

Comments

[erogappa]

Shinki aren't things, she says, but isn't that exactly what they are? Isn't that exactly what they've been brought here to be? The gods, whether or not they're actually gods, are at being treated like people. They've been given houses -- big, luxurious, ridiculous places -- and new powers that they can use at their whims. (Some of those powers suck, but that's not the point.)

Shinki, on the other hand, have their memories pulled out, get assigned to serve a god, and have to turn into tools for their gods to use, beating monsters literally with their own transformed bodies. It's horrifying, and Gojyo can't believe he did that to Sanzo. It was funny at the time, but there's nothing funny about it now. Shinki are slaves, and he did that to Sanzo. At least Elsa's shinki were assigned -- she might be their owner, but she didn't go looking for anyone to make her servant. Not like Gojyo did.

He just nods, jerkily, and heads for the door. They have to find Sanzo, and they can worry about what it means that he's a nora for Gojyo later. "He's probably been smoking," he suggests through the hair falling like a curtain on either side of his face. "I'm gonna go check the roof and work down from there."

[arealhardnose]

Shinki aren't things. Elsa would die for that, if it came to it. When Mesogog made her his servant, he changed everything about her, did everything short of turning her body into a weapon. She lost her memories, her freedom to choose (was brainwashed so completely that she thought everything she did was really what she wanted to do), even her wardrobe, hair, and makeup. But in the midst of all of that, she had still been there, and the Rangers never tried to kill her. (She thinks they would have tried to free her if they'd found out sooner that she'd been a civillian before, but even in that, Mesogog had taken control. Only once he'd reverted her to her real self did the truth come out, and by then, she'd already been rescued.) Now that she's here, with two shinki in her care and enemies that really do try to kill, she will do everything she can to stop those monsters from hurting them, and give Hakkai and Sanzo all the freedom she can.

"Go on ahead," she says to Gojyo, her gaze on the table as she takes slow, deliberate breaths. "I need a minute, and then I'll start looking outside."

[erogappa]

Gojyo turns back at the door, concern sketched broadly over his face. She really doesn't look well -- she looks about as bad as he feels, honestly. But if this really is Sanzo's emotions bleeding through into them, then the only way to get it to stop is to go find the monk.

"I'll find him," he promises her, gritting his teeth and refusing to show how affected he still is. He has a job to do, and giving in to how crap he feels isn't going to make that job any easier. "You take your time."

She seems nice enough, but in the end he doesn't know her, and she's got too much power over both Sanzo and Hakkai. He wants to trust her, he really does... but he knows better than to rely on anyone but himself.

[arealhardnose]

She doesn't say anything as he goes, too busy trying to keep Sanzo's emotions from overcoming her more than they already have. It's going to take her much, much longer than a minute, but she trusts Gojyo to find Sanzo by the time she feels well enough to even start looking. That's the one thing she feels she can trust him with -- protecting Hakkai and Sanzo where she can't, where she would fail. And she could fail. She has.

Whether those thoughts would've come to her on their own or they've been brought out by Sanzo's feelings, she doesn't know, but it doesn't matter. Ten or so minutes later, the worst of it passes, and she heads outside to search, hoping the fresh air will clear the rest of this away.