godsoffortune: (in the distance)
The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-09-01 06:13 pm

32 - Blow Your Top

Who: Everyone!
What: A volcano eruption threatens the Western District
When: Jan 14 - 16
Where: The Western District of the Heavens
Summary: The Western District volcano is erupting again, endangering nearby temples and sending ash sprinkling down across the Heavens. Is it natural, or another attack? Those who dare climb the volcano can find out.






Earthquake Warning

    On the morning of the 14th, an earthquake rattles windows throughout the Heavens. It's not strong enough to knock down buildings -- unless they're about to fall down anyway, like some of the older abandoned temples -- but it's strong enough to knock things off shelves and startle any late sleepers out of bed.

    After the earthquake, strange sights abound around the Heavens. The poetic koi are swimming in organized schools in all of the canals, heading upstream towards the east. Springs of pure water burst out in some areas, and in others, normal springs or fountains have gone temporarily dry. Blue and green lights bob and weave across the landscape.


Falling Rock

    The volcano begins erupting with a roar and a bright scarlet glow on the horizon. Ash and bits of rock fall across the Western district, and may even reach into the Southwest, Northwest and southern Central districts. Volcanic glass fibers that look like golden hair collect on trees, fences and buildings.

    Trails and fountains of lava are also erupting from freshly opened fissures and wending down the sides of the volcano. Gods and shinki who live in the Western District are going to need some help clearing ash and glass from their roofs, trying to re-route lava flows (the good news is, if you cool one side down enough, you can turn them! the bad news is, that takes a lot of work) or just offering them a spare room to stay until things calm down.


Swamp Gas

    It's not just lava and springwater erupting from mysterious new crevasses -- and it's not just mundane volcanic gases, either. Divine volcanic vents are blowing mind-altering fumes all over the Heavens. Anywhere across the Far Shore, but especially as characters get closer to the volcano, they may experience one or more of the following effects:
    • Confusion
    • Intense emotions
    • Anger and irritability
    • Impulsive behavior, loss of emotional control
    • Hallucinations
    • Unusually clear insight into other people and situations
    • Coughing, eye and throat irritation, difficulty breathing
    • Irresistible impulses to speak in poetry

    Most symptoms will clear up after a few hours in fresh air, and all of them will be gone within 48 hours of the last volcano gas exposure.


Mountain Climbing

    Natural disasters don't just happen like this in the Heavens... do they? Amaterasu's white-robed shinki are convinced that something is wrong, and they're organizing into search parties to go up the mountain and seek out the cause of this eruption. New and old gods and shinki are welcome to join them, or form their own groups. All of the hazards -- tremors, lava, ash, and volcanic gas -- will get worse as characters ascend the volcano. Strange little spirit flames, in shades of red and blue, dance on the rocks, dazzling, confusing and threatening to singe interlopers.

    And there's someone up here, too. A mysterious figure with glowing red eyes is keeping watch on the intruders and vanishing behind boulders whenever someone turns his way. He won't let anyone traveling with one of the white-robed shinki get too close, but solitary gods or shinki might manage to lure him into conversation, if they try....

    OOC: Please comment to the 'NPC REQUEST' thread below in order to talk to the mysterious figure on the volcano.

    Those climbing the volcano will have a chance to battle the mysterious figure should their characters choose to do so. If you're interested in a fight, please comment to the 'NPC FIGHT' thread below before the top-level is posted. A top-level for the fight will go up on IC Jan 16/OOC Sept 4.




In Summary:

  • Don't get rattled
  • Help out the Western District with their volcano problem
  • Watch out for volcanic gases
  • Find out who's behind the eruption
  • Have fun~
reformedsinner: (elementary my dear dragon)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-10-03 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
By now, mustn't there be quite a bit of myth and legend mixed in to your story, too?

[His tone is cheerful, but a bit teasing.]
letteropener: (that IS just like my crazy subjects)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-10-03 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celestia laughs softly and a bit hoarsely, rough edges rasping in her warm voice.] Oh, goodness no. I've made sure of that.
creepface: (オレっち)

[personal profile] creepface 2018-10-03 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I, I would help you e-even if you d-d--didn't, so y-yes.

[ He's going to be trying to developing a better way to do safer surgeries on the fly, because one day there might be a dire situation where it's that or the person has no chance at all. ]

B-b-but! H-h-hopefully it won't c-come to that? I w-wouldn't want you to get th-that hurt.
creepface: (痛いの痛いの)

[personal profile] creepface 2018-10-03 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wh- I d-d-don't... I'm not, I d-don't think s-s-so?

[ He looks like a panda at this point when he wipes fresh tears off his face. He should have skipped the makeup today, clearly, but he looks downright dead when he doesn't wear any. ]

Y-you c-can't see th-them...?
reformedsinner: (heavy sigh)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-10-03 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not wrong. We don't know much about it yet... but I'll have to work on things tonight.

[He shakes his head.]

Ah, up ahead, is there...?

[It looks like something dark and massive blocking the road; he hits the brakes, slowing them to a crawl as he tries to make it out. A lava flow? A landslide? A hallucination?]
Edited 2018-10-03 18:49 (UTC)
veiledflame: (01)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-10-03 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You're the weird ones, not me. Ask anybody, and I bet it's just you weird newbies who got shinki handed out at the door.

[He puts his hands behind his head.]

The volcano was already erupting when I got here, so who knows?
veiledflame: (04)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-10-03 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't think every god in the whole world lives here, right?"

Well, he's a kid. Maybe he does: that dubious realization is slowly stealing over Sotero's face.
veiledflame: (04)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-10-03 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I forgot.

[Maybe it's rude, but it's rude to other gods, not him, so he's swelling with unrepentant pride.]

Sotero. You?
yasei: (5)

[personal profile] yasei 2018-10-03 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yikes, Rasu-san is a Sight today. Not that he isn't usually, but today is extreme. ]

Yeah I can't see these them you're talking about at all.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-10-03 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Twisting his head to look over his shoulder- cranes really are conveniently flexible that way- Chikusa tilts his head to the side. It's not as if he got to choose this, after all.]

[...Also, is Shun sure he's not going to go flying off like that-]
brokenlight: ((186) Once in a while)

[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-10-03 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ventus has to pause for a moment, feeling a slight dizziness come in that usually comes with casting magic continuously.

Shaking his head, he looks back at Dust.]


How much longer do you think we can hold this off?
lightblooming: (EuLVi9E)

[personal profile] lightblooming 2018-10-03 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
... Please, make sure that you're careful if you do.
brokenlight: ((049) And I know)

[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-10-03 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ready.

[Aiming his Keyblade towards some of the rocks, Ventus uses Magnet Collision to draw the rocks closer to them. He swings them down suddenly, forming some kind of barrier with the rocks.]
brokenlight: ((178) I ever dreamed)

[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-10-03 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ventus nods and cautiously gets closer to the sprite.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (He signed me a blank check)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-10-03 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
There it is again, someone complimenting her on something like that. Not that it's not nice, but... Wendy huffs out a laugh and lets her hand to swing down onto her hip.

"I'm sensible, is what I am. Sensible in a place full over melodramatic people." Not even Shun is barred from that one. "But then, someone has to be, right?"
lookingforhead: (Pony Ride)

Re: It's okay!

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-10-03 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods and offers him her hand. She considers he might think himself too old for handholding, but if she's the adult here she's going to do it right!]
lookingforhead: (Huh)

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-10-03 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
(ooc: everything is just fine :) )]

[This...this will only lead to blood if she prepares for it....and she'd probably be the one better off if it did come to one of them getting hurt.

She opens her hand, releasing the scythe which disperses back into the shadow mist. She raises both hands now, unarmed, hoping he can see it.
]
toremainbehind: ([158])

[personal profile] toremainbehind 2018-10-04 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say this is the same thing.

[But...he sees what Yata's doing and doesn't stop him.

He looks at Sotero.]


We've just had a small chat. She didn't really say much about anything else.
pirateofdragons: ([51])

[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-10-04 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Away from here. This place is dangerous.

[He lands far from the gases, but he doesn't relinquish his hold on Yona. A part of him still feels that if he does, then she'll slip away from him and he can't have that.

She's too important to him to let go.]
pirateofdragons: ([86])

[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-10-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry.

[The apology is towards Jeep.]

But you're welcome. It wouldn't do to be stuck there with the volcano going off.
saiyanhybrid: ([81])

[personal profile] saiyanhybrid 2018-10-04 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Then let's go.

[....At least it's just speaking in haiku.

But he begins to fly to the top of the volcano and Nimbus follows after him.]
lookingforhead: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-10-04 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah I see
you need to be careful
I don't think even I could regenerate from this stuff


[Even if most people don't know about her regenerative powers, she's still managed to make the understatement of the week.]

Did you find any clues to what's going on here? Or were you still searching?
sassywelshcatgirl: (snarl)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-10-04 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh hell, stop the thing!

[His warped brain is seeing the threat wrong, she figures, but still a threat nonetheless.]

There's a gap in the road. Looks like it cracked apart!
lookingforhead: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-10-04 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Ayakashi.

Or maybe a god? One that was cast out maybe. That happens a lot in mythology, doesn't it? Gods wanting revenge because they feel like they've been rejected or something?

Maybe both?

I'm still not sure why everyone has been brought here to stand in for other gods, but maybe that's just something that they felt didn't need to go into the Shinki pamphlet.
notatyrant: (24)

[personal profile] notatyrant 2018-10-04 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
You can't tell what's real from what's not?

[That's a bit alarming, it means he won't be able to tell either.]

Oh... It's a keyblade, it's both a key and a blade as the name implies.