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~
sassywelshcatgirl: (snarl)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-09-07 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.

[Definitely buying it. Total belief.]

[Nia also points down the slope of the volcano, off to the western districts and the damage they've already incurred.]


You can cut out the rot without hurling the apple in the trash. Or the lava. The path you're taking will have a bad end for everyone!
priforprince: (genre)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-07 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Your sense of humor is as toxic as the atmosphere.

[ She has a filter in this motorcycle helmet. It was a rush job, and she should probably be more concerned about that, but there is only room in her head for Irritation and Noble Mission. ]
priforprince: (conditions)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-07 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Compared to barricading sentence enders, thwarting lava is simpler than a gerbil's rolling its ball down a bowling alley.

[ The shields, indeed, seem to be okay as the lava approaches.

But a few of the goats stop rolling, circuits acting up in the heat. ]
sageprincess: (Dutiful atonement)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2018-09-07 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[The world changes around her, and the first breath she takes upon finding herself towards the mountain's peak is cut short by a wheezing cough. She would once again lament the seemingly unnecessary limitations on this fake construct of a body - why do gods need to breathe, anyway? - but her thoughts are preoccupied with reminders of the fury of Hyrule's Death Mountain, and the tightening grip of Caster's hand around her own.

She understands the question that goes unsaid in his statement; she knows he's looking to her for a plan. She's the princess, after all. The Master. That's her job, to be the one who knows what to do, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds like these. And so while her answer is not immediate, she returns the squeeze of her hand in kind as she silently stares down the volcano's slope, brow furrowed and eyes intent and focused even as they burn from the smoke and gas.

... But, Goddesses, what is she supposed to do with this? This is a volcano, a force of nature. This isn't a spell that can be broken, or a villain who can be defeated. There are no weaknesses to exploit, no tricks can be pulled. There is only getting out of the way, or destruction.

Ah, but that's thinking like a mortal, isn't it. And she just said such a task would be in the domain of the gods.

("Even should one become deified, they are no longer human, and come to adapt their thinking to the view of a god. ... Should you indeed remain here, you will also have to adapt." Those words had terrified her then, but now...)]


... The wooden construct you can command-- how strong is it? [Zelda breaks her silence with a question, looking to Caster with the same intensity she gave the lava flow.] Would it be able to dig a trench into the mountainside?

[With it already being on fire, she presumes a proximity to the lava wouldn't hinder it much, so--

Din, with her strong, flaming arms, cultivated the land and created the red earth...]
sassywelshcatgirl: (somber)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-09-07 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she wasn't betting that Romeo or his fellow-kid god are going to do a whole lot to keep her safe, but she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if this idiot got hurt up here. So Nia couldn't even fake a smile back. "Right, sure. What are you expecting to DO up here?"
veiledflame: (11)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-09-07 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Kimi looks much less terrifying when he's laughing, even if he's laughing at Sotero; the boy bristles, but seems to shed his fear as he steps forward to briskly and inefficiently pat Ebisu down.

Eventually, he steps back, squinting intensely.

"Okay," he admits, "I can't find anything different, but what if you call Kunimi back?-- You can ask me another question after."
sageprincess: (Deep considerations)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2018-09-07 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't? I was sure he came through here though...

[She lifts a fist to her mouth, deeply considering this new information, the gears in her mind clearly working overtime. But eventually, she shakes her head as though to clear her elaborate mental Etch-a-Sketch. She doesn't have time to waste here.]


Perhaps you missed him, as I have. I am sure he is rushing to help as many people as he can escape the danger of the eruption - no matter role he has been placed into, that would not change.

[Though it still bothers her that he won't stop when she calls for him, she's definitely certain of that much.]
veiledflame: (04)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-09-07 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess you're a new shinki," Sotero says, and speeds up a little more, jumping ahead of Romeo onto another rock and disappearing over the top of it. He's looking impatiently up, several meters downslope, when Romeo gets to the top of the rock.

"So it's not your fault you don't know better. The Heavens are cruel."
veiledflame: (15)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-09-07 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
How about you get to criticize me when you've got a better one!

[He stomps his foot furiously.]

Something that's not just "I'm gonna fight the system by protecting it and doing whatever they want me to," 'cause that's not fighting, that's just being a servant while you talk big.
alchemists: (More head pats)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-07 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Elfnein accepts the offer and takes Gary's hand. A break wouldn't be the end of the world. ]

I wasn't expecting the gases to be this bad, the damage from where my temple is is very light.
veiledflame: (04)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-09-07 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Sooo... [He draws the word out, sing-song like a schoolyard taunt.]

What do you think did all of this?
sassywelshcatgirl: (somber)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-09-07 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Back to the armfold, staring at him with anger that she's finally starting to master.]

Find a way to copy the bond between gods and shinki. Whatever part of godhood lets them name and empower us, we get that for ourselves. Then shinki are independent, and the gods have to change their ways.
sageprincess: (Discerning intentions)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2018-09-07 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[s q u i n t s...]

Forgive me, Hibiki, but I do not think I understand. "The Far Shore's system"?

[At least she can understand dragons. Nobody has forced her to sit down and watch The Matrix yet.]
alchemists: (What's a ps vita)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-07 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The temple won't blow away, buildings are built with lots of safety regulations to keep people safe in these types of situations.
alchemists: (More head pats)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-07 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She grabs Romeo's hand, the fact he was death gripping it almost was a big concerning but clearly he wanted to make sure she was ok. ]

Fire wolves? There shouldn't be anything like that here.
veiledflame: (06)

[personal profile] veiledflame 2018-09-07 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sotero's expression of fury falters, and he stares at her, genuinely surprised.]

Wait, you think the only thing bad about the Heavens is somebody took you in?
alchemists: (Hard hat zone)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-07 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not good at all, even if the bike wasn't moving fast the action of falling over must have hurt. ]

Hibiki!

[ Elfnein's already run over and tried to lift Hibiki's upper-body so she isn't going to cough to death or anything. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (snarl)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-09-07 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nia's face promptly twists into a snarl again.] Don't be an idiot! The gods are stagnant arses who sit around doing nothing about anything. The old shinki are so bought into it that they forget they deserve more than being property, they act like they've got no brains in their heads. None of them are doing a damn thing to help out, up here or down in the Near Shore. But that's all built off this terrible, stupid system! Take away the shinki and they gods have got to change. If they don't learn to respect others as people, they'll wither away! Give shinki back the ability to BE their own people and plenty of them will actually do it, I'm sure of it! It'll change everything the Far Shore's built on!
replicatedform: (Frown - Are you serious)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-09-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[The more he listens, the deeper his frown get. He suspect that the temple's soothing atmosphere wouldn't do anything to those glass.]

That means I need to get them removed, quickly.

[Beautiful they might be, he doesn't want Sakura to worry about guests getting hurt.]

Is there a good, safer way of handling them alone?
chibisu: (xtwiconss, tumblr) (You are worth more than you think!)

[personal profile] chibisu 2018-09-07 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"You won't find anything then, either." Ebisu can say this confidently; he knows his own shinki best after all. "Still, if you're satisfied... Hōki, come." Immediately, the larger and more imposing of his two shinki disappears, vanishing... into apparent nothing.

While Sotero continues his investigation, Ebisu continues talking. "Then, as a fire god, would you know why this volcano happened?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (damn)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-09-07 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. No kidding. Way to keep up.

[Zetta heaves a deep and powerful sigh.]

It's a long story that doesn't involve kicking a volcano's ass, so how about we skip it?
badassfreakingoverlord: (aghast!)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-09-07 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Wh-what the hell?! [The truck skids to a halt as the driver-minion slams on the brakes, thus ultimately accomplishing his desire to get the vehicle to slow down... rather pointlessly, now.] Where are you going?!
artificialrose: (salamandroid) (I'm not really sure actually.)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-09-07 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, she accepted. He was worried on what he would do if she was in a stubborn mood. Carefully, he leads her along the mountain for somewhere that looks more stable.]

Well, this is ground zero, as it were. Everything is going to be incredibly bad here.
sageprincess: (Standing before)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2018-09-07 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zelda looks... a little confused by Sorey's answer - she's sure she saw him run down this way - but she wastes little time in giving him one in exchange. The more eyes looking out for him the better, and maybe someone else will have an easier time of getting him to stop for them than she has.]

Link. His name is Link, we are about the same age, and he has long ears like mine. [She points to her own ears here, knowing by now how distinctive they are in this world.] Any assistance you could offer would be most appreciated, thank you.

[She is Very Worried. Why does he keep running away from her...?]
abgrund: (燃えおちる影を)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-09-07 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's in part amazed at Rin's strength, but also worried. ]

Are you doing this by yourself?

[ Ain floats over to another rock and picks up one with newly-sprouted shadow hands. ]