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~
towards_okeanos: (sigh)

[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2018-09-07 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Iskandar hands her the luggage. He's last person to argue on such matters. She knows what she's doing and, thankfully, they have very few belongings. Freed from the burden he takes place on the passenger seat. If he's surprised by her knowing about Ebisu offer when he didn't, he doesn't show it. He's not above delegating things to his people.]

If you could take us to temple of Ebisu then, I would be grateful.

[No Lord here. He's not trying to be rude, he just treats every other god as his equal. He treated other kings same way in his time, there is no reason to change that now.]
boneofsword: (my chance to redeem)

[personal profile] boneofsword 2018-09-07 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[This reaction puts Archer on guard, wary of his next reaction. He can almost taste the anger in the air, in the way Caster handles his weapon as if it was a spear.]

Perhaps I lived like this once, in another age and another lifetime. [his answer is oddly somber, perhaps tinted with a bitterness that he doesn't fully remember.

Idly he wonders how did Ferdia react, what had he said to the man that was his sworn brother, with whom he spend their golden years. Had he felt regret at the thought that one of them has to die, staining the other in his blood.]
futhark: (giving it some serious thought)

[personal profile] futhark 2018-09-07 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If they don't pay attention to him giving buffs, that's even better. He's not doing it to get praise, he just-

-he just like most of these people, okay? The Heavens kind of grew on him, and crisis like this is a good reminder that he's not as much of an outsider here as he'd think. ]


It's in the northeast now. But I've spent a lot of time around here, I know the area. [ Shun is reliable, and if he's doing something it's for a good reason. That might mean that he's having a direction, a goal, where he is going. ] Where are you heading?
monkeyblue: (Geez...)

[personal profile] monkeyblue 2018-09-07 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Mhm. Find the rougher ground. It probably won't have as many rockslides.

[And off Fushimi goes. The girl can get herself up.]
monkeyblue: (Red String of Pain)

[personal profile] monkeyblue 2018-09-07 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No. What idiot mishears laughing?
dredefulchilde: (tuxedo look)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-07 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Joscelin's stomach picks a bad time to rumble. Blood sounds so delicious right now, so warm and coppery he can almost taste it. Later on, he'll have to ponder through this revelation, but for right now he shakes his head and says:]

If I feed off of you, I may kill you. I'd rather not do that.

[He sits in the passenger seat, sliding as close to the door as he can manage in case he gets tempted to tear out Hakkai's throat--or in case Hakkai decides that he wants to start blasting holes in children again.]
dredefulchilde: (evil eye)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-07 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I..."

As Joss's head begins to clear, he realizes that she's right. It had been a trick, a hallucination. His mother is dead. He knows this because he spent weeks reliving the memory night after night.

The thought rankles. He glares up at Hibiki.

"There was something there. Whatever it was--I saw her."
dredefulchilde: (thinking)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-07 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh Romeo, you pure soul. You don't deserve the exasperated sigh that Joscelin aims in your direction.

Still, he gratefully accepts the basin, and not a moment too soon. A spark has caught in the tiles.

How on earth will he be able to defend the temple with only a couple of buckets and another kid?]


Good. More. Get me more water.
dredefulchilde: (look)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-07 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Joscelin looks up at the older boy then pulls up his shirt a little, revealing the mark for "child" on his stomach. "I'm her shinki. You know her?"

He coughs again, but at least this is a positive development. If the older boy can get him to the temple...

"Please help me get to her."
dredefulchilde: (tuxedo look)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Joscelin shakes his head and begins to cough. The gas and ash are making it so hard to breathe...

Once he thinks he can talk again, he looks up at Maria. "This is madness. Should we focus our efforts on evacuating the temple, rather than saving it?"

He thinks worriedly on the two kittens he's taken to caring for, plus the other animals. If he can't breathe, what chance have they got?

"The cats, at least. We should get them away from the ash."
dredefulchilde: (shadows)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-09-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
It hurts.

No matter how much he gasps, Joscelin feels like he's drowning, like he can't get any air. At first, he doesn't seem to notice Gojyo, but then his oxygen-starved brain finally registers his presence and he raises his head. His pale face is grey with ash and streaked with tears.

(Later he will berate himself for letting Gojyo see him so weak.)

"Can't breathe," he rasps. "Help me."
bass_instincts: (39778670 (4))

[personal profile] bass_instincts 2018-09-08 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Shin nods, "Do you know where I might be able to help?" Normally he might be askinging about her being a magical unicorn-pegasus, but right now it doesn't even rank close to his list of priorities.
priforprince: (huffy)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Would I be wandering if I knew?!

[ Tsukkomi: one of the many divine services we offer. Tsukkami, even, though Hibiki would not appreciate such absurdity.

Once she has pointed out that her companion is being an idiot, however, she is free to consider how much she wants to tell him. He's not off the hook yet, in her mind. So.... ]


An insurgent is possible, but it's likely the Far Shore's system has run amok.

[ Her voice is laced with distaste for that last one. ] I seek the administrator.
priforprince: (unneeded)

hibiki will totally show you "the maprix", zelda, it's a fine film

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
The rules governing the makeup of this puniverse. [ Her own puniverse back home, itself, has no System, but PriPara does. The Far Shore seems a more PriPara-ish place, however, so she is presuming it's governed analogously. ] A supposed Heaven wouldn't erupt without some glitch.

[ Or sabotage. But Hibiki always presumes incompetence before she presumes outright malice, these days.

This is actually progress. Of a kind. ]
priforprince: (dying)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ngh...

[ Elfnein will be able to lift Hibiki. She will even be able to drag Hibiki away from the bike, if necessary.

What she will not be able to do, at least right away, is revive her. Hibiki has outright swooned. Removing her from the area does seem prudent. ]
priforprince: (laptop)

throws you the gobi joke on multiple accounts

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[[ though the day a smol shows up saying INVEST WISELY-EBI would be the darkest day ]]

"The gas contains neither stupidity nor sentence enders." Hibiki says this offhandedly, still figuring out gear for Just In Case. "I'm all right."

She pulls out her tablet to see what's sold where, and how soon she can get what she needs in purple. Tap tap tap. God at work.

"Still, preventative measures are prudent...."
priforprince: (mast)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
We're heading directly for the summit.

[ Says the new captain of this vessel, boarding. One can totally be a captain of a wheeled vessel. In one's heart. ]
priforprince: (ten minutes)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
How can progress be thwarted before the barricade is complete?!

[ Hibiki asks of the goats. Which cannot answer her. They spin their wheels faster, though. But that does not help. ]

Endure it!

[ Alternative ideas are probably smart, right now. ]
priforprince: (consider)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's a genius gerbil.

[ Of course.

One of the goats turns around and starts rolling the other way. Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope... ]
priforprince: (butterspy)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unfortunately, this butterfly can do many impossible things, but speak is not one of them. It plays a mean game of charades, however, and in thanks for Iskandar's considerate care, first tilts its "head" and points with a wing towards the camera lens occupying most of that extremity.

Then, with that selfsame wing, it approximates a salute. It is on recon duty! This is very important! ]
incinerators: (when it falls.)

[personal profile] incinerators 2018-09-08 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ well that's not concerning at all. pyrrha's brow knits as nia shouts at her. she's got a few burns herself, but she's putting herself on the back burner (haha). ]

Well, I wouldn't say that... [ it's hot as hell up here, but y'know. ] ...Would you like to take a short break? I think that might help?
priforprince: (no game)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-09-08 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hibiki nods. If he's come to his senses that much, it's probably safe to put him down, as well, so she begins lowering the boy to the ground.

"This volcano is excessively ill-tempered," she informs him. "Its timing is abysmal and its effects inconvenient. Don't disappoint me by surrendering to its whims."

Not that her hopes for him were particularly high, but, still: there is no greater crime than disappointing Shikyoin Hibiki.
letteropener: (all right after all)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-09-08 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Oh dear, yes, I shouldn't keep lying here...

[With a low groan that bespeaks how much pain she's still nursing, Celestia attempts to heave herself to her hooves. She does get them beneath her, but she can't quite push herself up.]

Ah. I may still need a moment.
letteropener: (nonplussed)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-09-08 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm. I do not believe you have any special powers?" If he did, she'd yet to hear of them, though she well knew she might be ill-informed or simply unaware.
letteropener: (look at this thing)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-09-08 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Celestia points at the retreating one with a hoof.]

I think that one might be the genius among your crowd.