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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~
pirateofdragons: ([36])

[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-09-10 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[If it's his dragon leg, it still might hurt.

Jae-ha stills when Chikusa comes closer, staring at him.]


....What are you?
pirateofdragons: ([69])

[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-09-10 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Always happy to assist a lady.

[A short bow.]

It definitely comes in handy for times like this, at least.
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[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-09-10 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yona's voice.

Yona.

Jae-ha growls. Did they capture her too? No, no no. He can't let them have her.]


Don't touch her!
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[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-09-10 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure thing.

[Jae-ha blinks at the car. Did it...just move on its own?

He walks closer to Hakkai.]


All of these?
alchemists: (am I boy or girl)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-10 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
But people are going to need to investigate here.

[ If Elfnein's gear isn't enough to get through then everyone else is going to have even more issues. ]
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[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-10 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want to do this but

[ Elfnein is going to have a bad lecture later on why sentence enders are the devil. ]

Pri get up Hibiki!
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[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-09-10 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'd think it'd be obvious... but apparently not. A huff ruffles through the grass, pushing back some of his heart, and he lowers his head a little further.... Enough, he should hope, for the note he's wearing to be visible.]

[If that doesn't do it, well, he'll figure something out.]
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[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-10 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Carol should be by the world history section, if books are starting to get knocked off the shelves we need to find her quickly.

[ Elfnein knows the goat will be fine on it's own, it is Hibiki's goat after all, but Carol is a lot smaller and with all the chaos of books falling she might get trapped. ]
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[personal profile] alchemists 2018-09-10 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see anything like that, it's just offset rocks and remains of the lava flow.

[ Something is wrong, Elfnein doesn't want to risk Romeo's safety if he's already seeing things. ]
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[personal profile] monkeyblue 2018-09-10 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
...sure. My eyes are getting bad.
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[personal profile] pirateofdragons 2018-09-10 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, real bird.

It has Jae-ha calming down a little.]


Okay, you're not a hallucination.

[And this is such a sassy bird.]
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[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-09-10 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Then they can, and I'm sure that they'll be just as prepared getting up here. [Or, like... He hopes everyone is prepared. Please, no one make him worry anymore than he already is...] But you need to mind your own health, okay? Or else you won't be able to do any investigating at all.
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[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-09-10 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yep. Real bird. Despite his physical appearance almost hinting at otherwise.]

[Still, now that he's assured that he won't be kicked at again, Chikusa... tosses aside all gentleness, lightly shoving at Jae-ha with the side of his beak. What's wrong with you, weirdo]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you think we should do then?

[He looks at him curiously.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Was that your first time trying it?

[Because that really was amazing.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You're Hakkai's shinki?

[Wait.

Ventus yelps a bit when Chikusa begins to pick him up.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ven braces himself for the rocks to hit them. When they don't, he looks surprised and glances back at Hakkai.

He nods and turns back to the lava. Holding his Keyblade out, he resumes casting Blizzaga. Hopefully it's able to do something.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I know.

[Still, he seems a little anxious.]

But I'm hoping we can just talk to him. I don't want to fight whoever it is.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-09-10 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, he's not wrong.... But at the same time, Chikusa can't leave it just at that. As he follows along Shun, with the awkward gait of a bird not using all of its legs (because the legs are too damn long), he lowers his head to nudge at Shun's body. Or, at least, try to. It is Shun, after all.]
kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-09-10 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is, indeed, to a lot of people's regret, Hakkai's shinki. And he's still picking Ventus up so long as he doesn't flail to much and risk falling. This is... fine. It's fine. He's never done this before, but it should be alright.]
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[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-09-10 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not news that it was a memory; it's not news what memory it was, either, because Goku had told him as much. It's not news, either, that the child and his monstrous 'brother' had gone after them because Gojyo had been talking carelessly about his asshole friends.

Hakkai's expression is curious, but not surprised.]


I don't think I can tell you that.

['Fake killed.' Well, at least Gojyo knows they hadn't really been murdered in that moment....]

But I knew, yes.
reformedsinner: (as a matter of fact!)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-09-10 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I took them off when I saw you. They're in the car.

[Because, well, his likelihood of survival with them off, if what he'd seen had been true... he lets his hand drop from Goku's diadem, resting it carefully against his chest, and brings his other hand up to keep it from moving too much.]

May I sit up?
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[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-09-10 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I know him, but I haven't seen him today. He isn't at his temple? [Hakkai's frown is acquiring an element of concern.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure you can pick me up...?

[Ven doesn't fight, at least.]
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[personal profile] brokenlight 2018-09-10 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[He looks at him in concern.

Ventus slowly nods.]


Yeah, this way.

[He also doesn't try to get too far ahead of Shiro as he begins to lead him.]