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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-11-01 08:17 pm

34 - Love is in the Air

Who: Everyone!
What: An enterprising pair of shinki is trying to spread love throughout the Far Shore with exciting blind dates.
When: February 14
Where: Hot romantic spots throughout Tokyo
Summary: Blind dates on Valentine's Day? Sounds like fun (or possibly a disaster, but everyone needs some good disaster stories.) That's not all that's going on, though. Ayakashi are looking to chow down on the negative emotions that a romantic holiday can generate, and those who aren't busy with their own dates might be sucked into helping out followers who need help to make the day go well.






The Dates

Blind Date Matchups


    Those who have signed up -- or whose friends and colleagues have signed them up -- for dates will get cards with specified times and meeting places inside for the big event. The cards don't list their dates' names, but instead have a matching symbol to allow everyone to find their proper partner. If anyone tries to stand up their date, they can expect a small and angry owl to harass them until they give in.

  • Date One: The Romantic Brunch.
    Couples will find themselves with reservations (and pre-paid coupons for the prix fixe menu) at a swanky French restaurant with a wide balcony overlooking the lake in a central Tokyo park. They can dine on dainty pastries, sweet milk coffees, bowls of grapes and hothouse strawberries, and a selection of fancy chocolates and petit-fours-- plus, some of the trees in the park are blooming in holiday-appropriate red and white!


  • Date Two: The Aquarium.
    Couples scheduled for this date have tickets to a rooftop aquarium in Ikebukuro: brightly colored fish, animals including penguins, seals and pelicans, a small petting zoo and plenty of shadowy, secluded nooks to cuddle in make for a fun lunchtime date. The tickets even include admission to the one o'clock penguin and seal show!


  • Date Three: The Amusement Park.
    This date sends couples to spend the evening enjoying themselves at a seaside amusement park. Ride the roller coasters! Take selfies with the costumed attendants! Share an overpriced ice cream cone while you watch the fireworks after sunset, then wind up the night with a ride on the colorfully lit Ferris wheel with a romantic view of the Tokyo skyline.


Ayakashi Menace

    There's more than just romantic couples out to enjoy themselves today. Romantic holidays can be tough for those whose love lives aren't so rosy, and as always, those negative feelings draw in ayakashi who are ready to ruin everybody's day.

    All across the city, besides the usual ayakashi, characters might encounter the following:

    Flocks of dove ayakashi whose mournful call induces self-doubt, suspicion and paranoia in everyone who hears it. Are your friends really your friends? Is your lover betraying you? Shouldn't you hurry up and stab them in the back before they can do it to you? These ayakashi are small and agile, difficult to catch but easy to destroy once they're caught... if you can overcome the urge to turn on your allies first.

    Long-fingered shadow ayakashi, large and powerful, and capable of sneaking around by blending into genuine shadows. These ayakashi draw those who are alone into their clutches, filling them with resentment and despair. Anyone battling them needs to watch out for the humans they might already have influenced, who may become unpredictable and violent as the ayakashi influencing them grows more desperate.

    Cute teddy bear ayakashi, that influence anyone they cling to into greedy obsession: they need attention, affection and gifts, and they can never have enough. When attacked, the teddy bears turn out to fight a little more like a grizzly bear than a stuffed toy, so gods and shinki beware!


Praying for Love

    Those who aren't busy with their own dates might find themselves busy taking care of other people's instead. On a day like this one, everyone's praying that things turn out perfectly! Prayers gods might hear include:

    "He's just got to ask me out! I made him the biggest box of chocolates... please, let senpai notice me!"

    "Does she really like me? Please, give me a sign."

    "I got concert tickets for our date, but it's supposed to rain. Please let me find a way to make this work out anyway!"

    "The restaurant I wanted to take him to isn't taking any more reservations for tonight. What can I do? I can't cook!"

    Wild Card -- players are free to make up their own romance-adjacent prayers for their characters to fulfill.




In Summary:

  • Enjoy your dates
  • Fight some ayakashi
  • Make sure to answer prayers for a good Valentine's Day
  • Have fun~
priforprince: (reassure)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-05 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Your beauty is worth nothing less than this.

[ She will never explain where all the flowers come from. It is an eternal secret of Princehood.

Hibiki takes her seat opposite Nia, raises a hand: waiter, please. ]
Now, let's indulge in a luxurious repast, full of the sweet-and-sour taste of first love.

[ Strawberry pancakes. You're going to be getting strawberry pancakes, Nia.

Whether you want them or not. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (smug)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-05 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Strawberry pancakes are pretty tasty, so that's not such a bad thing. But Nia can't wipe this bemused smirk off her face.]

Here I am being my usual self and you've gotten all fancy. If your voice was any higher I'd say we were a total mismatch. Got that in common though.
priforprince: (hearts)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-06 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I simply wish to provide you the finest in Valentine's brunches.

[ That's a thing. That exists. For sure.

Hibiki will also partake of these pancakes. Pancakes are more commonly a snack here, so she had to Request This Especially. ]
Bon appetit.
sassywelshcatgirl: (wat)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-07 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if I had to get matched up with you, I guess it's a good thing it's the match with food.

[But Nia can't help squinting at Hibiki, like she's grown a second head or something.]

What's with the act, though? You just love going on dates, no matter who it's with?
priforprince: (tilt)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-07 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you always this suspicious?

[ Even her method of handling her cutlery is flawlessly beautiful. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (disgusted)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-07 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, not always. Just when someone does a complete 180 on their personality. Besides, if you really wanted to date a girl, you could line up about twenty who are cuter and nicer than me without trying. So all told it doesn't make much sense.
priforprince: (sharp)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh....

[ That's a musing noise. You are always this suspicious, in other words. How intriguing.

That ill mood of yours appears to be a constant, as well. Under normal circumstances, Hibiki prefers to avoid those with some poison to their personalities - lest it spread - but as she has promised to escort this mademoiselle, she isn't about to renege on that yet.

Her eyes narrow further, but her smile doesn't let up. ]
Your modesty is a like flower blooming in the shade of a maple tree.
sassywelshcatgirl: (hey shellhead)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-09 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[So she's crazy. That's definitely the conclusion Nia has arrived at, and could anyone really blame her? Well... at least she doesn't have to worry about this being a proper date or anything. That relieves her a hell of a lot.]

Honestly, though, I am curious. You really don't have anyone, that you're getting into blind dates? Because it really seems like you could manage if you wanted.
priforprince: (smuggest)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-10 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ She just won't quit. Hibiki chuckles, a mental switch flipping to a whole new kind of insufferability. ] As your curiosity is parched for news of me, I'll slake it.

[ Lucky Nia. She sits back in her chair, daubing at her lips with her napkin before setting it down and lifting her hand in an Illustrative Fashion. ]

You're correct that I could secure any date I desired. But I'm afraid my heart is currently captivated by something far more glorious.

[ hibiki it's valentine's day don't say it

just for one day hibiki don't

don't be like this

She lifts her cup, sips. ]
Revolution.

[ h i b i k i ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (wat)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-16 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nia is a master of the understated reaction: one eyebrow twitches upwards just slightly, the rest of her face simple and flat incredulity.]

So you're joining up with the team that wants to burn the place down, then?

[Because that's the group she knows. Not that she's judging, really -- she'd have been happy to sign up on that if they weren't so hellbent on just hurting anyone they could because they could...]
priforprince: (refuse)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-16 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm on no team save my own.

[ Hibiki is quick to correct this, though not angered by the misconception. There are many things she dislikes about the Far Shore, after all!

But, onto the extremely grand explanation. Hibiki looks over at her partner for this pleasant brunch time. ]


Nia-chan, correct? What do you think of the Far Shore?

[ From the way she's smiling, this is probably a trick question. Or the lead-in to something ~magnificent.~ ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (snarl)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-18 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I absolutely hate it. [Trick question or setup or not, Nia doesn't hesitate to give the question both barrels of an answer.] A world that treats people as property? Sure, the gods who just got here are good about that, but the old gods are a different story, and the whole system itself is broken as all hell!
priforprince: (got dis)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Then, a world where merit determines the hierarchy would appeal to you more?

[ Ah, for the days when she could say "talent" instead of "merit"....

But no. She'll be good. This puniverse has not proven itself so depraved as to require CelePara taking it over instead of merely existing as one option.

Yet. ]


sassywelshcatgirl: (wat)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Merit. What merit? What counts more, and who decides?

[This girl, no doubt. Nia's pretty sure that's where the argument is going. Why does there have to be a hierarchy in the first place?]
priforprince: (flat)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-20 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
You haven't encountered many brilliant people, have you.

[ When people are good at what they do, it is. Obvious. Radiant. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (somber)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-20 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, so far the Far Shore seems pretty short on that type.

[Really, maybe Hakkai's on the ball. And that's about it, from everyone she's seen. Present company very much included.]
priforprince: (greet)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-22 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
My revolution will unlock the radiance hiding anywhere it may be lurking dormant.

[ Hibiki shares Nia's opinion that there isn't a great deal on display now, in any case. ]

You may rest easy, anticipating the show.
sassywelshcatgirl: (wat)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-22 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
What happens if there isn't any?

[You know. She's just saying. Maybe this place is rotten through-and-through like it seems.]
priforprince: (sharp glance)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-23 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You're that dissatisfied.

[ She doesn't want to think about the answer to Nia's question.

Besides, having a lower opinion of the other gods and shinki than even Hibiki is a rare feat. She's impressed, in a way. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (disgusted)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-24 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not particularly happy about needing a name to survive, no. Though I guess some of the newer folks have more potential than the older gods and shinki. [Good people in a bad system, right?]
priforprince: (look down)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-25 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Right, confirmation there: her main issue is with the god-and-shinki system existing in the first place. Hmm. ]

So if you met a suitable god, you wouldn't mind being named?
sassywelshcatgirl: (somber)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-26 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like being named, period. But I've got to be, or else get eaten by ayakashi. So it's not that I don't mind, because I always will. I just -- accept, for now, that it's got to be that way.

[Which doesn't cover a certain offer she'd made to a certain goddess, but that's none of Hibiki's business.]
Edited 2018-11-27 01:06 (UTC)
priforprince: (got dis)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-27 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
A practical bent.

[ Hibiki lifts a section of treat to her mouth. ]

For now.

[ ...this is actually good. This is worth savoring.

Sorry, Nia. Hibiki chews gracefully, but very slowly. ]
sassywelshcatgirl: (smug)

[personal profile] sassywelshcatgirl 2018-11-28 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Got any idea of how to bottle a god's essence?

[On that note, Nia shovels some food in. Not much manners on the girl, just a lot of hunger thanks to her shinki condition.]
priforprince: (banquet)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-29 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ That might...be assent?

It's hard to tell. Hibiki is eating. She does not talk when she eats. ]

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