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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: (chin)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
The entrance to the amusement park should provide ample ambiance.

[ Hibiki may also like amusement parks, which anyone visiting her temple might be able to guess upon noticing there is one installed inside of it, but if this theory is true, she's not confirming it. ]

We'll rendezvous there.

[ There. One royal edict, completed.

There is no time frame attached, but....details..... ]
replicatedform: (Stare - You called?)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-06 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Hey, he need those details!]

I assume we have to do this today. [Because it's Valentine's.] Are we departing immediately?

[It's go time?]
priforprince: (supplement)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-06 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The flames of the supplicant's passion will only burn her until we do.

[ So instead they're...going to burn Senpai? Don't think about the metaphor, just focus on how pretty it is.

After a moment's recollection, she flicks the prayer over to her new assistant. ]
This is the target.
replicatedform: (Close - In this game...)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-07 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't... completely mind her way of speaking. But sometimes, it almost feel like a waste of time. Or maybe because Valentine's prayers have a time limit.

Yamanbagiri easily grab the prayer, glancing at the text and seeing the picture.
]

So this is "senpai".

[Shouldn't be too hard to find him. Probably. It's just one guy out of many people from his year, but he looks unique enough.]

I'll be able to bring him.
priforprince: (listen)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-07 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki nods: they're in accord. ] We'll rendezvous soon.

[ Hibiki has a girl to lure, and advise (just in case). She's running the risk that the girl will fall for her instead of Senpai, of course, but as long as the prayer for feeling Noticed by an amazing person is fulfilled, does that matter?

But having Yamanbagiri supply Senpai just in case is still prudent. Hibiki will have to trust he'll follow through - he has seemed diligent, in the past.

Now. Where is their supplicant with the longing heart....? ]
replicatedform: (Stare - ...What?)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-10 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Meanwhile, after departing for the Near Shore and finding his target, Yamanbagiri is facing a slight dilemma.

Even if he get noticed by Senpai, he knows he'd look suspicious to most "normal" humans. If they're nice enough, they might deem him as a cosplayer. Not only that, but Senpai have company. Friends or classmates of his?

Regardless, he need to address two points.

1. Get Senpai's attention.
2. Lure him towards the meeting point.

He's quickly running through many ideas in his head, figuring how to deal with this without... ruining the whole Valentine's mood. A part of him wonders if Hibiki have an easier time in this prayer for her part.

After watching Senpai for a moment, he starts to slowly approach him, still unnoticed...
]
priforprince: (part 3)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-11 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Senpai is in a cluster of friends and admirers. Apparently he's on the soccer team, and is idly playing with a soccer ball - first bouncing it on his foot, then on his head.

"Showoff", say his pals, but the girls all squeal and start counting. 3, 4, 5....

Hibiki, meanwhile, has just teleported onto the supplicant's veranda, and is posing in her balcony door as if mysterious answers to prayers always break and enter like questionable shoujo manga romantic interests gifts from Heaven. Except the girl is too busy writing Senpai's name in her notebook, over and over, to notice Hibiki's pose.

....Hrm. ]
replicatedform: (Gear up)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-11 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[A soccer ball, huh? That gives him a better idea. Or worse idea? Well, he wouldn't know until he actually try it.

Yamanbagiri walks just close enough, Senpai haven't seem to notice him yet. Until he grab the soccer ball from mid-air.

"Wait-what?"

Taking a step backward, Yamanbagiri stand right in front of Senpai, waiting for him to notice.

Meanwhile, the girl only stop writing because her pen run out of ink. Probably not that hard to see, with how many times she wrote Senpai's name in her notebook. Or she's using this pen for her studies as well, for a more nicer view.

Hm, she should have another pen around.
]
priforprince: (part 1)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-12 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It takes Senpai longer than it takes the rest of his friends - one might say Senpai is, ah, bad at noticing. When he finally does, however, he blinks and mostly looks confused, then mildly offended.

"Dude, what the hey?"

Senpai is a good guy. Just not the most perceptive.

The girl, on the other hand, finds herself being offered a pen by a person leaning over from her sliding glass door. She is also being offered a brilliant, extremely handsome smile. ]


This isn't all your heart is seeking, correct?
replicatedform: (Pride - I am Kunihiro's Masterpiece)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He's betting on something. That is: there's no spare balls, or it's inconvenient to get another one out.

He holds the ball in one hand, raising a brow at him.
]

You want it back? Come and get it.

[The girl blinks in confusion at this person, before she reach out to accept the pen.

"What are you...?"
]
priforprince: (recognize)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-17 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The bet pays off. Senpai holds out a hand and takes a step forward. "Hey, man, that was a good trick, but seriously...."

He looks ready to follow wherever his ball may go.

Hibiki holds onto the pen longer than is strictly necessary, the better to continue arresting the girl's attention, as well. ]


Your prayers have been answered. I'll allow you to be led to your desire.

[ And she begins backing up. Just a step. To indicate we are Going Somewhere. ]
replicatedform: (Spring - Hmm)

[personal profile] replicatedform 2018-11-20 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now that he got his attention, and that Senpai looks like he will follow, Yamanbagiri start to walk backwards. After several steps, he turns around and walks off.

Not too fast, and sometimes he stop to check if Senpai still notice him and following him.

-

The girl stands up onto her feet, feeling herself being lead via their grip on the pen.

"My prayers?"
]
priforprince: (oscar)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-20 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "Ah, hey!"

Yep, here comes Senpai. Mission cleared!

-

Hibiki nods, arching an eyebrow. ]
You made a wish, didn't you? For his attention.

[ From the alluring way she says "his", she can only mean one person. ]

Follow me, and taste the sweetness of success.

[ Thanks, of course, to Shikyoin Hibiki. Worship the god Apollo today! ]