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- event log,
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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
Ayakashi Menace
Praying for Love

In Summary:
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
- 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~
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As soon as Wendy calls the line, Shun drives the ayakashi towards it. A few of the quicker ones manage to peel away and flee in another direction, but the ones that don't meet the business end of Shun's war hammer just before they actually collide with the borderline.
As soon as they vanish into white light, Shun rounds back towards the other ones.] Make sure they don't slip away from us.
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Got it- Line!
[Hopefully the ones that escaped are all grouping together again, or else this will really be a pain in the ass.]
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Shun lets out a breath, turning his mount back towards Wendy.] Have you seen any more of those flocks? Their influence seems to be strong when they get the chance to get close enough to people.
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Nothing like those flocks. I've seen a couple on their own, and even some that are going around as teddy bears, but that's the first time I've seen a group of them like that.
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[Which is why he's been so focused on hunting them down - there's not a lot of people who could keep up with that kind of speed easily, and they seem like a particularly dangerous group of ayakashi.]
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Then why don't we split up to go through different areas in the city. If we see a flock, then we can just call one another, and meet up to take care of them. That should be especially easy for you.
[God teleportation and all.]
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[There's the possibility of coming under their influence, but Shun considers that the kind of scenario that's only likely if there's so many of the ayakashi that they'd have trouble handling them just between the two of them anyway.]
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[Unhooking her weight, she leaps off weightlessly from her perch. Honestly, one of the best things about being a shinki has to be how she can just jump and perch in impossible ways. Her particular skillset is completely suited for it.]
I'll call you if I find anything. I'll start heading north from here!
[And there she goes, swinging through the air like some sort of spider themed superhero. With what Shun is riding, she honestly expect him to find things first, just because he has the faster method of transport... but she's sure she'll find something as well, if she just looks long enough.]
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About ten minutes later, Wendy will get a text with an image of a main street with a lot of popular cafes and shops - a prime location for dates, but there are several of those ayakashi birds visible perched across from the rooftop the photo was taken from. Though the area is pretty distinctive, Shun adds a district address for another area to meet up at, because he'll be waiting a while if he lets her come over at normal speed.]
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[She'll spot Shun soon enough, the sound of her wire's weight probably giving her away. With one high swing that propels her high up, she snaps her wire back to her and grins down at Shun- the perfect trajectory to have her head towards him.]
Incoming-!
[She's sure that Shun will catch her, especially since she can imagine they'll be teleporting anyway.]
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He hears the sound of the wire before he sees Wendy - and he can tell what she's planning to do as soon as he sees that grin on her face. With a slight sigh, he adjusts the position of his bird minutely, tilts it back so it forms as a better support for recoil, and holds his arms out to catch Wendy.
Unsurprisingly, as soon as he does, their surroundings flick over to the building across from where the birds are perched.] That was unnecessary.
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It was the fastest way~. Besides, I knew you would catch me.
[And she's already taking care to let herself down, making sure not to upset the balance or disturb his own standing.]
So that's them, then, right?
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Right. There's enough people here that it seems to have watered down the effect some, but it's still causing problems.
[He points to the building beneath the birds - there's a cafe with some outside seating, and there's an altercation happening at one of the tables that's clearly visible, one girl holding another by the collar while a young man looks on in stunned bewilderment.
Shun holds his war hammer at the ready, nodding slightly to the birds.] We'd probably be best off trying to flank them so they don't have a clear escape route.
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Then I'll get at them from the left. Let's go!
[There's no reason to put this on hold when they know what the plan is, after all. With a strong toss of her arm, she goes swinging, and uses the momentum to carve out her borderline through the air.]
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Shun's pursuing them closely, but the space needs to be tightened a little bit before he can properly catch and kill them, and he and his own mount start to move towards that end.]
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Do you think you've brutally killed them hard enough yet?
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Now that they're all actually dead, yes. Hopefully that'll calm things down.
[On the street below, the boy seems to have successfully intervened with the fighting girls and at least gotten them to let go of each other, so that's a promising sign.]
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[Shun is the pinnacle of ayakashi murder. In that way, he's really pretty reliable. Although, now that she's thinking of reliable...]
Do you think you'll be alright on your own for a while? I just realized I left Hibiki to her own devices for a little too long, so I should go check on her.
[Hibiki is very talented in her own right, even though Wendy knows Shun would sooner tear out his own tongue before admitting as much... but that just means she's even more liable to get into trouble.]
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[He may or may not be obliquely making the point that he doesn't need babysitting in the same way Wendy's god does, though by this point that's probably to be expected. It's not so much a matter of Shun not wanting to admit Hibiki has talents as legitimately not believing it to be the case.]