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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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Instead, he glances over his shoulder to toss Shen Wei his dirtiest grin.]
You can hold me all you want--
[His borderline fails as the name gleams in the darkness between them, as red as blood, and seals itself against Yunlan's left forearm. He takes in one last sharp breath. He dissolves into light.
And then, as the bond forms between them, Shen Wei will see a different place altogether; a stone staircase in Dixing, where they'd once promised to meet, with Zhao Yunlan slumped against it with blood on his mouth.
Zhao feels himself shudder from light back into substance, rippling out into a new form. Sharp, with a powerful spine, a hilt that fits into Shen Wei's hand and a long, broad oxtail saber blade. Boy, he hopes that Shen Wei can use a sword. He'd been in a war -- maybe he should've gotten the gun, and Bakugou the sword?
His vision is clearer in this form, even in the darkness. The ayakashi is moving towards them, clawed hands grasping at Shen Wei.]
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(In the game of lust and love, Yunlan would always push him to distraction and reveal in any reaction he manages to drag out of him.)
Then the vision hits him with all the force of a thousand blades. Shen Wei felt every painful moment - from the beatings and the fighting and the spark as the lantern lit up. He saw the staircase where they had promised to meet, and felt the way the earth shook and knew just how much daring it took for that final last act. Shen Wei was not prone to tears but he could feel them behind his eyes, and in the back of his throat as Zhao Yunlan's weapon form settled in his hand. He sets his jaw as he opens his eyes, the ayakashi reaching towards him, the gleam of the sword between him and it. ]
Mountain Wind. [ A weapon with nearly the same legendary name as the man who wield it. A weapon that he never seen held by the Kunlun he had met though he knew now that the blade had been buried with the true Kunlun. ]
Looks like I have no choice any more.
[ Shen Wei turned the sword around in his hand, settling it firmly in his grip and pushed back, sliding away from the snatching claws with an ease that made the ayakashi over extend its reach and fall on the icy tiles. ]
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(he could try not to make that sound dirty, but he doesn't want to)
--and feet moving over the tiles underfoot with an ease that makes it clear he's a master.
The ayakashi goes sprawling, but it's not stopping, not even looking like the fall hurt; instead it ripples up to hands and feet, lunging at them again, faster. It's sheer reflex that has Yunlan drawing a borderline at and through it, cutting without his blade moving. He hadn't known he could do that, and his stunned pride reverberates through his link with both his gods as the ayakashi splits apart and struggles to reform again.]
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[ He doesn't seem at all worried about the ayakashi as it comes at them again. Instead he set his feet, balancing easily with the sword resting against his arm as he gathered some more energy into his hand. In this form, the bond between them open, Yunlan could feel the shifting energy as it thrums throughout Shen Wei's body, shifting and shaping itself as fast as thoughts. ]
Try to behave and not be lewd. I have to kill something that vexes me.
[ He felt the surprise ripple through Yunlan even as the borderline flashed and cut into the ayakashi. Shen Wei grinned and charged after the burst of power, using the slick tiles to slide between the swirling masses of the spirit's body, the dark energy raising as a shield as cover while he slashed at the boiling mass to keep it from forming completely. Then on the other side of it, he spun around to face it, giving Yunlan a quick slash to shake off the residue and settle him firmly again in his hand. ]
Are you ready to finish it?
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You truly are a normal biology professor of many talents.
[See, he's behaving: that wasn't lewd at all. Or it wouldn't have been, if not for the curl of heat beneath the teasing thought. It's not his fault he's thinking about the strength and sureness of Shen Wei's hands right now. He is literally being wielded by those hands. He can't help it.
The ayakashi, though, is enjoying this a lot less. It's thrashing on the ground, the wounds left by Yunlan's blade gaping open even as the cut from his borderline heals; his attention focuses on it, pity mingling with determination. Ayakashi could have been souls once, he's heard. Wandering ghosts or ill-fated shinki... whatever this thing had once been, it is no longer, and all that's left is to end its pain.]
Yeah, I'm ready.
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I'm not always a biology professor.
[ There was a hint of exasperated fondness in his tone as if he couldn't believe this guy giving him crap over something they both knew wasn't true. Especially with that heat underneath the words, a heat that he knew so well from when they were living.
If they didn't end up making out more after this then he did not know Zhao Yunlan at all.
Was there some mercy in him? Shen Wei looked at the ayakashi as it struggled, twisting around as it tried to get at them again, the slashes he had made still bleeding. It might had been a lost soul that once was a part of the Far Shore. It could have had dreams and hopes and plans until something took it over and twisted it to this. He focused his energy with Yunlan's, narrowing his eyes before springing over the claws and aiming for the head. ]
Time for you to rest... Rend!
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He's left blinking in the aftermath, as bits of shadow patter down across the floor and evaporate into little wisps of formless power. Well, that's done. The excitement of combat is still running high in him. He shifts, a little, the last wisps of ayakashi gore evaporating from his blade as he swallows back the itch to do more and turns his attention to Shen Wei.
There's blight on his hand. Yunlan radiates protective concern as he notices.]
Come on, Prof, we should go get cleaned up--
--oh shit, I left my jacket in the boat!
[His hilt shifts in Shen Wei's hand as he tries to swing around and see whether knocking the ride's power out stopped their boat.]
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Oh that's right. ]
Zhao Yunlan, return.
[ There, enjoy being suddenly back in your own body Yunlan. Giving a quick nod, he turned around and teleported to the boat where it was still bobbing on the track and picked up the jacket. He folded it primly over his arm and teleported back to the dock and held it out to Yunlan. ]
You've been cut too. Let's get back and get cleansed.
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The cut's not too bad, but yeah. Let's.
[His shirt's ripped up, though; he can feel cool air on the burning blighted scratches beneath it, so he leaves his jacket over his arm for now.
And catches up Shen Wei's hand, brushing his thumb over the blighted spot--
-- ah, whoops, now he's got a streak of blight on his thumb; he always forgets how fucking contagious that shit is. It's fine, they're about to wash it off anyway.]
Lead on.
[Gods need to be touching to teleport others, and that's definitely the reason Yunlan's capturing his hand. Also because he plans to kiss it the moment they're washed up, but there's no need to give that away so fast.]
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His fingers tighten over Yunlan's, his expression softening as he looks down at their fingers before away. He doesn't let go himself, even though he still maintains a distant look on his face before taking a deep breath and teleporting them to the Far Shore.
Then, in the archway leading to the springs, Shen Wei turns and presses against Zhao Yunlan, leaning up to kiss him softly. ]
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