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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~
wildguardian: (taken aback)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-14 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, considering Ebisu's pay rates, that makes sense.

[Even a God of Fortune whose thing isn't economics and money must have plenty to spare.]

Who would he care this much about setting up if it isn't himself with some crush, though? His god?

[It's the most obvious close relationship that Zhao can come up with that Chikusa would have a proprietary interest in. He'd probably want to meddle if Bakugou were pining, too, though this seems over the top.

Could be that's just because Minako got involved, though. He's met her, too.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cute)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-15 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...It'd have to be his god, huh. Ginia's phone taps against her chin, face scrunching up. Maybe Minako has a stake in things too, but for Chikusa to be involved, it makes the most sense if this somehow relates to Hakkai.]

Makes the most sense to me. I'll definitely have to keep an eye and ear out for rumors tomorrow. Thank there will be any successful matches?

[She pauses and winks at Zhao.]

Yours aside?
wildguardian: (know what I mean)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-15 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Let me know if you hear anything! I haven't met whoever his god is-- does he just have the one?

[There's enough noras among the newcomers that it's worth asking; it could be that Chikusa's got more than one person whose love life he could be taking a proprietary interest in.]

And don't jinx me.

[Companionably, he gives her shoulder a light shove.]

I might've made my match personally, but that doesn't mean it'll work out!
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Hopeful)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-16 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Hakkai is his god, last I heard. Don't know if he has other gods.

[Ginia knows he was nora at Zelda's meeting, but a lot could have changed since then. It wasn't long after she traded away one name for two more. Chikusa strikes her as far more choosy about who names him, but she doesn't know the circumstances for why he's nora either.

She bumps his shoulder back and raises a hand apologetically, but hides a smile as she moves on to the next exhibit.]


Fingers crossed then. Let me know how it goes the next time we get drinks?
wildguardian: (charming face)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-16 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Zhao grins, following her to the next tank.]

Will do. So, Hakkai, huh. I wonder if he's somewhere in here on a blind date.

[He doesn't know much about the guy, other than having dug up a few network posts; seems like he's either businesslike or dramatic.]

I might have to see if he'll tell me how that works out when we start up magic classes.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Your funeral)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-16 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[If he is, and depending who he's with, it'll point toward a likely possibility he was a target. Ginia can't imagine Hakkai is the kind of person to go willingly on a blind date, though she also doesn't know him that well comparatively.

The next tank has seahorses and trumpetfish inside. Ginia pauses to take a few more pictures.]


Good luck getting Chikusa to talk about anything he doesn't want to.
wildguardian: (sprawl)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-19 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Okay, you might have a point. [Zhao's lingering by the coral reef tank for a moment more before he follows; the seahorses are cute, though, so he doesn't let himself be distracted by the bright neon colors and circling shark for too long.]

Don't underestimate how stubborn I can be, though.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Your funeral)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-19 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Unstoppable force versus immovable object.

[Who wins in the face of persistence or effort? Tread lightly, Zhao, Chikusa is shifty. It's one reason she's fond of him.]

So is this your first or second date of the day?
wildguardian: (know what I mean)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-26 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Second. I figured I might as well make a whole day of it if I was going to be out here anyway. [He chuckles.] The first one was with some goddess I hadn't met yet -- she said she was going for this to make a few more friends.

Nephenee? I don't know if you've run into her yourself.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cheerful)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-26 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Look at you, going three for three.

[Even if he's really gunning for one date to succeed, she can still tease him about it. Meeting people, getting a nice day paid for, it all works out.]

I've met her! She's super nice and friendly. I met her in my first week here.
wildguardian: (what what)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-27 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A free day on the town! Who'd say no to a deal like that? Is this your first or second date?

[He nods in return to Ginia's cheerful assessment, drifting on from the seahorse tank to a darker area of the aquarium where luminous deep-sea fish drift in shadowed tanks.]

Yeah, she seemed nice to me too. Just a bit shy.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cute)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-28 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Second and last. I'm fighting ayakashi after this.

[Speaking of ayakashi, or things that look similar, deep-sea fish are wild! Ginia looks at the glowing, angular fish, half-expecting eyes to pop along its body.]

The ocean is full of amazing things. Imagine being the first person to see one of these.
wildguardian: (sprawl)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-28 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Imagine having one of those things come up in your fishing net.

[He shudders, dramatically, and grins at her; they look monstrous enough to be ayakashi themselves, but the placid circles they're swimming in make the difference clear.]

So who're you fighting ayakashi with? Ebisu doesn't strike me as the combat type.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: That so?)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-11-28 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[No thank you. They look too bony to be good meal anyway.]

He isn't. I'm going on a solo run. If I can chase them off, it helps. If I get in a tight spot, I know gods I can call up.

[Her phone can't quite carry any sense of inflection or tone, but there's a cavalier nature to her words and posture.]
wildguardian: (suspicion)

[personal profile] wildguardian 2018-11-29 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She looks confident, but still... going out alone? Against ayakashi? Shinki can't teleport the way gods can and a borderline only protects you from one direction. He flashes her a sharp, evaluative look.

She's a grown woman, though. She can take care of herself.]


If you say so! Watch yourself out there.