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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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[ Gojyo rubs a hand over the back of his head, trying to make sense of Hakkai's words. ]
Why would he take her out in public where somebody might see them? [ Granted, only very few people from heaven have seen Votelli (more now, after her picture was posted everywhere, but Sensei doesn't konw that), but it was still a huge risk. ] If I was keepin' somebody prisoner, I sure as hell wouldn't take them out for ramen.
[ Mmmm. Ramen. ...Where the hell is their food? ]
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And most mortals can't see us at all. It might be that he assumed the Heavens wouldn't be talking to any of the living.
[Much less pulling surveillance footage. Hakkai doesn't have a high opinion of the Heavens' willingness to investigate things; if they can't understand things from a medieval perspective, they seem to ignore them. If they can't punish a god -- or, at least, a shinki -- they don't seem to recognize that there's a problem at all.
The waitress reappears with a platter: little cups of side dishes, in a remarkable variety, their water, the refill for Hakkai's beer. He picks up the chopsticks and starts tasting side dishes.]
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Although, he might not have been wrong. ]
When was this? [ The food is... all in little bowls? Huh. Okay. It sure smells good! Gojyo goes methodically down the line, trying a bite of each bowl he can reach. ] When he took her out to eat. Was there a date on the video?
[ If there was just the one sighting, and it was before he set up her shrine, then... then something. Then that probably means something. But if she was still with him after she started collecting new followers, then that's a whole other story.
He pops a bite of delicate pork in his mouth, and it melts on his tongue. Wow. ]
You have to try this one!
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That is good. Very slow simmering, I think. With soy sauce and... star anise?
[Ah, right, Votelli. He abandons (or, at least, shelves) his reflexive attempt to work out how to recreate the dish to return to the previous topic.]
It wasn't long after the kidnappings.
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Okay, that makes sense. That was before I got her shrine set up.
[ He pauses, a bite of pork halfway to his mouth. He didn't tell Hakkai about that, did he? ]
Oh, right. I set her up a shrine to get her more followers.
[ Yum. Star anise. ]
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But he suspects that building a shrine is the sort of thing that, in the Heavens' sideways thinking about loyalty, is second only to accepting a name.]
-- Is anyone worshiping there yet?
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Dunno. I didn't want to risk anyone followin' me so I haven't been back.
[ Should he admit that Goku helped? ...No, he dragged Goku along, the kid didn't volunteer. Hakkai can be mad at him, not at the shrimp.
Oh, speaking of... mmm. Shrimp. ]
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It'll need human attention if it's going to do her any good. We should ask her, when we meet.
[Which they are still going to do, even if Gojyo's decided to get defensive again. Aren't they?]
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I'm not stupid, you know. [ It'll need human attention, come on. ] I know it needs humans around. That's the whole point.
[ Pettily, he helps himself to the last bite of that wonderful pork. ]
I did my research.
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[Ah, there's the sound of Now you're calling me stupid! again, lurking in Gojyo's voice. It's more that Hakkai's afraid it'll draw the wrong sort of attention, and if the shrine doesn't have any human traffic concealing the signs of a shinki's hard work--
-- then will they be able to track it back to that shinki? Will he be able to defend Gojyo against Amaterasu again? He isn't willing to trust his God of Fortune title too far. Ebisu had been executed, after all.]
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[ Look, there's a lot of issues with his plans, and he can't be mad that Hakkai thinks he didn't consider all the options. Amaterasu's people will probably find the shrine, eventually, and they'll probably be able to tell he's the one who set it up. He's accepted that risk from the first. But the idea that humans might not see it? That doesn't make any sense. ]
Heaven didn't have a human go set up your shrines, right? [ Actually, he doesn't know the answer to that, but he'd be really surprised if any humans had been involved. ] Plus, the book I found, it was instructions for gods to set up shrines for themselves. No mortals required.
[ He is right about this. Isn't he? ]
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[He shakes his head, slowly, frowning in thought.]
But just because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's impossible. I know they often fail to notice things we do, though, as well as not noticing us.
[Online postings, for example, seem to elude the living even when they're not just on the Heavens' bulletin board.]
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Th'book didn't say anything about that.
[ Or maybe it did -- it's not like he got to finish reading the section, what with some asshole interrupting him and throwing books at his head. ]
Shit, what if it's not working? [ This is actually serious. ] If she doesn't have any other followers besides this Sensei guy, she could vanish at any time.
[ He looks up, meeting Hakkai's eye with his best let's go break shit grin. ]
Want to take this date on the road?
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Let's. Where is it?
[His smile is a little sharp-edged as he adds:]
As soon as we're sure she has a few other followers, we can do something about that 'Sensei.'
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It's next to that big gardening store, on the north side of town. [ He's not really dressed for this adventure, but at least his coat is warm! ] You know where that is?
[ Can we teleport instead of taking the bus? is the real question there. ]
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Shall we?
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Let's do it.
[ The gardening store Hakkai was thinking of is the right one -- it's big, big enough to carry small trees and pallets of brick and stone, and not just the little houseplants and bug traps that some of the other shops in the area offer. Big enough to have its own parking lot. Around the side of the building, where the parking lot wraps around, is one of those heavy plastic gardening sheds, just big enough for a person to stand inside, and it's this shed that Gojyo had turned into a shrine.
To his amazement, it's still intact. There's the bell that he stole from Kali's shrine, the carefully painted TORIMOTO down the inside of the doors, a scrap of curtain across the back. There's even water -- the shrine is pushed up against the wall where a spigot juts out, and there's a hole cut in the plastic back of the box to let it poke through, over a (thankfully empty) basin. The donation box is missing, of course, but that's to be expected. The body of the shrine is still here, and maybe that's enough. ]
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Bird forest? Hakkai blinks at it.]
Where did you get the name?
[He takes out a tissue, running it lightly over the top edge of the empty basin, and checks. There's a smudge of dirt visible against the tissue, but not too much.]
-- I think someone must be coming in here.
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She suggested it. The name. [ Although, would he even know if they were being watched? If one of Amaterasu's shinki stumbled out from behind a tree, maybe, but she's not that sloppy. ] Can you tell if it's been working?
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Which doesn't mean it's not working.]
If people are visiting it, then they're doing something. I don't see any offerings, though...
[After a moment, still frowning, he shakes his head.]
I think we'd have to ask her.
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I figured any offerings would get stolen, but I didn't know if it mattered, so long as they'd been offered. [ The book hadn't been clear about that. The book hadn't been clear about a lot of things -- fuck but he wishes he could have just asked somebody, instead of having to figure all this out on his own! ] Guess I'm not very good at magic stuff.
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If humans are coming here, you've done something right.
[He glances up, the curious frown shading into a small smile.]
I don't know nearly enough about metaphysics to guess what, that's all.
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I've tried to find her. A couple times, now. [ Now that he knows she leaves the forest sometimes with Sensei, that makes more sense -- and it's certainly a nicer thought than the idea that the shrine didn't work and she's dead. ] How long ago did you say you saw her on that video?
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[He quirks a brief smile, and adds, apologetic:]
There was a lot to cover.
I suppose the forest's rather large, too. I'll help you look for her.
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That's also not that long after he'd set the shrine up here. Gojyo doesn't turn around, keeping his eyes on the road, but his voice drops low like he's speaking right into Hakkai's ear. ]
A messed up shrine wouldn't hurt a god, would it?
[ What if tying her name to a shrine that was set up incorrectly somehow drained her magic, instead of recharging it? What if using another god's shrine parts meant that the prayers went to that other god? What if? ]
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