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Irisviel von Einzbern ([personal profile] holygrailed) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-11-22 03:14 pm

[OPEN!] How nice it'd be if we could try everything

Who: Irisviel von Einzbern and YOU!
When: February 22nd through February 28th
Where: Around the Far Shore and Near Shore
What: Exploring the area, spreading some cheer, and getting chased by ayakashi; it's what you expect for a new shinki.


[02/22 - Far Shore - Around Giant’s Grave's]

[Irisviel is on a casual stroll around the grounds of her temple. Her pace is easy-going and casual, but there's a focus to the way she walks too. There's a small wicker basket draped over one arm. Occasionally she stops to mark a rock with a piece of chalk or scratch something into a tree or the ground with a small dagger. Once in awhile, she holds her hand over the marking, a soft glow emanating from it.

Her walk is disrupted as she yelps, her next step taking her into knee-deep water. The mossy bog swirls around her legs, the ripples the only difference between the ground she was standing on and the water she's now in.]


I suppose this is the source of blessed water for the temple.

[Her tone is a little more sour than usual.]

[After her unexpected walk into the bog, Irisviel can be found marking out the perimeter of water source with strips of fabric tied to sticks. Once she's done, her walk around the temple grounds continues, unperturbed by the slight squelch of her boots.]


[Any date - Far Shore - All Districts]

[With the abundance of wildflowers growing around the district, it'd be a true shame to not put them to use. Irisviel, wearing a long white and gold dress, can be found sitting in a field on a blanket, wrapping bundles of flowers with twine or weaving together flower crowns.]

Hello, would you like to help?

[Irisviel can also be found visiting temples directly with a basket full of flower bundles. With so many gods and shinki around, the only way to meet them is to put in some effort. It's also a nice excuse to see the different temples. Don't mind Irisviel as she wanders onto temple grounds in search of the entrance and/or inhabitants of the temple.]

[Any date - Near Shore - Window Shopping]

[The Far Shore is beautiful and impressive enough, but there's even more to see on the Near Shore. Irisviel is wide-eyed and full of joy as she walks along a shopping district, practically glued to the shop windows, though never entering the stores. There's one downside about being a new shinki to a new god; no income. No matter! The joy of exploration is enough! Find Irisviel wandering through shopping areas, strolling through parks, or even visiting shrines, all in the name of exploration.]

[Any date - Near Shore - Ayakashi!]

LINE!

[Irisviel backs away from the barrier, hand still raised in front, as the giant bat-like creature beats against the clear barrier separating them. Its numerous eyes twitch about as it hisses and claws, diving at the barrier. It holds, but its efforts draw more ayakashi in, some on her side of the barrier. They're smaller ayakashi, but they hone in on her.

Run. It's time to run. Irisviel flees the site, fear flooding hot as she tries to put as much distance between the ayakashi and herself as possible. Shrines are safe, where's the nearest one? She cuts through alleys and side streets, slowing to leave borderlines behind her, feeling them break as she moves too far away. But Irisviel can only run so far and as her breath turns ragged and her limbs feel heavy, patches of blight burning from where ayakashi manage to scratch or peck at her.

If running doesn't work, then fighting it is. Irisviel slashes another borderline in front of her and turns to face the ayakashi chasing her. A spell wells in her, survival instincts seizing hold. Slow them down, stop them in their tracks. Plucking hair from her head, she snaps her hand out, channeling energy into the thin strands to make them thicker, stronger, from delicate hair to thin wires.]


Shape Ist Leben!

[Her hand flings out as glowing blue wires snap forward, entangling the ayakashi in a web of wires. It can slow them down, but it won't hold forever nor will it rend them. Now what?]
curruid_coinchenn: (clinging to a chance)

Ayakashi

[personal profile] curruid_coinchenn 2018-11-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Berserker recognizes when his shinki is in trouble -- their emotional link is beneficial for that. It's not panic that fuels his running, but determination. He needs to protect his tools at all costs, especially one as valuable to him as Irisviel. His approach is not quiet nor subtle, his footsteps clearly audible.

Red spear in hand, he sees the restrained ayakashi and runs them through. It's disturbingly efficient as he pins them further to the wall. Gae Bolg won't kill them, but the damage is done. It buys time.

He turns to Irisviel and doesn't say a thing, except for what's necessary. ]


Come, Miruki!

[ No wasted motion, no wasted efforts. An efficient machine. ]
Edited 2018-11-23 02:42 (UTC)
heptagram: (043 |)

flower crowns

[personal profile] heptagram 2018-11-24 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Patchouli was kind of surprised to see anyone out here. Lovely place and all, but she didn't see a lot of people out here very often. So, she approaches, albeit cautiously.

Slightly cautiously.

The other figure is clearly sitting down. She doesn't look particularly dangerous at the moment.

...she's making flower crowns?]


I'm not sure that I was expecting that. But I don't see why I can't, either.
heptagram: (030 |)

[personal profile] heptagram 2018-11-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Disarming and... kinda cute. She has a nice smile, Patchouli decides.]

It's nice to meet you, Irisviel. [She finally sits down.] Do you mind if I just shorten that to Iris, maybe? Oh, right. My name is Patchouli. I've been here for several months and am serving as the Egyptian god of wisdom and the sciences, Thoth.
dredefulchilde: (vampire)

Window Shopping

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-11-25 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Joscelin does a lot of wandering around the Near Shore. So much so that he's been noticed, occasionally, and made to answer awkward questions about why he is wandering around by himself during school hours. To avoid some of this, he stole a randoseru from a shop and now wears it in his jaunts amongst the living. People seem to be more comfortable with him if they think he's an elementary student headed to or from school rather than filling his boredom with petty crime.

That's what he's doing today.

He's wandering through a side street near Ueno park, and quickly swipes a couple of apples from a fruit vendor who is busy with a legitimate customer. Grinning to himself, he stows one in his coat pocket and takes a big, satisfied bite out of the other before going off in search of another store to rob.

He doesn't know he's being watched.]
curruid_coinchenn: (no sense of self to speak of)

[personal profile] curruid_coinchenn 2018-11-25 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
I would never leave you in danger.

[ The garment still feels strange to him, but he can't complain too much because of the protection offered by it. Irisviel's blight would need to be taken care of as soon as this battle is over, but that's a thought pushed to the back of his mind. For now, the only focus is destroying the ayakashi, the things that put his tool in such danger. He couldn't fault Irisviel for getting in to the danger, either -- he wouldn't count it as a mistake.

He grabs Gae Bolg, readying himself to tear it from the wall and loose the speared ayakashi. ]


Destroy them until there's nothing left.

[ A strong feeling of bloodlust flows through him. Fighting like this is nothing but paperwork, but if it needs to be done, it should be done right. He rips the spear from the wall and lets it fade away. With his hands covered by the cloth of the long sleeves, he could find a way to rend them...A brutal way. ]
heptagram: (046 |)

[personal profile] heptagram 2018-11-25 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
["Iri" is a nice choice, too. But she will stick with "Iris" for now.]

Certainly, I don't mind at all. What would you like to know first? Or did you not have something in mind?
heptagram: (027 |)

[personal profile] heptagram 2018-11-25 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Patchouli laughs a little herself.]

You're somewhat of a kindred spirit in that way. Ever since I was very young I was obsessed with learning as much as I could. I spent a large part of my life before I ended up here living in a library owned by a wealthy friend, trying to read as many of the books there as I could -- as I say, eager to learn as much as I could. [She kind of wanted to learn everything... but that's a little beyond anyone's reach for what are basically obvious reasons.]
dredefulchilde: (vampire)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-11-25 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damn, he's been spotted.

The boy turns around and looks at the woman, pointedly taking another large bite out of the apple.]


Why should I? So some old lady can have another ¥60? She won't miss it.
curruid_coinchenn: (when does enough become enough)

[personal profile] curruid_coinchenn 2018-11-26 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Berserker finds no joy in battle, either, it's simply what must be done. It's as tedious and mechanical as paperwork. The violence within him is simply a consequence of making sure his task in complete. Total annihilation is the only answer.

There's a surge of some kind of strong emotion within him as the smaller ayakashi are destroyed. It can't be described as joy or anything really positive, more like war lust. It's cold and calculated, brutally efficient.

To use his bare hands or to call forth that spear again...He chooses to use his hands. It's just the easier option and the more direct. He tears at that hardened wing, undeterred by its strength. If anything it makes Berserker just that more determined to tear it apart with his own hands, continuing his relentless assault. ]
dredefulchilde: (vampire)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-11-26 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Another bite.]

We're not 'everyone' though, are we? They don't notice us. If I paid her, would she remember where the money came from the second I stepped out of view?
dredefulchilde: (evil eye)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-11-26 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Am I being starved, you mean?

[Joscelin laughs at that. With his free hand, he reaches into his pocket and tosses something at the woman--it's his wallet, full to bursting with cash and change.]

No, I'm quite well off. Both my gods give me an allowance. I steal because it's fun, and I'm rather good at it. Plus, the humans don't notice. Even if they see me, they forget about the theft the moment they look away. It's brilliant.
dredefulchilde: (glare)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2018-11-26 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
It is, in fact. Now, I'd appreciate my wallet back.
artificialrose: (salamandroid) (I'm not really sure actually.)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-11-26 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Irisviel isn't the only one who like windowshopping. In such a big city, well, there's benefits. Garry in particular is fond of the huge array of people which are there, because more people encourages more variety. It must be a little bit like what New York is like, although Garry has never been. (Or maybe he has, and simply can't remember.) Something about some cities just... brings about the color in people. This one, here in Japan, is no different. Almost as much as he enjoys looking at what's in the windows, he enjoys looking at the people.]

[Right now, however, he's definitely looking at the clothes on display rather than any particular person. In fact, he's considering a deep teal dress that Irisviel might pause to glance at herself.]


I wonder if it's worth going into the shrine funds...

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