36 - Dragon Dance

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Help the Heavens cover for a missing goddess at her temple festival.
When: March 18
Where: Near the Sensou-ji temple in Asakusa
Summary: After Kannon's disappearance last year, the Heavens are concerned that things might go wrong at her temple's March 18 omikoshi festival. They've asked new gods and shinki to attend the festival and keep an eye out for trouble. Meanwhile, trusted newcomers and older gods and shinki alike are watching over the cultists that have been identified.






The Festival

Shrine-carriers, musicians and dancers congregate early in the morning in their matching outfits to get organized into their parade. Luckily, all of the parade participants this time are alive and well. There aren't even any troublesome ayakashi hanging around... so why is everyone having such bad luck?! Laces are breaking, costumes tearing, small children are getting sick from nerves, and even the drums seem to have gone out of tune. It looks like this parade is going to need a whole lot of help to prevent disaster.

For those who aren't busy with the parade preparations, food and souvenir booths throng the area in front of the temple. There's traveling games, too, and plenty of people showing up early with their families to find a good spot to watch the parade. This is one of Tokyo's most popular temples, so it's quite a crowd!

The Stakeouts

Any gods or shinki who were told about the cult problem by Amaterasu -- or anyone who might have heard from friends and allies about the plans -- can help Amaterasu's shinki keep a tight watch on all of the known cult members. Her shinki are looking for any sign of the young gods who she believes are behind all of this trouble, but are there other clues that might be found by a keen observer? Join in on staking out a cult member, and see what you can see.

Current cult members that the shinki are watching include:

• Mitsui Ryou - lives alone in a medium-sized apartment, appears to work a 9 - 5 schedule with occasional late nights.
• Imai Takeru - lives in a small two-story house by himself, has an unpredictable schedule.
• Shimoda Tsuki - lives alone in a small apartment with a lot of plants, works retail with varying shifts.
• Oota Saburo- lives in a medium-sized apartment with his wife and two young children, works a 9 - 5 schedule with frequent work trips.
• Maeda Shinnosuke - lives alone in a small, messy apartment, works construction (early mornings, long days.)
If your character is taking part in the surveillance of any of these people, please feel free to comment to the Cult Clues thread below with the name of the character they're watching, and the times that they're watching that character, in order to learn what they might see. (Note: surveillance doesn't have to take place only on the 18th. Characters can take part in watching the cult members at any time after Amaterasu's announcement on March 8.)

The Parade

At noon, the parade begins. Misfortune is still dogging the participants and the crowds around them, but it looks as though everything will go all right up until the final turn as the heavy, gilded shrine turns back towards the main temple building, tips, and slowly falls over sideways, straight for the crowd.

What's worse, when the shrine hits the ground, it cracks open -- and a huge, jellyfish-like ayakashi wearing a giant white mask with a single black eye inscribed on it heaves its way out and begins lashing its tentacles in every direction. People stung by the tentacles are driven into a furious frenzy, and fights are breaking out everywhere. Stop the humans from fighting, take care of the injured, and destroy the ayakashi before the situation gets any worse.

The Pursuit

In the middle of the fighting crowd, two white-robed shinki are chasing after a very average-looking salaryman in a tan coat. He doesn't seem to know that the shinki are chasing him, but he is moving fast, and they're in danger of losing track of him. They're calling out to any Far Shore denizen close enough to hear, shinki or god:

"Don't let that guy get away! He knows what happened!"

Anyone who has met or spent time staking out Mitsui Ryou will recognize him as the escaping salaryman. If your character takes part in the pursuit, please comment to the Cult Clues thread with a link to your thread - the character who successfully catches Mitsui will be determined by RNG on January 6, 2019.

In Summary:

• Attend the Sensou-ji festival
• Enjoy food and games
• Help Amaterasu's shinki stake out the cult
• Fight a masked ayakashi
• Have fun~

Comments

Event Rewards

[godsoffortune]

Please comment here to a link to any thread of 10 or more comments in which your character is helping with preparations for the parade or helping deal with the disaster, including fighting the ayakashi.

Gods will receive 200 followers and shinki will receive 20 exp for each thread.

[timeforpink]

Does this count for both participants?

[godsoffortune]

Yes-- congratulations!

Jen Scott has earned 20 exp.
D2 has earned 20 exp.

[unlucky7]

Irisviel holygrailed (shinki) has threads with the following people:
Waver (shinki) rescuing Iri from the parade before she's hurt.
Tsubasa (god) helping a lost child.
Berserker (god) rescuing his shinki as she heals injured people.

Ginia (shinki) has threads with the following people:
Obi (shinki) and sewing repairs and delivery.
Chris (god) and fighting the ayakashi.
Waver (shinki) and Iskandar (god) fight the ayakashi.
Shun (god), chasing down Mitsui and going back to fight the ayakashi.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Irisviel has earned 60 exp.
Waver has earned 20 exp.
Tsubasa has earned 200 followers.
Berserker has earned 200 followers.

Ginia has earned 80 exp.
Obi has earned 20 exp.
Chris has earned 200 followers.
Waver has earned 20 exp.
Iskandar has earned 200 followers.
Shun has earned 200 followers.

[unlucky7]

A few more threads!

Irisviel
Ovelia (shinki) and healing people.
Rion (god) and helping a nervous child.

Ginia
Ebisu's shinki (god) and repairs.
Ebisu (god) and keeping kids calm.
Tsubasa (god) and fighting ayakashi.
Minako (shinki) and making deliveries and pacifying kids.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Irisviel has earned 40 exp.
Ovelia has earned 20 exp.
Rion has earned 200 followers.

Ginia has earned 80 exp.
Ebisu has earned 400 followers.
Tsubasa has earned 200 followers.
Minako has earned 20 exp.

[redhotblaze]

Thread with Yasei, though they're really arguing more than helping.
With D2, helping around the festival.
With Snatcher, fighting the ayakashi.
With Ginia, fighting the ayakashi.
With Tsubasa, making plans to help with musical performances.
Chris's own top level, with multiple people throughout the course of the event.
With Sakon, helping some kids.

If not all of these count, that's fine, I just thought it'd be helpful to share everything.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Chris has earned 1600 followers.
Obi has earned 20 exp.
D2 has earned 20 exp.
Snatcher has earned 200 followers.
Tsubasa has earned 200 followers.
Suzaku has earned 20 exp.
Dust has earned 20 exp.
Berserker has earned 200 followers.
Sakon has earned 20 exp.
(The thread with Ginia has already been tallied.)

[trustheart]

Thread with Richard/Saber.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Chris has earned 200 followers.
Richard has earned 200 followers.

[abgrund]

Ain is fighting with Jen and Data-Roxas. He's helping out with Yamanbagiri and Ren as well.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Ain has earned 800 followers.
Jen has earned 20 exp.
Data-Roxas has earned 20 exp.
Yamanbagiri has earned 20 exp.
Ren has earned 20 exp.

[hattersgonnahat]

Turning in some festival help.

/w Hibiki If you really want to call it that
/w Tsubasa
/w Minako
/w Rion
/w Zetta

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Hat Kid has earned 1000 followers.
Hibiki has earned 200 followers.
Tsubasa has earned 200 followers.
Minako has earned 20 exp.
Rion has earned 200 followers.
Zetta has earned 200 followers.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku and Tsubasa fighting and evacuating humans

Suzaku and Saber fighting

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Suzaku has earned 40 exp.
Tsubasa has earned 200 followers.
Saber has earned 200 followers.

[ofnovalue]

ovelia and hibiki fighting ayakashi and finding agrias

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Ovelia has earned 20 exp.
Hibiki has earned 200 followers.

[smilingbullet]

D2 with Dust and Yamanbagiri. Messing with helping Hibiki helps everyone, even Hibiki is waking up. (Which might not even count but anyway)

Obi with Ain and Celestia though I don't know if they count or not. Same with the one where he is not really telling Alter Cú off on scaring children.

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

D2 has earned 60 exp.
Dust has earned 20 exp.
Yamanbagiri has earned 20 exp.
Hibiki has earned 200 followers.

Obi has earned 60 exp (keeping Alter Cu from scaring children counts!)
Ain has earned 200 followers.
Celestia has earned 200 followers.
Berserker has earned 200 followers.

[beyondtheblade]

Rita (Shinki), battling the ayakashi.
Elfnein (God), helping people escape the parade chaos.
Chris (God), battling the ayakashi yet again. S'alot of that going around.
Shun (God), battling/explaining the ayakashi mask.
Edit: Agrias (God), fixing up broken things in the festival

Sadly I doubt sighing at Hibiki or being tricked into having fun by Minako meet the parameters~ (Though, if I'm wrong, those are here and here, respectively.)

[godsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Tsubasa has earned 1400 followers (She was helping Hibiki and attempting to investigate problems with Minako! We'll count these.)
Rita has earned 20 exp.
Elfnein has earned 200 followers.
Chris has earned 200 followers.
Shun has earned 200 followers.
Agrias has earned 200 followers.
Hibiki has earned 200 followers.
Minako has earned 20 exp.

[yasei]

Agrias and D2 are both working separately, technically, but they're both doing some repairs.

Meanwhile, Obi and Hat Kid are sewing. Well. Dealing with broken needles as well.

[listsoffortune]

Congratulations!

Agrias has earned 200 followers.
D2 has earned 20 exp.
Obi has earned 20 exp.
Hat Kid has earned 200 followers.