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[unlucky7]

Who: Ginia and friends
When: 5/16 through 5/21
Where: Various locations on the Near and Far Shore
What: Ebisu has a festival on the 21st, Ginia calls on some friends to help with preparations. [Prayer Chain 17]

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"Holidays, exam season, and baseball games, a frightening time for ayakashi, moreso if a vent opens up." Terumi sighs and tosses his head back, fanning himself dramatically with his tablet. "But we are not a temple that seeks out ayakashi."

Not to fight at least, Ginia thinks to herself. But the Curse of the Colonel... she knows she's been by the bridge - Kasumi thought it was very important for her to know the location as part of her onboarding - and vaguely remembers Kasumi mentioning something.

"Kasumi mentioned there's a giant chicken ayakashi that lurks in the water and eats people when they fall in the canal?"

Terumi looks stricken, then contemplative, muttering under his breath, "I suppose that's not unreasonable..." Composing himself, Terumi sets down his tablet and folds his hands together, looming over the table as much as his short stature allows. His sense of presence makes up for his lack of height. "It's a recent thing as far as history goes. The Hanshin Tigers won the Japan Series in 1985 thanks to the help of an American on the team. There was quite the celebration on Ebisu-sama's bridge, very rowdy.

"In honor of the team, each player's name was called out and someone resembling the player leapt into the water. Lacking someone resembling the venerable Randy Bass, the crowd seized upon a statue of Colonel Sanders from a nearby KFC and hurled it into the canal. Since then, the Hanshin Tigers have had a losing streak. It's believed until the statue is recovered, the curse remains. As it stands, the Tigers did make it to the Japan Series in 2003, though lost. Most of the statue was retrieved in 2009, though I believe it's missing some parts. I do seem to recall the Tigers made it to the Series again recently, but also lost."

Ginia finishes her pile of clothes and sorts everything into the appropriate baskets. Is there truly a curse over the team or is the belief enough to affect them? Even if all of the statue was retrieved, what if they lose again? Would they shift the terms of a curse or find fault elsewhere? Alternately, perhaps there's a god cursing them or an ayakashi stalking them. Who can tell?

"Do you think there's really a curse?"

"Hm. It's a popular debate in the temple. More than a few have dredged the canal over the year, especially when the bridge was being rebuilt. Ebisu-sama has attended a few games too, other gods as well. Sometimes there are ayakashi involved. In the end, for all the support we give, it is always what the humans themselves do, no?"