007 | Clean Up Your Act

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Spring cleaning
When: All day April 15
Where: All around the Heavens
Summary: The Heavens don't like things being cluttered, so it's time to clean up a little bit.







Main Hall

While the main hall of the Heavens seems spotlessly clean at all times, that's not the case at all. In fact, it's been at least a decade since the last time they actually cleaned everything out properly. There are a lot of hidden closets and back rooms that have layers of dust and dozens of boxes filled with nothing but junk. Who knows, though! You might find something interesting and useful in there along with all the garbage.

Suprises

Unfortunately, some of the older temples on the Far Shore seem to have some interesting surprises tucked away, ranging from cursed artifacts all the way to magical creatures locked up in long-forgotten rooms. You are free to be creative with this as a way to get your characters into trouble while cleaning.

Complimentary Dinner

After all of your hard work, you deserve to have some tasty food and refreshing beverages. So the Heavens have provided that for you, so that you can wind down after a long day. It's not as fancy as the banquets they often put on, but there is a nice array of food and drinks for everyone to enjoy.

Counselling

As usual, there is a white-robed shinki bearing the gold chrysanthemum of Amaterasu sitting at a table in the Main Hall. There is a small sign that denotes her as the counselling shinki. Anyone is welcome to approach her, and she will smile serenely at anyone passing by as well.



In Summary:

• Clean up your home
• Help clean others' homes
• Get the main hall clean too!
• Hope no hidden magic jumps out
• Seek counselling if you need it
• Enjoy your complimentary dinner
• Have fun~

Comments

Sanae

[miraculo]

[ Wow okay, she did not expect to be suddenly in another world BUT THAT'S OKAY, something like this isn't going to get her down. In fact, she's excited as ever, bubbling over this and that, those temples over there, and that mansion right here, and--- oh, there's cleaning to be done? WELL SAY NO MORE. Sanae can always be found with a broom in hand-- those tricky youkai and harvest gods she used to greet back at home always found a way to trail in dust and leaves wherever they came to the shrine. She's used to cleaning up the gods' shit. It's like her job. ]

A: CLEANING UP SAID SHIT IN THE MAIN HALL/SOME TEMPLE AND/OR CLOSET:
A-1: [ She's carrying about ten boxed piled high in her arms, which teeter precariously with every step. But you know what, no one likes taking more than one trip, and that includes her! She's not lazy, shhhh, she just likes Getting Things Done.

But she will be bumping into you, whoops. There goes the boxes. What is in them? THAT IS UP TO YOU. Maybe it's tar and feather. Maybe it's puppies. Maybe it's spiders. Maybe it's weird green ooze. Maybe it's a cursed artifact that makes your thoughts appear above your head. Maybe it's some moldly oldy god's collection of ~exotic~ novels. The possibilities are as endless as the heavens! But whatever it is, it's going to to be tumbling down on the both of them (unless, of course, this accident is prevented by your character). ]

A-2: [ Happy cleaning day, everyone! If you happen to be near her, Sanae is the sociable type, and she'll gladly strike up the conversation while sweeping: ] ...Phew, this's a pretty messy place! I would've thought that they'd keep the celestial plane a bit more spotless! It's--

[ HOLD. THE FUCK UP.

Is that a SPIDER WEB. On the WALL? Right over your shoulder, too. Oh hell naw, it's not going to be there anymore because Sanae will be striking at it with the broom with all the force of a raging windstorm. ]

A-3: [ Somehow she broke her broom. Multiple brooms. There is a pile of brooms being collected next to her, and she's currently putting another one on the top. She claps her hands, getting rid of extra dust before nodding to herself confidently. ] ...There. All done~!

[ SO HELPFUL. Only not, because half of her cleaning was picking up the broken pieces of broomsticks she had broken while trying to nab every speck of dust/spiderweb/mouse that scurried by. She places a finger to her chin, pursing her lips thoughtfully. ] Hmmm, but we shouldn't be wasteful, no? Maybe we should have a bonfire!

A-4: [ There is now a bonfire of broken broom sticks. She found some bad things in some dusty closet and is now burning them, too. ]


B: PASSING OUT MOCHI IN THE COMPLIMENTARY DINNER
[ Look at all of this food. How is it still on the table, this will not do. It needs to be eaten and not go to waste! So while you're minding your business or just chillin' in your home, oh look, it's a shrine maiden-- wait why is someone dressed as a shrine maiden among all the gods. Okay, maybe that's not the important question for you because do you know what this green-haired, yellow-eyed woman has?

SHE HAS MOCHI. And she's handing them out like they're going out of style. Because these deserts aren't going to eat themselves, you know! ] Hello...! My name is Sanae Kochiya, it's a pleasure to meet you! You look famished after all of that hard work, would you like some mochi? Here, take some--

[ Take some, dammit. Don't disappoint her, or the sparkles will disappear! Or maybe do disappoint her, because then those annoying sparkles will disappear. ]

C: WILDCARD
[ Up to you bro. Sanae can be found doing just about anything. ]

B

[mybadhabit]

[Sonic's day was spent doing as little work as was possible. He's already the messenger of the gods, he was not about to be their maid too. But skipping out on work doesn't mean he's about to skip out on free food, and- well hellooooooo mochi]

Oh, thanks.

[And he's just going to take that mochi and keep going]

[miraculo]

[ ....Wh....wait.

DOESN'T HE WANT TO TALK. TO BE HER FRIEND? ] Er-- you're welcome...! [ Going to follow after him. ] ...Working so hard can muster up an appetite, huh? I haven't seen you in the hall until now-- what were you cleaning? Do you still need help?

[mybadhabit]

[Well, no, he kind of just wants to eat this mochi.]

[He eyes her as she follows him, slowing down just the tiniest bit to make it easier on her. He's learned a thing or two about women since he came here, and that's that if they're going to be persistent about pursuing you, very little will shake them off]

I wasn't cleaning, I've been busy doing deliveries for the Heavens. [A blatant, if not believable lie] I'm Hermes, the messenger of the gods, after all.

C

[young_oldman]

[His mind is a whirl, a mess. Blankness where there should be pictures and sounds, emotions. A name is all he has left, and he's left a foreigner, a stranger, a man out of an ancient time, wearing armor that does not mesh with the hustle and bustle of brooms and mops.

It's hardly advisable for him to stand in the middle of the hall though; he's in the way of busy people. And while he wants to stop one of them to ask what is going on, he can't find the words to speak either. What can he even say? "I don't know who I am, can you tell me where we are?" Sounds like the words of a madman, or at least someone terribly ill. Just in case he checks the back of his head, but there's no noticeable bump there so no, he hasn't been smacked up in the head one too many times.

What he needs to do is keep calm, otherwise his words are going to come up in a jumble anyway. So he quietly mumbles his "excuse me"s and "pardon me"s to try and make his way to a pillar that he can duck behind. Give him some time to try and match what he does know with the scene around him, and see if there are any links. Surely there's a face he can remember, a name that he can call out to. Surely someone must know him, he couldn't have popped out of nowhere.]

[miraculo]

[ And amidst the chaos that is cleaning, she feels a strange pulse, a tug at her heart as well as her mind. She almost staggers, clutching to the broom she holds through mid-swing at a web. Dropping the broom, her now-free hand goes to over her face, and she shuts her eyes tightly as a strange vision overcomes her.

No, not a vision. They're memories, but they're not hers. A whole slew of them, whirling within her thoughts, blinking in and out of the periphery of her perception. Images of people smiling, shouting, yelling, fighting killing victory slaughtering spears swords coughing blood lots of blood mud rain--

And then death. She feels that the palms of her hands are wet. Tears, those are hers. She can't stop them; it hurts. It hurts to suddenly have these memories. No warning from one of Amaterasu's messengers could have prepared her. ] Lu Meng... [ She knows his name because that's what others had shouted at him as he lay there, cold. Dying. Breathing his last. She knows his name from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, too. To think that he would be--

Sanae looks up, and as luck would have it, not far off. She knows where he is, and within the next moment she abandons the broom, letting it clatter to the ground, and begins to run towards the figure she's seen in those memories. ] Lu-- [ In the next moment, he's going to have a young woman dressed like a miko rushing up to him and bringing him into an embrace. She's sobbing, because she knows she can't tell him what she saw, and she wouldn't dare with all the taboo that it holds, but she's still sorry. She's sorry that she wasn't there to help him. Even if she isn't from the same world or even era. ] Lu Meng....

[ She's got a big heart. Lots of things make her cry. But this? This is making her sob. ]

[young_oldman]

[He'd just made it to the shadow of the pillar, glad to get away from the crowd...when suddenly there's a person slamming into him!! No, not slamming into him...hugging him! And in the confusion of the moment his patience is short and his emotions running wilder than he likes, and he doesn't notice the tears or the sobs, not with how noisy the hall is and how he only sees the top of her head when he looks down.

So that's how he ends up shouting at her. #greatfirstimpression]

What on earth do you think you're doing!? Have some sense, young lady!!

[His hands are going to grip on her shoulders to push her away, fingers digging perhaps a little too harshly into her flesh. An angry scowl will greet her tear-stained face...before it melts away into shocked, and then shamed realization, that she's crying. Immediately his hands let go, and his voice dies back down with shame.]

Young miss. I, I am terribly sorry. I did not notice your distress.

[But his distress is clear in the strain in his voice, the worry and guilt etched on his face.

And in the harsh sting at the back of her neck.]

A2

[heiring]

[ Said raging windstorm nearly goes over Reiji's head. ]

Whoa! Be careful!

[ It's said as he dodges the broom swing with the elegance of a swan. The motion is fluid, and he spins around to face her. ]

[miraculo]

[ ......................Wow.

Talk about graceful. Because. Yeah. That fluid turn might as well have taken her breath away, too, because she's never seen a motion so elegant in her life! It takes her a moment to regain her composure from her awe. ] Oh-- um, I didn't mean to--

[ She's quite the ugly duckling in comparison to his swan-ness. A breath. ] My apologies. There was spot there. But it's okay, I got it. [ Yes, that's what matters. Not the fact that the broom is now broken. ]

B

[sweetdeath]

Oh wow, thanks!

[He'll take mochi! He'll take five. Tsuzuki beams instantly, holding his plate out and shoveling a handful of the treats onto the edge of it. His plate's mostly full of desserts already: cake, a slice of pie, a couple of individual pastries, a deep-fried thing encrusted in sugar....

It's not like the gods need to worry about eating healthy, right?

He beams at her.]

So did you make these? You're not one of Amaterasu's shinki, right?

[miraculo]

Oh, no-- not at all. [ Although she'd consider it an honor if she was one of her shinki. ] My name is Sane, and I am a god that was just brought here. [ She smiles warmly, offering the plate again.

He can take as many more as he wants. ] And... no, I did not make these. But even so, can't you taste the quality? A shinki must have put all of his or her heart into making them, and it shows.

B

[koukai_kirai]

The blossoms of heaven--

No, that's six...

[Poor Hijikata. He's just minding his own business, sitting in a garden just outside the dinner party with a couple of empty sake bottles at his side, staring up at the trees and the moon and fumbling his way through putting a poem together, when suddenly his hard-earned peace and quiet is unjustly taken from him. He scrambles to his feet, glaring down at Sanae.]

I don't eat sweets. How many of those do you have?

[miraculo]

[ What a grump.

He needs more sugar. ] Ehhh, I have enough to turn that frown of yours upside down! [ She thinks she's being clever. ] And who heard of someone who doesn't like mochi-- you ought to try to green tea flavored one! It's not as sweet. [ OFFERS THEM STILL. ]

B

[chronobreak]

[He'll take some, but be entirely amused by her insistence that he should take some.]

You know there are plenty of people who haven't gotten to the feast right?

[miraculo]

[ She laughs. ] There's no reason people can't take a break and have a quick snack, can't they?


[ ...Maybe that's a nervous laugh. She's been snaking all this time tbh. ]

A-1

[clothes_make_the_man]

[Oh god, no, not again with the green ooze! Forrest shrieks as the sticky mess comes tumbling down on top of his head, and he falls to his knees as he sadly brings a hand up to slowly run it through his once beautiful and perfectly coiffed hair.]

Th-this is becoming an unfortunate pattern...

[miraculo]

[ Hey. Hey listen. Sanae thinks that Forrest is a woman. A fancy one! Because look at those curls. She must be important!

Which means, shit, Sanae caused a Lady with a capital L to be covered in ooze! ] G---gah! I--... I deeply apologize, I didn't mean to crash into you. Here-- ah, um... [ Reaches into her pocket. ] A handkerchief! [ Offers it. Though it might not be enough. ]

A-1

[bighand]

[That sure is a huge stack of boxes! Kija notices it - and Sanae - a moment too late to avoid the collision, but fortunately he's not carrying anything, so the boxes that tip off the top of the stack don't hit the floor! Instead, with some frantic maneuvering, they wind up stacked neatly in Kija's right arm, which has... grown.... just enough to comfortably hold all of these.

He peers around his new box pile at her, already apologetic-] Forgive me, I wasn't looking where I— ah...

[He trails off; one of the boxes landed on its side, and a flap of cardboard has peeled loose from its tape!! And suddenly, a cascade of feathers and... colorful cotton balls?? pours out of it, right in front of his face. Is this the Heavens' arts and crafts box???]

[miraculo]

[ Well this is going to be a disaster, because she's not going to let him accept the blame when it was clearly his fault...! ] Oh, no, I'm sorry-- you're perfectly fine! [ She says, setting down the rest of the boxes. As for the one that fell over, she quickly scurries over to begin picking stuff up. ] I've been so clumsy lately, this has happened a couple times before. [ A laugh. ] And...

[ Okay, now she's looking at just who she ran into. Her eyes widen. Wow, a white haired pretty boy! He's the first of his kind she's seen today!

Kidding, kidding. She's looking at his oversized arm. Lacking any tact whatsoever: ] Y---y---you--- ...Are you cursed?! Did these boxes of arts and crafts curse you--?!

A4

[hyuuga]

[Hinata had been innocently walking by, a box of random useless junk she was going to either toss out or keep to sell later, but--

Is that a bonfire?

She stops and stares at it for longer than she should. She's so confused by it. Were some areas just that dirty?]

Who--... Why?

[miraculo]

Sanae Kochiya, goddess of miracles, and.... broomsticks! [ She explains happily. ] There's a lot of cleaning to be done, and some of these tools just aren't up for the task. [ She sighs, clicking her tongue. ]

B

[myninjaway]

[ Well, he can't say no when you put it like that. It's almost like cheating! So he takes some. Those sparkles must be protected. ]

Yeah, thanks! I'm not starving anymore, but it was a lot of hard work, so I can eat some more, I guess!

I'm Naruto, by the way!

[miraculo]

Sanae Kochiya. [ And after a pause. ] I'm new here as the god of miracles. It's nice to meet you. [ She bows politely to him. ]

Please take as much as you'd like-- there's plenty more where it came from, and everyone's been working so hard that there's no reason to eat as much as you can!

I want to reply to them all

[pachintoki]

[Just a grumpy fox-god here. He's currently sitting alone sneezeing because of course he had to have no less than 4 tails today, and all they did was gather dust. He'll thump them on the floor as he tries to shake the dust out.]

What's that? Ehhh, you're right, I did work damn hard today.

[He didn't. But he'll take a mochi or 5.]

[miraculo]

[ Of course her gaze first lands on those ears because. That's different. Well, okay, it's not as if she's never seen a person with fox ears before, but hey! First person she's seen with some here. ] Mm-hm, mm-hm! [ She nods after a moment, continuing to be chipper. ]

Besides, a good snack is a good way to fuel yourself to continue working! [ He is going to clean. Right?


Right? ]