godsoffortune: (bridge)
The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2016-08-15 06:55 pm

007 | Clean Up Your Act

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~
erogappa: (shock -- the hell is wrong with you)

SNAKE!

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-08-17 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's not going to clean anything. That's a given. There's only two people in the world who have ever been able to get him to clean, and since one's dead and the other has no memories, there's nobody who can make him. So there.

But he is going to take some time and use the excuse of cleaning to poke around in some of heaven's storerooms. Last time he looked through a temple storeroom he ended up with a magical summon weapon. What goodies could an actual heavenly storeroom hold?

...Fire, apparently. The answer to that question is fire. At least, that's what he can see flickering in the doorway of the room at the end of the hall. It's probably just somebody using torches for mood lighting, but he still jogs down the hall in case help is needed.

And then there's a big snake and this. This right here. Tis is why he should have just stayed in bed.
]

Ayumu! [ He doesn't dare use his new magical summon weapon, but there's plenty to work with at hand. He grabs a mop from the corner of the room and brandishes the rag end at the snake. ] ...Holy shit, the fire was you?
kagenonadeshiko: (genuine; at ease)

Re: SNAKE!

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-18 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Gojyo-san! Hello!

[Okay, so maybe Ayumu got a little carried away with the fire but this is the second giant snake she's come across today and the sooner it's dead, the sooner she can clean up the mess. Today she's going to war against the filth the Heavens has let accumulate with their neglect.

And in war there are casualties.

Like most of the furniture in this particular room.

And the tapestries.

And maybe the curtains, too, if the fire spreads any further than way.]


Think you could handle the snake while I put out the fire?
erogappa: (stick -- check this shit out)

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-08-18 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's way too calm about fighting a giant snake with fire powers. Waaaaay to calm. Gojyo laughs a little under his breath (why him?!) and circles around to the other side of the room, testing the balance of his shakujyo stand-in.

The balance sucks. Just for the record.
]

You know, I think I underestimated you! [ The snake is singed in places -- a lot of places -- and it's moving somewhat slowly, but Gojyo knows better than to assume it's harmless. They don't die until sunset, wasn't that one of the old stories? Not unless you take their hearts. ] You know any other magic tricks?
kagenonadeshiko: (uncertain; dubious)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-19 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Ayumu thinks about that a moment as she extinguishes a line of flames climbing up a wall.]

I can teleport, too, but that's about it.

[Well, for magic tricks anyway. She's still figuring out how to incorporate them into her ninjutsu and close combat training. It's actually part of why the room is currently ablaze.

Can't waste a good opportunity to practice these things, right?]


How about you? Know any tricks that'll stop a snake?
erogappa: (angry -- no kitty that's my pot pie)

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-08-19 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm workin' on it!

[ For a cold-blooded creature like a giant snake, all the fire heating up the room is like the equivalent of a couple shots of espresso. Its tongue flickers out, those big blank eyes taking in the moving, person-shaped shadows between it and the fire... and then it strikes. ]

Shit!

[ Gojyo launches himself to the side, barely managing to avoid getting snapped up. The huge head swivels to the side, tracking his movement, and he gets the mop handle ready to jam into its mouth if it tries that stunt again. ]

This would be a lot easier if the room wasn't on fire!
kagenonadeshiko: (a thousand silhouettes)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-21 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, excuse her for making use of an opportunity to get innovative with her powers. Ayumu sighs.]

Fine. I'll work on the fire. Just keep it distracted so I can focus, 'kay?

[Hopefully, his reflexes and stamina are good enough to keep him from getting eaten. While Ayumu's gotten pretty good at conjuring flame and incinerating things in explosions, actually putting out the fires she starts isn't coming to her nearly so easily yet. But that's what practice for, right?]

It's gonna take me a few minutes to get it under control.

[Not only is she racing against a hungry snake, Ayumu's also racing against smoke inhalation.]
erogappa: (fight -- defending the bros)

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-08-22 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't need to worry about the snake. Gojyo's got the snake under control. By which he means that he's got the snake chasing him around the room, but at least it doesn't seem interested in Ayumu for the present? ]

Oh no, take your time! We're havin' fun over here, aren't we Snakey?

[ He pokes Snakey in the side of the head with the rag end of the mop, making sure that Snakey keeps chasing him. Snakey responds by rippling sideways, crashing part of its body halfway through the wall where Gojyo was just standing. He's gonna blame smoke inhalation for his slow response time there -- that was close! ]
kagenonadeshiko: (on duty)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-25 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, time to put this fire out. Ayumu works as quickly as she can, collapsing one flame after another. It isn't really clearing out the smoke but the heat in the room's dying down with the blaze.

Thankfully, the snake's slowing down a little, too.]


How are you doing over there?

[Another flame is extinguished.]