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

[doestheickyjobs]

Backyard Bonfire

[There's one sure thing about spring cleaning, and that is: you've got to figure out what to do with all of the junk once you've finally gotten it out of the closets and attics where it's been collecting dust for years.

Axel is here to provide that answer for you. He's sitting out on the steps of the main hall, feet stretched comfortably out in front of him and elbows propped on the steps. He's even got a bag of chips that he's working his way through. In front of him, there's a circle chalked on the pavement with a charred mark and a small heap of ashes in the center.

Lazy? No way! He's providing a useful service, and the characters chalked next to his circle reading INCINERATOR HERE ought to tell you as much.

But, hey, feel free to yell anyway.]

Shocking Surprise

[Incinerator service got boring after Axel finished his morning snack, so he's poking his nose into some of those hidden rooms on side hallways.

Half of them have already been cleaned. Some of them make weird noises when he approaches, and he's been leaving those closed. This one, though, this one looked like your average dusty, cluttered storeroom with weird jars and scrolls scattered all over the shelves... at least until he walked in and grabbed one of the scrolls to check it. That's when there was a flash, a jolt through his whole body, and he found himself flung right out the storeroom door to bounce off the opposite wall.

He sits up, groaning. What he doesn't realize is that every hair on his body... and his head... is standing on end.]

What the hell?

surprise

[aristacrat]

[Reiji hasn't been working terribly hard himself, mostly walking around the halls and seeing if anything interesting pops up.

Well, this definitely counts.

He watches the guy go flying out of the storeroom, stares at him for a second, then looks back towards the door, his eyes going wide.]

What's in there?!

[He's about to go stick his head in the room to see for himself.]

[doestheickyjobs]

Ow ow ow...

[Axel pushes himself up slowly, and his eyes go wide as he sees the other guy about to walk right in.]

Whoa! Watch out! There's something in the floor, I just stepped in and I swear it hit me like a Thundaga!

[aristacrat]

[Reiji's only nod to safety is that he hunkers down to look at the floor instead of walking straight in.]

The floor, huh? Think we can make it do it again?

[He has no idea what a "thundaga" is. He might not even act any differently if he did.]

[doestheickyjobs]

Are you crazy!?

[He gets to his feet, still moving slowly and painfully. Man, every joint feels like it just got punched. And his hair is a crackling foot-wide halo around his face. This sucks.]

Why do you want it to do that again? It could've killed me!

[aristacrat]

Would it? Does it work that way here?

[He can't see anything that's immediately obvious that would have caused it. Maybe something under the floorboards? The thing to do would be to find something to throw in there.]

I wanna see what it does.

[doestheickyjobs]

I'm not going to be the guy who figures out if we can die the hard way. Have fun if you want to be our guinea pig.

[He's heard of shinki dying, so it probably can happen. Who knows what it takes, though? Maybe they've got to get broken when they're weapons, or something.]

[aristacrat]

Get me something to throw in there. I wanna see if it'll explode.

[He doesn't even seem the slightest bit self-conscious about giving orders. He does it like it's second nature. It isn't even that he's adjusted to this whole god thing that fast, it's just the way he's always been.]

[doestheickyjobs]

[Axel pauses for a long, dubious moment, but... okay, actually, he's kind of curious himself. And if it does explode, that'd be really cool.

He pulls the dirty rag he's been using to dust with out of his hoodie pocket and hands it over.]

There. Go wild.

bonfire

[revolutionfalcon]

[Yelling certainly wasn't Shun's plan. On the contrary, he's holding a pile of extremely flammable dusty wooden effigies, some wrapped in some kind of protective paper, and it's big enough that he's having to actually look around it to read the sign. The smell of burning was what had actually drawn him this way, and he glances from the ash pile to its apparent supervisor.]

Is all of this even going to fit in that circle? [They could do it in stages, but he has no idea how long that's going to take.]

[doestheickyjobs]

You know, if you happen to go over the edges, I think I'm still gonna be okay. How much more of that stuff is there? Just the one armful?

[Axel uncrosses his legs, getting to his feet and stuffing his hands in the pockets of his hoodie as he wanders Shun's way. Yeah, that stuff looks pretty flammable. It also looks like... sculptures? He eyes the pile dubiously.]

You sure that's all junk?

[revolutionfalcon]

This is all I'm bringing here. I decomposed most of the rest. [And then he found this stuff left over in a back corner because of course he did.

At the question of whether it's junk, Shun's eyes narrow a little, and he gives an almost wry raise of the eyebrow, even if everything else about his expression is still flat neutral.]

If a god has enough figures of themselves in a room that they jam the door and try to kill anyone who gets it open, I think I can call the excess junk.

[Also, he needs some catharsis after that disaster and fire is a lot better for that than decay is.]

[doestheickyjobs]

Wow, sounds like you're having an exciting morning. I'm just making sure nobody'll yell at me over it.

[Axel waves a hand at the other guy.]

Just leave them there and step back.

[revolutionfalcon]

[With a slight grimace, Shun shifts the weight of the pile. It's no trouble carrying it, but it's been about ten minutes since he got it and one of the figures has been digging into his arm.]

That's not the word I'd use. [Frustrating, maybe, or infuriating. Not exciting. But he'd rather get rid of these things than argue right now, so he lowers the pile into the circle and takes a good two steps back as asked. Even if he doesn't always listen to advice like that, he doesn't much want to know if gods can still get their faces burnt off.]

[doestheickyjobs]

That's a curse, right? "May your life be exciting"?

[Axel snaps his fingers. Flame roars up in the center of the circle, rapidly catching from one to the next bone-dry wooden figurine.]

Maybe an extra couple steps back.

[Those are catching really fast. Unusually fast, in fact, and there are colored sparks spouting from the corners of the fire that Axel's pretty sure he isn't responsible for.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[There's a dry snort of what might be laughter from Shun. Something like that, he can definitely see the curse in.]

Sounds right to me.

[As soon as the sparks start flying, Shun's preceeding that warning and taking another few steps until he's much more safely out of range. Should've expected that there might be some kind of magical effect on the fire.]

How often do you burn this sort of thing?

[doestheickyjobs]

What, weird magic sculptures dug out of a room somewhere? This is a first.

[Axel watches the fire cautiously, one hand half-raised as he waits to see if it's going to need some extra personal attention to stop the whole thing from blowing sky-high.]

But if you just mean junk? I've been doing it all morning. It's kind of fun.

bon...fire...

[chainbroke]

[ ... At least he's found something to do? Um. ]

Hello, Axel. Are you-- collecting things?

[doestheickyjobs]

Hey, Namine!

Not so much collecting. [He grins proudly and waves at the small pile of ashes that's already starting to scatter in the light midmorning breeze.]

I'm being useful. Hey, all that junk has to go somewhere, right? And I don't think there's a garbage pickup service in the Heavens.

[chainbroke]

[ Oh. Well. That makes sense. ]

You're being careful...

[ ... ]

Aren't you, Axel?

[doestheickyjobs]

Aw, don't worry about me. All the junk to get burned goes in the circle, I stay way over here.

Nobody's even gotten their eyebrows singed so far!

[Although it could be funny to do that, come to think of it. His grin widens slightly evilly.]

[chainbroke]

[ ... She can see a few problems with this, but. If he thinks he knows what he's doing, okay... ]

... Um, please don't burn anyone's eyebrows off.

[doestheickyjobs]

Relax! They grow back.

[This is not encouraging. It's also not exactly meant to be encouraging. He's just teasing, but the grin on his face is still friendly.]

[chainbroke]

[ ......... ]

I-I'm not sure that makes it any better.

[doestheickyjobs]

Hey, it's a lot better than burning off something that won't.

[Her worried look is getting a bit too much to take, though, and Axel leans back, laughing.]

Come on, lighten up, Namine! It's a joke.