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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~
kagenonadeshiko: (uncertain; dubious)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-31 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Ayumu's the one who initiated this conversation but even so, it's hard to curb the impulse to withdraw. She's never been one to talk about her feelings or even acknowledge she had them. But she turned to Sheryl because this matter is out of her area of experience. Of course, she's well acquainted with the physical aspects of what goes on between a man and a woman but the emotional side of things has always been a mystery.

And so Ayumu pushes on regardless, as she would with any other challenge.]


In a way. I kissed him and he kissed me back. But we haven't seen each other or spoken with each other since. A new shinki came to me recently and there's been complications with him. I've been busy.

[Mostly getting stung and making sure Yamato doesn't just sit and stare at the wall.]
galactically: (holier than thou)

[personal profile] galactically 2016-08-31 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Just one kiss and that's it?

[She hikes her eyebrow at that, disbelief in her glimpse. If they haven't seen each other since then... that sounds like an awkward sign to Sheryl. Maybe they both needed a break to sort their feelings out, but with another shinki to the mix, more complications are to be expected.

There's no way Sheryl plans to leave things as they are, not when romance is right within Ayumu's grasp.]


You know what I think? [Certainty slips through in her tone.] That you should make more time with Axel when you can. It's only fair!
kagenonadeshiko: (hmmmm; so that's how it goes)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-08-31 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Really?

[It makes perfect sense to her. Of course, Ayumu doesn't know what those kisses to either. How could she? She's not even quite sure what they mean to herself, just that they meant something. Ayumu's been with many men in her life and gone much further than just kissing with them but it'd always been work-related. Maybe that's why this time felt different and why she's still thinking about it a week later.]

He hasn't called me or stopped by to visit... I didn't expect him to. He knows that things are awkward with my new shinki but...

[Still, she values Sheryl's input. She seems to know what she's talking about more than Ayumu does. She sits there a moment, briefly collecting her thoughts.]

I'll try. We should talk about it. Or do something together.

[Ayumu's skeptical about whether a couple of kisses and some mutual touching constitutes a relationship but she's also wise enough to know her past experiences aren't exactly normal either.]
Edited 2016-08-31 22:01 (UTC)
galactically: (point? I don't care)

[personal profile] galactically 2016-08-31 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
What? Then make him come! That idiot needs to know what he's about to miss out on if you don't!

[While it's nice of him to know what transpired between Ayumu and this mystery shinki, Sheryl admits, she thinks he could spend a little more time with Ayumu for a change.

After a moment she nods in acknowledgment.]


Communication is as important as spending time with each other. [And then a pause, a melodramatic sigh:] Only then can romance truly bloom, like a rose with outstretched petals after being watered.
kagenonadeshiko: (waiting for my time)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-09-02 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[It's all so interesting and a little humbling. Sheryl seems so much more knowledgeable than herself about things are supposed to work with real suitors. If Ayumu had her eye on a man from her own country and time period, she's confident in her charms. However, Axel's nothing anyone she's known before. Now that she's thinking about it more, it's part of what makes him attractive.]

You're right.

[There's a pause.]

How do I make him come? He's different from the men I know.

[She's never had much experience with real suitors, only targets.]
Edited 2016-09-02 04:21 (UTC)
galactically: (let me know what you want)

[personal profile] galactically 2016-09-03 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, the irony. Despite Sheryl's vast knowledge in romance, she even has trouble dealing with her own feelings towards Alto. With one failed relationship in the past, she doesn't want a repeat to happen between herself and him. Experiences have taught her that much.

Her head cants to one side a bit, leaning on one of her propped hands.]


Use your feminine charm to have him wrapped around your finger. [She lifts up a hand, curling a finger and waving it to mimic a thread.] Grab him by the collar of his shirt if he's one of those stubborn types!
kagenonadeshiko: (sharp; calculating)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2016-09-03 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. That sounds easy enough.

[Is Axel one of those types? Well, it's lucky that Ayumu's specialty happens to be gathering information, isn't it? And she's been using feminine charm to her advantage since she was a girl. It's a comfortable concept, much easier to think about than softer emotions.]

I suppose I could try a few different things and study his responses.

[Gathering information and seduction are her specialties, after all. Perhaps she should approach this like she would a target. Her motivations are different this time but what she knows should apply reasonable well to practice.]
galactically: (Default)

OOC

[personal profile] galactically 2016-09-04 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC: Continued here!)