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thenearshore2016-04-15 06:57 pm
godsoffortune) wrote in thenearshore2016-04-15 06:57 pm
Entry tags:
- !intro log,
- event log,
- raichi todoroki | daiya no ace,
- ω asato tsuzuki | yami no matsuei,
- ω commander shepard | mass effect,
- ω dal dal choi | girls of the wild's,
- ω elsa randall | power rangers,
- ω flynn | shin megami tensei iv,
- ω hajime ichinose | gatchaman crowds,
- ω hakkai cho | saiyuki,
- ω hope estheim | final fantasy xiii,
- ω killua zoldyck | hunter x hunter,
- ω ky kiske | guilty gear,
- ω otegine | touken ranbu,
- ω ren suzugamori | cardfight!! vanguard,
- ω ross | senyuu.,
- ω sheryl nome | macross frontier,
- ω sho minamimoto | twewy,
- ω slaine troyard | aldnoah.zero,
- ω yukine | noragami
003 | Save The Boats
Who: Everyone!
What: It's a few days after Hinamatsuri - time for a party!
When: Late evening (March 5, 2016) into early morning (March 6, 2016)
Where: The banks of the Kamo River
Summary: The Heavens have thrown together an outdoor party to celebrate Spring and ALSO to ask the Far Shore residents to keep the boats from Hinamatsuri from coming to shore.
Hinamatsuri is celebrated in Japan on March 3 every year. It is a festival to celebrate all of the young girls of Japan, not as important as their own birthdays, but certainly a big day for all families with a little girl among their household. It's perfectly normal for all of the cuties to dress up and get all sorts of delightful treats out of the day.
One of the normal festivities is a ceremony during which ornamental dolls are placed on tiers on boats and floated down the river. It is thought that all of the bad luck for the coming year floats down the river with the dolls, taking that bad luck away from their young girls to keep them safe for another year.
But the boats don't always make it all the way down the river like they're supposed to, and the Heavens sometimes like to make sure that the year will be full of less bad luck for the people of Japan. So they have decided to have the almighty gods do some legwork and disguised it as a fun Springtime party! They expect gods and shinki alike to push the boats away from the shoreline wherever they see them venturing near.
New gods and shinki will have been ushered immediately to the party as well, given all of the normal information, and then left to mingle among their new cohorts. This is a perfect opportunity to introduce the newbies to both their co-workers and the kinds of jobs they'll be expected to perform.
Buffet
A luxurious buffet is set up for everyone to enjoy. There are all kinds of foods to enjoy, though they all seem to be of a local variety. The Heavens have apparently used the funding from their own temples to purchase local food and support local businesses at the same time. In particular among the food and copious amounts of booze, you will find some Hinamatsuri staples - hina-arare, hishi mochi, chirashizushi, and a salt-based clam soup called ushijiru. Among the booze you'll find shirozake, a sake made from fermented rice, also a regular fare of Hinamatsuri.
The Boats
As if they are literally overflowing with bad luck, the boats seem to be making a desperate attempt to land themselves upon the shoreline. They are reluctant to make their way back into the water and will gladly run people down if they're allowed to and are happy to ram into someone over and over again to try and get their way. When they are finally pushed back to the center of the river, they will begrudgingly continue on their way. Of course, some of them will simply sink because of the weight of all that bad luck, but who can really blame them.
Children
As expected of a day dedicated to celebrating children, there are dozens of children running around and playing games during the festivities. It's hard to distinguish, but some of them appear to be human children while others are shinki. They are happy to let anyone in on their games and will gladly bother adults to come play with them or to let them try some of the liquor. (Mods will be available to play out any child interactions you may want, just flag us down.)
Counselling
Off to the side, there is a tiny table set up with a small, nicely written sign that reads "Gentle Counselling". On the other side of the table is a sweetly smiling shinki who is willing to listen to your problems and answer any questions you might have. She is also here to help out any gods that are having a hard time dealing with knowing about how their shinki died and any shinki that is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they are dead.
In Summary:
What: It's a few days after Hinamatsuri - time for a party!
When: Late evening (March 5, 2016) into early morning (March 6, 2016)
Where: The banks of the Kamo River
Summary: The Heavens have thrown together an outdoor party to celebrate Spring and ALSO to ask the Far Shore residents to keep the boats from Hinamatsuri from coming to shore.
Hinamatsuri is celebrated in Japan on March 3 every year. It is a festival to celebrate all of the young girls of Japan, not as important as their own birthdays, but certainly a big day for all families with a little girl among their household. It's perfectly normal for all of the cuties to dress up and get all sorts of delightful treats out of the day.
One of the normal festivities is a ceremony during which ornamental dolls are placed on tiers on boats and floated down the river. It is thought that all of the bad luck for the coming year floats down the river with the dolls, taking that bad luck away from their young girls to keep them safe for another year.
But the boats don't always make it all the way down the river like they're supposed to, and the Heavens sometimes like to make sure that the year will be full of less bad luck for the people of Japan. So they have decided to have the almighty gods do some legwork and disguised it as a fun Springtime party! They expect gods and shinki alike to push the boats away from the shoreline wherever they see them venturing near.
New gods and shinki will have been ushered immediately to the party as well, given all of the normal information, and then left to mingle among their new cohorts. This is a perfect opportunity to introduce the newbies to both their co-workers and the kinds of jobs they'll be expected to perform.
Buffet
A luxurious buffet is set up for everyone to enjoy. There are all kinds of foods to enjoy, though they all seem to be of a local variety. The Heavens have apparently used the funding from their own temples to purchase local food and support local businesses at the same time. In particular among the food and copious amounts of booze, you will find some Hinamatsuri staples - hina-arare, hishi mochi, chirashizushi, and a salt-based clam soup called ushijiru. Among the booze you'll find shirozake, a sake made from fermented rice, also a regular fare of Hinamatsuri.
The Boats
As if they are literally overflowing with bad luck, the boats seem to be making a desperate attempt to land themselves upon the shoreline. They are reluctant to make their way back into the water and will gladly run people down if they're allowed to and are happy to ram into someone over and over again to try and get their way. When they are finally pushed back to the center of the river, they will begrudgingly continue on their way. Of course, some of them will simply sink because of the weight of all that bad luck, but who can really blame them.
Children
As expected of a day dedicated to celebrating children, there are dozens of children running around and playing games during the festivities. It's hard to distinguish, but some of them appear to be human children while others are shinki. They are happy to let anyone in on their games and will gladly bother adults to come play with them or to let them try some of the liquor. (Mods will be available to play out any child interactions you may want, just flag us down.)
Counselling
Off to the side, there is a tiny table set up with a small, nicely written sign that reads "Gentle Counselling". On the other side of the table is a sweetly smiling shinki who is willing to listen to your problems and answer any questions you might have. She is also here to help out any gods that are having a hard time dealing with knowing about how their shinki died and any shinki that is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they are dead.
In Summary:
- Keep the boats off the shore
- Enjoy the food and booze and spring atmosphere
- Have some fun with cute little kids
- Seek counselling if you need it!
- Flag the mods in the top thread if you'd like an NPC
- Have fun~
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[Hakkai finishes off the strawberry in a few neat bites -- he's not really hungry, after his first sweep of the food, but the fruit is very good. Unusual to have so much of it, too... isn't it?
Is that something he knows about himself? He shakes off his own momentary reverie and gives the other man a polite smile.]
You seem distracted.
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So he straightens, deciding there's no harm in saying what was on his mind]
I suppose I was just thinking... I can't even recall if I should know these foods or not.
[Being without memory must serve some purpose, but he hasn't any idea what it could be]
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[Hakkai brushes a hand through his bangs, glancing away. It's close enough to his own thoughts -- to all of their thoughts, he's sure.]
Some of them taste familiar to me, and some of them don't. If you try a little of everything you might find something out about yourself.
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[Though that remains something that he must adjust to. It's a little easier to accept that he might've imagined, but then...had he ever imagined something like this in his life?
One among many mysteries]
I suppose that might tell me where I've been...
[He has to admit, it's better than standing about speculating]
Thank you, for the suggestion.
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[Inclining his head, Hakkai adds:] I'm Cho Hakkai. It's a pleasure to meet you... [He trails off, leaving space for the other man to give his name.]
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Slaine Troyard. It's good to meet you as well.
[And something of a comfort, learning that he's not the only one who wonders about his origins]
Are you also new to... [He gestures vaguely to their surroundings] All this?
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[He looks around. The trees are familiar, and a river anywhere must be like a river, but as for everything else...]
I don't think I was, though.
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[Still, one would think something would feel less pointedly foreign were it the case that they'd been here previously. A familiar face. A name. Some landmark they recognized...something. Anything]
It seems like there's a lot to learn.
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[Hakkai sighs, folding his arms, and glances back at Slaine.]
I still seem to know how to do things, and some of the things here aren't strange to me, so that will have to do for now.
In any case, I'm not sure it matters! We're all dead.
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[Who they are shouldn't simply disappear because they're no longer alive. It's important, he thinks, though it seems by design that none of them recall.
Otherwise, why would it be the same across the board like this?]
This may be my situation now, but I'd still want to know.
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[That's something that feels true, down to his bones. Dead means lost forever to the living.... so it could be a blessing not to remember what they've lost.
His smile is enigmatic as he looks up at the cherry trees again.]
But I still want to know, too.
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How strange, as though he expected to find something there]
Even if they're lost to me... I think I'd owe it to them to remember.
[Whether they have the same reasons or not, at least they both wish they could recall these things]
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[The dead continue in living memory, don't they?
Maybe they do owe it to their surviving friends and loved ones to find that memory in themselves as well. There's something terrifying in the thought, as if he was thinking about an obligation to sacrifice himself, and not simply an obligation to do something he wants to do anyway -- remember.
Hakkai's expression stays frozen into a brittle neutrality as he probes at that feeling, but specificity still eludes him.]
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[Unless the memory of him troubled someone, but the thought goes unspoken. Only his expression speaks of any further ideas tied to that notion, lips pressed into a thin line and eyebrows pinched together...
...And then he smooths that expression away with a soft puff of breath]
Though it remains to be seen whether we can recall at all. It does seem like this has to be by design.
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[Hakkai lets out a breath of his own, shoulders slumping just a little.]
By design, or by something about our nature. Do you suppose that death wipes away memory for everyone, or do we lose those memories because we're the servants of the gods? It is a kind of reincarnation, I suppose.
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[If only because they might be more malleable or less inclined to, perhaps, be distracted by their past lives if they remember nothing. Granted he could be wrong, but something more solid and less esoteric feels right to him.
Then again what is being a dead soul turned weapon if not esoteric?]
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[His tone remains mild and thoughtful, but there's a harder glint in his eyes as he says that.
If Slaine is right, and someone has deliberately stolen their memories, Hakkai would very much like to find out who.
He has so much to discuss with them.]
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[That seems like the way things would have to be, if he were to speculate. Not that he has much to draw on, but means and motivate are a natural combination.
Why do something that wasn't beneficial, on such a scale? There seem to be no small number of them]
...Provided of course that's how it is.
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What could someone possibly gain from depriving us of our memories? We're all very different. We can't all be forgetting the same enemy.
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[Hakkai is right in that they're far too diverse for that. Besides, it'd be a strange way to deal with enemies that were already neutralized, were it the case.
It doesn't seem strategically beneficial in those terms]
Like this, we'd be free of unnecessary distractions from our intended purpose. Were we to remember, there may be those who would defect to return to their loved ones, or have some general opposition to the circumstances, or...something like that.
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[Hakkai shrugs and moves to the end of the buffet table to refill his teacup.]
Unless we learn more, I don't think that'll help us to narrow anything down.
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[Maybe hierarchies are a human invention, but it stands to reason that someone would have to maintain order.
...Unless gods are simply better at organizing themselves]
At least...that seems like a place to start.
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Well.
We have a lot to find out, don't we?
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[There's a comfort in the fact that he's not the only one curious. It should be easier to cover more ground with more than one person interested in finding answers.
Then it's just a matter of the actual legwork]
I had wondered if anyone else was concerned with these matters or not.
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[It's hard to accept being thrown into a strange world, with no memories, and made the servant of a stranger.
But that doesn't mean everyone would feel like they had to fight it. It's easier to accept your situation, when you don't know how to make it better.]
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