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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2016-04-15 06:57 pm

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:
  • 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~
canoodle: (pic#9177906)

[personal profile] canoodle 2016-04-25 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's okay, dal dal will make up for it.




by grabbing a handful of grass and tossing it (and some dirt too??) to the back of his head.

8)b ]


Don't ignore me, you brat!!
returnedfromtheline: (< what the hell man?)

[personal profile] returnedfromtheline 2016-04-26 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
[There was a clod of dirt attached to said grass, which Yukine feels hit the back of his head. He whips around, roughly scruffing at his hair to get anything out.]

Oi! What the hell? Who is the brat, throwing stuff like that. And do you want me to see you like that? [He (rudely) points to her face.]
Fine, I see it. And sucks to be you. I’ve been there too and it takes forever to get ink off.

[Welp, you aren’t being ignored now.]
canoodle: (pic#9233969)

[personal profile] canoodle 2016-04-28 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ you've been here too? AND YET YOU SHIRK A FELLOW FALLEN COMRADE? that's cold, yukine... ice cold... ]

Whatever, I don't care about any of that. [ what does she care if some little kid sees her like this? she's still 100x more gorgeous with this on than any other girl around here T B H ]

I gotta go do some other Godly duties [ or whatever ] so I need a stand-in. Hurry up and get over here!
returnedfromtheline: (A; 'buu' it's that bad)

;A; my gosh I'm so sorry that last tag was impossible to read-!

[personal profile] returnedfromtheline 2016-04-29 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
whoa- hey, you didn't just think 'little kid' at him, did you?! >.>]


[Yukine doesn't care if this is a god, the answer is still-]


Hell no. [Staying right where he is, thanks.] I only have to listen to my own god, and that's more than enough. [And back to walking in the opposite direction of 'get over here'.]
canoodle: (pic#9233896)

no worries at all...! and i'm sorry she won't chase after him... ;; we will have to try again later!

[personal profile] canoodle 2016-05-02 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ dal dal watches his retreating back, tempted again to chuck another fistful of earth at his head...

but the children have begun to draw her attention back to their game, and so he is spared more dirt in his hair.

but not, apparently, from her chastising words: ]


Sure must suck to be your God, then!!

[ she huffs, turning back to the children with a grimace. ] Brat...
returnedfromtheline: (> get him!)

[personal profile] returnedfromtheline 2016-05-04 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
[[ooc: Yes, they'll have a take-two sometime! For sure... it will go better than this? XD]]