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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2016-10-15 07:02 pm

009 | Where Your Demons Hide

Who: Everyone!
What: Emergency demon fighting
When: Late May 5-Early May 6
Where: Just outside of Tokyo
Summary: The demon from the school has reared its ugly head again and needs to be taken down.



On the evening of May 5, the Heavens suddenly receive an influx of prayers from people in and around a certain town just outside of Tokyo. There seem to be a lot of people in the area that have suddenly stopped responding normally (or at all). The situation continues to spread as the night goes on until not only is the whole town suffering from this malady, but the neighboring towns are starting to become affected as well.

With so many gods and shinki on hand - including new ones that have just appeared - the Heavens have issued a request for any available gods and shinki to go investigate what might be happening down on the Near Shore. New gods and shinki will be given the low-down on what's happening, but not much more than that.

The situation will continue to expand until just a little before dawn, when the demon finally has enough power to revive.



Drained Humans

Many humans in the affected areas are walking around despondently. Oftentimes, they are just walking into things or getting hit by things. There have been a few car-related incidents as well. Anyone who was present for the high school incident will recognize these symptoms as something that was happening to people in the school. The glazed looks, the spiritless responses and reactions. So this should be fairly familiar to some.

No One's Safe

Unfortunately, being in the town will start to wear on anyone who is there. Gods and shinki alike will find themselves growing more despondent the longer they spend in the town. All of their energy will be slowly sapped from their bodies, and shinki in particular will feel almost like their existence is draining away.

Hellish Circle

There is a large park in the center of the town. Drawn all around this park is a magic circle, large enough to encompass the whole park. There are candles around the edges of the circle, and in the center there is a cup filled with blood covered by a mask with a swirling eye pattern on it. Stepping into this circle will not only make you extremely tired and suddenly drained, but it will also bring bat-like ayakashi bearing down on you.

The Demon

The Demon itself rears its ugly head just a little before dawn, springing out from the center of the magic circle and looking right pleased with itself. It stands about 5'8" tall, so it is largely unimposing, but there is an aura about it that makes it undeniable that it is powerful. The demon will gladly fight anyone who comes at it, though most he will just shove out of the way without a second thought.



In Summary:
  • Help the drained people
  • Try not to get drained yourself
  • Be careful about being corrupted
  • Fight the demon
  • Have fun~
thirdbeauty: (Sad)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-20 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess not...

[She's more relaxed and at ease now, though. She's with someone, a friend of Lightning's even, and they should be able to figure something out together. That and they're just kind of casually chatting over chocolate bars now. It's a nice, familiar situation, even if Natsuru can't remember ever doing it before.]

Do you think you could do anything that would help? Even just a little bit?
heptagram: (039 L'Eɴsᴏʀᴄᴇʟéᴇ)

[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-21 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I think I could probably manage something, but I can't just make the solution immediately. I'd have to put something together. It's like a puzzle of a sort, I guess.

[As she slowly turns into an adventure game protagonist. (Who's surprised, I almost made her temple the Myst library)]
thirdbeauty: (Distracted from texting)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
So like, finding different things to use together? Or maybe fixing a bunch of smaller problems that all add up?

[That sounds hard, honestly. She wonders how good Patchouli actually is at that sort of thing.]
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[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-21 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Something like one of those, yes.

[She smiled. She's used to stuff like that, so she thinks she's pretty good at it! Whether or not that ever pans out, though, who knows. It's early yet.]
thirdbeauty: (Busy maid)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-21 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Any ideas about how to help everyone yet?

[Patchouli could accidental-flirt with Natsuru all day here, but they do still have a mission. And Natsuru's still very concerned about those people, despite being so relaxed and casual with Patchouli now.]
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[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-22 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhat, but I still haven't finished something yet. See, it doesn't exactly seem like they can be led somewhere easily, which my first thought had involved...

I'm not exactly certain how to completely snap them out of it, though.
thirdbeauty: (Sad)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-22 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Can we at least keep them away from anything dangerous?
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[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-23 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
We can certainly try to. We should start by seeing if maybe we can keep them out of cars, maybe.
thirdbeauty: (Concern)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-23 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
Y-Yeah, that's the most dangerous part!

[She's still a little embarrassed of how terrified and shaken she was when she nearly got run over by a bus earlier. Even if it was perfectly understandable, it felt somehow... unusually intense.]
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[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-28 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Did you almost get run over, too? That's why I backed off to where I had. I'd hoped it would be safer.
thirdbeauty: (Photo op)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-10-31 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Her blush gets deeper at that question. How did she know?!]

Ah... yeah. A bus went out of control. But someone helped me.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2016-10-31 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sometimes she is perceptive of emotions. Sometimes.]

That's good, Natsuru. [She smiles.]

So, shall we?
thirdbeauty: (Ignorance is bliss)

[personal profile] thirdbeauty 2016-11-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... sure! Let's... see what we can do.