009 | Where Your Demons Hide

[godsoffortune]

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~

Comments

np!

[prideinthefall]

[ Sephiroth lips press into a thin line when she vanquishes the ayakashi. He still cannot stomach the notion that he must rely on someone else for something so damned basic. These creatures should be nothing to him. A mere annoyance.

Fire dances at his fingertips and then launches in a wall at the ayakashi still remaining. One darts up out of the blaze, but the other isn't so lucky. The fire engulfs it, burning its wings into uselessness.

He can't take satisfaction in it. ]

So they've said, and so I've seen.

[skyleopardess]

[To be honest, she agrees with him. The idea that her considerable strength alone isn't enough to kill even the weakest ayakashi is annoying, and strikes her as inefficient. Still, she's been here long enough to resign herself to the fact.

One thing about having a soulless shinki--their plans never interfere with your own. Nami's always ready even when her other shinki aren't available.]

So what are you trying to accomplish?

[Because sitting here maiming ayakashi might be a decent workout, but it's not all that productive. Especially when he knows as much.]

[prideinthefall]

[ Somewhere beneath his frustrations Sephiroth has an actual answer that isn't full of venom. He watches the last of the ayakashi twitch on ground with the remains of its useless wings. ]

To find out why, or some idea of it.

[ Sephiroth holds up the Masamune, but not in threat. The blade is ridiculously long, but even the dim light around them, it's easy to see that the edge is perfectly honed. ]

I don't except 'because' as a reasonable answer. This sword can cut through multiple feet of steel and concrete without so much as a scratch on the blade or a dulling of the edge. I can, with a spell, incinerate most materials to ash. I know the power of the sword I become for my god. [ Perhaps not completely; they've only tried once, but Sephiroth has always been a quick study when it comes to combat. ] So, what is the difference in that weapon and my own? What is the factor that makes that weapon effective but only in the hands of my god?

[ He'd gotten enough speeches about teamwork and 'better together' upon arriving to nearly make him physically ill. Those are fluff concepts. Simply cramming people together did not make them inherently stronger or better. In fact, ineptness in one could weaken the other. ]