thenearshore | (Open) Well hello world

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ω masaki kurosaki | bleach

(Open) Well hello world

Who: Masaki and you!
Where: Near shore town, Tezcatlipoca's temple Near Shore, Calico cat cafe
When: May 9-10
What: Masaki slowly getting the ropes with cleaning up and exploring the Near Shore.
Warnings: TBA

May 9, the Near Shore:

A: Outside Tezcatlipoca's temple morning:

[Perhaps you were visiting the area; perhaps it was on the way to your own temple. Either way, there comes in sight a young woman, who has found some improvised tools to give the Near Shore Temple a good cleaning up. She wasn't dressed as a priestess-she was wearing pretty modern clothing in fact-but noticing the company, she perked right up.]

Oh, hello! Have you come for a visit?

[Her smile was bright and girlish, nevermind that she might have looked like a bit of a mess.]

I didn't realize we'd have people coming by!

[Do they even have supplies for gods and shinki visits? Like tea and cookies? Ah...she can't remember...]

B: Within the surrounding town afternoon/evening:

i: Benches

[She'd been going around, trying to get a good idea of how the area was but...yeah, she had to stop, and watch the people go by for a bit. She felt tired, and she didn't quite realize why until she saw someone go by with food. From the near drooling, she remembered.

She hadn't eaten since she arrived. Drank water, but eat? She didn't know if she could. Or had to.

But when the next person went by, her stomach gurgled. Loudly. What a mess...]

ii Music Store

This is...music?

[It mostly had movies, items related to that and music, but there were head phones too, and codes they said for downloading music. What was downloading? Why would you want to download music? She was baffled.

But they had music samples. She tentatively put on the headphones, and listened for a few moments, her expression becoming...more or less baffled.

She gave a wave of her arm, trying to catch attention.]

Hey, have you ever heard music like this before?

[She'll offer up the headphones, eyes gleaming. She's learning something today.]

C: May 10, Morning, Cat Cafe Calico:

[Since she didn't know about the whole prayer system per se, she wanted to make sure that there would be grocery money. She didn't know what Dio liked, but she was going to make sure of one thing: she wasn't going to put too much pressure on her god. So she looked for work on and off yesterday, and found...well. A cat cafe.

Which was something she had never heard of before, and found amazing. So she applied, and when they figured out she was there, she had an interview on the spot and...found herself surprisingly hired.

So this was her first day. She was in a cute dress, and wearing cat ears (because for some reason one of the other servers thought it would be a good idea if she wore them) and was going around, beaming. It hadn't taken long to get the gist of what she was supposed to be doing.]

Nya, welcome to Calico! How may I serve you today ♥?

D: Choose your own adventure!

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[So, she hasn't heard about that, then. With a more serious look, Shun crosses his arms and briefly considers the most important aspects of what happened there.]

Around April 20th, one of us newer gods - some insane fool standing in for Susano'o - combined ayakashi with some kind of power or monster from their world to create newer, stronger beasts. They were supposed to avoid humans, but they turned on the heavens, and we had to fight them down. Susano'o was supposedly killed by the end of that uprising.

[Supposedly. He still hasn't forgotten what Suijin mentioned in that report about faking a god's death.]

The magic in the park wasn't the same as that. [While he feels Masaki lowering her tone is a little unnecessary when this place isn't exactly overflowing with Near Shore residents right now, he keeps his own at a relatively quiet level as he replies.] That may not be why we're here, but with the timing of the attack at the picnic, it'd be stupid to assume it's unrelated.

[Nope, not at all. She grimaced, and rubbed the back of her neck. Supposedly? That doesn't sound good. But combining with other powers? She hadn't realized that could work.]

I see.

[So there was that bundle of fun. And while she didn't have to lower her voice it was a kind of force of habit. Ah well.]

Well...that makes things complicated. Is there anything we can do?

[She'd like to. She wants to protect her god, and the people around her. Especially those who will become her friends.]

Like investigate?

There's plenty of people investigating. Most of us are pooling our information as well, whether over the network or in person. I doubt anybody's going to object to one more person keeping an eye on things around here.

[As serious as Shun's tone is, he'd be one of those ones with no problem having another pair of eyes out. It's not as if anything formal has been established yet, but it's still useful to have more people prepared to do that.

However, that does remind him that there's something other than investigation here.]

A few gods are trying to set up a response team for emergencies, as well. It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing, and they need as many people as they can get for something like that to work well.

[She nods, distracted. It would be jumping into something she doesn't completely understand but...then again, that's the whole world, now. She's having to hit the ground running.

But the emergency response team has her perk up a bit, even if she's still pensive.]

I don't know how much help I would be without my god, but I don't want to ask him for my sake. But...

[She does want to help out still.]

I think I can take people to and from places quickly, over short distances. Would that work?

[That's hardly an uncommon power here, so Shun can't exactly call it invaluable (and the impassive expression on his face at it says as much), but depending on how it works it might have some application.]

If it works on normal humans, it could be useful for Near Shore incidents. As far as I know, gods can teleport anyone from the Far Shore anyway, so it's not as useful where that's concerned. And there are still things you can do without your god.

[Fighting ayakashi, not so much, but fighting anything else or trying to get people out of the area is still something. He hasn't yet seen his own shinki on the posts regarding response, so while Shun imagines he'd be there if he was needed, it's not like a god or shinki signing on alone is abnormal.]

[Yeah, she knows it's not very impressive. She's not as strong as some of the people here either.]

I won't know until I try, I think. I can't teleport like a god can, but I...can fight a little, I think.

[She sighs.]

And I might be more helpful, once I know how to use a borderline.

[Since there are people here who can't fight at all (and it doesn't even seem to be an uncommon thing amongst them), Shun gives a somewhat more approving nod at that. Sounding so uncertain of it might not be reassuring, but it's better than nothing.]

On your own, you're right, a borderline could make a big difference in a fight. It's not that uncommon for shinki to not know how to use them, so you might have an advantage over some of them as well.

[He's taking this from the fact that he's seen people offering to teach how to make them on the network once or twice - it can't be that easy if it keeps happening.]

I heard it mentioned, but I haven't been taught. Not yet.

[She smiles a little, rueful. She doesn't know what the tricks are to that yet.]

So even knowing about it, I...don't feel like I have much of an advantage. But I don't think most of them can create a weapon of their own.

I'm not sure all shinki bother. There are some who barely bother helping anyone other than themselves. [Though the faint derision in his tone at that pretty much sums up what he thinks of those sorts of people.]

Most of them can't, no. Gods at least have a power they can use independently, but most shinki can only use powers when they're with their god.

[She makes a face. That doesn't work for her. Not at all. She's working at the cafe not because she's interested in making money for herself, but to work with her god.]

I guess I'm one of the shinki who can? Something that I could use when I was alive, maybe.

[She's curious about what power Shun has, but asking him seems kind of rude.]

...Oh! I've been completely rude. I'm sorry, but what's your name?

Maybe, but that's not something to think too hard about. [Previously, Shun might've cautiously advocated it, but since the announcement about what happened to Axel, there's no way in hell he's encouraging any shinki to start soul-searching.

The point of names occurred to him even less than it probably did to her, from the lack of reaction when she mentions it. Shun just shrugs at the notion of it being rude at all.]

Kurosaki Shun. [He doesn't actually ask for her name, but the look he's giving her is somewhat of a prompt in itself.]

I don't plan to. I've heard of the consequences.

[She doesn't really have an interest in the past as it is. But she'll be careful. She doesn't want to die like that.

Though hearing his last name, she brightened up, and laughed.]

Oh! That's funny! I'm Kurosaki Masaki.

[The characters are likely different, but she's still amused.]

[As surnames go, Shun's pretty sure his isn't that uncommon, so he's not amused or surprised by the turn of events like she is. It might be a bit weird calling her "Kurosaki", though, despite the fact that he'd usually favour a surname.]

It's easy to remember, then. I would've expected there'd be more people with that name.

[What he was angling more at there is that he can't believe he's the first other person she's met with that name, but putting it that way seems a little unwise.]

[It isn't, she's sure. But, still, considering how many first names but no last names she's been getting...it's funny. Or she's just easily entertained. Who knows.]

Maybe! But all I've been getting are first names. You can call me by my first name though, if you'd like, and I can do the same.

Don't bother. [His correction is immediate and sharp - he still isn't used to people he doesn't consider friends using his first name. He might not even use a name for Masaki at all until he knows her better.]

Most people here give me both. I don't even know if others have a surname.

[Her mouth quirked, but she nodded. If he wanted to be formal, so be it.]

Maybe some do, some don't? I've no idea.

[She doesn't know if she should question it too much. It might invoke memories with the shinki, and the gods...might think it's just rude.]

Maybe. I doubt anyone cares that much anyway.

[The only thing that bothers him about it is that it might force him to recognise someone more closely than he otherwise would, and ultimately it's just a minor annoyance.

Lifting his arms slightly to better hold the kitten in them, Shun turns away with a glance over his shoulder.]

I suppose I'll see you again soon enough.

[She shrugs. She doesn't know, and there's only one way to learn. But...yeah, he has a kitten to put away, and she has customer's to look after.]

Yeah, I'll see you around. Take care.

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