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Post by Fujou Nozomi on Oct 24, 2019 22:52:08 GMT -4
It was a beautiful night for a cleansing.
Nozomi had picked a nice, accessible rooftop on top of one of the tall buildings in Shinagawa, facing the seaside... and most importantly, the terminal in question. An access to it had been easy through the fire escape... with the help of her body's own strength, of which Nozomi felt apologetic for. The vision to the site was slightly obstructed by the chainlink fence, but this was a trivial matter, as Nozomi simply wanted a tall location like this to compensate for not daring to perform the ritual closer to the site. This was fine, as this wasn't the proper purification, but rather, a preventive measure.
It was an attempt to appease the ara-mitama responsible for what was about to come, the clash between many of the god-touched ones. It wouldn't relieve Nozomi from the duty to participate in this conflict, but she wholly believed in its ability to prevent an even greater tragedy from occurring. She was certain that Sensei was also doing her utmost when it came to this but still... Nozomi still felt unease.
And so, she calmed her breath... and began.
From a pouch on her waist, the miko grabbed a fistful of salt. She started chanting continuous syllables which had no coherent meaning but which held inherent power, and with a powerful, wide motion threw salt across the air. This was repeated three times in total, the salt being carried by the moderate winds, alongside the faint scent of incense from the ones that Nozomi had prepared on the two corners of the seaside facing part of the roof. It was night, so she wasn't worried about civilians being confused by having salt being sprinkled on them, or smelling the faint scent. These things were not meant for them in the first place, nor were their effects, so it particularly wouldn't have mattered if this had been the case. But Nozomi wanted to carry on her duty in peace.
Having thrown the salt twice, Nozomi reached down to her belt once more to grab her ōnusa, the purification wand. She started her chants once again, waving the wand from left to right in a continuous manner, still facing the direction of the terminal. This would go on for multiple minutes, all the while Nozomi narrowed her senses and focused her being onto this task.
The outside world left her scope of vision completely...
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Post by Mia Kearney on Oct 25, 2019 6:17:21 GMT -4
Mia had managed to weasel out another fresh air break from the police department where all the heroes had been crammed in to go over plans. What was this now? Her like..5th fresh air walk today? Really she didn’t even like it that much. Sure the autumn breeze was nice but she wasn’t a nature nut or believed in the goodness of a fresh breath of air. Nah, she just needed to get out of those damn meetings for a bit and refresh her head.
She still didn’t get it. They knew she thrived under improvisation, going with the flow, it’s what the public loved about her and she knew it was how she did her job so well. But…she did get the plans too. It came with a wave of defeat but she just did, end of story there. They needed to make sure they even had a base they could work with, and with so many heads in the mix, the odds were she’d need to improvise anyway soooo…
Yeah. Yeah she couldn’t really complain. She just needed to make sure she could endure the meetings until the action started.
Finding a nice alleyway, Mia decided to pull a spiderman, lifting up one of the huge dumpsters that wasn’t suspended on wheels and tossing her coat under it, exposing her hero costume as she rolled her shoulders back. She felt she was far enough away from where all the villains had been gathering that her leaping over the rooftops for a bit wouldn’t cause too much of a fuss.
She looked between the walls either side of her in this narrow space, and with a heavy kick off the ground, she began to climb. Bestial in nature, as she ever was, she’d clamber up one wall until she lost momentum, then leap to the other in the hopes of regaining it, till, eventually, she was up on the rooftops, and charging towards the next.
By now, Mia barely even thought about this means of travel. She used to have to pre-plan her routes, take into account which buildings were taller and shorter, make sure she didn’t take a descending route so it was difficult to get back up onto the taller buildings, but after a few years in Japan moving like this, it was all just…second nature. Didn’t even register most people didn’t get to move like this.
What did register however was the person on her upcoming rooftop.
“WOAH!”
Mia threw her arms to the side, the sheer force exuded against the air enough to knock her off course a little, stumbling across the rooftop with a heavy thud as she came in to land, thankfully not landing on the person she’d seen doing some odd little ritual. The blonde Oni adjusted herself a little, patting down her hero costume, some baggy Japanese pants she still hadn’t learned the proper name for, and a tube top designed to look like bandage bindings, with actual bandages wrapped around her forearms.
“Eh…sorry there. Not used to people casually hanging out on rooftops…y’okay?”
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Post by Fujou Nozomi on Oct 27, 2019 1:26:57 GMT -4
Nozomi was shook from her trance by a loud yell, and she barely had the time to turn around before the unexpected visitor crash landed onto the roof, right in front of her eyes. Had her face not been hidden away by her kitsune mask, it would have been possibly to see an expression of great surprise from the miko. Out of nowhere... no, seemingly out of the sky itself, the hero known as Redhorn had landed before her. Nozomi was well aware of this person (who wasn't at this point), but had never met them in person despite of her attempts to do so. The oni was nothing less than what Nozomi had expected... if anything, she was more. It was perhaps the first time that Nozomi, a tall woman in her own right, was having to look up one herself. Same applied to their musculature. The miko took a moment to take it all, both the woman and this entire situation, in, and came to a conclusion that she wasn't afraid to admit: she would not want to have to quell this woman, should it come down to it, for she was uncertain if she even could. "I greet you, Akai-Tsuno-no-Oni*." Having recovered, Nozomi greeted the arrival without hesitation. She waved her wand from left to right one more time as she did before returning it to her outfit's belt. "And I am okay. I thank that you didn't land on me." The sincerity in the statement might have sounded out of place, but in her mind, it was no different for walking out on a field during a thunderstorm and thanking the heavens for not striking them down. It wasn't such an outlandish comparison either; the damage caused by either were probably comparable in this case. She wasn't a stranger to being interrupted during a ritual. In fact, she half-expected someone to show up nowadays, whether it was a confused bystander or an angry guardsman. She had long since started to think of them as signs from the spirits she was interacting with at the time. Usually their signs were really weak, but this time... was obviously very different. This was the first time when the arrival had been as significant as this. Nozomi started to move to the side, circling the oni with a patient pace. "But I am not here casually. And neither are you." After she reached the opposite of her earlier position, she continued forwards on the roof slightly before turning around to face the oni once more. "I was not expecting to present this today, but I have a trial for you. Are you prepared?"(*The Red-Horned Oni) |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Oct 27, 2019 6:58:29 GMT -4
Mia was still a little self-shook just from the near crash she'd had on the lass before her. It wasn't something that would last, but the idea you nearly crushed someone wasn't thrown aside in an instant. It was unusual to see people on the rooftops of anything other than a hospital or school building. For some reason those seemed to be popular places for people to hang out. Maybe to try and get a sense of fresh air? Maybe cause animes told them thats were people hang out when they wanna be alone but also really want attention? Who knows.
As she casually dusted off her pants, her near miss having brought her to her knees on the landing, the wild haired blonde looked over to the woman who seemed to be thanking her for not crash landing on her head, bringing a light scoff from the beastly woman herself. "Ya know Japans definitely got a much more...'polite' culture. Back in america someone threatened to sue cause I came even close to landing on them." She'd stick the tip of her tongue out between her tusks with a soft smile, keeping her eyes on the polite, but firmly spoken woman who was now seeming to circle behind her...was she trying to put herself between the Oni and the rooftop door, or just...trying to act cool?
"Er...look hun I dunno if you're giving me a 'predestined fate' speech or whatever but I don't tend to buy into that little chestnut..." She'd rub at the side of her neck, her gaze narrowing as she tried to get a read on the other woman, but was finding it difficult. She didn't seem to give much away, but then again, Mia wasn't the best at reading anyone who had more subtlty than the usual criminal she faced, and they tended to be too busy shitting themselves to hide much from her.
"A test? Er...trial. Whatever?" She folded her arms over her chest and turned to face the other woman front to front, quirking her brow as she had at least managed to pique her interest. "I mean...I'm all for entertaining the fans hun butI can't exactly run around doing everything you ask. What's this trial?" She'd tip her head up in question, more than ready to do somehting simple, but if this was gonna be some grand anime style trial of racing across town, she may not have the time...
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Post by Rosey on Nov 25, 2019 6:23:52 GMT -4
Nozomi has 16 exp and gained 8 x 2 (16) exp
Mia has 469 exp and gained 9 x 2 (18) exp
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