September Announcements

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September Announcements

Here we are again, bringing you the news of Near and Far Shore events for the month of September!



Happenings

The Near Shore

The summer holidays are coming to an end, and a few big typhoons are heading for Japan. Time to clear off the beaches and make sure you pack a poncho!

• Students are scrambling to finish their summer homework before the beginning of classes.


• A powerful typhoon is forecast to cross the main island just north of Tokyo between August 29 and 30.


• There's a new craze in town: to fight the hot, humid weather, brightly colored handkerchiefs with built-in cooling gel packs are for sale! They might look a little silly and bulky tied around your head or neck, but they're great for a hot day.

The Far Shore

Activity among the old gods and shinki has picked back up now that they're no longer busy with Obon.

• Amaterasu's temple looks like new again, but her shinki are now keeping it under close guard. No one can stop too close to her temple grounds for more than a few minutes before a patrolling shinki stops them to ask questions.


• The spider lilies are fading. One or two can still be found in full bloom, but most of them are nothing more than drying sticks, and as the flowers fade the voices fall quiet, too.


• Someone is hanging wind bells all over the Heavens. Their melodious chime is beautiful, but it might make it a little difficult to sleep.

Noteworthy Ayakashi

With the end of the summer holidays, worried schoolchildren are attracting ayakashi to school buildings again.

• A giant blob ayakashi can be found lurking near school buildings. It lures children away from class and encourages them to wait aimlessly with it around the corner of the building.
  It might just want friends, but someone needs to help shoo it away so those kids can go back to school.


• Wasp ayakashi are swarming around swap meets and flea markets on the weekends. It seems like the more they sting, the angrier sellers and buyers get, and the more ayakashi show up for the scene. If someone doesn't handle the ayakashi, there could be a fight....

Weather

Here you can see the weather starting on August 21.

Event

Shopping Frenzy!

A brand-new department store in the suburbs of Tokyo is celebrating its grand opening, but for some reason, both the shoppers and the employees have been having the worst luck ever! It seems like everything's going wrong, and their prayers for help have reached to the Heavens. Gods and shinki alike have been asked to help the grand opening go well and to uncover the source of the shoppers' curse.
• IC Date: August 21
• If you have any questions, feel free to reply to the comment marked 'Event' on this post.
• To participate in the event, you will just need to comment to the event log after it goes up on September 1 at 7PM EST.

Past Happenings in the Heavens

In response to suggestions on our State of the Game post, we'd like to bring you this new section of the Monthly Announcements.

Major Events

• Mira, our Deku player, has compiled a list of major events dating back to the beginning of the game. It can be found here for your reference. Thank you, Mira!
• Last month on August 10th, gods and shinki helped the Obon season finish peacefully by guiding spirits back to their rest and keeping ayakashi away.
• On August 15th, new arrivals were brought to Bishamon's temple for orientation and training.

Player Plots

If your characters have been up to anything this month that other characters may have noticed -- parties, ayakashi attacks, violent rampages through the Far Shore -- leave a comment on this post to let your fellow players know what's going on.