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takamagahara2018-11-01 10:38 pm
godsoffortune) wrote in takamagahara2018-11-01 10:38 pm
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Test Drive #34
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The fresh new spring fashion trend is accessorized denim. Super-accessorized! Bells, chains, beads, zippers, belts and more drip from every inch of this season's hot styles, and the stores need someone to model their new stock -- and bring in the buyers. It's your job to convince the fashion-savvy residents of Tokyo that these new jeans are exactly what their wardrobe needs, without getting your five chain belts tangled.
A huge, panther-shaped ayakashi is haunting the streets of Asakusa, and the pigeons at the local pigeon shrine have disappeared! Take care of this feline predator so the surviving sacred birds won't end up as dinner on the wing.
The residents of an Ikebukuro high-rise have an unusual problem: no matter how sunny the day or how long it's been hanging, their laundry just won't dry! Do they have a moist microclimate? An ayakashi of mold and despair? Or do they just need someone to get all that wet laundry to the nearest laundromat with a dryer until the weather warms up?
A gardener in Ueno has planted a brand-new strain of muskmelon in his window boxes, and this plant is going wild! Vines have taken over the exterior of his apartment building, and beach-ball-sized fruit are popping up all over. He needs help bringing in the harvest… but his neighbors are begging for this plant to wind up in the compost heap so their lives can go back to normal. Whose side will you take?
A community art project is being hosted at the Tokyo Art Museum! Jigsaw-shaped pieces of wood about the size of a hand have been handed out to artists and crafters throughout Japan, and the pieces have just been shipped back. Now, they have to be assembled into one giant jigsaw puzzle for display. There's just one problem: someone forgot to number the pieces before they were shipped! Now they've got a 20,000 piece puzzle whose pieces don't match, and it has to be finished this weekend for the grand opening. Help!
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So if there was work to do that benefited people weighed against the same amount of work that benefited less people... you would pick the former because it's the most efficient and serves the most.
But if it was more work to serve more weighed against less work to serve less... [Her brow furrows. She kicks a rock in her path, a giggle escaping as it skips and rolls ahead.] Ah, is it better to do a large amount of work at once or smaller pieces that may add up to an equal or greater whole?
[She speaks mostly to herself as she parses out Berserker's logic, but turns to him with a smile for his opinion.]
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I would pick the former, you're right. [ There's a pause as he considers the second part. It's a challenge to his way of thinking, certainly. ] More work can be separated. That's why I have you and Avenger...to split the work. If I were to do it by myself, I would do less if only because it's simpler.
[ Again, all very matter-of-fact. ]
The situation changes depending on who is at my side.
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[The prayers a god answers, the ayakashi they fight, each varies depending on the god in question. Even the work shinki do for their god changes. Irisviel giggles, trying to imagine Avenger helping Berserker with the laundry of strangers. There'd likely be a lot less laundry and and a lot more ashes at this point.]
So then in our present situation. If the laundry is finished and the choices are to do more work which benefit others or to rest, which only benefits me... ah, but then we should certainly do the option that helps the most, shouldn't we?
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Berserker actually looks briefly concerned, his brow furrowing slightly. ]
You may rest so we can continue the work afterward. It's no good to overwork yourself, then the tasks just pile up.
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[She smiles, releasing his arm to skip ahead a few steps, leaning and looking up at him.]
Unless your shinki carry more weight compared to others?
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Hmph, I've already made up my mind about what we're going to do. Even if it goes against what's most efficient...It's fine because it's what I choose.
[ There's the barest hint of a frown on his face. ]
I don't believe they do. There's no need to burden them with more than necessary.
[ He nudges the door to the laundromat open now. Time to relieve himself of this burden of other people's laundry. ]
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[Her words are quiet, contemplative, repeating words she must have heard from someone - perhaps another shinki - but turning them over again and again. For a god cannot be wrong, but a shinki must guide.
It's thankful the veil of the Far Shore means no one notices them as they step into the laundromat. Irisviel skips over to an open washer/dryer set, pausing to rummage through her pockets for change and carefully picking out the 100 yen coins mixed in with other coins and a few crumpled receipts.]