thefarshore | HEAVEN'S BBS

I know everybirdie is really busy and there's been a lot going an lately but I've been thinking a lot about what happened at the party.

[Hiyoko is well aware that a lot of other stuff happened right after and there were plenty of gods and shinki still dealing with the fallout from that. That's why she gave it a few days. But now it's time to see if anybirdie else is thinking along the same lines as her.]

That fire was obviously set by people who aren't happy with Amaterasu. I'm not sure if it's her they don't like, or if she's put some unpopular policies in place, but we can't really ignore an attack like this. Has this group tired anything like this before? Have they made any other demands?

[Because 'down with Amaterasu' is one thing, but 'down with the heavens?' What are they supposed to do? Start hurling their temples at the near shore? That demand is way too vague.]

I also heard about an incident with poisoned chocolates. That was before I got here but the whole thing sounded pretty fishy. Does anybirdie else think that might have been an attempt to discredit Amaterasu? And if there any other incidents like that, I wouldn't mind hearing about them.

What you guys think?

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I grabbed a couple of the papers.
They said 'Down with the Heavens!' and 'Down with Amaterasu!'
Which basically means they want her removed from power.
And that creativity isn't their strong point.
But they probably have other demands too.

If they do have other demands, they haven't said them yet. There has to be a reason to write something like that, right? Or, at least, you'd hope so... I wonder if they feel slighted in some way.

They might actually have a legitimate grievance.
And I'd be willing to hear them out.
But even if they do this is not the way to change things.

If they didn't do it like this I'd be a lot more willing to listen to them. As it stands they've poisoned chocolates by putting ayakashi into them and started a fire. We're lucky nobody was grievously injured by that.

Even if they had complaints, that's villainy.

You're preaching to the choir here.
Honestly what surprises me the most is that we're not hearing any official statements from Amaterasu.
Or even someone associated with her.
Any of the old guard.
Why are they just keeping quiet?

She spoke up after the chocolate incident and the Susano'o fiasco, but I haven't heard any official word about the fire. It's possible they're busy investigating, but not saying anything makes people more suspicious of them.

What did she say after the chocolate incident?

This was the post she made addressing the chocolates.

Wow.
That sure was something.
Did she really think it was okay to call it a mix-up?
She sounds like a dry cleaner who ruined somebirdie's suit.

It seemed like it.
I don't understand the native gods at all if they can call that a mix-up. People died because we were giving away those chocolates. I don't think we got to everybody in time.

That's awful!
How can she talk like that about people's lives?
I can't agree with the violent tactics of her enemies, but it's hard to completely support someone so callous.

I assume in a god's lifespan a singular human life isn't very long or very important to them.
But I can't agree with that. I'm human, I don't want anybody to suffer like that if it can be helped.
I can't agree with either of them. Amaterasu for her callousness or the other faction for being this violent.

I know!
Right now both sides seem pretty awful.
But it's not like we have a third option.

There is. Sort of.
The third option would be appointing one of the newcomers. But given that people seem to come and go at random, that doesn't seem like a good idea. It seems unstable at best.

Also wouldn't that kind of involve us overthrowing Amaterasu first?

It would. Again, I'm not for this plan. It's most likely to go poorly for a list of reasons.
But I'm also not for the anonymous group or the way Amaterasu treats human lives. Nobody should die because of a "mix-up" heavenly or otherwise.
For now, we can assemble groups to deal with the actions of the anonymous groups, trying to help as many people on both shores as we can.

Yeah starting the revolution ourselves would be pretty crazy.
But I definitely think we need a third option.
I just don't know what that third option should be.

I wish we knew more. Like why people are getting pulled here and assigned to gods.
Maybe the group has something to do with it. We don't know what happened to the gods we're replacing.
It's also weird that there are so many foreign gods in the heavens of Japan.