After what happened on Halloween? You bet Ammy wants a decent, quality supply available at a moment's notice, just in case of more hostile youkai showing up.
Indeed, there are lots of tasty noms in the world, but a well-trained pet devoted miko beloved friend is much harder to find.
 
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The little girl had shown up during the Baachan Collective's weekly visit a few days into her new routine; the cooing and fussing had been legendary.

Dinah's power showed her a 99.99864% chance that Baachans would spoil her legendarily.

She thought that, just maybe, it would have been more responsible to call the girl's parents rather than her serial killer bodyguard, but…

Oh gawd. Hahaha! Protected by the law, Shrine Neutrality, and Oni Lee. You got no chance Coil.

"Sunny, if you try and dunk me, I'll unplug the mini-fridge. And then your sake will get warm."

Pfft. Pettiness reigns supreme in the world of payback.

"And there'll be nothing you can do about it, because you don't have thumbs."

Hahaha! I laughed way too much at this. Oh, I missed this story so much.

The next day, Taylor arrived after school to find the Shrine-- and only the shrine, not any of the properties nearby-- was buried in almost two feet of snow. She could just barely make out Sunny's black nose and lolling tongue poking out of a snowdrift, next to a hunk of carved ice next to the office that looked suspiciously like a wine rack.

Taylor cursed under her breath, and started wading towards the water fountain.

Pettiness reigns supreme! Especially when powered by godly magics.
 
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This is such childish nose thumbing at the E88, I fucking love it.
it is only at this moment when I realized the significance of the number. I couldn't facepalm hard enough...

Speaking of pettyness...
The ABB was out in force today, though visitors might be forgiven for not realizing it, with their new uniforms. Well-- not whole uniforms, exactly, but it seemed like the gang had traded armbands and doo-rags for some cheap but warm enough jackets, with red-and-green appliques on the back spelling out 'Local 433.'
... please tell me Lung did not order the whole lot of them to go out unbuttoned and shirtless...
 
They just change the armband to a jacket, which means Lung is bare-chested except for the L433 jacket. He must have remembered Taylor's reaction at Somer's Rock.
"He's done everything BUT put on a shirt! Confound that man! He drives me to drink!"

Meanwhile Sunny is panting over a table at Lung.
"What do you want."

Sunny paws a wrapped package before sliding it over.

Lung unwraps a corner of it.

"We have a deal."

Cut to contractors constructing the onsen while Taylor stares at Lung with a cape.

'An honest to god CAPE. It's even flapping in the wind. The NONEXISTENT WIND. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!'
 
Posted this in the SB thread, felt it would fit here too, albeit it being only somewhat related:
After working Artist Alley at New York Comic Con this past weekend (8th year at NYCC, whoo!), one of the artists left a bag full of pieces that she didn't want to take home with her for the crew to pick through (starting with us Artist Alley folks first, of course) on Sunday evening. I picked up an amazing Okami piece, on even thicker than usual paper for good quality Artist Alley pieces that was even textured a bit. It was the only copy of that piece in the pile, one of the advantages of getting to go through it first.

Here it is on my wall, behind a couple of sprigs of lucky bamboo (you know, that East Asian cultural thing), appropriately enough:
 
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I could totally see Lung, bare-chested, arms crossed, with one of those One Piece Admiral's jackets or Tough Guy trench coats from older anime flapping like a cape behind him, "L433" emblazoned on the back. How it stays on his shoulders with no fastenings is a mystery. Bancho hat optional.
 
Posted this in the SB thread, felt it would fit here too, albeit it being only somewhat related:
After working Artist Alley at New York Comic Con this past weekend (8th year at NYCC, whoo!), one of the artists left a bag full of pieces that he didn't want to take home with him for the crew to pick through (starting with us Artist Alley folks first, of course) on Sunday evening. I picked up an amazing Okami piece, on even thicker than usual paper for good quality Artist Alley pieces that was textured a bit even, the only one in the pile, one of the advantages of getting to go through it first.

Here it is on my wall, behind a couple of sprigs of lucky bamboo (you know, that East Asian cultural thing), appropriately enough:
Could you please put the picture in a spoiler?
 
I could totally see Lung, bare-chested, arms crossed, with one of those One Piece Admiral's jackets or Tough Guy trench coats from older anime flapping like a cape behind him, "L433" emblazoned on the back. How it stays on his shoulders with no fastenings is a mystery. Bancho hat optional.
Optional accessory #2: Shinai

@GhostStalker I agree with wtdtd. Huge Pic is Yuge. Have some consideration for mobile users? You can also re-size uploaded pics in imgur btw.
 
Could you please put the picture in a spoiler?
@GhostStalker I agree with wtdtd. Huge Pic is Yuge. Have some consideration for mobile users? You can also re-size uploaded pics in imgur btw.
Done. Apologies, I forgot SA's [timg] functionality doesn't exist here. Should be more used to images taking up too much space because I mostly post on my iPad nowadays, but I'm still too used to the conventions of desktop posting where full images tend to be the norm. My bad.
 
So is she resigned to the dunking or is she going to turn off the water to the fountain?
Resigned. As we saw here, and before this, Ammy cheats hard, so there's no real point in fighting it.
Except if Taylor either really hates the idea and puts her foot down (clearly she's more annoyed by it.) or she figures out a way to really get Sunny over a barrel on it, so that there is more to lose than gain; in this case, Taylor being 'baptised' was balanced by the threat of warm sake... which Sunny's circumvented and Taylor can't double down any further.
 
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It's quite well chosen. What Sunny wants to happen happens, with little input from others.

Like a proper goddess, she can sometimes be bribed into (non)action. But she's still a goddess that does as she wants.
Yeah, but... Phrasing!
guess that show Taylor what happens when you stand up to a bully.
Look, my opinion is that anyone with passing knowledge of Worm will agreed that at least 75% of problems in Worm happened because Abuse of Power. Including Bullying. I'm not sure, but I believe many will agree on me on that.
 
I never thought of the 3 boys could possibly be the monkeys.

Haru, the least involved in the story's plots, sees no evil.
Souta, more involved but willfully ignorant of any of ABB activities in order to fund his own interests, hears no evil.
Yuuta, deeply and unwillingly involved in the story but needs to go along anyway due to Oni Lee and Baachan, speaks no evil.

Eyes - Yuuta, because he gives no fucks.
Mouth - Haru, because the dude's always out of breath.
Ears - Souta, because Baachan's always scolding him.

Random Lurker's reasoning is much more legit than my attempt at comedy.
Now we just need to think of why Haru is the ears guy, Souta is the... Huh, he is "hears no evil" both times, darnit!

If only you had no matching pairs in the set, we'd have been able to write up the third triad of see-hear-speak!

Good doG is greatly disappointed in you ruining the opportunity for this setup. :)
 
Shinto doesn't even do baptism, does it? I know they do purification bathing, but I don't think this qualifies.
 
Inapropiat wording given the scourse material. Yes it is a joke but in context not well choosen.

Actually it was only half a joke, possibly even less.

Think about it this way:

Sunny and Taylor are friends.
Sunny has an idea for what to do.
Taylor doesn't want to do it for good reasons so she does her best to prevent it.
Sunny crushes her efforts proving that Taylor is weak and helpless, then makes it even worse.
Taylor is resigned to it having learned that she can't avoid or even object to what Sunny wants to do.

They would both probably dismiss this as a 'just a little joke' but the lesson is learned anyway.

Sunny is a Goddess, it looks like she has no idea how to treat someone as an equal.

If Sunny just wanted Taylor to get doused in the fountain, she could have made the shrine have an Indian Summer to counter her objections rather than just crushing her opposition.
 
Which may be part of the point.
Ammy is a, and in Shinto, the, god-in-charge. She's taken over Taylor's life, and acts as her friend first and foremost, but one of them is divine and the other is not. No matter how much Ammy loves Taylor and wants what's best for her, she moves by her standards, and not those of mortals. She won't deliberately hurt Taylor, will do everything and just about anything in her power to protect and shield Taylor, but she will ignore Taylor's wishes and force her into uncomfortable situations, again and again, based on Ammy's whims and desires.
This has already proven to be the case multiple times.
 
Being Sunny, this is mast likely a case of having heard the suggestion, she's figuring "If I put some of my power into that pool then dunk Taylor, it'll be another layer of protection for her against nastybads." If it appeals to her sense of humor at the same time, well, she'll go a long way for a joke.
 
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