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Sticks and Stones, Blood for Old Bones, a Curse Forever Thirsty.

DrAkimoto 21 Sep 2019 17:21

So I drew a lot of inspiration from the real world legends of Emperor Sutoku, which has always been one of my favorite Japanese folklore stories. I wanted to write something where the Foundation faces the repercussions of their actions, to show that maybe not all anomalies are better off in Foundation hands. I hope y'all enjoy it.

Picture Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotoku_invoking_a_thunder_storm.jpg

~~~More Stuff By Me~~~

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Shidra Argen 21 Sep 2019 21:08

In the last line of the table of what events happend you wrote that

A Fukushū Event occurred at 4:20am on 20/12/1946
which caused the Fukusima reactor breakdown.

I think it is a typo but please correct me if isn't

DrAkimoto 21 Sep 2019 21:21

Good catch thanks

silentsquirrel 21 Sep 2019 21:23

I really enjoy the staging for the three acts of the containment protocol. The requirement for the three participants to be willing adds a certain element of dread to the proceedings and the fact that only one recorded protocol wasn't carried out gives me the impression that the sense of duty to the country carried the participants in other attempts through to completion.
Tying in actual disasters for timing purposes is also a nice touch, +1 from me.

(I noticed an extra 't' in 'notified' in the third paragraph.
The second bullet point in the description has 'proceeding the event' and I'm not sure if it should be 'preceding the event' or not? 'Proceeding' is used again at the end of the protocol, outside of the inset. If that is deliberate I apologize, it just seems out of place to me.)

Lenni Horstensen 24 Sep 2019 08:05

This was a very interesting read. I found the containment procedures to be a bit extreme, although I am in the same boat as silentquirrel, they sold this article for me. A bit tense and unsettling to go through, and the completion of the ritual is just brutal. Well done <3

GreenDragonInn 01 Oct 2019 04:18

Always love me some IJAMEA goodness

I like the Onryo protocol, especially because I can imagine a family essentially being raised just to commit this act.

Also shouldn't this thing be keter? Since you have to perform a very specific ritual to keep it contained, and since that ritual is essentially out of Foundation hands. Which they'd probably see as much worse.

Either way that's a pretty minor nitpick. +1

Iconium 26 Jul 2020 12:27

I like it, though I do need to point out that the Earthquake and subsequent disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor was in 2011, not 2015.

Hmm.

Tyumen 05 Oct 2020 13:15

I'm really not sure what to think about this. It really feels like something's missing, and reading the full article just made me confused — I wondered if that was really it, and whether or not I missed a larger narrative going on. I suppose this article could be described as too Series 1-esque for my tastes.

Not to mention that the implication that this anomaly caused the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami was really disappointing. It hasn't even been 10 years, and saying that some anomaly caused a very real disaster is something that has generally been frowned upon — not to mention cheap and disrespectful to victims.

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TL333s 13 Jan 2022 01:21

I appreciate the detail of the ritual, though I'm honestly not sure the final note adds anything. Still, on reflection, this works. +1

裕仁昭和 is not correct name of his majesty

thor_taisho 30 Mar 2022 12:54

I like this article in my Japanese eyes!

Please let me say one thing, but 昭和 is not his real name. The real name is just 裕仁, because Japanese emperors do not have their surnames. So, I recommend you get rid of 昭和 from the passages in question.

昭和 is a posthumous name. Japanese emperors are given their own additional names after their death. And every posthumous name is the same as the era name when they were on the throne.

makigeneko 02 Oct 2023 14:49

Too faithful to the content of the motif. I felt like it lacked originality.

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