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AUGUST 2022 TEST DRIVE
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1. SHUTEN TERRITORY - Muscling In
art by tohdraws
In the aftermath of the curse crisis, the Shuten Clan forgave a bunch of protection payments in the region, and helped cover the costs for rebuilding. Unfortunately, some of the street gangs in the area are much less civically minded. They have used the Shuten's relaxed policies as an opportunity to turn their own screws on the local business owners. These unaffiliated youth gangs have been much rougher with the locals, and have been asking for even larger collection fees. This has pissed off the folks who are just trying to get their lives and businesses back on track!
Unfortunately, the opening of Sai no Kawara in the underground drew so much of the clan's focus and manpower, that the issues up top just slipped through the cracks. Until now! Toraguma is in a bad mood and is looking for people to take it out on: the youth gangs will do just fine.
Volunteers are being solicited to join the regular Shuten enforcers in driving these interlopers out of Shuten territory. The gangs are wise to the usual Shuten tactics, though, and they're prepared for a fight. They are also appealing to the influx of Lost Souls: they act as though they're the victims of the factions' power struggles! They propose that taking up arms against the Shuten Clan will win them favor with the other groups in the city. (It will look less good with the Shuten Clan, should you be assigned to them.)
Fight with the Shutens, or with the gangs. Either way, a fight is coming.
2. TAMAMO TERRITORY - Throat Goat (NSFW)
at by akai riotThis prompt is overtly sexual in nature. Please use the proper NSFW labelling in your top levels and threads.
While the Palace of Sai in the underground is doing well, that doesn't mean the other businesses in the Tamamo Clan's collection have been slacking. One of the least "classy" soaplands has decided they're going to hold a contest to drive up business for themselves! They are partnering with some of the other sex clubs in the area for the sleaziest of events.
The Hyottoko Cup is looking for volunteer participants! The competition is pretty straightforward: a ruler is drawn on the throat of each participant and an array of members is presented to swallow. Whichever contestant can take the guests deepest and longest will take home the "coveted" Hyottoko Cup! Ok, there's a little judge favoritism involved too, so put on a show.
The guests have likewise been pulled in as volunteers, with instructions that they don't have to make this easy on the participants. Guests are provided with special seals that they can use for the length of the competition to enhance their natural assets. For those lacking the equipment entirely, there's a seal for that too.
Have fun and play nice.
3. TAMAMO TERRITORY - Strike a Poise (GEN)
Other businesses looking to jump start this month's earnings are also getting in on the spirit of competition! Businesses less oriented towards sexual service have come together as a means to draw in the high dollar clients, and one local club has proposed something old school.
Sign up for the Poise Contest, where contestants are placed into more and more ridiculous geta while tasked with serving drinks to the guest. Spills are expected, and the guests are cheerfully kitted out with cheap club-branded ponchos to protect their clothes. (Marketing, am I right?) While spills are expected, the contestant will lose points for each of the spilled drinks. Try to keep your balance as you attend to increasingly absurd drink orders. The intensity of the traditional footwear will only make your job that much harder.
Do you have what it takes to pour a champagne fountain while wearing teetering tengu geta? Prove your balance and dexterity is the best and the take home prize is some sweet cash. For Lost Souls freshly in the city, the chance to win some extra money can't really be passed up, huh…
4. SUTOKU TERRITORY - Jigokucho's Got Talent
Ever since Moonday's beloved singer – Ringo-chan – was kidnapped at the Tanabata festival, the band has had to cancel all of their scheduled gigs. Unfortunately, they were a hugely popular act, booked solid in most of the Sutoku Alliance's various nightclubs. This has left a ton of empty spots that need to be filled quickly, before the crowds get upset and demand… refunds.
That's where you come in, Lost Souls! Desperate promoters and talent bookers are literally grabbing Lost Souls off the street and begging, pleading, with them to perform a set for the night. They just need to have something to fill the space Moonday would have otherwise occupied. At least give the crowd something to see!
Acts do not need to be of the musical variety. Any performing talent is accepted, no matter how esoteric or bizarre! If it can fill out a 15-30 minute set, the club owners will be happy and the customers will at least see something interesting; even if it's a bad kind of interesting. So get on stage and show this city what you've got!
( Help us fill our time slots, please! We're desperate! 😩)
5. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENMA - Sticky Paws II: Outta the Bag
The Enma Department is busy: they have a kidnapping to investigate, a primordial god to pin down, and the crisis of their ever-shifting public image to manage. However, crime never sleeps and is always there to add to the troubled Department's workload. Worse still, we thought this little crime spree was over six months ago! But here it is again, much to the Enma's chagrin.
Cat cafés are a popular tourist attraction all across Jigokucho. About six months ago, a gang of bakeneko infiltrated several of the cafés to rob customers occupied with kitty bliss. Wallets, jewelry, and anything else those sticky paws could snatch away were being picked in droves. The cat capers are afoot once more!
Are you a hapless victim of these furry thieves, or are you helping the Department of the Enma track down these cat burglars? Unfortunately, the bakeneko are exceptionally clever and are using a seal to disguise their secondary tails. This makes them look just about like any normal cat. Better make sure your lead is good, or you'll be chasing down an ordinary Felis Catus. Soft to pet, but not going to return your pilfered cash.
Of course, the café staff might be in on this caper too… It's never easy to tell who's getting a cut of the profits. Be careful who you trust out there.
6. ALL OVER - The 100 Billion Yen Man (PLOT RELEVANT)
The local TV news has been announcing that Kaberou Kannazaki – the legendary finance wolf and the father of kidnapping victim, Ringo-chan – will be making an announcement this week. People have flocked to television sets throughout the city; at the squares, around TVs in bars, electronic stores, each other's phones, and any other venue with a connection. The kidnapping has been a highly public ordeal and the talk of the town. Many of the locals were present at the festival and witnessed the crime. They want to hear what the word is!
The public doesn't have to wait long. Wolf-eared Kaberou sits at a press desk, surrounded by microphones, and dazzled with flashbulbs. He clears his throat and, as he begins to speak, he is direct and to the point; not unlike a wolf lunging for the throat."As of today, I am issuing a bounty on the man known as the Iron Bear, who has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of my daughter, Ringo Kannazaki. The payout to the party responsible for bringing me Iron Bear, dead or alive, is 100 Billion Yen. Individuals or groups, I don't care. Just bring my daughter back to me, and the money is yours."
Well! The Department of the Enma's hopes of an orderly investigation have been dashed, but this is certainly an opportunity for anyone brave enough – or, more accurately, stupid enough – to traverse the Wasteland. Maybe one of you out there will find the legendary Iron Bear and bring him to some form of justice.
Local businesses are quick to leap at this opportunity, too. They begin to aggressively push sponsorships at would-be bounty hunters. Weapons? Armor? Survival gear? All at discount prices! Each faction has their interest in collecting the massive bounty as well. They will all be putting a lot of pressure on recruits to get ready to head out to the Wastes.
If you just got here? Well, it would definitely be in your interest to start finding gear, and finding people willing to collect that bounty with you. It could mean a big step forward toward your eventual contract, after all.
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Have some respect for the dehydrated and dying please!! Yoojin doesn't even have the strength to lift his head and look at whoever's poking him; he just lets out a grunt and wishes his suffering would come to an end already ]
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donnie looks to the left. right. ...left again, okay fine, no other person has miraculously come along to handle this problem in his stead so it falls, regrettably, to him. the pleading expressions of his brothers float to the forefront of his mind as donnie reluctantly sinks into a squat and holds out the canteen he'd brought with him, shaking it at this probably dead guy's head to make it slosh.]
Come on. You can do it, probably.
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His hand shoots out and latches onto the canteen in a death grip.
don't you dare take that away from him ]
Water...
[ his voice may be raspy at best but He Has Found The Will To Live ]
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[gingerly (and generously, in his opinion) unscrews the cap and relinquishes the canteen to avoid the risk of being like, hugged or grasped or something by this stranger]
Small sips! Don't you dare throw that up, that cost me actual money.
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...Probably faster than he should, but he refuses to throw any of it up.
not because it cost money, but because it is WATER in the DESERTHe gets about halfway through it before he relents a bit and flops onto his back with a sigh of relief. Yoojin looks to his saviour and slow..ly....stop..s......
is that a man-turtle??? ]
......................
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You can keep that. [donnie does not drink after strangers. now he has to go BACK to town and get another canteen and more water!! he's so not getting that cool one hundo bil.
either way, dude looks...alive-ish now and donnie is standing up to head back in the direction of the city. no time to waste!]
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His first thought is I must be hallucination, hahahaha there's no way I'm talking to a giant turtle~
It is not helped when Donnie gets up and starts to walk away, because that only makes him seem more like a figment of Yoojin's heat-stricken imagination. The only thing that contradicts this....is the water bottle in his hand. Which is real.
which must mean-- ]
....A turtle?!
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but mind-raph starts giving him the disappointed look, and mind-mikey is giving him sad yet reproachful eyes, and donatello cannot except the irritating kindness of his brothers even when he is, by all intents and purposes, in another dimension from them.
stops. sighs again, just. DEFLATING. then he turns back around and leans against his staff as he looks down at this absolute ding dong.]
What if I told you this was just an extremely advanced holographic disguise to protect my identity from rival bounty hunters. [is not even really trying to sell this but whatever]
donny...truly the most selfless of saints
What sort of world do you live in where disguising yourself as a GIANT, ANTHROPOMORPIC TURTLE is a way to protect your identity....if anything, Yoojin's sure that would people pay more attention.
that said, he is still at least 70% convinced he's Seeing Shit ]
..............Uh.
[ Should he reply? Aren't you not supposed to talk to haalucinations? That's how people decide you're crazy-- ]
Yes?
honestly tho
I'm going back to civilization. Do you need and/or want the company? [probably more need than want, with a complexion that obviously heat-stricken. of course if he says 'want' then donnie can feasibly decline and run away from any further obligatory good samaritan interaction]
insert hand over heart emote here
Maybe if he just tried using Seed Leaf*, that would tell him if he's really going crazy or not? ]
Are you real?
[ ooc; Yoojin has an 'identify'-like skill which would tell him someone's name/species but it is totally up to you if it would work or not! c: ]
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of course, that "Donatello / Softshell Turtle-Human" label might be more proof to his existence than his bluff and bluster. maybe some question marks or chemical formulas in that species section too? who knows what was in that yokai mutagen ooze stuff.]
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That sure is a thing he just read???? And not just once. Yoojin reads that invisible screen a good three or four times before it registers that Donnie's even spoken. What. the. eff??? System?? What is he supposed to do with this knowledge why are there turtle-humans?
Were those bizarre conspiracy theories are lizard-people on the news right after all?? ]
--What? Yes. Uh.
[ Turtle-Human. ]
Hello...turtle.
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[ Just play it cool, Yoojin. Just wobble to your feet, follow the strange Softshell Turtle-Human...
and then pitch right over and land on your face
is he doing this right ]
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[great. this is what comes of being a good person, everybody; now he's definitely responsible for this dude making it back to town alive. if he'd just kept walking and minded his own business he could claim plausible deniability if anyone ever brought it up, but now he has to DRAG. this dumb DEAD BODY man. all the way to TOWN! he doesn't even have any of his tech to make this easier! THIS IS BULLSHIT! he is a born sprinter, not a tank!!!]
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wandering into a desertWAR.he will repay Donnie for his sacrifice!! What do softshell turtles like the eat again... Aquatic bugs?
do turtle-humans eat water bugs?he's gonna get Donnie some water bugs. what a great turtle. ]no subject
sdfhjsdkjgs i laughed