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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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( --said in a cheerful voice, which belittles the fact of it, but he says it anyway. one of the remaining guys, stubborn as ever, apparently, swings for his face; satoru dances back a step, jerking his shoulders back to keep just out of reach.
with a sigh of disappointment, he turns to the stranger he managed to flag down. )
What do you think? I've been really nice so far, but... ( a hint of a grin, just up the corner of his mouth; his hands slip down into his pockets. ) I'm kinda losing my patience, here. What would you do~?
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( There's no weirder scolding than the one received from a man totally ill-suited to give it, giving it in a sing-song voice. One of the thugs has had enough with the weird exchange, clearly, because he decides to charge. The interaction starts with Gogol scrambling backwards like he's planning on fleeing. What follows is a flurry of motion where the clown indubitably decides to use the momentum to dislocate that guy's shoulder right out of the socket before chucking him to the ground. )
...Hmm what do I think? Well that's simple. It's becoming reaaally tedious handling this clean up job without any lethality. ( He looks down. ) Hey, quiet you, I'm talking—
( He's being facetious. As if he doesn't have his boot digging into the aforementioned shoulder while that guy stifles cries of pain. )
—anyways, if you want to make them cry a little then I won't be the one to tattle on you. So how's that?
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behind his glasses, he watches the movement with some measure of surprise and distate--neither of which make it to his features. instead, seeing one of their own howling in pain, flattened to the ground, the other goons seem disturbed, as though unsure what to do; they look between each other, like they're trying to make a plan without saying anything out loud. )
That's very kind of you. ( he says brightly, with a laugh--his gaze shifts to the other gang members. ) He's not going to tattle on me, so...
( --so all it really takes is him cracking his knuckles to get the member closest to him to panic, immediately stumbling back into another member. really, in the end, they're just kids: and kids, at least, he doesn't want to punish too hard.
he swings his gaze over to his new--violent--companion. ) So how about we call it a win here~? Go have a little victory celebration?
( he's grinning, bright and enthusiastic. ) You know. Cleanup successful~?
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( Clearly Gogol is a senselessly sadistic person: this should be the impression being presented in such a short amount of time since it's what he was angling for initially.
Yet, with a sly look over at the stranger in need of a "rescue," the subtle 'ok pump the brakes' doesn't go unnoticed. No face pulling is required for that message to come across when there's a repetition of a sentiment that this altercation is as good as done.
It's a very predictable good-person-ish reaction to Gogol's unpredictable cruelty as far as he's concerned. It makes Gogol smile benignly in return as he lifts the pressure from the injury to give the kid a nudge with his foot. )
Here's your mobility back. You can run now if you'd like.
( The injured goon scrambles to get up and away, even receives heartwarming support from one of his companions—They must be good friends. )
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with the lift of one shoulder, satoru looks from the retreating members, to the stranger that he's left with--and then he lets out a little laugh, as though tickled and pleased. )
If you're not satisfied, you can try to get me to the ground.
( there's the lift of one brow, testing--but his hands slide into his pockets, casual, as he approaches the stranger, as though they're better off as comrades than enemies. he doesn't really care either way; he has his own steam to blow off, but taking it out on kids who don't really know any better isn't his style. )
One way or the other. Depends on where your interests lie.
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( Then Gogol does a visible double take.
Because, well, gee. There's not a lot of reasons for why this stranger would begin to approach him in this context. One option is less friendly than the other is, and as a terrorist who makes a habit of pushing peoples buttons he's really quite familiar with where that one usually leads.
For now, though, that advance looks picture perfect casual. It's enough so that Nikolai folds a hand behind his back and presses the other to his chest. Calmly composed considering he doesn't know if this guy is coming over to pick or fight or just offer one. It's an interesting predicament to be in because he doesn't have the Overcoat with him anymore.
Gogol smiles with a closed mouth, like he's thought of a private joke. Either way, he leans forward conspiratorially, and the smile grows. )
So! Strictly speaking there's really only one thing that could satisfy me and it doesn't apply here.
...plus you're not really a target of mine so I can't imagine why I would! Can you?
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( there's a drawl of disappointment in his voice, mostly feigned--the closer that he gets to the stranger, the easier it is to assess him, at least, and like most people in this strange hell city, he doesn't feel entirely challenged. in a fight, he knows he can't be beat, and in all other things, well, he's just a willing participant. he doesn't think this stranger is at all interested in those types of things, which makes him a little fascinating; he stops just short of standing at his side. )
I'm disappointed~ I wanted to catch your eye, you know. ( not really true at all, but he plays it up like it is, his lips pressed together in something of a pout. ) So? What's this about 'only one thing' that can satisfy you?
( one hand lifts, a palm into the air, as though he's gesturing for the stranger to continue. )
Indulge me, I'm a curious kind of guy. Gotta know everything I can.
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I'll let a curious kind of guy in on the secret.
( Not that it's ever actually been a secret to anyone who has met Gogol. The corner of the clown's lips quirks upward on the unmasked side of his face after catching a glance of the pout. Call it a quirk of his but it's most definitely because he's asked so directly to explain that it convinces Gogol to give a hint after a moment of exaggerated consideration. He angles his head to the side during that pause and tries to catch his companion's eye; it has the unintended effect of emphasizing those three inches Gojo has on him.
How will this conversationalist react? Then, perhaps even more fascinatingly, how will he pretend to react? He's interested in knowing. )
Let's see here... like a canary that finally flees from the cage it was born in—you could say my wish is to prove the freedom of humanity which is unimpeded by attachments like emotions or morality.
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his brows lift, as though he's thoroughly impressed. a low little whistle. )
So, you're out of your cage now, little canary, and... this is how you show you're unimpeded by anything?
( not that he can't relate. he can't really declare himself as sticking to morals, either, but emotions are another thing entirely. it makes him grin a little more, almost rueful. )
Shouldn't your freedom take you somewhere fun?
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'this is how you show you're unimpeded by anything?' These thoughts are a distraction. He narrows his eyes, his smile going tight. A hint of dissatisfaction weaving its way into his expression briefly. )
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( Speaking of stupid and edgy sounding lines... he's got even more just for Gojo since he hasn't extracted himself from Gogol's bullshit just yet. The tone is so conversational too. Gogol is shrugging with both arms like this isn't a concept that makes everyone 1. confused 2. so pissed off anytime they interact with him. )
Not to be the bearer of bad news... But you've got it all wrong! Experiencing something like joy confines humankind just as much as any negative emotion does. Didn't you know?