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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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[ Yes. Telly. ]
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Mm, yes that. But even before that high-profile kidnapping, there's been cursed rain in one of the prior months, and the power struggle continues on as usual. There's an uneasy truce among the factions, but it nearly went awry with the supposed death of the Sutoku head.
[yeah she's been busy, girl's gotta be informed]
The kidnapping case seems to be on everyone's mind first and foremost now. And why not? That's a lot of money they're offering.
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[ That makes him think—but does he really? It seems like he's just head empty, no thoughts. ]
It seems relatively peaceful out here, but I guess that's the face they have to show for the sake of the people.
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[She says it so dryly it almost doesn't sound like a joke.]
Depends on where you are at any given moment. I think the Shuten clan has been clashing with some local street gangs so a brawl and fisticuffs out in the open isn't an unusual sight.
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[ He's seen some of those people and man, they're jacked. He could watch them all day. ]
his head is so empty and i love it
[Sen is baffling. He's clearly a young man, but the gaps in his knowledge about certain things manifest in a casual and blithe demeanor which isn't unpleasant... Just that if she turned away for one minute, he'd be in trouble. What kind? She doesn't know. Hopefully, she doesn't find out.]
Not that I know anything. I'm still new to all of this.
•u• I'm glad!
[ But he holds his hand up in a dramatic flourish. ]
But! You know a lot despite being new! I'd say you're a scholar, like how when you wrote notes down earlier. It's cool.
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... I was just running myself ragged questioning anyone I could. Once you've learned how to pursue knowledge, it becomes second nature.
[Her whole life had been a learning process after the Witch King let her do as she pleased. Part of her didn't feel like it was anything special. The other part was slowly trying to have more pride in being able to push forward, just like how Briar would have been proud.]
You could probably do it too. Maybe not the same way I do, but learning isn't the same process for everyone.
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[ He takes a moment to grin at how write and right sound the same like he told the funniest pun in the world. ]
I don't know how to do that!
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[This man child... She finds a brightly lit conbini for the both of them to enter and her green eyes scan the shelves for something substantial to eat.]
... Luckily for you, I'm an actual teacher.
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[ He doesn't seem to feel bad about it either way. ]
I don't have the money to pay you either!
1/2
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[She points him to the bottles with blue labels, so he can be helpful in that way.]
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[ He can count to two at least, so he goes over to where the bottles are, picks out two with blue labels and comes back with them. Maybe it's a good chance to mention that his hands barely peek out of his big sleeves, so it looks like he has flippers or something. It's much more emphasized when he holds out the water bottles. ]
Here you go.
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[Boy, your sleeves are huge... She pays for the food and drink and since there's a bench outside, she'll lead him there so they can just eat and rest up.
Amelia pats the free spot next to her.]
Sit.
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Whew. What did you pick out?
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It's basically a fried meat cutlet sandwich. Not as common where I'm from, but it was getting popular.
[There's always one or two students who were really into trendy foods they saw on social media and gave her recommendations. Amelia opens up her package and takes a bite. It's tasty enough.]
Well. Here's to our first meal in Hell.
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[ It's bread... and meat. They're squished together with other things! Amazing. Sen watches Amelia eat hers first before taking out a sandwich from the box and taking a bite. ]
Ooh... crispy.
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[She eats her sandwich silently as youkai and other residents pass them by on the street. The low buzz of the blindingly vivid neon fills her ears. It's all new, it's different, it's worrying and she doesn't know if anything will come out of it for the better.
But seeing Sen take joy in something he isn't used to and embrace the newness of it all was nostalgic. Comforting. It makes her think of someone who is long gone but...
The witch sighs and leans her head on the wall behind them.]
At least you're being carefree about all of this.
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Well, there's not really much else I can do. It just feels like making my life longer, even though I'm dead. It's good for me, because there's still a lot I wanted to see and experience.
[ He holds up the box like the Rafiki does to Simba in Lion King. ]
Like this combination of bread and crispy meat! You called it a sandwich, right? I'm glad I got to eat it.
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[let's not ask if he can use chopsticks though]
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I do, actually! I ate that often at some point in my life. It was easy to make and fast too! But I was never the one making it.
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[Keep surprising her Sen, she's old but could use it.]
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[ Restaurant. Looks like he doesn't know what that is either. ]
But no, they cooked it over a fire. Is there really an instant kind? That sounds like magic!
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[Baby steps now, Amelia.]
Yes, there are a lot of instant noodles. It's not magic, which in it of itself is probably magical in a mundane way.
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