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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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[haha, ALKALOID, Vocaloid, Miku would love that shit. Rui's listening and watching raptly, however, completely entranced by the absolute transformation happening right before his eyes. He's even clapping by the end, eyes drifting shut as though he's witnessed something truly rapturous.]
...Your voice is distinctive, and your dancing is refined. Practiced, suiting the music as one would expect from a real idol...
I would be honoured to work with you, even temporarily. You should give yourself far more credit, Mayoi; you'd make for an excellent leading man, capturing an audience's attention and hearts with just the right direction.
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Eeeeehhh... compliments...I'll suffocate under them if you give me anything more.
[It's like he's allergic to them and he will just. Put his hands over his face, don't perceive him, thanks.]
A-Ah, but I'm glad. To be able to work with someone in this situation, I'm so thankful I could die. Do you ...think we can truly pull it off?
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Ah-ah, compliment. Forgive me~
[But still, he can't let idol-senpai drown in a pit of his own insecurity! Time to drift on over and gently attempt to peel that hand away from Mayoi's face. LOOK AT HIM. MAKE EYE CONTACT. HETEROSEXUAL SHIT]
We might not perform flawlessly. I may mar one of your unit's songs, and for that, I apologise in advance. But we will perform together, to the best of our current ability.
And I want you to have a good time, over everything else. After watching you perform just now, I think we can succeed in that much. Don't you?
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[He's going to be very easy to tease, is probably what Rui should get out of this.]
[Mayoi will allow one hand to be peeled away, but the other one stays planted on his face. His eyes are very pretty actually. Bright and kind of spooky, like if you shined a flashlight on him in the dark they'd light up like a quickly retreating cryptid.]
Yes...
[Rui is trying very hard to reach a hand out to him. So, with that much faith in what they can do, even if they go out and make mistakes on stage, it's enough to steel him. This is not so different from ALKALOID's first performance, where they had a week to cobble together something passable. Where Mayoi had to get a previous top-idol with a busted leg, two novices, and himself able to perform in tandem and they had pulled it off, against all odds.]
[They can do that now, he thinks. He nods, finally pulling away his other hand.]
Yes, I believe so. The two of us that fate trapped so fiendishly, we will sing with our hearts such that even the darkest shadows will hear us.
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[That noooooooo is chum in the water, after all, but Rui'll hold back on his instinct to go all in for now. He only teases with love, you know?] But I'm glad to hear that you'll have me for now. Thank you.
[he is still holding onto that hand
is this on purpose
we just do not know.
At least it's clear that he's enjoying the eye contact, eyes briefly flitting over Mayoi's face (and lingering in the general eye vicinity) before nodding with satisfaction.] Now! We only have a few minutes left; how far can we get with learning each other's lyrics? The routines are slightly less important, or-- easier to cover up, I should say. But people will notice a flubbed lyric more than we'd like to think!
[aka sing to him, big boy. he'll return the serenade, of course, but knowing two songs is more important than just the one!]
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K-Kamishiro-san is much less frightening than facing the stage alone. What you could do with me cannot be worse than the pressing eyes of a contemptuous mob.
[Which is to say, he bares his belly with just enough discretion.]
[Anyway, Mayoi has nice hands. Like a piano player. He does find that unending eye contact extremely unnerving, but he tolerates it for now. One set of eyes is better than a thousand, after all.]
Yes, let's get started. Every second is precious.
[Enjoy your dulcet tones, Rui, he really is a lovely vocalist. And for the absolute soul-rending time-crunch they are under, they probably won't do too badly?]
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No, I would never view you with contempt. You've already treated me with such kindness and understanding.
[Not a compliment! Just facts! Mayoi's tolerating so much bullshit right now, and even Rui can tell that much...Thankfully, he eases up even more and lets go of those lovely piano-playing hands so that they can practice properly.
Tragic, really. His own hands are long, thin, and riddled with calluses and scars from years of frantic scribbling and metalworking accidents. It was kind of nice, to feel hands that weren't as mauled as his...But far nicer to slip into the Grindset, singing under his breath to imitate Mayoi and try to figure out how best to complement his voice.
Naturally, they get foisted up onstage all too soon, and even before he can really go over his own song in depth, but-- it is what it is. All they can hope to do is have a good time and get the crowd pumped in turn, so...He fixes Idol-senpai with a sidelong smile, something far less feline and far more warm, before bowing to the crowd.]
We're about to perform a world-first, today; a cultural exchange, as you will, between idols and theatre! I'll let you be the judge of how well I adapt to such professional expectations, fufu~ Be gentle on me, dear audience! For my colleague...
He's really quite something, you know? You're in for a treat!
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[Mayoi can bite down the churning nastiness that always threatens to bubble up the moment he's met with any kind of positivity, if it means focusing on idol work. It's no longer about him, in that case. He can easily allow himself to drown in his own self-hatred, but absolutely not if there is someone who is relying on him to come through.]
[So with that, Mayoi does his absolute best to instruct Rui on his songs in the terribly short time they have. He is confident about Rui's talent, though, and he thinks they've done everything they can, (though he is plagued by thoughts of but what if I had focused on this instead of that-). There will be mistakes, but as an idol, you find ways of covering mistakes by any means necessary.]
[He is not confident in his Emceeing, that had always been Tatsumi's strength, but he faces the audience just as he would back home. Ah, this crowd ...it really is much smaller than the Ullambana. With Rui beside him, he really does feel like he can breathe. Yes, alright. He may not be in his ALKALOID uniform, but he can become that terrifying presence all the same. He bows with Rui and a wide grin spreads across his face.]
Fufufu~ Do not fall for such undermining woooords, for my partner is just as spectacular as I. Ah, for you see ...it was fate that dealt these unlikely cards that brought us here to you.
[He extends his hand out to the audience.]
The gap left behind by the ones who were originally meant for this stage cannot truly be filled by any other act, for that was what your hearts were promised when you came here tonight, however. Ah, if you will allows us, we will ...do our best to reach your hearts instead.
[Alright, that's about all he's got in him before he loses his nerve. Mayoi brings his gaze back to Rui before he immediately dives into the first song, not giving either of them a chance for hesitation. Heaven or hell lets rock babey]