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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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[No, it wasn't that she expressly recognized her, though damned if that look wasn't tickling at the back of her mind, but a Kasa-Obake was a Kasa-Obake was a Kasa-Obake. She knew one of those almost by heart, and the fact that this one was a cute girl, well... that was a familiar feeling in a way. Since, you know... Gensokyo.]
I think the only person around here that'd do better than you's an actual tengu.
[She took a sip, raising an eyebrow.]
Hey, uh... come back by when you're done doing the game, would you?
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[While the praise does make her happy, Kogasa can't help but be troubled about something.]
...So you're saying that it's not surprising at all that I'm good at it...?
[That's pretty disappointing to hear. Maybe she should throw the competition after all.]
I don't mind coming back, but why?
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[She took another sip and frowned, looking down at her drink for a second.]
Uh... there's something I wanted to ask, but I didn't want to interrupt you competing. that's all.
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[As though it's hard. But she worked so hard on making her umbrella look its best, she's happy that someone recognized it, and her, for what they are.]
Well, why don't you order another drink, and then I can answer your question when I come back with it?
[A surprisingly astute suggestion coming from Kogasa, but she's enjoying herself, after all, so it's only natural to find more excuses to serve drinks.]
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[It would give her a second to think of how to phrase this, because on the one hand? She didn't care if the answer was no. But, on the other hand? She'd been here for a few months and it was weird running into so many youkai, but youkai who didn't seem to understand what the hell she was talking about, even if it was similar?]
I'll have a question for you when you get back.
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[When she returns, she's on slightly taller geta, but she's still managing pretty well, even one-handed, as she hands Tenshi her mimosa. The girl and the umbrella share equally wide grins.]
You know, everyone keeps telling me that this is Hell, but it's a lot less scary than the stories I've heard about the Hell where I'm from. It's actually kind of fun.
[Though she's only been here for a short time, so who knows whether or not that opinion will change. This isn't altogether different from the time she first drifted into Gensokyo, though, in the sense that it's a place she can't leave even if she wanted to, so it's just a matter of making the best of things all over again.]
But you had a question, right? What did you want to ask?
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Heh, seriously? This place reminds me more of Hell the way I know it. But that's old hell, which isn't really the same thing. Well, add gangs and yakuza, and you get the idea maybe? But Hell's just a place where all the youkai who don't go up top hang out to me.
[Another sip. Oh, right, question!]
Oh, uh. If I were to ask you about Gensokyo, or if I said there were Rabbits on the Moon, what would you say?
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[She's never met anyone from the moon; if anything, most of the people she hangs out with are more intimately acquainted with the inner workings of the earth than anyone has any right to be, after how long Myourenji was underground. Not that that's of much concern to this layabout who lives in their graveyard.]
Former Hell's where all those extra creepy youkai live, though, so someday I want to go...and brush up on my scaring techniques!
[One-eyed umbrella meets three-eyed shut-in and probably ends up leaving in tears after Satori stabs her right in the abandonment issues, I can see it now.]
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[She was practically beaming. Did it matter how important a youkai this was? Nope. It was someone who actually understood what she meant. There was a bit of nostalgia after having been here nearly six months.]
I was just getting my groove on when it came to those perfect possession techniques when a Kappa got one over on me and I ended up here. I'm Tenshi. I'm kind of a big deal.
[She totally got her ass kicked. And no, she absolutely was not a big deal outside of her own head.]
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[Hearing about the kappa gives her a moment's pause.]
I don't remember hearing about the kappa getting anyone recently, but then again, that tengu-run newspaper...it isn't very good...
[So actually, if anything, the fact that she hasn't heard anything just lends credence to the story.]
...As for me...I'm pretty sure...I was eaten...I hope she at least ate the whole thing, it'd make me so upset if she left even a scrap of wood behind...
[The territorial disputes between herself and Yoshika have lessened in frequency, but still occasionally continue. All she really knows is she lost a fight and then woke up here.]
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[Sheesh. Only youkai would be happy at the thought of getting gobbled up... well, ok, at least accepting of it. She didn't know much about the goings on at the temple, but either way...]
Better be careful. There's at least one oni running around here. But it's not the one we know? Well, she kind of is, kind of isn't. It gets weird but there's different versions of reality, so she's not the same as back home. She'd still probably try to gobble you up though.
[stop bad-mouthing Ibaraki... ok, she might try to do that anyway.]
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[And, well, Tenshi can see the presumed results of that turf war before her. It's not so much that Kogasa's happy to have been eaten so much as she knows even a scrap of her left behind would feel lonely.]
Oni, huh...it'd be pretty surprising if I could best one in combat, but even I think that might be pushing a little too hard. I'll keep it in the back of my head as a last resort if I get too hungry, though. It's easy enough to come back after being exterminated!
[She'd know, considering how often it happens to her.]
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So... uh... the Jiang Shi got you did she? That's no fun. Haven't seen one around here, and I wouldn't take Ibaraki lightly. Girl's covered in fire when she gets serious. Wouldn't be good for an umbrella to fight. But she's uh... she's alright.
[Cough. Ahem.]
So, how long you been here? Did you just arrive?
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[She tilts a little theatrically on the pair she's wearing, though she's in no real danger of losing her balance.]
Plus, it seemed like an easy meal.
[Eventually, if the geta get tall enough, everyone around her will be surprised she's still on them, and she won't have to worry about eating for a while.]
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Don't worry tooooo much about getting fed around here, but that first week was rough. Pretty sure whoever's taking care of you will make sure you eat alright.
[Pause. Hmmm.]
Uh, by the way. If you don't end up in Tamamo, we can still hang out long as the higher ups don't have some orders.
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[The surpriser seems surprised.]
You...uh, you want to hang out with me?
[Suffice to say it doesn't happen often. Kids like her because they think her umbrella looks funny, but no matter how she looks at it that's different...]
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Maybe I miss it a tiny bit. And you'll probably miss it soon enough too. It sort of sucks when folks don't actually understand all your old stories, and if I talk about a shrine maiden beating us up, you know who I mean.