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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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Uh... thanks, man.
[ but — did he just say 'jersey'?? that's an EARTH THING. and an america thing, specifically! that's weirdly a relief. ]
Nah, I meant like, real aliens. Spaceships and stuff. [ he snaps his fingers, like he's realized the best way to put it. ] Like Star Wars!
[ nerd.
but at least it seems the remaining bullies are not only getting exhausted, but some of them are starting to back away upon realizing their inevitable defeat. so. go team! ]
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Oh aliens? Psh, we kicked their butts out already. Never heard of a Star Wars, but way way more difficult than Jupiter Jim makes it look.
[He's just going to smooth right on past talking about that, he does not want to talk about that.]
Anyway, looks like you're home free. And I do believe there is some payment to be found in breaking up this fight.
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I mean — wait a minute, you've never seen Star Wars?! Dude, it's like, a classic! [ that is the important thing he got out of this. and he's never even heard of it? has this guy been living under a rock? ...... or rather, a shell?
wait get back on track, peter. ] Right, sorry, the food. Yeah, a deal's a deal, and I owe you one, man, so... your choice where we go. But you are not hearing the end of this Star Wars thing.
[ sorry for his everything. ]
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But this guy was just about to say 'too' wasn't he? Maybe he got caught up in all the Krang business and kept himself safe. There were plenty of stories going around like that he heard.]
Yeah yeah yeah, Star Wars thing, but food also. No idea what's here, just whatever smells delicious.
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don't think too hard into the 'too'. peter will deny anything and everything. ]
Yeah, me neither. Maybe we can find a good sandwich place — get you that BLT you were talking about earlier. Sound good?
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A plan has been made, we should see it through now. Lesgo. You didn't get hurt though right?
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Nah, [ he shrugs, a bit awkwardly ] barely even felt anything!
[ that is a lie, he felt it way more than it's supposed to be felt and he's kind of internally freaking out a little over it. it still kinda hurts. no biggie, gonna just. lie. as he is so very good at doing. ]
You?
my typo in the last tag... weeps
Not a thing. Pretty used to it, fighting the big groups of baddies.
shhh it's okay i never judge
Oh, uh, yeah? [ can relate, but cannot say he relates. sad. ] That was totally my first time. Never done it before.
[ liar liar liar. he wants to keep this topic off himself, though, so. ]
You some kind of superhero then? You don't exactly look like a normal— uh, I mean, not that it's bad or anything, but — you're kinda...
[ a turtle. he's a turtle. ]
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And yeah, I'm a mutant.
[Look he's not tryin to hide it. This guy clearly does not care about the mutants or youkai wandering around, same as everyone else. Otherwise, Leo would be trying to hide right now, or make up some excuse about being a sci fi cosplayer or any number of things they've said before.
But he's also not pointing out that Peter's moves were clearly practicedl. He's fought people before,, but if he wants to act like he hasn't then who is Leo to call that out?]
Honestly, kinda weird to see a bunch of humans not freaking out about youkai.
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instead, he does his best to skirt around it. ]
Dunno what a "youkai" is, but... yeah, guess it works out for you, right?
[ but also, thanks to his awkwardness, he feels like he's kind of stepped in it a bit when it comes to dealing with the whole giant turtle thing, and peter is nothing if not someone who's thoughts go a hundred miles a minute. ]
... Look, man, sorry if I was being kinda insensitive about it.
[ he doesn't know what this guy's been through, but he's seen his fair share of people being unnerved by the abnormal, and the way he talks about it makes it sound like he's used to people freaking out over him. it's often quite difficult for peter to shut his mouth or filter his thoughts before they reach his mouth, but he can admit when he's done something wrong. ]
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[Honestly, if Leonardo were to really think about it, most of their above-ground excursions have been all right. Still, he was raised to hide so that's his first instinct.]
Youkai are just... I dunno, naturally nonhumans? I guess? Big Mama and Draxum never really elaborated on that, but that's what I've kinda gathered.
[Somehow he feels like Draxum would be extremely put off by the simplification, and the lack of saying humans are inferior in that explanation. Good thing he's not here.]
Besides, gotta look out for someone else from New York City, right? Water under the bridge.
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[ even if the names he gave mean nothing to him. sounds like a concept out of a movie, and probably a word that could apply to a lot of people he's met, hah...
but he perks right up the moment he hears this guy's also from nyc. ]
Whoa, seriously?! You, too, man?! [ moving a hand to point at his chest in an excited manner. ] Queens! What about you? Pretty sure I'd remember you if I saw you, so...
[ can't be queens...? ]
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How about ah-bandoned sewer and subway system underneath. Same area.
[That's definitely similar, right.]
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weirdly, not surprising. but also still surprising. like, on one hand, holy shit living in the sewers sounds harsh. on the other — mutant turtle guy? could just come with the territory. but either way, it's kind of exciting?? like it pings him in just the right way that his 'whoa that's so cool' sense jumps up the charts. ]
You were down there this whole time?! Dude, you are, like... [ wait for it ] wicked cool. That's like — secret underground base kind of stuff.
[ if only he could... tell ned. ned would love this shit. ahhh... don't let it get to you, don't let it get to you. push it down, don't like the strangling feeling on your heart take over. you got this. focus on the kickass underground base. ]
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And thank you, finally someone admits I'm cool. [An unfortunate side effect: inflating his ego. He gestures while they walk and talk.]
Seriously, I keep trying to tell Donnie I'm the cool funny one and he just does not believe it, will argue day and night with you but he's wrong, every time.
[It's as much wanting to talk as it is wanting to distract himself. Not knowing where his brothers are right now is freaking him out after everything else that's happened in the last day and a half. How is he supposed to lead and protect them if he can't find them? Some leader he's turned out to be. Can't even get them kidnapped together.]
So what's your deal? You're not freaked out by any of this, what's the story.
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he can't help but laugh a little at that. ]
All right, fine, I'll back you up if you ever need it. I can vouch. I'm a good voucher.
[ he's only barely met him, but they're getting along fine, it seems. and he is pretty cool — seriously, ned would have a field day with this. god, he would love to have someone to tell about the badass fighting turtle hero guy he's met. peter practically lives off of telling his friends the cool things he experiences. he loves the feeling of sharing it with someone close to him. haah.
anyway, um... about the freaking out thing. ]
It's not like you're the only hero out there, right? We've got tons of 'em, like — like the Hulk! You're both big and green, yeah? [ even if leo's pretty short, the point still stands — he's big for a turtle, at least.
good thing the avengers are so public that he can still use them as an excuse. ]
I've, uh — seen him a few times, around the city, and stuff.
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[It probably is better he met Leo first. The others have absolutely no charisma (though Mikey in the right environment could give Leonardo a run for his money) so it's usually up to him to make introductions.
He'd answer that he's the only one they've seen, but distraction time!]
A hulk? Sorry, you say the Hulk? Like.. how big are we talking?
[Did Raph get out alone to do that super secret crime fighting he does alone and thinks they don't know about again.]
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Yeah, the Hulk. [ a pause, as he tries to think of how to explain it. ] He's like... y'know, around... here? [ he says this as he puts his hand up as far in the air as it can go. ] Maybe? [ not sure if this is the most accurate way to do this.
but. ] —Wait, sorry, does this mean you haven't even seen him before?
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Nope, never, not in a million years, never heard of 'im.
Like... What does he do exactly.
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He... uh... smashes stuff?
[ ACED IT. ]
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Wow yeah doesn't sound like anyone I know at all.
[IT IS LITERALLY HIS MODUS OPERANDI.]
Wow anyway so sandwich shops, right, can't be that hard to find.