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(OVERFLOW) 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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Cats
In any case, he doesn't know how she's going to get everything back if nothing is done now, so he squats and catches a cat that has her earrings, and is currently in a tug of war trying to get them back.]
Uh, miss, do you have a moment?
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Wait a minute.]
Hmm? I'm not looking for a job right now, thank you--
[She's not even paying attention, because she is delicately squishing a cat's paws in her hands. Who...who let her out unsupervised? How is she going to survive.]
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Oh, it's not about a job, but do your earrings happen to be missing—ow, you son of a—
[ There we go, here are the claws scratching at his hand. Cats, he swears. ]
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[She actually turns to look at him and sees this small child losing a fight to a cat. I mean he's not any smaller than she is and she'd lose that fight too, but Tsubaki has elected to ignore this and just. Come over there. And brazenly boop the bakeneko.]
Ah, ah, you stop that. Your fault you got caught. Better luck next time.
[...Is she. Is she just letting them take her shit so she can pet them????]
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He looks kind of dumbfounded at this turn of events, but he does snatch the earrings away while this cat is displeased that things have turned out this way. But it seems willing to concede this loss since Skylark manages to let go of it without more scratches.
Now that he can take a good look at the earrings... ]
Huh, blue jade...?
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[To Tsubaki that clearly explains everything. Which, while it's adorable, it doesn't explain fuck and all, Tsubaki. But she's pausing to put down the calico she's holding and watch the cats start to disperse since clearly the free show is over. Pats her pockets, finds a couple pieces of candy, shrugs and hands him one, clearly in exchange for the earrings?]
...Guess I need to actually find some work after all.
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He looks at the candy, and a part of him is wondering if she assumes he's that young. That part, in particular, bristles a little, but he'll give her back her earrings like he intended to and take the candy, though he doesn't try to eat it immediately. ]
It's not hard to find work around here, at least.
[ ...Wait, ]
You said red jade?
[ It's not something that really comes up much in this city, as he's learned from walking past the shops. ]
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[Had he not heard of it before? She supposes that the world is vast, so therefore there must be places a young boy (sorry, Lark) hadn't heard of the material.]
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He pauses to consider whether he should just outright ask the question on his mind, since—well, he found out very quickly that pretty much no one was familiar with what he was, and once that sank in, it was a really weird feeling. Absolute basic concepts that he had figured were universal weren't in...other worlds? Is that what one could call them?
Admittedly, if it turns out he assumed wrong (and he might, gods know it may turn out red and blue jade are a thing elsewhere), he's going to look really silly, but that hasn't stopped him nearly enough. Him asking this is gonna seem silly anyway. ]
Then, uhm...pardon the weird question, if I say Creation, what comes to mind?
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She does take the moment to put her earrings back on, though.]
Creation...the breadth of the living world, beset in all directions by primordial chaos, the gateway board to the power struggles of the divine, the wellspring of innumerable sorrows? That Creation?
[if it is not that creation she is saving that description for a novel.]
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Oh gods, someone else does know.
[ He should not sound so relieved but he does, despite himself. ]
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You've...been here quite some time, haven't you?
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[ Even the people who weren't expecting to end up here seem to be familiar with some of the concepts that have come up, albeit not necessarily in exactly how they knew them to be. ]
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[Because that part's been the most exciting part for her? Everything is strange and new and different, but just enough the same that it hasn't rattled her confidence. Tsubaki's excited by all this, honestly.]
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Mm, I can't say I was really expecting you to.
[ It was just that he was starting to think maybe he'd be the only person from Creation to show up here, given how many people seemed to know what "Japan" is but not, say, the empire. Or literally anything else from back home. ]
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[Oops, the inside the brain voice came out of her mouth.]
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[ He doesn't really sound offended however, he's just rolling with it. ]
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[Because that's a feeling you just learn to deal with if you go further than the place you were born. To be fair to Lark, this is a lot more...severe a case.
To be fair to Tsubaki, she deals with raksha so regularly she's just kind of given up the assumption of a baseline.]
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We don't talk about raksha if only because the raksha are practically in the backyard, like urban legends except they're very real.]First time in 15 years I haven't seen the sea.
[ There's a river, and that's...it, as far as he knows. ]
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She kept several as pets Tsubaki is too stupid to feel fear.]Ah. That'd be it...from the West, then?
[He's not arrogant enough to be from the Realm and she doesn't think he's from the inner coast...]
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Got it in one, miss.
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[...She can pick that up through whatever has them all speaking Japanese?]