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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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How pushy... harassing people on the street just because their habits are annoying you. Maybe that's why only the cats can tolerate you...?
[Translation: no he will not stop smoking and you can kill him before he'll try.]
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[The pun is 500% deliberate and she will never apologize. But she's just crushing the cigarette and letting that poor sprite climb back up to her shoulder. It is making more angry static noises at him.]
Cats are both better company and better literary critics than most humans. They're vastly preferable company.
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[Bereft of his bad habit (and not wanting to waste more cigarettes), he tucks one hand into his pocket, the other handing limply as he tilted his head.]
Are you the one who's desperate? You'd have a better chance with the alley cats. Hopefully the bakeneko at least have better standards.
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But you're tiny.
[WHO THE FUCK IS SHE COMPARING HIM TO THAT HE'S SMALL?!
Also when she raised her hand in shock the wedding band on it is visible but it's Eiichi he doesn't care.]
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[Well, it's not the reaction he was expecting, but it certainly was one. He does indeed notice the wedding band, but yeah he doesn't care. Being married certainly didn't stop anyone from chasing their perversions.]
Are you going senile? [Because he has no idea what this has to do with anything.]
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[SHe's right but maybe she should not have said it while gesturing to him.]
You're only, what, a head taller than me? Head and a half? That's just average height, that's no achievement.
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[Seriously. This was just getting stupid, and one of the most irritating things was some idiot who couldn't carry a human conversation.]
Besides, you're small enough to to give the kappa a run for their money. Though you'd have to cover up to not bring down their image... But then again, maybe it would raise their morale if they were among something dragged out of the sewers.
[In the end, he took out another cigarette and flicked on the lighter, with blatant disregard for her earlier holier-than-thou nonsense.]
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[She not really offended, really. She knows she's beautiful, but also that the breadth of human sexuality is vast. That's fine. Also, she's notied something else, from where she's standing.]
Cosmetics, masks and illusions have existed for the insecure and unfortunate for centuries...there are solutions for me. But there's nothing that's going to fix your personality...I think I got the better deal.
[A pause.]
Well, me and the bakeneko who's just took off with your wallet.
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[He puts his lighter away as he breathes deep through the cigarette. Well, he was more tired and annoyed than angry, at least, though he was much more interested in getting a smoke off than checking his pockets.]
It must be fortunate for me, that I have no interest in being fixed. I already took my yen out after they stole it earlier. But it only had a few in it in the first place... if they really want it they're free to keep it.
[Sometimes being paranoid was very helpful. He would gladly give up the wallet even with the money if he could get the charm back.]
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She doesn't like him and knows she should leave well enough alone. But curiosity is stronger than her contempt.]
You knew that much and still came out to this street? That's foolish or desperate, I can't tell which.
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They took something else of mine that I'm still looking for. Otherwise I would be glad to leave them to scam whoever else they want.
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[It has to be something important. No one would go through the trouble otherwise.]
You'll do better to barter, then. Whatever else they are, they are still cats. Fish, string, or entertainment.
[Which is why she's surreptitiously handing the one on her shoulder one of her earrings, but he doesn't need to know what that's about.]
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Ah, is that why you keep letting them steal everything you own?
[This is what you get for turning the conversation to be about him?]
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[Wiggling her fingers a bit with the ring.]
They're just things. Neither money nor store-bought clothing have any actual value.
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[He takes a drag on his cigarette. He wasn't really that materialistic either, so he couldn't really fault her for that. Though that was probably more to having so few possessions, instead of any actual values. He was no Minikami, okay.]
Seems to me like your ring is just as gaudy as the rest of them. [Sorry Tsubaki he has no idea what a wedding ring is it's the 1920s]
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[She pauses, and looks at the ring. Well, it maybe is kinda tacky, objectively, but--]
...I suppose I didn't marry the man for his taste in jewelry. But if they'd taken what he gave me I'd have had to burn the cafe down.
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Though with an attitude like that, I'd be wary to go around tricking rich, stupid men like that. Money's more powerful than violence or sense.
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[She shrugs a little bit.]
Rich men don't think they can lose when they gamble.
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But as for gambling, this city's great for that too... though the worst of the worst rarely like to take the chance with their fortunes. A pity... I'd have liked to see them lose it.
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[She does get it better than either of them would like. Let's pretend that's not a thing.]
...Men like that gamble with lives, not with coin. I'm afraid I don't have the taste to do that.
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Well, they won't gamble with their own, so that's the only way to get on their same level. [He gestures with his cigarette at that, though the amusement on his face seems a bit stale.] I would suggest you steel your stomach. This is Hell, after all.
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[...]
Though I suppose in hell, none of us are innocents, are we?
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Besides, no one's ever really innocent, hell or not.