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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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Kazutora Hanemiya >> Tokyo Revengers
[Gangs that fucked around really pissed Kazutora off. Throwing their weight around, thinking they’re hot-shots, bullying the weak... it was bullshit. He didn’t like these mini-weenie gangs... but he didn’t necessarily like Toraguma and the Shuten either – their rank and file were lazy, self-absorbed. And truly, Kazutora hated being forced to pick a side.
His solution? Beating up anyone he’d find from any gang, Shuten or otherwise. The thrill of the beating was all he needed, who the fuck cared why they were doing whatever they were doing.
But this would catch up with him, and before he knew it, he’d be surrounded by a motley gang of angry newbies who’d assumed he’d sided with Shuten.
He’d roll his shoulders and smile with eyes too wide and a mouth slightly crooked. It was too big a crowd, but he really didn’t give a fuck. Either they’d die or he’d die, and that was fine by him.]
You fuckers wanna go? Let’s do this-!
WILDCARD
[Whatever you like, I’m here for it! Kazu is pretty crazy but pretty fun if he doesn’t want to kill you-!]
Muscling In
Rolling a shoulder back, he'd snort a little, expression set unnaturally cold-- he'd been trying; last he knew, anyway; to play it calm and chill with Kazutora, not do anything that might set him off.
But it looked like not only was Kazutora here now, he also seemed to be shedding his own chill pretty neatly.]
Yo. Kazutora.
[Called, tone pitched deep.]
Are these guys even worth your time?
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Kazutora would pause, taking that in, fingers trembling slightly. Relief.. Damn, he was relieved..
He'd smile, and then he'd grin, glancing over his shoulder and throwing his arms out.]
What, you don't like a party?? Come and join in, the fun's just getting started-!
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[He'd step up to him, cracking knuckles. Just as with Mikey, if anything was amiss, he didn't notice right away. Kazutora often seemed off keel and off kilter, so those wide eyes, that long pause, the awkward shaking...
Just another Tuesday, right? He must be excited to go.]
Careful--
[Warned, nodding his head to the direction Kazutora had faced away from-- two brawlers had decided to take that moment to rush him.
Bad idea, probably.]
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So much so, that it looked as if he would miss the two chumps raising their fists against him.
But in a split second, he'd duck and punch one guy in the gut, calling out to Baji--]
That second dick's for you-!
[Which was good and all, except now three more guys would descend on Baji from behind him.]
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[Gruffly, with an eye roll, before moving quickly ahead at a rush of feet to go and deck the guy who'd had the audacity. It had been a few years, but he was still used to the way Kazutora moved, how he fought, and how to fight alongside him. They'd survived some pretty rough scrapes together, huh?
He'd maybe miss the memo on the three coming from behind until one grabbed him, but a well-aimed knee to his stomach would fold him, and an elbow to the back of the head where it met the neck was lights out.]
Do you plan to help a little here?
[One for Kazutora, four for him? This was shaping up to be his clown car...
He wanted these last two losers down and out so he could actually speak to Kazutora. Hopefully get a handle on things before they became... messy.]
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[Kazutora would slink beside one of the guys who was aiming at Baji, and would slam his face with a pipe he'd picked up, laughing with glee as the guy fell over, face broken.
One would grab him from behind, beefy arm to his neck, and Kazu would grimace and kick the guy in the knee, slipping back beside Baji, back to back.]
Okay, then what would you prefer, three dicks?
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[Insisted, fists raised and eyes nearly rolling to the heavens.
God help him, between Kazutora's off-color jokes and Mikey's boot to the head, this wasn't exactly a hero's welcome.
But what had he been expecting, huh?
Bumping back into him softly, like a friendly nudge to remind him he wasn't alone, Baji would take a breath.]
One to go, then we can chat, right? Let me do it.
[The less broken noses and teeth the better, in this context.
He'd slide past Kazutora suddenly, jolting out a leg, tripping up the man who'd already gotten wounded there, and down he went. From there, Baji would steal a page from Mikey's book, call it a day, and dust his hands.]
...Party over.
[Turning to Kazutora.]
You hungry?
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What're you thinking? Three hotdogs in a bun?
[He'd grin widely.]
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[This would probably be another meal on his tab, but saying 'sorry, can't cover it, already paid for Mikey' felt like the wrong track-- didn't take genius insight for that one.]
I don't know what they have around here. Food stand, maybe? What does someone eat in hell, anyway?
[Dorayaki, apparently. And ice cream, according to their bratty leader.
Ice cream in hell. Friggin' weird.]
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[He'd nudge into him playfully, happy to see him up and in good spirits. And yes it was true, mentioning Mikey was probably not a good idea, well done Baji.]
Mmm, I dunno. Spicy food, probably. Tho, I bet they have anything you want around here... Seems like the kind of place.
[Glancing up at him with a soft smile.. but then it would fade, and he'd nudge into him again.]
So, what, you think we're really in hell?