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jigokumods ([personal profile] jigokumods) wrote in [community profile] jigokulogs2022-04-01 04:20 pm

APRIL 2022 EVENT





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1. HANAMI


The week of the Night Parade is marked by the traditional symbols of Spring in Japan. Somehow, several city blocks have been turned into cherry blossom groves as a show of goodwill by the Sutoku Alliance. These cherry trees don't feel normal. They are more like spectral manifestations. Rumor has it they grew so quickly because they're planted on top of a graveyard. That's just a rumor, though. Don't pay it any mind! Don't listen to any whispers you might hear if you walk through the rows of trees alone and certainly don't dig under them for proof of their provenance.

Accompanying the hanami are copious amounts of food and drink. Such as dango, specialized bento, sake, and festive drinks. They are all available to purchase from stalls near the spectral grove. The refreshments may have a little something special added to them:
  • Ingredients that promote peace (calming any angry or upset feelings)
  • Ingredients that promote romance (gives soft, warm feelings towards the first person you see).
These effects are mild and only last as long as you're in the boundary of the grove. Eat, drink, and be merry with your fellow lost souls.

2. KANAMARA MATSURI (NSFW IMAGERY)


In addition to the simple joys of flower viewing and the cherry blossoms blooming, new festivals pop everywhere. They are inspired by various regional festivals from all over Japan. Some of these are benign and feature your normal festival fair. Others are a little more unusual, such as the Kanamara matsuri-inspired treats. You can thank the Tamamo Clan for this. Don't mind the giant phallus being carried down the street or the wooden phalluses you can ride on or the interesting mascots walking down the sidewalk, or the suggestive vegetable carvings.

Surprisingly, none of these foods are spiked, at least not more than the experimental recipes had been during the parade preparations. The spirit of the thing is more just the amusement of genital-based foods rather than anything meant to entice a sexy sort of good time. That will come as the parade rounds out onto the bath district...

3. HADAKA MATSURI

cw: nonsexual nudity

If that cheeky festival isn't your kind of fun, maybe the hadaka matsuri is more your speed. The Department of the Enma are probably the most stressed out faction in the entire city, so the Enma has allowed them to put on a festival to blow off some steam! It's a bit different from the traditional celebration: it's not contained to just men and it's not contained to a shrine.

This event is a mobile mob of nearly naked people and youkai running after a cart with a masked person throwing out small sticks. They represent good luck for the people who manage to nab them. There are far fewer sticks than there are people present and everyone will do a lot to get one of the coveted prizes. Try not to get in their way!

Or you can get caught up in it all and try to snag one yourself to see what your fortune holds. (No, the Enma isn't participating. Too dirty, for his tastes.)

4. FESTIVE FUN

A. SUMO

Some other festivities you might come across are miniature sumo tournaments put on by the Shuten Clan. Raised dirt circles with chalk rings on the outer perimeter pop up seemingly everywhere. Two people are allowed in the ring at one time and there are strict rules to be followed. If you disobey the rules, you may find yourself suddenly ejected from the ring with magical or physical means, and at the mercy of a Shuten enforcer.

Play by the rules to beat your opponent and victors will find themselves rewarded with a strong bottle of booze. The winners of each bout are handed out a commendation by Toraguma himself, which comes in the form of a commemorative sake gourd. This is probably the kind of prize you'd expect from an Oni at a festival like this.


B. FOOD RUNNERS WANTED

If you're in the mood to pad your pockets, maybe you want to help the Tamamo Clan out by running food delivery. This opportunity is available to anyone regardless of affiliation. Runners will be fitted with a contraption to carry the food orders on their person and may proceed either on foot or on a small motorbike. Be careful and make sure not to drop anything! Any ruined or undelivered orders will come directly out of your pay.

It's harder than it looks not to drop the food with all the excitement going on and your delivery recipient may be similarly hard to locate.


C. HOT BATHS (NSFW + cw: optional aphro)

The Tamamo Clan has set up a sanctioned orgy in one of their larger brothels. Rooms are available for whatever your heart desires, including one with exposed windows if you like being watched or if you want to watch in kind. Baths and pools are available for all your indulgent fantasies. Everything you could need is at your disposal: toys, restraints, costumes, lubricants, condoms, aphrodisiacs in many forms. It's a proper bacchanal celebration!

All that matters is your consent and enthusiasm.


5. NIGHT PARADE

One of the primary highlights of the Night Parade are the fantastical floats depicting scenes of legendary events. Keen-eyed observers may note that the humans are portrayed as the bad guys in most of them. While a few of these are mounted on motorized vehicles, most of them are carried by people. That means you'll probably be called on to help carry one along the parade route. It's a fun job, if exhausting.

If you're not the type to wear yourself out carrying a float, ride on one instead! There's plenty of things to toss out into the crowd along the street; candies and trinkets. Dress up in a fitting costume and walk around the float. Have fun scaring bystanders or just have fun hamming it up and celebrate the peaceful night.


5. FIREWORKS


The parade's central stop is the festival square in the heart of the city, just under the shadow of the Kaigo no Bou Tower. There is a stage set up here where the four faction leaders and their personal entourages have assembled. All of them are giving pretty typical speeches. The Enma has declined to give one, having no patience for unnecessary oration. Tenkohime gives praise to the unifying factors of love in the city, while Toraguma rallies the crowd like a sports hero; encouraging them to get stronger and do better in the coming year.

The Daitengu is the last to speak and they also seem to have the largest entourage. The entourage is quite conspicuous: White Wolf Tengu, each standing well-taller than the Daitengu themselves. They are carrying massive broadswords strapped to their backs and hunting about the area for anything suspicious with keen eyes that seem to see right through the crowd and the heat of night.

The Daitengu's speech is also pretty typical, although much more humble than their fellows. Mostly, they just wants to hurry up and get to the fireworks. Just as they finish speaking, the sky lights up.
There are a few peaceful moments beneath this spectacle as the crowd enjoys the display of unity and phantasmal wonder that this unique and strange world has created.

But the explosions aren't just in the sky. One particularly loud boom seems to rattle the very earth beneath the crowd. That is the only warning anyone gets before...


6. A NIGHT PARADE TO REMEMBER


Every manhole cover on the street bursts open, injuring anyone that was standing nearby. Far worse is the deluge of steam that rushes out from the underground. Pillars of hot, blinding steam spill into the air, quickly filling the streets. The luminescence of the festival lamps and city lights are diffused and blurred into singular blobs of color, obscuring all vision and making it impossible to see what's going on. The panicked cries of the crowd also make it impossible to hear. Everything happens so suddenly, so violently, that ascertaining what's going on takes time.

Too much time.

In the chaos, gunshots are heard. They seem to come from several directions. Fighting is breaking out. It's difficult to tell from where and who is in the brawl. Previously unseen figures in full-body black coverings appear from nowhere, rushing the stage. They zoom past any Lost Souls nearby, ignoring their presence. They are focused on a singular goal. The barking of the White Wolf Tengu further indicates the goal of the attack.

Struggle in the steam, help others get to safety, get caught up in fighting the other factions, try to protect the Faction leaders, or try to keep up with the black-suited youkai rushing the stage; do as much as you can.

When the steam finally begins to clear, however, there will at least be one thing that is certain: the Daitengu has been killed.


Welcome to the April event!
harimaya: (🍙 somen)

[personal profile] harimaya 2022-04-10 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
(Thank you, Felix, now about the bleeding stomach that Hizen is not acknowledging--

Hizen is following along. Later, he'll probably (maybe) think back about this interaction and wonder if Felix what sort of leader Felix is (because no ordinary soldier keeps calm and logical during a situation like this). He's learned this somewhere but Hizen also has experience through all of his battles and assignments. His observations are rough but he can look at their current situation and see--
)

They're going to get away.

(They're scattering, disappearing, covering each other, and taking full advantage of the chaos they caused. They're organized and strategic. The rest of the crowd is just desperate and confused.)
littleshield: (35)

[personal profile] littleshield 2022-04-11 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Felix definitely is going to try to ensure something is done about that. In fact, his first instinct is to call about a healing spell now that he knows Hizen has settled down...except he lets out a curse because he forgets he doesn't have access to that now. Even if it had been low level, it'd been nice to have. ]

Hmph. Are they?

First, you're going to foolishly bleed out if you pursue them with a wound like that. So obviously what we should do is wrap that up.

[ Felix isn't a healer, but maybe if they tear up some cloth and wrap it tightly around it, then they can see what can be done about the hostiles...though on a minimal level. He checks what Hizen is wearing and then himself, who doesn't have blood on his clothing, so he takes off his vest. This will either be easy or another pain; regardless, he's not too attached to it because there has to be tailors around Hell. ]

Then we see what can be done about whoever we can catch up with afterwards and then get you somewhere to a proper healer. Now, let me see that wound.
harimaya: (🍙 karaage-kun)

[personal profile] harimaya 2022-04-12 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
(Why is Felix cursing now... Hizen doesn't get it.

What he does know is that he's certain their enemy is going to escape,
)

We can't see them. I can't even sense them.

(Because... being able to sense the enemy is normal? Yeah. But while the steam might be making it difficult to see, it's truly whatever muffling quality it has to his ability to sense spirits that is throwing him off the most.)

...

(Ah, but it looks like Felix is really going to do some first-aid now. WIth his vest...? Hizen might not be fashionable but even he can see that the material is expensive. Strange, he thinks. He wouldn't expect someone to waste something like that on someone like him.

Very reluctantly... he raises his sweatshirt revealing a soaked t-shirt underneath. He rolls up the shirt next. There's a clear entry wound and it's bleeding.
)
littleshield: (18)

[personal profile] littleshield 2022-04-13 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What? You'd be able to 'sense' people normally?

[ That's the thing that catches Felix's attention, because he has been unaware the other male has been capable of such a technique, and in a place like this he's going to immediately assume that if someone states they have some kind of odd ability it is highly likely they do have it.

But, at least Hizen doesn't give him trouble when he is clearly intending to use his vest for some very rudimentary first aid. Once again definitely not a healer but it's rather practical for many reasons to have the wound wrapped ASAP.

After he surveys the wound properly, he rips at his vest a bit in such a way that he can make it into makeshift bandages. ]


This shouldn't take very long. Hold still.

...I don't even know how you're even able to run around just fine like this.

[ Hmm he'll make sure there's nothing that he can see in there before wrapping the torn cloth around Hizen. ]
Edited 2022-04-14 10:42 (UTC)
harimaya: (🍙 daifuku)

personally throttles notifs

[personal profile] harimaya 2022-04-18 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
(Sometimes. Not always. He won't elaborate on it now, though. It's something Felix will have to follow up on later. Now isn't really the time to have a nice conversation about all of the things they lost when they came to hell and how much it sucks, anyway. If anything, it'll just work Hizen up more.

He stays still for Felix! And there is definitely still a bullet inside him but good luck have fun dealing with that, Felix.
)

This is nothing.

(And yet, he sounds kind of strained. It's obvious he's pushing through with pure spite and stubborness.)
littleshield: (23)

/patpat

[personal profile] littleshield 2022-04-18 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It definitely isn't!

...And, well, when Felix does happen to spot the bullet, his brows furrow. By now he at least knows what kind of projectiles these are and it's never good to just leave such a thing in someone. But, Felix definitely doesn't know the medical know-ho to remove it or any such things. ]


It doesn't look like nothing, and it doesn't sound like nothing either.

You're going to need someone to look at this so they can get this damn thing out of you.

[ Once he's finished, he'll straighten himself. It is definitely probable by this time the enemy has escaped, but... ]

We'll look around for a short while to see if we can catch up to the enemy, but right after that, you're going to get this properly dealt with.
harimaya: (🍙 hiyashi chuka)

[personal profile] harimaya 2022-04-18 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
(The enemy has definitely cleared out now that they've had ample time to make their escape. Their best bet is coming back later for clues.)

I said it was nothing!

(Please stop making a deal out of it. It just makes him feel worse.)

Just... find a medic or something already.

(Get it over with.)
littleshield: (33)

[personal profile] littleshield 2022-04-18 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...And in turn, it makes him easier to deal with. ]

Then get a move on and come with me.

[ He'll turn his back to him, expecting the other to follow, and so he'll also move forward. ]

The sooner we get this over with, the better.
harimaya: (🍙umaibo)

[personal profile] harimaya 2022-04-24 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
(Yeah, sure. He'll follow since Felix has won this argument. But he's not happy! And now that he's calming down and the adrenaline is fading from his system, he's becoming more and more aware that

well

he's in hurting.

Still, he's a proud spirit and he does his best to not let it show too much. Even if his walk is stiff and he's carefully controlling his breath, he's not going to show anymore weakness.
)