[open] shuten clan mingling

[no_kyouken]

Who ⬤ The Shuten Clan Lost Souls
What ⬤ Post-event drinking meeting
When ⬤ After some Kappa punching, I assume
Where ⬤ The White Koi, Shuten Clan bar
Content Warnings ⬤ Dranking, Shutens

un: majima Get yer asses up an' come to th'White Koi by 7. It's on Shuten turf, corner of Bunyudomachi. We're meetin'. [ The bar is almost exclusively Shuten members, most of them wearied with nightly patrols and clashes. There's plenty of muttering and chatter about the recent assassination, with the common complaint being 'fuck I have to get my funeral suit out of storage'. Majima points lost souls into a slightly more secluded room done up in the titular white koi pattern. ] Siddown, who's heard what. [ He is also weary and bruised from some fights, leaning back against the wall with a cigarette and a drink. ] 🐍 This is a mingle, sure they got together to talk info but they're Shutens so it's assumed they're going to get drunk, yell, and throw hands. 🐍 Lordy please do whatever you want, I'm not the cops. 🐍 OOC info collection 🐍 Toraguma's orders

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[harimaya]

(He's eating his snacks and drinking his drinks but he's definitely listening.)

.... I dunno much about guns. Don't really like them. (He definitely prefers swords. He reaches into his pocket though and holds out his open palm for everyone to see a bullet.) I got one of these when they hit me.

It looks kinda funny. (A beat,) ... Right...?

(He doesn't sound so sure.)

[metafictions]

[curiously leaning over to peer at the bullet…]

No, it definitely looks funny. I’m glad you were able to save one, in spite of getting shot.

[Kamui reaches for the bullet in Hizen’s palm, looking to pick it up and turn it over.]

Is… there something written here? I can’t make it out. What kind of bullet is this?

[harimaya]

Be happier.

(Spoken completely deadpan and warning him to maaaaaybe not sound too excited actually. It's a sore topic for him.)

I dunno. Like I said, I don't know much about guns. (He frowns though because he thought the same thing. Even if the bullet has been damaged from the firing and impact, it still looks kind of different there,) I was gonna ask around...

[metafictions]

[the sarcasm -->






kamui's head] I shouldn't, really. You did still get shot.

[Well, it's totally illegible, even if it's slightly better than the other one that Emily had shown him earlier... but they do look similar enough, right? Doing all the investigative legwork is his specialty, so this is great news, really.]

I know enough, but this is still very unfamiliar to me. I'll do the same. If we can trace the bullets, it'll get us closer to finding the youkai who used them.

[harimaya]

(When your delivery sucks and your audience can't get sarcasm... hope was never an option.)

Enough people were shooting. Bet there're plenty of bullets around.

(And he shrugs,)

The boss has a lot of weapons. (And the Shuten are pretty well-armed.) Saw a few places when I was looking for a smith.

(For his sword.)

More curious about what was on it, though.

(The material of the bullet is weird but there's clearly something that was once on it.)

[metafictions]

[He turns the bullet over between his fingers, the pad of his thumb rolling over the groove of where the writing is. Or, was.]

I wasn't going to mention, but... I know someone who found another bullet. I'm following up on it... If I'm lucky, we'll find out more tonight. I asked a mutual friend a favor.

If we could find another bullet with clearer writing, that would help. But the attack's over. How will we find more of these?

[harimaya]

There was a lot of shooting.

(He holds out his hand to take his bullet back. Unless Kamui wants to negotiate,)

A doctor pulled mine out. Probably pulled out some others, too.

(Or other doctors did.)

[sleepinglyra]

[Getting shot was a sore subject for Sheliak as well. If you watched closely you could tell he was trying not to favor his left arm too much. He was relieved that Hizen brought it up first. Sheliak didn't know much about guns so he just quietly listened to Hizen and Kamui. After a brief prideful hesitation, Sheliak took out his own bullet and held it out to Kamui. It was a useless clue in his hands but maybe Kamui would find something he couldn't.]

I have one. Unfortunately the writing is destroyed on this one too.

[harimaya]

(Ah, doesn't this prove his point? That enough people were shot that its possible people might have them? He doesn't know how many would keep their own bullets like they did but if they're going to doctors... wouldn't the doctors be pulling them out? Couldn't they find places in their territory (or others) that were removing them and collect them....?

... Or maybe that's a bad idea. Ah, he hates thinking.)

Guess it's normal for them to get messed up.

(He never really thought of it before but when he thinks about it now, it makes sense. Metal warps at high heat and high force. It's the same for swords and they're much slower and weaker than the ferocity of a bullet.)

Might be a good one out there somewhere, though.

comes back with a possible theory several months later

[sleepinglyra]

[Hizen should think more often. He has good instincts and going to doctors for more bullets was in fact a good idea, if someone hasn't already though of it and collected the bullets first. If only their bullets weren't damaged. Sheliak agreed with Hizen's observation with a slightly annoyed hum as he looked over his bullet again.]

Apparently.

[It was frustrating having an important clue that they couldn't read. Surely there had to be a way. He tilted his head to the side, his eyes narrowed as he studied the bullet. Why couldn't it have been a blade? He understood those.]

Maybe we don't need a good one. It's highly unlikely that every bullet was damaged in exactly the same way. If we focus on how each bullet is different, perhaps we can recreate the symbol with enough bullets?

[It would be the worlds most confusing puzzle, where you worked with what you didn't see rather than a clear reference, but it might work. Assuming he didn't misunderstand how bullets work, which was possible.]