Underground Turf War Catch-all! [OTA! Come toplevel!!!]

[baofeng]

Who ⬤ Open to all!
What ⬤ Catch-all log for the Underground Turf War
When ⬤ Throughout April: Dates within
Where ⬤ The Underground
Content Warnings ⬤ Please tag any cws in individual toplevels / threads!




This is a post to facilitate shenanigans regarding the Underground turf war! Feel free to park your toplevels below and tag around!

Summary of what’s going on:
The Underground is the network of subterranean utility / sewer tunnels under the city, previously held by the Kappa tribe. After the April 2022 Event, the Underground has been cleared out by the Department of the Enma and is now mostly unattended.

The Tamamo Clan and Shuten Clan have received orders from their leaders to take over the Underground. Unfortunately, there's two of them and only one Underground, so the two clans are fighting over it. (Tamamo Meeting Log) (Shuten Meeting Log)

The Sutoku Alliance is not willing to fight for the territory, but are intending to work out a deal with whoever wins the turf war to get the kappa back to work. The Department of the Enma is also more interested in investigating the Daitengu’s assassination than the turf war, but that means their Lost Souls can bring popcorn and watch the show. (more info here.)

Comments

[cutcloud]

Just watch.

[ Ignoring how this is his job and how most other Tamamo are much less equipped for direct combat … he isn’t about to go running away from a little yellow girl. She isn’t even scary, like a sudden pair of twin girls with pigtails like from The Shining might be. How could he face his clan and say he got spooked by a banana? Absolutely not.

When he sees how her throw is low, Chongyun changes the way he holds his sword, swinging it more like one might swing a golf club than a baseball bat. It’s a soft toss and a soft hit—he isn’t trying to hurt her—so the rock pops up and tinks off somewhere in the pipes above. ]

Is that all?

[bananaoni]

[Excuse you, she's super scary! Like wow is she scary! Just look at those horns and crimson hands and feet. Absolutely a scary demon girl!]

Of course not!

[She goes ahead and chucks more and more rocks at him with increasing speed and strength behind the throws! Aiming haphazardly every which where. With a few aiming for the sword itself!

Come, witness her power! Her power... of throwing things!]

[cutcloud]

[ He would never admit this, because he's on the job and this is, of course, super serious business ... but this is kind of fun. Brandishing his sword like a baseball bat, he continues to knocking those things as she throws them. There isn't much space for them to go, only forward or up, but he tries to pop most of them toward the ceiling. He doesn't want to knock a rock into a girl's face, even if she's trying to spook him off his post.

It's a workout, too. He isn't sweating, the temperature still too cold, but he does have to bend to hit some of those projectiles. She must be strong, because a few of those take a good amount of strength on his side to whack back. ]

I guess you really are in Shuten!

[bananaoni]

[It's very serious business, far too serious! Stop having fun dang it!

Also ignore her stupid laughter as she hurls stone after stone at him. He'll trip up eventually!]

I'm not one of those supped up yakuza! I'm an actual oni.

[How come no one seems to believe her when she says that!? Oh, and she just used the last of the rocks she picked up....]

Oh... hang on.

[Goes to grab some more.]

[cutcloud]

Okay.

[ An actual oni … as an exorcist, he knows better than to let appearances deceive. She’s short and yellow and kind of weird, but upon closer inspection, it does seem that she has oni-like features. From what he’s read in books, anyway. Rather than fight her, he kind of wants to interview her — and draw her, for his growing journal of youkai he’s met in Hell.

But it’s probably not the time? While she goes to gather up more rocks, he takes a small break, cracking his knuckles. ]

What’s your name?

[bananaoni]

[Was that a bit of doubt she was sensing from him? What a rude dude, just he wait until she's back at her full strength!]

My name? Fufu... I am none other than Ibaraki-Douji!

[He may grovel now if he so wishes. She's got a handful of rocks right now, might do something more dramatic normally but. This wasn't the time for dramatics!]

Leader of the oni of Ooe, boss of Shuten! Plague of the capital!

[Yep, that's her in all her glory!]

[cutcloud]

Oh. Okay.

[ Sorry Ibaraki ... he does not sound impressed. He doesn't even sound anything. Not mocking, not sarcastic. He hasn't heard the name before, though upon a second's reflection he realizes that he does think he's heard it somewhere, but not in exorcist tomes or tales. Is this the girl his friend told him to text, that one time..? In the end he hadn't, because texting someone you don't know without warning had seemed a little much.

He holds his sword up again. ]

Gonna throw more rocks?

[bananaoni]

[Say whaaattt??? He don't recognize the obvious legend before him!?

That was fair and understandable, Iba-chan seems to be getting that a lot recently. She'll kind of let it slide for now as an ignorant human being ignorant. It was all well and good!]

Of course! Unless you plan on stepping aside.

[She can do this all day! Or until she runs out of rocks. But yeah, cue more stoning!]

Prepare yourself, human!

[What a day.]

[cutcloud]

I can't stand aside... I told you...

[ He can only sigh as he raises his blade again, prepared to whack more rocks back at her and toward the ceiling. Mostly toward the ceiling, because she doesn't actually seem that bad despite refusing to turn around. She's under orders, too ... it's just between a rock and a hard place.

But, suddenly, an idea strikes. ]

How about we play a game, and the loser has to leave?