jigokulogs | May 2022 IC Mingle

1. WELCOMING COMMITTEE

The influx of fresh Lost Souls means the factions need to have a little welcoming party for them. The leaders realize things have been chaotic in the city. So some recreational activities are in order. All Lost Souls will receive a message from their respective faction leaders with orders to go have some fun.

The Shuten Clan are given an advance on their first paycheck and told to go to the Celestial Phoenix Casino. A big sign on the half boarded up door proudly proclaims UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. What happened to the old management? It doesn't matter and stop asking questions! The important part is that all games and machines are half-price and there are special prizes available in exchange for your chips and tokens. Games range from the traditional Western style (poker, roulette, slots) to Japanese favorites (cee-lo, koi koi, cho-han).

As for prizes, they have a selection of designer goods, including some particularly nice bracelets, necklaces, and watches!

The Tamamo Clan are given a considerable number of drink vouchers for Crimson Moon Karaoke, where they can sing their hearts out and while absolutely smashed. Private rooms are cheap to rent and they even offer a special discount for groups of two or more. The karaoke machines have any songs you could possibly want, which is a little suspicious, but don't question it! Just get drunk and have fun. By all means, extend your time as you wish and drink up to get in the proper mood. This is an important bonding opportunity.

Oh yeah, as an important note: the rooms are soundproof. You can get as loud as you like, be it with singing or... something else. Don’t do anything Tenko-hime wouldn’t do!

Members of The Sutoku Alliance are given tickets to Fiance of the Funeral Procession at the Pluto Theatre and Cafe. The tickets include free food at the cafe, including beer. Sure, the star may not be a Sutoku member but that doesn't matter too much: getting butts into seats at Sutoku-owned theaters is what’s important. The Daitengu rented the theater out for the day, so there is plenty of time to mill around both before and after the show.

Make a day, or night, of it!

A funeral-based romantic comedy melodrama as the viewing fare is probably a tasteless joke on the Daitengu's part. But hey, y'all aren't still mad that they crashed their own funeral and then took off laughing, right?

Right?

The Department of the Enma members are told that they're going to be doing a team-building exercise. What exactly does that mean? That's right, it's community cleanup time! You get to clean up cans and trash in the street! You get the honor of using a department-issued bike with an attached cart to wheel around the city and pick up trash! How exciting! Teamwork is encouraged, of course. Teams that collect enough garbage will get one (1) voucher for mini-golf.

Please be aware of the local homeless population as you work, they won’t be happy to see you. They normally collect the cans in the mornings as a meager source of income that you’ll be dipping into. They're probably just not happy with Enma officials in general though. Sorry!

2. IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING...

By the time you're done with your faction-sponsored fun, the sky has decided to open up. Hope you brought your umbrella! The rain is bad enough that walking home might not be an option right now. So take refuge in one of the many nearby nightlife spots.

Not in your faction's home territory? Doesn't matter! Make some friends outside your group or maybe get into a fight and cause some trouble. There's always the third option of ignoring everyone and drinking yourself silly instead! The rain has to let up eventually… right?

Hopefully you aren't caught near one of the cursed Haniwa figures that have been popping up around town. Their aura really dampens the mood and may even start to cause some dramatic and frightening hallucinations if you and your rain-stranded friends stay near them for too long. But remember! Do not break the figurine. Just try to move it somewhere else? And hopefully not get drenched in the process.

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Broken windows? Now, that sounds like a story worth telling.

[He can’t judge. How many times has he skirted the line of questionably legal to solve a case? Eh, it’s fine.

And also, look, he made up his own profession — there’s only so much room for judgment where unofficial detective work is concerned. Sholmes pushes the rim of his cap up with a finger, before dropping his hand completely.]

A pleasure, Miss Hazel. My name is Herlock Sholmes — known to many in London as a consulting detective.

[The world’s only, at that!]

[the look she's giving Sholmes becomes razor sharp for a moment after his introduction, the analytical stare of a person trying to determine whether someone's attempting to take them for a ride or not. the name, the accent, the stupid hat...like, dude, come on.

she very nearly says something, because while the anger has ebbed the sting of being caught loving something embarrassment remains forever and if he's trying to pull a fast one as ridiculous as this on top of that - well, the volcano may be dormant but that'd prompt another expulsion in short order. in the end Hazel thankfully decides that it's not worth the energy. let somebody else tell the guy that method acting's fucking stupid in a literal helltown.]

That's kind of fucking redundant, isn't it? Every detective's a consultant.

[unless they're consulting him for a better detective...]

[The look is noted--it's hard not to note such a pointed, assessing stare--which could be interpreted as some kind of recognition, if not for the suspicion lingering behind it. Though he supposes the two are not mutually exclusive, and in this strange hell-world, where fantastic things exist around every corner, a flash of knowing in a stranger's eyes is not all that odd. It was not all that odd back in London, either.

Well. Shuffled aside and filed away for now. His brows pinch at her skepticism.]

That's hardly true at all. Is a police detective consulted, or do they respond? I assure you, I've had many a client visit me on account of strange and unconventional circumstances that the Yard would not even consider, much less investigate.

Depends on how much self-respect they've got, don't you think? People love writing fucking stories about cops who get tangled up in weird shit.

[which had become ironic after discovering that - in her own world at least - no one was interested in following any code that even remotely resembled the law. when she shakes her head it's more to chase away those thoughts than the topic, although she ends up doing a little bit of both.]

Not that it matters too much in a place like this, I guess. Everything's fucking weird and the Enma's such a humorless husk I think he makes everybody take everything that pops up way too fucking seriously.

And yet stories about the detective who works outside of the strict confines of the law are the ones worth reading.

[He is not biased at all.]

As for the Enma, how fortunate that neither you nor I have been assigned to that department. I know of a fellow who has, and humorless suits him quite well.

[Sorry not sorry, van Zieks.]

I take it you've done some investigating yourself while here?

[pffft. she probably shouldn't be snorting over someone taking potshots at (what is to her) a nameless stranger, but Hazel just can't help herself. she appreciates that kind of blithely petty spirit.]

Not as much as I probably should since I'm a lazy fuck...but a little bit, here and there. The shit with the Daitengu's been interesting enough to make some kind of effort.

[had they talked about that to the newbies at all, she wondered? and then of course there was the case of all those haniwa appearing all over the city...it was a pain to admit how much those little fuckers had piqued her interest.]

[Whether or not the newbies have been given the run-down, Sholmes is not a man to wade through the more intriguing aspects of life without learning of them himself. In this case, the circumstances regarding the Daitengu do apply, as do the little clay figurines popping up here and there.]

A lazy investigator is hardly an investigator at all. Surely you exaggerate. [She didn't ask for his opinion but she's getting it anyway.] Still... I should like to hear what you've uncovered sometime. The sooner I can continue my work, the better.

Your work like, racking up a high score in closed cases? Or like...your work back home?

[she makes a vague gesture with her hands, the sort of thing one does when they want to dilute any potential impact their words may have had. Hazel's curious but she's also not interested in getting anybody riled up on a night like tonight. (not until she's spent all her dumb vouchers, at least)]

You don't have to answer if you don't want to, I'm just being a nosy shit. It's just been interesting to see what everyone's been promised as a reward for their good behavior, you know? And how much they believe it.

[or not. or...like herself, how precariously they've perched themselves on the fence.]

Both, of course. While returning home to continue my work would be ideal, I do not plan on sitting on my hands and doing nothing during my stay in this place.

[But here, he holds up a finger again, as though to offer a correction before the wrong assumption is made.]

But do not conflate my eagerness to work with blind adherence to my contract. I must keep my mind stimulated, you see. That is the main reason.

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