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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[she went up to one of them with a grin and paused for a second before bowing to the statuette and clapping her hands once. At that point, she reached over to pluck it up and put it under one arm reasonably carefully, grimacing as she did. Oh there was something weird about it alright...

She turned towards Misato and blinked. Uh... yeah, they weren't supposed to have a haniwa face were they?]

Better safe than sorry... in case there's actually a spirit in one of the... huh. Ok, that's creepy.

Where should we be taking them to, do you think?

[ ...Does she know this place better than he does? He has no idea. It's hard to spot a fellow newbie. ]

[She shook her head to clear her thoughts. It didn't work initially and she had to rest a shoulder on the wall, get her breathing in order and push the vision aside. Ok, so things were still looking strange but she could handle it. give her a second.]

Ngh. Sorry, it's going to screw with your head a little. Alright... Enma. They're the ones that want this. So probably the nearest department?

They're not gonna mind someone in another faction turning them in, are they?

[ Just...checking that part a little bit. He doesn't seem affected, but he's also still leaning against the wall. ]

Far as I know, they're just insisting anyone bring them in. Nobody in Tamamo said "We want these" so I don't think this is a competition. Besides, they're supposed to be the law, so making nice doesn't hurt now and again.

[Tenshi. You're a Celestial. You're not supposed to think about keeping the police off your back like this. God, she really did earn the title "delinquent" at times.]

Which faction are you, anyway?

[ Not like it matters That Much to him, but he figures he should ask anyway. ]

Tamamo. What about you?

[It was pretty apparent that she quite literally didn't care. Right now, they weren't in the sewers, so even if he were Shuten it wasn't important. She was only picking fights if she had orders...

...

Or it was fun.]

Sutoku.

[ For whatever that's worth. He doesn't really mind either, so... ]

Well, let's make a temporary alliance, then...

Yeah. We're not in the sewers right now, and there's nothing that says we can't be working together on this. Besides, pretty sure both of our higher ups would appreciate having the cops off of our backs a little.

[Her tone definitely said she didn't care that much.]

Say. Tell me. Are we supposed to be hating each other cause of those factions? Have you been here a little longer? I don't know how we're supposed to be relating.

[Hah, yeah. She could be pretty clueless.]

I've been told we should by other faction members, but it's just a bit too much effort for me right now.

[ He'll fight if they have to, sure, but why bother keeping it up the whole time? ]

Eh. Fuck that. Look, if we have to fight? It's not personal unless I say it is. But otherwise who gives a fig?

[Yeah, her loyalty didn't go far enough to treat these rivalries as serious, though...]

But I'll definitely make sure I win if I end up in a serious fight. Wouldn't be right not to try would it?

Oh, same here...that it won't be personal.

[ He'll try if he feels like it, but winning isn't really his top priority most times, so. ]

I should probably warn you. Where I come from, we get in fights all the time. You might just call it a tradition. Some dumby gets uppity and we have ourselves a row while people are busy trying to figure out what's wrong and fix it. It's a regular thing.

So, heh. When they ask me to get into it, I'm definitely able.

I can hold my own in a fight - I just don't really care to start them.

[ He's more...relaxed, than that? ]

Yeah, I think that probably fits most of the folks I've met here. They don't really want to start anything. I'm kind of used to a bit more rough and tumble, but the Enma are being pretty picky about that.

Gotta keep the streets neat and safe, after all. [She rolled her eyes.] How they keep this many youkai in line, I don't know.

How would you keep them in line?

[ He raises his eyebrows. Sounds like she has other ideas? ]

You know, I don't usually do the keeping in line part of this equation. I'm just sort of surprised that they can at all. There's a lot of youkai in this place after all.

But since I'm sometimes the one causing the trouble, don't really always get along with the peacekeepers, ya know?

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No worries. Work's like that sometimes

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