May 2022 Mini Event

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As the Haniwa continue to pop up in the city and the turf war rages on, life goes on in the city.

1. SHUTEN CLAN

Remember the Isonade? Yeah, those guys. The surly shark-dudes who were no doubt involved in some black market smuggling along the banks of the Sanzu. They were too tough to fight off in order to figure out what they were up to, last time.

Well, Toraguma has caught wind of them now. Despite the ongoing turf war, he’s not about to lose out on an opportunity here! He wants his Shuten Clan operatives to scour the river looking for these guys. They will be a lot harder to find without the rabbits’ help, though. If you find them, you are to “inform them” that the Shuten Clan will be taking over their operation. If they have problems with that, well… you know what to do.

Don’t forget that they’re quite strong and that they aren’t too keen on giving up the information on their supply line without a fight. You’ll need to use teamwork to get what you need out of them.

Should you manage your way to their warehouse, you’ll find a fresh shipment of their products: specialized herbs, mineral-rich clay, and rarefied ore. None of these products can be found in the city naturally. The Isonade won’t dare name their primary buyer but they will let slip that all of this is being smuggled into the city from the outer Wastelands.

The Shuten Clan will demand their cut out of this operation, but you may get the impression that this is only one small piece of a much larger shadow creeping over the city…

Art by Alejandro Gonzalez Agudelo

2. SUTOKU ALLIANCE

The death and subsequent “rebirth” of the Daitengu has caused a considerable amount of chaos. Many of the subsidiary tribes have struggled under the weight of uncertainty during this debacle. The Daitengu has decided that an apology tour is owed. It’s good for the sake of the Alliance, after all.

Oh, but they’re not going to be doing it themselves. You, the Sutoku Lost Souls, will be fully responsible for it. ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

Sutoku Souls are tasked with going to various businesses and tribe centers with an offering of gifts and deference to any and every group within the Alliance who will agree to meet with you. The gifts have been provided by the Daitengu, and are mainly snacks and coupons. Which will not be enough to please everyone. Some clans will demand more and some, in their rage, will try to take their anger out on you. You are an (lowly) ambassador right now, better to turn the other cheek.

This all boils down to be less of an apology tour and more of a bribe tour. What the Daitengu has provided won’t cover everything and you’re going to have to go out of pocket to truly placate the other clans. If you don’t have enough cash on hand, you may be asked to do various unpaid tasks and labors: washing dishes, scrubbing floors, cleaning windows, taking out the trash, serving kids’ birthday parties; any amount of the lowest work you can imagine.

It’s rough! But somebody’s gotta do it

3. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENMA

The chaos of the Night Parade has caused a resurgence of unaffiliated gangs popping up around Jigokucho. They can usually be found identifying themselves through the use of basic colors and mascots. They are made up almost entirely of violent youths with uncertain futures, who are lashing out at an uncaring world. The antics of the Daitengu, the accusations against the Enma, and the squabbling between Shuten and Tamamo is not inspiring their confidence nor loyalty.

In addition to this problem, the retrieval of the Haniwa is going poorly. Most residents are too uncomfortable to even touch the statues and their appearances don’t seem to be slowing down. There are too many for the Department to collect.

With an abundance of cursed objects in town, the petty gangs have decided this is an ample resource for them. They are using the Haniwa to harass the general public and against one another. They have weaponized the excess Haniwa and are using them as “curse bombs”, hurling them at both each other and the residents they want to intimidate. It’s getting nasty.

It’s the Department’s job to keep the Haniwa figures from falling into the wrong hands and to keep some semblance of order. The official orders from the Office of the Enma are directing all hands to converge against the youth gangs. Use any force necessary and retrieve those figurines.

4. TAMAMO CLAN

How inconvenient! In addition to the complications of the turf war, an extremely important time of the year has arrived for the Tamamo Clan.

It is time for the yearly visit of one of the clan’s greatest benefactors: the Tennin. These Celestial Immortals descend from the Heavenly Realms to spend time (and incredible amounts of money) in Hell’s Playground, Jigokucho. Hell simply offers the sort of delights you just can’t get in Heaven. Due to Tenkohime’s connections with them, the Celestials have had her host them for several years in a row now. She emphasizes how incredibly important it is to keep them happy.

The Celestials want entertainment and delights of every variety. It’s up to the Tamamo Clan’s Lost Souls to entertain them. Your entertainments can take many forms: keeping the Celestials company, putting on a performance, showing off your cooking and skills, tea ceremonies, and other exhibitions. Should you choose the carnal and kinky route for entertainments, know that you won’t be laying down with any Celestials themselves. Oh, no no no, they’re Heavenly, after all! This is still performance, so you may need a partner to help you out.

Keep in mind that the legends are true! The Celestials are deeply deeply fond of peaches. Both literal and metaphorical. 🍑

The Celestials love to chat and gossip, so keeping them entertained is also an excellent way to hear some interesting information. Tamamo artisans will likely learn that many Celestials openly trade with Tenkohime. In fact, the aphrodisiac goods that the Tamamos so famously deal in come, in large part, from the Celestials. Tamamo isn’t the only clan they do business with either. They also have connections within the Sutoku Alliance and are the land owners of several Alliance properties. They are considered one of the primary sources of capital in the real estate market.

Why would the Celestials want properties in a world they literally can’t live in? Doesn’t that just reek of capitalism.

5. TURF WAR (ALL FACTIONS)

The turf war between the Shuten and Tamamo clans is at a simmer right now. Which doesn’t mean that it’s over – not even close. Minor magical traps, similar to those found in the sewer, have been found in Shuten territory. Frustrated Shuten enforcers have been taking out their anger on anyone that so much as looks at them funny. Bars in both districts are regularly getting smashed up. Knife fights are breaking out in the streets. Cars known to belong to members of both clans turn up with slashed tires. There’s even rumors of hits being taken out on higher ranking members.

Watch your step if you’re out and about in either territory. Faction affiliation doesn’t matter when tensions are running high. What’s more, rumors are flying all over about which of the two warring clans is going to be the one to escalate the violence further.

Will tensions boil over at any moment? At what point does the Department of the Enma have to step in? Why haven’t they already?

It’s all getting too much to handle…

6. CURSED OBJECTS (ALL FACTIONS)

The presence of the Haniwa is having increasingly frightening effects. There are whispers about blood coming out of the walls and the floors in apartments, about black ooze pouring from faucets and coming up from storm drains. There are even whispers of terrible household hauntings.

These aren’t just rumors though. Bars are having to close early due to the presence of wailing ghosts inhabiting the toilet or blood pouring from the taps. People run screaming out of alleyways pursued by ghostly hands.

These curses and hauntings seem to be fairly localized; kept to one building or one block at a time. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason as to when these accursed sightings will take effect.

Be careful out there! Who knows what could happen with so much terrible energy running rampant.

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Comments

[disagree]

[ he may not be picking a fight just yet, but eula knows that gaze from anywhere. even after she joined the knights, she'd kept fighting for her life out there, from proving herself time and time again that she's no relative threat to mondstadt's freedom to trying to purchase from hardheaded vendors at the grocers.

this one, though, is different. ]

Do you seriously think this is all just a game to you? No, don't answer that. Of course the Fatui would thrive in environments like these.

[ her eyes narrow as the grip on her sword tightens. she wouldn't say she's skilled with it compared to jean, but what's important is her talents at favonius bladework no matter what kind of blade she wields. ]

Previous alliances aside, if you don't step away now, I'll have no choice but to take action. But that's probably what you really want, correct?

[narbrawl]

Think what you want.

[In truth, Childe has been waiting for this moment. Since coming across the stray knight on Ember, he's been putting together the disparate pieces of intel on her that he remembers from home. It's a shame, really, that he hadn't paid more attention at the time because the picture he's managed to come up with is incomplete: a loner with a Cryo vision, the wielder of a two-handed sword and a scorned family legacy. Too little to be of use in a fight but just enough to be enticing.]

But I'm just protecting our territory. [The corner of his lips tugs upwards into a smile.] If you have a problem, there's really only one thing left to do.

[With that, he wipes the last of the apple juice from his mouth and gets to his feet, bringing the metal bat that was leant against the wall beside him too. He swings it once- twice- three times to test its weight then holds it out in front of him like a blade, the end pointing towards Eula.]

Ready?

[disagree]

Hmph. Aren't you doing a great job protecting this place.

[ then why was the place in tatters, huh? not to mention the incapacitated randos behind him. despite the lack of his original strength, childe is certainly not one to be trifled with simply.

she should really just leave. she has no business here as an enma member, and a low-ranking one at that. this fight should be left to the ones who instigated it.

yet seeing childe brandish a metal bat at her keeps her feet on the ground. her own personal research on the fatui may not be as extensive, so she'll have to figure things along the way in their little skirmish. there are definitely other ways to go about this without actually going toe-to-toe with one another, but it looks like this harbinger won't listen to reason if physical combat's being offered instead. ]

But I won't take this lying down. For challenging an uninvolved member of the Department, you deserve only the most grievous of punishment from me.

[ how annoying. but she's even more annoyed at herself for going along with this, as she assumes a defensive stance. childe might notice that she's still wielding her sword with two hands despite it not being a two-handed weapon, but it's fine. force of habit, is all. ]

vengeance level: increased

[narbrawl]

[There it is. Childe would seize upon the barest of invitations to fight but this is a glorious declaration of war and he snatches it up with both hands. Finally, a chance to test himself against one of the famed Knights of Favonius. He's been waiting for this moment for a while now; in Liyue, diplomacy had stayed his bow against the Millelith, hunting down Treasure Hoarders did little to sate his hunger and, all the while, an entire order of worthier foes had been waiting just across the border.]

Oh, I'm counting on it! Don't hold back!

[Any pretense of serving his new leader is instantly forgotten, leaving only the most vague of notions that he shouldn't actually kill her. Too much trouble in too small of a city.

And it begins.

If Eula's going with a defensive approach, he has no choice but to go all in on the offense and brute force his way through it. Childe springs forward, closing the gap between them in seconds as he brings the bat down against her sword, forceful enough to spark and cast his dull eyes in bright orange. If he had access to his full abilities, he might have even been able to dent its razor-thin edge but this will do.]

oooo he wants her vengeance so bad ooooh

[disagree]

[ he's fast, eula thinks. but she's just as quick in blocking childe's incoming attack, adjusting her feet to absorb the full brunt of his charge. quite strong too, actually. despite the dampening of their overall abilities, eula can tell that he's leagues above the fatui mooks she'd had to take down on her own during her recon duties in the fields of mondstadt. if the youngest harbinger in the fatui's elite ranks is already this skilled, how much more powerful are his other peers?

too bad his metal bat seems to be holding him back some. eula may prefer greatswords more, but shorter blades aren't so difficult to utilize. at least one of her hands would be free for most of the time.

and she'll demonstrate this by parrying back childe's bat, then does quite a show of twirling around, much like a pirouette, aiming for childe's head before nimbly navigating around him to strike him at another side if he ever does block that one. this world may have taken her vision and half of her strength, but her own take of the favonius bladework is here to stay. ]

[narbrawl]

[Childe deflects the first hit, twisting his bat to knock it away at the last second, but it forces him to take the second with little time to mitigate the damage. Eula's blade slices through his shirt and jacket to bite into the skin beneath before he manages to pull himself from its reach into safety. As he skips back, she might catch a glimpse of red beading along the narrow split in the fabric.

First blood goes to her- and it was well earned. Eula's swordwork is more dance than combat in its elegance, balancing power, finesse and control for something undeniably mesmerising. The Spindrift Knight. The name makes sense now, though her kind of "drifting" is more purposeful than that of her homeland's famous dandelions; she's more thorn than fluffy seedhead, nettle nestled among flowers.

One thing is clear: this was the best idea he's had in a while.

Broken glass cracks beneath his boots as he steps back and steadies himself. Childe loosens his grip on the bat and stance alike, giving himself more freedom to change his approach depending on Eula's next move. At a glance, he might even look casual; his shoulders are dropped back, his head tilted and confident smile unchanged.]

[disagree]

[ ah, seems he was caught off-guard. then again, most people wouldn't expect most swordsmen to combine swordwork with dance, so eula is going to use that to her advantage in this fight. childe may have more info on her than the other way around, but it all means nothing on the battlefield.

although... despite managing to injure one of the harbingers, it feels unsatisfactory somehow. most likely because it doesn't feel like a proper fight until the both of them are able to bring out their true potentials in their respective dampened state. still, there's nothing eula would want more than to wipe that cocky smile off that man's face at this very moment. he's had it too good for too long, and now it's his turn to pay his dues.

so she zooms in, steely-eyed, does an swift upward slash of her blade at childe's front. then down, right left -- all her strikes are purposeful as she does her best in not giving childe any breathing room. can't take any risks what with him being a harbinger and all. ]