jigokulogs | July 2022 IC Mingle

1. ITADAKIMASU!

After the harrowing incidents involving the curse last month, unity is the theme for welcoming the new influx of Lost Souls. The factions are still busy with cleanup efforts and making sure their personnel are in fighting shape. What’s more, most of the usual spots that would play host to the factions’ parties are either closed until they’re repaired, or in no state to be hosting parties that big.

Thus, an agreement has been reached. All of the factions will hold their mingles together and host a food truck/yatai festival in the blocks surrounding Theater Square, in the Sutoku Alliance’s territory. This gets money into the hands of the local vendors, and allows the community to spend time together in relative peace. It’s still Jigokucho, there are punks prowling to start fights and steal wallets, like they always are, but it’s a breath of fresh air after everything that’s been happening lately. Just keep your wits about you and enjoy the food. Takoyaki is one of the most popular items and competition between the carts motivates chefs to make them flair and style!

Kushiten, yakitori, dango, croquettes, senbei, onigiri, yakisoba, taiyaki, you name it, it’s probably represented here in some form. There are even any number of your favorite treats from home, even if your home isn’t Earth. It might take a little poking around to find them, but isn’t that part of the delight of exploring a city’s food?

The falling Stardust has made its way into the food as well. You may notice that some vendors are grinding up the glowing stellar fragments and putting them into the food itself as a spice. Are… you supposed to eat that?! Oh well! When it’s time to party, you can’t go wrong with a little Stardust.

2. MUSIC GOT ME FEELIN SO FREE

In the center of Theater Square, surrounded on all sides by the many colorful food stalls, they’ve set up a stage for local artists to perform on. There are a great variety of acts who come and go to play a few songs. The music reaches all throughout the square and may be little more than background noise, until just the right tune catches your ear.

Jenny⁣ – This all-girls story of hidden love should be hitting all the ladies in the crowd a certain kind of way. Have you been admiring a friend or coworker and just never taken the plunge? Now’s the time for that kiss, the music is playing.
KONNANじゃないっ⁣⁣ – This sweet idol bop about striding bravely towards your best future fills you with inspiration and hope for the future. You may feel compelled to bring your hopes and dreams into every conversation. The future is bright!
Running Up That Hill⁣⁣ – As the singer performs some kind of interpretive dance, she sings about her frustrations with never truly being able to see from another person’s perspective. What would you do to show your true self? Maybe it’s time to iron out that ongoing misunderstanding you’ve been circling.
Love Warriors⁣⁣ – A simple act with a guitarist and singer, she sings a mellow piece about the true value of love. What a beautiful message. Your heart might begin to overflow with feelings of care and affection. Will you finally spill those all-important three words? I-love-you.
One More Time⁣⁣ – The last act of the evening is lively, colored lights flashing out across the square. They begin to play an impossibly catchy beat that no one can resist dancing too. Dance like no one is watching and enjoy the sweet catharsis of a good dance session. You’ll feel better for it tomorrow.

(Players are more than welcome to use their own song and effect. 💖)

3. BIRD BOMBS

At some point during the festivities, the Daitengu takes the stage. They’re in exceptionally high spirits. They give a shout-out to Toraguma and Tenkohime for helping to make this happen. As usual, The Enma is not present. However, the Daitengu forgoes any snide remarks, although they do seem a bit let down. Hope springs eternal, one supposes.

Next they would like to announce that they have even more reasons to celebrate: a truce has been declared between the Shuten and Tamamo clans. The war for the Underground is over (for now) and new construction has started on a new casino and adult entertainment complex in the once-contested territory. They hope that this will lead to an ongoing era of financial cooperation between the three factions.

They thank Sakamoto Ryouma for making all of this happen and give him a shoutout in the crowd. Word has spread all over the Alliance about their deeds, and what they managed to pull off; a blessing and a curse. It becomes obvious that not every tribe within the Sutoku Alliance was okay with putting the Alliance itself up as collateral to make this happen. The Kasasagi Tengu Tribe, in particular, has decided to let their protest be known by storming the party in a flood of aggressive magpies. They vulture the food, they pick at jewelry, they’re an absolute menace.

Good luck shooing them away. The vibes are counting on you to deal with these feathered buzzkills.

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ITADAKIMASU!

[ This is interesting and does actually remind her of good times in Yharnam. She doesn't know what most of this food is... but she wants to try it. She was already enthused before the Stardust began to hit her. The unfamiliar sense of joy quickly becomes overwhelming, actually, and she's genuinely sitting at a picnic table crying into her hands. ]

MUSIC GOT ME FEELIN SO FREE

🎶 Flickers - Son Lux

I can see the flickers, over me the lanterns raised...

[ It's an eerie, dark tune but as it unfurls, it gives one a strange shift on perspective. They are a small thing among many stars, but there is a pathway leading ever upwards to join the ranks of the great ones... Your insight is opening, the true shape of the world becomes visible for just an instant. And then you flinch and it's gone.

Anna approaches at your shoulder as you reel, tilting her head to gaze at you with her dark, haunted eyes. ]

It will pass soon, aye?

BIRD BOMBS

[ She's been watching the magpies harass people, one or two at a time but then she sees them gathering on a line to prepare for a larger assault. She takes something out of her jacket pocket; you don't want to see what it is. She holds it in her palm and blows on it gently. An arcane bolt of asteroid is sent flying at one of the birds. It is hit squarely in the chest and falls to the ground squawking in pain, unable to get back up.

That brings the ire of the flock onto her and she leads them a little ways off from everyone else.

Then she unfurls her serrated whip, gives it a warning flick. This is about to be a massacre if someone doesn't stop her... ]

WILDCARD

[ Go ham, I'm here for it. ]

[ Kimmuriel's heart (some would say he doesn't have one) is stirred by little, but the unfamiliar tune shifts the world on its axis for a brief and dazzling moment, his awareness briefly flung wide by insight. He's entranced by the song - or rather, what the song shows him.

No, these are not the stars he understands. He has never felt quite like this. But it's still a moment of strange, transcendent clarity that moves him, and he takes a small step back.

He glances at Anna, the moment over. Ringed-red eyes, circles within circles, meeting darker and more haunted ones. ]

Yes. It will pass. [ He blinks, clearing his head. He is wholly himself again. ] Though I would not mind having more time to understand it.

Yharnam tried. Suppose a few have gotten close, but not without doing ugly, inhuman things.

[ Her gaze has drifted off to observe a bird on a wire without really seeing it. The magpies are not yet out in force. ]

Ascending... it's a terrible business of blood and suffering.

[ He's about to refute that, but finds that he cannot. He knows his current status and outlook does not come without price.

If he were not so isolated, he would not have turned to other avenues to ease that long-held itch he can't seem to get rid of. That desire to be understood... ]

I suppose you are right, [ he says, finally. He follows her gaze, vaguely wondering what it is she's looking at - not physically, but mentally. ]

Though I am not certain what makes something both ugly and inhuman. [ Human or not, does it make such a difference? He truly doesn't think so. ]

Inhumane.

[ A soft correction because he's right. It's not exactly humanity that defines the unfeeling cold of this eldritch magic. ]

The whole of the city has suffered for their experiments and rituals.

[ There comes the clarification. He inclines his head in a nod. ]

So they used this city, Yharnam, as fuel for their attempts at ascendance. [ Not so different from the rites of the priestesses in his birth city. ] To communicate with something far beyond them.

People will continue to overreach, it seems. Even if they ought not to. [ He sounds a bit dry, like he's seen it before. ]

Used us Hunters to clean up their messes. Until it was too much for us and we took the blame when we failed.

[ Rocks and bottles thrown: It's all your fault! ]

Blaming the tool rather than the wielder? That, too, is a tactic I am not unfamiliar with. [ So many things remind him of 'home', the city he in some ways tries to wash his hands of and yet continues to come back to. It's a disconcerting thought.

He glances at her for a moment. ]

Do your kindred blame themselves for what the situation became? [ The curl of a question is, for once, evident in his voice. He is curious, about how these Hunters might weigh their potential responsibilities to the task that they failed to measure to. ]

Aye. That's why we turned... So many of us lost our conviction.

[ She thinks of Father Gascoigne, one of the last to go. He held on for so long, but eventually, he was shaken. He left his daughters behind. He killed Viola. She exhales, tired. ]

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