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jigokumods ([personal profile] jigokumods) wrote in [community profile] jigokulogs2022-07-18 05:43 pm

July 2022 Mini Event





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Tanabata is on the horizon, and the city seems to be recovering well from last month. But there's work to be done, and it's time to get to it...


1. SHUTEN CLAN - THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS


With construction wrapping up, the new Shuten Clan casino will be opening soon. The casino has a number of new staff positions opening. It is a golden opportunity for anyone looking for a cash rich position. The money promised upon assignment to the underground casino is bound to be life-changing. Given the potentials in clientele, Toraguma is expecting the very best. Shutens are to report to the above ground Celestial Phoenix casino for their training.

They will be taught all the traditional casino fare, both Japanese and abroad. This includes being taught how to cheat at these games as well. For example:
  • Blackjack dealers will learn card count, and how to catch others doing the same.
  • Roulette attendants will learn both how and when to discreetly adjust the wheel.
  • Craps and Cee-lo dealers will learn how to feel for loaded dice and how to switch in the house's dice without notice.
  • Cee-lo dealers are also taught a specific way to line the dice tray to cause more lost throws.
  • Cho-Han dealers will learn how to distract players as they adjust the dice.
That's not all the Shutens will be learning. The clan needs skilled bouncers as well: people who can handle rowdy customers or haughty celestials. The more tenured Shutens will take up the roles of rude customers and challenge the trainees in how to handle them.

While not everyone will receive employment in the casino, they are all expected to participate in training. Shuten officers are expected to guide and oversee their juniors.

2. TAMAMO CLAN - CHARM SCHOOL


The Tamamo Clan also has preparations to make in anticipation of the underground's opening. The clan is opening their own brothel and cabaret, as well as providing food and drink services to the new Shuten casino.

All Tamamo Clan members must report for training at Mizukume. The lesson of the day is to use one's charisma to secure a huge payout. For example:
  • Hosts and hostesses will learn the art of schmoozing away clients' money.
  • Performers will learn more provocative means of soliciting large tips.
  • Oiran are taught the erotic arts; the perfect balance to both please a client, and how to leave them begging (and paying) for more. There's no technique Tenkohime finds too shameful. Money is power, and power is freedom.
  • Food service workers are provided master classes in mixology, plating, and how to serve high-profile clients without breaking a sweat.
Each role comes with its own set of pressures, but also the promise of great reward. Everyone is going to get rich, if everyone plays their part well.

Tenured Tamamo are asked to roleplay as clients for the benefit of those Lost Souls new to the work. While not everyone will be selected to work in the Underground, everyone is expected to train for it.

3. SUTOKU ALLIANCE - BLACK MARKETS AND BACK ALLEYS


After months of meetings, it's finally time for some real action. Sutoku Lieutenant Ryouma Sakamoto has made some pretty big commitments on the Alliance's behalf. His temerity comes from his earnest belief in the other Sutoku Lost Souls! No pressure, though!

To succeed, the Alliance must determine who is behind the current black market operation. Ryouma is relying on the Alliance's extensive information network and the hard work of the Lost Souls to make it happen.

This is the work that Ryouma mentioned when he welcomed the new arrivals recently.

This assignment is all about what you know. The Sutoku need to learn more about the competition, through any means necessary. The Alliance wants to know everything about what goods are moving around the city and who is moving it. Time to follow the money. You might even discover an unfulfilled niche in the market through your investigations.

The current influx of Stardust in the city is a great opportunity to investigate the existing dealers and supply lines. The Alliance is gathering Stardust just like everyone else, but it is becoming increasingly scarce as the factions vie for it. The value of this commodity is shooting up every day. Take some cash or other compelling bartering tools with you to grease the palms of a few shady dealers. Try to convince them to be more honest about their supply lines, beyond just the sparkly stuff. Stick the landing, and you might just be closing in on the heart of those shipping loopholes.

This is no easy undertaking. Creativity and tenacity will determine just how far you can go. Be careful not to be too obvious, the threat of unwanted attention will cause your sources to clam up.


4. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENMA - CRACK DOWNS


The Stardust's street presence has shifted naturally over the past few weeks: from an easy resource to simply scoop up in garbage bags overnight to a hot commodity. The street value of the material has increased considerably, and that means that the unaffiliated street gangs are greedy to get in on the action.

Enma officers are called upon to round up any black market dealers of Stardust and confiscate as much of their supply as they can find. This might just bring them into some direct conflict with the Sutoku Alliance members hoping to connect with market insiders. That's just how things boil out sometimes, though.

It is more important to the Department to get Stardust out of the hands of the black marketeers… and into their own lockers.

Officers are given permission to use any amount of force against individual actors, and members of the Law and Records Department are expected to draft up warrants (no matter how doctored) to obtain access to buildings they otherwise would never be allowed into; even Mizukume and the Arena. The Department's orders are clear: if it's not an approved market, shut it down.

This is in the name of maintaining Order, so get out there. Move at least in pairs, or you're likely to meet some serious resistance, and keep an eye out for the newbies.

5. ALL FACTIONS - LUNAR RABBIT RETURNS


It isn't just the factions, dealers, and petty gangs who are interested in the Stardust now that it's a premium item.

A familiar face has resurfaced: the mysterious gyokuto medicine woman and her army of white rabbits. While her little kin have managed to gather a healthy amount of Stardust for her "research", she still needs more. She is willing to pay a huge premium to those who retrieve more materials for her.

She understands that this will require you to either pilfer from one of the factions, or potentially someone even more dangerous. She will be providing samples of one of her drugs, which can grant temporary invisibility in moonlight. Use it for whatever hijinks you want, but she really would prefer if you brought her the goods in the end.

If invisibility doesn't cut if for you, she can provide another sample that provides 10 times your normal strength. While you can KO anyone who gets in your way, it wears off within 5 to 10 seconds. She is very clear that you should not take more than 3 doses of this, or you will very possibly die. Probably. Maybe? It will be unpleasant. So use it only when you need to.

The reward for getting her some Stardust, depending on the amount, can easily pay all a character's expenses for a month, if not longer. The temptation is great, but do you trust this strange rabbit woman?



Welcome to the mini event!
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  • FOR THE PURPOSES OF REWARDS, since all of these prompts tie into the main plot in some way, we will count all qualified threads in this post as 2 point threads!
  • If you have questions about the game itself, please check out the premise, FAQ, and rules pages.


muitenpen: (14743258)

Mahito | Enma

[personal profile] muitenpen 2022-07-19 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
For Enma:
Want to enable someone who's super willing to take the violence too far?
... Want to struggle to rein in that same someone?
Mahito's one of the newbies, and I've got the go-ahead to use his cursed energy residuals to track anyone he thinks might be buying or selling. It's a lot easier to catch the dealers when you know where things go down!

For Sutoku:
Want to just hang out with someone totally not suspicious for reasons completely unrelated to anything above?
Alternatively, want to actually get caught?


Looking for any combination, here. I'll throw a top-level together as soon as there's some ideas going! As a tie-in, he spent some amount of his time at the festival stealing stardust from vendors and passing it off to other Enma, too. If you want to handwave already knowing he's tricky/reliable from that, let's go!
itstillhurt: Azula gives a smug, taunting look. (Smug)

[personal profile] itstillhurt 2022-07-19 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Noted. Big Name Energy, not for trifling.

Thanks for humoring my nonsense, mods!
powerofthemoon: (pic#15788388)

[personal profile] powerofthemoon 2022-07-19 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Noted! Heng Yue will keep that piece of information in the back of her mind because she sure wants to know now.

Finally, is the gyokuto willing to share any of contacts for the more arcane and difficult to acquire herbs one might find in a yokai city? She's new and she has research to do.
worldbent: (pic#15523711)

Matoba | Sutoku

[personal profile] worldbent 2022-07-19 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Matoba is happy to take on 2 Sutoku hands that aren't afraid to get a little rough/underhanded and are good at covering their tracks. He's fine with any methods from violence (as long as you don't kill anyone) to blackmail/coercion. Just don't let it connect back to you, and especially don't let it connect back to him.

You'll be paid well for your help, and he'll give suggestions of what individuals he's noticed lurking around the Alliance loan shark offices and other less savory areas- he spends a lot of his time just strolling around, people watching, to learn this stuff. Of course, he'll be out and hitting the pavement himself, too.
identitycrisiscore: (017)

[personal profile] identitycrisiscore 2022-07-19 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
He'll gladly put in the work, and the dealers who do take him up will find he's as good as his word in terms of getting it there as discrete and quick as he can be.

Despite his recklessness, Cloud is willing to admit that, in his current condition, he's pushing his luck - getting the lead that the Alliance needs to put eyes on the Sanzu will be enough for him, and he'll make sure that information gets up the chain.
blackabyss: (The sun will rise)

[personal profile] blackabyss 2022-07-19 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
If Emily is looking to go after black market leads, Fumikage is willing to help out if she'd like! His appearance could prove beneficial for dealing with some of the black market locals, plus he's a hero-in-training and has experience with dealing with criminals and such.

Plus, he does have pretty good manners. He's a polite goth bird boi.
localweirdo: (pic#15679323)

[personal profile] localweirdo 2022-07-19 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I could offer you Hu Tao?
retroductions: (pic#15683551)

herlock sholmes | tamamo

[personal profile] retroductions 2022-07-19 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sholmes is here to aid in the art of schmoozing via reading a client’s body language on the fly — something he is surprisingly good at! Looking for 2-3 people for him to both give helpful tips to and roleplay as a client with. Threads will probably be silly, but ultimately helpful…! Probably.

Lessons may or may not eventually lead to learning how to pickpocket a very drunk client, but everything is fine as long as you don't get caught, right!!
lemoncandy: (74)

shealtiel ໒꒱ enma

[personal profile] lemoncandy 2022-07-19 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
a chance arrives for shealtiel to do things for his faction and he's all over it!! no matter how shady.

for any higher ranking or longer-lasting members in enma looking to boss around a guy into any of the more boring work, he's your man!

but on top of sleepless nights of overtime in as many departments as he can manage, I'd love to get him a few threads of trying to crack down on stardust. so maybe 3-4 people to partner up with him at separate times? he's more violent than he looks, and better than you'd think!

along those same lines, if anyone from other factions might want to be interrogated or even busted/an attempted busting of stardust, that would be fun! I don't mind if it's failure or not, or if we want to work on a threeway thread with another enma, etc etc. I'm open to all things!

I'll be hopping around picking up other things as I go, too, but it won't count towards my limit here.
worldbent: (we are closer)

[personal profile] worldbent 2022-07-19 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Love a girl who can beat a man half to death.
lemoncandy: (126)

[personal profile] lemoncandy 2022-07-19 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
shealtiel is great at doing grunt work and being overworked!!! he's good at paperwork because it's all he's been doing successfully as an angel for like 200+ years now. he'll even bring van zieks some coffee or tea if he wants it...

honestly, he's pretty fast at information gathering and following the rules on paper to a T, so he'll probably be pretty good at this side of things (2 especially, but 1 would work too!). I've been having him work small jobs in every lower ranking enma type job he can, so I don't think it's farfetched he'd try to slide in here. if van zieks will have him.
breweries: (Default)

shylock / tamamo

[personal profile] breweries 2022-07-19 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
shylock is a ⭐⭐-ranking tamamo member who's the esteemed proprietor and main bartender of his own bar, hemlock! he has literal centuries of experience with mixology and customer service under his belt, and would love to take on private lessons with 2-3 timtam people please!! preferably people he hasn't had cr yet, but if you guys want to deepen cr w/ him anyway, now's the time since he's gonna be more lowkey this month.

but also for a change, i'd like for him to learn oiran duties if anyone's interested in a spicier route >:)

alternatively i welcome any enmas who might think he's sussy enough to keep stardust on him, which...... well. :) i might need to regain his magical brewing skills first to make him even more sussy, but in the end they'll find out that he hasn't been keeping any stardust on him this whole time!! oh well. at least the free drinks taste good, right?
Edited 2022-07-19 00:53 (UTC)
masking: @jagaimoimpact (147)

kaeya alberich | tamamo

[personal profile] masking 2022-07-19 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
hello! i'm here to offer kaeya for 3-4 threads, which i will happily write starters for!! as for ideas, let's see here...

  • kaeya is new, and more than willing to really lean into that in order to learn more about others/the tamamo clan as a whole, tbh!! he'd be interested in partnering up with a seasoned tamamo member to learn the ropes re: how to host... or maybe something spicier, but he's not quite as touchy-feely as he appears LGKFDG we can see!!
  • alternatively, anyone who would want to call him out about faking inexperience...........
  • any bartenders who would like someone to give them honest feedback: kaeya is here to kindly offer his services 😌 not because he just wants free drinks?? perish the thought... it's all about the Art...
  • stardust threads could also be fun! a little scheming and thieving makes for a fun evening, in kaeya's book. we could come up with some fun scenarios for this, i'm sure!
  • or if you have any other ideas, toss 'em my way! i'm down for anything
Edited 2022-07-19 00:52 (UTC)
disagree: (pic#15814675)

[personal profile] disagree 2022-07-19 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
hello! eula's been around and has been ranked recently and... while she won't exactly be too harsh with him exactly, it'd still be nice to build up some senpai/kouhai rapport anyway?? and he could even help her crack down on sussy stardust business with her 🤔🤔
lemoncandy: (135)

[personal profile] lemoncandy 2022-07-19 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
yes miss ice queen please be my senpai

but please!!! this sounds great, does she have a title? if so he's going to be overly formal and use it. if not he'll still be respectful in an awkward sort of way, despite being. 344 years old. he's still kouhai, show him the ropes, let him climb this ladder. I'd be super down with them cracking down on stardust business.
perfectdistance: ([4k] Smile 1)

[personal profile] perfectdistance 2022-07-19 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Nero and Sholmes would be very funny, because Nero would probably try to pickpocket him right away. Even though he's really best in the back of the house, maybe somebody decided to give him some front of house training just in case?
disagree: (pic#15667013)

[personal profile] disagree 2022-07-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I MEAN SHE IS KNOWN AS THE SPINDRIFT KNIGHT but that's not important here yet... miss eula will do, thank u (she also hasn't told anyone her surname bc... u know........)

and look, sometimes age doesn't matter in times like these. he just has that kouhai energy from the onset, rip. but YESSS excellent, she's good at infiltrating stuff on her own, so he'd better not mess this up!!! she believes in him :)
lemoncandy: (49)

[personal profile] lemoncandy 2022-07-19 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
as long as they don't run into any black wings they'll probably be fine! probably... but it's fine anyway, shealtiel doesn't have a surname. so just eula it is. maybe sometimes miss.

maybe they were assigned partners in an infiltration then? or she called for backup and he's the first one that responds? either way, did you want to start something or should I? I don't mind either way!
everblooms: (in sunshine or rain;)

[personal profile] everblooms 2022-07-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
hi, mods! unfortunately, i have arrived.

would any of the flowers have anything to say about the gyokuto? what about the stardust?

also building off that, would the gyokuto have any interest in bartering with aerith for medicinal herbs and the like? with her plant & flower growing ability, she'd be willing & able to provide for a price (money is tempting, but information is, too.)
girlworker: (42)

[personal profile] girlworker 2022-07-19 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
would you be up for schooling a newbie tamamo in roleplay?
powerofthemoon: (Default)

[personal profile] powerofthemoon 2022-07-19 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Not to be cheesy or anything: but she'd settle for just being friends.

She will also say thank you and leave the gyokuto with her contact information, should she ever need help with something.
retroductions: (pic#15740606)

[personal profile] retroductions 2022-07-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
absolutely! if she does not mind it probably being a little over-the-top, but somewhere in the experience there is sure to be something actually helpful!
retroductions: (pic#15643411)

[personal profile] retroductions 2022-07-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
STRAIGHT TO PICKPOCKETING he might actually be a little impressed

and yes, please pay attention to his schmoozing lessons; sticky fingers can wait for later!

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