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September 2022 Mingle!

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The influx of fresh Lost Souls means the factions need to have a little welcoming party for them. 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.

Shuten - WEENIES ON PARADE

Shuten Clan newbies will be summoned to the Arena, which has been set up with a very different kind of fight than usual. The members of the Shuten Clan do nothing by half-measures. Partying, drinking, and eating are all encouraged to excess. This time they're inviting new recruits to test their mettle in various eating contests. You'll need nerves of steel and a stomach of iron to succeed. Hot dogs, marshmallows, pizza, lobster rolls, breakfast cereals, rice, and more are all on offer.

See how much you can eat and try not to get sick! Competitive eating is a messy, disgusting affair, regardless of the emergency buckets stationed strategically throughout the building.

If you're feeling especially ballsy, you can take on the biggest onis and other youkai by teaming up with your fellow Shutens. They're all confident enough to take that bet.

Glory, prize money, and antacids to the winners. Shame to the losers – they'll be run through town in weenie costumes.

Better eat up 🙂

Tamamo - ALL NIGHT LONG

The newest Tamamo recruits are summoned to a local gymnasium. Strangely, rather than sports equipment laid out on the court, there are a number of light futons, blankets, and pillows. Everyone will be sorted into one of two yukata patterns – one purple and one blue – and sent to their respective sides of the court to lie down in bed and pull up the covers.

It is then that the referee will explain the rules of competitive pillow fighting. When the whistle blows, jump up and grab one of the authorized pillows at the center of the court. It's a game much like dodgeball, but the goal is to hit the opposing team's king with a pillow from your half of the court. Team members use blankets and sometimes their bodies to protect their king.

There will be a few rounds, and you can rotate who is king at your discretion. Protect them with your life! Or whatever. Star players will receive a bonus and a coupon to one of the best Tamamo spas.

When the competitive stuff is done, the sleepover proper will begin. There will be liquor, sodas, and light snacks for everyone while movies are projected onto a screen late into the morning. The movies range from classic dramas and romances to outrageous yokai comedies.

Sutoku - GROSSERY GANG

The Alliance has found themselves in the possession of an entire truckload's worth of reject children's toys. Ever the opportunist, the Daitengu has assigned the project of inventorying and trashing the particularly offensive ones to the new guys.

Of course, you're expected to play with a few of them as well. Maybe one of them is decently fun, and they could sell the rest, you know? Many of these toys are gross out bathroom humor in nature, and spit water randomly at anyone who loses their round. The Daitengu has thoughtfully provided a selection of alcohol to make this game a little more adult friendly. Toys that lack the appropriate spitting mechanism can still be played over shots, really, go nuts.

While you 'work', there will be plenty of motivating music piped into the warehouse. The sound quality is not great, but they tried?

Everyone who sorts through a decent amount of toys will get a little extra pay, although who is really paying that much attention to who's doing what here?

Credit where it's due: We turned kids toys into drinking games

Enma - BREAKING THE ICE

Welcome to the Department of the Enma. New Lost Soul recruits will be summoned to a large conference room in Kaigo no Bou, which has been outfitted with a variety of buffet table offerings and tables which seat between 5 - 6 people comfortably. You are invited to fill your plates at your discretion, the craft services people are used to feeding bottomless yokai stomachs and the food will not run out.

Clipboards with a variety of icebreaker questions have been provided at each table. The pens have assuredly been firmly affixed to the clipboard. Please return them together.

Every 30 minutes Captain Shiki will blow her whistle to signal that you are to migrate to another table with fresh companions. You are, indeed, being forced to get to know your coworkers, lucky you. This isn't tedious at all.

Pick a few of the questions below to answer, and get chatting. Or Captain Shiki may come over to stare at you with intense disapproval. You can't get away with just zoning out to that sweet smooth jazz playing overhead!

1. If you had a time machine that would work only once, what point in the future or in history would you visit? 2. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? 3. If your house was burning down, what three objects would you try and save? 4. If you could talk to any one person now dead or alive, who would it be and why? 5. If you HAD to give up one of your senses (hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting) which would it be and why? 6. If you were an animal, what would you be and why? 7. Do you have a pet? If not, what sort of pet would you like? 8. Name a gift you will never forget? 9. Name one thing you really like about yourself. 10. What's your favorite thing to do in the summer? 11. Who's your favorite cartoon character, and why? 12. Does your name have a special meaning and/or were you named after someone special? 13. What is the hardest thing you have ever done? 14. If you are at a friend's or relative's house for dinner and you find a dead insect in your salad, what would you do? 15. What was the best thing that happened to you this past week? 16. If you had this week over again, what would you do differently? 17. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about 'God'? 18. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? 19. If you could change one problem in the world today, what would you like to change? 20. What book, movie or video have you seen/read recently you would recommend? Why?

All Factions - THE GIFT OF SONG

Did you all enjoy having some of your wishes granted? Well, so did a flock of those annoying magpie! They asked for the gift of music. These feathered nuisances, however, have fallen in love with an old school metal band. That is all they will be singing for the foreseeable future! Different members of the flock have taken up different instrumentals and vocals for the track, spread out across electrical wires and rooftops, singing their favorite rockin' tune to the skies!

Lost Souls have been asked to please catch them and get them to knock it off, they are truly annoying everyone, across all factions.

Should you catch these musical magpies, and not one of the other clans, they will tell you their sorry tale! They love this band, but the group broke up years ago. All the magpie want is for their favorite old dudes to be reunited to jam with them, one more time!

The old dudes are out there in the city, but who knows why they broke up and if they can even be convinced out of retirement. Good luck, if you succeed your boss will give you a favorable bonus, which would be a great boon to a newbie just getting settled.

In the meantime:

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Of course I am.

[ shou wards nero back, pillow at the ready and eyes keen on the opposing team. ]

With a stance like that, I believe you'd get taken out instantly.

Yeah, probably true.

[Why is this kid so competitive over something so ridiculous.

He makes a small hum of agreement before mumbling something under his breath. Six pillows get launched at the opposing team, a slight blue halo of light around them. A handful even successfully hitting their opponents projectiles out of the air.]

[ he comes with two settings: hungry and turbo.

however, seeing the sudden pillow volley towards the enemy team, shou puts two and two together and flickers a glance at the man, a sudden light in his eyes. he's not smiling, but he looks amused at the agreement and the assault all the same. ]

That's a valuable defense. Allow me to be your offense, in this instance.

I'll put my trust in you.

[Those pillows get thrown back at him once they reach the other side. It doesn't take him long to halt them in the air like a temporary barricade.]

[ way to get him right in the heart. ]

Stay back then.

[ that statement does the trick though and he dashes beneath the floating wall, still armed with the pillows clutched in his hands, but what he does first is scoop up a pillow on the ground with his toe, swinging it into a kick that launches it at the nearest opponent.

get wrecked nerds ]

[Are there any jocks in Tamamo? He's pretty sure they're all nerds in one way or another.

Go hard, newbie! Fuck 'em up! As much as a pillow can fuck somebody up.

The floating pillows go launching at the enemy team, blocking off his comrade from the majority of retaliation.]

[ he's a nerd soul trapped in a jock body.

hemmed by nero's defense, shou comes out swinging, taking out his fellow nerds at the line of scrimmage with precision blows. ...granted, all they do is thwap and floof and muss up hair and yukatas, but the more he weeds out the other team, the better shot he has at their king.

he falls back towards nero, hurtling a pillow. ]

I believe I can finish this.

[It's ridiculous is what all of this is. Taking something as silly as a pillow fight so seriously... well, it's a bit charming regardless. One way to start getting to know your fellow faction mates is by hitting them with soft objects.

Nero hasn't moved from his spot, surprisingly untouched. Or maybe not that surprisingly, considering how he's moving the pillows around.]

Go for it.

[ shou doesn't doubt his capacity to kill someone with a pillow. he's being very sportsmanlike right now.

but when given the all clear, he brandishes a quite frankly absurd amount of pillows between his fingers, letting loose a final barrage that wipes out a bunch of purples all at once. and quite frankly, the purple king looks about ready to hit the open gymnasium bar, so shou does them a solid — and gently tosses the final blow. ]

...good game.

[He laughs, pleasant and warm. It's a little silly, but it was fun and even satisfied his occasional bursts of competitiveness.]

Thanks for your hard work.

[ competitiveness is encoded into his DNA, not that anyone could ever tell with that ott display he just did... but now that things are winding down, at least until the next match, he seems sort of normal again. ]

You too. Your abilities really helped out.

[ that is a compliment. ]

[He looks pretty relaxed himself, but maybe it's because he wasn't physically doing too much. Sometimes magic is good, and besides, if anybody asks he can act like somebody else did it.

Besides this kid.

There's a satisfaction at his statement. It's not quite a thank you, but it's an acknowledgement. It's rare he gets anything like that from people back home.]

You're welcome.

[ there is a moment where he looks tempted to go another round despite the wariness of the former purples to rejoin as they pick up fallen pillows and crumpled futons, but he's interrupted by the colorful sound of

his stomach growling. ]

...I'm going to move off the court for a while. Would you like to come?

[There's a soft laugh from him as he starts heading off of the "battle field" so to speak.]

Yeah, I could use some food.

[ busted. ]

That's good. Physical activity tends to cause me to work up an appetite.

Happens to most people.

[Wizard and human alike. Though most wizards just enjoy food in general.]

[ they share that in common. seeing as how they're starting to set up the projector and set up the snacks, he's going to partake and just start... dumping a bunch of food into his arms... ]

Are these gatherings always so generous?

[He only grabs a few, his favorite types of snacks.]

As long as I've been here they've been good about feeding us.

[ casting a glance over, his brows raise in curiosity. ]

Has it been a long time, then?

About... Three months now?

[This would be his third. But it's up to him if he thinks that's a long time.]

[ shou seems to consider that at length. unlike the kid who was intent on dealing out soft, fluffy murder on the court, he seems polite and mind-mannered now. ]

I see. ...If it's not too much trouble, may I ask a personal question?

[Nero really just seems like a normal guy who wasn't wielding six pillows magically a few moments ago.]

I might not answer, but you can ask.

That's fine with me. [ in fact, he seems to play off the fact that he's interested in it all by breaking stance and heading towards the outcrop of futons not being used for the fighting, voice low. ] Were you able to perform that ability you used on the pillows when you first came here?

[ A negative shake of his head. ]

There are some charms in the armory that can give the same sort of effect.

[ he has visited the armory, but more just to familiarize himself rather than pick up anything new. ]

Tamamo's magic, correct?

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