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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enma 1

[federates]

[ barton had been on a mission to grab more food and essentially make a u-turn back to the unfortunate icebreaking activities. on full auto-pilot, he'd waiting behind metal sonic a solid, impatient moment. he considered pushing past him, then reaching over him, and was about to snap to some can we hurry it up! when he finally takes a moment to study this roadblock. ]

[ rearranging his empty paper plate, he peeks over to get a better look. his expression quickly shifts to one of surprise. ]

Woah! A robot...? [ spoken like he's been waiting eons to spy a robotic(?) lost soul. which he hasn't, not really, for the record. ]

[mechspeed]

[That, at least, gets his attention. It was starting to feel as if most people around here weren't familiar with the concept of advanced technology, so everyone who is delivers some small comfort he isn't surrounded entirely by people who aren't tech savvy.

Metal turns to face Barton, revealing even more of his mechanical exterior. Red LED eyes, claws, jet engine torso. The robotic works.]

What of it?

[Still a rude little guy though.]

[federates]

[ barton may not have been apart of illumina's engineering or research departments, but he does at least understand the purposes behind those components. and as more of an exclamation to himself, ]

Fuckin' awesome!

[ he sidesteps properly, this time beginning to ladel a few meat-stuffed ravioli into his plate. he doesn't look away from metal, though, and nor does he yet seem put off by the bluntness. ]

I don't know if you've noticed by now, or not, but this place is pretty disappointing in the tech arena. Ha, you're nearly a marvel!

[mechspeed]

I have no doubt I am the most sophisticated piece of technology in this place.

[Even if he wasn't, he'd still consider himself as such. Even cold hearted killer robots have their biases, you know?

Well, this one does anyway.]

Furthermore, many of the Enma seem unfamiliar with the concept of a robot. You are one of the few I have encountered so far to be.

[federates]

[ hoh? either the robot's sincerely surveyed every technological asset this place has to offer, or he has an ego on him. either way, both speak to his exceptionality. with a raise of his eyebrows, apparently impressed, barton appears to buy it. ]

Yeah, too many people here come from backwater sh- [ while he's already dropped and f-bomb, and doesn't care much about his language otherwise, he can at least curtail insulting an entire swab of people's homelands during an orientation event. ] -... lands.

[ the man props a hand to his hip. ]

What are you called?

[mechspeed]

[He doesn't disagree with Barton's assessment of where people come from, but Metal's decided not to voice a confirm or deny primarily based on the same reasoning. This place is filled with robotless behaviour.]

My name is Sonic. [He overhears someone engaging with the questionnaire in the distance and briefly considers it. They were here to..."break the ice", right?

Hm.]

I am primarily designed for conquest, but I am also capable of reconnaissance, surveillance and retrieval of valuable resources.

[Understand that to him, this is the same as "i like long walks on the beach and smooth jazz"]

[federates]

Really...? [ delightful.

he sounds like a weapon barton might find in the armory; at least, at the access level where one might find more military-grade weaponry. if jigokucho were capable of such technological wonders. good on enma for once, snatching this one's contract up.

with a grin, ]

I'm Barton. Rank of Inspector. [ he idly refills his cup. ] I hope to get the chance to work with you in the future. Beyond this office tedium.

[mechspeed]

That the Enma engage in more than just mindless corporate functions is good to hear. I was surprised by... [He sweeps his arm out at the room around them.] ...being ushered into this.

[It's also got less benefit to him since, y'know, he can't eat or drink. All he's got is people he doesn't care about and a boring ice breaker game of 20 questions.]

However, I do not work with others. I will operate on your behalf, Inspector, but not alongside you.

[And this isn't a programming thing, it's a personality thing. Guy's got issues.]