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MAJIMA GORO (25)
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💄 She does makeup and fashion content.

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[ Majima doesn't know fuck all about running an internet café, but he stuck his head in to see just how dire the venture was. It's pretty pathetic, all the grimy space of a storage unit and a couple of flimsy tables and chairs. Why did this idiot kid ever think this would bring in customers?

He observes the third pick pocket trying to sneak out of the shop with the contents of the open cash register before finally stepping in, clothes lining the thief before crossing his arms. ]

Ya need t'get yer shit together.

[ He pulls the slat on the front of the 'shop' closed and proceeds to drag the idiot son down the side streets. His captive squawks and calls out for help. ]

[ If said grifter had only done it once, Majima would have shrugged that everyone needs to eat. It's the collective number of complaints that have forced him to come out and find the culprit. Majima prowls the streets of Jigoku-cho, cigarette smoldering, and asks around for information from the wastes. He doesn't react to any guiltiness he might see in the faces of those who direct him. A few of them know exactly what they're doing. Majima tips them in cash and pats them on the shoulder anyway, smiling coldly.

Then he continues on his way. He finds his drifter warming his hands at a trash fire on the far side of a construction site. Majima gets the spiel... Nodding along sympathetically as he smokes. Upon the request's conclusion, Majima agrees to meet him at the bridge once he has acquired the requested convenience store food and liquor.

Which is why you will later find Majima hanging a dirty old grifter off the edge of the bridge by one leg. Majima leans his elbow into the wooden banister, chin in his palm, as he watches on with dispassionate amusement. He gives a shake.

Some money and food and snacks fall out of the grifter's jacket and are swept away by the water. ]

Where was this guy again? Th'Iron Bear?

If you just want to list info and not necessarily fully play out the share, here you go.

[ Majima has invited his small team to the White Koi, a Shuten clan bar that has a decorative side room that he uses for meetings within the faciton. He is there ahead of everyone else, frowning over his phone as he reads something.

Majima knows absolutely nothing about any variety of wilderness survival, but not knowing anything has never really stopped him before. So he's been doing his own research, expecting to supplement it with the knowledge of his team. His search history is a comical series of basic questions but he's getting the idea: Water. As much water as you can carry.

He looks up as people file in, tucking the phone into his shirt pocket.

Introductions are first. Who you are, where you're from, what your skills are. Then they can get into some logistics, both whatever is posed by his team and a few items of his own: ]

We don't know if we can take a vehicle th'entire way, so we need t'talk about how much ya think ya can carry.

[ He has a paper list of things he's been compiling while talking to people around town, reading things. They need to discuss what sounds the most absolutely necessary. ]

Edited 2022-09-17 00:17 (UTC)

- Majima made a deal with Emily that her team of Sutokus would help them out with information, if Majima's Shutens helped them out in rescuing Ringo. Sutokus get the good press, and Shuten gets 40% of the bounty. (This is just a thing between Majima & Emily, it's not a greater faction thing.) Majima's perspective is that Shutens may need to drop getting Ringo out to deal with Toraguma and Iron Bear, so he wants to know there's another prepared team on that project. Majima would suggest not sharing that information 😘

- Sheliak is also available for consulting on wasteland logistics.

- Majima is getting a warning about the Enma bounty hunter roundup, so you too have been warned.

Edited 2022-09-17 02:17 (UTC)

⭐ Hey, whatever else! Go for it!

[So, more introductions, is it? It's useful: the only people involved in this that Kazuma recognizes are Majima himself, Eiichi, and unfortunately Sheliak. If they're really going to be spending a significant amount of time around each other while doing this, they probably ought to get along.

When it's his turn, he folds his arms and keeps a level gaze. He doesn't come off as entirely friendly, but he's not hostile either. Just detached.]

Kazuma Asogi.

I don't know if I have anything in the way of survival skills, but I'm physically fit and I can use a sword.

[Really, the reason he's coming along is mostly because he hates feeling like he's not doing anything.]

I will edit this as the thread with Emily like, gets that far, but this is to handwave the information Tsubaki receives from Emily.

--Tsubaki grew up in a place literally called the Scavenger Lands so she's here to help with logistics and the possibility of any group out there getting mugged. What do you mean we don't have horses.

Edited 2022-09-17 02:58 (UTC)

[ Tsubaki's new here, to Shuten and Jigoku at large, and she'd be lying to say she wasn't nervous, but--what she's told Majima and others about being a traveler isn't untrue, and a mission like this is...familiar enough to make her a little disconcerted she finds it comforting. So she's sat quietly and fiddling with her hair before she speaks up to introduce herself.

She is steadfastly pretending she hasn't met Eiichi, but she really hasn't met most of the others besides Majima. ]

...I'm Tsubaki. Crimson Horizon Tsubaki, if you want the full thing.

[She pauses, and sighs.] I grew up places like this, so I'll do my best.

...Do we not have animals to ride?

[Oh Tsubaki you are opening up an entirely new barrel of fish.

I would estimate quite a bit, on my part.

[Not that he's tried carrying so much before, but he feels capable of it? He's totally jacked bro just trust him.]

But I'm also concerned about encumberment. I imagine we won't be able to avoid a fight eventually.

You mean in the desert?

[Because that sounds like it sucked.]

Can you offer any insight into what kind of infrastructure we should be expecting? We seem to know hardly anything about these people.

[ Truth be told, a part of him is second-guessing his involvement. It's one thing to be ordered on with no choice to back out, it's another to volunteer. It feels like something happening to someone else, not him. Eiichi's presence is both a new source of worry and a way of focusing himself: If nothing else, he can watch out for Kawase if/when they set out. Better this than worrying himself sick back home. ]

[ He raises a hand in greeting, tucking his worries behind a mask. ]

Suizenji Minato. I was on the rescue team during the cursed storm, so you could say this isn't my first outing. Like Asogi-san, I have some swordsmanship expertise.

[ He'd been wondering how to bring this up, but Majima's mention that they'd be cooperating with Sutoku for intel makes this easier. He wouldn't want Hu Tao to get into trouble for talking cross-faction. ]

I've heard rumours that Iron Bear's gang isn't just, mm, out-of-town gangsters. The phrase "death cult" was used. I don't pretend to know what that means, mind you.

[ He has an ugly hunch what they might be worshipping, but he doesn't know if he should say it. This is a world home to gods and devils, after all. It could be anything. ]

Edited 2022-09-17 11:13 (UTC)

I can carry my fair share.

[ He's stronger than he looks, though certainly not superhumanly so. ]

Do we have any idea how far we're going? Not all of the unaffiliated hunters must have been setting out blindly.

[ It does conjure the awful, blackly-comedic mental image of following a trail of would-be bounty hunter corpses out into the wastes... ]

That's a bit...well, they're youkai, so I can't guarantee they handle this the same as we humans did.

[She taps her fingers to her chin, though.] Most likely, you can divide them into two groups--raiders and scavengers. The raiders would attempt to mob us openly, hitting fast and leaving quickly with anything they can take. Chasing them would be useless--the best thing we can do is to be ready to defend ourselves.

The scavengers are more...they're waiting for us to die. In either case you have to remember every bit of supplies we need to take with us is also something they need. They'll be too proud to ever trade for it, especially since we're coming from the city...and there's no hiding that.

[Tsubaki sighs, and shakes her head.] Anything permanent is going to be grouped by water. Not just to drink, but because water means plants, which means the ground is more stable to build on.

- Lio doesn't have any specialized information about THIS wasteland, but his people, the Burnish, did live out in the desert ruins of a neighboring city to the one Promare is set in, so he knows how to navigate and survive in a desert, at least, but more importantly...

- he knows how to get vehicles desert ready, so whatever transport they come up with, Lio will be the one to get it in shape to handle the wastes. as for Lio himself...

- he's got his own bike literally made of fire that he can ride. someone can ride bitch with him if it's needed.

(mikey's been playing bodyguard. he'd himself told the owner that this was a pathetic attempt at a lanhouse, to no avail, all the man did was whine and cry - and someone doesn't have too much patience for that. so, he's been stationed in front of it at late hours, paid by his time, and there has been no attempts no matter how much the blond prayed for something to happen.

and then it just did with majima present? well, fuck. he has to laugh at the fucker's misfortune.)

What a fucking idiot.

If we did, we've have to pack extra food and water for them, and make sure they're protected from the weather. [Unless they had like, camels, somehow. He's never seen a camel in real life so what does he know.]

Plus, if we can't keep riding them at some point, they'll just be a liability.

[Surprisingly he lacks the usual nascent derision in his voice, and is actually trying to be productive!]

Not necessarily. Desert animals are going to be better equipped for the trip than anything with wheels. Camels or raptors [wait what did she say] will be able to go longer than we can without water or food, anyway.

[No tsubaki go back to the raptors--]

But it might be hard to procure them, which is why I asked...and I know I can ride them but if no one else can that's not much help.

[NO TSUBAKI GO BACK WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN RIDE A RAPTOR--]

[Truthfully, Eiichi didn't have any interest in the bounty; he would be glad to see Ringo safe, though he couldn't care less about Kaberou and Iron Bear. Most of all, he just wanted to see what was out there; not for any sort of wanderlust, but for curiosity. There was something out there, and even Hell wasn't going to stay in its own little bubble forever.

Though, obviously Minato was always gonna be a worrywart about it, so he has the acute feeling like he's being babysat.]

Segawa Eiichi. I administer first aid and tend to any injuries that might come up. I've been looking into things like heat exhaustion and hypothermia in preparation, but you'd be better off not dealing with the longterm side effects. [Well, no shit.]

So if you have any other health issues, let me know. [~~Lookin' at you, Kazuma.~~] But you're out of luck if we run into any supernatural ailments. Who knows what messed up stuff exists out there.

[What the fuck is a raptor. Is this a future thing. Does he care. Fuck it.]

Obviously... but I don't see any camels or raptors around here in the city. [Speaking of procurement.]

Not unless you want to ferry us all around all over the place. Vehicles would be easier, assuming enough people know how to drive. [~~Because he can't.~~]

If I had my horse, I could've...but he's not here, and if beasts aren't available, then...

[She sighs a bit.] Magic would have made this easier too. I can't really carry much, so I'd have liked not to be a liability.

Eh? Just drop him, he doesn't know anything.

[Pointing out the obvious here. She was hunting down this loser herself when it appears as though someone had beaten her to it. Tch, maybe she can still turn this into a profit. Her belly needs something to fill after all, and that requires cash.]

Umu... or perhaps have him drop everything he took after crippling him~.

[She sounds a little too happy about the crippling part. What fun it would be to watch them squirm around on the ground, unable to use their legs anymore~!]

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