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jigokulogs2022-03-11 08:08 pm
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Entry tags:
- !event,
- devil may cry: dante,
- fate: miyamoto musashi,
- fate: okada izo,
- fate: sakamoto ryouma,
- final fantasy: aerith gainsborough,
- fire emblem: felix hugo fraldarius,
- genshin impact: chongyun,
- genshin impact: xingqiu,
- genshin impact: yae miko,
- granblue fantasy: nehan,
- granblue fantasy: six,
- identity v: emily dyer,
- iron widow: gao yizhi,
- jujutsu kaisen: itadori yuuji,
- metal gear solid: laughing beauty,
- mo dao zu shi: lan wangji,
- mo dao zu shi: wei wuxian,
- natsume yuujinchou: natori shuuichi,
- no more heroes: kamui uehara,
- original: bishop,
- original: hazel lockwood,
- original: marianna "monts" medina,
- original: ophelia,
- original: shizuka takeda,
- original: ydris,
- saiyuki: sha gojyo,
- touken ranbu: hizen tadahiro
March 2022 Mini Event
MAIN NAVIGATION
The Night Parade is fast-approaching and each faction will be busy with their own preparations.
1. SHUTEN CLAN
The Celestial Phoenix Casino, a fairly popular casino in the Shuten territory, is overdue on its protection money. This money is sorely needed for parade preparations. Unfortunately, the casino has decided it doesn't need to pay up because they've hired some new unaffiliated muscle. Neither the manager nor their new muscle are the type to listen to reason, so be prepared to exert some intimidation and force to convince these new bodyguards to take their business elsewhere.
The brute squad working for the Celestial Phoenix seems to be made up of several different youkai. Some of them are more human looking than others, but you'll notice no Oni. Even independent Oni wouldn't dare turn against the Shuten Clan. Even lacking in Oni, these thugs are armed to the teeth, swinging several deadly weapons and even a few firearms. This could get rough, so be prepared for the worst. Take the gangsters protecting the Celestial Phoenix out or convince them it’s not worth it.
Once inside, you'll discover that the owner, in a panic, has locked himself inside the casino's value with the protection money owed. This might take some doing to get open...
2. SUTOKU ALLIANCE
The Kappa want to be left alone and the Daitengu has asked Sutoku Alliance members to assure their wishes are respected. Members are tasked with convincing people to stay away from the Kappa's riverside facilities by whatever means necessary. Of course, you may want to take a look for yourself to see what they’re being so secretive about. That’s not recommended, if you don’t want to get into trouble.
It’s not just strangers who are nosy, though. Retinues from both the Shuten and Tamamo clans are making an appearance and asking why the inspections are taking so long. Why are the Kappa dragging their feet? The Alliance prefers to avoid direct violence, so it's up to you to talk to these clan captains in a way that convinces them to leave the Kappa alone.
If you're curious enough to dive deeper into the Kappa's business, however, even your Alliance membership isn't going to keep you safe. The Kappa themselves seem to disappear from sight the further into the sewers you go, as if invisible. Preventing yourself from being spotted by a security camera or a patrolling Kappa is almost impossible. Cover your faces, stick to the shadows, and you might just notice that... they’re building something down there.
Something for the Parade? Who knows? But it’s definitely not decorations or a float...
3. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENMA
The parade route for the Night Parade needs to be "cleaned up". The Department is tasked with getting the low level street gangs and squatters to clear out. The homeless population will resist and may not be so easily persuaded to give up their spots. Your best bet is to offer them food, booze, or shelter for the night. The street gangs will assuredly fight back. Use your strength or your wits to get the job done.
The gangs will not typically be that tough, most don’t want to step up to the Department's goon squad too heavily lest they wind up in a cell for the rest of their lives. Still, some might be hopped up on encouraging substances and try to escalate. Don’t worry, though. You have the authority of the Enma on your side! Don’t think they will get away with waving a weapon in your face.
The homeless, though, lack strength or weapons. They are more fueled by desperation to keep their spots. Winter hasn't been kind to them, after all, and they don’t have much respect for the Enma's authority. Their belligerent behavior is loud, and often violent despite their absence of means to properly defend themselves. At worst, they’ll probably try to use biological warfare. Don’t ask what's in those bottles...
4. TAMAMO CLAN
Parade costumes need to be designed, crafted, modeled, and then likely mended knowing the rough and tumble yokai. The textile shops and tailors of the area need Tamamo Clan members to help them out. Costumes vary from extremely ornate to extremely sexy. These costumes need to merge form and function, for the Tamamo clan parade marchers that means they need to be able to sell their specific wares while wearing them. (wink wonk)
None of the costumes are floor ready and the shop bosses urge you that these cannot be seen by the public until they are ready. This won’t stop some peeping toms and tammies from trying to scope out the goods. Most of the voyeurs are spying for perverted reasons, but some are from shops outside of Tamamo’s influence trying to copy the designs for themselves. Either way, Tamamo Clan members aren't expected to be just pretty faces. So rough’em up.
5. TASTE TEST (ALL FACTIONS)
For those less interested in their faction's work, the restaurants in the Tamamo territory also need help finalizing their menu offerings for the Night Parade. Taste testers and creative cooks wanted! These aren’t just any dishes though and may have some interesting effects. One may be so spicy that everything burns, your face turns red, and you need to cool yourself off. Or maybe your dish is so good that you need to take a nap – it doesn't matter where you are, you'll just fall asleep right on the spot. Another possibility is a dish that gives you unstoppable energy – literally. It will make you want to get up and go and never stop moving. If you stop moving, it may cause a bigger problem.
Welcome to the mini event!
- If you have any questions about event content, please ask them here!
- If you have questions about the game itself, please check out the premise, FAQ, and rules pages.
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[Senior Wei’s enthusiasm is infectious- or perhaps, Yizhi is just glad to have a friend to rave about Chrysalises to. It had been complicated to do so with Zetian, for whom Huaxia’s war machines meant something wholly different. But he’ll bring that up later. Yizhi pulls up more photos on his tablet as he speaks- he has to search a little for them, because back home he’d just look such material up on the internet rather than saving it to his tablet- but eventually he manages to find an infographic of the White Tiger standing next to the Great Wall for scale.]
They’re all different sizes- this is the White Tiger, it’s a Prince-class Chrysalis. Prince is the second-highest weight class for a Chrysalis, so most are smaller. And this-
[He pulls up a photo of a young man and woman posing against the Vermillion Bird’s gleaming beak. The man has a tattoo or mark on his face. The woman’s dark hair is piled high on her head, held in place by golden pins that resemble the Bird’s feathered crown. Yizhi’s voice softens.]
… these are the pilots of the Vermillion Bird. The Bird is our army’s only King-class Chrysalis.
[After a moment of unmistakable tenderness, Yizhi gets ahold of himself and continues.]
-it’s not all that amazing, there’s a lot of horrid stuff that goes on in the background. But despite that, these are our best defence against those monsters you saw in the video. They’re impressive and they’re the hope of humanity, still.
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Ai, that's definitely on a different scale, ha! I've been in some crazy fights, and some yao can get pretty large, but nothing like this.
Are you a pilot of some kind as well...? Or are you friends with those pilots?
[he'd clocked Yizhi's tender look, too.]
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[Yizhi’s deflection seems genuine. The cockpit of a Chrysalis is just too scary, too physically demanding. Not even his love and admiration for Wu Zetian could turn him into a pilot. Zetian’s right again about this; there are many problems love can’t solve.]
I do know the pilots of the Vermillion Bird, yes. We’re close. [they’re dating] But I can’t be too obvious about it back home, because people are kind of close minded about how many people can be in a partnership, you know? I don’t know if it’s the same over there. But in pilot pairs where the boy and the girl can actually Match without endangering the other, they expect them to be like husband and wife.
[His mouth twists as he says it, as if just realising how fucked up that is.]
… but yeah, they’re great. They have a bad reputation, but I don’t mind.
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[he startled a little at the reveal, though. it's not the idea of more than one partner; plenty of salacious extramarital stuff happens in the cultivation world outside of ideal political matches. see: Jin 'ruins everything with his dick' Guangshan, as an extreme example. but...husband and wife just because they partner up in battle, really? that seems like a poorly thought-out system, and he says as much.]
Not everyone who fights well together is guaranteed to get along in other ways, though...? Night-hunt partners don't always become cultivation partners, and cultivation partners don't always become marriage partners. What's the point of forcing them into that sort of relationship too?
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Well… what’s the point of arranged marriages in general? It’s probably something like that, using people as collateral in the pursuit of control. It seems like people in power don’t know how to keep what they have without hurting others. [Here’s hoping it’s different in this city.] But enough about me. I’m sure your homeland has many intriguing things as well.
It doesn't have to be big or dramatic, it can be your favorite dish from home or something.
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[the question makes him pause, innocuous as it is. the answer is, of course, Jiang Yanli's lotus and pork rib soup, but considering the circumstances, he's not sure he could talk about that dish without it tasting like ashes in his mouth. that's a lot, to bring to dinner with a new friend.
so, he covers.]
Ah, how can you make me choose! Yunmeng's really well-known for its cuisine, you know? And there are several old aunties who would pinch my ear if I didn't mention their hot dry noodles or their spicy baozi. I guess if I really had to pick only one place to go I'd take you to this one place that does amazing mouth-watering chicken, though...I haven't found anything like it in this city yet.
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Is it? What a shame I can’t visit. [not really, because Yizhi’s not a big fan of spice. Not that he eats like the Lan clan, but spicy food is bad for the skin, you know?] Ah, that chicken sounds incredible. They really don’t cook it the same way here as back home.
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[winks at Yizhi]
Who's to say you can't visit, though? If some force can bring us here, couldn't the same force take us other places, someday, or couldn't we find something similar here that would do the same? I wouldn't mind a visit to where you come from, myself.
[Iron Widow spoilers ment] also, do you want to wrap things up here?
[Yizhi retorts teasingly; but then Wei Wuxian brings up the possibility of worldhopping, and well- it’s true that if one logic-shattering thing has already happened, another might. If he is in “Hell” and Shimin, father-killer, is not, then what else could be possible?]
Ah… if we were to be realistic, you wouldn’t get to tour the Chrysalises even if you came to my world. They don’t let civilians see those. [His voice grows wistful.] But since we’re fantasising… it would be nice to show you around. I think Zetian and Shimin would like you. And after, we could tour Yiling together.
[Okay, this is deep in fantasy territory. It’s right down there with his old dream of running away to the mountains with Zetian. But before Yizhi can embarrassedly dismiss his hypothetical, their food arrives.]
[To their server:] Oh- thank you.
This looks good!
here seems good!
Ah, well, if I meet my future love someday, I hope they'd know. I'm serious so little of the time!
And, we can always wish, hm? Even if it doesn't seem realistic. We're here for such things in part, after all.
[the talk turns to lighter things after that; the meal and the company are excellent. it's a good night to have with a new friend.]