23 - Crazy Cat Shuffle

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Crazy Cat Shuffle
When: September 20
Where: Shibuya & Ikebukuro, as well as the Far Shore
Summary: The new Crazy Cat mascot keychains are sparking real passion in Tokyo's hot spots. Brawls have broken out over the extra-rare versions, and all of this angst is attracting ayakashi. The gods have been asked to step in before things get out of control.







Crossing Crisis

The Shibuya scramble crossing is always busy, but it's especially wild today. Ten new Crazy Cat vending machines have been installed at the mouth of the alley across from Shibuya Station's exit. Rumors are flying that these machines have extra Blue-Star Cats in them: the very rarest kind! A crowd of hundreds of excited fans have gathered, but the people at the front of the lines are buying lots of cats, and the mood is starting to grow sour as the people at the back of the lines begin to wonder if there will be any left by the time it's their turn.

This crowd needs crossing guards... or just someone who can snag some of those ultra-rare Cats and sell them to the back of the line for crazy cash. Everything a god does is righteous, after all.

Sunshine Struggle

Crazy Cat machines dot the Sunshine City complex in Ikebukuro. The machines here are attracting some particularly nasty ayakashi: jealous little purple creatures with too many legs that stoke buyers' envy and need for more and better collectibles. Under their influence, it's not just the Cats going fast. The local stores are selling out of everything cute on the shelves.

Worse, some of the ayakashi victims are turning to theft when they run out of pocket money. Time to exterminate those bugs before they start a new crime wave.

Taking Stock

Accident? Sabotage? No one's telling, but a delivery truck carrying boxes of new keychains to restock the machines blew a tire and overturned on a major street. Under the influence of those greedy little ayakashi, collectors are descending on the wreck to snag their favorites before the police show up.

The dazed driver doesn't know what to do, the crowd is starting to get violent, and those Cats do look amazingly cute. And appealing. And, for that matter, valuable.

Bad Kitty

The cat keychains are super cute! Even gods or shinki might be tempted to buy one and take it home, but taking these keychains back to the Far Shore will give away their hidden secret. It's not just human envy that's attracting ayakashi to the Crazy Cats. There are ayakashi hiding inside this batch of cute kitty dolls, and bringing them through a shrine to the Far Shore will force the hidden creatures out of their plushie prisons.

They're big, they're mad, and they're hungry. And the Heavens are full of souls that smell delicious.

The ayakashi escaping from Crazy Cat dolls on the Far Shore resemble gigantic (taller than a person at the shoulder) versions of the cute plushie cats, with very real and sharp teeth and claws. They run and attack at random once released from the dolls, so even gods and shinki who did not bring the toys back could be faced with a fight. The patrolling shinki will do their best to hold them back with borderlines, but they need help to rend these crazy cats before they do too much damage!

In Summary:

• Placate the crowds
• Squash bitty ayakashi
• Struggle with temptation
• Defeat the cat invasion
• Have fun~

Comments

[horthath]

That's like taking the easy way out but yeah, I might go down that route if it's still not showing up by the end of the day.

[ She's in a good mood, surprisingly. But give her a sec before she fishes one egg out and tosses it to the small girl. ]

Here. You can take that one off my hands.

[alchemists]

Is it ok for me to take this?

[ Even if it's a double of a key chain they have already it's still part of their collection. ]

[horthath]

Yeah, sure, why not? That's one less cat I gotta get rid of.

[ Is she not a shining paragon of generosity? ]

[alchemists]

Thank you! It's really nice of you to let me have it. I almost gave up on trying to get one of these key chains because of all the lines.

[horthath]

[ Nice. Please. ]

You'd probably end up getting trampled if you tried to fight off that crowd.

[ And there's a pretty noisy one a few feet away, crowding over the one gachapon she hasn't been able to raid. ]

But you're probably right about raking in a profit. Those guys look desperate.

[alchemists]

It might be a little mean spirited to profit off of this but the resources are there, it seems like a waste not to try and use it so you can get the one you want in the end.

[horthath]

Mean spirited, please... finder's keepers. If someone wants to pony up the cash for what they want, who am I to deny them?

[ The giggle that follows and the smile seem a little too sweet for how poisonous the sentence sounds... ]

[alchemists]

I guess that is true? You did spend the money to get it first.

[horthath]

Exactly. I'm just saving them the trouble of having to waste all that money trying to get what they want. Surely paying me back plus a little something extra isn't a baaaaad thing.

[ And a wink, like she's bestowing some sort of secret. ]

[alchemists]

How much extra would you try and charge them...