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

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[batteredog]

[ But he has a grasp of the situation. He's being given something free of charge which means this person.... they were probably one of them. Civilian. Only they ever did something strange like this. So, he bows. It's expected. Civilians were either to be respected or killed. And right now, he hadn't received a kill order from Noctis so his default fell to the first and not the latter. ]

[yasei]

[ Far from a civilian, actually. He can tell that the pause just might mean that he's not used to getting presents (but neither is Obi) though.

He carefully lifts a hand and ruffles the boys hair gently. ]

[batteredog]

[ He flinches at first but no stinging pain follows. He doesn't pull away or try to push him off but simply lets him do what he wants though it's easy to tell from his expression that Nicolas has no idea what's going on. But he preserveers just like a cat being petted by a stranger. ]

[yasei]

[ Ah, that reaction feels familiar. He retracts his hand after a few moments, and rests his arm against his leg, completely relaxed. ]

Ah.. Was that strange?

[batteredog]

[ He nods without hesitation looking unsure of what he should do next. 'Yes. It was very strange.' ]

[yasei]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it feel weird. It's supposed to be a fond or friendly gesture.

[ How do you actually explain though.... ]

[batteredog]

[ Another tilt of his head at those words. He doesn't know them either. He knows dozens of words for rape, pillage and murder but his vocabulary is limited when it comes to more... domestic things. ]

[yasei]

[ Hmmm... He'll need to help him learn more words. But he'll be able to pick up more words, among so many people, and a lot of nice ones (words and people). ]

It means, it's a thing that should show that somebody likes you or think you did good, without using words.

[batteredog]

[ A look of surprise. He didn't know there were words like that. ]

.....

[yasei]

Or that you're cute.

[ Because why not add a little more surprise to the surprise. ]

[batteredog]

[ Yeah... he has no clue what that means either so he just blinks up at him. As he does one of the cats jumps on his shoulder and climbs up on his head till he reaches the top and starts messing with his hair. Nicolas does nothing to stop it and barely acknowledges it's there. Yeah... he's probably used to this. ]

[yasei]

[ Nic is just a big kitty--

Obi pokes his nose with a friendly grin. ]

Like a kitty.

[batteredog]

[ He instantly pulls back, nose wrinkling at the unexpected gesture. His brows crease as he stares up at him with a hint of confusion clouding his eyes. What was that?! ]

[yasei]

[ Obi chuckles. Ah, such confusion, how cute and sad at the same time. ]

Oh, sorry sorry, I'm a weird person, huh?

[batteredog]

[ He nods almost immediately. Very strange. ]