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

[yousaytron]

[He's not going to attack the owl, all it's really doing is getting in the way, but he will have the red lion shake its head in an attempt to get it off.

But, more importantly;]

Is your god around? I can't take these things out by myself.

[The ayakashi, perhaps deterred by the earlier borderline, don't particularly seem poised to attack just now, but aren't exactly going away either.]

[kokuyoyo]

He's been kicked out of the temple.

[Still, he'll watch as the owl flaps off and, with extreme reluctance, begins to circle down.]

Shinki or god?

[yousaytron]

[Well, maybe it would be just too convenient to expect a pair to show up that could rend these things. At least he feels like he stands a chance at putting some kind of dent in these things with someone else present.]

Me? Shinki.

[kokuyoyo]

[And thus, there's the usual expected question-]

Then why not call your god...?

[yousaytron]

If I had one right now, this wouldn't even be an issue.

[What, is that a normal last resort for shinki or something? Come on now.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Listen... Chikusa doesn't stick his nose into other shinki's business and their relationships with their god, okay.]

....You really can't find anyone to take you...

[yousaytron]

[Wow.]

Is now really the time for that?

[kokuyoyo]

[Slowly, Chikusa glances back to the ayakashi.... and then back up at Keith.]

....Sure.

Unless you have better ideas on what to do right now...

[yousaytron]

[Taking advantage of this precarious situation to pick apart his life choices, huh? Well, that's probably not the smartest thing to be doing, but, you know.]

If you can help me section off a few of these with a borderline, I can probably do some damage to them.

[He's doing his best to reel in his annoyance, but the effort is probably clear through his tone.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Sorry, Keith, but Chikusa's lack of fuck extends both to mortal danger and how annoyed other people are with him. Sighing, he starts to rustle through his pockets.]

Sure, I guess... That thing looks big enough to step on them.

[yousaytron]

[Surely these two will get along swimmingly.]

Thank you. [It's about time] If the group's smaller, it'll be easier to knock some of them out.

[kokuyoyo]

...What if.... they just stop moving at all?

[yousaytron]

[He can't say that's not a super ideal situation, honestly.]

Okay, [Sure?] You got a way to do that?

[kokuyoyo]

..Mukurou. Go get to work already...

[The owl puffs a little bit, the epitome of fluffiness, before taking off again and... beginning to glow blue. It's a strange sight, honestly, with the form something like fire but the texture shimmering through it more akin to light refractions on water.]

[It starts to circle around, seeming to look for speed or a good pocket of air, before the glow begins to lag behind it.... forming a wave to wash aright over the yowling cat ayakashi.]

[As if they needed anymore reasons to hate bird.]

[yousaytron]

[Keith is not sure what to expect out of this particular endeavor, but waiting to see what this guy and his owl have up their sleeves feels like it might be worth at least some trouble.

That... isn't necessarily what he would have expected to see, but at least heaven's full of weird enough stuff that it isn't entirely shocking to see.]

Not bad.

[What's that light going to accomplish, though? Freezing them in place? Putting them to sleep? He has no choice but to be patient, but the situation overall is making him understandably antsy for results.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Rain Flames aren't really meant for fast results, at least unless enough of them have been put into play. Chikusa isn't sure what he can do, honestly. Some of it is still a mystery to him that he's puzzling out blindly.]

[It's nothing flashy, really. As Mukuro flaps higher upwards, the cat ayakashi hiss and swat at him... but every movement seems to take colossal effort, with them seeming slower and more exhausted with every swipe. The owl seems incredibly smug about this fact.]

...There. They won't be as much of a threat...

[yousaytron]

[That is... definitely one way to go about it, and not at all something he was expecting to see today. As the ayakashi begin to slow to a crawl, Keith turns his attention back to Chikusa.]

If I attack some of them now, it won't break the effect or anything, will it?

[kokuyoyo]

[With Mukurou coming back to nibble at his hair in silent demand, Chikusa glances back at the giant cat.]

It shouldn't. Hasn't yet, anyway...

[yousaytron]

[No matter how many of them may have gathered up to try and take him down earlier, the lot of them becoming that sluggish makes taking them down a surprisingly likely task...!

Not that there's any room to rend them with no gods in sight, but 'down for now' is better than 'running around and causing mayhem'. With that much confirmation, and the worry of being immediately overpowered behind him, the red lion dives toward the cats, claws out and slamming into the group with enough force to do some pretty significant damage. Just as long as he can keep them from immediately getting back up after... whatever it was the owl did wears off, that's more than enough to satisfy him.]

[kokuyoyo]

["Down for now" is what Chikusa has been going with for most of the afternoon, now.]

[Still... It's one thing to see a giant mecha cat just floating around. Watching him get into action is something else entirely. Chikusa instinctively ducks down, heading for cover. This is officially out of his range of helpfulness.]

[yousaytron]

["Down for now" is absolutely better than "running around and causing havoc".

Keith, as the lion dives down to deal with the sluggish cats, takes a moment to keep an eye out for where Chikusa may have ducked off to. With no real threat of the ayakashi doing anything unpredictable, it's easy enough to drive them back and away from particular areas. No need to worry about becoming collateral damage, helpful stranger...!]