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

[redmare]

[It really was a lot easier traveling with Shun..It took more work on her own, but Chinatsu eventually made it. She needed to fight her way through the rampaging crowd, which looked like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie. What the hell was all this about? A couple of kicks and elbows to the gut later, she manages to get close enough to the swirling ball of wind...

But how the hell was she supposed to get to them through that? ]

Oi! Shun!

[lostinshadows]

[It's fortunate that through the sphere, Lavi is able to pick up Chinatsu's voice.

He focuses enough to create an opening for her while focusing on keeping the rest of the crowd away.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun hears her as well, and when Lavi creates the opening, Shun leans down from the top of the truck so he's visible through the gap.]

Come on, before someone follows you in.

[redmare]

[She hops right on up, though she didn’t realize who was responsible for the wind barrier.]

Ehh, you were doing this prayer with Lavi-san?

[Though she imagined Lavi was way more patient when it came to Shun...compared to her anyway.]

So what’s your plan exactly?

[Surely it wasn’t to set those people on fire.]

[lostinshadows]

Not quite. We kind of ran into each other.

[He closes up the sphere before someone from the crowd tries to brave it.

Lavi peers over at them.]

Well, we were hoping to get rid of the ayakashi hanging around here.

[revolutionfalcon]

I saw the riot starting around the accident and came here. Lavi showed up later.

[So not really a prayer so much as a case of them both coming to the rescue and ending up trying to deal with it together.

Lavi already has the basics covered there, and Shun nods a little.] There's some small ayakashi around here fueling the violence. If the emergency workers get here and those ayakashi are still around, there's a chance they'll join in instead of helping. So we're trying to get rid of them before then.