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

Re: Sunshine

[lookingforhead]

[Celty nods and looks around. She does so for a suitably long span to make her next comment somewhat comedic.]

Do you have any way we can find it?

[For all the magical nature of her senses, her range is only somewhat greater than a normal human's. If there's anything deeper she can do, it's been lost or forgotten.]

Re: Sunshine

[trapperkeeper]

[There is a long moment of silence from Lann.]

Okay! Then we find a way to find the ayakashi first. Then we find it and kick its butt.

[The answer to her question is no.]

Re: Sunshine

[lookingforhead]

[Right. Well the hard way then.

Carefully, Celty pushes back towards the crowd, walking the edges and trying to avoid drawing attention to herself. Maybe there's a focus to this disturbance. Not the toys themselves but a place where everyone is more drawn? Or some place that someone can watch all of this from.]

Re: Sunshine

[trapperkeeper]

[Lann follows her for a while, watching curiously.]

What are you-

[Just as he's about to ask Celty what she's up to, Lann notices something out of the corner of his eye.]

Hey! What the honk is that thing?

[He's pointing at a purple creature that resembles a centipede, coiled around the base of one of the machines. It's feeding happily on all frantic envy and greed.]

Re: Sunshine

[lookingforhead]

[Celty turns as soon as she hears him call out. This whole situation has her on edge, wound up like a coild spring. There's a vengeful shiver of elation that runs up her spine as the Ayakashi is spotted.

She doesn't even wait to coordinate him before throwing her hand out towards the thing. A gush of shadow pours from her sleeve and a tendril whips through the air to try to grab it!]

Re: Sunshine

[trapperkeeper]

Whoa!

[She takes it by surprise, but this is a well-fed, tough little ayakashi. It's got a tight grip on that machine and it's gonna hold on for dear life. The machine wobbles a little, and the people around it back away in surprise.

Lann's brain finally catches up to what's happening, and moves forward to try to deflect the crowd.

Uh.. sorry folks! This one is... broken. It's got a problem with its.....

[Darn it! What's a thing machines have?]

...tubes.

[nailed it.]

Gotta give us some space to fix it.

Re: Sunshine

[lookingforhead]

[Lann's voice manages to shake Celty out of her emotional reaction quick enough to let her help cover. The shape of a fire extinguisher takes form in her hand as the shadows continue to hose down the machine. People begin to murmur and back away. Perhaps not the best choice considering some start to wonder if there's a fire, but Celty does her best to wave that everything is under control.

So far, with the lack of shouts and alarms, people at least seem to be buying both excuses. But they should probably get out of there quick.]