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

[kokuyoyo]

[Would you look at that, he did it. Sure, the sight looks silly, but as long as it gets the job done...]

....What do you think would happen if we threw it in front of a train?

[chikusa no]

[redotiertwo]

Probably something bad, so let's not do that. [They do not need to inconvenience anyone's morning routine by somehow derailing a train with a gacha machine.] We're not really close enough to the ocean to drop it into the water, are we.

[He doesn't really want to fly most of the way across Tokyo to drop it in Tokyo Bay.]

[kokuyoyo]

I think... that would take more of a train ride than we'd want to take.

[Sure, Japan is an island, but there's still distance to consider. Chikusa shoves his hands into his pockets.]

....Drop it from top of a building. [Oh, right-] Away from people...

[redotiertwo]

Taking this on a train at all would probably be an issue. [People do kind of start noticing when you're doing something as obvious as carrying around a gacha machine.]

Are there that many buildings around here away from people, we're in the middle of a city.

[kokuyoyo]

There have to be alleys.... or something. [Oh, wait. He stirs.] Or... a taller building to a shorter one. That's more common right...

[redotiertwo]

I dunno, probably. I don't really have any personal recommendations, though, this isn't one of the areas I scope out. [He's most familiar with the surroundings of Hajime's shrine, which doesn't include this particular area.]

[kokuyoyo]

Let's... just find an elevator and work from there.

[This is a fool proof plan, right]

[redotiertwo]

Literally the nearest elevator still sounds like a bad idea. ["Away from people" was kind of the point of this exercise, Chikusa.]

[kokuyoyo]

....We can just kick them out...

[He has no qualms about this, after all.]

Or do you want to fly up with it the whole way...?

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, but this is a busy part of town, it's not exactly going to be hard for this shit to get back to people. The last thing we need is half-crazed potentially violent cute shit fans on a rooftop.

[The cute shit fans are definitely the kind of fans that would kill a man to get their merchandise.]

[kokuyoyo]

...So you're flying.

[redotiertwo]

Do I look like I was expecting not to be flying. [He wrapped most of himself around the machine for a reason.]

[kokuyoyo]

Then I'll see you on the top.

[Have fun in carrying that to the top of the building, Davesprite. Chikusa is gonna shuffle off now.]

[redotiertwo]

That sounds kinda like bullshit. [Especially since nobody actually mentioned which specific building was going to be involved here. Largely because Davesprite hasn't picked one yet.

He'll work on that as he goes.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Bullshit it may be, but hey. Chikusa figures they'll figure it out once they're high enough, which he is once he shuffles out onto the roof and peers over the edge.]