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

[mersunary]

Likewise.

[Strength and skills aside, Soleil always feels a little stronger, a little bolder in battle with someone else by her side, especially someone so enchanting...!]

And who is it that I'd have the honor of asking for?

[Exchanging names is, probably, a smart idea.]

[nibelungvalesti]

I am the Valkyrie, though here I have been given the mantle of Osiris.

[She is notoriously bad at giving her own proper name. After all, she does not exist outside of her role; when she is not the Valkyrie, she sleeps. And other factors are at play as well, ones she does not know about.]

[mersunary]

The Valkyrie, that's a very powerful sounding name...!

[Sounds waaayy more like a title than a name, but she's not in the business of questioning the name a lovely woman offers to her, her own shinki being in a similar position. 'Valkyrie' will do just fine.]

Soleil, but if you prefer god titles, Freyr. It's a pleasure meeting you.

[nibelungvalesti]

['Freyr?' That name earns the woman a scrutinizing look, belonging as it does to the pantheon that poorly mirrors her proper one is Asgard.]

[That faint, flawed kinship inspires a few more faintly begrudging words out of her.]

Properly, my name is Lenneth. At the moment, I am the active Valkyrie.

[mersunary]

[This particular pantheon isn't one that has any standing in her own world, so while she picks up on the fact that there may be some special meaning to her words, what she's going for exactly is a bit of a mystery.]

Is that so...? [She sounds fairly intrigued, at least.] You introduced yourself at the Valkyrie, would you rather have me call you that, or your proper name?

[nibelungvalesti]

[The Valkyrie makes a little frustrated noise. That question should be an easy one to answer, should it not?]

I have been advised that I ought to be more free with my name and permit its usage more often.