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

[junkyarddog]

[Ken, for his part, seems like he can keep it up indefinitely. He keeps hammering his fist against that borderline, with something almost like patience. He normally wouldn't have the patience for a war of attrition on someone, because he wouldn't be sure how long it would go on and he'd get bored...but he knows Chikusa. He doesn't expect this to drag on for long.]

[kokuyoyo]

[True enough... While Chikusa probably could hold up for a lot longer than he is.... eventually...]

[Well. Ken's constant pounding is leaving him sore. Pressing a hand to his head, he glowers over at Ken. Well, as much as his face will twist into that expression.]

...Weren't you hungry or something...

[Maybe he can just... slide out of this without having necessarily 'lost'.]

[junkyarddog]

We can eat after I beat you, byon. [Ken sounds absolutely smug. He knows what Chikusa is trying to do; he's lived with this boy his whole life, after all.]

[kokuyoyo]

[That smugness really pisses him off... Chikusa's jaw tightens a little more in annoyance.]

So you're never eating, then.

[junkyarddog]

[Ken hammers on Chikusa's borderline again.] You'll give up soon, byon. This isn't a real fight, so you'd rather be lazy than worry about winning, right?

[kokuyoyo]

[UGH..... HE HATES... THAT HE'S RIGHT ABOUT THIS.... The levels of sulk radiating off of Chikusa are unbelievable.]

Maybe. But you still wouldn't be winning if I did that....

[junkyarddog]

Yeah I would, byon. [Ken's level of smugness is increasing in direct proportion to Chikusa's sulk.] Forfeiting is losing, right?

[kokuyoyo]

You wouldn't have broken through, so you wouldn't have won.

[He doesn't want to keep doing this, but he doesn't want Ken to win. The struggle is real.]

[junkyarddog]

Only 'cause you were too lazy to keep it up until I did, byon. Not 'cause I couldn't.

[kokuyoyo]

It still doesn't-

[Okay, you know what, fuck this. He sharply dismisses the line right as Ken is swinging into it, hoping to make his partner fall flat on his face.]

[junkyarddog]

[Chikusa, this was not your most well-thought-out plan. The borderline was between you and Ken, so without it in place, Ken's massive gorilla fist is now swinging, unimpeded, with great force, straight down at you.

However - and this may be accidentally heartwarming - when Ken realizes that there's no longer anything stopping him from hitting Chikusa directly, and that he's about to flatten his partner with a fist easily the size of Chikusa's own head, he desperately halts uts momentum - all the way up to the point of his other hand snapping up to intercept his wrist, barely in time. The sheer level of panic in his simian expression is honestly touching.]

What're you doing, stupid kappa?!

[kokuyoyo]

[Indulging in his usual lack of particular care for his life, that's what he's doing.]

[Although even at the sight of that enormous fist heading towards him, Chikusa can't be particularly worried even outside of his dull view towards his own life. Objectively, he knows he's in danger, but subjectively...]

[It's hard to imagine Ken, in any form, causing serious damage, which most of their messing around doesn't qualify as.]

[Even as the enormous fist is frozen not far from his face, Chikusa merely peers around it, slumping against Ken's enormous knuckles and his cheek brushing against his wrist.]

Are we going to get food or not?

[junkyarddog]

[Ken huffs, reaching up to take out his Kong cartridge and letting his body shrink back to its normal proportions. His arm stays steady, though, even as it becomes more compact, so that Chikusa can keep leaning on it.] I almost hit you, dumbass.

And we can get food after you admit I won.

[kokuyoyo]

Yeah, but you didn't.

[So that's that. Still, back to the bullshit.... Chikusa pulls away, turning on his heel.]

Okay, so, I guess you're not eating then. More for me...

[junkyarddog]

[Ken huffs.] I'll just go get my own food if you're gonna be a sore loser, spoilsport four-eyes. I don't need you to go eat!

[kokuyoyo]

I'm not being a sore loser....

[He's super being a sore loser.]

[junkyarddog]

Oh yeah? Then admit you lost, byon.

[kokuyoyo]

[Nnngh....]

I gave up. It's different.

[It's really not.]

[junkyarddog]

So you can't do it? [Ken is looking smug.] It'd be easier to say you lost than to argue, byon. You're making an effort.

[And Chikusa doesn't make an effort for nothing.]

[kokuyoyo]

[He hates this.]

[He hates this so much.]

[Chikusa looks as if he's going to lose some of his height by his own skull retracting into his spine, with the way his shoulders are rising up.]

No.

[junkyarddog]

No what? [Once Ken sinks his teeth into a thing, it's hell in a handbasket to make him let go until he wants to.]

[kokuyoyo]

[UGH]

No, I didn't win this time... because it doesn't matter.

[And yet here they are, bickering like dumbasses over it.]

Are we getting food or not.

[junkyarddog]

If it didn't matter, you wouldn't be sulking about it, byon. [Ken basks in his triumph.]

C'mon, I'm hungry! [And Ken grabs Chikusa's hand, tugging him along.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Still sulking the whole way, Chikusa allows himself to be tugged along. This is annoying, the worst, and it sucks.]

[....But feeling Ken's warm hand wrapped around his is kind of nice, he guesses.]