September 2022 Substories!

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The Left Swiping Shall Continue Until Morale Improves Ember 3.0 is still going strong. Some minor patches here and there, so you're encouraged to take another glance at it and see what, if anything, is new! This is a continuation of a Player Submitted Substory/Plot by Pine, player of Ydris. Here's a link to it! All threads conducted on this topic count as Substory threads.	Can't Download a Clue "Please don't browse porn on these, sir" Jigoku-cho is home to many internet cafes of varying quality. Most of them are located in the Sutoku Alliance's territory. A new one has popped up recently, run by an executive's son who has too much money, not enough sense, and a dream. He rented out a garage, bought a few computers from the closest used electronics store, and decked it out with the cheapest desks and chairs money can buy. It's truly a paradise. Except it isn't. No one wants to come to this cafe and the owner can't figure out why! He's done everything right, hasn't he?! People like it enough to come in and try to steal everything that isn't nailed down! That has to count for something, doesn't it?! His father will pay you a considerable amount of money if you can help get his idiot son's business back on track, or at least stop the thieves from draining his wallet. Unfortunately, Daddy doesn't seem ready to give this idiot a true reality check and pull the funding, what a softy.
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Drifter Grifter A man dressed all in black stumbles in on the edge of the city. He says he's come from the Wasteland and has important information about Iron Bear. He's dusty and disheveled enough that it's easy to believe him. All he asks in return is for some hospitality: a hot meal, a stiff drink, and maybe a few thousand yen to send him on his way. Once he has all of that, he goes to the bathroom, never to be seen again. If you ask around town about this man, you'll notice that everyone seems to be looking for the mysterious drifter in black. The Department of the Enma wants him taken in for scamming people, members from every faction want to shake him down for daring to pull this on their turf, and the people he's scammed want retribution. Team up, track him down, and deal with this grifter drifter.	Dogged the Bounty Hunters (plot-relevant) With a massive bounty on the line, every faction wants to claim that cash reward and to finally have business settled out in the Wastes. The factions have not made an alliance, and their goals conflict in places. Something every faction agrees upon, however, is that it will be easier for them to get theirs if they knock out any unaffiliated competition. For those independent forces out there gunning for the prize, they will be met with faction-allied obstacles. Everyone has been ordered by their respective leaders to sabotage the crap out of them. The Department of the Enma frames this as though it is a matter of public safety. The other clans? They're a bit more honest: this is about eliminating unnecessary variables. Each faction has their own methods for discouraging, muscling out, or otherwise getting rid of would-be bounty hunters. Whether through fights, bribes, or other seedy means, swear-ins are expected to keep the competition under their thumbs. Art by Samuel Silverman

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QUESTIONS!

[jigokumods]

If you have questions about this month's substories, post them here!

Re: QUESTIONS!

[kaientai]

How willing are some of these bounty hunters to be converted from unaffiliated interference to potentiallyworking for the Alliance? Or, if not, are they willing to sell information? Ryouma will always prefer to make connections where he can and hopes a small payout will be a sweeter deal than no payout at all.

As for any information he might be able to get, would any of it be useful? Obviously given the grifter substory there's sure to be some duds lmao

Re: QUESTIONS!

[stubboarn]

hello mods

i brought this up in the enma faction disco channel for a substory related thing. my question is is there a location they can use to trap these people and detain them en masse? or will it need several locations (and if so, where)

thanks!

[rainswords]

Regarding the internet cafe.
— First what type of location is it settled in? How much traffic is there around the area of the garage? And what other businesses are there around? What state is it in? Was it renovated at all before all the equipment was settled inside? Further, since it is the owner's father seeking assistance for his son, would it be possible to directly make proposals to him? For example, if the cafe is in a bad location would finding a different locale be a welcomed proposal?
— How many changes can be made? As in, how much more money can be sunk into this business before the brilliant entrepreneur's father decides to pull the plug on the whole operation? Would finding new, high-end equipment be on the table? How about offering other services?
— It's not like Xingqiu's jealous or anything — but imagine having a father supporting you even if you make questionable choices!

[saintclaire]

Not sure if this should go to mods or to Ydris' player re: Ember, but just the same:

a) can characters create fake profiles with fake information? (ie, falsified name, photo, age?)
b) can they register multiple profiles? (ie, a real one and then a fake one?)

(Apologies if this has been asked before, I read through everything I could find but there's a lot of posts!)

[harimaya]

I know some questions were answered on the FAQ page about the Wasteland but just going to ask something kind of related to it here.

Since it sounds like a lot of the youkai are more monster than human and they become more violent and stuff... Hizen would wonder if this is natural or not. "Could something like the haniwa curse energy be in the Wasteland... Could there be worse curses out there… Should some of us be more careful so we don't change too..."

I think Hizen would do some general snooping around in shady places, bars, the arena, and ask around if/when people come to the arena to train/get weapons to prepare. He might ask Jiro if he's ever heard of anything too since he is an old soul.

Totally get it if you don't want to share answers about this or anything yet! But it's just something Hizen would wonder about in particular because he comes from a canon where... spirits can become corrupted, more powerful, and become less human, too. He considers himself strong but he knows his nature as a spirit makes him vulnerable to other things. u_u

[playfoul]

hey mods! in preparation for wasteland adventures, is it possible to get ahold of kappa-tech invisibility gear? if yes, is there anything the kappa would like in exchange for it (money, goods, etc.)...

MINGLE QUESTIONS

[jigokumods]

Have questions about the mingle? Post them here!

Re: MINGLE QUESTIONS

[himbosupreme]

Important question about the mingle: is there alcohol being served. And will Captain Shiki try to stop Cain from going rogue and trying to change the music/start a wild party

[divisors]

Can they use icebreaker questions outside of the ones on the list? Or is that not allowed?

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[crimsonhorizon]

Okay but

are there pancakes at the food contest.

[invinciblemikey]

good (time of the day)!!

just wondering if the prompts are faction closed, aside from the last one!

Re: MINGLE QUESTIONS

[passthrough]

On Sutoku prompt: just for the sake of players who might not OOCly be comfortable with the gross out humor, can we confirm if there will be other types of Horrible Lame Reject Games mixed in there?

Also: how picky is Daitengu on how we choose to dispose of the rejects (ex. Can we set up a drunk smash-the-machine in a corner somewhere to take out our sorrows)?

[everblooms]

piggy backing off jade's question about faction prompts being closed, is it possible to sneak someone in? aerith would probably try to sneak tifa in with her regardless, but i'm interested in knowing what might happen when she did try lmao

[sincleavers]

Could someone interpret the eating contest as something like... "how spicy can you handle eating" rather than strictly how much? (Does that even make sense?!?)

Asking for, uh...a friend. Yeah.

[frogmarched]

Do the magpies like grasshoppers? Or would they prefer like, pastries or something, I assume that Magpies In Hell don't have to worry about eating the wrong thing?? Can you appease them through the delicious gift of food

MINI-EVENT Questions!

[jigokumods]

Got questions about the Mini-Event! Post them here!

[roombamastermind]

Croix is working with the Kappa as part of maintenance on the city's utilities. Is it okay to say because of her work that she was very close to the explosion and caught up in the chaos?

[perfectdistance]

What do the Tamamo clan seals do? Do they work as a temporary shut off of any magical/supernatural powers? Or do they contain spells like fireballs and lightning?

Either way would it be possible for Nero to be gifted a few of them directly so he can manipulate them with his own magic?

[shikanoinheizou]

If an enterprising young detective who happens to be his canon's answer to Sherlock Holmes - with all the keen observational skills that implies - happened to be poking around where the bomb went off looking for clues after he helped some people get clear of the area, would he be able to find anything unusual?

1. Is anyone who was nearby at the time willing to talk? Did they see anything or anyone strange anywhere up to a few days before the bomb went off? Has anyone else been hanging around and/or asking questions?
2. If he happened to go looking around in the warehouse (if he was allowed, or able to sneak in), would he be able to find anything there or has it all been obliterated/burned up?
3. A third and kind of throw-away question as it might not be answerable just yet - is there any immediate noticable public reaction to Iron Bear's threat by any of the faction leaders?

[hundredpower]

Barnaby has canon training in bomb disposal. Would it be feasible for him to locate and defuse one or more of the bombs? Where would they be located, and would they be rigged in some way? Are they set to a (visible or otherwise) timer?

[bratherine]

So, we got lots of information on the main bomb, but is there anything worth knowing about the other bombs? Locations, anything like that?

[emet_sulk]

Is anyone from Enma basically allowed to, er, simply take one of the confiscated bounty hunter weapons for themselves? :X What sort of unusual weapons is the description referring to?

[baofeng]

The end of the posts mentions that “the factions are already beginning to sabotage each other”- is this a faction-leader-endorsed kind of sabotage, or more of individual members spontaneously fighting with each other? It seems like the former, and especially with the bombs being not from the Iron Bear, I’m wondering if ranked characters would have gotten instructions or plans for sabotage from their leaders.

[harimaya]

Hizen is here...

Since Hizen works at the armory under Jiro, could he feasibly have an idea of what was in the first warehouse and maybe have an idea/get a list of other warehouses in the area that have similar flammable/explosive supplies? You know, basically access to information to help him figure out what some of the most likely targets might be.

He would use this information to start directing other Shuten members to the places most likely to be hit so they can clear the area of civilians and help evacuate.

I'll probably have more questions but this is just the first one that immediately jumped out to me sdfghjkl