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September 2022 Substories!
SUBSTORY #1 | SUBSTORY #2 |
 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. |
SUBSTORY #3 | SUBSTORY #4 |
 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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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
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He mentions that he doesn't think there's any kind of cursed presence out there that drives people to violence, he just thinks that's what happens to people who are left with no choice but "survive" and little else. He says that having a network of people you care about, who care about you, the singular building block of "society" being bonds formed between individuals, is what keeps people from turning into those monsters you hear about out in the Wastes.
He gets a little sentimental about it, comparing it a bit to the way minerals of iron and carbon bind together, forming steel, becoming stronger and grander, whereas just a chunk of iron by itself in an environment like that is doomed to oxidize, to rust, and crumble away. He stays on this blacksmithing metaphor for well too long, of course, because it's Jiro, but you get it.
He thinks Hizen shouldn't worry; so long as he goes out there with people he trusts, people he knows will keep him "him", he should be fine. He's got friends here.
On an OOC level; yeah there's no force that drives them to becoming monster, it's just what however many centuries away from civilization in an environment that is extremely difficult to survive in has driven them too. There are exceptions to this, though, and it'll become relevant during the event.
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friendsacceptable CR. 😭He'll even listen to the whole blacksmithing metaphor like a good sword boy. Help out extra around the armory. Try to think of a way Jiro can meet his cooler sword friends u_u
Thank you, mods!