April Event Plotting

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We realize we're doing this sort of backwards, but after some discussion and requests from players, we figure it's better late than never for a centralized plotting post for the event! Again, apologies for our growing pains, but we hope y'all are understanding.

Here's a breakdown summary of every prompt on the event;

Hanami The Sutoku Alliance has arranged for spectral cherry blossom trees for flower viewing, offering all kinds of food and drink to enjoy. The foods tend to be "enhanced" with peace/love inducing feelings, but they don't have to be. The spectral trees are a little creepy, if examined too closely.

Kanamura The Tamamo's foods from the mini-event are back, and are taking all kinds of cheeky forms. Sexy foods, but do not strictly need to lead to sexy times.

Hadaka - The Department of the Enma is allowing a naked endurance race, folks packed together in basically nothing, chasing after a mobile shrine and trying to grab luck sticks. Ostensibly it's for blowing off steam. May actually generate steam.

Sumo - The Shuten Clan is hosting sumo fights, and rules are expected to be followed. Shuten representatives are also expected to win any match they participate in, less they lose some pay. The prizes for winning are special sake gourds that enhance the flaovor of any drink contained within.

Food Runners - Need extra cash? Do some food running, with some extremely difficult to manage delivery gear. But the pay's good!

Bathhouse Orgy - As promised, the Tamamo have opened up their bathhouses on the route up for free-for-all fuckin'. All manner of kinks will be provided for, and some of the bathhouses will have transparency glamours cast on them to allow shows to be put on. This is the horniest prompt, by far.

Floats - Help carry elaborate lantern floats depicting huge dioramas of famous mythological events throughout Japan's history, though the depicted heroes and villains seem to be reversed...

Fireworks - Explains itself, but the fireworks are especially fantastic since they're largely created by magic, rather than simply pyrotechnics.

The assassination - The Daitengu will be assassinated in the outcome of the underground machine causing a massive cloud of steam to flood the entire parade route. Panic will ensure, and black-suited youkai will clash with the White Wolf Guard, eventually succeeding in killing the Daitengu

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Hazel Lockwood | OC | Tamamo

[deadtective]

Player Name: Len
Contact: PMs or phantomblood. I try to keep my timeline fairly small, though, so just let me know you're adding!

Character Name: Hazel Lockwood
Canon: OC
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: Serial killer victim later revived (extremely) imperfectly as a zombie to serve as a witch's instrument of revenge. She gives off a sense of inherent wrongness to those who are supernaturally attuned, even with her powers nerfed. She's a bit of a pain in the ass by nature and has got a serious lack of self-worth but neither can quite dampen the fact that she's a good person deep down. Currently struggling with whether she wants to sincerely give a shit about everything here for the sake of her very alluring contract or just say 'fuck this' and do what she wants instead of living under someone's thumb again.

Initial Ideas:

Hanami: She'll probably be spending most of her time here; she loves plants and flowers so this sort of thing gives her soft feelings even before she enjoys the munchies. The voices won't bother her much because even they feel kind of peaceful? Which is a little concerning but w/e, w/e. Aside from simply soaking up the atmosphere she'll also be taking a shit ton of pictures from every angle on her phone as reference images for painting later. The food will make her a fair bit chattier in a non-snarky way, as a nice bonus!

Kanamura & Hadaka: Heh...dicks. Hazel's very amused by the juvenile stupidity of both these events, especially if she spies someone visibly embarrassed by any of the goings-on. Expect to be menaced good-naturedly by a vegetable dildo or tripped in front of a stampeding horde of naked runners if she spies an opportunity.

Sumo: She's very competitive so she'll be entering...but she's also five foot nothing at her best and comically light thanks to having been emptied of all organs and bodily fluids gfdhj. What I'm trying to say here is: please yeet her. If you've ever wanted your character to break some kind of hell record for yeeting a dude, this is your time!! Hazel's a sore loser so she'll come back for several bouts with the same result before getting fed up and biting the next person who tries to toss her out of the ring, ending in a permanent benching by the Shuten refs. If you've ever wanted your character to suffer some really petty sports injury, this is also your time!!

Goodnight sweet shitposter: RIP Daitengu, my dude. :( Counter to the other events of the night Hazel's going to be pretty serious once shit starts going down. Once she learns the hard way the black youkai can't be meaningfully slowed or stop she'll switch her efforts over to helping out people who've gotten trapped in the chaos. She's still in a mindset of 'any pain I feel is good' so she's very willing to use herself as a meat shield to keep others safe even though she no longer heals the way she should.

I'm down for doing most anything with the other prompts I didn't list as well! So if you have something in mind you'd like to do please let me know and we'll get that going. c:

Anything else: More info on Hazel can be found on her journal! Also thank you for being patient with me towards the latter half of the past month, I had (having ;;) a chronic fatigue flareup and as we all know those are f u n.

[psionicmolotov]

i would love to have some chill hanami time with the person kimmuriel has mentally filed away in his head as "jacket person" tbh. he's going to be a BIT less uptight due to the hanami stuff so they might actually be able to have a semi-normal conversation

[deadtective]

That jacket is 100% in display in her apartment somewhere, tbc. But something approaching normality should be pretty fun! Or at least full of fewer knives lmf.

[worldbent]

Fufufu I want Hazel action please!! If she's happy to be a meatshield, Matoba is going to need someone backing him up while he's long-range sniping Daitengu's assailants, and to help him retreat once he catches their attention!

Also I just think their personalities would be either 100% getting along or 100% oil and water and that is very funny to me.

[deadtective]

She's more than happy to meatshield, having plenty of experience in the field! He can expect to be bitched at a little over being seen while they're beating their retreat but she won't let him get hit even then. (...probably.)

Honestly there's a very high possibility it could also end up 'both of these options, but it depends on the moment' which is equally funny tbh.

[worldbent]

u_u it's fine because she's right, he shouldn't have gotten seen! he's not used to having to play stealth sniper, alas

Matoba is incapable of not pushing buttons, this seems right

[deadtective]

Play more CoD scrub!! Would you like me/you to tag into a more general prompt or is a closed starter better for you? (I'm fine with either tbc)

And Hazel, despite having that same incapability, also has the maturity of a toddler which means sometimes she can't take what she's dishing out. It should definitely be fun.

[worldbent]

Feel free to tag into Matoba's battle prompt! A little bit of battle focus doesn't mean you can't banter... 👉👈

[metafictions]

lmao Kamui also has passive Very Wrong vibes, birds of a feather eh

would you prefer something chill or something actiony?! Kamui is PRIME for getting menaced during Kanamura; also, as a Shuten he will be around the sumo rings to commiserate over getting yeeted / drag... Hazel away... from biting somebody. It might also be a fun bickering opportunity to have them attempting to meat shield each OTHER during the scuffle since Kamui will behaving similarly!

[deadtective]

So this is why they've been vibing...hit enough bad notes and you've got a Stravinsky piece instead.

I'm started typing up how these all sound good and if you had a preference since it was difficult deciding, but I was just reminded of that one comic of the guys trying to take a bullet for each other so I guess the choice is made lmao. Hazel's got a nonexistent opinion of herself so she'll be quite cranky about someone trying to protect her even a little!! &etc

[metafictions]

if *I* have low self esteem and *YOU* have low self esteem, then WHO'S FLYING THE PLANE......

sounds great! B) I'm gonna be putting some closed prompts up, so i'll roll back here with a link when it's all ready!

[deadtective]

Awesome! I'll jump right on that when you do. c:

[metafictions]

ta-daaaa lmk if you need me to change anything up there!

[deadtective]

zombie emoji.......I appreciate

Jokes aside, it looks good to me! I'll hit this up either tonight or tomorrow, thank you. c8

[sleepinglyra]

Hi fellow OC! Hazel sounds neat! Sheliak is extremely competitive against Tamamo right now so he will gladly yeet her and by all means give him a petty injury. Sheliak is 6'4" with experience in self defense and unarmed combat. This is his and my first experience with sumo though. I've never written a sumo match before so I'm not sure how well I'll do but I'm willing to try or we could play out the aftermath of her getting yeeted and injuring Sheliak? However you want to do it works for me.

[deadtective]

Howdy! He's nearly a foot and a half taller than her, god bless...that's going to be so fucking comical, I am here for it. To be perfectly honest I wouldn't stress much about sumo accuracy since Sheliak's opponent in this case is more like an irate badger than a trained professional. Hazel didn't know shit about the sport before entering the tournament and is even less interested in the rules by the time she hits 'biting her opponents' levels of frustration, so it's very easy to excuse any mistakes.

Also I doubt the match would last very long to being with, lmao. She's angry but that doesn't help the astronomically bad odds she's facing.

[sleepinglyra]

lol I agree! Height differences are always fun to play with. Sounds great! I should have a toplevel up soon. I'm a bit behind with everything orz. Thanks so much for helping with my sumo anxiety. Sheliak knows very little about sumo, only what he managed to find out before the Parade. His strategy is to finish his matches quickly to make up for his flawed understanding. I look forward to meeting your irate badger. Feel free to bite Sheliak, my arrogant noble probably deserves it.

[deadtective]

No worries on speed! I'm still playing a bit of catchup on things myself, I know how it goes. I'll definitely keep my eyes out for your tl and hit it up. ovo

The nice thing about Hazel is that a lot of her defaults are either immaturity, cheating, or both, so it makes for very flexible play rofl. Her priority is always winning rather than details so she hasn't been too fussed to do much research. Hope Mr. Noble enjoys those peasant chompers!

[sleepinglyra]

lol I love her already! Here is Sheliak's toplevel whenever you are ready. There's no rush.