March 2022 Substories

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SUBSTORY #1	SUBSTORY #2
Doms Wanted! One of the numerous BDSM clubs owned by the Tamamo clan needs help training staff. Their doms are too submissive and have problems saying just what’s needed to tickle their clients’ fancy. Come train them up to be properly aggressive so they can humiliate their clients and so that the club will survive! You’ll be rewarded for your help, of course.	High Definition There are posters around town advertising a hefty reward for participating in drug testing. If you choose to go to the advertised location, you will be given one of three drugs by a gyokuto, which looks identical to your average rabbit. The drugs have effects ranging from mild visual and auditory hallucinations, impaired judgment and poor coordination, and blindness. You will be sent back out into the city after the administration of the drug and will only be paid upon returning to the clinic the next day to report your experiences. Whatever happens between then and now is your problem. art by FireBay
SUBSTORY #3	SUBSTORY #4
Look at this sweet jacket A man needs help crossing one of the river bridges where he keeps being attacked. He’s convinced it’s because of a cool jacket he’s wearing that makes him irresistible to haters – but the truth is that it’s the hashihime that work and take care of the bridges around town. He’s a nuisance and they want him off the damn bridge. Help the man or help the hashihime, it’s up to you. Both will pay you.	Welcome to the Night Parade (plot-relevant) Characters are tasked with preparing for the Night Parade: setting up decorations, making sure businesses have their sponsorships lined up, training for security, planning the parade route and, of course, making sure no one is bringing any contraband to the event. The Night Parade is an important neutral event and the leaders of every clan want to ensure there are no agitators or violent incidents. The Kappa in particular want to keep Lost Souls from doing inspections on their part of the parade route; they don’t trust them to have anything to do with the city’s utilities.

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QUESTIONS!

[jigokumods]

If you have any substory related questions, post them here!

[stubboarn]

substory 2: is it possible to just get the drug?

substory 4: re. contrabands, how would the newbs get info about this and what avenues can they pursue them? what kind of contrabands have been traditionally brought into the parade? how are the belligerents punished?

can the kappa be appeased with forms of bribery or no?

[jigokumods]

2; If you mean from outside the rabbits? No, the drugs aren't on the street, and won't be in any amount worth selling, anyways.

4; Contraband is less a concern, since weapons are not difficult to get a hold of in town regardless, and more agitators looking to stir trouble (though the possession of weapons is considered a sign of that, so that can be something used as an excuse to stop someone). As far as punishments go, it generally depends on who catches them, as you can read in the premise page that each Faction have differing means in that area.

The Kappa collectively cannot be bribed, however, since they are part of the Sutoku Alliance, they may be more willing to listen to members of that Faction.

Look at This Sweet Jacket & Welcome to the Night Parade

[sunborne]

For Look at This Sweet Jacket, BECAUSE THIS COULD HAPPEN WITH DAY: Will one or either of them be open to the idea of a 1v1 if it gets suggested whether seriously or jokingly...

For Welcome to the Night Parade, when you mention the Kappa not wanting Lost Souls to do inspections on their parade route, how will they make this known? Outright telling them if they try to do their job, stalling/distracting them with other tasks or the Horrors of Bureaucracy?

[jigokumods]

1) The guy with the jacket, less so. The hashihime, probably very. To be honest, most people in this town are willing to throw down if prompted.

2) They will straight up have it blocked off and new Lost Souls will be stopped at the entrance and told to go somewhere else.

[sunborne]

Thank you so much for the quick answers, mods! The first answer is especially exciting to know about thanks to some plotting between a player and I! 😊

[getting_better]

About the Welcome to the Night Parade, what kind of crimes or shady acts will he expect to find happening on the main street and alleyways, because we know thats happening despite this being a neutral event.

[jigokumods]

The Night Parade will be the focus of the first major event of the game, and more details will be given then. Right now it's simply in set-up/decoration phase.

[getting_better]

Ohh interesting :) thank you mods!

[no_kyouken]

My body is ready to stealth mission in to see what the Kappa are up to, thanks. Maybe peeping from a rooftop. Majima *does* agree he has no business inspecting utilities so if that's all it really is he's happy to take a peep and fuck off. But also he knows how yakuza are and that also sounds like a great excuse to be doing something shady, so he wants to see it for himself.

He's reasonably stealthy, can he succeed in his surveillance mission? If so what's up?

[jigokumods]

He can indeed peep, at least to some degree. He'd have to get into the sewers to get closer to the Kappa's operation, but their section of the route along the riverside can be spied from a high enough position, and keen eyes!

As for what he'd find; something does seem to be fishy. Lots extremely carefully covered cases are being quickly taken further into the city's underground, suspiciously more than one might need to simply be building some parade floats or decorations.

To see what they are, they'd need to get *much* closer, and that would be very difficult to do alone.

[no_kyouken]

I will definitely make an open prompt for some help. Could I get some general guidelines for if it's a good match for his stealth and also a baaaad match for his stealth? I'm honestly... happy to play out either with people.

So let's go down there and take a look!

[jigokumods]

He's definitely going to need someone specialized in stealth to get deeper underground. The Kappa themselves almost seem to be invisible once they get down there~~~

[no_kyouken]

Ah shit 8V That vibration hearing sure would be handy about now. I will put up a call for stealth specifically then and we'll come back once I know their skill set.

[camyoflage]

Just checking, since the Kappa don't want anyone coming into their territory, are there any statements from the rest of the Sutoku alliance? (i.e. would general faction leadership tell them to stay out of the way or are there some people that would encourage inter-alliance sneakiness?)

Will the Kappa accept help in keeping people away from the sewers?

Also this is more of a general question: how well does tagging go over? If a character spray-painted hints or signals how long would they last and how strongly punishable is leaving it?

[jigokumods]

The official word from the Daitengu will be to respect the Kappa's decision, so as not to put tension in the alliance. Unofficially, Alliance leadership would really *not like* if you were sneaking around in there.

While a character may be in the Alliance, the Kappa still don't want them around, even if it's to keep others back. They just straight up don't want people poking around there. Just tickles the curiosity, doesn't it?

re; Tagging. They'll definitely assume new, unfamiliar graffiti is from a fresh Lost Soul, but they'll have trouble telling who it is, so it's definitely possible to evade punishment.

[medicative]

Re: substory 2, would it be possible to talk with the gyokuto about where they got their materials for the new drug and make any headway particularly if offering them a favor in return for the info? Emily's miffed about losing her entire stock of medicines and wants to figure out where someone can start getting supplies to make new ones for more specialized problems.

[jigokumods]

She will not be willing to share her formula until she's further along in the testing phase. BUT if she gets the impression Emily knows what she's talking about, she might talk to her later!

[kaientai]

So, a few things!

For Look at this sweet jacket, how open are the man and the hashihime to negotiating? If they're both willing to pay, he'd probably turn down the payment anyway and suggest either the man pay the hashihime to let him pass or the hashihime to pay the man to quit doing whatever's annoying them. How well do you suppose that would go over?

For Welcome to the Night Parade, Ryouma is going to be super interested in the Kappa (and want to know more about the Kappa's grievances in general either with the other members of the Alliance or other factions), so what would happen if he keeps pestering them lmao? Is there anything that he could do or find out that might help him improve his standing with them? He'll probably point out that he's interested because he's interested and not because the Alliance put him up to it (whether they do or not), for whatever that's worth.

[jigokumods]

1) Ryouma will probably lose hair trying to mediate this. Hashihime are passionately petty, and the jacket man seems to seat the whole of his pride in, well. His jacket. So he can attempt, but his odds of success are basically none, and he might just end up on the shitlist of both.

2) If he bugs the Kappa enough, they will definitely get violent and just try to throw him in the river to get ride of him. Thankfully, they will not try to steal his ass pearl

[kaientai]

LMAO AMAZING i am so pleased he gets to be on the diplomacy struggle bus. Thanks for the quick answer again, mods!! He'd get the hint (for now) if they toss his ass in the river which also makes for nice goofs man doesn't know how lucky he is

[medicative]

got it! definitely going to keep my eye out for her then!

[apathie]

piggybacking off of this bc mira linked me...! i would like in on this with nehan too, and he would attempt to discuss the brewing techniques as well since he does drugs too. i am planning on having him sample tthough

also! is it possible to just take a part of the drug and attempt to test the rest of it in a lab? is it a pill, a powder or a liquid?

[horrifictie]

Related to High Definition: Do the drugs have a weaker effect on people with a high tolerance, or does it ignore that? And if the effect is weaker, would the rabbits be willing to give more to someone who needs it?

Re: QUESTIONS!

[everblooms]

for the night parade, is it possible to bribe other yokai into gathering info on the kappa for you? or would any other yokai be chatty about what the kappa might be up to, or their theories?

if aerith asked other tamamo clan members about it, would there be any more information?

are there any repercussions for people who demand to speak to the manager in substory two, high definition? aerith wants to reenact the he asked for no pickles meme but its he asked for no side effects instead.