You out of your brains, thinkin I'mma shout out your name (February Catch-All

[boutdatlife]

🧙 WHO: Samatoki Aohitsugi, VARIOUS AND YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Quests, TDM, Random bar arguements.
🕒 WHEN: All of February
🗺️ WHERE: In all applicable zones
⚠️ WARNINGS: Language, NPC death possible in comments as I am doing the Selkie quest



It's all in a Day's Work.

Samatoki does not care much for his job at the tavern but he has no other option open to him at the moment so he is making the best of it as much as he can. He does fairly well and has only punched one customer and for once even his boss had to agree the guy had it coming.

If nothing else, there are far fewer altercations when Samatoki is on shift, the Yakuza is known to be short-tempered. His shift is almost over, he's just about to be able to grab a beer, take a seat and drink it before he heads home. Then an idiot spills a drink on the guy next to him at the bar and the two decide to get into a shouting match.

He slams down the glass he is currently wiping.

"OI! SHUT UP OR I'LL KICK BOTH YOUR ASSES!!!"

The Libryrinth (Part 1):

Samatoki is not a man fond of secrets, people hiding shit is never a good thing and so, he decides if he is taking on any of this quest this is the one. Though he is still considering trying this Pure of Heart business, it sounds like a good payout but he's starting with the one that sounds like he might get some real action.

Because he has some aggression to work out, the thing is Samatoki is not exactly a "tactical person" and so he is lost in the maze.

Easy enough to find which seems like a bad idea as he lets out a couple of expletives from being lost. Maybe he'll get lucky and someone else will find him first, help him find his way out before he gets thrown in jail?

Wildcard: I am open to any of the quests with Samatoki or TDM prompts, if you'd like a starter for one let me know. Or if you want to fling someone at Samatoki feel free to fling a random hey, I see you in the street starter or let me know, and I can write it. Long story short, up for anything, so come on at me; I had a rough couple of months but here for all the tags now. You can get me bethestorm to plot.

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Selkie Pelt Thief. Locked to Harry CW: Possible NPC Death

[boutdatlife]

Samatoki is not often going to be found trekking through things to do some kind of adventure quests. But, he owes Harry one, and frankly, a forced marriage just does not sit right with the Yakuza.

So when the young man asks him for help with the thief, Samatoki agrees, meeting him on the path to the thief, his familiar is nowhere in sight but Samatoki can feel him, meaning he will be able to call him if needed.

"Oi, kid, you gonna be alright if this shit goes south."

[phoenixwiz]

“Um... Yes, I’m sure that I can handle it,” Harry answers to Samatoki’s question, wondering what that really means.

Honestly, Harry has never known too much about selkies back home, but he did his research about them once he accepted the quest and he correctly guesses that selkies in Avalon are a lot like what Celtic and Scandinavian mythology & folklore speak of their counterparts back home. He too doesn’t like the whole forced marriage thing and he does feel sorry for the trapped selkie maiden he and Samatoki are about to rescue.

“From what I have read about selkies, some folks lock up their skins in chests and keep the keys to the chest with them at all times,” he informs the Yakuza before he proposes a plan of action, “Maybe we could distract the pelt thief, then I nick the key from him and escort the selkie back home, while you can deal with him in whichever way you want. Does it sound a good plan?”

[boutdatlife]

"Tch, just remember kid, sometimes people don't give ya no choice in life and when that time comes, don't go hesitatin', get you and yours killed that way." He comes from a post-war era Japan, where microphones are weapons and he's second in command in the Yakuza, Samatoki's advice may not apply to most people's everyday life, but in a fight, it's a good thing to think about.

And he figures a man who would steal a pelt and force a creature into marriage is definitely going to put up a fight.

"Ya got an idea how to distract him, cause if not I vote I kick his ass, and while I am ya grab the key and take the chick home." Sorry Harry he is who he is, and he does not mean Selkie any disrespect, honestly.

[phoenixwiz]

Ho boy, Harry could understand that statement all too well: he did came from a war-ravaged wizarding Britain and he is just a teenager, a major participant of the Second Wizarding War and a child orphaned by war.

“Well, I could try to send things flying at his direction or make his cart rolling down on a very long steep road to keep him super busy,” he suggests his distraction plan to Samatoki, “Or I could possibly send a log flying at the guy’s head and he’ll be unconscious for as long as we need to get the selkie back home.”

[boutdatlife]

Samatoki likes his idea better, he gets to punch someone in his idea. But he does have a young man along with him and so, he figures he better at least give the high road a shot. One thing goes wrong and he's punching the guy at the minimum!

"Huh, guess that ain't so bad but he so much as looks at us sideways or it doesn't work and I'll wipe the ground with his face, ya just take care of the Selkie chick."

Really someone should teach him not to call a Selkie a chick, it's just disrespectful.

day's work.

[inthebuilding]

Samatoki.
[ A familiar, stern tone. The door of the tavern shuts behind him with a soft jingle, and despite having only just arrived, Jyuto already looks tired. He's pulling on the edges of his leather gloves, passing a lazy look over the two customers yelling at each other. ]

And what good would that do you? [ Still to Samatoki, his mouth slants. His fingers flex and then ball into a loose fist as he contemplates a better way of derailing their argument. Maybe he ought to try out his new magic— ]

Sit down and drink your beer.
[ Implication that he intends to handle things in a better way. Upon saying so, Jyuto moves to take stance between Samatoki and the squabbling characters. ]

[boutdatlife]

Tch...

[He scoffs at the sound of his name, look at that, Jyuto's come to pick him up. He'll act like he doesn't give two shits, that the guy is here. But he does, somewhere under all that anger.]

It'd shut 'em up and I wouldn't feel like punchin' their faces in anymore. [Cause he would have already done it see.]

Oi, put that magic shit away, don't ya go climbin' in my head bastard.

[Samatoki hands over the bar, grabbing two beers and walking over to the table, he sits on down for Jyuto and slumps into his chair.]

Always ruinin' the fun.

[inthebuilding]

[ Samatoki's grumbling now, but not not raising his voice anymore. ]

So you admit that picking fights with random civilians is fun to you. [ He hasn't yet noticed the beer on the table. His mouth tugs into an amused smirk, though, somehow pleased that Samatoki realizes what he's thinking before he's even done anything. ]

It's not for you, anyway. Just enjoy your drink. [ Jyuto says, swatting his wrist as if to bat an insect away. In the following moments, he keeps an even gaze on the quarrel. He's still unused to utilizing his newfound abilities, but as he concentrates, there's a faint, unnatural glow to his eyes that's the only visible indication of his powers at use.

Both of the arguing bar-goers run out of steam, deciding that they're too tired to keep going. Their voices derail, and there are grumbled apologies before even an offer to buy a new drink.

Albeit an anticlimactic conclusion, Jyuto finally turns to Samatoki and his table. Upon seeing the beer, he smiles. ]

See? No harm done.
[ He lowers gracefully to sit across from him. ]

[boutdatlife]

[Yeah yea, Jyuto should know that will only last so long.]

I admit I like kickin' the shit out of idiots. [If that computes to picking fights with random civilians well, then color him guilty.]

Better not be, I'll fuckin' choke ya right here. [He settles in his seat though and begins to drink his beer. He knows him reading Jyuto that way pleased the man, not like he cares, except, yeah he does.

Not saying it out loud, but it's actually kinda badass the way Jyuto's eyes change subtlety when he uses his magic. Not that Samatoki noticed or anything.]

Y'know, one day your gonna hypnotize someone and they're gonna try to kill ya, then I'm gonna have to kill them, and who the hell's gonna get me outta jail, huh?

[That is such a backend way of saying he'd protect someone, Samatoki really should not be allowed to talk sometimes. Either way, he puts a smoke between his lips, the end igniting on its own, one thing he likes magic for.]

[inthebuilding]

I wonder that as much as you do.

[ Although Jyuto doesn't actually seem too upset by the thought. It probably doesn't weigh as much on his mind as he claims it does. ]

Law enforcement works differently here, and I don't have the same social standing that I do back home. If you find yourself in the cage, you may very well just have to serve a full sentence.

all in a day's work

[zunge]

Seated at the far end of the bar counter, Noiz pauses in nursing his beer to glower the shouting men's way in annoyance. The counter vibrates from the glass slammed onto it, causing some people's drinks to slosh around inside their drinking vessels. He waits for MTC's frontman to finish his threat before speaking up.

"Those fools are too loud."

Noiz recognized Samatoki as soon as he went inside the tavern earlier, but didn't allow it to show on his face or in his voice beyond a noticeable pause. It was best to act natural as though the taller man were a stranger. Hifumi had already warned him most of the rap battlers from their world didn't remember that place.

[boutdatlife]

"Tch, least someone around here ain't got cotton for brains."

Yes, that is a backward ass way of saying thanks for agreeing. Samatoki flashes the man a half-ass feral grin, the two rowdy guys decide to wipe up their mess and exit. After all, he has been known to light a literal fire under the ass of anyone who does not take off.

He sees that the man has a beer already in hand so he doesn't need one of those but Samatoki gets some of the nut things that everyone says tastes like popcorn and sits a bowl down by the guy.

"Ya ain't one of the locals, huh?"

[zunge]

Silently staring down the rowdy guys as they clean up and take their leave, Noiz only briefly flits his gaze Samatoki's way. Oh. The guy's bringing him finger snacks.

"Looks like you don't have cotton for brains either." Scar-covered fingers reach into the bowl of nuts. Several surface piercings are visible on the backs of his hands, two on one, one of the other.

"I doubt body mods are big in Camelot." Not that he's gone looking, but it seems like a worthwhile assumption to make.

[boutdatlife]

He likes a guy who takes no shit and staring down the culprits while Samatoki himself does the same earns Noiz a point or two in the yakuza's book.

"Tch, course I don't." But he smirks all the same, Samatoki for thanks for the compliment as he picks up a glass and starts to wipe it down, going back to his original task. Samatoki's piercings are confined to his ears, but he takes a good look over the metal all the same.

"What's the point, all the metal in your hand, help ya in a fight or somethin'?" It's a gruff question but actually borderline conversation for Samatoki.

[zunge]

He crunches and swallows those nuts, raising an odd eyebrow at the strange question. Now that he's stopped wearing the bandages on his hands and forearms, he's begun to get more people noticing and questioning those piercings.

"No, they're usually covered up. The point is that I like them and they haven't rejected yet." Surface piercings are more prone to rejection, in his experience.

all in a day's work

[capitalismkills]

Get a drink, Hifumi said. It would help you feel better about everything and relax, Hifumi said. Unfortunately the bar he'd picked had one Samatoki Aohitsugi working at it, and a very touchy clientele besides. It had only taken one shaky hand for him to accidentally spill his drink all over some rude asshole.

It was a less of shouting match and more of a one sided shouting onslaught as the man grabbed Doppo by his collar and told him just how worthless he was, Doppo apologizing and agreeing the whole way. This paused when Samatoki yelled at them, both looking over at the yakuza man.

"Huh? This fucker spilled his drink all over me! I deserve some recompense!!"

[boutdatlife]

A drink probably would have helped, deciding to get a drink when Samatoki is working at this particular tavern was the bad decision. He hadn't seen Doppo yet, dealing with a plethora of other customers and activities, before he yelled at the drunken idiots.

"Huh? Ya think we're gonna pay ya cause a drunk idiot in a fuckin' bar knocked his drink on ya, who the hell are ya, the fuckin' King?"

And he storms over, rage simmering over every inch of him, oh he recognizes Doppo now, but he's more intent on slugging the fucker who dared to yell back at him. Not like he's trying to save Doppo or anything cause he belongs to Jakurai, that would be a nice person thing to do.

But he does, land one solid punch to the yelling offender's mouth, enough to knock at least a few teeth loose and have him slamming both hands over his mouth in pain.

"How's that for recom what the fuck ever you said!" He snaps his eyes to Doppo.

"Ya need to stop shakin' like a scared cat! It's annoyin'!"

[capitalismkills]

Oh god. Oh god oh god oh god now Samatoki was stomping over to them and Doppo wanted to maybe pass out. Or cry. Or melt into the floor and die possibly. He wasn't entirely expecting the man harrassing him to get decked, causing Doppo himself to stumble backwards and nearly lose his balance.

The other man was shouting profanities at both of them, but wisely decided to back up from the violent mafioso and Doppo certainly wasn't proud enough pretend he wasn't hiding behind Samatoki as he did so.

Of course, then the focus was on him and Doppo briefly forgot how to breathe. If he had another drink he would've dropped it right there probably. "I-I'm sorry! I d-didn't mean to cause you trouble-I-I'm-I'll disappear right now and you never have to deal with me again-I'm sorry I'm so scared and pathetic I'm completely useless-"

[boutdatlife]

Doppo could try maybe, asking Samatoki to call Jakurai. Not that it matters, while during the initial altercation he did not look at Doppo well enough to do much more than label him a coward and annoying, it's a different story with the other guy gone.

"OI! That's fuckin' annoyin' dipshit, why the hell are ya actin' like I'm gonna kill ya?"

Once Doppo stops the cower and grovel that faint tickle of recognition Samatoki feels might get a little stronger or he might flat out realize this is in fact Jakurai's teammate, which means he is Jakurai's problem.

[capitalismkills]

Doppo at least had enough wits about him to stop from shouting 'BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME' at the top of his lungs, but it was a close thing. Doppo wasn't stopping the cowering and grovelling because none of his teammates were around to stop the spiral of destruction.
"I'm sorry-I'm sorry that I'm acting like this, I really am the worst and pathetic, you could kill me and everyone will probably thank you, maybe then Matenrou won't keep getting dragged down by me God knows Sensei should deal with this, if I just die right here it will be a blessing, Aohitsugi-san could probably hide my body well enough that no one can even find it but why would anyone bother with a funeral-"

libryrinth

[intrapid]

[ Honestly, Samatoki is lucky the librarian hadn't already found him by following that string of curses, which is how Karma managed to find his way over to him. He pokes his head out from behind one of the shelves, not bothering to step out all the way because this is very much the wrong way and he'd just have to double back.

Once he has Samatoki's attention, he raises a finger to his lips. Then he points at Samatoki. And draws a line across his throat.

Basically, "Shut the hell up or I'll kill you and make you shut up."

He cants his head to the side for Samatoki to follow. ]

This is going to be horribly, hilarious I believe, best respond I could have gotten!

[boutdatlife]

[Oh he definitely is, the Yakuza is not one to keep his mouth shut. And he is most certainly not one to take a threat like that sitting down or quietly for that matter. Except, right at that moment he hears the Librarian.

Red eyes glare imminent death at Karma for the action as the yakuza swipes a finger across his lips and storms after the young man.

When he gets near enough, he's going to reach out and try to grab him by his shirt for a real talking to. Rather this succeeds or not he growls, glaring harder.]

Ya think ya can take me lil' shit, I'll kick your ass.

laughs, I'm incredibly delighted already

[intrapid]

[ He totally didn't get the message to shut the hell up, huh? Following Karma was promising, but then Samatoki ruined it by opening his mouth again, Karma letting his shirt get grabbed and making no move to pull away or back down. ]

You sure can try. But can it wait until we're outta here?

[ His voice is low, less a growl despite his irritation and more a whisper. ]

If you really insist, I'm kindly going to ask you to die quietly right here so we don't get kicked out.

Same (Apologies this took so long)

[boutdatlife]

[Oh he got it, he just decided to ignore it. His mouth and temper have this uncanny knack for getting him to do that. He ruins many a thing by opening his mouth, it's a talent.]

Tch, whatever, do ya even know the way out?

[Like he does, but he's not admitting that, he'll bluff as well as he can that he does, in fact, know his way out, he's here on purpose, not lost and wandering.]

Huh? Who's gonna kill me? Ya think you can, give it a shot fucker.

np!

[intrapid]

What fool goes inside without a plan to find the way out? If you want to get out of here, you'd better start running the opposite way with your tail tucked between your legs, 'cause I'm headed deeper into the maze.

[ He would very much like to kill you, Samatoki!! but now is not the time. He has better things to do, and continues through the maze, one hand out to trail along the spines of the books as he passes by the shelves. ]

If you have no reason to be here, they get lost. If you want to figure this out, then shut up for a minute, will you?