Mission Name: In the house of Buddha?
Mission Rank: EVENT
Objective: Convince the Hitotsume-Nyūdō that you are a highly pious individual in order to get rewards for your holiness.
Location: Namahage Festival
Reward: 10 Tickets
Mission Description: In a quiet corner of the Namahage festival sits a small temple. Inside is a Hitotsume-Nyūdō or Blue Monk. These giant cyclopean creatures are devout followers of Buddha and thus the particular individual who has set up shop there is attempting to turn those in the festival away from the opulence and debauchery that the rest of the yokai love so much. Those who stumble in need to convince the monk exactly how little they are enjoying the festival , how devout to Buddha they are by reciting mantras and meditation and by donating gifts to the offering box.
Mission Details:  The monk while eager to win converts is no fool. It is much easier to fool him if the character applying does in fact practice some form of Buddhism.  Other than that it is all up the characters acting skills.

Hanbei had seen the monks a second time, and it seemed, as usual, they were an unhappy group of men. Although, in an attempt to kill 2 birds with one stone, it was by fortune alone that he was able to link the nature of the nekomata that were stealing things from the village to the monks themselves, in asking them for a deed in order to prove himself pious enough for them to give shelter to the cats, he was indeed proving his worth under buddha in their eyes. Though the task was not going to be menial, they had asked hanbei to leave them for some time so they would be able to deliberate one of their many holy trials, yet at the end none of them could come to a single conclusion. Hanbei, using this time tot alk to the leaders of the cat groups returned to them only to be given a choice out of three of them all. One of them involved braving the flames from a great lung. Another was one of the pilgrimage mountain climbs while the third was to enter with one of them in a drinking contest and to see who would ultimately win... His first reaction to the dragonfire was absolutely not, though the other two he thought would be fine in the scheme of things...

Putting it to a vote, and seeming to unanimously want to see hanbei get plastered on peach wine, habei would sit down at a table and be presented with several small glasses of the wine. It seemed that while they both had to drink vessels of the wine, the cups were somewhat to scale, the massive monk before hanbei having flaggons to hanbei's glasses. But, not wanting to be shown up, Hanbei would question the decision, looking to them all and asking what kind of challenge this was, that they weren't givent he same vessels. Hanbei could hear the impressed nature of the monks as the vessels were filled, and soon, the challenge would begin.

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After the vessels were poured, hanbei would look to the monk that he was competing with, an elder monk that already seemed to be half cut. Smiling to himself at the advantage, but knowing full well the idea wasn't to beat this guy in a drink off, it was just to drink enough that the monks were impressed enough that they would follow through with the deal. The cats were fine so long as Hanbei gave it an honest go, it was helped by the fact that the sweet wine that they were drinking was lovely to the taste, making it far more palletable for the guanyin. The ready mark was given, Hanbei and the monk were able to place a hand on their flagons, the set command was given, and finally the caps off them were removed before lastly the GO! command echoed, placing the sweet nectar to either of their lips the two began to drink as fast and hard as they could.

Part way through the first one, Hanbei could feel himself beginning to get bloated, but he wasn't about to quit, one flagon down and the second was already loaded, it seemed they had to begin them at the same time. If one finished first, it allowed them time to rest. Hanbei knew that second that he was never going to be able to rest in this competition, simply due to the size of the person he was playing against. He was a monster after all. Once they got to their third one, Hanbei was beginning to feel a little bit sick, hiccups setting in as the others began to laugh, but, taking a moment between his gulps, Hanbei would flow healing chakra through himself, healing the sicknesses within him and continuing with the challenge with new vigor. There was no rule against meditative practices, so, none of them so much as batted an eye... to them, it was just another skill.

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As it came down to the final stretch, Hanbei was on his sixth and now they were all cheering, but, while hanbei was not being hit by the alcahol, he had drunken far too much in volume fore his small frame, it would have been far more impressive in numbers if he had stuck with the smaller cups, but, doing so would not have allowed him any respect. In having his sixth it began to seem like his opponent was not doing so well either, he was very drunk and beginning to stir and swing left to right, though, as Hanbei could hear the cheers for him rise higher and higher, the volume finally caught up with him, fatigued and sick, the flagon left his hand and clattered to the ground as Hanbei would fall, his head spinning. There would be a roar as Hanbei was left to relieve himself...

As he returned, it all seemed to be set in stone, with that show from a human they had to accept the cats. Thanking them all and bowing with his hands clasped together, Hanbei allowed himself to recover before running to inform the cats about the solidity of the deal... they were extatic...

it was a new day for them..

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