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shounenphelps) wrote2010-09-30 02:35 am
shounenphelps) wrote2010-09-30 02:35 am
Entry tags:
App for Dirty Vegas
OOC
Name: Fru
Age: 24
Current characters: n/a
IC
Name: Mouri, Shin.
Fandom: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers / English: Ronin Warriors. Anime-verse plus some Drama CDs. The dub was kind of an AU in and of itself, but the important events are the same.
History link: Old fandom is old and obscure, so I just typed up the background myself -- which can be found here in his journal
Age: 18. Shin is just a few months older than his fellow Troopers, so he's always a year ahead of them in canon and would have been starting college by the start of OAV #3.
Canon point: OAV #2 Kikoutei Densetsu. In Africa, after Shin arrives and the other four guys wake up thanks to his power. Shin transforms, Byakuen roars, and Shin winds up in Vegas.
Personality:
Shin was born in Hagi (Yamaguchi prefecture), Japan on March 14th 1973 (White Day), and is thus 15 years old for most of the YST/RW series, 17 during the first OAV, and 18 at the time he is being pulled from in the second OAV. He's a Pisces, an Ox, and A Blood Type, and since this is an old show all of that lines up to make the guy with the water element that is patient and sensible and mature... most of the time. His hobbies include basketball, swimming, tea ceremony, cooking, flower arrangement, and English Conversation. He's also extremely familiar with pottery thanks to his family's business. He loves marine life, having grown up right next to the Sea of Japan, but he will eat fish... if the head's cut off first. This also explains why he gets a Captain Planet-style ending to his first key episode where he's all upset about one of the villains (Naaza, Warlord of Venom) killing innocent fish, and Shin claims that as one of his key reasons for fighting Arago (Naaza's master). Shin's kind of a hippie like that.
For most of the first season of the TV series, Shin went along with the whole Save The World thing mainly out of blind youth naivete but also because it was a lot easier than dealing with family politics back home (or so he first thought). His mother and older sister couldn't exactly tell him not to go to Shinjuku (where the Troopers were being 'called' to by Arago) since it was about The Armors and he'd pretty much been hearing about this whole destiny thing for a few months straight by that point (see background). By the end of the first season, he'd become close enough friends with the other four Troopers that he was also willing to fight just so he didn't let them down. He wasn't much of a strategist, but he was definitely the peacemaker between Shuu and Ryou (charge in headfirst mentality) versus Seiji and Touma (plan ahead mentality). By the middle of the second season, Shin was starting to get weary of fighting, but then Arago sent Naaza (Shin's main rival by that point) to kidnap him. Shin spent a good while in the Netherworld's pleasant basement accommodations, getting drained of his power alongside Shuu and Seiji. So when it came time for the final battle at the end of the TV series, Shin had a bit more of a personal reason to defeat Arago, and because Arago had always been viewed as this inherently evil demon. Even in the first OAV (Gaiden), Shin doesn't mind tagging along with Ryou and Shuu to New York when Seiji's in trouble; he was mainly concerned that Ryou and Shuu might do more good than harm unless they had someone else along to balance out their headstrong personalities.
All through the TV series and Gaiden, a young woman named Nasté and a boy named Jun had been tagging along. They got hurt, tossed around, taken hostage, put in mortal peril, and all sorts of other things that happen to normal people when they hang around heroes, but they never actually died. Byakuen did and was brought back immediately, but he was Ryou's pet tiger and Shin only saw Byakuen's revival, not the death. However, in Gaiden a woman named Luna died - mainly through her own choice of actions, but the impact was felt throughout the team. Shin hadn't known her that well or cared about her much, but as he's the most sentimental of the group, he could tell how much it impacted Ryou, and Touma to a lesser extent. Thus why Shin was perfectly content to return to Japan with his friends and just put the armors behind them, but more importantly this was why the events of Kikoutei affected Shin so deeply. Their opponent was no longer demonic shadows, but a human being. Through the initial events in Kikoutei, Shin develops a deep resistance to using the armors at all and becomes the kind of pacifist that wishes war away, but doesn't want anyone to experience the pain it takes to get there. It's such a new personality development for the young man that he gets extremely emotional when forced to pit these ideals against a desire to help his friends. He can't figure out a way to reconcile the two desires. He gets angry at first that no one agrees with him, then lashes out, and then gets angry at himself for resorting to violence. He's the oldest member of the five Troopers and tried to be the most mature, but in the end he just had to go out and think for awhile about what to do.
At first he rejects his armor entirely. However, he events leading up to when I'm pulling him showcase the deep-running resolve that Shin has to refuse both of what the others saw as only two choices (fight and help, or stay out of it and keep his ideals), and instead pick Option C -- take his armor and use it in a non-violent way while still helping his friends. Shin's virtue is Trust/Faith, so he had to believe that he could shape the way his armor was used, instead of his armor's spirit dictating how he acted. At the point I'm pulling Shin from, friendship is back at the top of his priority list, but he's also a little proud/smug/happy because he was able to show his friends that his armor was useful for more than fighting. There was a point in the second season where he unlocked his improved Surekill move by learning to not fight the current, but rather use its strength to propel him forward, and that sentiment finally came back to the forefront. This new resolve to be less antagonistic and more understanding of human nature is tempered and strengthened through the end of the Kikoutei OAV and throughout the 3rd OAV Message, so it's a character arc that's sure to continue within the game.
Other than that he's a pretty typical young man. He teases his friends, he likes to keep active, and he's starting to explore relationships. What a perfect time to come to Vegas!
Powers/Abilities:
Most of this stuff won't be useful in Dirty Vegas; I'm just trying to be complete with the application. T_T
Speak with Marine Life: Shin can communicate empathically with all forms of marine life, fish and mammals alike.
Advanced Swimmer: Shin can hold his breath much longer than normal humans, withstand more pressure when diving deep, and swim faster.
Water-portals: In desperate situations, while holding onto his Armor Orb and focusing intently on his virtue of Trust/Faith, Shin can travel from one body of water to another. Normally this would include great distances like across oceans, but in this game we'll say he's limited to about the distance from one side of Vegas to another.
Sub-Armor Transformation: When Shin holds his Armor Orb in one of his fists and concentrates, he can transform into his "sub-armor." This is a fairly thin protective body suit color-coded to his shade of pale blue in various areas and white in the rest, like those of his fellow Troopers. In this armor, his principle abilities include: running very fast, jumping higher than normal (which is a lot for him), and punching armor without hurting himself. This sub-armor does not include a head-piece.
Yoroi Transformation: This requires both a call ("Busso*! Suiko!") and fancy arm motions. [*Arm, as in "take up arms!] Then lovely bolts of silk appear out of nowhere, burst into sakura blossoms, and then Shin is in his full suit of armor -- posing with some lights shining down on him. Only in this full armor can he use his Surekill move and Bubble shield, both described below. He can't run fast, as in his sub-armor, or jump especially high, but all of his normal dexterity applies. This armor comes with his signature Yari, or staff with a pincer end that Shin can open and close. His armor's helmet allows him to breathe freely underwater when the orange visor is down.
Surekill move -- Cho Ryu Ha / Ultra Wave Crusher: Shin can perform this attack in one of two ways, and only if he is in his Yoroi (full armor). The first is simply pointing the pincers of his yari in the direction he wants to attack, holding the staff with both hands. For a few moments, water collects between the pincers. He then shouts CHO RYU HA and pushes the staff forward, opening up the pincers further and sending a blast of water at the enemy in the shape of a horizontal-axis column. The second version is essentially a powered-up variant called Cho Dan Do Cho Ryu Ha (Ultra Ballistic Ultra Wave Crusher) which includes a mini-typhoon swirling around Shin if he's under water and allows him to purify poisoned water by re-routing the wave directly into himself.
Yoroi Resonance: How an armor-bearer knows this is working is by the sound of rings clanging on a staff in their mind. The visible effect -- which is easier to see in one form than another -- involves a pulsating white light. Unarmored, this happens to the Armor Orbs. In Sub-Armor, the colored parts of the armor glow. In full Yoroi, the whole armor and weapon pulses with light. There are a few reasons why this Resonance takes place, but it all goes back to the bond between those with the armors.
1) Searching for a fellow - this can happen with only one other armor-bearer looking for another, but the proximity is severely limited. A hundred feet at best. The armor-bearer being searched for doesn't have to be conscious or actively searching for his fellows.
2) Calling for help - slightly different from Searching, this is when one armor-bearer calls out to all other allied armor-bearers. In this case it's their Virtues pulsing with light on their foreheads. This can happen across great distances. It's the biggest instance of not being limited to the Troopers themselves, but also the Warlords when they begin to break away from Arago.
3) Our Spirits Are One - this can happen if at least five armor-bearers are focused on the same goal, i.e. defeating a very powerful enemy. This also works with any number of Warlords and Troopers as part of the required "five." In addition to being a requirement for other abilities, it also enhances each armor-bearers power while they're all Resonating.
Heal the spirit: As with all of the armor-bearers, friendship is his greatest bond. This only works on dear friends who have fallen ill with an affliction of the spirit, not the body. This is a calming, soothing, revitalizing effect on a tortured soullike an onsen! that utilizes the Resonance bond more effectively. This does nothing to the dead. Shin must focus on his virtue of Trust/Faith while holding onto his Armor Orb and be within close proximity of the friend (basically within the same room). When he concentrates, his virtue's kanji appears in bright blue light on his forehead. Shin can do this even without his sub-armor or full armor on.
Bubble Shield: This appears in one of two scenarios, and only if Shin is in his Yoroi (full armor). If he is about to suffer a mortal wound, the bubble appears and he goes unconscious. It takes another Trooper to wake him up. For the sake of the game, we'll assume that if no Trooper is around, then he dies within a day. The other situation is far less likely, as it involves all five Troopers and Ryou activating the super-armor Kikoutei consciously or unconsciously. In that situation, the bubble shield is part of the Resonance effect and then Shin disappears inside of it completely during Ryou's transformation sequence -- i.e. it protects Shin and the other Troopers from being attacked while Ryou is powering up.
Shield Barrier: If all five Troopers use their Bubble Shields at the same time, they can create a Shield Barrier. This is both an offensive and defensive maneuver; it protects the five men from damage, but also sends out energy bolts all around them that can destroy minion-level creatures like the Netherworld Foot Soldiers. Against stronger enemies, it probably only deflects some damage for a short period and the energy bolts only do minor damage.
Environmental Enhancement: As with all of the armors, Shin's power is enhanced when he's in his element. Obviously, that would be water.
Prose sample:
The roaring combined with the tugging sense had Shin closing his eyes. For a moment, he felt vaguely weightless, as when he was swimming.
Then came the reminder of gravity. Instinct took over and he dropped into a crouch. Looking around, he noticed three things: he was definitely no longer in Africa, he was in his normal clothes, and none of the guys or Byakuen or anyone else he recognized were with him.
"This place..." He started to read the signs, noting immediately they were in English. It took a moment for him to switch into the foreign language, but he quickly caught the gist of his surroundings. "Am I back in New York?"
The guys... what’ll happen now? I need to find someone to ask.
Walking down the street turned out to be an adventure in and of itself, however. More than once Shin caught someone walk past him, turn around, and look straight at him in obvious confusion. He wasn’t sure if it was because he looked so lost, or maybe because he was mumbling to himself in Japanese, or possibly his clothes... but it never occurred to him they’d look at his hair. For some, it was the out-of-fashion mullet that made them turn up their nose. For others, it was the amusement at yet another boy showing up with slightly longer than normal hair.
After awhile, Shin just got tired of everyone watching him. It was getting vaguely unsettling, so he dipped into an alleyway and then jumped with ease from a garbage dumpster to a wall to a ledge and onto a rooftop.
From there, he tried to get his bearings, but the sight of a sprawling city of lights just made his eyes go wide. More importantly, beyond that all he could see was sand and more sand.
A desert? No way... There was all that lush grass – I know there’s a desert in Africa, but not anywhere close by... And with a city in the middle of it? He clenched his fists, grateful to find his armor orb was still in his hand. Another test, my Suiko armor? I had thought we were done with that.
Glancing up at the stars, he wondered where he must be for it to have suddenly become night. He didn’t expect to go to bed anytime soon, as confusing as everything was now. He looked down at the people milling about.
"At least one of them must be able to tell me something. Probably. Hopefully they won’t ask how I got here."
Shin quickly jumped back down to the street and looked around for something that looked welcoming. He turned his eyes from every strip show he saw until something finally caught his eye as he stood in the middle of the street. All... men?
But sure enough, every single person that passed him by was definitely lacking in breasts and a curvaceous figure.
A joke... this has to be a joke, right? It’s... a dream of some kind. No, not a dream. I wouldn’t dream of something like this. Not in a strange place with... His eyes went to one of the strip joints again. It can’t be... What in the world is going on?!
Name: Fru
Age: 24
Current characters: n/a
IC
Name: Mouri, Shin.
Fandom: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers / English: Ronin Warriors. Anime-verse plus some Drama CDs. The dub was kind of an AU in and of itself, but the important events are the same.
History link: Old fandom is old and obscure, so I just typed up the background myself -- which can be found here in his journal
Age: 18. Shin is just a few months older than his fellow Troopers, so he's always a year ahead of them in canon and would have been starting college by the start of OAV #3.
Canon point: OAV #2 Kikoutei Densetsu. In Africa, after Shin arrives and the other four guys wake up thanks to his power. Shin transforms, Byakuen roars, and Shin winds up in Vegas.
Personality:
Shin was born in Hagi (Yamaguchi prefecture), Japan on March 14th 1973 (White Day), and is thus 15 years old for most of the YST/RW series, 17 during the first OAV, and 18 at the time he is being pulled from in the second OAV. He's a Pisces, an Ox, and A Blood Type, and since this is an old show all of that lines up to make the guy with the water element that is patient and sensible and mature... most of the time. His hobbies include basketball, swimming, tea ceremony, cooking, flower arrangement, and English Conversation. He's also extremely familiar with pottery thanks to his family's business. He loves marine life, having grown up right next to the Sea of Japan, but he will eat fish... if the head's cut off first. This also explains why he gets a Captain Planet-style ending to his first key episode where he's all upset about one of the villains (Naaza, Warlord of Venom) killing innocent fish, and Shin claims that as one of his key reasons for fighting Arago (Naaza's master). Shin's kind of a hippie like that.
For most of the first season of the TV series, Shin went along with the whole Save The World thing mainly out of blind youth naivete but also because it was a lot easier than dealing with family politics back home (or so he first thought). His mother and older sister couldn't exactly tell him not to go to Shinjuku (where the Troopers were being 'called' to by Arago) since it was about The Armors and he'd pretty much been hearing about this whole destiny thing for a few months straight by that point (see background). By the end of the first season, he'd become close enough friends with the other four Troopers that he was also willing to fight just so he didn't let them down. He wasn't much of a strategist, but he was definitely the peacemaker between Shuu and Ryou (charge in headfirst mentality) versus Seiji and Touma (plan ahead mentality). By the middle of the second season, Shin was starting to get weary of fighting, but then Arago sent Naaza (Shin's main rival by that point) to kidnap him. Shin spent a good while in the Netherworld's pleasant basement accommodations, getting drained of his power alongside Shuu and Seiji. So when it came time for the final battle at the end of the TV series, Shin had a bit more of a personal reason to defeat Arago, and because Arago had always been viewed as this inherently evil demon. Even in the first OAV (Gaiden), Shin doesn't mind tagging along with Ryou and Shuu to New York when Seiji's in trouble; he was mainly concerned that Ryou and Shuu might do more good than harm unless they had someone else along to balance out their headstrong personalities.
All through the TV series and Gaiden, a young woman named Nasté and a boy named Jun had been tagging along. They got hurt, tossed around, taken hostage, put in mortal peril, and all sorts of other things that happen to normal people when they hang around heroes, but they never actually died. Byakuen did and was brought back immediately, but he was Ryou's pet tiger and Shin only saw Byakuen's revival, not the death. However, in Gaiden a woman named Luna died - mainly through her own choice of actions, but the impact was felt throughout the team. Shin hadn't known her that well or cared about her much, but as he's the most sentimental of the group, he could tell how much it impacted Ryou, and Touma to a lesser extent. Thus why Shin was perfectly content to return to Japan with his friends and just put the armors behind them, but more importantly this was why the events of Kikoutei affected Shin so deeply. Their opponent was no longer demonic shadows, but a human being. Through the initial events in Kikoutei, Shin develops a deep resistance to using the armors at all and becomes the kind of pacifist that wishes war away, but doesn't want anyone to experience the pain it takes to get there. It's such a new personality development for the young man that he gets extremely emotional when forced to pit these ideals against a desire to help his friends. He can't figure out a way to reconcile the two desires. He gets angry at first that no one agrees with him, then lashes out, and then gets angry at himself for resorting to violence. He's the oldest member of the five Troopers and tried to be the most mature, but in the end he just had to go out and think for awhile about what to do.
At first he rejects his armor entirely. However, he events leading up to when I'm pulling him showcase the deep-running resolve that Shin has to refuse both of what the others saw as only two choices (fight and help, or stay out of it and keep his ideals), and instead pick Option C -- take his armor and use it in a non-violent way while still helping his friends. Shin's virtue is Trust/Faith, so he had to believe that he could shape the way his armor was used, instead of his armor's spirit dictating how he acted. At the point I'm pulling Shin from, friendship is back at the top of his priority list, but he's also a little proud/smug/happy because he was able to show his friends that his armor was useful for more than fighting. There was a point in the second season where he unlocked his improved Surekill move by learning to not fight the current, but rather use its strength to propel him forward, and that sentiment finally came back to the forefront. This new resolve to be less antagonistic and more understanding of human nature is tempered and strengthened through the end of the Kikoutei OAV and throughout the 3rd OAV Message, so it's a character arc that's sure to continue within the game.
Other than that he's a pretty typical young man. He teases his friends, he likes to keep active, and he's starting to explore relationships. What a perfect time to come to Vegas!
Powers/Abilities:
Most of this stuff won't be useful in Dirty Vegas; I'm just trying to be complete with the application. T_T
Speak with Marine Life: Shin can communicate empathically with all forms of marine life, fish and mammals alike.
Advanced Swimmer: Shin can hold his breath much longer than normal humans, withstand more pressure when diving deep, and swim faster.
Water-portals: In desperate situations, while holding onto his Armor Orb and focusing intently on his virtue of Trust/Faith, Shin can travel from one body of water to another. Normally this would include great distances like across oceans, but in this game we'll say he's limited to about the distance from one side of Vegas to another.
Sub-Armor Transformation: When Shin holds his Armor Orb in one of his fists and concentrates, he can transform into his "sub-armor." This is a fairly thin protective body suit color-coded to his shade of pale blue in various areas and white in the rest, like those of his fellow Troopers. In this armor, his principle abilities include: running very fast, jumping higher than normal (which is a lot for him), and punching armor without hurting himself. This sub-armor does not include a head-piece.
Yoroi Transformation: This requires both a call ("Busso*! Suiko!") and fancy arm motions. [*Arm, as in "take up arms!] Then lovely bolts of silk appear out of nowhere, burst into sakura blossoms, and then Shin is in his full suit of armor -- posing with some lights shining down on him. Only in this full armor can he use his Surekill move and Bubble shield, both described below. He can't run fast, as in his sub-armor, or jump especially high, but all of his normal dexterity applies. This armor comes with his signature Yari, or staff with a pincer end that Shin can open and close. His armor's helmet allows him to breathe freely underwater when the orange visor is down.
Surekill move -- Cho Ryu Ha / Ultra Wave Crusher: Shin can perform this attack in one of two ways, and only if he is in his Yoroi (full armor). The first is simply pointing the pincers of his yari in the direction he wants to attack, holding the staff with both hands. For a few moments, water collects between the pincers. He then shouts CHO RYU HA and pushes the staff forward, opening up the pincers further and sending a blast of water at the enemy in the shape of a horizontal-axis column. The second version is essentially a powered-up variant called Cho Dan Do Cho Ryu Ha (Ultra Ballistic Ultra Wave Crusher) which includes a mini-typhoon swirling around Shin if he's under water and allows him to purify poisoned water by re-routing the wave directly into himself.
Yoroi Resonance: How an armor-bearer knows this is working is by the sound of rings clanging on a staff in their mind. The visible effect -- which is easier to see in one form than another -- involves a pulsating white light. Unarmored, this happens to the Armor Orbs. In Sub-Armor, the colored parts of the armor glow. In full Yoroi, the whole armor and weapon pulses with light. There are a few reasons why this Resonance takes place, but it all goes back to the bond between those with the armors.
1) Searching for a fellow - this can happen with only one other armor-bearer looking for another, but the proximity is severely limited. A hundred feet at best. The armor-bearer being searched for doesn't have to be conscious or actively searching for his fellows.
2) Calling for help - slightly different from Searching, this is when one armor-bearer calls out to all other allied armor-bearers. In this case it's their Virtues pulsing with light on their foreheads. This can happen across great distances. It's the biggest instance of not being limited to the Troopers themselves, but also the Warlords when they begin to break away from Arago.
3) Our Spirits Are One - this can happen if at least five armor-bearers are focused on the same goal, i.e. defeating a very powerful enemy. This also works with any number of Warlords and Troopers as part of the required "five." In addition to being a requirement for other abilities, it also enhances each armor-bearers power while they're all Resonating.
Heal the spirit: As with all of the armor-bearers, friendship is his greatest bond. This only works on dear friends who have fallen ill with an affliction of the spirit, not the body. This is a calming, soothing, revitalizing effect on a tortured soul
Bubble Shield: This appears in one of two scenarios, and only if Shin is in his Yoroi (full armor). If he is about to suffer a mortal wound, the bubble appears and he goes unconscious. It takes another Trooper to wake him up. For the sake of the game, we'll assume that if no Trooper is around, then he dies within a day. The other situation is far less likely, as it involves all five Troopers and Ryou activating the super-armor Kikoutei consciously or unconsciously. In that situation, the bubble shield is part of the Resonance effect and then Shin disappears inside of it completely during Ryou's transformation sequence -- i.e. it protects Shin and the other Troopers from being attacked while Ryou is powering up.
Shield Barrier: If all five Troopers use their Bubble Shields at the same time, they can create a Shield Barrier. This is both an offensive and defensive maneuver; it protects the five men from damage, but also sends out energy bolts all around them that can destroy minion-level creatures like the Netherworld Foot Soldiers. Against stronger enemies, it probably only deflects some damage for a short period and the energy bolts only do minor damage.
Environmental Enhancement: As with all of the armors, Shin's power is enhanced when he's in his element. Obviously, that would be water.
Prose sample:
The roaring combined with the tugging sense had Shin closing his eyes. For a moment, he felt vaguely weightless, as when he was swimming.
Then came the reminder of gravity. Instinct took over and he dropped into a crouch. Looking around, he noticed three things: he was definitely no longer in Africa, he was in his normal clothes, and none of the guys or Byakuen or anyone else he recognized were with him.
"This place..." He started to read the signs, noting immediately they were in English. It took a moment for him to switch into the foreign language, but he quickly caught the gist of his surroundings. "Am I back in New York?"
The guys... what’ll happen now? I need to find someone to ask.
Walking down the street turned out to be an adventure in and of itself, however. More than once Shin caught someone walk past him, turn around, and look straight at him in obvious confusion. He wasn’t sure if it was because he looked so lost, or maybe because he was mumbling to himself in Japanese, or possibly his clothes... but it never occurred to him they’d look at his hair. For some, it was the out-of-fashion mullet that made them turn up their nose. For others, it was the amusement at yet another boy showing up with slightly longer than normal hair.
After awhile, Shin just got tired of everyone watching him. It was getting vaguely unsettling, so he dipped into an alleyway and then jumped with ease from a garbage dumpster to a wall to a ledge and onto a rooftop.
From there, he tried to get his bearings, but the sight of a sprawling city of lights just made his eyes go wide. More importantly, beyond that all he could see was sand and more sand.
A desert? No way... There was all that lush grass – I know there’s a desert in Africa, but not anywhere close by... And with a city in the middle of it? He clenched his fists, grateful to find his armor orb was still in his hand. Another test, my Suiko armor? I had thought we were done with that.
Glancing up at the stars, he wondered where he must be for it to have suddenly become night. He didn’t expect to go to bed anytime soon, as confusing as everything was now. He looked down at the people milling about.
"At least one of them must be able to tell me something. Probably. Hopefully they won’t ask how I got here."
Shin quickly jumped back down to the street and looked around for something that looked welcoming. He turned his eyes from every strip show he saw until something finally caught his eye as he stood in the middle of the street. All... men?
But sure enough, every single person that passed him by was definitely lacking in breasts and a curvaceous figure.
A joke... this has to be a joke, right? It’s... a dream of some kind. No, not a dream. I wouldn’t dream of something like this. Not in a strange place with... His eyes went to one of the strip joints again. It can’t be... What in the world is going on?!