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Games, GTA Roleplay, translated from Japanese

INUKAI Opens Two New Heists on Gachigura 2, Then Spends Six Hours Keeping the City Running

Streaming as one of the server’s staff, the independent VTuber also fielded bug reports and helped plan a new player game.

INUKAI during “【 ガチグラ2 】# 06:会話は神に聞かれている【 犬養 / 個人勢VTuber 】,” a broadcast that ran 5h 54m. Press to play from YouTube

INUKAI, an independent VTuber with RIONECTION, opened two large new crimes on Gachigura 2, the GTA-based roleplay project where police and gangs play against each other, in a stream that ran nearly six hours on Friday night. The new content was the Union Depository heist and a raid on the Cluckin’ Bell chicken processing plant.

The stream began awkwardly. INUKAI said the broadcast had never actually gone live on YouTube even though the streaming software was running, so the first five minutes of explanation went unheard. INUKAI then went through the updates again, describing the Union heist as a job in which criminals take money from a vault beneath a company in town, with a maze of underground passages and information from the air deciding whether the gangs or the police come out on top.

“I thought the stream was on and spent nearly five minutes talking into the void.” — INUKAI, after finding the stream had not started

INUKAI plays a staff role on the server, referred to in the roleplay as “god,” and spent much of the evening on staff work rather than play. That meant answering players’ bug reports, including buildings and people vanishing or appearing to melt, and joining other staff in a server reset while the Union heist was being set up, with the warning that vehicles stored by players might be affected. Once the heist was running, INUKAI set a timer for the vault stage, and a later count had 11 criminals and two helicopters in play against the police.

Along the way INUKAI said a recent interview had asked which skill they would most like to gain, and the answer was composing music. Late in the stream INUKAI and other staff worked out the rules of a new game for players, set at the racecourse, in which a handcuffed character is passed along between teams.

INUKAI said the stream would continue the next day from around 8 p.m. At 10:40 p.m. a birthday call-in event for another streamer would run for 10 minutes, and INUKAI planned to drop in with the stream still on.

This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.

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