The change to the Guild’s purpose into an actual toxic cult, which also coincided with the recruitment of its second-in-command, is actually a whole story in itself.

Many years ago, a mysterious, prankster Gengar called Jinji was randomly floating in the skies, visiting all sorts of places on the lookout for people and locations to potentially haunt later. On one particular day, however, he happened to come across the grounds of a mysterious “Hot Chocolate Cult”. The members of this cult could do all sorts of odd and unusual tricks, traps, and contraptions using hot chocolate, marshmallows, and other such ingredients — something that made Jinji very curious. He began to watch over the cult, taking in all of its many antics. He ended up befriending with the cult’s bartender, Whipped Gream, who would quickly involve him in some of their fun. Over the coming days, Jinji would find himself being placed in a marshmallow balloon being filled with chocolate, having a shoot-out with bubble guns, and even being gifted a hollow hot chocolate bomb to haunt inside. But Jinji would soon come to discover that the Hot Chocolate Cult was only one of many cults operating within the area — and soon, each of them wanted to claim Jinji as their own.

Some time later, Jinji would be kidnapped by a member of a competing cult, and placed in a special acid bomb, his hands tied behind his back…

Jinji would be challenged to beat each of the Cult leaders in a game of Mario Party Jamboree, with the Switch behind his back where he couldn’t see it. If he succeeded, he’d be let out of the bomb, but would be forced to choose a Leader to become a member of their cult. If he failed, the bomb would be sealed up, and Jinji would be passed around all the cults as a pet for them all to bounce around for all eternity. The challenge was almost impossible, but Jinji would soon have a stroke of luck…