>You are Keine Kamishirasawa, and the world around you is not the one you remember. Something happened in the future which broke the past, and you intend to fix it.
>Two evenings ago, you investigated a strange disturbance in the woods near the village. There you found an unknown human girl, and a mysterious white-winged youkai whose presence seemed to make you drift towards sleep. And then they spoke, and reality broke around you. You awakened to a world where some things are very different, and you've been trying to determine what caused this.
>You've since learned that this young woman was the physical manifestation of a dream of Maribel Hearn, a young woman from Kyoto, 11 years into your future, who bears an unnatural resemblance to Yukari. The dream youkai Gengetsu encountered her that night, curious about her nature, and something happened between them. Since then, Maribel has fallen into a coma and cannot awaken. Her sister, Mugetsu, suspects that Gengetsu may be trapped inside her somehow.
>In the altered timeline resulting from their meeting, numerous rifts opened across Gensokyo, removing parts of it and transporting it away. The Hakurei Shrine vanished in one of these, seven years ago.
>Reimu and Marisa's absence had cascading effects on subsequent events. The Spring Snow Incident lasted an entire year, causing a dire famine which killed a substancial portion of the human village's population. Eirin succeeded in sealing the true Moon. No one stopped Utsuho before she reached the surface, resulting in Kanako imprisioning her beneath the mountain and away from her family for over two years.
>Yukari's house was also cut from the rest of Gensokyo by a splice in reality, after she froze the border between the past and present to prevent a change in the future from rippling further backwards in time. Inside it, Yukari had been slumbering in a web of barriers for seven years, after she froze the border between the past and present to prevent a change in the future from rippling further backwards in time.
>You helped Ran escape the barrier, and with her assistance, have travelled through the indentations in space left by the rifts and arrived in Kyoto, 11 years in the future. There you found both Reimu and Marisa, alive and well, and adapted to their new life. By tracing the energy signiture of the rifts using a device from Patchouli, you also found Maribel Hearn, hospitalized and comatose. You're not sure how she's connected to the rifts, but it seems certain that she is.
>You are currently inside part of Maribel's dreamscape, with Mugetsu, searching for Gengetsu and a way to awaken Maribel. Perhaps, if you can speak with her, she'll have some answers.
>"I see. Were you able to find Marisa, too?"
>Look around for winged thingums.
>"I haven't gone for her yet. It took some time for you to be aware of me. More than you probably remember. I can go and do so now, if you feel collected enough to remain on your own for a moment."
>You scan the horizon. You see no sign of winged creatures. Or creatures of any other sort, for that matter.
