Rumia Quest 4: Living in the Shadows [Complete]

[Hanzo K.]

>Chuckle a little bit. "Alright, alright. I'll just find somewhere else to chill out then."
>Administer headpats to the little doll before departing to find another place to relax in.

[Raikaria]

>Chuckle a little bit. "Alright, alright. I'll just find somewhere else to chill out then."
>Administer headpats to the little doll before departing to find another place to relax in.

> Shanghai dosen't say anything, and stays floating in the doorway as long as you can see the doorway.

> You decide to sit in the same room as Shinki and Alice, mainly because it's the only room you can reach. The two are talking about Alice's doll hobby.

[Hanzo K.]

>We may as well chill out until it's time to get going, eh?
>But these dolls are kinda neat, maybe having one for ourselves wouldn't be so bad..

[Raikaria]

>We may as well chill out until it's time to get going, eh?
>But these dolls are kinda neat, maybe having one for ourselves wouldn't be so bad..

> You decide to just relax. Alice's chairs are comfortable....

> It might be a good ideas, but you know if even stickyfingers Marisa dosen't have one, you won't get one. Alice probobly won't make one either.

> Not to mention they're only dolls. Alice is controlling them.

> Shinki and Alice appear to be finished half an hour later. The red portal has also re-opened.

[Hanzo K.]

>"Well, I guess it's time for me to get going too, huh? I guess I'll see you around then!"
>.....
>"...But these chairs are so comfortable..."

[Raikaria]

>"Well, I guess it's time for me to get going too, huh? I guess I'll see you around then!"
>.....
>"...But these chairs are so comfortable..."

> "Yes, farewell." Shinki says.

> "You can't stay in them Rumia..." Alice says.

> Shinki goes through the portal, but not before asking Alice if she wants to come with her, to which there was a sharp 'no'.

> The Master-Spark coloured portal opens up again.

[Hanzo K.]

>"Y'know, if I ever decide to settle down in a house, I think I'd like to have chairs like these. They're so comfortable."
>"Well, see you around!"
>Even though we really don't want to leave them, we may as well get up and head back through the portal to Marisa's.

[Raikaria]

>"Y'know, if I ever decide to settle down in a house, I think I'd like to have chairs like these. They're so comfortable."
>"Well, see you around!"
>Even though we really don't want to leave them, we may as well get up and head back through the portal to Marisa's.

> "You seem more like the free spirit that would never settle down." Alice says.

> "Yes, we'll likly run into each other again."

> You enter the portal to Marisa's house. As you go through, you see Marisa standing outside, and she goes through as you do, with a "I need to make sure Shinki hasn't bothered her ~ze".

[Hanzo K.]

>Sigh amusedly. She sure does care for Alice, huh?
>We may as well get going. What's next on the agenda?

[Raikaria]

>Sigh amusedly. She sure does care for Alice, huh?
>We may as well get going. What's next on the agenda?

> Well, they are very good freinds.

> Right?

> You've been in Senkai for the largest part of the last year, you have a lot of people to see if you want to. You've already seen your group at the Misty Lake for a good week, and said hi to China.

> As such, you have several options:

- Go to the Moriya Shrine
- Go to the Kappa Village
- Go to the Tengu Village
- [Try and] go to Eientei [You don't know the exact way]
- Go Underground
- Go to the Hakurei Shrine
- Go to the Myouren Temple
- Go to Senkai
- [Try and] Go to the Human Village [Mystcia said it changed a bit, but you are not confident]
- Go to Misty Lake and the SDM [Note: Will Progress the main plotline and lock out other locations for a while]

You have people you may want to visit in all the above locations, or just be curious about. Plus it's been a year and a bit, things might have changed [Except in Senkai].

[Hanzo K.]

>Alright, first up, the Moriya Shrine! Sanae won't know what hit her when she sees how we turned out! Maybe Rika's even come to grips too!

[Raikaria]

>Alright, first up, the Shrine! Sanae won't know what hit her when she sees how we turned out! Maybe Rika's even come to grips too!

[I was gonna say wait to see what others say. Then I realised, others can give their opinions OCC about where to go next, after the Moriya Shrine, that and the MS was the place that looked after Rumia while she was out cold, so it's natural to want to pop by and say thanks at least]

> You decide to go and visit Sanae. After all, she and Suwako looked after you while you were out cold for a week. Eirin apparently helped too. Kanako was busy with Rika.

> You arrive at the Moriya Shrine after a somewhat short flight. The first thing that you notice is that it looks... more impressive than before. It's not bigger, or even looking that different, but something about it just looks... better. You can't pinpoint it. Maybe it's just the fact you've not seen it in a while, or maybe Sanae has been working hard keeping everything in top condition.

> You see Sanae near the side of the Shrine. She seems to be watching some frogs hopping towards the lake at the back.

[Hanzo K.]

>Fly up behind her, then give her a big ol' hug!
>"Hiya Sanae! It's been a long time huh? Didja miss me?"

[Raikaria]

>Fly up behind her, then give her a big ol' hug!
>"Hiya Sanae! It's been a long time huh? Didja miss me?"

> You sneak up behind Sanae, in a way that would make a certain karakasa envious. Kogasa is kinda bad at sneaking.

> You hug Sanae, and she gives a squeal of surprise.

> "I can't see you! I can't say if I missed you or not until I can see who you are!" Sanae says, before she manages to turn her head enough to catch a glimpse of the ribbon.

> "Oh, it's you, Rumia. You got... bigger." Sanae says. You're not the only one to have grown, you notice Sanae is a bit taller... and she feels a bit more imposeing, like the feeling you get from Kanako or Suwako. It's far, far weaker, but it's there, unlike before.

[Hanzo K.]

>Disengage from the hug if we haven't already.
>"Wow..You grew too! You actually feel kinda stronger! Check out what I can do now without needing to pull off the ribbon!"
>Let's make a little ball of dark energy in our hand, and have it float an inch or two above it.

[Raikaria]

>Disengage from the hug if we haven't already.
>"Wow..You grew too! You actually feel kinda stronger! Check out what I can do now without needing to pull off the ribbon!"
>Let's make a little ball of dark energy in our hand, and have it float an inch or two above it.

> You disengage from the hug.

> "Well, I am a human, I'm still growing." Sanae says, before adding, "As for the power... I'll explain that in a moment."

> Sanae watches you form a orb of dark energy, and blinks. "Cool." she says.

> "Anyway, as for me... ever since Keine became the new Mayor of the human village, a lot more humans have been visiting the shrine, and giving Kanako and Suwako faith. It also seems Kanako told them that I am a demigod or something, since I've started getting faith as well. The power of gods is tied into the faith they receive. As a demigod myself, my own powers also grow as I get faith, however, before now, I got none at all. In addittion, my powers grow as Suwako and Kanako get faith, as my power is to call miaricles, so is directly linked with other gods. We think that if I get faith, I can call upon miriacles faster, and stronger miriacles in general, and if Suwako and Kanako receive faith, what I call is stronger. If I called a Divine Wind a year ago, it would be weaker than one I can call now, and would take a little more time.

Really, I still shouldn't be getting any faith, I'm not a true god, after all. It's also why the shrine looks better somehow. It's responding to the faith."

[Hanzo K.]

>Toss the orb around between our hands for a bit.
>"Wow....That's pretty awesome! Hey, is Rika around? I wanna know if she's finally come to grips with the fact that she's a Youkai now y'know."

[Raikaria]

>Toss the orb around between our hands for a bit.
>"Wow....That's pretty awesome! Hey, is Rika around? I wanna know if she's finally come to grips with the fact that she's a Youkai now y'know."

> You play with the orb, which then fizzles out. Dark energy isn't the most stable thing, even your true form dosen't have complete control over it.

> "We've not seen her. Or heard from her. To be honest, we don't know how long she was a youkai for before we found out, and we know she dosen't like being with others. I even checked her old hideout, and she wasn't there. She's probobly hiding somewhere new, making a new hideout to make more machines." Sanae says.

[Hanzo K.]

>Grin. "Well, if she tries something again, I'll be around to fix things!"
>Pause.
>"Oh, how's the frog I left here a while back? Did his family get bigger?"

[Raikaria]

>Grin. "Well, if she tries something again, I'll be around to fix things!"
>Pause.
>"Oh, how's the frog I left here a while back? Did his family get bigger?"

> "Hey, so will me, Reimu, Marisa, and the others... well, maybe not Reimu and Marisa if she tries in, like, a hundred years."

> "These are some of his kids. As for the frog... well, frogs don't live that long compared to humans, and especially compared to youkai. He passed away during the winter." Sanae said.

[Hanzo K.]

>Sadface. "Aww...He didn't even get to become a Youkai? Maaaan...And here I was thinking it'd be awesome for that to have happened."

[Raikaria]

>Sadface. "Aww...He didn't even get to become a Youkai? Maaaan...And here I was thinking it'd be awesome for that to have happened."

> "Becomeing a Youkai is a very rare happening Rumia. Very few animals become youkai. How many insects are there in the world? Billions. Yet there is only a single insect youkai in Gensokyo, Wriggle. Even for the humans within Gensokyo, few become youkai, and that's within a naturally magical environment." Sanae says. "It might have been awesome, but it didn't happen."

[Hanzo K.]

>Do we know about any other insectoid youkai?
>"Well, maybe there'll be a frog youkai from one of his bloodline!"
>Maybe there's a way to help that along...

[Raikaria]

>Do we know about any other insectoid youkai?
>"Well, maybe there'll be a frog youkai from one of his bloodline!"
>Maybe there's a way to help that along...

> You don't know any, but you've heard of an Archnid youkai, Yamane Kurodani. Wriggle has said multiple times spiders are not insects, however.

> "Maybe. Maybe not. You never know." Sanae says.

> You know youkai are linked to magic. Short of dumping a frog in an area filled with Maisma and hoping it lives long enough to adapt and develop magical powers, there is nothing you can do. Magical Maisma from the Forest of Magic alone is enough to kill any human that's not Sanae, Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya or Keine.

[Hanzo K.]

>Spider, Insect, close enough!
>Grin. "Well, we've got plenty of time for that, I am a youkai myself after all!"
>"So, uh, how've you been doing? Aside from the whole getting faith thing."

[Raikaria]

>Spider, Insect, close enough!
>Grin. "Well, we've got plenty of time for that, I am a youkai myself after all!"
>"So, uh, how've you been doing? Aside from the whole getting faith thing."

> "True. Odds are that some day there'll be a frog youkai." Sanae says.

> "I've been fine. Not a lot has really happened. About the most serious incident over the last year was the kappatech reactor vanishing again... only for it to have been Sunny Milk messing with light to make it invisible." Sanae said.

[Hanzo K.]

>Let's have a laugh! "Good old Sunny! It's nice to hear some things never change."

[Raikaria]

>Let's have a laugh! "Good old Sunny! It's nice to hear some things never change."

> "Yeah, but it's a little far from her home, it's the other side of Gensokyo. Turned out someone put them up to the prank. We still don't know who it was, apparently they got a letter from the Tengu, and the Tengu don't know who sent the letter." Sanae said.

[Hanzo K.]

>Puzzled look. "That is pretty weird. Maybe I should look into that."

[Raikaria]

>Puzzled look. "That is pretty weird. Maybe I should look into that."

> "Aya and Momiji already did, and even they can't trace the letter." Sanae says.