Maribel Quest More - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

> "I guess that makes sense. In a fairyish way."
> "May I ask your honest opinion of them? The going Gensokyo opinion of fairies doesn't seem to be too high, but they've taken to my friend really well, and she's taken to them really well in return, so I'm kinda curious. Your reaction to the marriage proposals seems similar to others I've heard today...though I'm guessing that might have less to do with the fairies themselves."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I guess that makes sense. In a fairyish way."
> "May I ask your honest opinion of them? The going Gensokyo opinion of fairies doesn't seem to be too high, but they've taken to my friend really well, and she's taken to them really well in return, so I'm kinda curious. Your reaction to the marriage proposals seems similar to others I've heard today...though I'm guessing that might have less to do with the fairies themselves."

>She nods. "That's how I look at it."
>"Faeries are okay in modest doses," says Reisen. "One faerie usually isn't too bad. But a whole group of them..." she shakes her head.  "Overall, they can really be a pain. Especially when an incident is happening, and they get themselves whipped up into a frenzy."
>"As far as proposals go, she's taken," says Eirin. "Not that I could expect a faerie to appeal to her anyways."
>"There's no competition," says Reisen, patting Eirin on the arm.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Smile.
> "Yeah, I know the feeling. Minus actually getting fairy proposals, of course."
> "Hmm...so, is a cloud of riled-up fairies just obnoxious, or are they actually a serious danger?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Smile.
> "Yeah, I know the feeling. Minus actually getting fairy proposals, of course."
> "Hmm...so, is a cloud of riled-up fairies just obnoxious, or are they actually a serious danger?"

>"Hopefully you haven't gotten into too much trouble," Reisen says. "But if you're wandering around here at night, you'll almost certainly meet some."
>You ask whether groups of faeries are dangerous. "If you're a normal person, they can be," says Reisen. "But if you have good skill in danmaku, most of the time they aren't very dangerous. And usually if you wait, they'll go away unless they've decided they want to fight you, specifically."
>"There are some individual faeries who can be moderately dangerous even to a skilled person," Eirin says, "But, overall they tend not to be to bad. And even the moderately dangerous ones can be quickly dispatched."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Even if it's a really large number of them, all working together?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Even if it's a really large number of them, all working together?"

>"I suppose they could be," says Reisen, "But faeries don't work together on that kind of scale, and they certainly don't coordinate on that level."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Yeah, I suppose that's true."
> "...You know, it just occurred to me that you didn't really react when I mentioned I was new to Gensokyo. Is that something you're used to?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yeah, I suppose that's true."
> "...You know, it just occurred to me that you didn't really react when I mentioned I was new to Gensokyo. Is that something you're used to?"

>"Well, I kinda didn't register it," says Reisen, frowning a bit. "I thought you meant you were just wandering around for the first time."
>Eirin nods. "I suspect, if you've heard of Reisen you've heard of her, or rather, our place of origin. The concept of people from outside is not that unusual to me."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Shake head.
> "I actually had not. I only heard about Reisen from Ichirin. I'm from the outside world. I've been here in Gensokyo for less than a day."
> "So you are from the outside world as well?"

[E-Nazrin]

>"Unless... I think I heard something about you visiting the moon, Reisen? Did you come from there originally, then?"

[Kilgamayan]

Did we actually hear about that? I don't remember.

[DracoOmega]

Someone said she was a lunar rabbit, I believe. And I asked if they meant this literally, and they said yes.

[Kilgamayan]

All right.

> Scratch my last question.

[Hello Purvis]

> Shake head.
> "I actually had not. I only heard about Reisen from Ichirin. I'm from the outside world. I've been here in Gensokyo for less than a day."
> "So you are from the outside world as well?"

>"Unless... I think I heard something about you visiting the moon, Reisen? Did you come from there originally, then?"

>You shake your head, before you remember something that you heard this morning. Was it from Komachi? Perhaps Yuka? Someone while you were up north...
>"We both are," says Reisen. "I only came some years ago, though."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Really? That makes me feel a little better about my chances, then, since you seem to have adapted nicely. And to think, yesterday I didn't know magic actually existed..."

[E-Nazrin]

>"What's it like on the moon? I doubt the version I've heard outside Gensokyo is accurate anymore."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Really? That makes me feel a little better about my chances, then, since you seem to have adapted nicely. And to think, yesterday I didn't know magic actually existed..."

>Eirin chuckles. "If you are from outside, you've learned quickly."

>"What's it like on the moon? I doubt the version I've heard outside Gensokyo is accurate anymore."

>"Idyllic," says Reisen. "It is a pure place, free of the many corruptions and curses that the earth suffers from. Life is much different there."
>"You may think of where we come from as Luna's Gensokyo," Eirin says.
>"Not to say," Reisen adds, "That it is bad here, either."

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>"Pure?"

[Kilgamayan]

> "And yeah, so I've been told. Apparently I have a penchant for borders. Reimu taught me how to make them, though mine are still very basic and short-lived."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Pure?"

>"Without the shadows of disease, evil, or impurity," says Eirin.

> "And yeah, so I've been told. Apparently I have a penchant for borders. Reimu taught me how to make them, though mine are still very basic and short-lived."

>"What a rare gift," says Eirin.
>"Does this mean you're going to be a shrine maiden?" asks Reisen.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>"I have no idea. Is it... traditional, or something?"
>Evil and impurity by what standards, exactly...?

[Kilgamayan]

> "I don't really know if shrine maidening is for me, though I guess I'd do it if I needed something to pay the bills. I've been thinking about it, though, and teaching something at that kappa university sounds appealing."

[Hello Purvis]

>"I have no idea. Is it... traditional, or something?"
>Evil and impurity by what standards, exactly...?

>"I'm not sure if it's exactly traditional," says Reisen, "It's just that it kind of follows."
>That's an excellent and possibly insulting question...

> "I don't really know if shrine maidening is for me, though I guess I'd do it if I needed something to pay the bills. I've been thinking about it, though, and teaching something at that kappa university sounds appealing."

>"If Reimu is any example," says Eirin, "It's more likely you would instead be mistaken for an ascetic were you to become one. And, university?"
>"Is that what the kappa are up to these days?" Reisen asks.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Oh yeah, the kappa are going pretty crazy right now with making stuff. They've been inspired by the events that transpired in that mass dream. Pardon my frankness, but may I assume you two had it as well? It seems like everyone else has."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh yeah, the kappa are going pretty crazy right now with making stuff. They've been inspired by the events that transpired in that mass dream. Pardon my frankness, but may I assume you two had it as well? It seems like everyone else has."

>Reisen nods. "Yeah, it was weird. Never imagined Eirin and I would have the same dreams."
>"Let alone all the other rabbits as well." says Eirin.

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[E-Nazrin]

>Wonder if lovers really can share dreams here... wait, now's not the time.
>"It... wasn't entirely a dream, actually. For a while there was a Gensokyo in the outer world, but apparently Keine made it so that never really happened. Except the parts that did. And somehow bringing me and Renko in from the outside world, apparently..."

[Kilgamayan]

> "Well, long story short, that wasn't actually a dream. It was some super-powerful magic from the mountain goddesses to bring Gensokyo to the outside world and create new lives for everyone. Utsuho and Keine put a stop to it, though, so now things are back to normal. It's presumably how Renko and I got here, though; it seems Gensokyo overlapped with where we were, and when it was restored, we came with it."

[Hello Purvis]

>Wonder if lovers really can share dreams here... wait, now's not the time.
>"It... wasn't entirely a dream, actually. For a while there was a Gensokyo in the outer world, but apparently Keine made it so that never really happened. Except the parts that did. And somehow bringing me and Renko in from the outside world, apparently..."

> "Well, long story short, that wasn't actually a dream. It was some super-powerful magic from the mountain goddesses to bring Gensokyo to the outside world and create new lives for everyone. Utsuho and Keine put a stop to it, though, so now things are back to normal. It's presumably how Renko and I got here, though; it seems Gensokyo overlapped with where we were, and when it was restored, we came with it."

>It wouldn't surprise you if there was some way to make it possible.
>Reisen and Eirin listen to your summary, and then glance to each other.
>"I suppose it would explain the dream," says Reisen. "But don't you think it is a little hard to swallow?"
>"I agree," says Eirin, "But that doesn't make it any less true if it is true. I think we will need to have a talk with Keine. Or perhaps Kanako."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Keine would probably willing to talk about it, to a degree. Kanako, though, seems to just want people to assume it was a dream, forget about it and move on, at least in her neck of the woods. She was pretty upset that things happened the way they did."

[E-Nazrin]

>Wonder if either of them is going to get annoyed by the spread of this story.
>"Yes, it would be too much to ask you to take my word for it. But I've been assured that there shouldn't be any further consequences of it... well, direct ones, at least. The memories of that have still led to one or two things."