Excuse me for necro'ing an old post~
Here's an idea I've been brewing for the last several ... weeks, maybe.
The incident:One of Makai's demons is revolting, and Shinki sent Yukari a secret message to send reinforcements from Gensokyo to quell that revolution. Yukari then asks Kanako to organize the reinforcement, since she, along with her shikigami and her shikigami's shikigami, is to keep the Great Hakurei Barrier out of Outside World intervention.
Along with the usual five suspects, Kanako asks that each gets a backup.
--> Reimu got to make do with Satori. Yukari sent invitations to the Former Hell, and they agreed to send one. It turns out that during the ballot, she only outvoted Yuugi, the next-most-popular, by one vote: Yuugi's (Satori voted for Orin, actually).
--> Marisa, of course, gets Alice to get along. What she didn't know is that this is what Yukari has hoped all along: Alice is meant as their bargaining chip to get into Makai.
--> Sanae's got Aya, as per the Great Tengu's instruction.
--> Unsurprisingly, Yuyuko didn't ask to tag along with Youmu (if the two are to tag, who will keep Hakugyokurou?). The surprising part is that Ichirin, of Myouren Temple, agreed to tag along, per Byakuren's instruction.
--> Sakuya had it even more bizzare: Remilia heard winds that Miko is going to get this solved and get Sakuya tag with her.
Special mechanism:No idea. One thing to be sure, no IN-style team-tag. Also, each character only has one shot spread.
Stage bosses:Act One --> Hakurei Shrine
Act mid and Act boss: Lumina Dracano (OC), a lesser youkai. Rumia-grade.
Lumina explains that xe has been defeated by a certain archer in red and blue. After they defeated Lumina, they then moves for Bamboo Forest, and Eientei within.
By the way, just after xe (yeah, I'm definitely leaving Lumina's gender up for grabs) is defeated, she asks 'Who are you?' to the party. Sanae answers that they're 'the Knights Who Say Ni'.
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Act Two --> Bamboo Forest
Act mid: (good 'ol) Kaguya ('Gimmick': bomb immunity during spellcard patterns)
Act boss: (good 'ol) Eirin (Gimmick: during spellcard patterns, in addition of bomb immunity, she
regains some HP after the bomb ends)
(Kaguya's the act midboss simply because the ten ran into her first)
The Eientei triad turns out to have a little family hunt, because Kaguya's going to have Eirin to resolve it by her own. After Eirin's defeat, she agrees to defend the Bamboo Forest instead of going out. By the way, Marisa went philosophical: since Kaguya and Eirin have been looking after each other for so long, she suggests that they might as well be adoptive sisters. She even pulls a quote off a classic that 'siblings are like limbs' (which was built up on said 'adoptive sisters' suggestion), but before Marisa got to finish it, having correctly deducing where did she pulled the quote, Eirin reparted, 'says someone whose blood siblings have barely any show time in the novel.' She admitted that 'sisterly feeling' she has to her princess, however, if only because Kaguya openly admits that she looks on Eirin as her elder sister.
Act Three --> Moriya Shrine
Act mid and Act boss: Li Mengjie, male OC, hermit, capable of shapeshifting (The Act midboss battle has him shapeshift as Kanako.) (Gimmick: periodicaly gaining invulnerability)
The ten then heads to Moriya Shrine, mainly to ask for the resident goddesses' blessing. But after 'Kanako' shows up with a very unusual spellcard - God Sign "Han Feizi" - they got into conclusion that it was too unusual to be Kanako; Satori even states that 'anyone who have ever glimpsed the real Lady Kanako would doubt if it's her'. And indeed, just after they arrived into the conclusion, 'Kanako' shows
himself to be an all-out malicious hermit. They got into battle, and just after he got defeated, the mere appearance of the real Kanako manages to get him running down the slopes. Knowing where he ran, Kanako suggests them to follow and capture him, then go to the Garden of the Sun.
Act Four --> Youkai Mountain slopes, toward the Garden of the Sun
Act mid: ditto with Act Three (mid)boss
Act boss: Kobayakawa Shidai (another male OC, natural magician). (Gimmick: Timing out any pattern, spell or not, automatically kills the player. Mainly meant to ward off pacifist runs, though.)
Turns out Mengjie's escape was impeded by, of all things, the
Aki sisters. The two put up some impressive resistance that when the ten actually arrives, he only has one spellcard left: "Night Walking Wearing the God Body".
(BTW, it was a pun on Hirasawa Susumu's
Night Walking Wearing the Human Body, which probably flows better in Japanese; my proposed translation for that card is 「神体夜行」("Jintai Yakou"), so close with the real deal (人体夜行, Jintai Yakou) except that the card's first character is for 'God' instead of for 'human')
The boss battle, on the border of the Garden, challenges them so they won't enter the Garden underpowered.
Act Five --> Garden of the Sun
Act mid: (good 'ol) Yuuka
Act boss: Ma Liangyun (yet another male OC, youkai magician), Shidai's superior on a blacksmith within the Human Village (Gimmick: All his Act Five boss spellcards are survivals)
Since Yuuka has to go somewhere else, preventing the weak from entering the portal to Makai that suddenly appears in her Garden, the ten gets in with her noticing. A quick battle has her defeated (actually, she disengaged, sure enough that they are good enough in case they wander too close). Liangyun, who guards the gate, do notice them, and, just like his lieutenant has did, challenges them so they won't enter Makai underpowered. Yuuka noticed the fight's end, and asks them to promise that they'll survive Makai, so that she can see Liangyun and them fight another day.
Act Six --> Makai
Act mid: none (Technically, Yumeko is the act midboss. The fight contains zero nonspells and zero spells, however.)
Act boss: Gallerian Ogilvy (demon, male OC yet again) (Gimmick: First to fifth 'cards' out of seven have two possible cards, recycled from one of each of the ten's cards. Playing as one character will ensure that she won't encounter the card recycled off hers. The sixth and seventh card only has one possibility each.
To be exact, on Normal:
- Possible first cards: Spirit Sign "Sixth Crusade ~ Frederick II" (based off Reimu's Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal ~ Spread")
OR
Recollection "Treaty of Jaffa of 1229" (based off Satori's Recollection "Terrible Souvenir") - Possible second cards: Love Sign "Toxcatl Massacre" (based off Marisa's Love Sign "Non-Directional Laser")
OR
Curse Sign "Eastern Sorrowful Sky ~ La Noche Triste" (based off Alice's Curse Sign "Straw Doll Kamikaze". BTW, my proposed translation for this is 呪符「東方悲愴天 ～ La Noche Triste」. Note that the Japanese part is to be read as Touhou Hisouten, with the 'hisou' part changed with a homophonous compound for 'sorrowful'. It's meant to parody Touhou game naming scheme (and the La Noche Triste, but nobody is pleased with that).) - Possible third cards: Miracle "Miracle of Myeongnyang" (based off Sanae's Miracle "Daytime Guest Stars")
OR
Blockade Sign "Captain Murasa's Sinking the Fleet" (based off Aya's Blockade Sign "Mountain God Procession") - Possible fourth cards: Human Realm Sword "Life Unworthy of Life" (based off Youmu's Human Realm Sword "Fantasy of Enlightenment")
OR
Fist Sign "Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut)" (based off Ichirin's Fist Sign "Heavenly Net Sandbag") - Possible fifth cards: Silver Sign "Senkaku Silver" (based off Sakuya's Silver Sign "Silver Bound")
OR
Hermit Sign "Taoist of the Diaoyutai Islands"" (based off Miko's Hermit Sign "Taoist of the Land of the Rising Sun")
Playing as Reimu, for example, will ensure that the first card you'll face is
Recollection "Treaty of Jaffa of 1229". The other four cards, however, are always up for grabs.)
Not long after they entered Makai, Yumeko greets them, asking whether they're ally or enemy. After Alice ensured her that they're allies, she reported to Shinki that the reinforcement she asked have arrived.
Extra --> Garden of the Sun
Act mid: Yuuka
Act boss: Liangyun (no big gimmick this time)
Basically, the promised rematch they agreed in the end of Act Five.
