Maidens of the Kaleidoscope

~Hakurei Shrine~ => Patchouli's Scarlet Library => Topic started by: Hello Purvis on July 02, 2010, 07:04:13 AM

Title: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 02, 2010, 07:04:13 AM: So what'd you expect?

Okay, here's the deal. I kinda wanna write some things. I kinda want some ideas to play with. Yalls probably got ideas.

Lay them on me. If I like them, I might write a short story about them. Or a micro-fiction. Don't expect multi-page epics. Don't expect more than a couple paragraphs.

As for submissions: Make 'em good. Don't just vomit on the keyboard, please. Gimme something that can be worked with and is interesting. I reserve the right to ignore any request, or to mutilate and mangle them to my satisfaction.

Impress me >=[
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on July 02, 2010, 08:15:26 PM: Do we PM you suggestions, or post them here?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 02, 2010, 09:16:22 PM: Put 'em here. That way, others can see them and be inspired.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Janitor Morgan on July 02, 2010, 09:22:38 PM: If I recall, Koakuma was on vacation during Patchy Quest.

What happened while she was out of the library? There's a lot of different things that could have happened.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 02, 2010, 09:33:47 PM: Three oranges clash. You know who.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Sriggle on July 02, 2010, 09:34:13 PM: Patchouli and Kaguya are both computer geeks.
(Possibly yaoi/yuri fangirls, too.)
They both have the internet, and they have chat convo's.
Chat conversation.
Possibly with funny things going on in the backround(Wriggle VS SDM, Reimu/Marisa attacking, Flandre found the library, ETC), and the girls commenting on it. Through MSN chat.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Solais on July 02, 2010, 10:16:36 PM: Touhous go to Disneyland
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 02, 2010, 10:28:27 PM: Quote from: rdj522 on July 02, 2010, 09:22:38 PM
If I recall, Koakuma was on vacation during Patchy Quest.

What happened while she was out of the library? There's a lot of different things that could have happened.

"Damn," mutters a red-haired, bat-winged young woman as she steps onto the sandy beach, wiping beads of sweat from her forehead. She looks upward toward the clear sky, vainly searching for a cloud to cover the sun and give some respite. "Who broke autumn?"

"What're you asking me for, Koakuma?" answers another red-haired woman, wearing a white dress with a blue vest and standing on the prow of a old boat.

"I have a goddamn name, you know!" Koakuma says, glaring daggers at the other woman.

She shrugs. "Sorry. Memory's never been my strong suit. And, on that topic, you really better hope Shiki doesn't come to check in today. She'll gives you three years in Sharp Painful Object Hell for that swimsuit."

"Oh, are you asking me to take it off, Komachi?" says Koakuma, grinning as she reaches for a strap. "Besides, you must be burning up in that dress, let me help you out of it."

"Are you sure you're not a succubus?"

"Yes!"

"Perfectly sure? Like, maybe your mom slept around or something."

Koakuma throws her towel to the ground and glares at Komachi. "That's beside the point! I am not a succubus! Are you trying to push my buttons today?"

"Geez, I'm sorry," says Komachi, "I didn't think it was that sore of a point."

"It really gets old after the one hundredth time, you know," Koakuma mutters, as she kneels down to pick up her towel.

"Yeah, I'm sorry," Komachi says. "I was just funning you."

"Weeeeeell," says Koakuma, as she looks up, "I do know exactly how you could make it up to me..."

Komachi sighs. "Look, even if I wanted to, Shiki gives me enough shit for sleeping on the job as it is. I don't even want to imagine how she'd flay me if she caught me sleeping with someone on the job."

"So when are you off work?" Koakuma asks, frowning.

"I wish I knew..." Komachi shakes her head, then sighs again. "Oh well, break's over." She looks to a line of wispy ghosts stretching along the waterline. "Alright, you lot! Come forward one at a time! Empty your pockets ahead of time, and no cutting in line! If you cut in line, the Enma will know!"

Koakuma watches the line of ghosts progress onto the boat for a few moments, then wanders away to find a nice spot on the beach. Once you've seen one or two souls pay the toll, you're pretty much seen them all. She sets out her towel, and lays down on it. She stretches and smiles. Even if it's too hot, it's still a nice day out. If she could live to be ten thousand years old, she swears she will never understand why more people don't come here.

In the distance, a sleek aquatic form, all fins and teeth and easily as large as Scarlet Devil Mansion, bursts from the water with a roar and snaps up a couple of seagulls from the air. It twists its immense form in mid-leap, and descends back into the water nose first. "I will feed you at lunch time, Pochi, and not a second before! I don't care how much you beg!" Komachi shouts, shaking her scythe in its direction. Koakuma watches it splash down, then the incoming waves, giggling as they tickle the bottoms of her feet. Maybe it would be a good time to go fishing in the shade later.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 02, 2010, 10:33:45 PM: Quote from: 偶然の妖精陰陽師 on July 02, 2010, 10:16:36 PM
Touhous go to Disneyland

Yeah, no way this wasn't going to get posted. (http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7762/ufodisneyland.jpg)

A canon explanation for why uncharacters are uncharacters.

~~Cirno and the Yukkuri~~ Rumia and the Yukkurian Elder Gods

Ayumi Kagu... Kasu... Osaka in Gensokyo.

Letty needing more air time. Possibly also Lily. Mud wrestling?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Janitor Morgan on July 03, 2010, 12:00:54 AM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 02, 2010, 10:28:27 PM
In the distance, a sleek aquatic form, all fins and teeth and easily as large as Scarlet Devil Mansion, bursts from the water with a roar and snaps up a couple of seagulls from the air. It twists its immense form in mid-leap, and descends back into the water nose first. "I will feed you at lunch time, Pochi, and not a second before! I don't care how much you beg!" Komachi shouts, shaking her scythe in its direction.

Perhaps Pochi is the reason living people don't visit the Sanzu River very often. They try to go for a swim and become snack food.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 03, 2010, 02:23:07 AM: Quote from: WBV Zengar Zombolt on July 02, 2010, 09:33:47 PM
Three oranges clash. You know who.

There is hardly a sound be heard in the night. Chen strains her ears, but there is simply nothing to be heard. Still, alien lights shine on the horizon, painting the darkened sky an angry red. What is this world, she wonders, to have such strange things? She didn't have time to ask for details before, only that Yukari needed her to find a gem. She hadn't really thought to ask why when Yukari had come to her, she was too excited just to have Yukari's faith in her that she dived through the gap without a second thought. But now, alone in this strange place, she wonders why. Where is this place? Is it Makai? Certainly it's strange enough for it. Still, the trees and grass here seem normal enough.

She pushes onwards, going deeper into the trees. Yukari had said to look in the forest. But why was it so quiet here? Where are the howls of the wolves, the yips of the coyotes, the song of the deer? The insects were singing from time to time, but where are the larger animals? Maybe there were none at all? Maybe something terrible happened here? But that doesn't seem right, the trees look healthy enough.

A light up ahead catches her eyes. She freezes, watching it. No, not a light, not exactly. More of a reflection. She watches it, senses sharp. There are still no unusual sounds, no motion save for a slight swaying on the trees in the wind. She creeps forward, watching the reflected light, but keeping her eyes moving. There is a snap above! She dives forward, throwing her hands out to catch herself as something heavy lands behind her! Her hands hit the ground, already she kicks her lefts forward to disperse the force of the impact. She begins her feet around, letting her body flip, and springs upward lightly with her hands as her feet touch the ground. She keeps a wide stance as she assesses the interloper in from of her. "You," she says in a low voice.

"Me," says the interloper, a tall red-haired woman with a white bow in her hair, dressed in greens and yellows. She gives Chen a toothy grin, as she twirls a baton in her fingers. "I can't believe you thought I'd let you just walk up and snag the treasure gem."

"I didn't even know you were here, to be honest!" says Chen, extending her claws.

"What!" Orange shouts. "How did you not kno-"

"But," Chen continues, "now that you are...I suppose there's nothing left to say, is there?" Her ears twitch, as she picks up a sound, something that sounds....weird. A very fast and repeated sound, kind of a drone. What is that? Some trick of her's?

"Girly," says Orange, suddenly stopping her baton twirl and grasping it firmly, "I've waded through rivers of corpses and mountains of blood to get this gem, and if you think some ten year old brat is going to stop me, you have another thing coming!"

"Bring it!" Chen shouts as she springs toward Orange, drawing her arm back. Orange steps away, raising her baton to ward off the blow. Landing on her feet, the attack ruined, Chen darts toward Orange's right side, only to find a baton angled at her head. She ducks under the strike and brings her claws in an upward raking motion at Orange's side. The taller woman backs away from the attack, and the two square off again.

"Damn you!" Orange cries, "Why won't you just hold still and accept the inevitable!"

"You're mom's an inevitable!' Chen says, sneering. That sound is definitely getting closer. Does Orange even notice it? She springs forward again.

"My mom was a saint!" shouts Orange as she jabs the baton forward. Chen's sneer turns into a grin as she twists away from the attack, retracting her claws in her right hand and balling it into a fist. She swings, the, placing the moment of her movement behind the attack and connects solidly with Orange's jaw. The taller woman staggers back, blood flowing freely down the side of her mouth. "You can't even beat a Yakumo rug," Chen cries as she moves forward, pressing her advantage, "let alone Yakumo Chen!" She strikes Orange in the chest, following through with a claw rake to the stomach. Orange screams, flailing widely with her baton, and forces Chen back.

"I've...not even begun to fight," says the taller woman, settling back into a defensive position. "Whatever tricks you might have up your sleeve."

"Surrender, Orange," says Chen, as she starts to circle the taller woman, "Surrender or die in obscurity!" She frowns despite her brave words. That sound is getting way too close.

"I'll obscurity your fa-WHAT THE-?"

The rest of Oranges words are drowned out by the droning noise reaching a deafening level. Light shine down from above! Chen squits upward, and sees some sort of metal...thing. It looks like something the kappa would throw together, a sort of pod-like design with long wing-like planks extending from it and some huge blade thing spinning above it. She has only a few moments to gawk at it, before a huge shadow descends from it. Chen leaps back as the shadow, a huge person-shaped, descends upon Orange elbow-fist. Orange's cry of dismay is cut short as she crumples to the ground.

"Wha-wha-what?" says Chen, as she backs away from this new person. He is huge, easily seven feet tall, and so heavily muscled Chen wonders how he can even stand up straight. His reddish hair is cut close to his scalp, and his face twisted into a permanent scowl. He wears simple clothes, a green shirt, matching pants, and heavy black boots that make Chen think briefly of Alice.

"Can't believe a some woman and a little girl would try to get in the Empire's way," he says in a deep, growly sort of voice as the machine and its droning noise recede. He massages his elbow idly.

"Who are you?!" Chen shouts.

"Name's Orange," says the big man, "Colonel Orange. And while I don't usually take on kids, you made the worst mistake of your life when you tried to get in the Empire's way!" He charges, shouting "I'll take you down with a single blow!" over Chen's scream

****

"Chen?" comes a voice from above. Chen tries to groan, then decides not to. Everything hurts. Slowly she opens her eyes to see Yukari hovering above her, concern on her face. "Chen, dear? Did you stop Orange from getting the gem, this is very important, I need to know!"

Chen tries to speak, but the sobs and the tears come. Valiantly, fighting against the pain, she says, "Wh-wh-which one?" before giving into a sob.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 03, 2010, 02:28:49 AM: [22:27] * E-Nazrin discovers the third Orange. Loses shit.

Poor Chen, though :V
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 03, 2010, 02:55:52 AM: ...
Well shit.
I am...
done for
gj
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Mounting Jaggis on July 03, 2010, 03:33:26 AM: Random girls find Thromnambular
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 03, 2010, 03:37:18 AM: Quote from: KitsunΣ-mouse on July 02, 2010, 10:33:45 PM
A canon explanation for why uncharacters are uncharacters.

"Yukari," Reimu says, as she frowns at the spot were all the people who were voting Nay on the spellcard system she had proposed were standing. "What did you did you send them?"

Yukari shrugs.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 03, 2010, 10:20:16 AM: Quote from: Sailor Wriggle on July 02, 2010, 09:34:13 PM
Patchouli and Kaguya are both computer geeks.
(Possibly yaoi/yuri fangirls, too.)
They both have the internet, and they have chat convo's.
Chat conversation.
Possibly with funny things going on in the backround(Wriggle VS SDM, Reimu/Marisa attacking, Flandre found the library, ETC), and the girls commenting on it. Through MSN chat.

MSN is bad, you can have an AIM log instead.

BookbinderGodhead: Hey stop lurking.
Bamboo Cutter: What?
BookbinderGodhead: What the hell is your doctor doing here?
Bamboo Cutter: Go ask her, doofus.
BookbinderGodhead: No, she's weird.
Bamboo Cutter: You're weird.
Bamboo Cutter: Weirdelinger.
Bamboo Cutter: Weirdenstein.
Bamboo Cutter: Weirdy McWeirdWeird.
BookbinderGodhead: You done?
Bamboo Cutter: Not yet.
Bamboo Cutter: MC Weird and the Weirdtastic Five.
Bamboo Cutter: There.
BookbinderGodhead: Someday I'm going to find the strangle button on this thing.
Bamboo Cutter: =D
BookbinderGodhead: Oh god you're not turning into one of those S&M Bondage freaky sorts are you?
Bamboo Cutter: Turning into? Hon, I spend the 16th century all over that shit, before it was popular.
Bamboo Cutter: It gets old. I like snuggling now.
BookbinderGodhead: ...God I hate talking to you sometimes.
BookbinderGodhead: I didn't need to know that.
BookbinderGodhead: At all.
Bamboo Cutter: You brought it up.
BookbinderGodhead: Silence.
Bamboo Cutter: Jajajajajajajaja
BookbinderGodhead: Don't you Spanish laugh at me.
BookbinderGodhead: Oh hey Sakuya's yelling at at your doctor.
Bamboo Cutter: Really?
Bamboo Cutter: Why?
BookbinderGodhead: Something about a payment.
BookbinderGodhead: Wow, Sakuya is really shouting. She even literally said highway robbery.
Bamboo Cutter: Haha no one ever says that anymore I haven't even said it in like a century.
BookbinderGodhead: Wow now Flandre's out there trying to figure out what they're screaming about
Bamboo Cutter: What are they screaming about?
BookbinderGodhead: I think it's something about Eirin charging too much? Some billing thing.
BookbinderGodhead: Boring stuff.
Bamboo Cutter: Yeah really.
Bamboo Cutter: So I went on this kickass IC run last night.
Bamboo Cutter: Some death knight tried to take on Muradin.
BookbinderGodhead: Oh god shut up right now.
BookbinderGodhead: No more talking.
BookbinderGodhead: Just stop.
BookbinderGodhead: It's quiet time for royalty.
Bamboo Cutter: I have, calm down.
BookbinderGodhead: loser princess says what
Bamboo Cutter: Huh?
BookbinderGodhead: your dumb
Bamboo Cutter: ...Goddamnit Koa. Go away.
BookbinderGodhead: lolololol no
Bamboo Cutter: Where did Patchouli go?
BookbinderGodhead: dunno
BookbinderGodhead: died
BookbinderGodhead: prolly
BookbinderGodhead: sakuya's gonna fcuk your doctor up btw
BookbinderGodhead: little vamps cryin too
Bamboo Cutter: Wow, really?
BookbinderGodhead: yup
BookbinderGodhead: btw show me your tits
Bamboo Cutter: ...Okay, why not?
Bamboo Cutter wants to send file C:\Documents and Settings\Patchouli\My Documents\download\BookbinderGodhead\boobs.jpg.
BookbinderGodhead received C:\Documents and Settings\Patchouli\My Documents\download\BookbinderGodhead\boobs.jpg.
BookbinderGodhead: lolololol holy shit
Bamboo Cutter: =]
BookbinderGodhead: this is wallpaper now bye
Bamboo Cutter: Ahahahah oh hell.
BookbinderGodhead: ...Kaguya.
Bamboo Cutter: Yes?
BookbinderGodhead: Why is my wallpaper Goatse?
Bamboo Cutter: Scroll up.
Bamboo Cutter: =]
BookbinderGodhead: ...Goddamnit, I am going to beat her with a board.
Bamboo Cutter: So, where did you go while I was chatting with your lovely assistant?
BookbinderGodhead: I went out to get Flan out of there before she got into trouble.
BookbinderGodhead: She's in the basement now making me a Taj Mahal of legos.
BookbinderGodhead: Now I just need to figure out what that treat I'm going to give her is.
Bamboo Cutter: A sundae?
BookbinderGodhead: My god, you are a genius.
Bamboo Cutter: =]
Bamboo Cutter: I've dealt with kids enough over the millenia. Sweeties always do the trick.
Bamboo Cutter: So what's the deal with Eirin and Sakuya? Ko seems to think Sukya's about to use knife diplomacy.
BookbinderGodhead: Maybe. From what I can gather, it's over some medical herb thing. I think they got different ideas on the price.
Bamboo Cutter: Huh. Wouldn't think Eirin would get angry over that.
Bamboo Cutter: Couldn't you guys afford it anyways?
BookbinderGodhead: Couldn't you afford to give it away from free?
Bamboo Cutter: Touche.
BookbinderGodhead: You feel that?
Bamboo Cutter: Feel what?
BookbinderGodhead: Yeah, that was Sakuya. Looks like the front room's going to need to be cleaned up.
Bamboo Cutter: Wow, she knifed up Eirin that bad?
Bamboo Cutter: Wait how did you see that?
BookbinderGodhead: No, but there's knives everywhere now, and Eirin's doing some spellcard thing.
BookbinderGodhead: Left the doors open.
Bamboo Cutter: Oh okay.
BookbinderGodhead: Wow. Sakuya just got hit pretty bad.
Bamboo Cutter: She down?
BookbinderGodhead: No, just really mad n-FUCK EIRIN'S IN HERE
BookbinderGodhead: brb
Bamboo Cutter: Oh snap.
Bamboo Cutter: Don't get danmaku'd
Bamboo Cutter: ...Oh hell, how's your asthma today?
BookbinderGodhead: real bad
BookbinderGodhead: i think i broke my arm it sucks
Bamboo Cutter: Hi Koa
BookbinderGodhead: lol
Bamboo Cutter: So, you gonna give me the news or what?
BookbinderGodhead: lol no.
Bamboo Cutter: Shame. I had just snapped a picture for you and everything
BookbinderGodhead: ok
Bamboo Cutter: =]
BookbinderGodhead: patches is using one of her spellcrads
BookbinderGodhead: the metal one
BookbinderGodhead: and is tryin to chase them out
Bamboo Cutter: What're they fighting over anyways?
BookbinderGodhead: eiren made some pad joke
Bamboo Cutter: I thought it was over the price of something?
BookbinderGodhead: lol jk
Bamboo Cutter: Deleting picture~
BookbinderGodhead: ok i dunno.
BookbinderGodhead: i was puting up some books
Bamboo Cutter: At this point, I think it's more fun to make up reasons why they're fighting than to learn the real thing.
BookbinderGodhead: lol
Bamboo Cutter: So, who's winning?
BookbinderGodhead: lol me
Bamboo Cutter: That good of a show?
BookbinderGodhead: yep
BookbinderGodhead: patches used the merkery card
BookbinderGodhead: maid's throwing knives like crazzy
BookbinderGodhead: she keeps gettin hit lol
Bamboo Cutter: Eirin holding her own?
BookbinderGodhead: sorta
BookbinderGodhead: everyones shootin at her
BookbinderGodhead: pix now
Bamboo Cutter: Well, okay. A promise is a promise.
Bamboo Cutter wants to send file C:\Documents and Settings\Patchouli\My Documents\download\BookbinderGodhead\forreals.jpg.
BookbinderGodhead received C:\Documents and Settings\Patchouli\My Documents\download\BookbinderGodhead\forreals.jpg.
BookbinderGodhead: lol nice
Bamboo Cutter: I'll pretend that's a compliment.
BookbinderGodhead: u ho.
Bamboo Cutter: Child, please. I've spent more time being caught naked by accident over the eons than you've been alive. You think I have any modesty left?
BookbinderGodhead: lol grannie
Bamboo Cutter: You'll wish you could look like me when you get to be my age.
BookbinderGodhead: g2g
Bamboo Cutter: Tragedy.
BookbinderGodhead: ...Why the hell are your tits my wallpaper?
Bamboo Cutter: Because Koa is trying to fix us up.
BookbinderGodhead: What.
Bamboo Cutter: I was bored. Decided to make her day. Sue me.
BookbinderGodhead: Maybe I should have just let you blabber about your PVP deathmatching or whatever...
Bamboo Cutter: You act like it's such a terrible sight.
Bamboo Cutter: I'm so hurt...
BookbinderGodhead: Save the tears for messing with Mokou.
Bamboo Cutter: Oh fine.
Bamboo Cutter: Did you save the library?
BookbinderGodhead: Mostly. Eirin put an arrow through a shelf in the Octorine Biology section.
Bamboo Cutter: =[
BookbinderGodhead: Yeah. It's going to be a pain to fix. But at least I chased them out.
Bamboo Cutter: I'll make Eirin pay for the damages or something.
Bamboo Cutter: Think she'd be able to come by and fix them herself maybe?
BookbinderGodhead: We'll see. I have no idea what set Sakuya off, but...damn. This is like the mist incident all over again.
Bamboo Cutter: Wow.
BookbinderGodhead: Yeah.
Bamboo Cutter: So, change your wallpaper yet?
BookbinderGodhead: God I hate you so much.
Bamboo Cutter: =]
BookbinderGodhead: fuck they're back brb
Bamboo Cutter: Go go go!
Bamboo Cutter: Save the library!
Bamboo Cutter: Be the library hero!
Bamboo Cutter: Savior of all bookkind!
Bamboo Cutter: So, when're you coming back, Koa?
Bamboo Cutter: Hello?
Bamboo Cutter: Hello?
BookbinderGodhead signed off at 2:29:48 PM.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Serp on July 03, 2010, 12:36:08 PM: I'm liking this Koa.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Sriggle on July 03, 2010, 12:39:13 PM: I LOLed. EPICly. XD

Lovely charactarization, ^^

And bonus for keeping Koakuma mischievous.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Kasu on July 03, 2010, 02:19:25 PM: Okay. That was awesome.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 03, 2010, 03:44:50 PM: >bookbinderGodhead
woah. Cannot unsee.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 03, 2010, 08:17:33 PM: You know.

I didn't even consider the filter, because I never use lol myself.

I daresay it improves things.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 03, 2010, 09:12:36 PM: Quote
BookbinderGodhead: ...Why the hell are your tits my wallpaper?

My god, I laughed so hard.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: UncertainJakutten on July 03, 2010, 09:51:52 PM: Can we see what happened after Dai got tased?
Also a day in the life of Cho Marisa, either ZUN Gensokyo or "Real" Gensokyo.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Kasu on July 04, 2010, 01:44:36 AM: The "Mothman" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman) enters Gensokyo and has some kind of encounter with Wriggle/Yamame.

Just thought I'd try this~
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on July 05, 2010, 04:09:13 AM: 4 Cats end up meeting up, hilarity, and then funny combat, ensue. One of them isn't a cat but instead a kat XD
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 05, 2010, 05:23:02 AM: Nitori's mechanic shop, since everyone in Gensokyo drives. Nevermind the lack of paved roads.

Bonus points for having Marisa drive a diesel street-sweeper.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Solais on July 05, 2010, 07:55:51 AM: Cirno waiting for the bus.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Tengukami on July 05, 2010, 01:50:36 PM: Aya Syameimaru, FOX News intern.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 06, 2010, 12:39:28 AM: Quote from: Tengukami on July 05, 2010, 01:50:36 PM
Aya Syameimaru, FOX News intern.

oh dear god no
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Tengukami on July 06, 2010, 01:02:20 AM: Quote from: KitsunΣ-mouse on July 06, 2010, 12:39:28 AM
oh dear god no

YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 06, 2010, 04:57:21 AM: Quote from: Tengukami on July 05, 2010, 01:50:36 PM
Aya Syameimaru, BBC World News intern.
Aya needs a to be British'd.

She just does.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 06, 2010, 11:42:50 AM: Quote from: Tengukami on July 05, 2010, 01:50:36 PM
Aya Syameimaru, FOX News intern.
Quote from: Tactician Esifex on July 06, 2010, 04:57:21 AM
Aya needs a to be British'd.

She just does.

"Dammit Aya," the editor shouts, "will you drop the goddamn birth certificate thing!? Illegals are what we're after now! Or maybe catch a Democrat in a bathroom stall with another guy for once!"

"Not until he shows the bloody longform!" Aya shouts back.

Quote from: UncertainKitten on July 03, 2010, 09:51:52 PM
Also a day in the life of Cho Marisa, either ZUN Gensokyo or "Real" Gensokyo.

Kay (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=5308.0)

Day [Redacted]

Marisa Kirisame's Next Big Day!

X Make sure the Faeries haven't broken in.
X Breakfast
X Do 500 reps
_ Clean up the house
X Move bookshelves
~~_ Visit Kourindou~~
X Lunch
X Weights
~~_ Drop in on Alice~~
/ Supper/Carb loading
~~_ Break in the new rowing machine.~~
/ Work on Love Sign: Disaster Spark

Daily Calender for Lily White

X Water the tulips
X Trim the rose bushes
X Check the mulberries
/ Put out the snapdragons
X Clean up a little bit
_ Go to Misty Lake
_Have lunch with faeries
_Find some anemone seeds
_Get home in time to make supper

Suika Ibuki's Inebriation Agenda

X Wake up, make sure size is normal before moving
/ Get Reimu to give gourd back
/ Find where Reimu hid gourd
/ Get tavern to extend tab
X Head to Forest of Magic
X Roll whatever mook comes along for booze money.
X Put money toward tab
X Get proper pissed
Suika Ibuki's Inebriation Agenda

Day [Redacted+1]

Marisa Kirisame's Next Big Day!

X Breakfast
X Do 500 reps
_ Clean up the house
X Fix Lily-shaped hole in roof
X Tend to Lily
X Lunch
X Weights
X Drop in on Alice
X Supper/Carb loading
X Break in the new rowing machine.
X Work on Love Sign: Disaster Spark

Daily Calender for Lily White

/ Stop being beat up

Suika Ibuki's Inebriation Agenda

X Wake up, make sure size is normal before moving
/ Get Reimu to give gourd back
/ Find where Reimu hid gourd
/ Get tavern to extend tab
X Head to Scarlet Devil Mansion
_ Nab some goods to hawk
_ Hawk stuff Underground
_ Put money toward tab
_ Get proper pissed
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 07, 2010, 09:20:19 AM: Quote from: 偶然の妖精陰陽師 on July 05, 2010, 07:55:51 AM
Cirno waiting for the bus.

"I don't get how this thing works," says Chen, sitting on the bench, her tails wrapped demurely around her side.

"It's super simple," says Cirno, as she kicks her feet in the air and looks down the road. "You just wait for it to come, and then you get on! Then it'll take you places!"

"Couldn't we just fly places?" Chen says, frowning. "I mean, it's kinda really weird when you think about it."

Cirno smirks, baring a few teeth in her disdain. "Flying's for losers and shrine maidens! Nobody who's awesome flies anymore! Us cool people, that's you and me, Chen, us cool people have the bus take us places! Because it's super keen, you don't even know! "

"I guess I don't," says Chen. "Well, you've done this before so I guess you're right." She looks around idly, trying to pick out some interesting birds or something from the surrounding trees. Instead she sees a dark-haired faerie with a blue bow standing in the bough of a crabapple tree, picking a few of the fruit. Upon noticing Chen, the faerie sticks her tongue out. Chen is all too happy to return the gesture.

"Here it comes!" says Cirno, leaping to her feet. Chen looks down the dirt road, as a sort of rumbly growly sound comes to her ears. Then it turns around the corner, and Chen can only stare in wonder. Moving forward on its large wooden wheels, it looks like a couple of hay wagons joined together. A roof has been built over it; she can tell from the shape that it was made from an old rowboat. On the side of it is a door, possibly taken from some unused closet. Why it rumbles and growls, she cannot say, but she notices a large flywheel protruding from the side of the bus, connecting by a pulley to the front wheels and spinning them. A burst of steam escapes through a pipe on the far side of the bus.

It rumbles to a stop in front of them, and the door opens, revealing a set of stairs into the vehicle, and Nitori. She sits in front in a large overstuffed chair, holding a large wheel affixed to the front of the bus. She grins down at the two of them. "Hop aboard, kids, the next stop is the Myouren Temple!"

Chen walks on, looking around with wide eyes. Inside are a number of chairs; kitchen chairs, easy chairs, rocking chairs, stools, and more, all set in somewhat orderly rows. Several people sit in them; Chen waves to Alice, happy to see a familiar face.

Cirno climbs after Chen and looks around with a bored expression. Then she pulls out a spellcard and shouts. "Nobody move! This bus is going straight to the playground, or so help me you're all getting frostbite like nobody's business!"
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Solais on July 07, 2010, 09:27:37 AM: So there is a bus in Gensokyo. Huh. Thanks.
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Post by: E-Nazrin on July 07, 2010, 09:58:32 AM: Quote
Cirno climbs after Chen and looks around with a bored expression. Then she pulls out a spellcard and shouts. "Nobody move! This bus is going straight to the playground, or so help me you're all getting frostbite like nobody's business!"

God damn it, Cirno.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Doll.S CUBE on July 07, 2010, 04:52:49 PM: Meiling is actually a dragon sealed in human form, sealed by Remilia or by someone else.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 08, 2010, 04:00:34 AM: Quote from: 偶然の妖精陰陽師 on July 07, 2010, 09:27:37 AM
So there is a bus in Gensokyo. Huh. Thanks.
I'm more surprised that 1) there's a playground
2)it's a landmark to be referred to as 'the' playground
3)Cirno knew about the bus before Chen.
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Post by: MysTeariousYukari on July 08, 2010, 04:15:17 AM: Quote from: Tactician Esifex on July 08, 2010, 04:00:34 AM
I'm more surprised that 1) there's a playground
2)it's a landmark to be referred to as 'the' playground
3)Cirno knew about the bus before Chen.

and then and then STUFF HAPPENED xD I never get tired of that sig, please never change it, or if you do, make it your pic at least :D It's way to good to get rid of!

On topic... Mokou/Kaguya(your pic) decides she wants a girlfriend or 50 and starts being a player, quite possibly on top of her already having Keine/Eirin respectivly. Hilarity of course ensues.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 08, 2010, 11:22:29 AM: Also, it's noteworthy I don't take these in any order.

Quote from: Doll Warrior.S on July 07, 2010, 04:52:49 PM
Meiling is actually a dragon sealed in human form, sealed by Remilia or by someone else.

"Are you sure this is wise?" says Patchouli, as she withdraws her arms into her robe against the wind. Standing in the garden in the middle of the night was hardly healthy for someone of her condition. A number of dishes are scattered at her feet, painstakingly placed

Remilia smirks, then looks back at Patchouli and says. "If you've got a better idea in case Flandre breaks out of the basement, We'd like to hear it!"

Patchouli shrugs, keeping her arms close by. "Point yielded."

"Of course it is," says Remilia. "Now put a coat on! You're going to catch your death of cold like this!"

"From what I've read," Patchouli says with a frown, "a coat will be the last thing on my mind once we've summoned it."

Remilia frowns, then decides that Patchouli had earned some magnanimity and lets the point drop. "Now, are you sure this is going to work?"

"Most certainly," says Patchouli. "Every source I've read agrees on this point; dragons love bowls. And seven is the most sacred number, so it is only fitting for such a heavenly creature."

Remilia picks up one of bowls and examines it. "And the stars? We must say, you've painted them well."

"To represent the constellations," says Patchouli. "Without even a dim reflection of heaven, a being such as a dragon would not bother to descend to the earth outside of its own desires. Now, let us place them as I told you, and I shall begin the summons."

Nodding, Remilia places the bowl where Patchouli had indicated it should go, then stands aside as the witch arranges the rest, shivering now and again. "Now really, our Patchouli," says Remilia, "You must go get a coat! We worry for your health! Do you want to just drop dead on us? It would break our heart, you know!"

"Just a moment," says Patchouli, as she withdraws a small drum with two balls dangling from it on strings. She lifts it to the air and twists back and forth a few times. The balls smack into the drum, producing an irregular beat. After a couple moments, Patchouli retards her arm. There is silence.

"That's it?" Remilia says after a few moments pass. The witch nods, prompting a scowl from Remilia. "We could have hired some child from the village to do that! If you are wasting our time with a joke, our Patchouli, your distressing lack of a coat will be the least of your worries!"

"Perhaps you have not noticed," says Patchouli, "But I stopped shivering once I played the drum."

"...Ah," says Remilia, as she eyes Patchouli critically and finds the witch is no longer huddling against the night air. Looking up, she grins as she notices a splash of red against the darkened sky. "It's coming, Patchouli, it's coming! Oh, but We are so proud of you right now!"

The red light grows, looking as though the sun were somehow rising out of the middle of the sky. The air grows warmer, as the glow begins to scintillate a variety of colors. Remilia grins, practically shaking with anticipation. To glimpse the face of the creature response for the creation of this world, a privilege few beings could claim since the creation of the border. Then, the chains would bind them all the more tightly, oh yes... Thunder crackles from the air, with no lightning to precede it. The night air feels like a spring day, while the earth itself seems to vibrate as if heralding the coming of the dragon. But these were not harbingers of the dragon, Remilia could feel. These were the dragon itself! It was far too vast an existence to confine to mere flesh, for its the stuff of reality itself! The draconian creature that most thought of as the dragon was merely one part of itself. The earth was the dragon, as was the sky, the clouds, the light and the darkness. All these things were manifestations of it. She grins as the air begins the warp and distort. To see its scaly form, though, was to hold its attention.

The air continues to distort and warp, the red light in the sky shining downward, seeming to coalesce into a solid shape, a huge twisting form that blots out firmament. The light begins to take a solid shape, becoming a twisting and writhing serpent whose vermilion coils seem to glow with their own light. It turns its vast, scaly head toward them, adorned with frills and ridges like the decor of the most elaborate gown. "You, who have summoned me," it says. Its mouth does not move, rather the air itself seems to be its voice. "Speak your desires."

Remilia shoots a look at Patchouli, who is staring at the beast with an expression of befitting someone who had just been struck by lightning. "Patchy! This doesn't look like the statue in the village at all! We demand to know the meaning of this!?"

"Ah, uh..." says Patchouli, wrenching her attention away from the dragon. "Oh. Well, this is a dragon, not The Dragon."

"What!" Remilia puts her hands on her hips, "Our Patchouli, we believe you have misheard our request, and we are not pleased!"

"Worry not," says Patchouli, "It may not have forged the Great Hakurei Barrier or made Gensokyo, but I assure you that is only because The Dragon did it first."

"Excuse me," the air rumbles.

"What?" Remilia says, looking up at the dragon.

It brings around one of its talons, connected to a hand easily large enough to fill a gallery in the mansion, and points toward them. "Are you going to use those bowls? They're quite nice."

"Maybe," says Remilia. "Our Patchouli did paint them especially by Our request."

"I'll give you a wish for them," rumbles the air.

"Very well," says Remilia. The bowls lift into the air, and disappear into the dragon's hand.

The dragon draws its head closer to them. "Make your wish."

Grinning wide enough to show her fangs, Remilia speaks. "Speaking Our wish is but a mere formality! Fate has bound you and We already, but let us observe all proper forms, shall We? Our wish is for you, dragon! You will serve Us eternally! You will be Our servant, at our beck and call, willingly and cheerfully! "

"You're gonna regret that," the air rumbles.

Then the light and thunder suddenly cease. The air is cold once again, and earth quiet as it should be. Remilia looks around wildly. There's no way it could have just ran off, not after they had been bound! Then she sees a tall woman clad in green, carrying a stack of bowls in one hand and approaching with an easy stride. Most notable about her is...nothing. Remilia scowls. There is nothing notable about this youkai! No grand power, no sublime connection to the world! Just some Youkai!

"Reporting for duty," says the dragon, grinning and saluting with her free hand. "When's breakfast, by the way?"

Remilia's response, thankfully, is out of earshot of any children.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Doll.S CUBE on July 08, 2010, 05:54:13 PM: You should extend this.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 09, 2010, 12:31:37 AM: Quote
Remilia's response, thankfully, is out of earshot of any children.

I cackled.

EDIT:

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(7/9/2010 1:18:39 AM) syrazemyla: Idea for a fan game: Shingyoku Damacy.
(1:18:54 AM) E mouse2000: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Zemyla on July 09, 2010, 05:45:58 AM: Aya and Hatate have to team up. Why? Because someone with a grudge against them has kidnapped the kappa who knows how to make newsprint.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: swamp147 on July 09, 2010, 06:10:44 AM: I'm liking these shorts :)
Yumeko is pissed because no circle will make a good vocal remix of Doll of Misery, so she makes one herself.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 09, 2010, 06:18:09 AM: Quote
(2:16:43 AM) syrazemyla: Odd thought: People in Gensokyo hear about Danmakufu, only they think it's Danmafuku and so they wear really short skirts.
(2:17:10 AM) E mouse2000: I think I hate you, but in a good way.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 09, 2010, 10:05:05 AM: Quote from: Zemyla on July 09, 2010, 05:45:58 AM
Aya and Hatate have to team up. Why? Because someone with a grudge against them has kidnapped the kappa who knows how to make newsprint.

It is just after lunch time, and Aya has to do everything in her power to keep tongue civil as she looks across the table to the plaid-skirted tengu sitting there. Hatate frowns at a piece of paper in front of her. Around them, life goes on in the village. Tengu fly between their tall, balconied homes, some go to pay their respects to the Moriya shrine while others fly down toward the kappa village to pick up their fish for the day. Others appreciate the beauty of the little park where the two have met.

"Can you even read that?" Aya says after a moment.

"Easily," says Hatate with a little smirk, "I've dug out so much worse handwriting, you don't even know. Like this one time, I was looking at this picture of the old treaty the kappa made with the humans and it was so-"

"Just read the damn letter."

"Oh fine," says Hatate. She clears her throat. "Stupid tengu, I took your kappa printer. Stop with the bad stories and undies pictures or she gets it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha."

Aya frowns. "You telling me that she actually wrote out the laughter?"

Hatate nods. "You're lucky I didn't try to pronounce the spelling, it's something else." She sets the letter aside, giving it a dirty look.

"So," says Aya, as she rubs her chin and frowns at the sky, "The facts are: The printer's been kidnapped. Someone sent us both a ransom note, kinda. This person can't write or spell to save her life. And she's dumb enough to write out the laughter."

"That sounds right," Hatate says. "And no matter how you look at it, there's not a lot of people who fit that description."

"Well clearly, even you couldn't let this stand," says Aya, leaning on the table.

"As if," says Hatate. "We just have to figure out who did it, and then it's go time!"

"Oh, I already have a good idea who it is," says Aya.

****

"Gyaaaaaah!" cries Tenshi as she sails through the air and smacks into a tree with a meaty noise, crumpling around it.

"Give us back the printer now, bitch!" Hatate shouts as she soars after the celestial and smacks her in the back with a heavy branch. Aya follows a moment later, landing a solid kick to Tenshi's rear. The celestial groans as the two tengu loom over her and glower. After a couple seconds, Hatate smacks her with the branch again. "I said now!"

"Don't know...nothin' about...printers..." Tenshi groans, her voice partially obscured by the tree.

"How about now?!" Hatate says, smacking Tenshi with the branch again.

"Nothin'..." Tenshi says, choking back a sob, "You gotta...believe me."

"All I believe is I'm about to whup your ass!" Hatate shouts, raising the branch again.

"Hold it," says Aya, raising a hand. The plaid-skirted tengu halts her swing, and looks at Aya with a raised eyebrow. Aya kneels down by the battered celestial's head. "Tenshi, hon? Where's the kappa?"

"Y'mean..." Tenshi says, "The one...Alice had?"

"Oh son of a bitch!" Hatate says, flinging her branch down to the ground. "I am not going two places!"

"This will be fine," says Aya, as she takes a picture of Tenshi's bruised and bloodied form. "I have a plan. You see, Alice has one big weakness..."

"Oh really?" Hatate replies, snapping her own picture of Tenshi.

****

"So if you stupid tengu don't stop printing terrible fake stories about me and my friends," Alice shouts, shaking a fist with vigor. "Things are going to get nasty! This is just a warning!"

"Just a warning," Aya says, as she scribbles the puppeteer's words down. "Gotcha."

"I mean it!" says Alice.

"Mean it." says Aya as she jots that down too.

Alice narrows her eyes. "You know what? Just get off of my yard. I don't think you're going to get your printer friend back."

"And then the madwoman," Aya says as she writes, "flustered at having her own words repeated at her, ordered the reporter to leave and threatened her hostage. As well, she has still declined to answer the reporter's questions about the suspicious marks on her knuckles, in conjunction with the rumors that she beats her friends."

"There aren't any marks on my damn knuckles, you stupid chicken youkai!"

"She then denied the evidence, and made an ill-thought out personal attack against the tengu people as a whole..."

"What! That's not what I meant!"

"She vigorously defended her slurs," Aya continues over the sound of her pen scratching. "As well, she still has yet to explain why she thought making ransom letters with intentionally terrible spelling would really serve any purpose."

"Oh that's it," Alice shouts as she produces a spellcard. "I'm gonna beat you like a drum!"

"Got her!" comes Hatate's voice as she opens the front door to Alice's house from inside. Alice looks back, staring with wide eyes and a slack jaw as the plaid-skirted tengu steps out, leading a middle-aged kappa with long braided hair. Aya takes this opportunity to whip out her camera and snap a picture of the rescue, including Alice's face.

"Don't do that!" Alice shouts, whirling back toward Aya. She then has a visible facial tick as Hatate's camera snaps behind her.

"Tata!" says Aya, taking to the air.

"Hey!" Alice cries, "I'm not done with you yet!"

"That's fine, we're done with you," says Hatate with a smile, as she takes to the air after Aya, the printer following close behind.

****

"I'm still surprised Alice didn't follow us," Hatate says, as she and Aya fly back toward home.

"The thing with people like Alice," says Aya, "Is they like to think they're cool and rational. So if you wind them up, they hard a hard time thinking straight. By the time she would have decided how she wanted to chase us, we were already long gone."

"Oh, I see," says Hatate. "You know? We make a pretty good team."

"Like hell."

"Yeah, it just seemed like a nice thing to say. Your paper is still complete garbage."

"Your paper is the remains of an uncleaned catbox," says Aya. "Hey, is it just me, or is there an awful lot of smoke coming from the village?"

Hatate peers ahead and frowns. "Yeah, I think you're right."

"Stupid tengu whose houses got burned down say what!?" shouts a voice from above.

"Wha-?" says Hatate, looking toward Aya quizzically. Both tengu look upward, and see a distant figure hovering a few hundred yards overhead. Still, it is not hard to make out her distinctive dress and wide-brimmed hat, nor is there any mistaking her voice as she laughs down at them.

"Oh shit, my collection!" Aya shouts, zooming ahead and leaving Hatate. The plaid-skirted tengu hovers in place for a moment as she considers the situation. Then she swoops toward the ground and grabs a sizable branch that had fallen from one of the trees.
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Post by: Esifex on July 09, 2010, 06:20:58 PM: Oh, God, it's now possible that I both hate and respect Aya at the same time now. Of course, I hate her more than I respect her, and I hate her more than I used to, but this is still a feat.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Kasu on July 09, 2010, 06:49:50 PM: Violent Hatate is awesome.
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Post by: E-Nazrin on July 09, 2010, 10:15:56 PM: DAMNIT TENSHI
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Post by: Blackraptor on July 11, 2010, 02:59:42 PM: Wait...no...Okay!

Stage 1 of IN and Reimu and Yukari have to fight Wriggle but this time, Wriggle brought her girlfriend Yuka along.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2010, 04:58:48 PM: Poker Night at the SDM.

Everyone is invited. Except Letty.
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Post by: E-Nazrin on July 12, 2010, 01:14:32 AM: How Marisa became 'Cho-'Marisa.
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Post by: Fetch()tirade on July 12, 2010, 01:50:27 AM: April Fool's Day in Gensokyo.
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Post by: theshirn on July 12, 2010, 05:20:13 AM: Keine has an epic drinking night. The next day, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT (and completely screwed up).
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 13, 2010, 05:41:50 AM: Quote from: theshim on July 12, 2010, 05:20:13 AM
Keine has an epic drinking night. The next day, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT (and completely screwed up).
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 13, 2010, 12:01:03 PM: Quote from: Canoness Acidus on July 11, 2010, 12:43:43 PM
Suika and Yuugi's excellent noir adventures.

I have never read anything Noir. Closest I've read is Problem Sleuth. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

Rain falls like the aftermath of a distillery explosion. Yuugi looks out the window of her second office, peering over the roof line of the City. A stinking pit of booze, riots, broken dreams, and broken people. Who knows how many people are out there, living, working, sweating, partying, and just trying to get by? A city hidden away in a dank, dark cave on the flip side of defunct hell. Every street's a gutter, each filled with its own brand a trash. It's a hard city, ready to pounce on the green and eat them alive. She'd seen it happen a thousand times, good kids going wrong and then bam! Just like that.

Her city.

She pours sake into her bowl and sips, savoring the warm flavor while continuing to look out the window. There's a million stories in The City. Stories of love and rage and inebriation. But now, some joker is out there causing funny business. That won't fly in this city.

"Wotcher, Yuugs," comes a voice from behind.

"What'd y' find?" Yuugi, then takes another sip of her sake. It was starting to turn sour, but that's just how things go. The first sip is always the sweetest. She doesn't bother to look back, she knows that voice like she knows her own. Suika was always there, always ready for a scrap or a swing. She was a good kid, but you couldn't trust her; just a little bit insincere. Someday it was going to get them all in hot water.

"Dame Komeiji ain't got nothin' to do with it," says Suika. "Not 'er pets, neither."

Yuugi nods. It wasn't like Dame Komeiji to cause trouble, even if her girls were a bit on the rowdy side. They kept to themselves. She's too good for this city, Dame Komeiji. She sips her sake again. "Check with K?"

"Ain't been 'round," says Suika. Yuugi could hear the shrug in her voice. Deva K had a way of coming and going. Who knows where she vanished off to? Maybe she has some other place, some sweet retreat she kept all to herself. K was a mystery, alright. Never said a word, silent as the stones.

"Not gettin' a thing done here, are we now?" Yuugi says, standing up then finishing off the dish. The sake burns its way down her throat like memories of old humiliations, the kind that never let go no matter how how much time goes by. She sets the dish aside. "Y'did right good looking around, Suika. All's that's left it go right to th' problem, innit it now?"

****

The rain doesn't let up. Walking under a large umbrella, Yuugi focuses her eyes on an old warehouse up ahead. It's been empty since who knows when, just like the rest of this neighborhood. Old houses and shops everywhere, abandoned like grandma's dreams. No one comes here anymore, there's no point. No one until recently, anyways.

There's activity in that warehouse, anyone and their sister could hear it from a block away. Banging, hammering, shouting, and danmaku, a regular riot in there. Through the open doors, anyone could see the place is lousy with faeries. Yuugi clicks her tongue. Faeries where a fact of life, like crummy beer and crummier women. You could never get away from 'em. But when there's that many in one spot, nothing good was going on.

"What ya want we ought to do 'bout this?" Suika says, while she idly spins her umbrella and slings rain about.

"What y' think we're gonna do, y' mook?" Yuugi replies. "We're gonna head roit in there as if we own the place, on account of us ownin' it, and we're gonna beat the shit outta everyone what moves and maybe a few what isn't"

"Only I had to be sure, didn't I now?" says Suika, shooting a look like last week's garbage at Yuugi. "What with you sometimes getting th' clever ideas and whatnot."

"Salroit," says Yuugi, as she starts across the grimy cobblestone streets. "Just keep y' head zipped on straight."

She strides through the warehouse door, giving her umbrella a shake and closing it. She looks around, taking note of the warehouse's layout. It's clean, which makes Yuugi frown. An abandoned warehouse has no business being clean. The place is shaped like a big L, with a large wing to the right and another up ahead. It was dry inside, that much could be said for it. The place was holding up surprisingly well, like a reliable old dog who's been there for the years and still has your slippers ready in the morning. You could do things with a place like this, and it seems like someone is doing just that. Dozens of faeries float about in the air, watching them carefully, their former tasks forgotten.

"Hi?" says one of the faeries.

"Wotcher!" replies Suika.

Silence hangs in the air like a messy divorce. Then a faerie shouts, "Get 'em!"

****

To their credit, Yuugi decides as she smooths a dent of their umbrella, they did get a few licks in. Not that it amounted to much, kids like that don't last long in this town. Maybe on a better day, she would have taken one of them aside, showed them how things worked in the City. But not today. It just wasn't their lucky day. On a bad day, the City eats you alive. She glances over at Suika, who polishing a bit of something from one of her chains.

"Hey," comes a voice across the warehouse, "you did in all my faeries, didn't you!"

Yuugi looks up, and her draw drops. She barely notices the speaker. Who could care about the speaker in the presence of that? The finest bowler she had ever seen, complimenting an immaculate vest, a perfect bow tie...everything about the outfit is perfect. Soft gold in color, the suit seems to shine with with its own light. It's like if every classy ball and highbrow event were put into a single suit of clothes. They drip class like confetti in a parade. It is the perfect suit. Almost as afterthought, she notices the person actually wearing it; a small and thin youkai with blonde hair. She wears a fake mustache of exquisite quality, seeming almost natural in its place, and a monocle with a thin and exquisite gold rim. Yuugi barely notices that the youkai is standing with her arms outstretched.

"Get a load of th' gladrags on her," Suika mutters.

"Yeah, ain't they?" says Yuugi, shaking her head and trying to look the Youkai in the eyes. "And who are you, anyways?"

"I'm the boss!" says the immaculately dressed youkai, as she twiddles her mustache. "And it's going to take me nearly half an hour to get those faeries back, you know." She waggles a finger in Yuugi's direction.

"Kid," says Yuugi, "Y' got some nerve, barging in my warehouse like I wasn't gonna notice." She massages her knuckles. That kid may be dressed so far to the nines she might as well be a hundred, but nobody messed with this City and how it's run. Nobody!

"Oh, is it a problem?" asks the youkai.

"It's only Yuug's bleedin' warehouse, innit?" Suika says, crossing her arms.

The youkai frowns. "It is?"

"Yes!" Yuugi shouts.

"Can I have it since you're not using it?" asks the Youkai, twiddling her mustache.

Yuugi closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath. No, that wasn't going to cut it. She opens her eyes again. "Get 'er!"

****

"Okay, fine..." Yuugi mutters, staring at the ceiling while waiting for her limbs to work again. "Y' can have the bleedin' thing! Jus' pay some rent!"

"How'd the zoggin' 'ell she do that, Yuugs?" Suika asks, somewhere to Yuugi's left. "Only there was bleedin' ice an' lightning an' wossnames outta nowhere!"

Yuugi doesn't bother to answer. It's been a rotten day. The city would eat you alive if you weren't ready for it. And no one could be ready for it forever. It's a lousy world out there. One day you're on the top of it all, and the next you're laying on a warehouse floor with some-

"Hey, you want a muffin?" asks the youkai, hovering over Yuugi.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2010, 01:07:21 PM: Cirno outsmarts Yukari.
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Post by: Kasu on July 13, 2010, 01:20:44 PM: The phoenix possessing Mokou becomes self-aware resulting in a duel personality.
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Post by: Solais on July 13, 2010, 03:10:44 PM: Yukari = Maribel = Renko = Sana
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Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 13, 2010, 11:54:00 PM: Gapstuck.
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Post by: E-Nazrin on July 13, 2010, 11:56:44 PM: Before reading:

Quote
I have never read anything Noir. Closest I've read is Problem Sleuth. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

This can only be wonderful.
---
And I was not disappointed.

Suggest: The Canonality of Yukkuri
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Mounting Jaggis on July 14, 2010, 03:44:59 AM: Utsuho blows up the Sun
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Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 14, 2010, 07:34:57 AM: Quote from: Admiral Skye on July 14, 2010, 03:44:59 AM
Utsuho blows up the Sun
In that line
DOUBLE SUN POWEEEEEERRRRR
Aided by Lord Tenma!
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Mr_Bob on July 14, 2010, 09:19:35 AM: Grisly story about how youkai really are. Play with emotions by pretending to befriend and appearing cute and human, and then rips out your entrails and feasts on your warm guts.

or

Iku's troubled times during the swingin' sixties and seventies, drug addiction, etc.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 14, 2010, 09:59:40 AM: Quote from: Mahānubhāva_Bob on July 14, 2010, 09:19:35 AM
Iku's troubled times during the swingin' sixties and seventies, drug addiction, etc.

Elvis. Gensokyo. Make it happen.

Alternatively: Freddy Mercury.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 14, 2010, 11:44:04 AM: Quote from: Cirnore on July 11, 2010, 04:58:48 PM
Poker Night at the SDM.

Everyone is invited. Except Letty.

This one is absolutely shameless.

"So there we were," says Remilia as she deals the cards. The Scarlet Devil Mansion's main drawing room; decorated in reds, crimsons, and vermilions; is silent, everyone there listening to the vampire's story. All eyes are on her. "Had the Red-White's back to the wall. It was just We and her. So We pulled out Scarlet Gensokyo. And you know what happened?"

"She whizzed around like a like a bat affected by your maid's power and dodged every last bit of it?" asks Yuyuko, and she takes her cards and glances at them.

"Who's telling this story?" Remilia says, shooting the grinning ghost princess a look. "But yeah, that's what happened. Next thing We knew, needles everywhere! It took us a week to sleep it off!"

"Well, I can sympathize," says Yuyuko as she contemplates her cards, and tosses a green chip into the pile. "I thought I had a marvelous plan, myself. Lure her to the foot of the Saigyou Arayashi, and then force her to deal with a card that she can't even hit me to stop! It was perfect, I thought. But alas, even when she's low on resources, she can still dodge with the best of them."

"Oh quite," says Kaguya, as she discards two cards. "I had a similar plan. But rather than being invincible, I focused more on intricate patterns and a long period of being untouchable. Alas, no luck." She tosses a few green chips into the pile. The rest of the table matches.

"Well, it wasn't very fast," says Yuyuko. "I would like to think I got a lot of mileage out of Resurrection Butterfly's speed."

"Speed works decently," says Kanako, as she rearranges her cards. "But even with that and an intricate and confusing pattern, I've discovered a fatal weakness in what I thought was a practically invincible spellcard."

"She slips through the tiniest gaps?" asks Utsuho, holding her cards in just one hand. With a flip of her thumb, she sends three cards into the discard pile.

"Oh but We hate when she does that!" Remilia says, scowling at her cards, her hand on one. Finally she decides to discard it while the others again.

"Oh yeah?" says Tenshi. "Well I threw a rock at her!"

The table goes silent, as everyone looks at Tenshi with disdain, confusion, or in the case of the largest woman at the table, a trace of pity. Tenshi frowns at the reception. "Well...it was a really big rock!"

"See, I thought I had best one," Utsuho says, before Tenshi can dig herself any deeper. "Forget bullets, just straight up mess with the playing field! Made it so no one could move properly, and kept drawing her in! Only way to stay alive was to dart right into the layers of bullets I was pulling toward me! It was genius! But...welp. Here I am. Probably for the better, I guess."

Yuyuko looks toward a grandfather clock along the side wall. "Oh my, the time does fly. Well, this shall be my last hand, I'm afraid. It's nearly time for dinner!"

"We had dinner like an hour ago," Tenshi says, giving Yuyuko a sidelong look.

"I don't believe I mentioned that at all," says Yuyuko, as she tosses a few more chip into the pile.

"I was rather pleased with my own idea," says Byakuren, looming over the table as she frowns at her cards, then places them face down on the table. "Indirect homing, with volume making up for the ease of dodging, just piling on more and more as time passed. But it just wasn't to be."

"At least you didn't a fool made of yourself," says Remilia, frowning at Byakuren. "You got what you wanted, you lucky jerk! Really though, I think we can agree all these ideas were of excellent quality. It's just that the Red White is far too fast, and slender!" A chorus of agreement goes around the table.

"Gee," says Reimu, glancing at the other players, "Thanks for the well wishes. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Alright, let's get Yuyuko out of here. Show 'em!"
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Post by: Tengukami on July 14, 2010, 03:17:59 PM: These just keep getting better.
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Post by: ray10k on July 14, 2010, 07:37:21 PM: ran, chen and youmu, discussing swordplay while Yuyuko and Yukari are having tea.

by the way, who was the one causing trouble in Yuugi/Suika's story?
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Post by: Kasu on July 14, 2010, 07:46:52 PM: Quote from: ray10k on July 14, 2010, 07:37:21 PM
ran, chen and youmu, discussing swordplay while Yuyuko and Yukari are having tea.

by the way, who was the one causing trouble in Yuugi/Suika's story?
I'm pretty sure it was Rumia. It was a reference to Purvis's last text adventure.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: theshirn on July 14, 2010, 10:39:54 PM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 14, 2010, 11:44:04 AM
"Oh yeah?" says Tenshi. "Well I threw a rock at her!"

The table goes silent, as everyone looks at Tenshi with disdain, confusion, or in the case of the largest woman at the table, a trace of pity. Tenshi frowns at the reception. "Well...it was a really big rock!"
ahahahahaha
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Mr_Bob on July 15, 2010, 08:53:31 AM: Holey Swiss Cheese Batman! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXpMIasxWU)
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 15, 2010, 09:32:52 AM: Quote from: theshim on July 14, 2010, 10:39:54 PM
ahahahahaha

Yeah, I stole the whole thing pretty shamelessly.

Quote from: theshim on July 12, 2010, 05:20:13 AM
Keine has an epic drinking night. The next day, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT (and completely screwed up).

(This one's gonna be a multi-parter)

"Ugh..."

Keine opens her eyes, and immediately regrets it. She quickly adds the gift of sight and being born to her list of regrets as the headache pounds through her skull. She rolls over, trying to turn from the light, and buries her face in someone's soft shoulder. She considers the situation carefully. On one hand, it's difficult to breathe. On the other hand, if if she could get Mokou to go get her something for this headache, perhaps the world wasn't such an awful place after all.

"Your poking my shoulder, dear," says the owner of the shoulder, whose voice is most certainly not Mokou's. Keine sits up straight, and instantly regrets the action as the sensation of faeries hammering nails inside her skull redoubles, accompanied by a wave of nausea. Still she forces her eyes open, and looks down upon a green-eyed, green-haired woman, wearing nothing but the sleepy smile she beams at Keine. Almost as an afterthought, Keine realized her own state of undress.

"Yuka?" Keine says in a small voice, has her aching mind tries and refuses to race.

"Mmm," says Yuka. "That was the best anniversary ever. ...Keine, hon? Are you okay? You look terrible."

When one dabbles into history often enough, one comes to recognize certain signs that it have been altered. With such experience, Keine is able to leap past the "What are you doing in my bed!" realization without saying something that might upset Yuka. The mention of an anniversary is terrible unsettling, but she manages to power past it as well. Instead, she settles upon saying: "I...don't even remember which anniversary it was...Oh god, my head."

"You just lay there, baby," says Yuka as she climbs out of bed and gently pats Keine's head. Keine winces at the familiar gesture, then hopes it Yuka will mistake it for aggravating her headache. Yuka doesn't protest, instead saying. "I'll go get you something. Just hang tight."

As the flower Youkai departs, Keine sinks back down into bed and puts her thoughts together as well as she can. Something happened. Was this a hangover? Why the hell did she get drunk? Keine tries to think back. Mokou came over yesterday, they went to town together. And then...and then...

...And then she woke up next to the flower youkai, whom, judging from the smell of the bed, had a been one half of a fling that left one of them very satisfied last night.

Oh hell.

Keine groans. So, apparently, she ended up with Yuka in this timeline. Alright. So far, so good. That's a basis. So maybe she just changed something about Yuka's past, or her own? That shouldn't be too hard to fix. And, at least, she hadn't made an enemy of Yuka. Did she have enemies now? That would be a problem.

"Here you go, kitten," comes Yuka's voice, thankfully muted, as she enters the bedroom. Walking over to Keine, she offers a curious green concoction in a glass.

"What is it?" Keine asks, eying it suspiciously. It helps take her mind off the fact that Yuka had yet to get dressed.

"Just a remedy. Don't worry, it'll take care of that headache no problems."

"Well, okay," says Keine, then takes a tentative drink. The liquid is oddly thick, almost but not quite a paste. Cool, and oddly sweet. Aside from clinging to her teeth, Keine quietly admits it's not all that bad. "Sweet," she says, before taking a drink.

"I always add a little honey for my honey," says Yuka with a grin, as she climbs back into bed.

Keine tries not to think anything of it, and fails spectacularly. "Um," she says. "I know it's not very nice, especially after this, but could you put something on?"

Yuka grins. "Oh, am I getting you all bothered again?"

"Yes," says Keine. "It's making the headache worse."

"Well, you should have thought of that before you tossed my clothes out the window last night," says Yuka, still grinning. "'We won't be needing these anymore', you said. So passionate, too. Got my motor purring like you wouldn't believe, honey. You should do that more often!"

Keine frowns. "Oh." She finishes her drink to avoid having to deal with following that up. Her headache did feel a little bit better now, she had to admit. It didn't hurt to look in the direction of light anymore.

"Feeling better?" Yuka says.

Keine nods. "Yeah, it's working great. Thank you. I'm impressed, really."

"Oh you're always impressed." Yuka shakes her head. "You'd think you'd get used to it after half a decade. You little flatterer, you." She shifts closer to Keine. "Do keep it up..."

"I'm hung over, Yuka," says Keine, doing her best not shift away from the youkai. It's not really Yuka's fault, she thinks everything is supposed to be like this. Not to mention offending Yuka, of all people, might be messy. "At least let me get over that."

"We'll be sticking to proper mead from now on, then," says Yuka. "If that sake stuff gets to your head that badly."

"I can't even remember what we did yesterday," Keine says. "Could you remind me?"

"Alright," says Yuka, as she takes Keine's arm into her own. Keine closes her eyes, trying to pretend it doesn't exist. "You sent the kids out early, of course."

"We have kids?!"

Yuka laughs, long and hard. It is practically the perfect cackle. "Oh, but that was perfect, love!" Yuka says, suddenly leaning over and kissing Keine on the cheek. Keine does it best not to wince. "The kids at school! Though...if you really want a few for ourselves, well...I'll think about it, okay?" She winks. Keine wishes, direly, she knew Yuka well enough to know if that is supposed to be a joke. "You let school out earlier, and we went over to see a play at Eientei. I don't think they ever named it. Something about a crazy sailor and a giant animal she wanted to take obsessive revenge on. So much swearing. Then we went to Mystia's restaurant, she even reserved our favorite booth for us! We had dinner, the best steaks she had to serve, and I think you must have hit the sake a little hard. Then we came home, and, well, you tossed our clothes out the window. I don't think we've ever done it three times in a night before. It was magical. If only the moon were full..."

Keine nods as Yuka describes the life of someone else. Three times? Wow... So Mystia as a proper restaurant now. That's going to make things harder. Eientei was still having plays, that's one thing the same. Good, good. "So...we do have other clothes, right?" says Keine.

"Well, yes, pookie," says Yuka, "But what fun is that?"

****

Eventually, Keine feels well enough to get out of bed. It is not an easy task with Yuka watching, the smile on her lips revealing her thoughts on Keine's state of undress. Nor is it easy to cope with Yuka's laughter at her blushing. She goes to the bathroom, bushing her hair and cleaning herself off with the basis there. Looking in the mirror, she's placed to note nothing is awry with her appearance. Those were always the worst ones, that means someone's heredity got messed with, and a whole new chain of causality always comes from that sort of thing. And there was the story of the hakutaku who ended up an oni...

She heads to the kitchen, and is pleasantly surprised to find Yuka at the stove, and a stack of pancakes at her seat. She also notices a number of hanging flower baskets have been added to the usual decor. There were a few in the bathroom as well, now that she thinks about it. There could be worse things added around. Glancing out the window, she notes most of the front lawn is now a flower garden. It's a little ostentatious for her tastes, but there is a kind of charm to it.

"I've been thinking," says Yuka, as she sits down at the table with her own stack of pancakes and starts to apply honey to them, "What I said earlier?"

"Hmm?" asks Keine. A lot of things had been said earlier.

"I think I'd actually like to have some kids. That sounds, just so nice, don't you think?"

(BONUS CONTENT!

<PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream> @choose Option K or Option Y
<Keine> PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream: I choose...Option Y! ^_^V
<PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream> *So be it.*

Option K was Kanako.)
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 15, 2010, 09:43:50 AM: Quote
She winks. Keine wishes, direly, she knew Yuka well enough to know if that is supposed to be a joke.

This left me cackling for a solid minute.
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Post by: Blackraptor on July 15, 2010, 04:13:10 PM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 15, 2010, 09:32:52 AM

"I think I'd actually like to have some kids. That sounds, just so nice, don't you think?"

Homely Yuka? Wow...also, what kind of kids would those two have?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: theshirn on July 15, 2010, 04:15:14 PM: Keine...

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
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Post by: DracoOmega on July 15, 2010, 04:27:14 PM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 15, 2010, 09:32:52 AM
(BONUS CONTENT!

<PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream> @choose Option K or Option Y
<Keine> PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream: I choose...Option Y! ^_^V
<PurvisHasLeftThisTimestream> *So be it.*

Option K was Kanako.)

Ha, and now we know. There's a certain irony in having Keine be the one to make that decision. Personally, I think Yuka was the much more hilarious of the two options, anyway. ^^;

Anyhow, I found the story incredibly amusing and eagerly await the follow-up.
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Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 15, 2010, 05:39:13 PM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 15, 2010, 09:32:52 AM
Something about a crazy sailor and a giant animal she wanted to take obsessive revenge on.
I'LL GET YOU MOBY WHITEROOOOOOOCK
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Chaore on July 15, 2010, 06:44:18 PM: Ahahaha yes this is officially the best thread ever. Well done.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Doll.S CUBE on July 15, 2010, 10:08:20 PM: Quote from: Purvisen Silver on July 15, 2010, 09:32:52 AM
Those were always the worst ones, that means someone's heredity got messed with, and a whole new chain of causality always comes from that sort of thing. And there was the story of the hakutaku who ended up an oni...

Is that implying what I think its implying? :3
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 16, 2010, 02:58:42 AM: Stepping outside, Keine has a look around. Hmmm, large wooden building at the edge of the village is new. It'll bear some investigating. The tofu shop seems to be missing. She takes out a notepad and starts to mark these little differences down. Thankfully, the changes are outweighed by the things have have remained the same. Walking along the street, she starts to take note of people.

"What're you loitering about for, Teach?" comes a voice from the left. Looking over, Keine is somewhat surprised to see a small green-haired youkai in a bucket bouncing toward her down the street.

"Oh, hello Kisume," says Keine, "I wa-"

"Thats Lord Mayor Kisume, wench!" shouts the youkai throwing her hands to the air.

Keine starts, then does her best to keep under control "...What?!"

"Ah, I'm just funnin' ya teach," says Kisume. "But I didn't campaign my arse off to beat down Remilia in the run-offs just so people could go around forgettin' my title."

"Sorry...mayor," says Keine, trying to get her mind around the concept. She makes another note, trying not to frown at a major shift in the political system. "Anyways, I'm doing a history inspection. Looking around for little anomalies and such. You never know, after all."

"Oh, I got a good one for you, then," says Kisume. "Seems like your Yuka's dress and underthings are caught up in the tree behind your house."

Keine closes her eyes and counts to three. Why the hell couldn't these kinds of things have happened with Mokou? "Yes, we'll be taking care of those soon."

"Good," says Kisume, "No one likes a braggart. Speaking of that, congratulations on your anniversary."

"Thank you," says Keine, trying not to sound distant. It was getting just a little hard not to feel guilty now. "Hey, um, can you tell me something? It's kind of a story, she and I, right? I'm curious, how much of it has gotten out?"

Kisume gives her a look, raising an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"History inspection," Keine says. She taps her notepad to emphasize her air of officialness.

"Right, right," says Kisume. "Well, I was underground when it happened, y'see. But the way I hear it? You came in after the Shrine Maiden knocked the shit out of her a few years back for some incident or other. Dunno how it worked out. But when I started coming up here, you two were as tight as Oscus' bindle. Took me a little while to work out Yuka was supposed to be flamin' dangerous, actually. Then Mystia gave her some lip and learned how to fly backwards, if you catch my drift."

Keine silently thanks Rumia for being in her classes, for it has given her a lot of practice with keeping a straight face. She draws upon that experience. So, Yuka was still dangerous and just being nice. Lovely. That should make dinner fun. "Let me ask you an off the wall question," she says. "What can you tell me about Mokou?"

"Yakitori girl?" asks Kisume. "Dunno her, really. She comes to town every so often to get supplies. Doesn't cause trouble. Lives out in the bamboo, doesn't she?"

Keine nods. At least that hasn't changed.

"Anyways, I need to get goin',' says Kisume. "I got a thing at the Myouren Shrine. You keep it together, alright?"

"Until next time, Kisume," says Keine.

"Lord Mayor Kisume!" answers the bucket youkai as she bounces off.

Keine frowns in her wake. This is going to take a flowchart to untangle. This whole election business is definitely an anomaly; democracy was just an interesting-sounding word before the Hakurei Maiden proposed spellcards. And even then, the whole thing was such a hassle most people agreed it just wasn't worth the bother to do it anymore. Maybe that had changed? A trip to the shrine is definitely in order.

Sighing, as her hangover headache threatens to return, she makes her way toward the large wooden building she noted from her house. Coming closer, she notes the sign, reading "Mystia's". This doesn't seem too bad, she decides. Mystia must have had some encouragement to move into town at some point, rather that keep to the Forest of Magic. Maybe it was the election of a youkai mayor? It seems a minor enough change. Noticing the sign in the window that reads "Open", she walks into the restaurant.

"Hello, Keine!" says a woman standing behind the counter. Keine pauses, drawing upon every bit of poker face experience her time with Rumia has give her. Standing there is a pink-haired Youkai, wearing a distinctive brown dress with bows over the buttons. Keine has to look up see her eyes, golden and sharp. Her height just exaggerates the slimness of her body, as do the immense brown wings extending from her back, large enough to wrap around her like a cloak. She frowns. "Are you alright, Keine?" asks the hawk youkai.

"Just...hung over..." Keine mumbles. A flowchart will definitely be needed...
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 16, 2010, 04:28:49 AM: 'Hawk' youkai? Thought she was a night-sparrow. :o

I'll tag along anyways, this is all clearly justified.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 16, 2010, 06:20:15 AM: Quote from: Tactician Esifex on July 16, 2010, 04:28:49 AM
'Hawk' youkai? Thought she was a night-sparrow. :o

I'll tag along anyways, this is all clearly justified.

Thus the need for a flowchart.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: ray10k on July 16, 2010, 10:26:09 AM: can't wait to see what has happened at the shrines. Next thing we know Reimu and Sanae are sisters, and Suwako never lost to Kanako.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 16, 2010, 12:11:42 PM: Walking out of Mystia's restaurant, munching on a venison skewer, Keine tries to figure out what to do next. Mystia had little to add, just a few minor details about last night. Still, heredity had gone awry. The changes must reach back centuries. She sighs, beginning to wonder if she'll ever untangle this mess. Something happened to Mystia's heritage, so it had to affect reincarnation at one point or another. That kind of change could reach back centuries...

Taking her notepad back in hand, Keine begins to walk toward the busier parts of town. The market is bustling with people, while the stands are selling their wares; foodstuffs and crafts and jewelry, practically any common good a person could need, and a couple of exotics here and there. Merchants shout their wares, people mill about and browse and haggle and it all looks very normal. A few stands are different here and there, Keine notes them down. Then something slams into her back, causing her to stagger forward.

"Watch where you're going!" says a familiar voice.

"I didn't see you coming, Remilia," Keine says, as she turns around. Then she pauses. It is Remilia, all right, but surrounding her is a sphere of darkness similar to the one Rumia favors; thick enough it is hard to make out the vampire within.

"What're you looking at?" asks Remilia.

"Nothing, nothing..." says Keine.

"You're damn right, nothing!" says Remilia, as she walks around Keine and continues on her way.

Keine frowns, making more notes in her pad. Part of her doesn't want to know what happened there. She looks around, frowning. Then her heart skips a beat. There, at a cloth stand, is a mid-sized woman in red overalls, her hair on the edge of white and violet and tied with bows. Keine closes her eyes, taking a steadying breath. She knows what is going to come, but she has to be sure. "Mokou!" she calls out.

"Huh, what?" says the long-haired woman, looking back. "Oh...hey Miss...uh...Keen, right?"

Keine does her best not to wince. It was like a knife in her heart, hearing Mokou not even remember her name. That was all she needed to know. There wasn't a thing there. "Uh," she says, "It's just, I heard there was a fire in the bamboo forest, and I was wondering if anyone was hurt."

"Naw, no fires," says Mokou, turning back a length of red cloth she was examining.

"Alright, thank you." says Keine, as she turns to walk away. Mokou doesn't reply. Had she never opened up, Keine wonders, does she still force the world away? Then she's still alone and miserable out there, consumed with a thirst for revenge she'll never be able to satisfy. She shakes her head, finding tears forming in her eyes. It was just a change in history! All she has to do is find and change it back! It's silly to get worked up over this!

But it doesn't change that Mokou is like this now, alone and bitter. That Mokou didn't even know her name. Reason doesn't make her hurting go away...

Keine finds the noises of the market have receded. Without really thinking about it, she walked home. That...seemed like a good idea. She didn't feel like exploring anymore. And with luck, Yuka was somewhere else. She had to have things she did during the day.

"Welcome back, pookie!" says Yuka as Keine walks through the side door into the kitchen. The flower youkai stands by the sink with bowl of uncooked rice in hand. "I just just about to get started on lunc-" She stops, her eyes narrowing and her smile faltering. "You've been crying. Who made you cry? Who made you cry!? So help me, they are going to be fertilizer!"

"No, no!" says Keine. She shakes her head. "It's...it's just bad memories."

"Oh, really?" Says Yuka. "C'more, honey," she says, setting the bowl aside and walking toward Keine. Before Keine can protest, Yuka wraps her in a firm hug. "Don't worry, it's just the past. Let's go sit down, okay?"

"Okay," Keine says.

Part of her feels she shouldn't be doing that. But a much louder part reminds her that she needs a friend right now. And here, Yuka is the closest thing she has. She lets the flower youkai take her by the hand and lead her into the living room room and toward a wicker couch. Keine sits, Yuka behind her, still holding her hand. "It's really bad, isn't it honey? I've never seen you so despondent before. Can you tell me about it?"

"Not really..." Keine says. After a moment she adds, "It's a memory of a time that never happened."

"Oh," says Yuka. "It was a happy memory, wasn't it?"

Keine wonders for a second how Yuka would know that, then stops herself from asking. If they really had five anniversaries together, then of course Yuka would have some idea. She simply nods, as Yuka squeezes her hand. "Well, I can't say anything about that, I guess. But, I'm here for you. I hope it'll be enough."

"Thanks," Keine says. It's so strange, to think this violence-prone youkai really meant those words. Does she really deserve it? Wasn't it someone else that meant so much to Yuka? "You're too good to me," she says after a moment.

"Hardly," says Yuka. "I'd give you the world if the Red White wouldn't put my head on a plate for taking it to begin with."

Keine chuckles a bit, despite herself. "I know, I know."

"I know you're not supposed to tell me about these kinds of things," Yuka says, squeezing Keine's hand with both of hers. "But, maybe you could just give me a little hint of what made you so sad?"

Keine closes her eyes. Talking about time changing was never a good idea. It tended to cause problems when people knew it could be changed. At worst, it gave people ideas. But...as soon as possible, this world was going to be erased anyways... "Do you know Mokou?" Seeing Yuka shake her head, she continues. "She's a human that lives alone in the Bamboo Forest. She's a very gruff woman, an isolationist kind of person who holds great anger in her heart over a wrong done to her by the princess of Eientei. But, as you can imagine, she can't really fulfill this desire. So she grows more bitter, more angry. She's shut the world from her heart. But, there was a timeline where someone helped her open her heart. It never erased Mokou's need for revenge, unfortunately, but she learned to look beyond it. She learned to enjoy the world and laugh freely. She truly was a good person."

"Now I think I know who you're talking about," says Yuka. "The girl with the pants?" Keine nods. "I admit, I never really thought anything of her. I thought she was just some farmer. I guess she just desperately needs some friends, doesn't she?"

"Yeah," says Keine.

"Then, why don't we drop in on her for supper?" says Yuka.

"...Wait, what?"

"Well why not?" says Yuka. "If it eases the pain you feel for that poor girl, then it's alright. Besides, I wouldn't mind surprising someone like that."

"I didn't think you'd care that much," says Keine. Was this really the fearsome youkai Kisume talked about?

"Well, I suppose it's good to help that sort of person out," says Yuka, "But really, I'm doing it for you. It hurts to see you bothered by it so much."

Keine nods. "Okay, we'll do that..."
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Post by: Hatateru on July 16, 2010, 03:38:12 PM: Shikieiki breaking under the intense pressure of her role as the Yama of Paradise. Please make it so :3
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 17, 2010, 11:56:37 AM: Keine makes a few notes as she walks down the forested path.It was much clearer than it normally would be. Unusual. Despite her attempts to be attentive, Keine's thoughts keep slipping to the night ahead. Yuka is already hard at work preparing the meal. With luck, the path through the Bamboo Forest hasn't changed too much, and if it has, then they need only wait for Mokou to show up. In fact, there's a good chance that'd happen anyways...

Closing her eyes for a minute to clear away such thoughts, Keine returns her attention to the road ahead. She can see the distinctive red torii of her destination poking through the trees. Redoubling her pace, she passes through it and onto the grounds of the Hakurei Shrine. Looking around, she is pleased to see it is mostly unchanged. The shrine still stands where it should be, still somewhat rundown. The grounds are a bit more clean that usual, but that's not a particularly significant deviation.

"Oh, hello Keine!" comes a familiar voice from around the back. Keine watches as a silver-haired young woman wearing the distinctive red clothes and detached sleeves of the Shrine Maiden walks into view. Two braids frame her face, while a large red bow draws her hair back into a short ponytail. She smiles and waves to Keine.

"Hello...Sakuya," says Keine, doing her best to force a smile on her face and keep it there. "I just thought I'd drop in, see how you are doing."

"Oh, quite well!" says Sakuya, as she produces a knife, covered with holy writings, and toss it into the air idly, letting it flip twice and catching it. "Suika's finally stopped using the pond to throw up and, which makes Genjii's life so much easier."

"Oh isn't that lovely?" says Keine.

"I hear you and Yuka had a lovely anniversary," Sakuya continues. "I must say, I really envy you two."

"Oh, you shouldn't," says Keine. "I got embarrassingly drunk, and...well, I expect you've heard about the tree outside."

Sakuya giggles. "I did here a little about it, yes. But really, I do owe you a note of thanks. You've really calmed her down a lot, people no longer have to walk on pins and needles around her. My job's that much easier."

"Speaking of your job," says Keine, "Um, how did the last incident go?"

Sakuya raises an eyebrow, catching her dagger without throwing it again. "Wouldn't you know as well as I do?"

"History Inspection," says Keine, waving her notepad.

"Oh, well,' says Sakuya, "Rather sad, to be honest. That Hijiri person sounded like a real nice woman. Shame she didn't seem to be able to survive the shock of the barrier going down. Those Hijiri were so heartbroken; I still don't think they've really gotten over it. I think it was Murasa's idea to name their temple after her, she's done an alright job taking over for them in Hijiri's wake. Sanae didn't take it very well, either. Really, we were all kinda depressed about it."

Keine nods, writing this down. "That's really quite tragic."

"Yeah, I sort of don't like to talk about it," says Sakuya looking away. "I didn't owe her anything, just...you know, she didn't deserve it. Not even stepping out of time could do anything for her. Still, I think Murasa's done some good things since then, don't you? I think some of the youkai are really taking to the whole idea. Doesn't help my donations any, though."

"Well, less trouble is like a donation. By the by, is the Mor-Mountaintop Shrine doing much to hurt you there?"

"Oh, the Yasiya Shrine barely bothers me," Sakuya says. "Only the tengu and the kappa really bother with it. Sunako stopped being insistent about it after a little while."

Keine pauses. No. That was just too much. "...Could you tell me about the Goddesses there?"

"Oh, just Goddess now," says Sakuya, tossing the knife again. "There used to be two of them. But, over time, they lost too much faith to carry on. If I recall correctly, it's partially because people kinda stopped seeing them as different beings. Finally, when they wanted to drag their whole shrine over here, they didn't have enough to pull it off, so the merged together and became one goddess. She really isn't such a bad person when you get to know her. A bit too eager to play danmaku, though. But we all have our faults. "

Keine writes this down, considering what to ask next. A bit of motion from the shrine's direction catches her eye. She looks up to see Suika staggering out the front door, squinting and holding up a hand to guard her eyes. "'Kuya..." she moans, "'S too bright! Imma punch out th' sun real quick..."

"I think...it's best if you leave now," says Sakuya, her previous smile growing chilly.

Keine nods, and takes hurries away. As she does, she can hear Sakuya shout, "Don't you even think it! I will take that gourd of yours and toss it into Sanzu River, and don't think I I won't!"
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Post by: Doll.S CUBE on July 17, 2010, 12:24:46 PM: Kanako+Suwako? Wonder what she looks like ???
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Blackraptor on July 17, 2010, 01:17:36 PM: Quote from: Doll Warrior.S on July 17, 2010, 12:24:46 PM
Kanako+Suwako? Wonder what she looks like ???

Umm...Sanae?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on July 17, 2010, 07:09:41 PM: You killed off Byakuren, you monster ;_;
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Post by: theshirn on July 18, 2010, 05:14:02 AM: Quote from: WBV Zengar Zombolt on July 17, 2010, 07:09:41 PM
You killed off Byakuren
ilu forever Purvis
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 19, 2010, 03:03:33 PM: "We're lost, aren't we?" says Yuka, as she ducks around a thick stalk of bamboo in the path while carrying a large covered dish in her hands.

"I think so," Keine says, frowning at the ground. The secret to the bamboo forest were the large rocks, the seeds never fell close enough to shift those. But, what the forest could not do, history seems to. The route to Mokou's home was simple; find the trefoil boulder and head north, then the flat stone and head east by northeast, then full east at the burnt rock. But the burnt rock simply isn't there. Not that this was a particular worry, it's well known that-

"Hey," come a voice from the bamboo, "You've walked around my house like three times. Are you even trying to get to Eientei or what?"

"There you are," says Yuka. "I was starting to think you'd never show up!"

Mokou pushes her way through a stand of bamboo, and gives Yuka a questioning look. "We're actually here to visit you," says Keine, putting on her best smile.

"Why?' asks Mokou, narrowing her eyes. Keine remembers this all too well from back in the old days. She's suspicious, but not as angry as she's trying to act.

"We brought dinner," says Yuka, taking the lid off her dish. "Rice Au Gratin."

Mokou considers the dish for a moment. Then she says, "I fuckin' love au gratin. C'mon, it's this way."

Keine quietly indulges in a grin as the immortal turns and waves for them to follow her into the bamboo. This was almost cheating.

****

Mokou's home is largely unchanged. A significant area around it has been scorched, to keep the bamboo from growing there. Her house is a simple wooden cabin, the roof made of thick bamboo shoots. A small garden, the only land not bearing fire scars. Inside, the front room is dominated by huge bearskin rug, laid out in front of a sizable hearth. They had spent a lot of time wrapped up together in that rug. Aside from that, there is a shelf of old books, Keine needs only a glance to see they haven't changed; some how to books for reference purposes. One thing that is missing are the ships in bottles that Mokou used to make. This isn't terrible surprising, she didn't get into that until after several straight months of badgering to find something to do that wasn't just staring into the hearth. There are few sparse furnishings, all things that Mokou made herself; a table, some chairs, a stand in the corner. On the corner stand, however, is a small statue of the smiling Buddha. What could make someone like Mokou care about any kind of religion?

"Just have a seat," says Mokou, as she disappears into the next room. "I'll get some plates and water."

Keine moves to do so, pausing as Yuka pulls out a seat for her. She chuckles at the apparent randomness of the gesture, though she is certain Yuka probably does it all the time. She sits, while Yuka takes a seat beside her. The flower youkai glances toward the kitchen, then grins back to Keine. "I told you it'd work," she whispers softly.
Mokou returns with dishes in hand a moment later, forestalling Keine from replying. Instead, she simply sets herself to serving up the meal.

The early part of dinner is quiet, as Mokou noisily tears into the food. Keine reflects on the weeks she spent instilling some manners into her; it wasn't her fault she had dined alone much of her life. *She waits patiently, picking at her own meal, and admitting to herself that Yuka did a rather nice job with it. After a few minutes, Mokou slows down. "So," she says, "What brought this on, anyways?"

"Well," says Keine, "Partially because I felt bad about bothering you earlier."

"So you bother me some more?" Mokou says.

"In a sense," Keine continues, having anticipated that. "And I wanted to apologize for suggesting you weren't doing a good job taking care of this forest."

Mokou raises an eyebrow just a little, Keine holds back a grin. It is a gesture she knows well, mild and pleasant surprise. This was cheating, practically. "Don't worry about it," the immortal mumbles. Keine ponders if this is the first time she's even heard anything like that. "Anyhow, food's hella good. I appreciate it."

"Oh, it's no problem," says Yuka. Keine smiles a bit despite herself. Getting Mokou to compliment anything was more of a task than it needed to be. Things were going along swimmingly. "I do wonder, though," Yuka continues, "Just what you do out here."

"All sorts of shit," says Mokou. "Mostly just keep to myself, make sure the forest is good, the rocks stay where they oughta. All that good stuff."

"What about," says Keine, choosing her words carefully. "Before you came to the forest?"

"Well," says Mokou, contemplating the remains of her meal. Recognizing this, Keine scoops a bit more food onto her plate. The immortal smiles. "I could tell you a thing or three..."

****

"And so then I said, 'You know what, Empress? Do I look like a damn loom to you?' and walked out right there," says Mokou, grinning. Yuka cackles, while Keine simply smiles. "Didn't even give Emperor Fushimi time to cast me out. Just grabbed my stuff and figured Hokkaido was gonna be good that time of year. Wasn't a big loss, no one liked me as Captain of the Guard anyways. Especially that time."

Keine knows the story well, it's one of Mokou's favorites. She was always fond of telling royals off; sometimes Keine wonders if Mokou might have gone on to start the idea of democratic government, had she not been so reclusive and obsessed with revenge. Still, it was getting late, and there's only so much to be done in a day. And there was a limited to how much one could listen to stories one had head a dozen times before. But there was one other things. "You know," she says, "Given what you said to priest at Ise, it's kind of odd you would have one of those hanging around." Keine gestures toward the buddha statue.

"Oh, that?" says Mokou, glancing toward it. "It's helping me get even, that's all."

"You mean with the moon princess?" Yuka asks.

"Oh, you know the story, huh?" says Mokou, giving Yuka a dark look for a moment. Keine's heart stops for a moment, before Mokou shrugs. "Hell, why not? So, know know about the moon princess. I've got beef with her. Been chasing her well over a thousand years. Thing is, about...50 years ago, was it? Bitch went and achieved nirvana. Left this world and shit. The doctor runs the show up there now. But, she ain't getting away from me that easy. I'll get enough bodhisattva to lift up there one of these days, then I'm putting my foot right up her ass!

"...Huh." says Keine. She really can't find the words to describe how she feels back that. Aside from terribly disturbed. Then again, trust Mokou to take up seeking enlightenment for the sake of revenge.

"Anyway," says Yuka, as she stands up, "It was a most enchanting evening, but we really must be off if we don't want to fall asleep in the middle of the forest."

"Oh, yeah," says Mokou, frowning a little as she stands up. Keine follows suit. "Uh, I'd offer to let you stay. But I've only got the one futon and stuff. And it'd just be rice for breakfast." She looks at the half full dish. "And, you sure it's okay for me to have this?"

"Of course!" says Yuka, smiling. "It warms my heart to see you love my cooking so much."

Mokou shrugs. "It was hella tasty, is all."

"Just be sure to clean out the bowl and bring it back when you're done," says Keine.

"Yeah, sure," says Mokou, as she starts for the door. "Anyhow, I'll show you a pretty quick way out of here." Keine chuckles just a little, low enough that Mokou won't hear. She knows Mokou is aware they know about reading the stones. It's cute she thinks she's being roundabout in asking them to come back any time.

****

"Pookie, we are so terrible," Yuka says, a few moments after parting with Mokou. Keine tries not to react too strongly when Yuka takes her arm. "Did you see how she kept trying to act like she didn't care?"

"I know," says Keine, chuckling at Yuka's enthusiasm despite her invaded personal space. "I know. That idea with the dish of yours, you should be ashamed of yourself."

"I will not," says Yuka, "That smile in your voice in all I need to justify myself, thank you."

"Are you really doing this just for me, Yuka?" Keine asks, adding in a little pat to her arm after a moment's deliberation.

"Of course," says Yuka, inclining her head upwards a bit. "You know my thoughts on rudeness."

Keine frowns. She always thought that Mokou's coarseness was rather charming, in a direct and honest sort of way. "Is she really that bad?"

"Well," says Yuka, frowning a bit. "I'll admit her stories were rather fun, especially the part where she told off that puffed up dowager. If there's anything I hate more than rude people, it's people who think too much of themselves. But in the main, pumpkin," she smiles, then leans over and quickly kisses Keine on the cheek, "it was for you and you alone."

Keine tries not to sigh in frustration. Did Yuka always do this without provocation? Did she encourage it in this timeline, or was Yuka just teasing her? "Thank you for putting yourself out for me, then," She says at length. "I really appreciate your help, it makes opening her up so much easier."

"Well," says Yuka, "I suppose everyone deserves a friend. And she does seem to be a nice person, her boorish manners aside. So, when should we expect her back with our dish?"

"Tomorrow night, at the latest," says Keine. "She'll finish all the rest off for lunch, and bring it straight away. Trust me, she'll do it just for the sake of having something different to do."

Yuka grins. "We'll have to prepare something suitable, won't we?"

"You are enjoying this far too much, given you just said she as a boor," Keine says.

Yuka shrugs, still grinning. "And?"
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Post by: swamp147 on July 19, 2010, 03:34:53 PM: Will Keine find a way back? Will she even find out what tiny thing changed so long ago that created such a different timeline?! Will she be torn between this new world and the old, familiar one as she goes about forming relationships in her quest to find that tiny change in history?!?? Will she even want to go back to the old timeline?!?!!?

This is so good.
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Post by: E-Nazrin on July 19, 2010, 09:38:34 PM: Mokou's mockery of authority aside, the main thing I'm wondering now is
whether Kaguya and Byakuren are the same person or otherwise involved with one another following twin Buddhist 'deaths'
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 23, 2010, 10:17:03 AM: (Okuu Quest has been hitting Peak Realness lately)

It's a quiet morning. With Yuka gone to check on Elly and the Garden of the Sun, Keine has the house to herself. It's oddly lonely now, having spent the last few days with the flower youkai as a constant companion, to actually have the house to herself again. Only a few days, and it already feels like it's a world away. Really, it was sort of nice to have someone else around. Maybe, once things get fixed, it'll be time to talk to Mokou about setting up those guideposts in the forest, and moving in here.

For now, she pours over her notes, connecting related events, and trying to come up with with a clean chart of what she knows so far. At some point, at the very least Mystia's line of reincarnation was affected. And something happened to weaken Kanako's faith prematurely. As well, something put Sakuya, or some ancestor of Sakuya's, in charge of the Hakurei shrine. Mokou doesn't seem to have seem affected that much, aside from the obvious. Yuka seems mostly the same, excepting the obvious once again. Something happened to allow an election to take place in the town, and Kisume of all people seems to have won it. She gnaws on the end of her pen as she considers that, then chalks it down to Kisume being the least of evils. Not to mention Remilia apparently being a darkness youkai now.

The full moon can't get here soon enough. The sooner this headache is untangled, the better. Still, with this, she could focus it all down quite a bit. But with some more information...

There is a knock on the door. Keine looks up from her work, frowning a little. Was Mokou coming back this early? Well, she would be the sort to have au gratin for breakfast because it needs to be eaten up. Well, it's a bit early, but maybe it would be better to see Mokou without anyone else around. She grins a bit as she walks toward the front door. Maybe, if she plays her cards just right, she might even be able to maneuver Mokou into giving up a kiss? Wouldn't that be a victory toward rebuilding the right timeline?

"Keine, where have you been!?" cries a brown-haired young woman in a dress shirt, tie and fedora. "Class should have started 30 minutes ago!"

"...What?" says Keine.

"Get your shoes on!" says the woman. "It's hard enough to get those kids to pay attention when everything is running smoothly!"

Keine frowns. There was school today? It's hard not to indulge in a little profanity.

****

Keine stands in front of the chalkboard, surveying the class and putting her much-practiced skills at keeping a straight face to use. Things aren't too different. There's a smattering of human children, though a few familiar faces are absent. Cirno and Daiyousei are in the rear corner, giggling between themselves. There's Rumia up front, sporting a set of bat-like wings, a parasol, and a toothier than usual grin. Chen is conspicuously absent. And off to the side is that human woman in the hat, sitting at a desk and grading some papers.

"So," says Keine as folds her hands, trying to sound confident. "I think, for today, we're going to focus on math."

"Isn't Miss Usami supposed to teach that?" Rumia asks. The woman in the hat looks up, giving Keine a curious glance. Keine holds her expression with some effort, thanking the heavens for small favors such as not having to ask Miss Usami's name, and says, "That is true, Rumia, but I feel the class could use a little more time with it. Miss Usami, could you remind me where you left off?"

"Well, last time we were going over the Associative and Commutative Property," says Miss Usami, "Then we could start to get into some basic Algebra."

Keine feels her smile grow brittle. "Ah yes. And, could you explain that plainly for the class, please?"

****

That could have gone worse, Keine decides, as she goes over the results of the ten question pop quiz she put up on the board. The kids certainly won't mind the long recess while she grades them.

"This is hard, Miss Keine!" says the only remaining student in the room, still struggling with the quiz. "Numbers aren't supposed to be letters too!"

"Well, Rumia," says Keine, considering the youkai carefully. "I'll make a deal with you."

"Oh neat!" Rumia says, wings twitching, "I like deals!"

"Come over here, and we'll play the question game. If you get everything right, I'll let you turn the test in early, and we won't worry about the other problems on it."

Rumia's face breaks into a grin as she scampers over to Keine's desk. "You're going down, Miss Keine. You're going down hard!"

"Of course, dearie," says Keine. "Alright. How did you end up becoming a vampire, Rumia?"

"Easy!" says Rumia. "Remilia bit me the winter before the last before the last before the one before that!"

Keine nods. Well, that makes a kind of sense. "And why is Remilia a darkness youkai like you used to be?"

"I bit her back!"

Keine frowns, then decides to go out on a limb. "But, you've bitten all kinds of people, and they haven't turned into darkness youkai. You've bit me."

"Yeah, but Remilia didn't know that." says Rumia with a sage nod. "She's lucky, it's dark all the time for her. I have to use this dumb parasol. But everyone gives me tea now so I won't bite them! I really really like tea!" She beams so brightly that Keine could almost imagine rays of light shining off her face.

"Okay." Keine says at length. "Where is Chen? She usually has pretty good attendance."

"What's a Chen?" asks Rumia.

"Isn't she your friend?"

"I don't think you can call friends Chens, Miss Keine."

Keine nods. That wasn't promising at all. She considers asking a few more questions, then decides against it. Rumia isn't exactly the best font of information for things outside of herself. So she simply reaches over and pats the youkai on the head. "Good job! You beat me." Rumia's beaming takes on an aspect of pride. "Now, just remember, this is our little secret. If you tell anyone, I'd have to fail you."

"I'll take it to my grave!" says Rumia. "I'll take it to all of the graves!"

****

"Math?" asks Miss Usami, as she and Keine walk home. "Really?"

"Yuuka actually tore up my current notes for soil filler, rather than my old ones," says Keine. "I was a little bit out of sorts from it."

"So you gave 'em all a week break, huh?" The brown-haired woman chuckles. "That wouldn't have anything to do with the rumors of you and Yuka...you know."

"...I'll not dignify that with a response, if you don't mind." Keine says. Perhaps it was a little rude, but far better than having to dig up what these rumors might entail.

"Oh," says Miss Usami, "Just, this was going to be my first Festival, and I had heard you and Yuka had such a great song and dance number last time."
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Post by: Sriggle on July 23, 2010, 12:41:19 PM: Renko is a teacher? Wow...

I'm taking it she's new in town. Oh, Keine, whatever have you done, :3
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: swamp147 on July 23, 2010, 06:02:52 PM: The bit with Rumia made me laugh. She's so fun to talk to. "I bit her back!"~
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on July 23, 2010, 09:55:38 PM: Quote
"What's a Chen?"

:ohdear:
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 24, 2010, 12:50:25 AM: It looks like math isn't Keine's strong suit.

I wonder what other implications Renko being in Gensokyo might have?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on July 31, 2010, 06:34:23 PM: Gotcha.

Since some have asked me about the delay; it's one part RPG forum, one part I kinda abandoned a chapter after glaring at it for a few days and deciding I'm not happy with it and moving on, integrating it into narration.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on August 05, 2010, 06:43:30 AM: (So I spent awhile wrestling with a chapter, and decided in the end I didn't wanna do it and have thus "integrated" it into other events.)

It's a cloudy day, threatening to give way to rain at any time. Keine shoulders her umbrella, and tries to keep her mind on the path. The forest of magic isn't nearly so hard to traverse as the bamboo forest, but the chances of running into faeries is much greater. But keeping to the outskirts, they shouldn't be a real problem. The path itself, she notes with a frown, is much more overgrown than she remembered. Hardly encouraging, if they aren't coming to town nearly so often.

"What'd I say!" comes a voice to the left. Keine frowns, recognizing it quickly. She pushes through the brush.

"To get good tofu..." says another voice, low and barely audible.

"What'd I tell you do do!"

"Get good tofu..."

"What'd you not do!?"

"I didn't get good tofu..."

"Now we're going to the party and Sunny Milk is going to bring something awesome and we will look like fools!"

"Daiyousei!" Keine shouts as she pushes through the foliage into a small clearly. There she finds the green-haired faerie flailing her arms angrily and glaring down at Cirno, who is huddled on the ground with her hands over her head. "What are you yelling about?"

"It's the law!" Daiyousei cries, then dashes deeper into the forest. Cirno looks up, frowns at Keine, and gets to her feet and runs off as well. Keine crosses her arms and shakes her head. Honestly! Still, Daiyousei is the top dog among the faeries now? Interesting. Perhaps she defeated Cirno at some point? Returning to the path, she notes this down.

Soon enough, the forest gives way to a secluded mountain pass. Nestled there is a small mansion. Keine frowns as she approaches it, noting down how unusually well kept it is. The grounds, as well, are unusually well maintained; sculptured to give the appearance of being wild without any of the associated messiness. Most unusual. Keine begins to wonder if she should have sent a letter ahead. But, it's too late for that now. She approaches the door, and gives it a polite knock, the waits. After a minute, the door opens, and a woman with long purple hair drawn into a ponytail by a yellow bow peeks out. "Yes?" she asks.

"Um," says Keine, feeling a bit nervous, "Is Miss Yakumo in? I was hoping to have a talk with her."

"I'm afraid her highness is resting at the moment," says the purple-haired woman.

"Oh," Keine says, holding back a swear for reasons entirely unrelated to the denial of entry. "Would it be possible for me to come back tomorrow?"

"I'm not sure," says the woman, "But I supp-"

"Yoriiii!" comes a voice, "Where are yooooooou?" The purple-haired woman frowns and looks back as the voice continues, "Oh, there you are! You're supposed to be running,Yori!"

"Ah, we have a guest, highness," says Yori, blushing furiously. Keine reflects it's not often that she's had to stifle a laugh the past few days. Quite a few groans, but no laughs until now.

"Well show her in, Yori!" says the other speaker. It's been a long time since she's heard Yukari's voice, but Keine is certain that's who it is.

"But, weren't we-"

"We'll handle that later just as much as you'd like, Yori," says Yukari, as she opens the door and smiles at Keine. "Do come in! Yori, put some tea on!"

****

Keine sits in a well appointed drawing room, a cup of tea in her hands. Across from her is Yukari. In some ways, she is the same gap youkai as before. But the Yukari that Keine knows never wore an elaborately filigreed tiara, nor did her robes sparkle with gems that Keine simply cannot name. Yori stands behind her, arms folded and smiling pleasantly. "So, my dear," says Yukari as she sips her own tea and smiles politely, "May I ask to what I owe the honor of this little visit."

"Mostly pleasure," says Keine. "But, I was hoping you could help me with a little issue."

"In good time," says Yukari. "Tell me, how are things for you?"

"Um, a little tricky," says Keine. "I've been a little off, lately."

"I hope it's nothing serious?" says Yukari, frowning.

>"No, it will pass soon enough," she replies. "In the meantime, I've been working on a little project with Yuka. We've been trying to help Mokou come out of her shell a little bit. The poor girl's been all alone most of her life, you know?"

"How kind," says Yukari. "Are thing going well?

"Well, last night she came over with a dish we let her borrow," says Keine, "And we enticed her to stay for supper. Things went well. We had a good talk, she and Yuka got into the sake a little bit, and they fun cackling over any little thing."

"Ah, Yuka is always a sweetheart when she's drunk," says Yukari. "I suppose it lets her forget all the irritation. I would be rather envious of you, in fact, if I didn't have my Yori and my Ran."

Keine tries not to comment. She had a hard enough time fighting Yuka off last night after Mokou went home. In the end, she was able to talk the flower youkai down to cuddling until she drifted off. "Where is Ran, anyways?" She asks, instead.

"Oh, she's back at the Capital," says Yukari, "Being regent for me. It's so nice I can rely on her and Yori to take care of things like that when I need a break, don't you think?"

Keine nods. "I agree, and now I envy you. I wish I could send Yuka to teach for me, but I like my students to be learning, rather than spending the whole day dealing with punishments for speaking out of turn."

"I see, I see," says Yukari. "Now that I think on it, what will you do to draw your immortal friend out of her shell next?"

"Well," says Keine, wondering about Yukari's sudden interest, "I'm not sure. I was thinking, we could engineer an excuse to visit her, and...well, I'm not sure yet."

"Take her to see a play at the Scarlet Mansion," says Yukari. "I guarantee, she'll adore it. Now, about that question?"

Keine nods, taking a sip of the tea. A hint of orange and jasmine, not bad. "Ah yes. I have come across records of a shikigami named Chen. Would you know of her, being one of the foremost experts with them?"

"I'm afraid not," says Yukari. "I have my Yori and Ran, and Ran has her Toyo. But I've never heard of a Chen."

"A shame," Keine says, noting that away. "Now, perhaps if I could coax a few stories of your lunar excursions from you?"

"Oh, I wouldn't know where to begin!" says Yukari, her grin saying exactly the opposite. Keine notes a slight change in Yori's expression; though her smile never fades it suddenly feels a lot less sincere.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on August 05, 2010, 06:59:03 AM: What on Earth would Daiyosei need tofu for, especially with Ran on the moon?

And considering Reisen Quest canon, I'm wondering if Yukari's suggestion is a troll response...
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Doll.S CUBE on August 05, 2010, 10:22:09 AM: Wow, things are interesting, I wonder if by the end of it Keine would want to change everything back?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: E-Nazrin on August 05, 2010, 11:00:46 AM: Quote from: Doll Warrior.S on August 05, 2010, 10:22:09 AM
Wow, things are interesting, I wonder if by the end of it Keine would want to change everything back?

I doubt she'd want to lose ~~Chen~~ Reimu and Byakuren that easily, and re-adapting to the rest of the changes would be seven kinds of a bitch. Especially under threat of wild monkey sexings with Yuuka.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Solais on August 05, 2010, 11:06:10 AM: Quote
>"No, it will pass soon enough,"

Parser disease?
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on August 05, 2010, 12:47:18 PM: Quote from: 偶然の妖精陰陽師 on August 05, 2010, 11:06:10 AM
Parser disease?
Or maybe this is turning into Keine Quest :o
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: swamp147 on August 05, 2010, 02:57:24 PM: Yukari made Yorihime into her shiki??? And Ran did the same with Toyohime? Best day ever!!!!!! Serves them right.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Hello Purvis on August 13, 2010, 04:10:08 AM: Don't you think you've been pushing yourself just a little bit too hard?" Yuka says.

"Hmm?" says Keine, looking up from sweeping the kitchen.

Yuka frowns. "It's just as I've said. You've been running around doing a lot of errands lately. I mean, did you really go all the way to the Queen's manor?"

"Well, yes," says Keine, shifting her grip on the broom. What was she getting at?

"Exactly," says Yuka, "You've been working too hard. Let's take some time out tonight, shall we? We'll visit Mystia's restaurant, and have a nice walk together. The Prismrivers might be coming to town tonight, if what the mayor said holds up. We won't worry about school or the garden or Mokou or anything. Doesn't that sound nice?"

Keine purses her lips. It's certainly preferable to having to answer a bunch a problematic questions. In truth, it would be better to just have another quiet night, but the offer is just to reasonable to turn down without raising suspicions. "Alright," she says. "That sounds like fun. Just let me finish sweeping up, and then-"

"Who cares about the sweeping?" Yuka replies, grabbing Keine by the wrist, "Come on!"

"At least let me put up the broom!"

"It's not going anywhere!"

****

"So there's Elly," says Yuka, "Her face is just caked in pollen, and it's all over her clothes. Even on her hands, so she couldn't just wipe it away. So she looks at me, the most heartbroken look on her face and her voice on the edge of panic, and she says, "Yuka! What do I do now!?"

Keine snickers and asks, "So what did you tell her?" She then has a bite of her croquette.

"Well," says Yuka, "The first thing I said was, "Elly, dear, you might wish to notice you're also standing a few yards from a beehive..." The poor girl must have jumped high enough to put her hat on the moon!"

Keine chuckles a little more. As she does Mystia approaches, smiling broadly, "Enjoying, I hope?"

"Oh, it's quite good," says Yuka, as Keine nods. "The venison is very tender, quite spicy."

"It put up quite the fight," says Mystia, crossing her arms and nodding sagely. "But I'm rather proud of how cleanly I took it down. Glad you're enjoying it!" she adds as she starts to move to the next table, then she stops and waves toward the door.

Keine looks back as Mystia says, "Come on in and sit wherever you like!" She sees Sanae walking into the restaurant, looking refreshingly like the Sanae she knows; even still wearing the frog and snake emblems. Keine holds back a frown, it really would have been nice to save a trip up Youkai Mountain...

"Oh, just ask her over," says Yuka.

Keine glances to her companion. "What?"

"I can tell," says Yuka, "You'll mope all night if you don't get to give her your survey."

"No, it's fine," says Keine, "It's just supposed to be the two of us and all."

"It'll still be the two of us after she's gone," says Yuka, "I'll just get further claim on you the rest of the night." Then she looks toward the front of the room and calls "Sanae! Come pull up a chair with us!"

The wind priestess comes over toward their table, grabbing an empty chair. "Ah, hello Yuka, Keine," she says as she sits down. "Is there something I can do for you?"

Keine feels Yuka nudge her foot. "Well," Keine says, "I was wondering what was going on around Youkai Mountain, really."

"Oh, the same old thing, really," says Sanae "The kappa are all puttering away on their projects, and the oni are preparing for the weekly sake festival. I'm hoping we don't find any of them passed out inside the shrine grounds this time. It seems like it's fashionable to try to get a drink out of the pond there before sobering up these days, and there's always someone who doesn't make it out."

That explains why the Bunbunmaru news didn't seem to be getting delivered anymore. Keine starts to ask what Suwako thinks of people getting into her pond, before remembering there isn't a Suwako anymore. "What does Yasiya-sama think of people in her pond?"

"Well, she usually isn't in it at nights," says Sanae, fidgeting with her the edge of her sleeve. "not like Moriya-sama used to be."

Keine considers for a moment, then asks, "What is Yasiya-sama like? I've never really gotten a chance to know her well."

"She's quite kind," says Sanae. "She really does hold all the best traits of Kanako-sama and Suwako-sama. I can get a glimmer of them in her from time to time. It's quite a shame no one here ever got to meet the two goddesses who made them."

Was that wistfulness in her tone? "Do you miss them?" Keine asks.

"Well, they've never really left me," says Sanae. "But it doesn't always feel like that. There are times where I can hear Yasaka-sama's inflictions when she talks, though, or see Moriya-sama's smile when she greets me in the morning. Other times, she's like a different person entirely. And there are some times when she seems like the perfect mesh of Yasaka-sama and Moriya-sama. But it's impossible to predict which she'll be at any given moment.

"That sounds rather sad," Yuka says, frowning. "Don't you agree, dear?" Keine nods. She hadn't really expect this kind of an answer.

"Please understand, I love Yasiya-sama," says Sanae. "She really is a wonderful person and fully worthy of my veneration. It's just...Yasaka-sama and Moriya-sama were like my family. And it does sort of feel like they're gone, sometimes. Other times, it's more like they're in disguise, if you understand what I mean. It's very confusing sometimes."

"You don't get to talk with anyone about this much, do you?" asks Keine, looking around to make sure that no one was listening in.

"Just the Izyaoi Maiden," says Sanae."And, she's not very good at listening... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gone into this."

"It's alright," Keine says. "I'm glad you're willing to tell me this." Certainly, there was some interesting information...

****

"Don't they sound nice?" Yuka murmurs, as she snuggles in more closely. Keine doesn't have to bother to hold back a reaction anymore. After sharing a bed with the flower youkai for over a week, she has since gotten used to this. It wasn't that bad, really, guilt for Mokou aside. At least someone was being supportive. She shifts a little against the grassy hill, looking upward toward the Prismriver sisters playing above. Lyrica blowing away on her trombone, Merlin with a set of steel drums shiny enough to be seen in the night, and Lunasa on her mandolin; they were an interesting substitute for the Prismrivers she knows and just as raucous in their own way.

Listening idly to the upbeat music, she mulls over the implications of what Sanae had to say. If the Oni were still on the mountain, that suggests the tengu were displaced. It seems likely they would end up in former Hell, but that kind of trip would be a pain. ...But would it really be necessary?

A light snore from Yuka disrupts her thoughts for the moment. Hmmm... She considers the flower youkai for a moment, and quickly discards any plan of extricating herself. After a moment, she looks around the loose crowd gathered on the hill, and quickly finds a bucket-shaped silhouette moving through the dark. She gestures with her free hand, waving until she sees Kisume's head turn her way, then motions for the green-haired youkai to come over. As Kisume draws close, Keine puts her fingers to her lips.

"Heheheh," Kisume whispers, "Ain't you two as close as a couple of boxcars? Y'need me to go find you some whipped cream and strawberries or summat?"

"Mayor, please..." Keine says, hoping the darkness would hide the sudden flood of warmth to her face. What did they do to get this kind of reputation! And why didn't she and Mokou have it in the proper timeline? "I was just hoping to ask you a few questions I've been mulling over about the Underground..."

"Weirdest way to get yerself in a mood I've ever heard," Kisume says. Keine tries not to scowl. How did this woman get elected? ...Or is this exactly why this woman got elected? Certainly Remilia wouldn't be this adept at innuendo. "So, whacha wanna hear?"

"Tell me about the Ancient City?" she asks. She stops herself from adding that she was sure there was a good reason Kisume left. No doubt this would be something she's supposed to know.

"Not a lot to tell," says Kisume. "Couldn't have worse neighbors then tengu, I'll have you know that. All too happy to claim a cave like it was their's alone and not give you the time of day. Tell you what, I cheered the day Utsuho moved in and made herself queen crow. Shame she didn't get to keep it for long, but it was a good day for the rest of us down there when she did. You won't hear me sayin' bad about the Blue White, but maybe she oughta have just let that one slide. Can't imagine it's much good for anyone back there, now. Especially if someone worse'n Tenma took over." Kisume shakes her head.

"I guess the Palace of the Earth Spirits must have had a hard time of it," Keine says, trying to keep her voice in a whisper as Yuka shifts against her.

"Probably tossed the lot of 'em into to big house," says Kisume with a shrug. "At least til Ol' Yasiya went down there to raise hell. But after that, I was long gone."

Keine nods, considering her next question, when she hears a voice from above cries, "Hey!" Yuka jerks awake, while Keine looks upward again to see Lunasa beaming down upon the audience. "Everybody dance!" the poltergeist shouts, as she conjures a wave of danmaku and sends it flying toward the ground!

"This wasn't part of the deal!" Kisume shouts over the crowd's cries of surprise.
Title: Re: I heard you like request threads...
Post by: Esifex on August 13, 2010, 11:54:22 AM: Quote from: Zombie Purvis on August 13, 2010, 04:10:08 AM
"Everybody dance!"

Don Hertzfeldt's cottonball puffs. Am I the only one who pictured that?