>"Think it'd be a bad idea to play off her gratuitous French?"
> "I don't think she'd be offended.." Alice says, still in thought.
>Who else do we usually chat with online, anyway?
> Your buddy list consists of a variety of contacts: Reimu and Sakuya are givens, since you usually work with them on incidents. Yukari and Koishi are on there, but they're usually not online. Sometimes you talk to Ran and Chen, Suika sometimes talks to you in a drunk stupor, Patchy refuses to add you (for obvious reasons) but you sometimes bug her, and Kourin you chat with now and then since you're both close friends and all. Oddly enough, you never bothered to add Kaguya to your buddy list. Hijiri and Nitori you have on hand not only because they're both cool people, but they also provide useful tech support. You haven't been able to get in touch with the Netherworld crew, the Taoist faction or anyone related to the Shining Needle Castle incident. You also chat with Satori often, she's become quite the social (network) butterfly as of late.
>Stretch and take a moment to think. Is there even an extra machine for Medicine to play on around here?
> You take a nice, long, stretch, almost bonking Medicine in the face with your outstretched hand.
> "Ah, sorry for hovering..." she says as she backs off a bit. Was she eavesdropping on you? You shrug it off, there wasn't anything sensitive being displayed on your comp.
> Sadly, the only computers you have at the moment are the ones that you and Alice own.
>... and do some casual research. Gensokyo's gotta have a search engine somewhere. Look up that group behind Guildies real quick.
> Thankfully, the ever-present Google is there to assist. You type in "Maneki.com" and come up with
a blank domain site with several hits, including the company site itself, some preview articles and videos about the game, and some fan-made forums dedicated to Guildies itself.
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