Kogasa Quest - Surpriseing Galore!

[Raikaria]

>"Maybe not all of them, but perhaps while she is here I can recover at least one or more for you~."
>Yes, yes we have thought this through. It seems more like Sakuya will be surprised if we pull this off. Marisa probably as well, although that might be harder to see the results of. Still, we can do it, right?

> "I think one might be too difficult for you still." Sakuya says.

> You presume that if you prove Sakuya wrong she will be surprised that you did such. You're not sure if Marisa would be surprised until she found out you did it, after all, for you to sneak into Marisa's house and get away with this you'd probobly have to be very sneaky.

> If you can do it or not is not for me to answer, it is for the players to do. You can *do* anything, it's just if it will work.

[Validon98]

>"You'd be surprised!"

Before committing to this, anyone have any other ideas, or are we going full speed ahead?

[E-Nazrin]

How about we forge Marisa's diary

[Dingo785]

>Could we stea-er "borrow" her hakerro and books? She'd be surprised by that right?

[Raikaria]

>"You'd be surprised!"

Before committing to this, anyone have any other ideas, or are we going full speed ahead?

> Sakuya just shakes her head.

How about we forge Marisa's diary

> You don't know if Marisa has a diary, and even then, you don't have any ink.

>Could we stea-er "borrow" her hakerro and books? She'd be surprised by that right?

> You think 'borrowing' something that Marisa always carries and cherishes is outright suicidal. If she doesn't exterminate you for it, Reimu certainly would.

[Validon98]

Safest bet would be to steal one or more of the books Marisa has "borrowed" and return those to the SDM. If those books were used at all, Marisa will probably notice it, but at the same time I don't think she would kill us. Maybe get a little mad, but not the same amount as if we attempted to steal her mini-hakkero, which is not a good idea.

[Raikaria]

Marisa's not trigger-happy enough to try and exterminate you [Or pester Reimu to do so] unless you really, really, really do something to make her really mad [Like stealing her Mini-Hakkero...]. She might beat you up and teach you a lesson otherwise, but generally you don't have too much to fear from most characters other than a hiding unless you intentionally provoke them or do something really, really stupid. [Like walk into the middle of a fight between Kaguya and Mokou levels of stupid]

Exceptions of course exist. Flandre for example is mentally unstable and can Kyuu~ you. When dealing with a character who is explicitly dangerous to you you'll be forewarned. Most of these cases are obvious, of course.

Although by virtue of being an Umbrella, you don't have anything to fear from two characters most others would [Yamane and Medicine]. You can't fall ill and you can't be poisoned by virtue of being non-biological. You're just magic and umbrella.

Basically, except with a few characters to get a Bad End you'd have to do something that would fall into Too Dumb to Live levels of stupid.

[Validon98]

Entirely fair. In which case, let's actually do something, then!

>Wave goodbye and head for Marisa's house. Let's be quick and get in and out before she returns from her latest SDM heist.

[capt. h]

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

> Would it be worth doing something fantastically stupid if it surprises everyone?

> Marisa might not notice if we steal a book from her house. Make sure to scan the house for personal possessions or at least things she will definitely notice are missing.

[Raikaria]

Entirely fair. In which case, let's actually do something, then!

>Wave goodbye and head for Marisa's house. Let's be quick and get in and out before she returns from her latest SDM heist.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

> Would it be worth doing something fantastically stupid if it surprises everyone?

> Marisa might not notice if we steal a book from her house. Make sure to scan the house for personal possessions or at least things she will definitely notice are missing.

> One problem; you don't know exactly where Marisa's house *is*. You know it's in the Forest of Magic, however, so you head there.

> You are now on the outskirts of the Forest of Magic. The place is shrouded in a purpleish mist, and the trees look... different somehow, more sinister. There's also various fungi around. Large and small.

> You know Marisa's house is somewhere in this forest, which thankfully is one of the smaller ones in Gensokyo. However, you also know that Alice lives here. On rare occasion others visit the Forest, but as far as you know none of Gensokyo's 'Big Names' other than those two live here.

> Doing something stupid is worth it if people are actually surprised by you doing something stupid, and if you can see their surprised faces.

[Validon98]

>Better hope our umbrella doesn't get overly affected by the miasma. Not that it can poison us, but there's always the danger of other forms of damage to it.
>Nevertheless, onwards into the forest! Let's try to find Marisa's house!

[Raikaria]

>Better hope our umbrella doesn't get overly affected by the miasma. Not that it can poison us, but there's always the danger of other forms of damage to it.
>Nevertheless, onwards into the forest! Let's try to find Marisa's house!

> You start to move at your usual pace and find that the thickness of the air is straining your umbrella at this speed. So you slow down a little.

> You try to look for paths that may indicate where Marisa lives. However, you quickly realize this is folly when you recall that Marisa flies almost everywhere on her broom.

> The forest is eerily silent, and you are now lost.

[Validon98]

>Hmm... well let's see if we cannot get a bird-eye's view quickly. A house the the middle of the woods would most likely be in the middle of a small clearing, so we might be able to find Marisa's house that way.

[Raikaria]

>Hmm... well let's see if we cannot get a bird-eye's view quickly. A house the the middle of the woods would most likely be in the middle of a small clearing, so we might be able to find Marisa's house that way.

> The foliage is far too thick to fly out of by simply flying up. You imagine attempting to fly through branches this thick would end badly. Umbrellas blown into groups of trees by a storm rarely come out whole.

[Validon98]

>Oh. This might actually be problematic.
>Uhh... go towards a direction which is the opposite we entered from.
>If we turned a bunch along the way and thus don't know the way we came from, the best we can try to do is look for where there is more sunlight.

[Raikaria]

>Oh. This might actually be problematic.
>Uhh... go towards a direction which is the opposite we entered from.
>If we turned a bunch along the way and thus don't know the way we came from, the best we can try to do is look for where there is more sunlight.

> What you did was look at the ground looking for Marisa-footprints.

> You head in what you think is the opposite general direction, after all, if you head in one direction long enough, you're sure to get out!

> You reach an area, which while covered in branches overhead, has a lot less treetrunks. There is a small, one-floor house, perhaps a cottage. You note that there seems to be some form of light coming from the windows, indicating either someone is in or neglected to stop whatever source of light they use.

[O4rfish]

>Could we fold up our main body, and what would be the benefits of doing so?

[Dingo785]

>Can we creep up to the window and see who it is?

[Raikaria]

>Could we fold up our main body, and what would be the benefits of doing so?

> *Folding up* is your equivalent of closing your eyes. Your human apparition vanishes when you do this. You primarily do this when you go to sleep. You can still move, especially through narrower spaces, but you have to do so with your eye closed.

>Can we creep up to the window and see who it is?

> You get a little closer, and you don't even need to reach the window to have a good idea who's house it is, as you see a doll fly past the window holding a cup.

[O4rfish]

>Have we met Alice? What do we know about her?

[Raikaria]

>Have we met Alice? What do we know about her?

> You have never met Alice, but you have read a bit of about her in the Bunbunmaru. Apparently she is not a Gensokyo native, is rather prideful, sometimes to a fault, and her primary goal in life seems to be to create a doll with it's own soul, in short, effectively creating life.

> Her life objective feels somewhat folly to you. Can't she just ignore a doll until it becomes a tsukumogami?

[Validon98]

...I just realized the only reason there has been no progress in this is because no one has reacted to the last post.

We could surprise her now, but doubtless it would be harder to surprise her, and even then, we don't know a good way to do that at the moment. We'll probably come back later when the time is right. Besides, we need to get to Marisa's before she comes back from her SDM raid, assuming she hasn't already.

>If possible, note the location of Alice's house... somehow.
>Regardless if the previous is possible or not, go on our merry way to attempt finding Marisa's house. It has to be here somewhere. Somewhere closer to the forest mushrooms, perhaps?

[Raikaria]

...I just realized the only reason there has been no progress in this is because no one has reacted to the last post.

We could surprise her now, but doubtless it would be harder to surprise her, and even then, we don't know a good way to do that at the moment. We'll probably come back later when the time is right. Besides, we need to get to Marisa's before she comes back from her SDM raid, assuming she hasn't already.

>If possible, note the location of Alice's house... somehow.
>Regardless if the previous is possible or not, go on our merry way to attempt finding Marisa's house. It has to be here somewhere. Somewhere closer to the forest mushrooms, perhaps?

> You have no way of noting the location of Alice's house.

> You assume Alice's house cannot be far from Marisa's. You've not seen an area with a particular concentration of mushrooms, however, but you do see what seems to be a sign of a very, very rough path.

[Validon98]

>Ah well, can't be helped. We'll find our way back later.
>Nevertheless, follow the path.

[Raikaria]

>Ah well, can't be helped. We'll find our way back later.
>Nevertheless, follow the path.

> You follow the path, and it leads out of the forest, to a building on the very edge. It looks like a shop.

[Validon98]

>Have we seen this place before?
>Perhaps peek in a bit?

[capt. h]

> Enter the shop.

> Say the surprise word.

[Raikaria]

>Have we seen this place before?
>Perhaps peek in a bit?

> Nope. You woke up on the ground, not in a shop.

> You peek in, and see something you don't see very often, and when you do, it's in the human village. A male. He appears to be sorting miscellaneous items on a shelf.

> Enter the shop.

> Say the surprise word.

> You quietly enter the shop, thankfully, the door does not seem to be connected with a bell.

> You sneak up behind the man and shout 'Boo!'. The man clearly jumps and looks behind him to see you, with a massive grin on your face. Human males are always easy to surprise, but you can sense that his one seems to be a youkai/human hybrid.

> Although this man's reaction after being surprised seems different. Most human males go quiet and turn red after you sneak up right behind them. You don't understand why. No other group of people do this. This one seems to have regained his composure almost instantly.

[E-Nazrin]

>Was that a successful surprise? If not, roll for seduction.

[Raikaria]

>Was that a successful surprise? If not, roll for seduction.

> It was successful, just a little different to the normal human male reaction. You guess it's the youkai in him.