Wind Priestess Quest - The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"That's just Meiling. She's supposed to guard the gate, but she's not that good at it."
>Sneak past Meiling and into the Mansion.

>You walk past Meiling and barge in through the mansion's front door without knocking.
>As soon as you take a few steps into the mansion, a few fairy maids immediately swarm your position and begin to clean up the floor behind you.
>A couple of other fairy maids further down the foyer stop what they're doing and stare. It's unclear whether or not they're staring at Mima's tail, or Kogasa's clothes.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Hello. Could any of you lead me to Sakuya?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Hello. Could any of you lead me to Sakuya?"

>"Certainly. She's that way!" The staring fairy maids reply in unison before pointing in opposite directions.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Thank you." Club one of them over the head.
>Head for where the guest room was last time we were here.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Thank you." Club one of them over the head.

>You smack one of the fairies over the head with your Gohei.
>"Ow! What was that for!?! I thought I was being helpful!" the fairy complains, "You even thanked us! You big meanie!"

>Head for where the guest room was last time we were here.

>You make your way to the guest room. A couple of fairy maids are busily working. However, other than them, there's nobody else here.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"No sign of Sakuya yet. She's could be out trying to resolve the incident since the weather has been tolerable lately. I'll leave the outfit in here."
>Set the maid outfit on one of the chairs, if they're present.
>"Well, this is the Scarlet Devil Mansion. _{^{We've technically entered uninvited, so don't raise a fuss.}}"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"No sign of Sakuya yet. She's could be out trying to resolve the incident since the weather has been tolerable lately. I'll leave the outfit in here."
>Set the maid outfit on one of the chairs, if they're present.

>You leave the maid outfit on one of the chairs.
>"^{_{Great. More work...}}" you hear one of the maids mutter.

>"Well, this is the Scarlet Devil Mansion. _{^{We've technically entered uninvited, so don't raise a fuss.}}"

>"I'll try not to." Mima replies.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Since it'll be a while before Reimu gets here, what do you guys want to do?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Since it'll be a while before Reimu gets here, what do you guys want to do?"

>"Truth or dare."
>"Want to have a look around?" Mima asks.
>"I'm fine with whatever you want to do." Kogasa smiles.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"How about we do something you want to Kogasa? It's just been me picking what I wanted. There's got to be something you'd want to try."

[WodofGar]

>"Especially with all these fairies around, maybe sneak up on a few."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"How about we do something you want to Kogasa? It's just been me picking what I wanted. There's got to be something you'd want to try."

>"Especially with all these fairies around, maybe sneak up on a few."

>"Well, I've got nothing other than surprising people at the moment, so we could do that if you two don't mind..." Kogasa replies.
>_

[WodofGar]

>"I wouldn't mind, I wanna see what you can come up with!"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

_{//Phew, just spent most of my free time today writing code, and now I can finally relax...}

>"I wouldn't mind, I wanna see what you can come up with!"

>"Alright. So uh... let's find someone to surprise then!"

>"^{_{This is going to end badly...}}" Mima chuckles.
>_

[WodofGar]

>_{^{"I'll say it in advance, I tried."}}

[Neovereign]

>"Okay, there's a magician in the library, usually. No wait, even better. Her assistant. We can surprise her. Come on."
>Search for the library door.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>_{^{"I'll say it in advance, I tried."}}

>Mima smirks.

>"Okay, there's a magician in the library, usually. No wait, even better. Her assistant. We can surprise her. Come on."
>Search for the library door.

>You navigate through the halls, leading Kogasa and Mima, until you find yourselves at the door to the library.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Okay, the library is huge, so we should be able to do this easily...hopefully."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

_{//I'm so confused right now, Mini. I got an email notification saying you updated RTD:Arena, but when I go to the actual thread nothing has changed. Did you update it, or did I just get sent a false alarm?}

>"Okay, the library is huge, so we should be able to do this easily...hopefully."

>"Let's do it!" Kogasa exclaims.
>_

[Neovereign]

_{^{//So uh, I ended up trying to press enter to move down some more, but I hadn't clicked on the text box, so it posted what little progress I had done at the time. Second time that's happened. I'm in the process of updating it still.}}
>Open the door slowly.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Open the door slowly.

>You slowly open the door.
>The library looks as quiet as it did yesterday. Glancing around through the doorway, you see no sign of Koakuma or Patchouli in the immediate vicinity.
>_

[Neovereign]

>Stay low and shuffle through the bookshelves in search of achooli Patchouli or Koagasa Koakuma.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Stay low and shuffle through the bookshelves in search of achooli Patchouli or Koagasa Koakuma.

>You crouch and slowly shuffle along the shelves, peering through any openings for signs of Patchewbacca Patchouli and Koakumar Koakuma. You don't see anything for several minutes, until you notice a tall stepladder. Looking up, you see Koakuma near the top, placing books into positions on the shelves.
>_

[Neovereign]

>Look back and shake head as if saying "No."
>Take a few books out of there place and gently set them on the floor.
>Beckon Mima and Kogasa to follow us into one of the next aisles.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Look back and shake head as if saying "No."

>You do so.

>Take a few books out of there place and gently set them on the floor.

>You swipe a few random books from the shelves and place them in a pile on the floor.

>Beckon Mima and Kogasa to follow us into one of the next aisles.

>You lead your cohort into a neighboring aisle.
>"^{_{So many interesting books here...}}" Mima whispers, "^{_{Do you think they'll mind if I swiped one or two before we left?}}"
>_

[Neovereign]

>^{"Please don't. I'm sure they'd let you read some inside the library, but I wouldn't trust someone with my stuff outside. Well, besides my family and Kogasa of course."}
>^{"Well Kogasa, any ideas? I'm all out. I didn't want to end up hurting her, so that's all I could do."}

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>^{"Please don't. I'm sure they'd let you read some inside the library, but I wouldn't trust someone with my stuff outside. Well, besides my family and Kogasa of course."}

>"_{^{What? It'll only be one or two... or maybe three or four... besides, they have billions of others by the looks of it. How are they going to notice if just a few go missing for a few weeks... or months...}}"

>^{"Well Kogasa, any ideas? I'm all out. I didn't want to end up hurting her, so that's all I could do."}

>"^{_{Well, I thought you were going to use those books you just out on the floor as bait...}}" Kogasa replies, "^{_{And then we were going to surprise her when she noticed them...}}"
>_

[Neovereign]

>^{"Uh, yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking. Now we just need to get her to notice the books...Wait right here."}
>Go back to the book pile, stack them up like dominos, then return to the aisle.
>Pick a book out and slide it into the pile.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>^{"Uh, yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking. Now we just need to get her to notice the books...Wait right here."}

>"^{_{Got it.}}"

>Go back to the book pile, stack them up like dominos, then return to the aisle.

>You stealthily creep up to the books and set them on their ends, and then carefully slink back to where Kogasa and Mima are.

>Pick a book out and slide it into the pile.

>You take a random book off the shelf and slide it at the pile...
>...Only to miss spectacularly! You watch helplessly as the book just barely misses the pile and thunks into the shelf behind it.
>Koakuma does not seem to have noticed your shenanigans.

>"^{_{That was your plan?}}" Mima snarks.
>_

[WodofGar]

>_{^{"Hey! People make mistakes sometimes!"}}
>Try not to fail so hard.