Maribel Hearn Quest - ACT I: Part 2

[AzyWng]

>And people just let Aya do this?
>What's wrong with this place?

[Neovereign]

>Follow Reimu.

[Monarda]

>"Then pesky tengu photographer, at least i'm sure that Miss Mokou is immune to you, since she uses pants, still a weird hobby."
>Whisper: "Did she get even one of yours or Chen's or Lady Yukari's ?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>And people just let Aya do this?
>What's wrong with this place?

>You wonder exactly why Aya is allowed to do this... You question how "right" this place is...

>"Then pesky tengu photographer, at least i'm sure that Miss Mokou is immune to you, since she uses pants, still a weird hobby."

>"Oh, don't worry, I'll get her eventually..." Aya smirks.

>Follow Reimu.

>You follow "Reimu" out of the cave, leaving everyone else behind. You're beginning to head for the path leading down the mountain.

>Whisper: "Did she get even one of yours or Chen's or Lady Yukari's ?"

>"^{_{I do believe she's gotten one of Chen's before...}}" Ran whispers back in her own voice, frowning, "^{_{However, she hasn't gotten a successfully one Yukari-sama and I, likely because we live in such a remote location... And due to the fact that Yukari-sama can easily avoid such a... vulnerable... situation...}}"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Where are we going after this?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Where are we going after this?"

>"It would probably be best if you stayed put until either Chen recovers or Yukari-sama gives further instructions." Ran replies.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Uh, we've got something to do ourselves too though..."

[AzyWng]

//What should we say regarding what we have to do?

Telling her about what might qualify as a hostage situation is right out of the question (probably) - "Reimu" would inform Yukari about it as soon as she could, and Sariel would NOT be happy with that.

Of course, being cagey will certainly make "Reimu" suspicious of us.

And outright lying might be somewhat difficult ("Reimu" isn't affiliated with Yukari because she's dumb).

[Neovereign]

//Tell her that we're just looking for another friend, and we already know where to find her? If she questions where or who, we could just say that we've got it covered, and that she should be worrying about Reimu and Chen being okay.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Uh, we've got something to do ourselves too though..."

>"Ah, yes, didn't you say your friend was going to meet with somebody? Well, how important is it, if you don't mind me asking?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"I guess I don't mind answering, but why do you ask?"

[Monarda]

>I guess what we can say is that it was someone with knowledge on where Sumireko is.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I guess I don't mind answering, but why do you ask?"

>"Well, if it's not that important, then surely it can wait until either Chen recovers or Yukari-sama gives further instructions... Besides, if Yukari-sama has an interest in you, and she assigned my shikigami as your escort, then I doubt she will be happy to know you're running around Gensokyo un-escorted. I'd take over the duty myself, but unfortunately I'm preoccupied by something else, as you can see..."

>I guess what we can say is that it was someone with knowledge on where Sumireko is.

>You wonder what to say if you had to identify the person you were meeting with. Would this work?
>_

[Neovereign]

//Right. Edited out.

[Monarda]

//Better not, we shouldn't lie about that, especially to Ran, if your ever read Purplequest you know how smart this kitsune is, besides, we like Chen, she's our friend, so let's go with her the same way we did with Miss Mamizou.

>"I'll gladly wait for Chen to wake up, she's my friend after all !"
>Look around for any eaveadroppers.
>Whisper: "Any news on Miss Reimu's condition ?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I'll gladly wait for Chen to wake up, she's my friend after all !"

>"Well, I guess it's settled then."

>Look around for any eaveadroppers.
>Whisper: "Any news on Miss Reimu's condition ?"

>"Yukari-sama has told me nothing had changed."
>_

[Monarda]

>Whisper: "Ahhh... thank you..."
>Keep going.
>"Well, at least i can train flight at the shrine, maybe reach the 'hover without falling on people' mark."

[Neovereign]

>There's still the problems of Renko and Sumireko. Yukari said she will take Renko for judgement without chances next time she encountered us, and Sariel sounded panicked for a bit before she left...

[Monarda]

>We are on a stalemate, we have to stay with Chen, since it's our fault she's like that, and we can neither stay there nor run away, since both are bad and impractical choices, going with 00-Ran is best since we'll be both safe-ish and draw minimal suspicion to us or Ran.
>And as i said before, Lady Yukari will have Renko for trial, one way or another, even if we cross the barrier back, so we need to focus more on how to prove that Renko should live than on trying to avoid it.

Edit: Damnit ! THAT'S probably why Lady Yukari was upset like that ! I'm an idiot !

[Neovereign]

>What about Sumireko though? Sariel claimed that Renko had to do it and it was her destiny. Though if Sariel can still reach Renko if she's only imprisoned, I guess it's okay... Just gonna hope things go right.

[Monarda]

>She didn't make it in time, so a Kitsune posing as Shrine Maiden along with a Black-white magician and a Puppeteer with excellent hands and a cute AF doll came, with a pesky pervert Tengu reporter on their tail, who also had ANOTHER not-so-pesky tengu reporter, little options were available, so let's work with what's right and with what we can.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Whisper: "Ahhh... thank you..."
>Keep going.
>"Well, at least i can train flight at the shrine, maybe reach the 'hover without falling on people' mark."

>"Well, you seemed to be doing pretty well back at the cave..."

>There's still the problems of Renko and Sumireko. Yukari said she will take Renko for judgement without chances next time she encountered us, and Sariel sounded panicked for a bit before she left...

>We are on a stalemate, we have to stay with Chen, since it's our fault she's like that, and we can neither stay there nor run away, since both are bad and impractical choices, going with 00-Ran is best since we'll be both safe-ish and draw minimal suspicion to us or Ran.
>And as i said before, Lady Yukari will have Renko for trial, one way or another, even if we cross the barrier back, so we need to focus more on how to prove that Renko should live than on trying to avoid it.

>What about Sumireko though? Sariel claimed that Renko had to do it and it was her destiny. Though if Sariel can still reach Renko if she's only imprisoned, I guess it's okay... Just gonna hope things go right.

>You think about the situation you're in right now. Despite how much you dislike having to leave the area, it's the best thing to do to avoid drawing suspicion. You can only hope that Sariel finds you later.
>And on the topic of Sariel, you remember she seemed a bit panicked when she left. What could've possibly made an angel of death and chaos go into that sort of state....

>She didn't make it in time, so a Kitsune posing as Shrine Maiden along with a Black-white magician and a Puppeteer with excellent hands and a cute AF doll came, with a pesky pervert Tengu reporter on their tail, who also had ANOTHER not-so-pesky tengu reporter, little options were available, so let's work with what's right and with what we can.

>However, due to the small amount of options, you decide to just roll with what happens and hope everything turns out for the best.
>_

[Neovereign]

>-and a Puppeteer with excellent hands and a cute AF doll

//But are our headcanon Alice's similar or not? Time will tell...

>"So, did anything else happen before this at the shrine?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"So, did anything else happen before this at the shrine?"

>"It's actually been relatively quiet at the shrine... I guess that's a good thing..."
>_

[Monarda]

>"If it means less risk of people discovering that and panicking, then yes."
>Nod.
>"What places are there in the human village ? We already went to Miss Kosuzu's library, so that's something down."

[Neovereign]

>Wonder what we should tell Kosuzu if we meet her again... Probably just that Mamizou is well, and is recovering.

[Serela]

Sariel has proven she can appear basically anywhere she deems to and likely know where we (or at least Renko) is/are, so we don't need to be too worried about the "where"... so long as we have enough privacy (at some point) for her to show up. We just need to not get ourselves into any hot water whilst we're out and about.

>"Ah... do you have any idea how long Chen might take to wake up?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"If it means less risk of people discovering that and panicking, then yes."
>Nod.
>"What places are there in the human village ? We already went to Miss Kosuzu's library, so that's something down."

>"Well, if it's places of interest you're looking for, there's the school. You also have the Heida residence, where the Gensokyo Chronicle is written. And of course there are various stores you can visit as well."

>Wonder what we should tell Kosuzu if we meet her again... Probably just that Mamizou is well, and is recovering.

>You wonder what to say should you ever meet Kosuzu again. You decide that you should probably just tell her about Mamizou's condition.

>"Ah... do you have any idea how long Chen might take to wake up?"

>"It depends on whatever hit her. Hopefully it will be less than an hour, but if it was something powerful, then it could be an hour or more..." She pauses, "At least she's alive..."
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Yeah..." Nod slightly.

[Monarda]

>"Could you tell us more about Miss Mamizou too ?"