Chen's Day Out! >:3

[Hello Purvis]

>"Now you're just trying to play stupid. The barrier was made to keep magic here, because it all died outside. And  you think you wouldn't be mistaken for a youkai outside, in a place where there is no magic anymore? Please, don't embarrass yourself any more with this act."
>Is Wriggle here? How is she taking all of this? In particular, does it look like we could effectively play the "I could let Wriggle ask you" card and make it seem like a credible threat?

[OkashiiKisei]

> "My master Yukari told me quite a lot of the outside world. Humans are a far greater threat than you give them credit for. You may be a good swordswoman and be able to shoot a few energy orbs, but in this day and age almost all humans carry devices with them called 'firearms'. You can call them weapons that work like technological replacements for offensive magic. They come in all shapes and sizes. They can pierce your flesh, rend it, tear it, burn it, blow it apart and some can even blow your entire body into gory pieces. If you try anything funny, humans will swarm you with armies of these armed soldiers, some even riding battle vehicles, and blow you to kingdom come. Humans even have weapons to wipe entire countries off the map. You may have Hakurei power, but you aren't invincible. You won't stand a chance outside there."

[Chaore]

>"Now you're just trying to play stupid. The barrier was made to keep magic here, because it all died outside. And  you think you wouldn't be mistaken for a youkai outside, in a place where there is no magic anymore? Please, don't embarrass yourself any more with this act."
>Is Wriggle here? How is she taking all of this? In particular, does it look like we could effectively play the "I could let Wriggle ask you" card and make it seem like a credible threat?

Meira coughed. "Sure, Its not because you all needed a place to hide. I'm not about to believe your crap for a second. Tell me, Cat, what reason do I have to take your words at face value? Something so absurd as magic dying away... I'll never buy such crap!"

Wriggle isn't here at a moment. You could try and drag her in, but you're not sure what good it'll do. She seems to either really not know anything, or

> "My master Yukari told me quite a lot of the outside world. Humans are a far greater threat than you give them credit for. You may be a good swordswoman and be able to shoot a few energy orbs, but in this day and age almost all humans carry devices with them called 'firearms'. You can call them weapons that work like technological replacements for offensive magic. They come in all shapes and sizes. They can pierce your flesh, rend it, tear it, burn it, blow it apart and some can even blow your entire body into gory pieces. If you try anything funny, humans will swarm you with armies of these armed soldiers, some even riding battle vehicles, and blow you to kingdom come. Humans even have weapons to wipe entire countries off the map. You may have Hakurei power, but you aren't invincible. You won't stand a chance outside there."

Meira breaks into a dry laugh at your words. "What? Okay, sure, even considering... Why the fuck should I care! If I can't kill them, I'm more than capable of convincing them otherwise! Its what I lack from you damn youkai, I don't try and eat every human I come across! Sure, they could kill me, sure, it could be damn near impossible to survive, but why the hell should I care? What would change if I didn't touch your precious barrier! I'm a human in a world of youkai, cat, I'm -food-! I've had to fight for my life against you damn youkai ever since the shrine maiden died. If I had the hakurei power though, none of you could proper touch me! Even if I have to worry about some outside humans, I'll take them over you any day. Beats being food."

[OkashiiKisei]

> "So that's what it was about. You know, if you just moved to the human village, you wouldn't have had that problem as much. Shouldn't a child stay inside the village anyway? If you lived outside the village it's your own fault your parents were so idiotic."
> "Magic comes from faith and belief. Gods for example run on faith. If you deny the Gods' need for faith then you are just being ignorant. People in the outside world hardly believe in magic anymore. Result? No more magic. We could scramble the last bits together and let the humans in this land, who still believe, use their faith to maintain the small amount of magic within. If the border breaks, peole will come in contact with the outside world, stop believing and all youkai vanish and you will be forced to find a boring old desk job. That's the rules of magic, Meira. Didn't you learn this at school?'

[Hello Purvis]

>"Did you think that everyone just suddenly decided to stop flying after the shrine maiden died? You're not stupid, but I'm starting to think you're pretty clueless. Even I figured that out, and I spent the last who knows how long living in a cave!"

[Chaore]

> "So that's what it was about. You know, if you just moved to the human village, you wouldn't have had that problem as much. Shouldn't a child stay inside the village anyway? If you lived outside the village it's your own fault your parents were so idiotic."
> "Magic comes from faith and belief. Gods for example run on faith. If you deny the Gods' need for faith then you are just being ignorant. People in the outside world hardly believe in magic anymore. Result? No more magic. We could scramble the last bits together and let the humans in this land, who still believe, use their faith to maintain the small amount of magic within. If the border breaks, people will come in contact with the outside world, stop believing and all youkai vanish and you will be forced to find a boring old desk job. That's the rules of magic, Meira. Didn't you learn this at school?'

Meira looks as if she wants to lunge at you. "Do you think the village was only hidden to you youkai? Even if I wanted to, I couldn't get into that village!

And who gives a damn if you vanish, frankly! Even then, I still live, hell, I'd call killing all of you a damn plus! Do you expect me to believe your wise cracks?!"

>"Did you think that everyone just suddenly decided to stop flying after the shrine maiden died? You're not stupid, but I'm starting to think you're pretty clueless. Even I figured that out, and I spent the last who knows how long living in a cave!"

"Yeah. There isn't much left in the air. Doesn't affect me anyway, I can still taste it, so I can still use it. I'll say it again, Thin as it is, I know better than to believe something like magic would just disappear!"

[OkashiiKisei]

> "Then Meira, if magic is in infinite supply, WHY doesn't the outside world have any? If it was infinite, there would be enough for everyone, no? Magic would still be part of everyday life and there would be no need for a border, right?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"And there's only so much to go around. It's like trying to frost a whole cake when you only have a little bit of icing."
>Oh god how we miss frosting cakes ;_;

[Chaore]

> "Then Meira, if magic is in infinite supply, WHY doesn't the outside world have any? If it was infinite, there would be enough for everyone, no? Magic would still be part of everyday life and there would be no need for a border, right?"

"Because you took it. You've stuffed all the magic in a little jar. I -never- said it was infinite, I said your claims it'd just outright vanish are complete bullshit. The reason this barrier really exists is because you greedy bastards want magic for yourself. Nothing more, nothing less."

>"And there's only so much to go around. It's like trying to frost a whole cake when you only have a little bit of icing."
>Oh god how we miss frosting cakes ;_;

"I suppose you're not used to how things used to be, before the barrier, eh?"

Ran loved vanilla frosting, but you were always partial to chocolate. She used to make chocolate all the time for you. ;_; You really would like a cake right now...

[OkashiiKisei]

> "But now you contradict yourself! If it isn't infinite, then that means it is finite! And if something is finite it can eventually run out. Otherwise it would be infinite."
> "People think that there are always enough fish in the water, and keep fishing. But if they take too much fish the fish can't reproduce and die out. Then there's no more fish to eat. Fish isn't in endless supply. Nor is magic."

[Chaore]

> "But now you contradict yourself! If it isn't infinite, then that means it is finite! And if something is finite it can eventually run out. Otherwise it would be infinite."
> "People think that there are always enough fish in the water, and keep fishing. But if they take too much fish the fish can't reproduce and die out. Then there's no more fish to eat. Fish isn't in endless supply. Nor is magic."

Meira growls in annoyance. "Magic isn't something stupid like fish! Damnit, Didn't you just eat? I'm telling you, you can't get rid of magic like fish."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Sure seems like it's gone now. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to do dumb things like take down the border. And we're bottling it up, you said? If that's the case, why did we all spontaneously decide flying was passe?"

[Chaore]

>"Sure seems like it's gone now. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to do dumb things like take down the border. And we're bottling it up, you said? If that's the case, why did we all spontaneously decide flying was passe?"

Meira twitches a brow in irritation. "What happens to the water in a bottle when a crack shows up?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"You said it doesn't get used up. Now it does? You should pick a story and stick to it."

[Chaore]

>"You said it doesn't get used up. Now it does? You should pick a story and stick to it."

Meira face palms. "Oh for god's sake. This is like talking to a brick wall. If you're done spewing nonsense, bring on your worse already. I've nothing to tell you, so just keep getting annoyed."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yeah, it's pretty clear you skipped a whole lot of classes. I can't imagine you would know anything. Pity, too. It might have gotten you out of here or something. Maybe Wriggle will let you have some books you can find out all the things you missed."
>Wave and depart. Unless she gives us a decent reason not to.

>_

[Chaore]

>"Yeah, it's pretty clear you skipped a whole lot of classes. I can't imagine you would know anything. Pity, too. It might have gotten you out of here or something. Maybe Wriggle will let you have some books you can find out all the things you missed."
>Wave and depart. Unless she gives us a decent reason not to.

Meira responds by spitting in your general direction. "I'd rather rot in here then buy the crap you youkai feed me."

You leave the PRISON. Wriggle is waiting for you. "No luck?"

[Hello Purvis]

>Call back. "I wouldn't get too belligerent about being fed, some of the insects here might hold a grudge. Thanks for the familiar, by the way."
>Ponder: Someone had to have a telescope. Maybe Murasa? She was a sailor, they need telescopes. Where did Murasa live?

[Chaore]

>Call back. "I wouldn't get too belligerent about being fed, some of the insects here might hold a grudge. Thanks for the familiar, by the way."
>Ponder: Someone had to have a telescope. Maybe Murasa? She was a sailor, they need telescopes. Where did Murasa live?

Meira doesn't give you a response. You're not sure if that is a good thing.

As much as you're not about to dare tread over Murasa's second grave, mostly out of fear of anchory death from beyond it, you're not exactly confident she remembered -her- telescope. You recall she probably kept her stuff in the ship turned temple Byakuren set up, and set up her afterlife in it.

[Thaws]

>We haven't explored The Myouren Temple yet, right? Or was it destroyed?

>Off to the Myouren Temple!

[Hello Purvis]

>No harm in looking around. If there's an angry ghost of a ghost, at least now there is a shrine maiden to deal with it. Kinda.

[Chaore]

>We haven't explored The Myouren Temple yet, right? Or was it destroyed?

>Off to the Myouren Temple!

You haven't, though you're not sure how she left it. You don't want to, or can't really remember that scrap too well.

It probably has something to do with eating Nazrin.

Regardless, you head off towards where the Myouren temple was.

You arrive, surprisingly, the temple is in fairly nice shape. On the outside, at the least.

[Hello Purvis]

>Try not to get sick. That fish was too damn good.
>Look around for signs of habitation.
>And a back door. If we can avoid where THAT went down, all the better.

[Chaore]

>Try not to get sick. That fish was too damn good.
>Look around for signs of habitation.
>And a back door. If we can avoid where THAT went down, all the better.

You keep your newly acquired fish down, out of respect for the fish and the insects.

You look around for anything of note... Almost eerily, from the outside, it looks like not even a day has passed...

You go to find a backdoor as such. Going anywhere near the front would probably cause you to lose it.

[Hello Purvis]

>Search around back for a back door, or signs of definite habitation.
>Regardless, if one is found, knock. And if it's answered, prepare to do a runner in case they hold grudges like Marisa did.

[Chaore]

>Search around back for a back door, or signs of definite habitation.
>Regardless, if one is found, knock. And if it's answered, prepare to do a runner in case they hold grudges like Marisa did.

You find the back door, and knock on it.

You don't get an answer, but you accidentally knock the door open.

[Thaws]

>"Oops"

>"Anyone there?"

>"Sorry for intruding!"

>"I'm entering now!"

>Enters.

[Chaore]

>"Oops"

>"Anyone there?"

>"Sorry for intruding!"

>"I'm entering now!"

>Enters.

You give anything left here proper warning and enter through the back door.

You enter the Myouren temple. Inside is a complete wreck. Debris is everywhere. The wall to the next room is completely knocked over.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well, there went that hope."
>Look around, try to figure out what this room, and the one beside it, used to be.
>If neither seem to belong to Murasa or have a telescope, look for ways to head further in.

[Chaore]

>"Well, there went that hope."
>Look around, try to figure out what this room, and the one beside it, used to be.
>If neither seem to belong to Murasa or have a telescope, look for ways to head further in.

It was a bit of a stretch, but you're fairly sure it was unlikely anything could survive here anyway.

You look around. You'd figure this used to be the KITCHEN. Anything you could probably use has been scavenged up, probably by disrespectful sorts. The other one seems to be a guest room Byakuren had set up. You could probably head through the guest room's door.