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~ Thanks to everyone that participated today, it was fun! ~ Hello everyone, to those reading this in the future, on November 10 we had a "Moriya Meetup" where several of us got together on the forum chatbox and talked about some things, and we did a roleplay. Being the first time any of us did RPing, it was a bit very messy but I'm sure we all still enjoyed it! Anyways, I'd like to consolidate all that happened, here in this thread for everyone else to read. I don't plan on continuing the story by myself, but feel free to jump in and I just might change my mind :). Finally, please note that most of this has been re-ordered and re-worded to make more sense. I also split the story into 4 smaller chunks, as I don't expect any of you to read through 2 hours of RPing in one sitting. Enjoy! Cast: Kymoh- narration, the fairies Pinky Cat- Marisa スカーレット大鎌- Sakuya Idioms21- Aunn ReisenFanatic17- Reisen (although I won't include him in the story because he was inactive) Part 1/4 The scene opens in the middle of a forest... the Forest of Magic! It's the middle of the day, but the sunlight is almost entirely obscured by tall trees stretching out in an endless expanse in all directions. A thin, lone dirt path weaves through the trees. Northward would lead to the Human Village, and southward would lead to the Misty Lake. On any other day, this spot in the Magic Forest would be nothing special. But today is anything but a normal day. Suddenly, a huge, bright white light materializes and shoots up from this location, like a laser beam. The trees seem completely unscathed as if nothing happened, but the light was seen by anyone from miles away. What might have caused it? Is it something dangerous? Is it a valuable treasure? Several witnesses nearby are intrigued and converge onto the scene. The first to arrive is Marisa Kirisame. "Goodness, what was THAT?" she thinks aloud, staring upon where the center of the light was. In these few moments of pondering, she never would have foreseen what a mess she is about to be dragged into... Meanwhile, several others also spotted the light from afar. "Did that magician miss a target, or did a bird drop her a present? No, this one seems different. I should check up on it just in case.", an intrugued Aunn wonders. Sakuya Izayoi, having been cleaning the windows of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, also sees the bright light. "Hmm...something happens over there and it comes from Forest of Magic... maybe Patche knows something about this kind of energy." She contemplates going to Patchouli to ask about it, but her curiosity overtakes her as she leaves her window-cleaning duties and makes her way to the Forest of Magic. Soon enough, Aunn arrives and spots Marisa, who is still peering up and down where the light was. With Marisa being completely oblivious to her surroundings, Aunn sneaks up behind Marisa, getting closer than anyone has any business to be. "Did you do that?" she asks right into Marisa's ear. "Wah! Aunn, what are you doing here? The forest is quite far from any shrine," Marisa exclaims, quickly recovering from the little surprise. "Anyway, I didn't do a thing about this! And a light coming from the forest ain't a common sight. It might be some magical object going off the wire with the forest's energy." Aunn acknowledges the answer, and peers beside Marisa, towards where the light came from. Using her ability to notice the presence of evil, she senses... "Well I don't sense anything strange from that direction..." "Really? Can you sense any other strange sensations comin' off of you?" Aunn puts both her arms closer to her nose and sniffs them. "Nope." She gets closer again to Marisa to sniff her. "Nah." Aunn points her nose back at the direction of the light. "Still nothing. That's it. I'm going home, have a good one Marisa!" She turns around to leave, waving goodbye. But just as she takes her first step back, an alert Sakuya walks into the scene, maintaining a defensive position. "I feel like something is close here. Something dangerous," she warns the two. Aunn doesn't believe it. "Hmm, Sakuya I think you should calm down a little, yeah? It's not like someone would have a reason to spy on us." While Aunn might not have sensed anything strange, Sakuya's intuition was correct indeed. These three heroines are not alone. Part 2/4 As it turns out, the bright light had attracted several curious fairies and youkai as well. For the past few minutes, there had been three others hiding behind the bushes, observing the past interactions. Waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves. "It looks like they don't know what that light was either," whispers Daiyousei. An unconvinced ice fairy responds, "Yeah yeah! They're just faking being dumb in order to trick us! We should fight them!" "Be quiet! They'll hear us!" Wriggle Nightbug shushes Cirno. But it is too late. Sakuya instantly reacts to the nearby noise. She quickly throws a single knife towards the bushes... while Cirno was lucky enough the knife hit the tree above her head. "AAAAAAAAAHH!!" Cirno jumps out, screaming. "That almost killed me! I knew it was a trap!" Everybody else quickly turns toward her. "Ah! It's the loud fairy! What're you doing here?" Aunn asks. Sakuya approaches Cirno, unhappy and possibly disappointed that all her caution was for some lone fairy. "You know it's dangerous playing here, right?" Cirno wants none of it. She steps forward in fighting stance. Daiyousei and Wriggle reluctantly emerge from the shadows, trying to hold Cirno back. Daiyousei even attempts to diffuse the situation, replying, "ehhh... we were just... wandering aroun-" "I don't wanna hear it Sakuya! You'll pay for what you did!" Cirno cuts her off, balling her hands, starting to form an icicle. "Oh is it a boxing match? I wanna join!" Aunn challenges, as she hops forward with her hands ready to block and throw out punches. Just as Sakuya stops time and knocks Cirno out cold. "We have better things to do." Daiyousei and Wriggle stop and open their mouths in shock. Aunn drops her fists, starting to raise her voice in panic. But fortunately for Cirno, it turns out pretending to be knocked out "cold" is her specialty. She immediately gets up, smiling at her friends and facing Sakuya again. Aunn, hit with a double surprise, gets even more confused and loud and annoying. Marisa, not impressed, speaks over Aunn and asks accusingly, "Say Cirno, mind explaining what you're doing here at the forest?” Cirno snaps back. "Be quiet Aunn! The grown-ups are talking! Anywayyy Marisa, we just saw a big light and we knew it was you that summoned it!" Daiyousei tries to grab Cirno's shoulder and stop her, but Cirno pushes forward, now only a few paces away of Marisa, and prepared to fight. Wriggle, on the other hand, has accepted her involvement and quietly begins summoning her insect friends from behind. Just as Cirno looks like she'll charge towards Marisa, she points a finger at Aunn and raises her other fist in the air angrily. "You first for being so loud!" She charges up a ball of ice and throws it straight at Aunn, hitting her dead center in the chest. She gets the wind knocked out of her, and maybe she'll get a bruise later, but otherwise she recovers in a few seconds and yells back in anger. "Hey! I thought I should be quiet! Why am I suddenly getting in on the fight?!" "That's what you get for interrupting me earlier! And this is what you're about to get for helping Marisa summon that big bright light!" Part 3/4 As Cirno takes a few steps toward Aunn, Marisa grabs her attention. “Whoa there, Cirno. You sure you want to be making the first move there?" She pulls out her hakkero, which causes Cirno to immediately stop and widen her eyes. All she can do is stare at Marisa preparing her powerful Master Spark. Sensing Cirno's fear, Aunn taunts her, "Yeah! This is a losing fight for you fairy! Give up already!" Sakuya, on the other hand, is pissed by Marisa's reaction to a small child. "WOULD YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP ALREADY?! DID ALL OF YOU FORGET THE REASON WE CAME HERE!?" Marisa ignores her, as the hakkero starts glowing, ready to fire. She points it straight at Cirno's center mass, who is still frozen in pure terror. But right when it looks like Cirno is about to turn to ashes, Wriggle has got her back covered. Preparing for this moment, she controls a small swarm of fireflies and directs them into Marisa's face. Who immediately drops her hakkero and swats her face repeatedly. “Oh god! Get these bugs off me! I can’t see!” She stumbles back, too preoccupied to fight. Now Aunn steps into action. Ignoring Daiyousei and Sakuya's pleas for peace, she runs forward and tackles Wriggle, who was too focused on Marisa to notice her coming. The fireflies quickly dissipate, leaving Marisa free to aim her hakkero again. However, it's too late for her. Using the small window of time granted by Wriggle, Cirno manages to jump onto Aunn as well. Aunn, Cirno, and Wriggle now form a cluster of angry children throwing punches at each other. Marisa cannot risk firing her Master Spark, because she knows she'll hit Aunn. Meanwhile, Daiyousei and Sakuya notice each other spectating the mess, seeing both of them aren't in the mood to fight. Daiyousei walks over to Sakuya. "Awww this is awful isn't it!" Sakuya understands yelling at them won't do anything. "tch. I'm just wasting my time with these children. Milady's gonna kill me if I'm gone for too long." "You're leaving already? Come on, could you at least help solve this mess?" "To a mere child? Then no, I have better things to see and I've not come this far to watch these children fight." "But you can easily fix this! Can't you stop time?" "Will stopping time fix their brain? Listen, that light was the only reason all of us came here, and I'm not wasting my time for..." ...Daiyousei and Sakuya continue to argue, ignoring the chaos around them. While Aunn, Cirno, and Wriggle are busy tackling each other, Marisa puts away her hakkero and takes out her broom. She approaches the three, smiling. "Going to have to do this!" Marisa swings, broom connecting straight onto Cirno's face. "GWWAAAHHH!!" She screams as she gets knocked away from Aunn and Wriggle. She flies several feet high into the air, hitting a tree and landing disoriented. But thanks to her assistance, Wriggle was still able to gain the upper hand on Aunn, pushing her onto the ground and keeping a knee on her chest. Wriggle starts torturing the helpless komainu, forcing small bugs onto her clothes. But Wriggle had forgotten about Marisa. “Try this potion on for size!” Marisa calls out, throwing a small vial that appears to have a funky smell, with great accuracy. It's a direct hit! Wriggle immediately lets go of Aunn. "Uck! What was that?" Covering her nose and evil smirk with her hand, Marisa replies, “That was just one of my mistakes.” The stench quickly sets in. Wriggle starts crying, not sure what to do. Tears flowing out her eyes, her face red with embarassment, she yells angrily. "Screw this, screw you Cirno for getting me into this. I'm going to the Misty Lake to wash this off. " And off she goes. Part 4/4 It's not over yet. Cirno, who was quickly awoken by the stink, gets back on her feet. Only to look up and see Aunn's running knee flying straight into her face, and get immediately knocked down again. "Lets switch targets Marisa, she's too strong for me!" Aunn yells out as she lands on top of Cirno. But Marisa is long gone, having realized she has actual errands instead of fighting these children. Still, Aunn is raining slaps and knuckle sandwiches, while taking some too from Cirno. Meanwhile, Daiyousei gives up trying to convince Sakuya, when she turns around and spots Cirno getting beat up by Aunn. "No! Cirno!" She runs towards the two, preparing to intervene. While Aunn and Cirno are too busy trading punches, she closes in and tries to split them up, putting an arm between them. "Come on! You two! Please stop!" The two get up, with Daiyousei spreading her arms, making sure they keep distance. A worn-out Cirno furiously tries to keep swinging, yelling angrily "Get out of the way Daiyousei! I was about to beat her up!" Although she starts to calm down. Aunn, with bruises and teary eyes, points a finger at Cirno, exclaiming, "Hey she started it! I thought it was a boxing match but she used magic on me!" "Yeah yeah! Don't act like such an innocent puppy! You were the one helping Marisa summon that bright light!", Cirno quickly retaliates. Which makes Daiyousei pause for a moment and look around. "Hey, speaking of which, where did Marisa go?" Cirno also stops trying to swing at Aunn, forgetting about the scuffle for a moment. Her eyes naturally fall onto the only adult remaining. "Hey Sakuya, you were watching this whole time like some useless creep. Where'd Wriggle and Marisa go?", she asks with a load of disrespect. Sakuya stares back at Cirno unamusingly, clearly not happy with the insult. She simply turns around and leaves without a word. Cirno shrugs and looks back at the other two. Feeling the tension die down, Aunn also excuses herself, "Well I've had enough of this, I'm going home now like I intended to until you showed up." Cirno lets her go, managing to secure the last word. "Hmph. I guess I'll have mercy on you this time. I got better things to do." And with that Aunn walks away, stomping at the dirt with a pouty face. It looks like we will never find the source of the bright light, which caused such an unnecessary conflict. THE END...? If you made it all the way here, thanks for reading! I hope you all had as much fun reading this as we did in our RP!

My body is weak and tired. Overworked from my job, and ill with...some kind of flu, idk. But that sounds like a skill issue for some other guy, so new entry into the GSG. Hope you all enjoy when you take your forty-five minute bathroom break like a true American.

Damn son, video game creation, music production and drawing too? quite the varied skillset you got there. Which made me remember the whole reason I learned to draw was that I wanted to also get into game making but didn't want to use the free assets or buy any so I wanted to make my own. In the end I learned none of the actual important things in making games (stage designs) but instead went hog wild on character design. Tangent aside, I do go back on my older works and change it a bit sometimes but most of my sketches have a date to track my progress so I can look back to what I used to make, kinda like preserving the past. I don't feel like touching them despite seeing so many things I can change since I want a timeline of all my works. But you did give me the idea that I could force myself to be committed, I'll try on an illustration board perhaps? Yeah remembering all the details is definitely the issue here as you just made me realize. I think its on my sketch being too messy or not painting a clear enough picture of what it should be. Probably because of how I always finish my stuffs in 5-8 hours I didn't bother making sketches clear as the idea is still fresh in my mind that I never considered how I would see it the next day if it's still unfinished. Personally I like it when things are kept simple and with very little detail as possible, so I try simplify a lot of the designs and cut down unnecessary details that no one will look at for more than a second. Stuffs like clothing fold can get really funky so I try to use drawn references rather than real life photos since someone out there probably figures out how to draw the same thing with as few lines as possible. As for the process itself, its messy, hella messy, but I just try to sketch very lightly to not imprint anything permanent on the paper, and as much as I possibly can, I try draw as big as possible to make it easier to do tiny details and control line thickness. But hey, thanks for the advice I actually realized stuffs about how I work and how I could change them. Though I'm curios on what genre of music you make, do you upload them anywhere? or any of the other stuffs you make in general.

The origins of Gensokyo Within Gensokyo, there are several groups of beings who can be roughly categorized into eight ‘species’ or ‘races’. Each with their own distinct subgroups. In order of commonality, these are Ghosts, Youkai, Fairies, Humans, Hermits, Demons, Kami and Dolls. Once, all these races lived on Earth. However these groups found themselves in conflict regularly. Over the course of thousands of years, humans grew in number and many of the more aggressive Fairies, Demons and Youkai were defeated. The apex of this conflict began at various times in the world, with Humanity overpowering the Youkai of Japan soon after their borders opened to the West in 1853. Though as dangerous as any rifle or bomb was the rise of secularism. Faith in these beings diminished, weakening what Youkai remained. To preserve what of them remained, the strongest remaining Youkai isolated the realm of Gensokyo from the Outside World in 1885. The realm has existed in almost complete isolation since then, with the barrier sustained by faith in the Hakurei God, as well as the strongest of the Youkai Sages. These sages are known to include Yakumo Yukari, Ibaraki Kasen and Matara Okina, though there are assumed to be others. The dragons of Gensokyo are known to have vanished at the same time, suggesting the realm was isolated in part due to their aid. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= “Hey ya’ll, its yer girl Joon here to rob you dumb Kami again. Since you’re all out of money, I’ll take...hmm, your kimono. Yes, you in the red. It looks expensive. Heads, erm, lining they go out the kitchen window. Back, they follow the ‘hidden path’. HAI-YAAH! … … Well this didn’t work out how I planned. But close enough to tails. See you idiots, I’m going to sell this to save up for my gambling fund this weekend.” =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The roars of the monster billowed down the halls. The beast they had just eluded racing through the halls. Oscar for his part turned to the kitchen windows. Quickly lunging and throwing one open. The old wood felt rotted under his finger tip, and the first wooden bar fell away. Leaving a space much too small for he, but enough for his three friends. Somehow, he managed to hide his panic with a daring smile back at the three. “We have no time to lose. We have to get out of here—through the window, quickly.” “But Osu, you can’t fit through there!” “I couldn’t scare a Youkai away either.” An impatient wave of his hand followed. The billowing from the hall soon showing there was little time to lose. Agappa was first, delicately climbing over the detritus left by the home’s owner. Before Wriggle rolled her eyes and flew over to the Mikari-Baba. Hefting her up and through the window. A dull but harmless thud coming from outside. Wriggle followed a moment later. Then, with a last glance back at him, Cirno flew out the window too. From where she hovered, watching Agappa rubbing her head and Cirno watching the window, Wriggle felt...weird. She knew she would want to see him come spilling out that window. Hopeless as Oscar was, Cirno was right. He had been a good friend to them in the little time they knew him. But...at the same time… He wanted to take Cirno from her friends. The thought had an instinctive revulsion to it. The way a human felt when he saw a cockroach, she supposed. It was disgusting, wrong even. But then...it made sense. Hadn’t Rumia been talking to him before she vanished? Hadn’t he somehow found them after Cirno spent all night crying over him and Rumia? Hadn’t he decided to go alone with her, Cirno, and the creepy friend they HAPPENED to meet on the road together? Something didn’t smell right… She could head something in her brain like padded feet through the long grass behind her. The sound was so pronounced she almost failed to hear the soft words of gnats and centipedes. Their words made her smile faintly to herself. Before she peered over the window. “Osu, you can’t get through, can you?” The man was already halfway to the door, though her words stopped him. A soft smile crossed Wriggle’s lips as she continued. “I heard from some of the insects here. There’s a hidden tunnel here. The Fortune Teller built it as a way to escape if his home was attacked. You can find it in the cellar. He kept his preserved foods, sake and reagents there.” Her news done, Wriggle turned to her friend. Half coaxing, half shoving Cirno from the scene. All as Agappa stared after her mutely. Back inside, Oscar took stock of his situation. The house was inhabited by a monster, one which seemed to want him dead. But it could be fooled, and fairly easily. He just had to evade it, and find his way to the cellar. He was even pretty sure he knew where it was. He just had to get to it before the monster outside did… The question was, how? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = If he's scared by ghosts, then we just have to make things extra creepy. All I need is a few of these pieces of rooting meat, some cloth and a bowl... = Maybe by getting the girls outside to make noise on the other side of the house, it'll distract him long enough for Oscar to get to safety? = The monster had six eyes, and two of them went out when I fooled him. I wonder if there's some kind of significance to it? If I confront it directly and fool it twice more, maybe it will stop? = Nah man. Straight up Naruto run your way to the cellar. Dude will have no time to catch you.

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