>"I'd be all too happy to bring you over, once we find a way to actually get back. Mmm, guess I best start explaining things on my end."
>"Alright, so, that Night of Rage thing I mentioned. I had just happened like a month ago. I know Aya went out to cover it, and she kinda of never came back. Eventually, I got sick of waiting on her and decided I should go scoop her myself. Anyways, I got Momiji and we checked around her house, and found that Tsubaki, yes that Tsubaki had broken in. Going through old articles of hers related to the Yakumos. Heavy stuff; absolutely shameful."
>Have a drink.
>"So we start to look around, and go try to talk with Reimu about it, and find Yukari's there instead with Reimu napping in her lap. Yes, I got a great picture, she even posed for it. We learned from her that Aya had been working with Ran on some kind of project, but she wasn't saying anything. Wasn't able to push too hard, even if she's more a low youkai than we are. Still, it was a clue. Anyways, we go to investigate Marisa's house, and find it's covered in some weirdo shield. We go to ask Alice, turns out Alice and Marisa ran off awhile ago; a very nice centaur was watching over Alice's house and told us that. So, she accompanies us back to Marisa's house, since she knows a bit about magic, and we try to break that barrier; Momiji had the skills to put enough force behind it. That breaks the barriers, but there's another worse one under it. So! We decide to split up, Momiji going to fetch Patchouli, and me going to the Cobalt Keep, which was a new place to me."
>Sip.
>"Now, let me explain. Where I'm from, the Cobalt Keep is just this place, run by another western Vampire. Seems most of them had chosen to sleep out the bad old days in some kind of magical sleep, until Gensokyo calmed down and they didn't have to worry so much about being attacked by whoever wanted a piece of their wealth or power. Kind of a mid-sized prize, so very tasty if you're that kind of person. Nowadays, though, they've just awakened and are getting on reasonably well with everyone else. There's a few weird people there, but they seem like nice sorts all in all. Nothing weird like the one here, it's pretty much like the Scarlet Devil Mansion or Eientei or whatever you wanna thing of, just...castly and westerny. Now, the reason I went there was because there was a big name magician there, too. But also I knew Aya had to have been there, and I was right. But it was weeks ago, so no real help. But I got to meet the peoples, and a few visitors, including that Ranka girl who was hanging around. Heh heh. We only kinda got along, because she thought tengu needed to be more like her and I disagreed. But we kind got along, even though she wouldn't let me get any pictures. How about you?
>"Wait, let me finish. Okay, so, we gather up that Magician, and one of their top people, a human named Celes whose name you might remember. So, we get back to Marisa's house, and Momiji and Patchouli get there soon after. Celes says she recognizes the barrier as the work of one of the sins. Let me explain those real quick."
>Sip.
>"One of the people at the keep, probably the most dangerous one, is someone with a bunch of evil spirits in her, embodiments of western sins or something. They got loose and caused the whole night of rage thing, I don't really understand it myself. Now, the one that was unaccounted for was Greed. And apparently that barrier was his work, so he probably got into Marisa's house and claimed it. Anyways, we go in and the place is just a sty. Nothing like the Marisa's house here. Anyways, one thing that I notice is this book. So I point it out, and Celes panics. Then bam, we wake up here! Apparently it was some trap or curse on the book. Celes has a lot of ideas about it, and so do we. Anyways, that's the short version. And I'm gonna ask you not to report it til we get things sorted, just as a favor, okay. Make any sense at all?"
