>"We'll worry about hows later. Proceed."
>Thought so.
>"Mhm. Keep going. I've very interested into why I'm not supposed to know that."
>Wait, weren't spellcards our deal?
>"Mhm. And I was still missing. Go on."
>"So. Until I was nine, at least, I was lost or whatever? Keep going."
>"Oh, she's in no position to be furious. Not even a little bit. Is there anything else?"
>"Then she and I will have a lovely chat. Tell me about her."
>"So where are her remains?"
>"Thank you. Depending on how things go, I may have to ask you to show me where in a bit."
>"So what kind of specific things did she do? What sort of events did she see coming? What kind of youkai did she keep under control?"
>"And who did she end up with?"
>"Did they care about each other at all? And when you say more than just me, what do you mean?"
>"I suppose she really was good at telling the future, then."
>"So. Where is my father buried, then? What was his deal?"
>So does that mean we'll soon get "Reimu's Dad Quest: The Adamantine Chef"?
> "Ah. So... if she died and I was... somewhere for nine years, who exactly was keeping everyone in line?"
>"That's really weird and I am not sure I like what's being implied."
>"It sounds like you're implying things were better off without us."
>"Guess I'm a bit sensitive about that kind of thing. So how did you keep people from noticing there was no one at the shrine?"
>"Huh. Who was that kid? They had to be something to get away with making it all the way up here on their own. And did she just not advertise that she could tell the future, because that would bring in a lot of visitors, you'd think."
>"So, do you have any idea why Yukari bent over backwards to keep this all secret from me?"
>"Me neither. But I do intend to pick her brain once that gap is done."
>"Anyways, I'm mad you kept this from me, but at least you came clean. And I can accept you were following orders. So I'll let it slide for you, alright?"
>Any signs of Suika?
>"Anyways, anything happen while I was gone?"
>"Heh. Alright, I've got a few questions to ask the others, so I'll leave you two be."
>Head back inside and locate Konngara.
>Approach.
>"Hey, you have a few minutes?"
>"Do you know the name Tamiko Hakurei?"
>"Good. Start talking."
>"You want to go somewhere more private or something?"
>"This way, then."
>Head into the surrounding wilderness, preferably one of the drier parts of it.
>"So. What do you know?"
>"Why, were you trying to hide it from me?"
>"I'm feeling pretty open today, so let's hear it."
>"Go on. How'd you hear about it if you never met her?"
>"That's interesting."
>Ponder, then frown.
>"How'd she get a letter down to you before the Underground opened up? In fact...how'd she even know you exist? Or, were you breaking that agreement and coming up here?"
>Nod. "Okay. Wonder how she got it to you, then? Either way, tell me about this letter."
>Annoyed grunt.
>"Figures... What'd it say?"
>"Go on."
> Sigh. We should probably feed her a few details to let her know we're not blaming her. Yet.
> "I talked to Ran a little about her, and I know she was wandering in the mountains when she, well, passed on. I was just hoping you'd might know enough to clear up some mysteries about her."
> Kick our feet. "I never met her, you know? To be honest, I never knew she even existed until a little while ago."
>"Us, as in you guys underground?"
>Glance toward the noises.
>"What did she mean?"
>"Which three? You and Yuugi and Suika? Her and you and Yorihime?"
>Let's not make dumb jokes at a serious moment.
>Instead stays, "And who are these three, again?"
>"Right. We're going to head back and I'm going to deal with the others real quick. Then we're going to finish this conversation up, okay?"
>Head back.
>Head around front.
>Well, if she came on her own, that's a good sign as far as her mental and emotional state, right.
>"Hey, everyone. Suika tell you the news?"
>"Well, the big question is what do we do next?"
>"Found all but one. It seems that Yukari has the last one and was very helpful in not mentioning that at all."
>"I didn't. Ended up making Nazrin help me. But we're going to be having a talk later."
>"Yeah. She's probably up to something."
>"Well...Marisa tried doing some things with it, and I visited it a couple days ago. I don't know if it's safe, but if all the water came though that..."
>Shrug.
>"We could all go have a look, maybe? Might be something there if we put our heads together."
>"While you guys figure that out, I need to finish something. Make yourselves comfortable."
>Motion for Konngara to follow us and head back to the forest where we were.
>"So, let me make sure we have this straight, the letter talked about you, me, and her?"
>"So what did it say?"
>"Tell me all of it, then."
>"And did she happen to elaborate why she was telling you this, or why she knew it?"
>Unamused look.
>"Then elaborate. And please tell me everything. I'm already annoyed enough that I'm about to bite your sword in half."
>"Okay. We've met and talked in the past few days, and I think I've called you by name before. So... I'm not sure how to answer that."
>Ponder back through the meetings with Konngara that we can recall.
> "Well, there was ... the first Incident I solved, where I fought you. I don't really remember anything else before that, though."
>"What was that for? And should I be remembering something else?"
> "That's sounding way too familiar these days. What is it I can't remember this time?"
> Sigh. "Secrets? Or just something embarrassing?"
> Follow her gaze. "Well, fine, how about this: you think about it while me and the girls go check out that hole in the sky. By the time we come back to give Yukari an earful, you'll tell me what exactly you know. Deal?"
>"Is there anything else you can tell me, then? At this point, all you've said was there was a letter. Just...something, so I feel like I got something out of this talk."
>"I see."
>"Alright, I'm heading back. We'll talk again shortly, if all goes well."
>Head back!
>"Alright, someone grab Sanae and we can go."
>"Right, let's go. Speak up if you notice anything."
> Proceed toward the crack in the sky. Keep the gang of cats together.
>Talk so our voice doesn't travel.
>"All over the place, trying to find that stupid shard. Ended up learning some weird things about myself, and now I have another reason to strangle Yukari. Ended up spending the night at the palace of the earth spirits. Oh...Um, I went back to that dream world again, yesterday. And, um, lots of things that turned into crystals and stuff? And there was a huge black void in your shrine. Couldn't figure out what was up with it."
>"Well, you know how I've been having some problems remembering things? It was worse than I thought. And Yukari's been telling people not to tell me things. So I'm probably going to strangle her later."
> "Worse and worse the more I find out. On a side note, one of the weird things was that there was a Hakurei in your world after all, but no one but li'l Konngara remembered her."
> "Oh? Oh oh?I'll get 'em hot, show 'em what I got?"
>"Tell me about her."
>"How long ago was that?"
>Nod.
>"Interesting. You've probably figured out who she is, right?"
>"Now the fun part. According to Ran, she and this Souji person both died well over ten and a half years ago."
>"Yukari didn't. Ran, at least, said something when I confronted her about it, but she was under orders not to. Konngara also knows something, but she's Konngara and it's impossible to get her to say more than three words."
>"I think she just has some kind of weird youkai issue about talking to people or something. I told her to gather up her thoughts while we're looking into this, then tell me when she gets back."
>"You and me both. Anyways, as far as you're concerned, don't be surprised if I try to stuff my gohei down Yukari's throat. And then your gohei. Oh, and, um, don't gossip too much about this. I kinda want to get the whole picture before I let it be generally known, if at all."
>Keep going.
>"Maybe it's coming from that hole? If it leads to a place that's nothing but water, it's probably not very warm."
>"If it's underwater, Sanae and I should be alright at least."
>Can we grab and examine any bits of sky?
>Do we have any knowledge or skills that could theoretically slow down, halt, or repair this damage?
> "Hey Marisa, you tried to fly into the crack a while back, right?"
>"Did it feel solid, or was it weird?"
>"And you couldn't pass through it, huh? And it wasn't this chilly either, right?"
>"Let's go get a closer look."
>"Can you slow it down?"
> "Well we have that sewing kit of Yukari's, but you don't mean it literally, do you?"
> "Sewing holes in reality, or just holes in clothes?"
> Pat her on the back. "Well, you have to learn somehow. Are you all right with Sanae lending you a hand, Ran?"
>"In the meantime, what do you think, Marisa? Does it look any different than when you tried to pass through it the first time?"
>"Guess that means you don't feel like trying for it, huh?"
>"Would that make it worse, Ran?"
>Go have a closer look as well. Can't let player 2 hog all the glory.
>"See anything?"
>Let's gaze into the abyss ourself. There isn't a hole-related phenomenon around that we cannot stare down!
> "How do you propose we 'sneak' through? It's not like there's a gate guard we can distract. If there was, then Marisa would've already gotten through."
>"That's more like finding your way through, I think."
>Reach out and try to touch the broken part.
>"Huh. "
>"Hey, Marisa? Did it feel like it was trying to push you away?"
>"Weird. What about you, Sanae?"
>"Guess it really doesn't want me to go through there."
>Are our instincts pricking at all?
>"If it was nothing, it wouldn't be pushing me away."
>"Hey Ran, what do you make of this?"
>"Might be. Either way, I'm not in the mood to try and break it, and make things worse."
>"What about you, Youmu? You noticing anything?"
>"So. What we've found is that there's a nice hole here. So unless anyone has an observation to add, I suppose it comes down to who wants sewing lessons with Ran, and if anyone's going to try to go through there."
> "You sure you want to do that? We don't know if it's one way for you."
>"Do we have any of those?"
>What does the terrain below look like?
>Do the forests seem to be flooded?
>"Anyone got some good string we can tie to that?"
>"Is that thread strong enough, though?"
>Could have fooled us, given how fragile the thing seems to be...
>"Ah, okay. Good. The honors are yours, Marisa."
>Look in the hole. Has anything happened?
>"Does it feel like it hit anything?"
>Hold on. And stay attentive.
>If it seems like the two of them aren't enough, join in the tug of war.
>Move back and try to avoid colliding with the others.
>Look at this and determine what the hell it is.
>Take one of the feathers and look at it.
>"You know. I don't think these came from any kind of fish."
>Look the doll over for any other interesting clues.
>"You ought to get Alice to fix this one up, it did a good job."
>"Yeah. Hey, what'd she say about dealing with the salt?"
>Tuck the feather away.
> How do these feathers compare design-wise to the feathers we coughed up earlier?
>"Really? What for?"
>"Well, I guess you could borrow Alice. Is she still there?"
>"Can't blame her. I guess we could try to convince Byakuren to go over there. Or maybe Ran?"
>"Yeah, no worries there Ran. Speaking of, do you think it's finished baking yet?"
>"I'll probably follow, but get Sanae started on sewing up that barrier, first. And maybe Youmu."
>"I dunno, but let's wait til after we get this whole situation sorted out before we try to find out, okay?"
>"All the money and food. I'll try to get my next plans to you when I can."
>Does it seem like it'll be a reasonably concise explanation, or a drawn out one?
>If it's the former, listen in. We might as well learn something!
>If it's the latter, leave Ran to it and head back to the shrine.
> "You shouldn't worry too much about that: Youmu's way too good with those swords of hers. Anything else they need to know?"
>Once Ran is ready, depart back to the shrine.
>Do so as well, but keep an eye open for Konngara on the way.
>"Konngara still around?"
>"Alright. I'm going to go find her and have a quick talk. Don't dive into that before me."
>Head back toward the orchards.
>Look around. Any signs of Konngara?
>"I'm going to be extremely angry if you aren't out here, Konngara."
>"So. What've you got to tell me, now that you've had time to put it all together?"
>Blink.
>"Huh. That is weird, but it's not unexpected. I keep finding new holes in my memory. So, tell me about when we met before that?"
>"Okay, go on."
>"So you got it a few weeks before I remember first meeting you?"
>"This is getting confusing. How about you lay it out in a timeline?"
>"Can't hear you."
>"...So, what happened in this meeting I don't remember? And how does it tie in with that letter?"
>Sigh.
>"Okay, look. You're keeping something from me. And that is making me way more angry than anything you could actually tell me. So just say it plainly and get it over with, okay? I have other things I need to take care off, and all this is doing is frustrating us both."
>"...Oh I am going to exterminate the crap out of you next time."
>Back to the gap.
>"That was a complete waste of time. Let's go."
>"Yeah. It'll just be me and probably Ran right now, looks like. But if you want to do something, go dust off your Pandemonium card and knock Konngara around with it for awhile. She took off that way."
>Jerk thumb in proper direction and head for the gap.
>"So, do I need to do anything special to use this?"
>Ponder if Suika would actually do that. It'd be touching in its own way.
>Nod to Ran and step into the gap.
>"Where is this?"
>Try to get some room, especially so we aren't pressed against the eye wall.
>"Neither of those things are words."
>Proceed forward. Do we hear or sense anything of interest?
>Stare ahead and try to get a sense of what ever the thing might be.
>Does this look familiar at all?
>"Well, if it wants to cause a problem, it's picked a day where I have no patience."
>What is the status of our spellcards?
>Shout out: "Hey! We need to get through here and see Yukari so we can get this whole mess fixed! Could you show us where she is?"
>Be ready to take evasive action if it tries anything.
>Also make some effort to remember what it was like the first time, so we don't get caught totally off guard.
>How well could we or it probably dodge in this tunnel?
> "Hey Ran, either one of us needs to get on its other side, or only one of us'll be able to take whatever this thing is on. We both can't fight in here."
> Toss a few needles at it to keep it away while we try to talk to Ran.
> Nod, and drift downwards. "Whenever you're ready!"
> Pull out the Yin Yang Orb, and wait for Ran to begin her assault before throwing the Orb at the electric thing and chasing after it: if we fought it before then it'll know how much the Orb hurts, so it'll get out of the way and give us an opening.
> Dart along the floor and chuck the Orb around its feet or legs to make sure it stays up there long enough for us to get to its other side!
>Twist to face her and continue to back away. If we don't need to take immediate evasive actions, send some needles at her in such a way that it fills in holes that Ran has left.
>Switch to talismans, lots of talismans.
>Don't lose sight of what she's doing, though.
>If she's paying attention to Ran, more needles! Stagger in them into waves, to prevent another shock.
>Also keep a general eye on that orb, in case it comes back toward us.
>Keep up the needle waves, she can't have too much room to dodge. Stay prepared for counterattacks.
>From past experience, does this strike us as defeat behavior, or is this some weird electric eye person thing?
>Does Ran seem to be letting up at all?
>We'll let up when Ran does, then.
>Catch orb.
>"No more time for this, hold her off, Ran!"
>Proceed down the corridor swiftly! But do keep an eye out for attacks.
>Catch ourself from falling further, then take a moment and assess the situation.
>Are our instincts telling us anything?
>Have a peek through that door, unless we get the feeling this would be a bad idea.
>Obvious exits?
> Advance.
>Contemplate it for a moment. Does it feel unusual in any particular way? Or does it just seem to be another thing.
> Shake our head and continue on.
> Onward. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_QE0cJOG2c)
>Approach the prism.
> The indentations are about the size of the photos?
> Pick up the portrait of the two people and study it. Is the woman Tamiko?
>Take the photos, then look over the indentations.
>Place the Tamiko one in the middle, while cursing Yukari quietly.
>How did we recognize it, if we've never seen her? Did we recall something?
>How old is the photo? As well as the other two?
>Examine the photos for any other details of note.
>If nothing presents itself, place the other two in the indentations, the portrait on the right.
>Try placing them in order of age of the female subject.
>The latter.
> Swap the two pictures on the outside.
> Hm... maybe how old the pictures are is the right order? Let's swap them around, with Tamiko's in the right hand side, the two people in the center, and the hat lady on the left.
> Flip flop the center and left pictures?
> Check inventory. We'll need something to throw at her.
> Okay, so nothing's exactly suitable for throwing. We could whack her with the business end of the broom.
> ... Why DO we have our broom?
> Circle around the edge of our room to stand behind Yukari with our arms crossed.
>No nonsense voice: "Explain. Now."
>"People are dead, Yukari. I don't want any games. Explain."
>"Huh. Okay, so, which lifeline? Last time I checked, I'm still around. And moreover, what do we do about it?"
>"Not unless I have some sisters."
>Very irritable voice
>"Which, given you told everyone to lie to me, I'm not going to rule out."
>"That doesn't matter. What matters is that you've been trying to hide my past. And trying to hide that incident from me, too. And other things I don't feel like going into right now. But overall it's convinced me that it may be best to just seal you into a toilet if things don't improve right now."
>"Or you could stop hiding my past from me and pretending it'd do anything good you piece of shit hag!"
>Dump the shards in a pile beside her.
>"There. I know you have the last one around here somewhere."
>"Yes! Did you think I was making things up or something?!"
>"And your stupid construct took a shot at me and Ran, so don't expect it to be very happy."
>"I'm fine standing."
>"I know what Kikuri did, and from what I've gathered it weakened the border and did something to my memories."
>"Well there you go. Start explaining."
>"Yukari, let me see if I understand what you're saying. Sanae received enough worship to become a god. She created a dream world, which unbalanced Gensokyo enough that it slipped away from the present Outside World up to the future Outside World. Is that right so far?"
>"So what do we do about it?"
>"This reminds me...apparently my Mother was still in that dream world. Why?"
>"Yeah. That'd go back to the whole telling people to lie to me and hiding my past thing, by the way."
>"And how bad is the Outside World if a few thousand years is enough to destroy it?"
>"From what I heard from people there, she wasn't a ghost. So, what's with this contract business you're talking about?"
>"What would binding another person do, though?"
>"What effects does binding someone have on them?"
>"Okay, here's a question. Are Bhava-Agra and places like that also affected?"
>"Then why is the Dragon God and the Yama and so on just standing aside and doing nothing?"
>"Well, there's the part where they've been drug into this too. And in The Dragon God's case, he helped put up the barrier to start with so there's a professional interest, I'd think."
>"That's not what Akyuu recorded. And given your track record with lying to me, I'm gonna go ahead and say she's correct on the matter."
>"Speaking of that, I'm noticing your two solutions are "Do a thing you want done" or "Do a thing you want done". So, what's the real answer where everyone can come out ahead?"
>"Like hell. It's either hassle the people you hate or it's make my life and someone else's more miserable. What are you trying to lie about this time?"
>"You didn't even know this was happening until it was too late. Don't think I forgot how you messed around my shrine for some time after the storm broke out. This whole thing blindsided you as much as it did anyone. So instead of taking some time to leave a note or wake us up or something, you vanished in the least actually helpful way possible."
>"What aren't you telling me, Yukari? Either you're holding something back or you're making something up. Out with it, before more people die."
>"Given you won't tell the truth when two lies will do, that seems to suggest I'm on the right track. So out with it, what else are you hiding?"
>"Tell me what you haven't figured out yet, for starters. You didn't know this was coming any more than the rest of us, so there's got to be things you haven't figured out yet."
>"That last one seems really significant. What do you know about that dream world, anyways?"
>"I've been there a couple times. It's really weird and youkai have restaurants that humans eat at and they don't even have a barrier there! But...well, I guess my mom used to be there, only she vanished suddenly a while ago."
>"You think not having a barrier has anything to do with it?"
>"Oh, and you know about Kanako, right?"
>"She's gone. Just vanished. Suwako thinks it's because Sanae was taking all her faith, but...that seems kinda fishy, don't you think?"
>"Well, at first I thought maybe she fell through the hole in the barrier or something. But... if there's weird things happening at the dream world, and the Sanae is strongly connected to it, don't you think that's suspicious, too?"
>"In fact, when did they two collide? Just a couple days ago, or was it before that?"
>"And what all happened? I know about the hole and the unstuck from time thing, but what else?"
>"So...you don't know if there were any other effects, and don't have any idea what was happening in the dream world?"
>"Okay. So. Why've you been lying to me about my parents and my past?"
>"You should have figured out by now that knowing things wasn't going to change who I am or what I do a long time ago. And just begin at the beginning so I won't miss any details."
>"Well, that explains why Konngara was acting so weird. But, three hundred years? I wonder if she didn't see the Moriyas or coming, or if this situation was part of a desirable future. I can't even imagine what it would be like to see the future if you're also able to affect it."
>"Well, that explains why Konngara was acting so weird.No it doesn't. Anything that you're presuming is a huge chain of logic acrobatics for Reimu to make. And stop going off topic randomly, it makes it hard to stay in character.
> "Well, that doesn't really matter right now, unless my mom made plans for... well, all of this."
> Consider the Yin Yang Orb. "You said she was accumulating power in this?"
> How exactly would "accumulating power" work, exactly.
> About how much power have we accumulated within the Yin Yang Orb? Does our bouncing it off goons deplete it any?
> Well we might want to cut back on that if we don't need to, then: if Tamiko was able to strengthen the Border using it, then we could bear to hold off in case something bad happens. Like, everything being time shifted into the future for instance.
>"Give them back."
>"The memories you stole, you stupid hag! Give them back!"
>Keep it together! Keep it together! No weakness in front of the gap hag! We're made of sterner stuff than she thinks, damn it!
>Take measured breaths, and try to sort through it all.
>Let's keep our breathing calm, and focus on those settled ones and try to form a coherent timeline as new ones settle. It's just like focusing on a conversation during a noisy party...
> We'll figure out the mystery of why we purposely forgot about the Kikuri thing when our head isn't melting. Use that shrine maiden training and center ourself to help with the strain.
>No! No sobs, no laughter! We are a placid lake that enacts rituals and summons the gods!
>Focus on breathing steadily, actually attending to memories can wait for a moment.
>No. Stand back up. We are the pillar that holds up the wall between this world and the other. We're not going to writhe around on the the floor. Breath calmly and steadily, handle this a step at a time.
> Take our time and ignore the youkai: the world isn't going to end in the next five or ten minutes. Plenty of time to firm up.
>We know what it feels like to be overwhelmed now. Prepare for it, so it may be faced with more dignity than before.
>Keep breathing even, keep ourself steady. Let's set these memories where they go.
>Then let them, we can ride this out now. Keep calm, it's all just the past, and we know what it feels like now. Just breath steadily, stay on our feet, and handle it as it comes.
> Breathe in and out calmly, and let the memories do their own thing. It's getting easier now that we're through the initial rough start.
>If we're through the worst of it, it shouldn't be too bad now. Let things sort themselves, and endure it with as much dignity as can be mustered.
>If it helps, imagine what it'd be like for Yukari, what with how much she must have forgotten due to senility.
>Let's try to remember a coherent version of our past, then.
>Pay Yukari no mind, and see what new memories we picked up about surface life.
>Remember what we can about Mom, ostensibly to see if any of it is useful in this situation, but really just out of curiosity.
> Probably not that surprising, since everything points to us being way too young to remember her. Are there any other memories that stick out about our childhood at this time?
> The vision of the memory, or our actual eyesight? If it's the former, then shift gears to memories closer to the present, those of Kikuri's incident that we apparently purposely forgot. If it's the latter... blink.
> Surreptitiously wipe those eyes and focus on memories of the incident with Kikuri. Why would we forget that on purpose?
> Try concentrating on the memories anyways: there might be something relevant to what's currently happening. Yukari claims that it doesn't matter, but she's been wrong before.
> Tune her out, and let our mind relax a bit. Don't focus on any memories, just let it rest and settle for a bit so that it's not as jumbled.
>Jeez what's with the rain in here?Focus less and less on the memories and do breathing exercises to control the shaking. Now's not the time to crash, we can do that later after we've settled with Yukari.
> Ignore her and try to calm our breathing. She's just trying to rile us up to prove some damned point or something.
> We are so terrible at ignoring Yukari. Snap at her: "Not. Now."
>Pay Yukari no further mind. Let's just get through this. Try not to break out into sobs at least, if we can't get these tears under control.
>Don't rise to the bait. She'll get hers soon enough. Let's just get things under control.
>Do we think that we could speak without breaking down?
>Then ignore her for now. We definitely don't need to speak until we can do without breaking down into a heap.
>No need to answer her right now.
>Have we remembered anything that feels like it might be relevant to the problems at hand?
>Just give ourself more time, then.
>"...I thought you were my friend, you know... Despite everything."
>Keep it together...
>"We used to bicker and fuss, and you were kind of a pest, but I thought you were a friend anyways... You know that, right?"
>"To make me forget people who loved me, or the fact that I loved them? What kind of person would even do that?"
>Calm voice.
>"No. Stop lying. Do you think I didn't hear you gloating a minute ago? There was a time where, despite all the hard times, you actually cared about me on some level. But you didn't. I didn't mean any more to you than a nail to a carpenter. You couldn't even treat me like a decent person, you lied to me all of my life."
Edit.
>"No. Stop lying. Do you think I didn't hear you gloating a minute ago? There was a time where, despite all the hard times, I thought you actually cared about me on some level. But you didn't. I didn't mean any more to you than a nail to a carpenter. You couldn't even treat me like a decent person, you lied to me all of my life."
>No, keep the calm voice. We're not giving her the satisfaction of giving into fury.
>"And don't talk me about Gensokyo, if you cared about Gensokyo's wellbeing so much, you wouldn't have turned a blind on on Kikuri until she exploded. If you cared so much about Gensokyo, you wouldn't have sat on your butt while another universe was hurtling toward it. This isn't about Gensokyo and never was. This is about you and making people dance on strings because it's what you want."
>Keep calm. Can't break up while calling her out, not now.
>" Now you're not omniscient? That's a little different than what you were saying earlier, don't you think? It's pretty convenient that there's only two ways to do things, which both coincidentally happen to further your whims, but when this whole mess is laid at your feet suddenly you're just a youkai. You care about me only as much as you care about a tool. You care about Gensokyo only as much as you happen to live here and it's an excuse to do whatever you please. If you cared about Genoskyo or me, you wouldn't have done half the things you have done. "
>"There's a few leads. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll follow up with the Dragon God since you went out of your way not to."
>Hopefully Iku managed to come through with something on that front...
>"Maybe I'll work with Sanae to try to correct things from the dream world's side. There's a few different approaches."
>"Then I'll just have to make sure it doesn't happen, won't I? I wouldn't want you to feel the sting of spending a decade or so sharpening a tool go to waste."
>"Just stick a talisman on my head like Seiga does with her zombie afterward. It'd be more honest of you, anyways."
>"And here we see how much Yukari actually cares about saving Gensokyo. Amazing how quick that one turns around the moment it involves something you don't like!"
> ... She did not just do that.
> Is the gap Ran opened still there?
>"What a coward, Yukari. The moment you hear the truth, you stop caring about Gensokyo after all."
> Don't look at m-Konngara right now: we're angry enough as it is and we know we're not ready to talk to Konngara about the everything.
> How long has it been since we left Sanae and Youmu at the hole in the sky? We should probably hustle to her before Yukari becomes stupid and tries something to her.
> Terse: "Because Yukari. Has Sanae, Youmu, or Marisa stopped by?"
> Gather the items we absolutely need to have, such as spellcards and such, and put them in... do we even have pockets?
>Clean up the rest of the stuff and carry it inside. Give Konngara a nod, and as warm of a smile as we can muster despite our immense irritation at the world.
Plan A: Find Sanae, see what we can do about dreamtown. I suspect something is down, given it cursed us but Sanae never seemed to have problems.I really wanted to keep those shards to see if they could somehow help, but unless we can get Ran to fetch them for us we're stuck on that. Plan A is a given, and we can ask Tenshi for a favor to get Iku to help us (Tenshi is a snot, but at least she's an honest snot). Plan C is interesting and I'd like to try it if we can't immediately figure anything out with Sanae, but D is pretty much a Hail Mary throw.
Plan B: Go find the Dragon God. I can't imagine he'd want to ignore this, and might well take a little joy in thumbing his snout at Yukari.
EXTRA TASTY PLAN C: We know our mother is dead, and can see into the future. Let's go make an special request of Higan to talk to her about that. They aren't in a position to refuse outright, given they're in trouble too.
CRAPSHOT PLAN D: Makai has a goddess. Makai may well be in the shit too.
> Dump everything in our room.
> We'll clean up this mess after we clean up the bigger mess. Let's find Suika and see if she can play messenger girl for us.
> "You know those mini-yous? Can you use them to deliver messages?"
> "I need you to send a couple. First, send one to Remilia's place and track down Marisa. She'd likely be in the library. Tell her to meet me at Bhava-Agra as soon as she can."
> Cross our arms in thought. "Then, send some to fetch Sanae, and Youmu if she's still with Sanae. Send them to... Sanae's shrine, the Moriya shrine, and that hole in the sky. Tell Sanae to drop what she's doing and meet me at Bhava-Agra immediately, and don't make any detours for anything. Even if it's Yukari. Especially if it's Yukari."
> Give Suika a look. "I'm not joking about that. Make sure she understands how important this is."
> "Because that's where I'll be, and I'd rather not have everyone running around when I need to find them."
> "Hey, Tenshi." Pause. "Thanks."
> When Tenshi leaves turn to Chen. "Hey, can you do me a favor? If Ran comes back can you see if she has the bronze shards?"
> "Go ahead, but don't be greedy. Everyone's going to have a rough time with food for a while, after all."
> Sit down and wait for Suika to finish. Is Konngara still lurking around?
> Bite our lip, then get back up and walk over to the pond to stand next to Konngara.
> She was like this in what we now remember of our childhood too, wasn't she?
>"...Look. I'm sorry."
>"It's not...just..."
>Look around. Is there anyone around?
>"Look...I...um..."
>Keep it together...
>Deep breath.
>"I remember now."
>Nod. Keep it together.
> Nod. "I... I don't think it would have made too much of a difference. Not until I..."
> Shake our head. "We can talk about it more later."
>Don't say that, too many words. And we might have been willing to entertain it anyways.
>"Don't worry about. We'll talk later, okay?"
>"I need to go handle some things. Watch out for Yukari, I pulled back her mask a little bit, and she is not happy about it."
>Nod, then depart toward Bhava-Agra.
>Head toward Bhava-Agra as quickly as we can without completely winding ourself.
>Make our way toward the main one.
>That's fine. We'd want to be alone for this anyways.
>Where do we think we can find Iku?
>To the Hinanawi's, then.
>Let's go bang on the doors again.
>We'll give them a few minutes.
>"Hello. Is Iku here?"
>"Thanks."
>Wait there.
>"I don't like that look one bit."
>"She just got back. I more or less followed her."
>"Alright, let's hear it. Is the Dragon God missing?"
>"Not surprising. That means he's probably trying to do something about this whole mess. Which doesn't bode too well for the situation, really. So, you don't have any way to find him?"
> Is the Dragon God present outside of Gensokyo? Would his absence be explained by Gensokyo apparently existing outside of time?
> "It's one of the many powers of a shrine maiden." Oops, we forgot to bring Suika. Oh well, she'll be along on her own.
> Turn back to Iku. "Well, whenever you're ready. I appreciate your help."
> Blink. "Uh. Try to talk to the Dragon God? At the Dragon Palace?" Is what we're saying stupid for some reason?
> "Oh. Ohhh. Sorry, I misunderstood you."
> Well. This is a complete waste of effort.
> "Where's she off to?"
> "It's probably Suika. Want to go see? I thought it was going to take longer, so I was having people gather here so I can tell them what's going on. In fact... you might want to be there, too."
> Follow.
>Well that's convenient, given what we're gonna need Sanae to do...
>"You guys have trouble?"
>"You did your best, and probably bought us some time. We'd need an army to deal with that, I think."
>Ponder if Alice's dolls are articulate enough to sew...
>"So. Good news is, I found Yukari. Bad news is, she's more interested in bending the situation to her advantage than getting things done, to the point she's actively getting in the way. But, I know what happened now."
>Actually...now that our memories are restored, would we happen to recall a couple of dream world denizens, such as someone that looked kinda like an angel, or a set of stones?
>What about Meira and Rika? We didn't recall those two dinks at all.
>"Like I said, she's looking to gain from this whole affair, so she needs to close off avenues that don't work to her advantage. Got real mad when I pulled the mask back a little bit, too. And she'll probably get even more mad next time I see her."
>"Anyways, things are going to get complicated now. Iku's confirmed that the Fragon God is away, which is who I was hoping to talk with about this mess. But I suppose he's off dealing with it right now."
>"I'm guessing it's why things haven't gotten worse, myself."
>"Anyways, the problem is...another universe seems to have collided into Gensokyo, and we got unstuck from the outside world. We kinda managed to grab back on, but it's sort of thousands of years into the future, and it looks like the outside world hasn't survived, which is why we have the floods and stuff."
>"Then we have a problem, maybe. Actually, if the world is screwed up so bad, there might well be room for us. But let's not worry about that right now. The thing is, Yukari doesn't know why it happened. That's what I want to find out. Because then we can fix it."
>"Maybe. I hope not. There was that arm fish, though..."
>"...Maybe? I dunno, can that even be done?"
>"We'll have to do something about that once we deal with the cause, I suppose."
> 'We'? Turn and look at whoever's with Marisa.
> "Yeah? The Taoists or Yuuka causing problems?"
> Take the feathers and pocket them. "I can imagine. You DID stick it into some kind of apocalypse, after all."
> "Yeah, wanted to get everyone here at the same time so I can share what I found out. Basically, stuff happened and Gensokyo's now in the future, and the Outside World's gone to hell."
> Hm. Wonder how the Moon people are doing...
> Eh. They're probably all snug and smug up there.
> "Yeah. Haven't seen any of Sanae's giant lizards, though, so it might not be that bad. Unless we can somehow get Gensokyo back to where it should be, we're going to have to look into fixing whatever's happening outside. I'd rather get us back to where we belong, personally."
> Turn to Youmu.
> Grimace. "Yeah, go ahead. Can you also let her know all the new ghosts she's seeing is from a few thousand years later than usual?"
> Pause. "Hey, wait, one question before you leave. If we fix everything and end up where we're supposed to, what will happen to all of the ghosts Yuyuko and the Yama are taking care of?"
>"Is Yuuka still handing around Scarlet Devil Mansion?"
>What was the deal with Yuuka's amazing technicolor dreamworld mansion, anyway?
>"Good. Anything else to report?"
>"Okay. Marisa, I need you to put your speed to work, again. But first, let me try to summarize what happened. Essentially, another universe rammed into Gensokyo, and we kind of got unstuck from the Outside World. We were able to restick to it, but, it's kind of thousands of years into the future, and the Outside World's coming to an end. Which probably explains that doll. So...what I need you to do is go find Keine, and have her start looking into history. I think we're gonna need her to do some big things to get this part of it all fixed up. Help her out, if you can. I hate to send you off on errands like this, but you're the fastest person we have and know how to research. And watch out for Yukari, she's trying to play this situation to her advantage and she's already worked to ruin my efforts, so she might strike again. I don't know where I'll be able to meet up with you at, but I'll try to get Suika on it when I can."
>What is Suika up to, still wrasslin' with Tenshi? And are there any mini-Suikas around still?
>"Well...at this point, she ought to be be aware of the giant gap between before and after the border breaking. After that...mmm, see what you can find on Tamiko Hakurei? And other border disruptions, that'd be nice. And border repairs, if any. Akyuu might be good to bother about that, too."
>Turn to Iku: "Can you arrange for a room with some beds for Sanae and I? It'd be faster than going back to the shrine."
>"Yeah, it wouldn't hurt to have you around, Suika. But right now, Sanae and I need to talk a bit."
>"So, I bet you've probably pieced together another part of the story, huh?"
> Grimace. "Well, that other universe that apparently got us unstuck..."
> "... Then maybe I'm putting my faith in the entirely wrong person, if they're not willing to help."
> "Good question." Cross our arms. "You're a goddess now, right? You have your own shrine, your own followers, hell, your own world."
> "I think your first step is to stop hiding with your head in the ground and start using that power of yours. Jeez, to think that I'm actually missing that gungho-ness you had when you first came here."
> Put our hands on her shoulders. "Listen. Yeah, that dream world you created kind of got us into this problem. But, but, I have a few ideas that I need your help with, and only you can do this."
>"Sanae, are you a bad enough goddess to save Gensokyo?!"
>"That's what we need to find out. We need to go back there and figure out what happened. And you're the best person for the job. Then we figure out how to fix it."
>"Do what? Pinch you?"
>"Hey, she picked a fight with me. But yeah, now that I know what's happening that shouldn't be a problem."
> "I promise that I won't do it... without good reason."
>"So the question is, how do we investigate it? It's your world, after all. What do we do?"
>"Well, I mostly told you. About that one city being crystalline and that big old black void in your shrine. Um, I always went through a tunnel and saw a really huge...space. Big enough I didn't feel like dealing with it at all."
>"You know where that shrine is? The one where we met? If you follow that black road away from town it'll lead to a tunnel, and that's where it was."
> "Also, the little Konngara showed me where the Hakurei shrine used to be in that world."
>"Nothing at all. It vanished, she said."
>Nod.
>"You're doing what I need. There's way too many things to investigate, and you know what's best to look for. Good work."
>"I dunno. Who understands how Celestials work?"
>Can Suika communicate with her miniatures over a distance?
>"Did you notice anything odd going on in there in the days before I showed up? Or hear about anything?"
>"Oh well. Any idea why there was a big void in your shrine?"
> "I might have broke a window in your shrine and climbed in only to find nothing. Literally."
> "Sure." Follow her on in.
> Tap on Sanae's shoulder to get her to wait a little while.
> Gesture at the left corridor. "Someone's on their way."
>Follow that fish!
>"And I appreciate it. Thanks!"
>Once Iku excuses herself, look to Sanae and say, "So, where's a good place to meet up?"
>"Yeah, I tend to find myself a long way away from it. In some field a ways from that shrine that Konngara and Kasen always seem to be around, the one with the evil room.
>"Heh. Yeah, hopefully we'll get this sorted out soon."
>Crawl into bed ourself.
>"Gah!"
>Oh, right...
>"Where are we?"
>Follow/be dragged along.
>"What is it?"
>Do Sanae's wings and such feel cursed or anything, as the feathers we made did?
> "Just curious, did you ever cough up those feathers you have there?"
>Look around.
>"This your shrine?"
>Sit up.
>Get up and have a look around. And out any windows.
>"Right then."
>Follow her out, then
> When we get outside look over our shoulder to see if the second floor windows are a void. Or broken.
>"Oh hey, your window's fixed. "
>Where does she seem to be going?
> Follow her. "Well that's good, because I didn't want to replace it."
>"Okay. You have a faster way to get there than flying, by any chance?"
>"Well, you're the expert here. You can't, say, open gaps, can you?"
>"Fine, cannon travel service"
>"Well, last time I tried anything like that around here, I kind of got cursed feathers that I ended up coughing up later."
>"I've been meaning to ask you, how come you didn't end up cursed when you did your wingly thing there?"
>"Wow. Okay."
>Have a seat. Push off when it is time.
>Prepare to use Sanae to break our fall, then.
>"You okay?"
>"You rather have me crash into you feet first at that speed?"
>"It's a bit of a walk, and'll be faster to fly."
>Take to the air and head for that tunnel.
>Head inside and to the end.
> Wait, hold on a sec.
> Turn and check on Sanae's forehead. "You all right?"
>"So, any idea what that is?"
> "What's the edge?"
> Catch up to her.
> "So any ideas?"
> "Then let's explore a bit." Start approaching the sphere.
> Look back at Sanae. How far have we travelled from her, and what is she doing?
> Is our intuition telling us anything?
> Sigh, and drift back to Sanae. "Hey, don't space out on me now. Any ideas on what we can do here?"
> Float in front of her, eye level so we're not looking down at her. "Hey. What's wrong? Uh, aside from landing on top of you?"
> Deadpan: "Don't hold back now. Tell me how you really feel."
>"Sanae, if I didn't care, I wouldn't be here. Yukari wants you, in her words, "removed from the picture". That's how she wants to fix this. The reason I'm asking you these things is despite all you said, you still know a whole lot more about this place than I do."
>"But you're right, I am putting a lot on your shoulders. I'm sorry, okay?"
>"Because I didn't feel like talking about that hag. I'm seriously considering sealing her away once we've got this solved, and just thinking about her right now makes me want to punch something."
>"There is another way she suggested, only it doesn't really fix everything, and it's just playing into her hands, which would be to force some poor kid to be my successor with the threat of the world collapsing if they don't do it. I'm not accepting that, either. I'm not even sure if it would work. Which is why we need to find a real solution, one that deals with everything, and doesn't involve smashing up everything you've done here."
>"How I feel is kinda complicated right now, and that's also Yukari's fault. But one thing I'm not gonna do is force someone else into it. When I get a successor, it'll be someone who came to me of their own will, on a nice day where there's no incidents. There's not gonna be any coercion like Yukari wants, that I promise."
>"There's another way. Yukari later went on to admit she barely even knew what was happening here. She's just trying to force what she wants."
>"Because Yukari had just gotten done gloating about manipulating my entire life, then trying to lie to me about caring one bit about me a moment later. Follow that with a lifetime of experience with the horrible old hag. And there's the part where she stole my orb, and those shards. And removed the sleeve thing when I called her out on what her priorities really were. She wants to come out of this ahead on her terms, and doesn't care for solutions that don't benefit her. Alright?"
>"If I were spiting her, I'd be busy burning down her home and sealing her familiars away. No, I'm doing this because it's the only way that's acceptable. I'm not doing anything to you, and I'm not kidnapping some kid and forcing them to dedicate themselves to this."
>"I think at this point, we just need to deal with the collision to keep it from making things any more worse. Then we'll have to figure out all the rest. Iku raised a good point, we'll have to put ourselves back into our proper point in time, too, and nothing anyone has thought of will handle that. Which is why I sent Marisa off to talk with Keine, since she's about the only person I know of that can do anything about that."
> Wait for Sanae to calm down.
> Satori's not going to be impressed with us making Sanae cry. Again.
>Refrain from saying this is exactly why we don't want to force anyone into this position.
>Instead, follow her toward the sphere.
>Examine the edge of the sphere.
>Does it seem safe to touch?
>Can we sense anything from it?
>"Feels dangerous to touch..."
> "Did you create this too? It's impressive."
>Glance back. Let's see what the place Sanae made looks like.
>"So, originally that tunnel connected to the other side of your world, right? And none of this was here?"
>"So I think the question is, did that loop break, or did this insert itself between the loop somehow?"
> "Any ideas on how to restore the loop?"
>"Wonder where the other side of the loop goes?"
>"Wanna find out?"
>"I wonder if this is Gensokyo?"
>Let's start back toward Sanae's world.
> Talk while flying. "So when your world bumped into Gensokyo, it cut off the loop... and it bumped Gensokyo into the future. Not sure how we'll be able to use this, but at least we can see what happened for ourselves."
>"Well, for one thing, it felt dangerous to touch. The other thing is, we'd need to engineer some way to keep them from colliding again.
>Look around the void. Do we see anything that strikes as the aftermath of any kind of collision? Do either of the spheres seem to bear any kind of markings or damage?
> "Chalk it up to you being a great goddess and me being a lowly shrine maiden, then. Unless you're volunteering to stand in between those two for the rest of eternity, we should probably work up a better solution."
>Thinking on it, didn't we see roads kinda like this in the lunar capital?
>"I wonder if it was a real collision, or more like their auras got in each other's way? Neither of them looked damaged to me, or felt that way."
>"What kind of carts work on these roads, anyways? Seems like you could really get a horse going, but it'd be hard on his hooves."
>"Oh. Okay. I was going to try to see if I could maybe make something to get us to the other side faster."
>"Where this whole thing is supposed to loop around to."
>"Oh! It sounded like it looped to the other side of the world. Huh. Are there any other tunnels like that?"
>"Wonder if they all lead out there now?"
>"Mmm. I think I know who we need to ask for help. We ought to find Eirin."
>"Because she's supposed to be a great sage. And, if I recall right, had a spell or charm or something that was able to seal Gensokyo away from the moon. It was just a little bit before you guys first came here. So, I'm thinking she probably would have some idea how all this works."
>"I am not sure how much she even knows about the situation. But, if we find her here and let her know she's dreaming..."
> "And if she doesn't, I still have a few other ideas. Keine, Yuuka, some winged sisters..."
>"What've you got planned?"
>Don't sound accusative, just inquisitive.
>"Any easy way I can find you if I need you? We looked at what I really wanted you to, so I won't drag you around if you don't want to. At least not until something comes up."
> Shout out at her back. "Hey! One last thing! Where's your Keine at?"
> "... Thanks."
> Well. Let's head to that village we saw Orin and Okuu at.
>Have a look around. Do things seem to be normal, more or less?
>Try to recall what we can about the layout of this place.
>Do we recognize anything here?
> Let's search for some kind of concentration of people. There's got to be someone around here.
>Do the shadowy figures seem to be doing anything that would suggest daily hustle and bustle?
>Keep going wandering and taking in the scenery. However, in addition to the things we've been looking for, keep an eye open for a shadowy figure that strikes us as interesting or unusual.
>Approach the next one we see that isn't disappearing into a house, and try to whisper "You're dreaming" into his or her ear; or roughly where their ear would be.
>"Oh well."
>How much of this place have we covered by now? Does anything seem familiar?
> Take a look. Is a storm brewing?
> Take one last look around for anyone resembling a not shadow before the... storm, we suppose, hits.
> Is there some sort of public building we can jump into?
>Let's head toward that cafe briskly, but not head inside quite yet. Is there an awning or some such we could stand under?
>Take shelter under the awning, and observe the storm for a moment. Does it seem to be perfectly mundane?
> Look inside the caf?.
>Let's head inside.
> Look around and through doors to see if we see anyone non-Shadowy.
>Do they seem to be eating shadowy food? Or nothing at all?
>Find a shadow dining alone, and when he or she is not attending to their drink, pick it up and move it. See if they react to this.
> So we can interact with them, but they don't notice. Hm.
>Move it again, but this time put it out of reach.
>Focus on that something!
> If we can't see it from here, then exit the store to take a closer look.
>Was that there before?
>Leave the cafe and get a closer look at it. Do we feel anything from it?
>Those dandelions! It must be the work of Yuuka!
> Commit the drawing to memory. We should redraw it when we wake up.
>Touch one of the wings. Let's say upper right?
>No you fool, that's not Yuuka! These are dandelions telling us to never give up and pierce the heavens with our gohei!
>Trace a finger along the drawing. Try to concentrate and see if we can determine anything mystical about it. Maybe also see if we can determine what it feels like.
>Do the sparks hurt? Do they feel good? Familiar? Can we determine anything about them.
> Remember the distinct sensations each part of the drawing gives us.
> Examine the dandelions.We know you're up to no good!
>Can we tie that popping sensation to anything else we've experienced?
>Do the wings strike us as familiar at all? In the sense of someone having them, or them being a recurring motif in a thing we are familiar with, or something else?
> What's the situation with Makai currently? Is it still connected to Gensokyo?
>Whatever happened to Sariel, anyways? What was her deal?
>Does it feel like we could interact with any of the sensations on this drawing, mystically speaking?
> Dust ourself off and fly back to the void. Let's take another look around.
>If we can, imagine ourself up a favorable tailwind to get there faster. If Sanae can do it...
>Also, any signs of that storm now? Let's try not to fly though that.
>Bring that wind under control, and swoop right into the tunnel.
>Into the void! Look around for anything that may have changed.
>Is this real life? Or is this just fantasy?
> If a gap were set here, in between the two spheres... just how big would it have to be?
>If it were that massive, how far away would we have to be to see it? And how long would it take us to get that far away?
>Let's fly out away from the spheres a bit; imagine another favorable headwind to assist with this.
>Can we see them both at once in our field of vision? If so, what do we see?
>Also what is in the other directions, including below and above?
>Any interesting patterns in those stars?
>Is there any sort of motion out here, particularly between the spheres, now that we're far enough away to compare them both?
>"What a boring void."
>Imagine up another wind to aid us in flying back toward Sanae's world. A real sirocco this time; let it go nuts until we get close enough that we need to start worrying about breaking.
>Head back through the tunnel, and assess things once we emerge from it.
>Mmm. Let's try to step this imagination game up a bit.
>Try to picture and conjure a crow sitting on the ground in front of us.
>"Alright. Can you understand me? Just bob your head twice. Or talk, I guess, if you can do that."
>"Okay, good. Now I want you to do something to surprise me. But nothing violent!"
>"Well...that's something. Okay, now it's business time. I want you to turn and point your beak in the direction Sanae is."
>"Good job! Now, I have another job for you. Can you point toward where Keine is?"
>"Is she not here? Bob your head three times, if that's the case."
> Well. That explains it...? No it doesn't, not at all!
> "How about Konngara?" Let's see if it's just Keine missing.
>"Try to point your beak toward Konngara, please. Give me two head bobs if you can't."
>"Good job!"
>Let's run this process through a few more names, praising it when it can find them. Eirin, Yuuka, Tamiko, Gengetsu, Mugetsu.
>Let's try our father's name next. Prepare for another screech.
> "Can you write? Uh ... by ... scratching it into the ground, or something?"
>"Write your answer to that last question in the ground, if you can."
>"Heh, okay. Now, I want you to point your beak toward the Dragon God."
>Prepare for another screech.
>"Okay. Point your beak in the direction of Yukari."
>Prepare for another screech.
>"Are you saying she's everywhere? Bob your head three times if that's right, once if it's not."
> "Is she here but you just don't know where she is? Bob three times if that's right and once if it's not."
> "Huh. Well I'll be..."
> Turn away from Compass the Crow, and let's open up a gap the same way Ran did to Yukari's gapspace.
> Ow. Peek inside the tear.
>Give our senses a moment to clear up.
>Then turn to Compass and say, "I would like you to point your beak toward Kanako Yasaka, please. Bob your head three times if you can't."
>Prepare for another shriek.
>Let's take a moment and focus ourself, and try to get into a calm and focuses mindset. Then will that gap to widen.
>Take a breather, and see if we can coax that pain away a bit. Also check our progress.
>Improvement!
>Center ourself again, and prepare ahead of time to fight off the pain, then get back to opening that gap.
>How high off the ground is it?
>Okay, we can fit through that. Hover on through.
>Look around.
>Does this look anything like the place that we came to before with Ran? Is there a floor?
>Do we see anything that resembles anything like a landmark or point of interest, or is it all just undifferentiated eyevoid?
>Is our intuition telling us anything?
>Ask Kasen to punch the void.