Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Patchouli's Scarlet Library => Topic started by: Tengukami on June 01, 2016, 01:31:33 PM
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Sunday, late afternoon:
- Kappas. Why do they try and act so coy and adorable when they suck out people's souls? Details on the matter to disgusting to print.
- Fried eel does not actually cure blindness. But maybe it cures something else. Shingles? Dandruff? Better talk to Eirin. Eirin unwilling to talk.
- Reimu is planning a surprise party! Hakurei Shrine vandalized by fairies (fairies had an alibi - suspect unknown) with colored streamers of paper. Melted away in the rain. Oh well.
- Who can drink more, oni or tengu? May investigate further when hangover wears off.
- Kaguya's exhibition of Lunarian artifacts is soooo boring.
- Sanae spotted breaking up a fight victim of "monkey in the middle" game between Suwako and Kanako. Frog hairclip still missing... Eh. Who cares?
- Thoughtography is real really difficult impossible, Hatate is lying possibly disturbed desperate for attention. So what else is new.
- How well can Marisa take a joke? We woke her up with a bucket of ice cold water and what happens next will SURPRISE YOU! comes as absolutely no surprise to anyone. Think I'll spend today in bed.
- Steal something a weird kind of clock from Kourindou, wait for Rinnosuke to throw tantrum. UPDATE: Doesn't seem to realize anything is missing from his store. Good to know.
- BREAKING: Misty Lake undergoing strange "grassification" effect nothing. Must explain to Cirno what algae is.
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Nice.
Now to wait for the the narrative to emerge.
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- Field testing fried eel for past week. No noticeable changes in health.
Maybe you have to wear it on your face overnight Face now greasy, smells like eels.
- Drink-off between tengu and oni. Found a few of each willing. But what to drink? Options: beer, sake, wine, barley whisky. Whisky in question toxic, causes blindness in frogs.
- Cirno shocked, outrage over mysterious rash of blind frogs.
- Kaguya sent her third messenger rabbit this week asking about an article on her Lunarian stuff. May have to write something after all. Possible angles include:
-- World's Ugliest Flag spotted at Eientei
-- See drawings of clothing pathetically weak humans need to walk on the Moon.
-- Moon peaches or Earth peaches - which tastes better? All the peach trees in Gensokyo are dead. Story? (Can anyone get peaches anywhere else? Who? Where?)
- NEW feature section for paper. Should be investigative articles more interviews gossip. About who*?
- Talk to Suwako/Kanako about monkey-in-the-middle game with Sanae. Wow, "no comment" would have been fine. So rude. Now face smells of eel and frog.
- Surveillance of Sanae and co. ongoing. Sanae still unable to locate missing frog hairclip. REMINDER: Put frog hairclip in conspicuous place near Suwako/Kanako.
* Suwako, clearly jealous of Sanae's accessories.
- Hakurei Shrine hit by streamer bandit again! This is BIG!! R.H. says she has bigger story, will disclose in exchange for squashing this story. This better be good.
- Why would people make a clock that doesn't even work? Maybe ask Rinnosuke how to use it Maybe not a good idea.
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Aya's laughing now, but when the runoff from the kappa farms causes an algae bloom that destroys the lake ecosystem.
Maybe the blind fogs will cushion the blow
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Ugliest Flag is going to get Aya a Bonus-Kun style visit from a certain faerie.
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Thursday(?), Friday at the latest -
- Night sparrow in a state of panic: eels mysteriously disappear gonna have to work on this one. M. deserves a comeuppance.
- Still trying to piece together events of drinking contest. Especially who won. What I can remember:
-- We had sake.
-- I have a large bruise on my forehead. Did I fall or was I punched? Neither, see below.
-- Tengu got a little out of hand. At least I suppose based on how many feathers were strewn around the area.
-- Oni half my size are capable of throwing a tengu a considerable distance.
- "Synchronized mochi pounding." Is that a thing? Kaguya must really want coverage. Probably going to be boring as hell but it'll get her off my back OK that was actually pretty amazing.
- Trap sprung! Sanae found her hairclip. Headline?
-- Schism on Mt Youkai
-- Frog Versus Snake
-- This shrine maiden lost her hairclip. What she does when she found it left me SPEECHLESS
-- Rumble in the Jungle YES!!! Someone already used that.
-- ??? Wow, I'm stumped. Stupid drinking contest.
- RH's big story is actually pretty big! Requires some preparation. Still need some kind of disguise. Human maybe? definitely!
- The kappa says she can do something interesting with Rinnosuke's broken clock. Believe that when I see it.
- Still no word about the peaches. Now I'm craving peaches.
- Ice Fairy distraught over blind frogs Well apparently alcohol blindness wears off in frogs. Why do all my best stories turn against me? Must amend this.
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I laughed much more than I should have at the clickbait headline.
The peaches thing threatens to be interesting, it seems so random. Hypothesis: It connects to the results of the drinking contest.
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I forget, was it you or Purvis that did something similar with telling a story through a series of notes a few years ago? I remember loving it.
Between the clickbait and the mysteries, this is highly entertaining.
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That was me. Ammy even gave me a nice little note telling me about this story and how I helped inspire it.
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Monday -
Very stressed about Print Week. None of these stories are coming together, and I barely have the time to even make news happen. What do we have?
- Night Sparrow Flies Into Mysterious Net Made Of Stinging Nettles (The photos alone make this worth it. Running this.)
- Oni v. Tengu Drinking Match: Who Has The Stronger Stomach? (No one seems to remember anything about that night. Very ominous.)
- Synchronized Mochi Pounding IN PHOTOS (Moon Princess is demanding I make rabbits sign release forms. Check what a "release form" is. Found it. Wow, she must be crazy. Since when does it matter if people or rabbits want to be photographed??)
- Moriya Shrine IN TURMOIL Over Hairclipgate (Curses! They all had tea together and made up already. Someone's got to put a stop to that.)
What I don't have and would still really like to have:
- Reimu's giant story. Can't run this before I get the photos I need. Must find a way into the Netherworld without being seen.
- Kappa's re-imagining of Rinnosuke's clock. Either/or on this one really. We'll see.
- WHERE ARE ALL THE PEACHES?? Am I going to have to recruit Little Miss Ponytails for this one? I sure hope not, but I might have to.
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Refined Hypothesis: Yuyuko was at the drinking contest, thus peaches.
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Wednesday -
DEFINITELY going in:
- Mystia stuck in a net of stinging nettles (gallery of photos, especially the ones where she's crying).
- Mochi Pounding Madness. I hope I never have to convince 100 rabbits to sign photo release forms ever again. Going to go back to candid/secret photography.
- Nitori said she will come by today to show me what the clock can do, and that I will not be disappointed. So disappointed. Apparently not a clock; it's called a "timer". Just a fancy hourglass with numbers instead of sand and makes a terrible noise. Who would use this? Why?
- Tengu v. Oni Drinking Contest Ends In Disaster - Witnesses Desperately Needed
STILL NEEDS to go in:
- Investigating the great peach wipe-out, by myself. No, I actually need Ponytail's help with this. Ugh.
- Trip to the Netherworld! It'll be like a vacation! Only dark. And miserable.
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Slowly becoming Welcome to Nightvale. Excellent.
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I can hardly wait to see how these stories develop!
Hopefully NOT in a complete disaster!
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Is this story still alive? I was enjoying it :(