>You are Yukari Yakumo. Your day has been awful and there is no sign of it improving.
>You are the youkai that stands at the threshold, old as civilization and a witness much of human and youkai history. Indeed, you have been a significant force during much of the latter. Your deeds are many: You have name charted the stars for youkai-kind, you have lead an invasion that shook both heaven and earth, even if it had ostensibly failed to conquer the moon. You have dwelt on the edge of human society, sometimes reaching out to influence it in small ways. However, there was a point when you realized that you had to make a decision, whether you wished to exert your power over all, dominate them, and rule openly (or fall in the attempt), or take a more relaxed role and live as you pleased. You chose the latter with little hesitation. You have watched both humans and youkai throughout history, as youkai took early control over the unseen parts of the world and were slowly driven further and further back as humanity grew in power, technology, and arrogance.
>Eventually, it became necessary to find a new place for the youkai to live, and you took an active role in helping to forge that place with the aid of the Hakurei bloodline and The Dragon itself. Now you watch over that land, serving as both a quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) guardian and observer of its ultimate fate. Already, it has challenged some of your wildest expectations, for both the land itself and its inhabitants...
>More mundanely, you dwell with your shikigami and dearest companion Ran, as well as her subordinate shikigami Chen in a modest fashion, enjoying each day as it comes. Despite your rather fearsome status, which you cultivated as carefully as you care to, you have some friends among others as well. As well, you have a number of rivals; well, something like rivals; that you covertly keep an eye on. However, for the most part, you are content to merely flummox them from time to time, when you pay them any mind, you didn?t get as far as you have by letting things stress you unnecessarily. Your true duty is to maintain the integrity of the barrier that separates Gensokyo from the rest of the world, and make certain that nothing untoward gets in. You?ve had mixed success with this, when you are fully honest with yourself...
>You spent a lovely day yesterday, conversing with Yuyuko, playing with Maribel, plotting a mahjong tournament, and frolicking with Ran. Then it all went downhill when you awoke and found yourself naked in an unfamiliar cavern, bereft of all your possesses, most notably the tools you use to hone and refine your abilities, save your bedsheet. Having little other option, you wrapped yourself in the bedsheet and taken to exploring. You discovered over things; an immense yawning chasm that terminates into darkness, strange roots that give you a bad feeling and physically harm you to touch, chambers of glass, a place filled with half-finished sculptures, and a place where the borders were about to collapse into themselves. Most notably, you've found that the borders here are very odd, rather akin to a pile of trash than proper borders, and ever swirling and difficult to properly prise for gaps. With some effort, you found one of your tools, which had been somehow split into intangible lights.
>Eventually, you found a gap to take you away from there, but you weren't able to hold it open long enough and fell between the borders, where you were displeased to note they were just as crude as they were elsewhere. Eventually finding your way out, you came to a seemingly-endless field of fluffy frond-like plants, eternally waving in the breeze. Above, the sky gave way to absolute nothingness, not even emptiness could exist in such a place. Finding the borders to be the same here as elsewhere, you wandered the fields, finding more of those horrible roots and eventually weaving a hat out of fronds to test how well they weave. You found a fold in the borders here, and followed it to find several gaps, after using is to strengthen the borders here a little. One gap leaves back to the caverns you awoke in, and another scattered and unusable. While going to investigate a third, you found a silver door in the middle of the plains while opened to a black emptiness that was home to a crystal mass large enough to rival a palace. Exploring it, and accidentally destroying it, you found a pool of fresh water, and a most interesting piece of what you've identified to be a raw building block of existence.
>Helping yourself to both, you made your way out and followed your way to another gap, which lead you back to Gensokyo! Or so it seemed, at least. You quickly found the food didn't nourish you, nor did it seem you could bring objects or people through it. Sadly, the latter realization occurred after you tried to lead Reimu and Ran through it, which lead to them vanishing entirely. With a heavy heart, you reentered the abyss and pressed on to another gap. Through it, you found a forest full of alien trees and devoid of any kind of anymore life. Exploring it, you soon discovered a strange gap within a pillar, and a border filled with sourceless music. Extracting and testing the former, you found it bought you to a tiny shrine in the middle of the forest, and shrunk you t a few inches in height. This affair was unprecedented, but thankfully reversible. The shrine was largely empty, and particularly lacking in sanctity, save for a strange sigil found in a tunnel leading from the basement. You found it held some notable power, but was incomplete. Then you noticed that it seemed to follow you, always moving while out of sight, but otherwise harmless. After a little experimentation, you found that the base of the shrine wasn't connected to the ground, and more experimenting revealed a chamber that was not aligned with the structure. Making creative use of a branch, you managed to get down to the chamber, finding a gap that took you to the top of a mountain. There, you found more music without a source, this one you were able to take with you. You have fused it with the other sourceless music to make a strange non-duet of the two.
>You are tired and hungry, mentally exhausted and finding it increasingly difficult to keep your composure. You have been considering options for rest.
> We don't really have the time (or the energy) to make something "creative" with the tools we have to make a makeshift bed, right?
> If not, pick a spot that seems comfortable enough and get to resting.
>Time and energy are both variable depending on what you intend to do. You certainly don't see the harm in taking the time to arrange for something better to sleep on than the dirt.
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