Reimu Quest (Part 2)

[日巫子]

> Climb back up to the bridge, see if that girl from earlier is still there.
> Say hi to her if the above is still true.

> You fly back up to the bridge.  Sure enough the towel girl is leaning on the bridge, looking over the edge into the space below.
> When you greet her, she hops away from the edge and holds the towel in her arms.
> "Hi red-white," she says.  Her gaze flickers back to the edge of the bridge.

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[Third Eye Lem]

> "Hi, you seem to be in good spirits. Can you tell me your name?"

[日巫子]

> "Hi, you seem to be in good spirits. Can you tell me your name?"

> The towel girl spreads her arms wide and does a little curtsy.
> "I'm Rumia," she says, and giggles.  "Do you have a name?"

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[Third Eye Lem]

_{shit it's her}

> Play coy, she may or may not remember us.
> "Uh, yes, it's Rei."
> Does she still have her ribbon on?

[日巫子]

> Play coy, she may or may not remember us.
> "Uh, yes, it's Rei."
> Does she still have her ribbon on?

> You introduce yourself to Rumia.
> "Okay, Rei!"  This accidental rhyme makes her giggle again.
> Of course she's wearing her ribbon.  It's fancier than you remember, but it's not like you got a good look at it when you first saw her.

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[Third Eye Lem]

Didn't Parsee say she got washed down here earlier?

[Hello Purvis]

Why are we lying about our name to Rumia? Or even a little bit worried about her?

[Third Eye Lem]

Eh, slight paranoia. I didn't want her stalking us while we're in the middle of an incident.

[Hello Purvis]

Why worry about it? It's like being slightly concerned a fly is following you. If Rumia's a problem, as far as Reimu would be concerned, we one shot her and move on.

>"So, you okay down here?"

[日巫子]

>"So, you okay down here?"

> "I live here," Rumia says.  "There's no light, and I get free food.  It's pretty neat!"

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[Hello Purvis]

>"Huh, perfect match, then. Uh, keep dry."
>Head back to the surface!

[日巫子]

>"Huh, perfect match, then. Uh, keep dry."
>Head back to the surface!

> "Bye, Rei!"
> Rumia waves to you as you leave.
> Heading back up the tunnel to the surface, you emerge and find that it has grown a little darker out.  You think you still have some hours of daylight left, though.  The abnormalities of the sky are still completely visible.

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[Hello Purvis]

So, sky crack or SDM?

I'm thinking the former.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>is the Crack or the SDM closer to our present location?

[日巫子]

>is the Crack or the SDM closer to our present location?

> You imagine it'd take less time to get to the SDM before nightfall.  The crack looks like it's pretty high up.

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[Third Eye Lem]

I'm voting for the SDM, personally.

[O4rfish]

Maybe we should go to our shrine and sleep.

[Hello Purvis]

>Does the crack appear to be within our flight window, or does it seem too high to reach?
>Also start on that pot roast before it gets too cold.

Reimu tends to pull all nighters when incidents happen. I think we can probably push it for some time yet.

[日巫子]

>Does the crack appear to be within our flight window, or does it seem too high to reach?
>Also start on that pot roast before it gets too cold.

> You should be able to make it.  It's not like you're going into the stratosphere or something.
> As you're contemplating, you take a seat and start eating the pot roast.  Within minutes half of it is gone.  You didn't realize how hungry you were.

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[Hello Purvis]

I am thinking that visiting the crack first is a good idea also because we can then ask Patchouli about it afterward with less backtracking involved.

[Yaersulf]

I have to agree with Purvis, we should be going after the cause of the incident before fixing its symptoms.

[Hello Purvis]

>We're fortified with vitamin Meat, let's head toward that sky crack.

[日巫子]

>We're fortified with vitamin Meat, let's head toward that sky crack.

> You scarf down the rest of your pot roast and take to the skies.
> You've been swimming so much today that you're immensely relieved to be back in the air.  Despite everything it's still just a summer day, and you feel dry and warm within minutes.  The breeze is cool and pleasant, and you are alone: there are no birds up this high.
> Now that you're closer to the sky crack, it's easier to see the extent of the damage.  Smaller veins that you didn't see before spread away from the impact site, which sports a gaping hole.  Inside is nothing but darkness.  The sky around it is jagged like glass, as if something blunt struck it, or was thrown through it.  You haven't quite reached it yet, though.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Have we ever seen anything like this before? Does it bear resemblance to Yukari's gaps or the road to Makai or any other trans-spatial things we have encountered?
>Does the crack look more like a fissure that could be closed, in theory, or like a broken window that is missing parts of itself?

[O4rfish]

>Someone broke a hole in the sky.
>Suspect an oni.
>How close are we to Bhava Agra?

[日巫子]

>Have we ever seen anything like this before? Does it bear resemblance to Yukari's gaps or the road to Makai or any other trans-spatial things we have encountered?
>Does the crack look more like a fissure that could be closed, in theory, or like a broken window that is missing parts of itself?

> It doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before.
> To you, it looks more like it was smashed rather than torn apart.  Hypothetically, if something did crash through it, it would have to be huge, because you think you could fit a few dozen shrines in the opening.

>Someone broke a hole in the sky.
>Suspect an oni.
>How close are we to Bhava Agra?

> You internally blame the oni for this.  Who would do this, and why?
> You could stand to fly up higher.  The last time you went to Bhava-Agra you took the Youkai Mountain route, but in reality you just need to leave the troposphere to reach the lowest levels.  Somehow, the celestials are able to sustain themselves outside of the biosphere.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Let's try to get closer.

[日巫子]

>Let's try to get closer.

> You fly a little closer to the crack.  Nothing pops out at you, nor do you get sucked in, but the air around the crack gradually gets colder until you feel like it's the middle of winter rather than summer.
> You are now floating close enough to the crack that you could probably shoot some danmaku through it if you really wanted to.  You have a clear view of the darkness, too.

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[Third Eye Lem]

> Trigger a Bad End by flying through the crack and getting sucked out into space.
> Can we sense around for anything unusual with our intuition powers?

[日巫子]

> Trigger a Bad End by flying through the crack and getting sucked out into space.
> Can we sense around for anything unusual with our intuition powers?

> See you next phantasm!
> There's an enormous amount of energy coming from this area.  Staring into the cold, black emptiness gives you the feeling that you are standing on a threshold.  It is a threshold that leads somewhere frightening and unknown.  Between the chills it gives you and the actual cold in the air, this is no comforting thought.
> Of course, this is all just intuition.

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