Wind Priestess Quest - Part 2: What has Tobe done.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I miss fighting Fairies and their blocked-aids. Speaking of Fairies, what's in Cirno's subconscious?"

>"Oh, her? I'm actually not sure. I never really bothered to look. I don't think there will be anything special, though. Most fairy subconsciouses tend to look the same anyway... Eh, I might as well look at it when I have time... Unless I space out and forget about this whole conversation before I do..."
>_

[WodofGar]

>I'm not sure if she would even remember something like that. Probably sounds like white noise anyway.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>I'm not sure if she would even remember something like that. Probably sounds like white noise anyway.

>You honestly doubt Koishi's ability to remember this conversation. But it's probably for the best.

>The three of you continue flying through the snow for several minutes.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"We're going to the entrance at Reimu's Shrine right?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"We're going to the entrance at Reimu's Shrine right?"

>"If, by that, you mean the way we came out of, then yes." Koishi replies, "Unless you're saying that Reimu's Shrine is directly liked to the underground, but I don't ever recall there being an entrance there... Maybe we should check it out just in-"
>"Hang on, stop for a second." Eirin suddenly interjects.
>Koishi immediately stops.
>_

[WodofGar]

>Eirin probably just realized how awesome an entrance to the underground under Eientei  would be. More business.

[Neovereign]

>Stop
>"What is it Eirin? Are there any annoying Yin Yang orbs. Pleease tell me there aren't any orbs."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Eirin probably just realized how awesome an entrance to the underground under Eientei  would be. More business.

>Yeah, that's totally it.

>Stop

>You stop.

>"What is it Eirin? Are there any annoying Yin Yang orbs. Pleease tell me there aren't any orbs."

>"Be quiet!" Eirin snaps, "Listen. Do you hear that?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>Listen, particularly for the horrible noise of spinning.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Listen, particularly for the horrible noise of spinning.

>You listen.
>You hear some sort of distant rumbling sound.
>_

[WodofGar]

>Listen
>"I vote earthquake, how about you?"

[Neovereign]

>Try to figure out where it's coming from. Direction-wise at least.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Listen

>You continue listening.

>"I vote earthquake, how about you?"

>"In the air?" Koishi asks, "That would be silly!"

>Try to figure out where it's coming from. Direction-wise at least.

>It seemed to have been coming from the direction you were flying towards.
>You hear the rumbling sound again. It seems closer now.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"It's definitely something coming this way. Just a thought, but maybe we should move."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"It's definitely something coming this way. Just a thought, but maybe we should move."

>As soon as you begin to say that. You see a bright flash, followed by a loud bang.
>"It's a thundersnow!" Eirin shout, "We need to lose altitude, NOW!"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"What in the-!?"
>Descend rapidly

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"What in the-!?"
>Descend rapidly

>The three of you begin to descend, however, as you do so, the wind picks up considerably, and the sound of thunder begins to reverberate around you.
>You find yourself loosing your grip on Koishi as a sudden, powerful updraft manages to push you upwards!
>"SANAE!" you hear Koishi scream through the wind!
>_

[Neovereign]

>Regain our posture as much as we can and try to locate Koishi and Eirin.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Regain our posture as much as we can and try to locate Koishi and Eirin.

>You manage to stabilize yourself in the air and begin searching for your companions.
>Within seconds, however, your hair begins to feel weird, as if all the strands are beginning to stand on end...
>_

[Neovereign]

>Try to Descend again.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Try to Descend again.

>You begin descending head-first towards the ground.
>You barely make it very far when you feel a red-hot, searing pain in your right foot. It's the most intense pain you've ever felt. Your vision goes white, as if engulfed by the light of the sun as the pain radiates outward, coursing over your entire body in an instant.

>And then everything goes black.

>...

>You awaken in a... rather odd place. You seem to be floating in a purple, void-like space. Two, endless walls of what appear to be reddish rock extend towards the "horizon," if this place had one, creating a seemingly endless corridor with no ceiling or floor. In the distance you see what appear to be stars and nebulae, but they appear to be way too distant to reach. You see several odd objects flying around, they resemble the yin-yang orbs, but lack the rings of orbitals. And instead of a solid sphere, they are instead some kind of eldritch, black and white, spherical mesh of what appears to be pulsating veins.
>You're definitely not in Kansas Gensokyo anymore...
>_

[WodofGar]

>Toto? Toto!?
>I've got no idea whether to call out or stay silent.
^{//Wish I got here earlier, totally would have miracle'd my way out of that.}

[Neovereign]

>"...?"
>Examine self. Are we still our normal, more-buxom-than-Reimu self? Did we lose anything?

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Toto? Toto!?

>*bark!*

>I've got no idea whether to call out or stay silent.

>"...?"

>You just sit there, utterly perplexed by your situation...

>Examine self. Are we still our normal, more-buxom-than-Reimu self? Did we lose anything?

>You check yourself.
>After a thorough examination, you determine that you're still your normal self, however, your winter attire is gone, and you are in your shrine maiden outfit.
>You rummage through your sleeves to check your inventory, and find that they're... empty!?!
>Well, not totally empty, you find your Gohei tucked in your left sleeve, but nothing else. Your sleeves seemed to have lost their hammerspace properties...
>You can't seem to find your spellcards.
>_

[WodofGar]

>Well, nothing better to do than start pokin' shit.
>Prod one of the weird veiny orbs. WITH THE GOHEI, mind you. Ain't touching this weird crap with me mandibles.
>Keep knocking.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Well, nothing better to do than start pokin' shit.
>Prod one of the weird veiny orbs. WITH THE GOHEI, mind you. Ain't touching this weird crap with me mandibles.

>You fly up to one of the black and white vein orbs and gently prod it with your gohei.
>It immediately lets out an eldritch hiss, contracts is entire body, and shifts its black and white pattern over its veins in such a way that it reminds you of clips of cuttlefish you've seen on nature documentaries that you watched when you used to live in the outside world. It then returns its body to its normal size and quickly flies into one of the rock walls.
>You watch as the orb melds itself into the wall and vanishes from sight.

>Keep knocking.

>Somehow, despite obviously not being in Gensokyo, you feel Reisen's gaze of disapproval.
>_

[WodofGar]

>This prompts further inspection.
>Poke the walls.

[Neovereign]

>Do a faith check

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>This prompts further inspection.
>Poke the walls.

>You fly up the the wall and prod it with the gohei.
>The wall seems to ripple from where it was poked. Within seconds, several red masses of arteries begin budding off from the wall.
>As the masses separate, the form into blood-red versions of the vein orbs. As soon as enough of them are formed, they begin moving towards you.

>Do a faith check

>You check your faith, and to your surprise, it's all gone! Which is very odd, considering that you should have enough to perform two small miracles.
>_

[WodofGar]

>Oh dear...
>I don't want to antagonize potentially thousands of unidentified orbs of what power I do not know, evasive action!