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towerofanimus2013-05-15 01:54 pm
witchoftheweek) wrote in towerofanimus2013-05-15 01:54 pm
first ☾do we fly heavily with the weight of what we know?
Characters: Patchouli Knowledge and OPEN
Setting: Dorms, Floor 5, Floor 12, and Floor 19.
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match you!
Summary: Patchouli wakes and begins her investigation into the Tower.
Warnings: Interrupting her at her research might get you a side of snark, but otherwise, there shouldn't be any!
Dorms:
Patchouli can be found making her quiet way through the dorm floors going to or from room 3-11. She's not one for conversation; she never has been, and she's certainly not used to living in such a small space. She's just going to do her best to pass through quietly. No smiles from this librarian - she's not mean, she's just not entirely sure how to start a conversation.
Floor 5:
The question that's been on Patchouli's mind since her initial arrival in the Tower has been 'how did they get past the Hakurei Barrier?' It wouldn't be willingly, she knows that. Gensokyo is too well-protected. The Youkai of Borders and the Hakurei miko may appear lazy to the outside observer, but Patchouli knows that on the matter of protecting the border, there's no trace of that laziness.
She has to know, then: is it true? Has the border truly been breached?
So she's here, at one of the viewing stations, having found a notebook and a pen. There is no trace of emotion on her face as she intently studies the landscape before her. She recognizes everything she sees, if not by sight, then by description. Everything, from the Myouren Temple to the Moriya Shrine, down to the Underworld, back up to the Garden of the Sun, to Eientei, to the Forest of Magic, to the Hakurei Shrine...and then there is a flicker of emotion on her face when she inspects the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It's almost unreadable, but it's there.
She's silent when she finishes her inspection, the only sound in the room that of the pen moving rapidly over the paper as she writes.
Floor 12:
Her previous expedition has raised more questions than it answered, and so - with no small measure of gratitude that she can fly on the stairs - Patchouli has come to the second floor that promises some explanation of what's happened.
She has to give them credit; the illusion of being in space is a good one, and she will give that small credit where it is due.
Then the show begins, and she watches. She could map the stars if she wanted, and determine exactly where in the worlds the planet she's watching actually is, but that isn't the important thing. No, the important thing is the process. It's over as soon as it begins, and Patchouli watches, eyes tracking every point of light in that beam.
She stays for a while, watching. Tracking, taking notes, and trying to process.
Floor 19:
Of course, the library is the end point of this particular journey. Patchouli will even do her best to keep her disdain at a minimum. Nothing will ever equal the great library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion; it's her pride and her joy, and to her, it would take something on the scale of the library at Alexandria to even begin to draw a favorable comparison.
But it's a library nonetheless, and she begins to wander the shelves. She's almost perfectly silent as she does. Missing sections in a library are simply unforgivable, however, and they get a "Tch. Sloppy work." as she approaches each of them.
Still, it's not long until she has a pile of books and a table claimed, and her notes out. It's too early to say much, but she would be remiss if she didn't at least begin to work.
Setting: Dorms, Floor 5, Floor 12, and Floor 19.
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match you!
Summary: Patchouli wakes and begins her investigation into the Tower.
Warnings: Interrupting her at her research might get you a side of snark, but otherwise, there shouldn't be any!
Dorms:
Patchouli can be found making her quiet way through the dorm floors going to or from room 3-11. She's not one for conversation; she never has been, and she's certainly not used to living in such a small space. She's just going to do her best to pass through quietly. No smiles from this librarian - she's not mean, she's just not entirely sure how to start a conversation.
Floor 5:
The question that's been on Patchouli's mind since her initial arrival in the Tower has been 'how did they get past the Hakurei Barrier?' It wouldn't be willingly, she knows that. Gensokyo is too well-protected. The Youkai of Borders and the Hakurei miko may appear lazy to the outside observer, but Patchouli knows that on the matter of protecting the border, there's no trace of that laziness.
She has to know, then: is it true? Has the border truly been breached?
So she's here, at one of the viewing stations, having found a notebook and a pen. There is no trace of emotion on her face as she intently studies the landscape before her. She recognizes everything she sees, if not by sight, then by description. Everything, from the Myouren Temple to the Moriya Shrine, down to the Underworld, back up to the Garden of the Sun, to Eientei, to the Forest of Magic, to the Hakurei Shrine...and then there is a flicker of emotion on her face when she inspects the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It's almost unreadable, but it's there.
She's silent when she finishes her inspection, the only sound in the room that of the pen moving rapidly over the paper as she writes.
Floor 12:
Her previous expedition has raised more questions than it answered, and so - with no small measure of gratitude that she can fly on the stairs - Patchouli has come to the second floor that promises some explanation of what's happened.
She has to give them credit; the illusion of being in space is a good one, and she will give that small credit where it is due.
Then the show begins, and she watches. She could map the stars if she wanted, and determine exactly where in the worlds the planet she's watching actually is, but that isn't the important thing. No, the important thing is the process. It's over as soon as it begins, and Patchouli watches, eyes tracking every point of light in that beam.
She stays for a while, watching. Tracking, taking notes, and trying to process.
Floor 19:
Of course, the library is the end point of this particular journey. Patchouli will even do her best to keep her disdain at a minimum. Nothing will ever equal the great library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion; it's her pride and her joy, and to her, it would take something on the scale of the library at Alexandria to even begin to draw a favorable comparison.
But it's a library nonetheless, and she begins to wander the shelves. She's almost perfectly silent as she does. Missing sections in a library are simply unforgivable, however, and they get a "Tch. Sloppy work." as she approaches each of them.
Still, it's not long until she has a pile of books and a table claimed, and her notes out. It's too early to say much, but she would be remiss if she didn't at least begin to work.
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gave up.]
I liked the Yama's cake analogy better.
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The Yama is here?
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[She hasn't gotten around to playing cast babysitter yet but she probably will soon.]
Flandre and the gatekeeper are probably the two I've seen around that should be the most concern to you.
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As it is, she simply nods.]
I'd feel a lot better knowing she was back at home, truth be told. If you're here, the balance of power is off at home. We need as much of it back there as we can get.
[Because let's be real: Patchouli is gonna eventually do enough research and testing theories that she feels confident that trying to organize the magical powerhouses from Gensokyo in an attempt to force open a portal will actually work
even though it won't, and she would like for there to be something to go back to. Keeping the balance helps with that.]...that certainly makes things a lot more serious. And potentially...hm.
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Potentially what? An explosion waiting to happen with Flandre?
[If there was one thing she hated doing, it was volunteering. But sadly, Reimu and Marisa were already slightly attached to the fiend.]
You mansion people take care of her blood needs and Marisa and I will make sure she doesn't have too much energy.
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That also goes without saying. She's already attached to you, and I believe we can handle the rest.
[Patchouli's face gets serious, and she pulls herself up to her full height and looks Reimu in the eye for what's coming next.]
Also, you should know this: I gave myself two days' worth of a head start to get some work done before I made my presence openly known. I found out something, and you should know it, too: there's some kind of youkai behind this entire place.
She made no secret of it; she doesn't care who knows she eats humans with magic powers. She does it to add them to her own, whatever they are. I don't have a proper bead on her yet, but give me time. I'll get you and the black-white the information you need.
Not that I'm not going to try and work out the details of a spell to get us all back home, because I am. But if it comes down to it...
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[It was all new to her, honestly. Mostly because she hadn't been paying attention at all. As usual.]
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I'll have to confirm with someone who's been here longer, but I think her name is Ruana. If Meiling has been paying attention at all, she can probably confirm it.
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Oh, right. That's the gatekeeper's name, isn't it?
I don't know much about this research stuff. Just point me where I need to go and that's that.
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[Patchouli nods.]
As soon as I have an idea of 'where', you'll have it.
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...that's the most dangerous thing, now that I think about it. She doesn't stand out. She looks entirely human. You wouldn't know her by looks alone, and I can't get a magic signature through the kind of pictures that they used. If it was one of the pictures from one of the crow tengu's cameras, there might be some chance of it, but not with these.
I never would have thought I would want one of those annoying tengu around, but right now, their ability to get in and out of places quickly and get a picture would really be useful. I'll just have to work around it.
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But then she remembered everything else she had to do here previously. It probably wasn't caused by this thing but who knew.
So she held out her hand.]
Give me something to write with.
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All right.
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Scribbling on the paper, she gave it some of her own magic so it glowed a bit before returning to normal. Then she passed both the pen and slip of paper over to Patchouli.]
Here. Fold that up, crumple it, whatever. But get that on the youkai and I'll know where she is whenever I want. It would be simple to seal her up after that.