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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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It's not a stupid reason to challenge her to danmaku.
[She folds her arms over her chest and glares.]
I live the life I'm happy living. You know perfectly well that my health has never been good, and so going out constantly isn't something I can physically handle. Unless you're saying I should go over-exert myself and faint in the middle of a dangerous situation, which would be stupid.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah... boo hoo, I'm sick. [She rolls her eyes.] You're never gonna know how much better things are if you never try. Then again, you like letting life control you instead of the other way around, ze.
Guess that's what happens when you're afraid of adventure.
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If all you want to do is throw insults at me, then I don't have any more time to spend on you, rat. Believe it or not, I was in the middle of working when you decided to interrupt me, and I have better places to be.
[With that, she's going to turn around and head for the door.]
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Whatever. Don't go creating any castles because you decided to humor the vampire. You should know better.
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I did. I also stopped wanting to talk to you when it became evident that you wanted to do nothing more than insult me and twist my words around, for whatever reason. If you decide that you want to actually have a conversation, you're welcome to speak to me.
...I'd have talked sense into Remi, had she actually brought that up to me, but you wouldn't believe that anyway.
[Last chance, Marisa.]
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[And if calling it cake-land irritates the crap out of Patchy, all the better.]
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If you want to go around speaking as if you're the firefly youkai, I suppose that's your choice.
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