The Pretty Pink/Hot Springs/Giant Robot Episode

[11:05] <GMingPenguin> In the backIn the back of her neck Haiiro can feel a strange sensation.
[11:05] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout)
[11:05] <GMingPenguin> Feels like there's something wrong out there in creation.
[11:06] <GMingPenguin> Someone out there is in an off-colored situation!
[11:06] <Honoo-Haiiro> Someone must be incredibly dull. It might be poisonous or contagious.
[11:06] <Honoo-Haiiro> ...Or, that. Either way, it's not to be ignored, and as usual, Haiiro brings along a slightly remodelled Honoo, and they set off!
[11:08] <GMingPenguin> Haiiro's color sense lets her feel a slight cry of a soul in distress, someone known to Haiiro...
[11:09] <Honoo-Haiiro> Oh, ho? Certainly, full speed ahead. She has White Wind on by default for that reason!
[11:11] <GMingPenguin> Her sense leads her in a directon she has been before, and as the sun peeks above the eastern shrine and slaps its bright rays down on the world Haiiro recognizes that the color emergency is coming from Anegumo's hou-hole.
[11:13] <Honoo-Haiiro> ...Ah, Anegumo in danger? ...She gets in danger?
[11:13] <Honoo-Haiiro> ...Ah well. Better peek inside. Knocking is for chumps.
[11:14] * Ginkyo ([email protected]) has joined #Gensokyo
[11:14] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo's sisters somehow got a taste of the berries from the patch once visited by the party, long long ago (must be a week or two now), and sent Ginkyo on an over-night trip to that patch.
[11:15] <GMingPenguin> In the wee hours of the morning, as the world slowly lights up, Ginkyo's eye is caught by a shooting star. Ah, how beautiful~
[11:15] <GMingPenguin> Wait, no, that's just Honoo.
[11:15] * Ginkyo waves as she flies by
[11:16] <Honoo-Haiiro> She enjoys flying around at night. Even if it's much colder at night, she stands out more. She waves back, and continues along~
[11:16] <GMingPenguin> A just-as-bright-but-not-on-fire Haiiro is next to Honoo.
[11:17] * Ginkyo shifts into a fox and runs along with Daimofujin&Co about their business
[11:17] <Anegumo> the area around her tree seems to have less recent webs around it; and the supply of coccoons hanging from the tree seems to have dwindled to nothing.
[11:18] <Honoo-Haiiro> Now Haiiro may or may not be up at these hours normally. When she's outside, she's doing something. Today, it'd be...breaking in someone's house eventually on nothing but a strange feeling.
[11:19] <GMingPenguin> Indeed, the most notable thing about Anegumo's tree is that it is quite unkempt. Spider wbs tend to fall apart quickly if they are not maintained daily. The second notable thing is a humanoid moth twitching her wait out of a web in the branches of the tree, clad in aviator's hat and a teal skit.
[11:19] <GMingPenguin> Skirt.
[11:19] <GMingPenguin> Enter the Trissi.
[11:19] * Trissi is stuck, also a moth. "Aaaahhh! Not this! Whyyyy~! pleasehelpmei'llneverflyagain."
[11:21] <Anegumo> The webs seem to feebly try to ensnare her, but Trissi's flailing seems to be doing more for keeping her in her webs than the seemingly sentient strands
[11:22] <Honoo-Haiiro> "Yeah, she kinda does that. Gets people caught into webs. And eats them."
[11:22] * Trissi probably could escape, but it too busy FLIPPING OUT IM GONNA GET EATEN. "AAaaaanybody!!"
[11:24] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo can hear the moth flipping out, even if only slightly.
[11:26] <Honoo-Haiiro> "...But you're not all too stuck, and if I helped I'd look like I'm cheating her out of a meal for the thousandth time. I'd kinda feel bad!" Was this the source of the feeling?
[11:26] <GMingPenguin> Nope! The feeling comes from the depths of the tree!
[11:27] * Ginkyo hears something about "meal"s and wanders on by, reverting to humanoid form
[11:27] <Ginkyo> "Oooh, so this is where you live."
[11:27] * Ginkyo looks at Anegumo's tree
[11:27] * Trissi calms down a bit to see some other people, "Wh.. wha.. Heey help me! Hey you down there!"
[11:28] <Anegumo> Anegumo is seemingly nowhere to be seen, but her threads are still pulling at the moth in her tree
[11:30] <Anegumo> Suddenly the threads losen their grip on the moth, and you hear a muffled loud shout from below, "GO AWAY!"
[11:30] <Honoo-Haiiro> "Sorry! Someone else will probably help, I've got something to investigate anyway~" She ignores the moth in distress for the time being, leaving it to Ginkyo, as she follows her heart to the distress call. The plea to 'GO AWAY' makes her move faster. In the same direction.
[11:30] * Ginkyo shrugs and wanders off from the rather forceful "GO AWAY!," back to her original (delicious) errand
[11:31] * Trissi falls, flying at a downward angle toward the group and dragging the rest of the web with her.. "Aaaa!AHAHA! IM FREE"
[11:31] <Anegumo> its not really a forceful go away as it is a pleading, almost worried one.
[11:32] <GMingPenguin> Trissi lands on top of Daimofujin, and gets them both entangled in the web.
[11:33] * Ginkyo grabs Daimofujin and drags him along, undeterred from her errand
[11:33] <GMingPenguin> Immediately Daimofujin's fluffy army springs to the defense of their fearless leader, and snuggle-attacks Trissi.
[11:34] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) has joined #Gensokyo
[11:34] * Ginkyo marches along in a rather cavalier manner as Daimofujin struggles and whines from multiple attackers and an uncaring master
[11:35] <GMingPenguin> Haiiro descends into the darkness of Anegumo's cave.
[11:35] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo, meanwhile, almost literally runs into a face she recognizes immediately.
[11:35] * Honoo-Haiiro ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout)
[11:36] <Haiiro-Honoo> Honoo is dragged along. Her new dress helps her shine brightly, along with everything else.
[11:36] <GMingPenguin> Inubashiri Momiji, the leader of the Tengu Patrol, armed withs word, shield, bow, and quiver.
[11:37] <GMingPenguin> She stands with her sword held across her shoulders and her shield at her side, while four Wolf Tengu stand slightly behind her, two men and two women, each one armed in the same manner.
[11:37] <GMingPenguin> For some reason, each of the five seem to be wearing black sunglasses.
[11:37] <Anegumo> "IIEEEEE!" a scream is heard as Haiiro attempts ot enter her home. she may have a door now...but there is no lock.
[11:37] <Haiiro-Honoo> KNOCKING IS FOR CHUMPS. Of course, she has more respect for Anegumo than to kick down the door, so she just carelessly opens it.
[11:38] * Ginkyo sweats slightly as she sees the star of the Tengu patrol suddenly in front of her
[11:38] <Anegumo> a big spiderweb blocks haiiro's path! ...but its still just a spiderweb.
[11:39] * Ginkyo 's awkward position as an adopted Tengu with her contrasting identity as a five-tail kitsune make official meetings with Tengu awkward, despite how reasonable Momiji seems
[11:39] <GMingPenguin> "Urasenke-no-zenko?" Momiji asks, though it's more of a statement.
[11:39] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro feels like she's in the Deku Tree.
[11:39] <Haiiro-Honoo> Honoo acts like she's in the Deku Tree!
[11:40] * Ginkyo freezes, unable to withdraw unseen
[11:40] <Haiiro-Honoo> By which, one means 'set fire to the web'. Honoo can control flames, so she can avoid setting her tree on fire with some more effort.
[11:40] * Ginkyo gives a bow
[11:40] <Ginkyo> "Yes, Miss Inubashiri? How may I serve you, on behalf of my house [of the Silver Tower]?"
[11:41] <GMingPenguin> Trissi attempts to escape, but what she ends up doing instead is heaving herself head over heals and getting the rest of Ginkyo's, ah, entourage, tied up in the spiderweb.
[11:41] * Trissi tries to get out of the clump of web that she valiantly tore down, "Um.. ...help"
[11:41] * Ginkyo tries to defuse the slight awkwardness of her kitsune identity with identifying herself under her Tengu adoptors
[11:41] <Anegumo> "S-stay out!" It still sounds muffled in the tree, "I'll eat you!"
[11:41] <Haiiro-Honoo> The one on fire?
[11:42] <Haiiro-Honoo> Honoo definitely set the one blocking the way on fire.
[11:42] <Anegumo> a few more enter your path, but a spider's webs cant do much about fire.
[11:42] <GMingPenguin> "Excellent." Momiji motiosn with her sword for the other tengu to move over towards Ginkyo. "You have your orders. Protect the target."
[11:42] <GMingPenguin> motions, sorry.
[11:42] * Ginkyo puts up her hands into the air in surrender
[11:43] <Haiiro-Honoo> Either way, the pair continue to set webs aflame, even if it's the one that was set on fire.
[11:43] <GMingPenguin> "Just go about your business, Ginkyo. Nothing is wrong."
[11:43] <Ginkyo> "I'm sorry I have five tails and I'm not a Tengu! Don't do lewd things to m--yes, ma'am."
[11:44] <GMingPenguin> Momiji looks into the rising sun, nods at the tengu now surrounding Ginkyo, then leaps into the air and flies off.
[11:44] * Ginkyo grabs Daimofujin, shakes him violently to detach Trissi, dusts her off, then hands her to the guard Tengu, then runs off (after an extraordinarily polite bow to Momiji)
[11:44] <Anegumo> inside, the place seems well maintained, with a few other doors in the cavern, the shouting seems to be coming from behind one. it is silent now though.
[11:45] * Trissi just kinda sits there and lets it happen, not sure what is even happening, "Thanks!... Wait."
[11:45] <GMingPenguin> The spiderweb falls apart under Ginkyo's shaking, and Trissi gets passed from kitsune to tengu.
[11:46] <GMingPenguin> The guard does not so much bat an eye as he accepts the moth then sets her down and calmly flies after Ginkyo, along with the three other tengu.
[11:47] * Trissi blinks, what a strange day.
[11:47] * Ginkyo makes a face of tearful horror that doujin-ka Harutomo would be envious of
[11:47] <Ginkyo> "Why are you following me?!"
[11:47] * Ginkyo has shifted into Kyoto dialect
[11:48] <GMingPenguin> "We have our orders, ma'am," the largest of the guards responds.
[11:48] <Haiiro-Honoo> Meanwhile, Haiiro passes through undaunted, coming through like one of those huge homing amulets. The one that you get if you focus with Reimu in PCB. "I realize you might not want a visitor but I cannot ignore my color-sense! Ever!"
[11:48] <Anegumo> "H-Haiiro?!"
[11:48] <Anegumo> Its definitely coming from behind the bedroom door.
[11:49] * Ginkyo stands still for a moment with an intense face of concentration
[11:50] <Haiiro-Honoo> "And her sidekick-partner! ...Before I barge the rest of the way through, should I like, prepare for anything? Should YOU prepare for anything?"
[11:50] <Anegumo> "D-d-don't look at me!"
[11:51] <Anegumo> "I mean don't come in! go away!"
[11:51] * Ginkyo breaks down and cries, sitting on the ground and clutching Daimofujin (http://www.donmai.us/posts/1030030?tags=zounose+yakumo_yukari)
[11:52] <Ginkyo> "Baaaaaaawl. Don't evict me from Youkai Mountain! I don't want to go someplace else for not being a Tengu!"
[11:52] * Ginkyo is convinced she's being deported
[11:53] <GMingPenguin> The four tengu surround Ginkyo and look at each other. The younger man shrugs, the two women furrow their brows at each other, and the bigger man says, "Ma'am, that's not in our orders."
[11:53] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...OK, coming in!" She waited a minute or so before stating this, but she definitely comes in anyway.
[11:54] <Anegumo> Inside, pillows and blankets are everywhere...and piled up in the middle of the bed.
[11:54] <Anegumo> the pile of blankets shifts, "Go away."
[11:55] * Ginkyo calms down, looks at her new protectors, and goes back the way she came
[11:55] * Ginkyo grabs Trissi, dusts her, attaches her to Daimofujin with remaining cobwebs, then returns to Anegumo's tree
[11:55] <GMingPenguin> The four tengu follow without saying anything further, keeping an eye out.
[11:55] * Ginkyo retraces her steps back to the Silver Tower
[11:56] * Ginkyo seems to be attempting to mime time flowing backwards in hopes that her new "friends" might go away
[11:57] * Trissi is still sitting seiza, with a blank expression. Apparently today's new item being passed around. "Um."
[11:57] <Anegumo> "Just leave me to my fate Fae, I am destined to die of embarassment. It is what the gods and goddesses have deigned. I'm Awful. Awful. Awful!"
[11:57] <GMingPenguin> Even as Ginkyo leaves the spider's tree to head towards her restaurant, the tengu guard maintains its vigil around Ginkyo.
[11:58] * Ginkyo arrives back at the Silver Tower and politely serves tea and snacks to the guests on her level of the restaurant
[11:59] <GMingPenguin> One of Ginkyo's sisters rushes towards her as soon as she steps foot into the restaurant.
[11:59] <Haiiro-Honoo> "The only one that might see you that isn't me is Honoo, and though I might laugh a bit, you have full right to beat me up if I do so. I probably deserve it!"
[11:59] * Ginkyo preps a barely passable meal for the guests in her autopilot mental state
[11:59] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...I mean, I wouldn't regret anything, that was the best thing ever that I avoided narrowly, but you do!"
[11:59] <Anegumo> "My reputation, my reputation! I can't let anyone see meeee." She whines from under the covers. she's never been this uncomposed before.
[11:59] <GMingPenguin> She glances at the tengu beside Ginkyo and whispers to Ginkyo, "What are you doing back here! Go out and have an adventure or something, you like that kind of stuff, right? Don't just work in here today!"
[12:00] <Anegumo> "This is all your fault you know! You and your stupid charms! That damned bogeyman...!"
[12:01] * Ginkyo clutches her "eldest" sister (younger physically, but higher in family rank as top of the restaurant) by the ankles
[12:01] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I still don't regret that. In fact I do the opposite of regretting that. I feel kinda bad since you were in there, but I cannot regret it."
[12:02] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Still, if you look like a mess, well, guess who's the one with the most know-how to fix it! Now come out before I set your pillows and sheets on fire."
[12:02] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Whatever you look like, black probably wouldn't be an improvement!"
[12:02] <Ginkyo> "But...but! Four patrol tengu! Told to protect me! Inubashiri-san!"
[12:02] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Unless it is."
[12:03] <Anegumo> "Don't you dare set my place on fire!" She sticks her head out to yell at haiiro for a moment, then realizes what she did, and retracts her head. for an instant, you saw. her hair. her eyes. even her lips...a bright pink.
[12:03] <Haiiro-Honoo> "In which case you just stay put and don't say anything~"
[12:03] <GMingPenguin> "Yes yes we can't talk about it, but that's why you can't work here today."
[12:04] * Ginkyo does a wild take, turning to stone, betrayed by her sisters
[12:04] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ohdear."
[12:04] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin is ignorant of the situation, and is regaling the four patrol Tengu with stories of his manly prowess over other gangs of Gensokyo's small-time spirits
[12:05] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Er hem. Still don't regret it, I'm afraid, but you have three choices!"
[12:05] <Haiiro-Honoo> "One!"
[12:05] * Ginkyo picks up Daimofujin, and sulks out of the restaurant, headed to the berry patch (her new home)
[12:06] <Anegumo> "..."
[12:06] <GMingPenguin> "Go have an adventure and we'll make a nice steak or something for you with the wagyu we just butchered. Look, it's important for you to not be here, it's not me saying it, but I can't tell you who or why."
[12:06] * Ginkyo is convinced she's been disowned
[12:06] * Ginkyo flees from the restaurant, her abandonment complex overtaking her ability to hear
[12:06] <Haiiro-Honoo> "You end your life hiding because you're pink. That's sad. You know that's sad."
[12:06] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Two!"
[12:07] <GMingPenguin> "and that
[12:07] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin's understanding of the day is as normal, taking his master's mood swing in stride as he sips his teacup (stolen from the restaurant)
[12:07] <Haiiro-Honoo> "You come out and let me fix you. I already know what happened anyway."
[12:07] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Three!"
[12:07] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Er, something else. Like, becoming Oz? I could learn some illusion magic..."
[12:07] <GMingPenguin> "and that's when we bit her on the rump." *sip* "You sure keep pace with my master well," Daimofujin says to the disinterested tengu flying alongside Ginkyo.
[12:08] <Anegumo> She sniffles, "Like embracing this horrid color? ...wait! option two!"
[12:08] <Anegumo> "That's right! you are a color magi!" She comes out of her covers finally.
[12:09] <Haiiro-Honoo> "You'd think that'd be more easily rememberable!" She pouts a bit.
[12:09] <Anegumo> "Fix this!" on further inspection her nails are pink too, with hearts? weird.
[12:09] <Anegumo> "I remember fire more than color." she doesn't look directly at honoo
[12:09] <Haiiro-Honoo> God this is adorable. Er-hem.
[12:09] <Anegumo> "H-hey! stop giggling!"
[12:09] <Anegumo> "Change me! Now!"
[12:10] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just lemme fix it~!"
[12:10] <Haiiro-Honoo> MAGIC IS MAGIC. She probably has a revert option in here, she hopes it works!
[12:10] <Anegumo> "A-also, this!" She holds her normally dark crimson kimono, now bright pink with cherry blossoms on it.
[12:12] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I dunno, that's a pretty nice kimono...but fine, fine~" Haiiro is sure to fix EVERYTHING she broke, because the person getting fixed deserves it!
[12:12] <GMingPenguin> It'll take a cherry dice to do so, but considering that everyone should be fully recovered *cough cough you all are fully recovered*, Haiiro can spare it.
[12:12] <Haiiro-Honoo> She certainly can! So, she does!
[12:12] <GMingPenguin> One of the tiny mofujins climbs its master to offer Trissi a tiny cup of tea.
[12:13] * Trissi takes, "OH! Thank you!" takes a sip and then pokes Daimofujin. "Hey, you're soft! Where are we going?"
[12:13] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin discovers a new guest for his storytime edition, and regales them with the time he lifted up a mountain, also explaining that we're going wherever his mistress is dragging him
[12:14] <Anegumo> "Ah, my prayers have been answered!" She puts on her kimono
[12:14] <Anegumo> She looks at herself in the mirror, is she back to normal?
[12:14] <GMingPenguin> Not a single trace of pink can be found on Anegumo's person.
[12:15] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...OK, I think this means we're even now~"
[12:15] * Anegumo breathes a sigh of relief.
[12:15] * Ginkyo ends back up in front of Anegumo's tree, then knocking on the door, bawling nonsense about being disowned, abandoned, and going to be deported from Gensokyo to someplace Outside called Canada
[12:16] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin uses this time to explain of his adventures in Canada before the Great Fairy Depression of 1234
[12:16] <Anegumo> "Yes yes... eh?" She somewhat recognises Ginkyo's bawling now that she isn't under thirty blankets.
[12:16] <Anegumo> The door is probably open because color magicians don't know how to close doors.
[12:18] <Haiiro-Honoo> They sure don't!
[12:18] <Anegumo> She goes out into the main room to find Ginkyo crying on her floor, she has quickly regained her composure, "My, what happened to you?"
[12:18] <Anegumo> She doesn't sound concerned so much as confused.
[12:19] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...My, this is quite the day."
[12:19] * Ginkyo points at her four new "friends"
[12:19] <Anegumo> She whispers to Haiiro and honoo, "also you can't tell ANYONE about what you saw."
[12:19] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo isn't alone. She is burdened with Daimofujin, currently telling a story about the time he wrestled a bear to a moth youkai Anegumo has never seen before, as well as four stoic sunglass'd tengu who are keeping an eye on every door in the place.
[12:20] * Trissi waves her arms above Daimofujin, "I'm a new friend!" She probably can't see anybody she's waving at.
[12:20] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro nods, Honoo starts to SO MUCH AS MOVE HER MOUTH and it's already covered. "Don't even."
[12:20] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Anyway...ah. You, you four. Why are you stalking her?"
[12:21] <GMingPenguin> "We have our orders, ma'am."
[12:21] * Ginkyo is drinking from a hidden flask, babbling in Kyoto dialect
[12:21] * Anegumo 's hair bristles when she sees the four tengu in her home. "Hey. shoes and boots off." She actually looks at Haiiro and honoo for that matter. do they even wear shoes.
[12:21] <Haiiro-Honoo> ...They're wearing sunglasses, but they're not wearing black? THEIR OUTFITS ARE BLACK NOW. SO SAYS THE WORD OF HAIIRO.
[12:22] <Ginkyo> "...And now I have to go find berries for the Sun King or my sisters will have me abandoned!"
[12:22] * Ginkyo is currently mentally broken down
[12:22] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro does! Honoo doesn't!
[12:22] * Anegumo rubs her temple, and goes gets Ginkyo something proper to drink. and a chair to sit in. she's not used to so many guests that aren't about to be eaten...maybe that one attached to the fluff ball.
[12:23] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...W-wait, gathering berries? It's like...oh gods I'm the one to fix all the problems again."
[12:24] <Ginkyo> Daimofujins followers are trickling into Anegumo's home, exploring and having fun fluffily
[12:25] <Anegumo> "HEY!" She yells at the fluffballs, she has to shut her bedroom door.
[12:25] <GMingPenguin> Too late, a fluffball made it inside.
[12:26] <Anegumo> "Aaargh, My home is not meant for this sort of thing! Ginkyo! What do I need to do to get you out of my home? You can't crash here unless I can at least chew on your flesh from time to time!"
[12:26] <Ginkyo> "Eat me! It's all I'm good for now, that I've lost my home again!"
[12:26] <GMingPenguin> As Haiiro's power starts to descend upon the members of the Tengu Patrol, one of the women holds up her shield and deflects it. How the-?!
[12:27] <GMingPenguin> "Please do not interfere in our mission, ma'am."
[12:27] * Anegumo turns on the stove.
[12:27] * Ginkyo swoons melodramatically, a strand of hair gone to one side of her mouth
[12:27] <Anegumo> She then pauses, and looks at the Tengu, "you will attack me if I eat her, won't you."
[12:27] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I was making you more fitting for your classified mission. What kind of person wears things like that and isn't dressed in black?"
[12:28] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...More importantly, how do you block something like that!?"
[12:28] * Trissi still completely oblivious she's in a spider's lair, "Ahaha, why all the joking about eating people?"
[12:28] <GMingPenguin> "That would interfere in our orders, ma'am," one of the men tengu responds to Anegumo.
[12:28] * Anegumo turns off the stove somewhat disappointedly.
[12:29] <Anegumo> Then she hears Trissi, staring at her, and turns on the stove again.
[12:29] <Anegumo> "Here here~" She attempts to take the moth from Daimofujin's fluff.
[12:30] * Ginkyo remembers a vague idea of her mission
[12:30] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I told you, she does that! And even if we're even again I'd still feel bad if I had a direct hand in making her lose dinner slash lunch slash whatever."
[12:30] <Ginkyo> "We have to go get berries! Or the sky will fall down and I'll be kicked out of Gensokyo!"
[12:30] * Ginkyo stands up
[12:30] <GMingPenguin> Daimofujin starts to feel strong feelings about losing a listener.
[12:30] <Haiiro-Honoo> "But anyway...hello! I'm pretty much the champion of collecting berries, you know."
[12:31] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...You should know."
[12:31] <Anegumo> "That doesn't sound right...Ginkyo, are you feeling well?" She gets distracted long enough for Daimofujin to pull Trissi away from her.
[12:31] * Anegumo goes over and puts the back of her hand to Ginkyo's forehead.
[12:32] * Ginkyo is slowly regaining sense of direction, albeit at loss of understanding reality
[12:32] * Trissi nope, NOPE. THATS A SPIDER. "Uhhh UHHHH, WHY ARE WE HERE." Starts flailing about more and probably gets buried in the fluff ball.
[12:32] <Haiiro-Honoo> "....So I'll help! Since this and that requires I get that and this back on track."
[12:32] <Haiiro-Honoo> "For now."
[12:32] <Ginkyo> "Yes! If we go get the berries, the Enma won't be able to cast me from Gensokyo, and we can all eat things! Nice things!"
[12:33] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Free meals if we help~?"
[12:33] * Anegumo casually looks in her coinpurse...its nearly empty. she had to get meals delivered to her home once her own supply ran out.
[12:33] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Oh, and that's Anegumo. She's a cool spider. ...She hasn't eaten a bee we've been traveling with so you might have hope yet."
[12:34] <Anegumo> "No promises~"
[12:34] <Ginkyo> "Okay!"
[12:34] * Ginkyo tosses a couple slips of "1 Free Meal" tickets into the air, not remembering those were for attracting new (paying) guests to the Silver Tower
[12:35] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Deal!" Ah Haiiro, and her deals. Tickets, nabbed. "...Any specific types of berries, then, or..."
[12:35] <Ginkyo> "I need magical pirate berries!"
[12:35] * Trissi muffled, "Nooooo~"
[12:36] * Anegumo snatches one.
[12:36] <Anegumo> "...What."
[12:36] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ah, those berries."
[12:36] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I know where those are! Or at least I have an idea of where to start looking."
[12:36] <Anegumo> "Listen, just get --really? Really."
[12:37] <Haiiro-Honoo> "That was a fun time. Remember me munching on berries most of the incident?"
[12:37] <Ginkyo> "There was fire and swords too."
[12:38] * Ginkyo seems to be calming down, remembering less stressful times
[12:38] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Those were one and the same. Some bushes should be growing near my mansion, but they're not done yet. We'll go back to the source~"
[12:38] <Anegumo> "...why can't you jsut be a normal youkai and go to a spa to relax." She rolls her eyes, putting on her hat and turning off the stove.
[12:39] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ah, a spa. That sounds nice, I think I'll head to one when this is done~"
[12:39] * Haiiro-Honoo is already heading out. Busy, busy!
[12:40] * Ginkyo puts back on her shoes and waits anxiously outside, the Tengu patrol crew invisible from her conscious sight in an unconscious attempt to calm down
[12:41] <GMingPenguin> As two of the tengu are right by her side and the other two are slightly behind her, this means that Ginkyo has to look straight forwards.
[12:41] <Anegumo> "I know a good one, You'll have to spot me of course, my food of recent hasn't really been...paying for itself."
[12:42] * Anegumo leaves with the group.
[12:42] <Ginkyo> "Berry spas!"
[12:42] * Ginkyo flies along, here eyes in manic spirals
[12:43] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ah, it's alright, it's alright~"
[12:43] * Trissi pops out of the fluff to hand an empty teacup to one of the tengu guards. "Here!"
[12:44] <Anegumo> "There is no such thing!"
[12:44] <GMingPenguin> The tengu looks a tthe cup, looks at Trissi, looks at the mofujins, picks up one of the mofujins, holds it out so that it can pick up the cop, then transfers it back to the fluffball squad.
[12:46] <GMingPenguin> at the cup.
[12:46] <GMingPenguin> And now, the patch.
[12:47] <GMingPenguin> Which is busy.
[12:47] <GMingPenguin> Busy because of a large mass of fairies collecting every berry they can see.
[12:47] <Haiiro-Honoo> Any familiar faces? She's still on the hunt for one of them.
[12:48] <Anegumo> "well it looks like we'll have to find another berry patch. shouldn't be hard, there are plenty around...why didn't we just fetch some from the one near my place?"
[12:48] <Ginkyo> "Nooo! The Flying Yakisoba Youkai's berries! If I don't get those, I can't be a magical girl anymore!"
[12:48] <GMingPenguin> One of them sees Haiiro, freezes, then disappears into the crowd.
[12:49] <Anegumo> "what."
[12:49] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...OK, I led you there. Nowifyou'llexcusemeImustbeoffforamomentgocollectsomeberries"
[12:49] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro might not even recognize the fairy, but she's in hot pursuit anyway.
[12:50] <Anegumo> "M..magical girl...you mean a magician?" she has no idea what ginkyo is on about anymore...is it alright to play along with these fantasies?
[12:50] * Ginkyo leaps into the berry bushes, frantically fighting off fairies and collecting berries
[12:50] <Ginkyo> "Make a contract with me and save me from the Gensokyo Border Patrol!"
[12:52] * Anegumo stands to the side, probably with the guards if they're not right beside her.
[12:53] <GMingPenguin> As Haiiro possesses magical haste, she quickly catches up with the fleeing fairy, who falls to the ground and rolls onto her back in submission like a dog. "No no no I don't have the pearl!"
[12:53] * Trissi follows Ginkyo into the berry bushes, "Ahhh, so this is what we're eating!" and starts chewing on leaves, not even caring about the missing berries.
[12:54] <Haiiro-Honoo> It should be noted Haiiro's strength is probably negative. Honoo is physically stronger than she is. "Oh. ....Welllllll, do you know where it is? Any clue~? Kinda need that one."
[12:55] * Anegumo folds her arms; all these running meals makes her hungry.
[12:55] <Haiiro-Honoo> "And I really hope you know where it is cause I've been looking for you for...definitely more than a week now."
[12:57] <GMingPenguin> "This tall mean woman with a long coat and a hook for a hand stole it from me and said something about painting it black!"
[12:57] <GMingPenguin> One of the fairies wanders over to Haiiro's interrogation and starts to peek down to see what's going on when *whumpf* it gets blindsided by a web.
[12:58] * Ginkyo has taken to throwing fairies off of the bushes and her own collection of berries in a horrifying semblance of a King of the Hill game...to the death
[12:59] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Maybe black is a good color for it. But painting it? I take offense, and believe your story. You're free to go, have fun, play tag with more people. I'm gonna hassle some pirates."
[12:59] * Ginkyo utters a guttural roar as she claims herself Queen of the Berries
[12:59] * Anegumo takes the fairy and disappears into the nearby forest for a bit.
Session Start: Sun Apr 07 13:03:18 2013
Session Ident: #Gensokyo
[13:03] * Now talking in #Gensokyo
[13:03] <Ginkyo> The FOE fluffily and dutifully gather berries.
[13:04] * Honoo-Haiiro ([email protected]) has joined #Gensokyo
[13:06] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout)
[13:07] <GMingPenguin> There appears to be a cutlass jammed into the ground under a stand of trees over there...
[13:07] <GMingPenguin> Meanwhile, a war has broken out, between the mofujin and the fairies.
[13:08] <GMingPenguin> Fur is pulled and wings are bit as the two sides proceed to see who can harvest the most berries.
[13:08] <Honoo-Haiiro> ...Sounds like an opportunity to hassle a pirate. ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN THE CUTLASS!
[13:08] <GMingPenguin> Daimofujin roams around the patch of berries, striking down fairies left and right, as if he were playing Mount and Blade.
[13:09] <GMingPenguin> But in the end, Haiiro triumphantly draws the sword and holds it above her head in victory as Daimofujin holds the last fairy above his head in victory.
[13:11] <Honoo-Haiiro> She probably doesn't have the strength to wield it effectively. ...A shame she didn't bring a pearl of her own. Then she could really pretend to be a pirate.
[13:12] <Honoo-Haiiro> ...Oh, oh! ...Make one eye COMPLETELY BLACK. Like, no whites. Eyepatchlike. The other can be colored blue normally, like the great ocean she keeps reading about but still hasn't seen.
[13:12] <Honoo-Haiiro> There we go. All she needs is some arrghs and she's--this is too much. Just stick with normal speech patterns for now.
[13:13] <GMingPenguin> Meanwhile, the tengu guards stand by Ginkyo's side and look around, barely paying attention to the fairy massacre.
[13:14] * Ginkyo looks at her batches of berries, and directs the FOE to begin carting it all back to the Silver Tower and her sisters
[13:15] * Ginkyo sits down on a pile of fairies, looks over the carnage done in her madness, and calms down, regaining some sense
[13:15] * Ginkyo begins to make some berry juice
[13:15] <GMingPenguin> Berry juice for a berry spa?
[13:16] * Ginkyo dispenses juice to her friends and the Tengu patrol, wondering what in the world she's doing
[13:16] <GMingPenguin> The patrol accepts the juice, showing only a slight nod of their heads.
[13:16] * Anegumo comes back, picking her teeth with a toothpick, and takes the juice, "Are we done then?"
[13:16] <Ginkyo> "I...I don't know."
[13:17] <GMingPenguin> Unfortunately, the cutlass is the only sign of the pirates.
[13:18] <GMingPenguin> The knowledgabe fairy was one of many casualties during the great war.
[13:18] * Trissi glares at Anegumo like she KNOWS.
[13:18] <Anegumo> "We're done then." She looks at Trissi, "Would you like to be next?"
[13:18] <Trissi> "You'll get fat."
[13:18] <Anegumo> "Fairy meat is very lean."
[13:19] <Honoo-Haiiro> Hrrrm. Oh well. Back to the scene, then...to watch and be amused, apparently!
[13:19] <Trissi> "I'm uh.. Very dirty!" She pats her jacket down and a cloud of powder shoots up.
[13:20] <Ginkyo> `Daimofujin, bereft of followers, stands atop a pile of fairies and declares the Great Fairy Invasion a success...to himself
[13:20] <Anegumo> "I suppose we should go get you washed off then."
[13:20] * Ginkyo nods
[13:21] * Anegumo looks over at Ginkyo, "Like I said, there is no such thing as a berry spa..."
[13:21] * Anegumo knew what she was thinking.
[13:21] * Ginkyo whines
[13:21] <Ginkyo> "But it'd be delicious!"
[13:21] * Anegumo rubs her temples, "What is with you today..."
[13:22] * Ginkyo grabs Anegumo by the shoulders and stares into her face in despair
[13:22] <Ginkyo> "I'mma get deported!"
[13:22] <Ginkyo> "Abandoned!"
[13:22] <Ginkyo> "Again!"
[13:22] * Ginkyo shifts back into mumbling at a machine-gun pace in Kyoto dialect
[13:22] <GMingPenguin> She says, four tengu standing guard behind her.
[13:25] <Anegumo> "Geez...You are almost as bent out of shape as I was...Well, what calms you down?"
[13:25] * Ginkyo shoves a healthy-looking fairy into a sack
[13:26] <Ginkyo> "Hopefully...if I can do well...the old master of the shop will come back...and I'll get to stay in the restaurant. I'm not sure if my 'old' home in the Outside is still there."
[13:26] <Ginkyo> "Um...do you think sake with a fairy pickled in it would taste good?"
[13:26] * Ginkyo says, trailing off
[13:26] <Anegumo> "Usually i'll just go down to a hotspring when I'm stressed out..."
[13:26] <Anegumo> "Hrm, depends on how long it fermented."
[13:28] <Anegumo> "...Hm! Now hear me out... If we go to a hotspring, only half of your shadows will be able to follow you. That's a good idea, right?"
[13:29] <Ginkyo> "Um...! Yes!"
[13:34] <Anegumo> "So lets leave those other fairies alone for now." She waves off in a direction, "Lets go to a hotspring, on behalf of Ginkyo here~"
[13:34] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) has joined #Gensokyo
[13:36] * Honoo-Haiiro ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout)
[13:37] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...That sounds like a good idea, let's do that~"
[13:38] <GMingPenguin> Off to the springs then?
[13:38] <Anegumo> Yep
[13:38] <Ginkyo> Yez
[13:38] <Haiiro-Honoo> Of course!
[13:39] <GMingPenguin> It is a journey to the springs.
[13:40] <GMingPenguin> A freshening one, that is, as the sun reveals a pleasantly beautiful day.
[13:40] <Haiiro-Honoo> So nice! Was she supposed to be doing something?
[13:40] <Haiiro-Honoo> ...Nah, maybe later.
[13:40] * Anegumo gives Haiiro a dirty look at her 'eyepatch' eye with her good eye
[13:40] <GMingPenguin> The springs themselves are empty today, again. Good news, eh?
[13:40] * Trissi floats up "If we're swimming! I gotta get a thing!" and zooms off at an incredible speed, leaving some lingering blurry afterimages.
[13:41] * Anegumo blinks, then looks at Ginkyo, "Was that a friend of yours or something?"
[13:41] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro glances back. Tick, tick, tick...and fixes it posthaste. "...Maybe eyepatches are less piratey than I thought. Hum."
[13:41] <Ginkyo> "Um...I thought she was yours? She was at your place?"
[13:41] * Ginkyo looks at Trissi
[13:41] <Ginkyo> "Hello!"
[13:42] <Anegumo> "Seh's already gone."
[13:42] <Anegumo> "...you really are out of it."
[13:42] <Anegumo> She's*
[13:42] * Ginkyo laughs slowly
[13:42] * Ginkyo really needs to relax
[13:43] <GMingPenguin> As you step closer to the hot spring, one of the guards steps in front of Ginkyo and blocks her movement with his arm. "Caution, ma'am. Let us investigate, first."
[13:43] * Ginkyo gives an enthusiastic "yes"
[13:43] * Ginkyo seems to have taken the guards as a fact of life (of her impending deportation)
[13:43] * Ginkyo is experiencing Stockholm Syndrome
[13:44] <GMingPenguin> He makes a gesture with his hands, and two of the guard step forward, towards the spring. They eye the waters uncertainly. One holds her sword and shield at the ready, while the other nocks an arrow on her bow's string.
[13:44] <Anegumo> "I've been here plenty of times. Most of the clientel are just tastey morsels who leave."
[13:44] * Trissi arrives in a streak of light, cratering straight into the hot spring at full speed.
[13:45] <GMingPenguin> The steam above the surface of the water prevents the Tengu Patrol soldier from peering too closely into the water. He steps forwards, and before he can wave some of the steam away Trissi cannonballs into the water at maximum speed!
[13:45] <Haiiro-Honoo> So there's no umbrella laying around, huh. Honoo KNOWS WHAT'S COMING and flies back a bit. She was not planning on being in the hot springs, she doesn't want--this! SHE DOESN'T WANT THIS.
[13:46] <GMingPenguin> Trissi recoils off of some metal mass under the water and flies into the air beyond the hot springs!
[13:47] * Anegumo watches her. "..."
[13:47] <Anegumo> "How do you bounce off the water like that..."
[13:48] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Good question." She watches as well. Look at her go!
[13:48] * Trissi DONK, "Ahhhhowowowow, WHAT IS THAT." as she's holding her helmet, still on. Although she's in a lime green one-piece swimsuit with a skirt flap.
[13:48] <GMingPenguin> The object hidden under the water stands up, revealing itself to be a twenty foot tall humanoid mecha, painted green and sea blue. Instead of a face it sports a window, and inside you see two kappa, dressed for war.
[13:48] * Ginkyo comes back to her senses
[13:48] <Ginkyo> "...Eh?  Kappa-san?"
[13:48] <GMingPenguin> "They attack! We will repel them!" shouts one of the tengu at Ginkyo's side. She draws her sword and charges!
[13:48] * Anegumo is in the process of getting into the hotsprings; you can see the several scars that mark her body, as well as the stump of her missing sixth arm. She stops when she sees this.
[13:49] <Haiiro-Honoo> "..."
[13:49] * Trissi continues floating in the air while writhing in pain from the impact.
[13:49] <Anegumo> "..."
[13:49] <Ginkyo> "..."
[13:50] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Well this is gonna be fun!"
[13:50] <GMingPenguin> The four tengu immediatelly unleash arrow and sword upon the mecha monstrosity.
[13:50] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro joins Honoo in the distance, then continues. "Should we help them?"
[13:50] * Ginkyo politely takes her clothing off at the shelves
[13:51] * Ginkyo politely puts her clothing into a basket
[13:51] * Ginkyo politely goes to the wash area and begins washing herself
[13:51] <Haiiro-Honoo> If there's no answer, she watches the fight for a while to see how it goes.
[13:52] * Anegumo washes as well, "Hey Tengu, Kappa, can you take it away from the hotsprings?"
[13:53] <GMingPenguin> In response to the tengu attacking, the mecha raises an arm, and aims a fist at the large male tengu. Fire appears at the wrist, then the fist flies fowards!
[13:53] * Anegumo has just decided to accept the madness. She worries she's cracked like Ginkyo has.
[13:53] <Haiiro-Honoo> "A rocket punch~ ...Damn, I didn't get any berries."
[13:54] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Does anyone have anything to snack on?"
[13:54] <GMingPenguin> The wolf tengu leaps into the air and lands gracefully upon the flying fist, even with his geta sandals. He spins his sword in an arc and cleaves the fist in two, nuding both sides with his sword so they circle through the air to give the kappa mech a punch on either side of its face.
[13:54] <Ginkyo> "There were some toasted nuts in my apron~! You can have them!"
[13:54] * Ginkyo calls
[13:55] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...I'll take em~"
[13:55] <GMingPenguin> The mecha responds by firing a vast array of missiles. They arc into the air then curve around to descent upon the tengu. Several aim themselves at Ginkyo...
[13:55] * Ginkyo lifts up a spellcard
[13:55] <GMingPenguin> ...but arrows fired at light speed from the tengu archers knocks the missiles out of commission before they can get close.
[13:55] * Ginkyo puts down the spellcard
[13:56] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro and Honoo both fly back, in order to get nuts for the munching. Gonna be one awesome show--oh god she put herself--oh.
[13:56] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Maybe we should help."
[13:56] <Anegumo> "...lets just get in the hot spring. there is a little pool to the left, we shouldn't get splashed too much."
[13:56] * Ginkyo finishes her washing by pouring a bucket over herself and nods to Anegumo's idea
[13:57] <Anegumo> "I've given up today. a horrid color, a friend, -a friend? yes, i suppose, a friend- going insane. A giant robot battle."
[13:57] <GMingPenguin> TThe mecha climbs out of the water and tromps in Ginkyo's directio. Two tengu fly in a sweep to catch a foot from behind, while the other two launch themselves at its head, so it gets knocked onto its back, away from Ginkyo.
[13:57] <GMingPenguin> The fall makes the waters ripple.
[13:58] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Eeeehhhhh...yeah, let's. This is gonna be the best thing ever. Treated to a cool show AND hot springs? Worth it."
[13:58] <Anegumo> "And its not even half over."
[13:58] <Haiiro-Honoo> "This...this is how everything should be~!"
[13:58] * Ginkyo has gone full-autopilot, nodding to everything Anegumo is saying without consciously taking it in
[13:58] * Anegumo helps Ginkyo into the spring as she gets in herself.
[13:59] <Haiiro-Honoo> Strangely, Haiiro hasn't cracked at all. Honoo flies around the battle scene, instead of getting in the WATER.
[13:59] * Anegumo idly wonders what would happen if she pulled honoo into the water.
[13:59] <GMingPenguin> Several jets flare from under the mech, and it flies into the air. The Tengu Patrol takes into the air after it, and the mech attempts to swat them down with homing curvy lasers.
[14:00] <GMingPenguin> One tengu gets struck, and starts to fall. Two swoop down to catch him, while the last tengu throws himself at the cockpit glass of the mech. It cracks.
[14:00] <GMingPenguin> The two women tengu holding the downed one wind up for a throw, and as he catches his breath they hurl him towards that crack as fast as they can.
[14:01] * Trissi shakes off the dizziness to see this mecha-tengu action scene.
[14:01] <Haiiro-Honoo> It probably wouldn't be pretty.
[14:01] <Anegumo> "Oy, swimsuit prude. get down here, water's great."
[14:01] <Haiiro-Honoo> Still, Honoo watches as close as reasonably possible. This is HOT STUFF.
[14:01] <Haiiro-Honoo> Not cool.
[14:01] * Trissi points at the fight, "B-but.."
[14:02] <GMingPenguin> The glass is "danmaku-proof," but that just means that the whole window doesn't shatter away when the tengu gets thrown halfway into it. The two kappa pilots panic as the sword half of a tengu soldier is in their cockpit.
[14:02] <Haiiro-Honoo> She's not paying attention to anything but the battle, naturally. And Haiiro's quite absorbed.
[14:03] <GMingPenguin> The cockpit jettisons itself, with the tengu and two kappa inside, but this just reveals a gattling gun in its place!
[14:03] <Anegumo> "You can see it from here."
[14:03] * Anegumo holds up a cup of sake from a bucket floating by her that she brought.
[14:04] <GMingPenguin> It fires, spraying bullets inefficiently everywhere. Most of them plop harmlessly into the water or whiz overhead.
[14:04] <GMingPenguin> The ones which are aimed at Ginkyo get deflected by the speedy shields of the guards.
[14:05] * Ginkyo is, to a careful observer, actually vibrating
[14:05] * Ginkyo is shivering to the point that a low vibrating noise is coming from her, and the water around her is rippling
[14:05] * Ginkyo is stark-terror
[14:05] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) Quit (Client exited)
[14:05] * Ginkyo is on pure autopilot
[14:05] * Haiiro-Honoo ([email protected]) has joined #Gensokyo
[14:06] <Ginkyo> "The water is nice, isn't it?"
[14:06] <Anegumo> "Hm. I'm starting to wonder if the kappa are out for you." She idly wonders. She attempts to feed Ginkyo some of the sake to calm her down.
[14:06] <Anegumo> "It is, it is, now have a drink and calm down..."
[14:06] <GMingPenguin> One of the tengus sneaks up behind the mecha, and with a single blow decapitates it a second time.
[14:06] * Ginkyo calls to the Tengu
[14:06] * Anegumo claps half sarcastically.
[14:06] <Ginkyo> "Shall I wash your back?"
[14:07] * Ginkyo 's eyes are seeing not a battle, but for some reason, hastily-drawn caricatures of Tengu and Kappa having a party...in the onsen
[14:07] * Ginkyo feels she sould be polite
[14:07] <GMingPenguin> "Just a moment, ma'am! We're about finished!"
[14:08] <GMingPenguin> The mecha flails around while the three tengu use the weakened area aroudn the gattling gun emplacement to breach a hole ot the inside of the mecha. One drops inside while the other two drop to the ground.
[14:09] <GMingPenguin> The mecha attempts to strike at the tengu inside of itself by hitting its chassis with its remaining fist, then the sword inside starts poking holes out.
[14:09] <GMingPenguin> Soon those hols fill with light, and the mecha explodes in a beautiful fireball.
[14:10] <GMingPenguin> The brave tengu who had been inside falls to the ground, tail only lightly singed.
[14:10] * Trissi stares, "Briiiiiiight."
[14:11] * Ginkyo claps lightly, as if she were at one of Gensokyo's talent show parties/drinking fests
[14:12] <Anegumo> "This is just one of those days that being drunk throughout the day helps."
[14:12] * Anegumo says that, and takes another drink.
[14:13] <GMingPenguin> The mecha's head finally falls to the ground, tengu still sticking out comically.
[14:13] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Probably is, yeah~" Munch. Honoo is also munching.
[14:15] * Ginkyo finally fully relaxes, deciding to agree with her inner child and swim in the big hot spring pool
[14:15] <GMingPenguin> The tengu extricates himself from the mecha and shatters the rset of the glass. He extends a hand to the two kappa inside, and helps them climb out of the wrecked head.
[14:15] * Trissi dives in, now that the mess is clear. Less forcefully, that kind of hurt last time. Joins Ginkyo in swimming~
[14:16] * Anegumo drinks and leans against the edge of the hotsprings; trying to get one of the tengu to join her.
[14:16] <GMingPenguin> The four tengu and two kappa dust themselves off and bow towards each other. One of the gentu then walks over to Ginkyo and stands at the shore of the hot spring.
[14:17] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin claims dominance over the decapitated mecha, and victory again for himself (and his crazy stories)
[14:17] * Ginkyo looks at the Tengu and invites them in
[14:18] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Water's still hot~"
[14:18] <Anegumo> "its a Hot Spring. of course it is. Mister Tengu san~ come here come here and share some sake with me~"
[14:19] <Haiiro-Honoo> Honoo, having satisfied herself with the action flick, now flies above the springs. They'll probably warm up a bit more now!
[14:19] <GMingPenguin> "Apologies for the secrecy, ma'am. You were the subject of a test of the defenses of the Youkai Mountain."
[14:20] <Ginkyo> "...Oh, you're such a flatterer!"
[14:20] * Ginkyo blushes
[14:20] <Anegumo> "Oyyy. You mean I don't even have to get one of you drunk to spill your secrets."
[14:21] * Ginkyo has stars appear in here eyes as she hatches a plan (born of insanity)
[14:22] * Trissi splashes Ginkyo, "Hey spider lady, she's making a weird face again."
[14:22] <GMingPenguin> "They were only secret while the plan was unfolding, ma'am. Could not let the kappa hear any details, see. They were testing our ability to protect a VIP."
[14:22] <Ginkyo> "Oh you're making me blush, you kidders!"
[14:22] * Ginkyo feigns a dumure and coquettish look to the side
[14:22] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...So, you're a VIP, huh~?"
[14:23] <GMingPenguin> "Ma'am, we just followed you for several actors. Either you were a really good actor pretending to be abandoned, or you're a really drunk now."
[14:23] <GMingPenguin> ...for several hours.
[14:23] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro can be several actors!
[14:23] <Haiiro-Honoo> ...No she can't.
[14:24] * Ginkyo springs forth from the spring nude, like a girl who lept through time
[14:24] * Ginkyo laches onto one of the four Tengu
[14:24] <Haiiro-Honoo> Munch.
[14:24] <Ginkyo> "If one of you is my husband or wife, you can't deport me!"
[14:25] <Anegumo> "Bad dog. get down." She splashes Ginkyo from the spring.
[14:26] <GMingPenguin> The larger male tengu Ginkyo latched on to instantly turns full red. "De-de-deport? N-n-no ma'am, w-we just..."
[14:27] <Anegumo> "Oyy. come on~ Join the party." She's pretty drunk too now.
[14:28] <GMingPenguin> The younger guy tengu shoots a sheepish look at the two female tengu, who are sighing and covering their eyes.
[14:29] * Trissi continues swimming small laps, "Hey! You aren't supposed to show boys those!"
[14:29] <GMingPenguin> He grins and grabs them by their arms, and pulls them into the hot spring all still clad in the tengu patrol garb.
[14:30] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro is infinite content! "Unless it's a party. Then it's OK. And I think this is a party! A victory party!"
[14:30] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...I guess."
[14:30] <Haiiro-Honoo> Munch.
[14:31] <Anegumo> "Woo!"
[14:31] <Ginkyo> "I can cook! Look at me being a good wife and/or husband-equivalent!"
[14:31] <Anegumo> "yeah, a cookout at the hotspring!"
[14:32] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Woo, indeed. Wooooo indeed~!"
[14:32] * Ginkyo serves everyone some delicious looking imaginary dishes
[14:32] * Anegumo pours the tengu all sake.
[14:32] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro sinks deeper in. Relaxation infinite.
[14:32] * Ginkyo promptly faints into the onsen water, face-down
[14:33] <Haiiro-Honoo> ...She can't munch like this. Oh well.
[14:33] <Trissi> "Uh oh." goes to try and flip Ginkyo over
[14:33] <GMingPenguin> "Ma'am, it's not in our orders to--""Oh shut it, Bobken." The younger guy tengu pulls the other male into the water.
[14:34] <GMingPenguin> The kappas, meanwhile, have disappeared.
[14:34] <Anegumo> "Your orders are to make sure she's safe right? well she's safe when we're happy so lets be happy!"
[14:35] <Anegumo> "Right, miss tengu?" She pours a cup of sake for her. Her drunkeness doesn't stop her from the perfect pour though. a certain oni would be proud.
[14:36] <GMingPenguin> "Pass that sake over here, my bud needs to loosen up a bit. Our job's done, and we're off duty. Right, right?" he nudges "bobken" in the ribs.
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[14:36] * Anegumo does her thing pouring everyone sake. a drunk party is a good party.
[14:37] <Haiiro-Honoo> Sake get! Haiiro floats back up to actually sip. Honoo flies down to get some, as well. If you want to stick her in the water, now would totally be the time.
[14:37] <GMingPenguin> Kellyko accepts the sake. "Sure thing, miss spider. Just don't try to seduce me. Hanaemily would not take it too well." She shares her sake with the other female tengu.
[14:38] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo gets righted.
[14:38] <GMingPenguin> Hanaemily leans over, "Don't think anything because of what we're called! They're callsigns, not names."
[14:39] <Anegumo> "Sure sure."
[14:40] <GMingPenguin> "Now, I wonder where the kappa went. Off to report our success, I hope."
[14:40] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Suuure~!"
[14:40] <Anegumo> "Doesn't matter doesn't matter~"
[14:41] <GMingPenguin> Jebryu looks over at Anegumo and cocks an eyebrow. "Come to these hotsprings often, eh?"
[14:41] <Anegumo> "I do I do. Best place to unwind~"
[14:42] <GMingPenguin> And then the mecha rises again.
[14:42] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I should come here more, myself--ah, it can still move."
[14:42] <Anegumo> "Ah."
[14:42] <GMingPenguin> You hear the maniacal laughter, with a fluffy quality.
[14:43] <GMingPenguin> It waddles over to Ginkyo, and through its speakers you hear, "Look mistress, ah fixed eet!"
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Aaaaaaaaaah."
[14:44] * Ginkyo opens her eyes, looks into the eyes of the (hastily) repaired mecha, and once again faints, bubbling at the mouth
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...But I haven't even drank much yet."
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> She sips.
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> Twice.
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> Three times. Four. Five.
[14:44] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...There."
[14:45] * Anegumo fills her cup
[14:45] * Ginkyo again opens her eyes, then scrambles (disgustingly) up into the mecha (like an insect) with Daimofujin, her eyes again filled with stars and the inkling of a plan
[14:45] <Ginkyo> "Ha! This is what you get for rejecting my beauty and love!"
[14:45] * Ginkyo screams from cockpit
[14:46] <Ginkyo> "With the power of the kappa, I won't be taken away from Gensokyo!"
[14:46] <Anegumo> "...Hey. No. Nnno."
[14:46] <Ginkyo> "Back to the mountain, Daimofujin!"
[14:46] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...this oughta be goooooooood~"
[14:46] <GMingPenguin> Bobken leans over and whispers something in Jebryu's ear. Jebryu starts to chuckle, only because giggling isn't manly.
[14:49] <Haiiro-Honoo> "You would, wouldn't you~", Haiiro says to no one in particular.
[14:50] <GMingPenguin> Ginkyo's clothes are left behind as the mecha disappears towards the mountain.
[14:51] <Anegumo> "...should we go after her?"
[14:53] * Anegumo drunkenly tries to get out of the hotsprings
[14:53] <Haiiro-Honoo> "A rampaging mecha piloted by a naked crazy lady bent on...her own craziness, I suppose."
[14:53] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...
[14:54] <Haiiro-Honoo> can't miss that."
[14:54] <GMingPenguin> Jebryu says, "Aww, hot spring time is over already? I was just gettin' comfortable."
[14:54] <Anegumo> "hmmm, I suppose a few more minutes wouldn't hurt~"
[14:55] <Trissi> "She can't get too far in that thing, right?"
[14:56] <Haiiro-Honoo> "I know, right? I'll probably be back when this resolves somehow, but I really can't miss this. Gonna be great." Haiiro attempts to get out, and succeeds somehow, clothing herself and air drying with the air that rushes by her when she GOES QUICKLY posthaste. When she does. "She might not, but...I'd like to see it crash, if that happens, and if it DOESN'T crash on it's own..."
[14:56] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Well, there's just some things I can't miss. Relaxation and fun are both great things, but I love the latter too much. See ya~" And gone.
[14:57] <Ginkyo> A lone, screwball mofujin relaxes in the hot spring, a towel on its head, somehow still fluffy and round despite being wet and humid
[14:57] <Anegumo> "We'll catch up later~"
[14:57] <Anegumo> (waterproof down fur)
[14:57] <GMingPenguin> "Get yer own spider lady, fuzzball."
[14:57] <Anegumo> "My my~"
[14:58] <Ginkyo> The lone mofujin puts on a "nyoro~n" face, and climbs onto Jebryu's head
[14:59] <GMingPenguin> Jebry pops off his hat, grabs the fluffball, stuffs it in the hat, and places it back on his head.
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[15:02] <GMingPenguin> Jebryu has second thoughts about sticking a potentially dangerous fluff ball on his head and so removes his hat, pulls out the mofujin, and tosses it in between the two girl tengu.
[15:03] <Ginkyo> The tiny mofujin pulls out a knife
[15:03] <GMingPenguin> Once realization sinks in of its location, its face becomes this: http://oi45.tinypic.com/vfi2di.jpg
[15:03] <Ginkyo> The tiny mofujin puts away the knife....slowly
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[15:05] <GMingPenguin> Haiiro, meanwhile, catches up to Ginkyo and Daimofujin about halfway between the hot springs and the youkai mountain. One leg is snapped, but the manly fluffball is working at repairing it.
[15:06] <GMingPenguin> Who knows what's going on at the springs now?
[15:07] <Ginkyo> Ginkyo is sitting atop with her Zounose face on (http://www.donmai.us/posts/1030029?tags=zounose+yakumo_yukari 2nd panel)
[15:07] <Haiiro-Honoo> This ability to self-recover, allowing the deceased...her, Ginkyo, considering her mental state, and her robot to keep on ressurecting...she's positive, this robot has accqu--can't even finish. Let's move on.
[15:08] <Haiiro-Honoo> Haiiro tails them, Honoo in tow, hoping that she doesn't turn and fire on them for some reason.
[15:09] <Haiiro-Honoo> Or put them on ice.
[15:09] <Haiiro-Honoo> Whichever!
[15:10] <GMingPenguin> Is Trissi still at the hotsprings or did she follow Haiiro in pursuit of Ginkyo?
[15:10] * Trissi was at the hot spring. She gets out of the hot spring, towels off and flies up the mountain.
[15:11] <Haiiro-Honoo> They'll probably reach the mountain before Haiiro does. Dat natural fast flight.
[15:11] <Haiiro-Honoo> If she passes by, Haiiro will definitely wave!
[15:12] <GMingPenguin> Daimofujin spots Trissi while taking a break from duct taping the leg. He stands (pflomphs?) up and shouts "Hey! Did I ever tell you about the time I made a truck out of a car and a motorboat?"
[15:13] * Trissi zoooom "hifairyBYEFAIRYhifluffy" Wait a minute I recognize them. "Uhh.. Another time!" and turns back to go see Haiiro.
[15:15] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Hi! You gonna watch this, too? It's definitely gonna be something~"
[15:15] <GMingPenguin> "Leg's broke, mistress. Duct tape ain't fixin' it." He's adopted a southern US accent for some reason.
[15:15] <Trissi> "I didn't want to be left alone with the spider. Aren't you gonna stop them?"
[15:17] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Why stop them~?"
[15:17] * Ginkyo breaks down into tears
[15:17] <Trissi> "Because.. um.."
[15:17] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Exactly."
[15:18] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Hold on. Doesn't that thing have a working jetpack or something? Can't it fly?"
[15:18] <Haiiro-Honoo> "What kind of super robot can't fly, anyway?"
[15:19] * Ginkyo gets her third wind, and slams Daimofujin back into the cockpit
[15:19] <GMingPenguin> Bobken enters the scene, his flight having dried his clothing. He pauses in the air next to Trissi and Haiiro, "Is she broke down?"
[15:19] * Ginkyo starts pressing all of the buttons, laughing maniacally
[15:19] * Trissi waves, "Nope, still goin! Slowly, but going."
[15:19] <GMingPenguin> The robot spazzes wildly.
[15:19] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin works levers which he feels are productive, like a real man
[15:19] <Haiiro-Honoo> "It could probably limp!"
[15:20] <GMingPenguin> The jet pack activates, and the mech flies sideways over the ground like a cat being pushed along the floor.
[15:20] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ah, it does! See, no need for legs when you can fly. ...Pfft."
[15:21] <GMingPenguin> Bobken mutters, "She can't be seen returning to the mountain like this..." he flies towards the mecha, holding Ginkyo's clothing in his hands.
[15:22] <Haiiro-Honoo> "That's why I'm waiting for her to be seen, returning to the mountain like this~"
[15:22] * Anegumo comes along soon after; she figured she should make sure ginkyo doesn't kill herself.
[15:22] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Though I think the best thing to do would be clothe her and bring her sisters to her, or something. But waiting for the fun times would be more fun.
[15:22] <Haiiro-Honoo> "
[15:25] <Anegumo> "Finally..." She has caught up with the group, wearing a towel around her wet body. she does have a bucket with Ginkyo's clothes though.
[15:25] * Anegumo doesn't have the bucket then, since bobken did
[15:25] <Trissi> "Ahaha, she's gonna show off to the whole mountain! Oh hey, she followed me!"
[15:26] <GMingPenguin> Bobken swoops down and grabs Ginkyo by the waist, and Daimofujin by the fluff. He curves back into the air just in time to escape the mecha's jump jets overheating and exploding the mecha a second time.
[15:26] <Haiiro-Honoo> "Ah, there it goes." Honoo flies near Anegumo. Drying off!
[15:27] * Anegumo crosses her legs and 'sits' in the air. She takes Honoo and uses her as a blowdryer.
[15:27] <Haiiro-Honoo> Honoo is the best blowdrier.
[15:27] <GMingPenguin> He drops Daimofujin unceremoniously to the ground, then holds up Ginkyo's clothes. "Forgot something."
[15:28] <Anegumo> "O-o-o-y. Ginkyo-o-o." She yells over the fast beating wings.
[15:28] * Ginkyo looks at him in tears and blows her nose unceremoniously into her clothes
[15:28] * Trissi hovers towards the explosion.
[15:28] <Anegumo> "Your sisters callled. they said you did such a good job they aren't gonna disown youuu." She figures this is the easiest way to put it.
[15:28] <Ginkyo> "Really?
[15:29] <Anegumo> "Mhm."
[15:30] * Anegumo shakes her head, her silky hair nice and soft and dry now
[15:30] <Anegumo> "So no more giant robots, alright?"
[15:31] <Anegumo> "...and more importantly you don't have to crash at my place."
[15:31] * Ginkyo nods, a happy smile and tears in her eyes
[15:31] * Ginkyo slies towards the Silver Tower at full speed, trailing celebratory danmaku and kitsunebi
[15:31] <Haiiro-Honoo> "...Ah. Honoo, follow me~!"
[15:31] <GMingPenguin> Bobken follows after her, "Put your clothes on BEFORE you get to the tower!"
[15:32] <Haiiro-Honoo> The two go there FASTER, with the intent to make this slightly less crazy for the poor sisters.
[15:32] <Anegumo> "Dammit...I was hopping we could go back to the hotspriiing." she whines.
[15:33] <Anegumo> She goes after Ginkyo; trying to tackle her to stop her. ITS THE ONLY WAY!
[15:34] <Haiiro-Honoo> Or more crazy. Either or.
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[15:34] * Ginkyo lets loose a spellcard, powered by happiness
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[15:34] <GMingPenguin> I forgot to mention Jebryu. He followed shortly behind Anegumo, oddly enough leaving the two girl tengus behind.
[15:34] <GMingPenguin> "Grab her so we can go back to the hotsprings!"
[15:35] <Ginkyo> " [Moon Sign] Lotus, Bean, and 5 Kernel Gifts! Everybody have a bite!"
[15:36] <Ginkyo> Mooncake danmaku fly out from her spellcard
[15:40] <GMingPenguin> Anegumo dodges all of the delicious looking food to slam right into Ginkyo!
[15:41] * Ginkyo slams into the dirt, still moving at a terrible speed
[15:41] * Anegumo slams her down to the ground, attempting to pin her until the rest of the group gets there. "Cmon Ginny! Lets just, lets just go back to the hotsprings!"
[15:43] <Ginkyo> "Must! See! Sisters!"
[15:43] * Ginkyo attempts to claw along the ground, even with Anegumo's weight
[15:43] * Ginkyo 's attempts are not fruitful
[15:44] <Anegumo> Weight?! all of her weight is in EXACTLY the right places, thank you very much.
[15:44] <Anegumo> "there there." she pets Ginkyo's head.
[15:45] <GMingPenguin> Bobken lands next to Anegumo and Ginkyo. "If you want to see your sisters, why don't you at least put your clothes on first?"
[15:45] <GMingPenguin> He's still blushing.
[15:46] <Anegumo> "...ah." Speaking of clothing, she's still in just a towel. "I don't suppose anyone remembered my clothes?"
[15:46] <Ginkyo> "Okay, I'll put them on..."
[15:47] <Ginkyo> "Could you let me go?"
[15:47] <GMingPenguin> Jebryu drops Anegumo's clothing on top of her. "If you insist."
[15:47] <Anegumo> "You're gonna-lmfsd... "You're just gonna run if I get up aren't you?
[15:47] <GMingPenguin> Bobken crouches down. "I'll catch her if she tries."
[15:48] <Ginkyo> "I'm wet, muddy, tired, and happy and sad. I don't think I can..."
[15:48] <GMingPenguin> "I think she needs to go back to the spring to wash herself again, though."
[15:48] * Anegumo nods, and gets up and gets dressed.
[15:49] * Ginkyo stands up, leans against a tree, and shakes some mud from her tails
[15:50] <GMingPenguin> Bobken stands nearby, holding Ginkyo's clothes out and respectfully averting his eyes.
[15:50] * Ginkyo slides the filth from herself, somehow using her inborn kitsune ability to become perfectly clean
[15:51] <Anegumo> Anegumo keeps her eyes on Ginkyo, just to make sure she doesn't run off, "Cmon Gin, we can see your sisters tonight... geez, even Kendra isn't this rascally when she's drunk."
[15:51] * Ginkyo puts on her clothes, slowly, working out the aches from her anxiety and insanity-based wounds
[15:54] <GMingPenguin> "There, feel better?"
[15:55] * Ginkyo nods like a child
[15:55] * Ginkyo kicks the dirt sheepishly
[15:55] <Ginkyo> "Thanks...everyone."
[15:56] <GMingPenguin> "Good, now, let's get you back to your sisters, I hear they have a steak for you."
[15:56] <Anegumo> "Mmm, steak."
[15:56] * Anegumo licks her lips
[15:57] <Haiiro-Honoo> Sadly, if that wasn't on the agenda, Haiiro wouldn't be able to warn them about it. Ho hum.
[15:57] * Ginkyo begins her flight back to the Silver Tower
[15:57] <Ginkyo> Daimofujin is still in the forest, painstakingly taping the parts of the kappa mecha back together
[15:58] * Anegumo follows behind, somewhat envious at Ginkyo's ability to clean up so well.
[15:58] <GMingPenguin> And indeed, there was steak. Even some, perhaps, for friends.
[16:00] <GMingPenguin> The Kappa had been hired by the Tengu to test their ability to defend a VIP when off the mountain, which is why Ginkyo couldn't stay at the restaurant.
[16:00] <GMingPenguin> Not telling the "VIP" about it, well, that may have been Aya being a jerk. Just like the silly callsigns.
[16:01] * Anegumo teases Jebryu about his and tries to get his real name
[16:02] <GMingPenguin> Nobody's sure about what happened at the hotsprings after everyone left Anegumo and the three tengu behind; neither Anegumo nor Jebryu are talking, and it took the tow girls half the day to get back.
[16:02] * Anegumo didn't tease jebryu about his then :(
[16:02] <Ginkyo> The one lone mofujin says nothing.
[16:02] <Ginkyo> He does not speak of that day.
[16:03] <GMingPenguin> Not like that, Jebryu and Anegumo are talking to each other, they're just not telling other people.
[16:03] * Anegumo teases jebryu then :>
[16:04] <GMingPenguin> And who knows what's going through Bobken's mind now.
[16:05] <Ginkyo> Fsteak
[16:05] <GMingPenguin> Kasasagi descends from the clouds and lands on a branch, his feathers glistening in the sunlight. He turns one beady eye towards the camera and gives a light caw, and as the camera zooms into the black of his face his beak turns up in a smile. He saw.