tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88195019991063737152024-03-05T09:38:30.751+00:00東方達コレクション・新生活New Life of Eastern Friends Collection : A Tomodachi Life BlogCharlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-27091162520965505452015-08-03T21:35:00.003+01:002015-08-03T21:35:51.927+01:00Clam Before The Strum<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So, is he going to <b>Show</b> up?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nnn... at this rate, it's starting to get more and more unlikely. I mean, he was pretty ticked off that we refused to address him by his proper name, but there's already a <b>Shou</b> on this island. We can't have two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dang it. And I'd prepared a party hat and a T-shirt introducing him as the latest peon to join Bunbunmaru Updates. How's he even surviving, it's not like he's receiving handouts from <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> and the other islanders, is he?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well... considering that his biodata said he had a reputation for stealing, it's entirely possible that he could be getting on in his own way...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So, the old five-finger discount. I'd be surprised if he's able to pull it off, though. You know those wooden-headed robots that run the stores around here? They don't mess around when it comes to shoplifters. Where do you think they get their fuel to operate? Certainly it's not from combusting the accumulated contents of the latrines on this island!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He seems gentlemanly enough, though. Certainly more than you, <b>Kiba</b>. He might have been able to convince someone well enough to persuade them to feed him despite his status as a layabout and a rogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You're kidding, I mean, look at me! I'm way more destitute and in need of handouts than some lamer like him. I mean, all I have are the clothes on my back, a laptop, and multiple MMORPG accounts with rare items and in-game currency. If anyone deserves to be fed, it's a poor buried talent like me!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or, you know, you should get a job instead of playing computer games all day...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Implying I'm not doing anything right now... oh, whatever. I'm saying there's no way he could have persuaded someone to feed a good-for-nothing like him. Maybe he stole something valuable, sold it, and used the profits to buy himself a meal.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of which, there's been a report recently from the Mii Wear clothing shop that a certain extremely expensive item has gone missing recently, and if it turns up anywhere the finder is encouraged to bring it back... or face being hunted into extinction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lost, expensive Jewel Dress? Coo... maybe I should go look for it and bring it back to claim a reward. Besides, it's not like I'd steal it or anything. Why would I want a dress, dresses are for girls.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't worry, <b>Kiba</b>. It's not like anyone suggested for a single moment that your deepest greatest desire is to wear a girly dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's right.... hey, what's that supposed to mean?!</i> <i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">No, nothing at all. It's pretty clear that you'd never wear a dress unless someone paid you a lot of money to do it, and make you stand at the top of the mountain and do a silly pose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Of course I wouldn't, but... where are you getting all these silly ideas from?</i> <i>I mean, sure, I need money, but I'm not that desperate... or that absurd.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe <b>Show</b>'s just gone to cash in on the one of the latest crazes on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. It's like <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s Funniest Home Videos,<i> </i>except you're filming yourself instead of your cretinous relative or underling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ugh, how silly... but this doesn't solve our problem. <b>Show</b> is, well, not going to show. And that means <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> is probably going to dump whatever big project she was planning on top of our heads.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On that, well, I actually got some news in from her the other day, and it's been corroborated with <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>'s office... things might get a little strange within a week's time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A little strange? What, are they opening the time-space anomaly again? It's been a while since they did that, and for all the problems it helped to fix it just introduced way more. Not to mention... damn it, I'll never forget that mist of blood...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm not sure what exactly what was meant, but it seems that <b>Gensokyo Island</b> will be, uh, setting a course for a region of higher traveller density. I haven't a clue what that means myself, but....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You know, <b>Yugen</b>... have you ever taken a look at all these old photographs on the walls of the office? Those <b>Aya </b>took, showing all these travellers from foreign lands, posing with the citizens of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, whole groups of the lined up at the docks....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>In all the time I've been on this island, I've never seen such a sight. Assuming the photos weren't faked....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You're saying <b>Gensokyo Island</b> used to be very different in the past? Before... before, well, I can't even conceive of how this island could have been different. It's always looked very much the same to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's exactly how I feel. It's like... it's like this place we're living on right now was like a whole other planet or something. And yet, if it wasn't for all these old photographs, it'd be impossible to tell.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So, <b>Show</b> didn't report for work at Bunbunmaru Updates, and there are rumours of some fundamental shakeup in the near future. If it's any consolation, at least the islanders here have been pretty quiet, which leaves us less things to do and more time to be prepared.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Worrisome, yes, but there's that at least. Wait... it seems here that there's a message for both of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who's it from? Unusual for anyone to actually want to talk to us...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's.... <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>? The message... "Gather your belongings. Be prepared to depart at any moment within the fortnight."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>W... what? Depart at any moment? And people still use the word "fortnight"?!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's what it says. Oh dear... this sounds ominous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>, what the heck is wrong with you? What are you yelling about this time?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What's happened to my eyes?! All I see is ... is meat! The entire world is made of meat! Everything's covered in meat! Oh dear god why?! It's like that damn visual novel where...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>, why the heck do you have Bacon on your face? Did you fall asleep at the desk after yet another late-night gaming session?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Uh.... *blink* ... yeah, I must have fallen asleep right on top of my lunch. Oops.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yeah yeah, whatever... *nom*... well, it still tastes... URGH! It's awful, rancid and slimy and disgusting! My perceptions must have been warped by some horrible force to see something as wonderful as bacon as inedible!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course it's going to be disgusting. Not only did you leave it out in the open for hours and hours but you slept right on top of it as well. Now enough of your nonsense, I heard from our boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> that there would be an interesting new arrival today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, those? <b>Ramza Beoulve</b> and his son <b>Almaz Beoulve</b> today both indicated that they wanted to expand their families, which is pretty unique as not only are they father and son, but each family has, respectively, only one child. <b>Almaz</b> being the one child of <b>Ramza</b>, while <b>Almaz </b>has one son <b>Adam</b> as well. I wonder if their respective wives <b>Konata Izumi</b> and <b>Koyomi Saigyouji</b> have planned something along those lines as well, it's too coincidental to be...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>ARGH! It's horrible, get it away! Awful writhing balls of flesh, pulsing and seething, with random eyes, tentacles, and teeth! Monsters! They're all monsters!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No it isn't. You must have been having recurring nightmares of those times you spent sleeping rought outside Mii Homes while the wailing of crying babies pervaded your every waking moment. I mean, sure, some babies are pretty hideous given the reproductive history of some utterly horrifying eldritch abominations living on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> like <b>Kyubey Incubator</b> and <b>Desco Kazamatsuri</b>, but the majority of them are pretty tolerable albeit cacophonic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No, I'm serious! Just look at this photograph! This one here! It's horrible!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hmm? Who's that? I don't recognise her... ah, it must be the new islander we were told about. Let's see, what's her name... <b>Saya Ougai</b>? Doesn't sound like anyone familiar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Don't you see, <b>Yugen</b>? It's already too late! If she looks like a normal person to you then you've already been infected! She's not just an ordinary girl, she's actually a...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's the end of the world! THE END OF THE WORLD!! We're all going to...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I hit him a little too hard... well, he'd probably be exactly right if he sees everything in terms of gore, considering the amount of blood running down his face right now... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mmm... what is this... delicious juice? I must have more...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>, you're still conscious? Ew, what the heck... are you drinking your own...<i> </i>yuck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wriggle Nightbug</b> and <b>Berthold Gregor</b> became Best Friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Almaz Beoulve</b> announced that his wife <b>Koyomi Saigyouji</b> was pregnant with their second child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ramza Beoulve</b> announced that his wife <b>Konata Izumi</b> was pregnant with their second child!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Please welcome <b>Saya Ougai</b>, the newest resident of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>! She is an Easygoing Softie.</span></span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-87791327828884360112015-07-27T23:55:00.001+01:002015-07-27T23:56:36.775+01:00Dopple Gangster<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mmmph... I'm so full, I could hardly eat another bite! That party was the best!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eh? <b>Kiba</b>? Is that... free cake you've got there? And I know it's free, because I certainly couldn't imagine you spending your pathetic salary on silly things like fancy coloured cake,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ah, <b>Yugen</b>... you know me so well already. And yeah, it was totally free! I picked it up in the morning post before you arrived, but it was an invitation to <b>Kanako Yasaka</b>'s birthday party! The only other necessary conditions for entry, apart from having an invite, were swearing eternal loyalty to the Moriya Shrine (whatever that is) and agreeing to not see the last two zeroes from her actual age. But surely 20.00 and 20 are the same thing, right?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">That hag is 20, really? And that's <b>Kanako</b>'s wifey <b>Shanghai</b> at the back with <b>Okuu</b> - I was a little concerned but two were actually getting along well.</span><b> </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A shame... I even licked it to make sure no one else would take it so I could save it to bring back here for you. Oh well, more for me...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yeck. Anyway, I met <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> on the way here and she told us we have an extra-special assignment today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>*gobble* ... ahem... Extra-special? How so?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A new traveller?! Don't tell me...</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Always good to have more non-robot assaasin travellers show up. But... <b>S</b></span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">hou</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">? Where have I seen that name before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Aw, darn it... I swear even without taking into account those kids born recently here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, this place is turning into a right sausage fest. Good thing I can find all the girls I need on the Internet, and they're much cuter in 2D too.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">N... nothing. Anyway, let's just go scout this new fellow out, shall we? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I could swear I heard.... oh never mind. Let's grab the usual blackmail supplies and go, then. He could be a promising new minion for Bunbunmaru Updates... assuming he isn't a complete loony like <b>Alex</b>, that is... </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Says his name's ... <b>Shou</b>? Isn't that the name of someone else on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>? And this is only the second island that he's been to... but he's already got a record.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Actually, it says he has a talent stealing metaphorical and intangible things. Like stealing people's names, manner of speech, even their quirks. So while he technically counts as having stole them, they're still in the possession of their original owners so they didn't actually lose anything... except possibly their temper at having their defining characteristics stolen from them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hey, what are you plebs doing standing out there in the middle of nowhere? Are you guys visiting, or just acting as furniture? Come in, come in, let's have a chat... about the weird characters from anime and video games on this island.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Whoa! Wait... did that bastard just call us "plebs"? Isn't that the kind of thing you used to do before this island beat a bit of humility into you, <b>Yugen</b>?</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And I'm <b>Kiba</b>. I used to be a traveller like you, but then I took a heck of a lot of misfortune to the knee and I've been stuck on this island since February. So you can say I'm pretty much a long-term resident at this point.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I see now why <b>Aya</b> told us to handle this... well, apart from the fact that she usually tells us to handle stuff like this while she spends her time taking naughty photographs... ahem. So, yeah, we can't call you the same thing because it might cause a bit of confusion. Can we have an alternative?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, it's not unheard of for two people to have the same name... <b>Aliasse Foerster </b>and <b>Minamitsu Murasa </b>have a kid called <b>Drake</b>, while <b>Utonium</b> is also known as <b>Drake Kitazawa</b>, but one's a traveller and the other's a rarely used full name, so... well, let's just call you something different in our report. How about <b>Show</b>? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHAAAAA...?!!!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nothing. Merely a manner of speech I observed from a strange person at the port. Ha ha ha.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Um... well, we'd appreciate if you didn't imitate him. It freaks out poor <b>Kiba</b> over here... yeah, he can be a bit of an arse sometimes but I'd rather have him as his usual self and not a gibbering wreck.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... what. Are you saying you were worried about me?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not exactly. Considering how you almost never go out any more I'd reckoned you must have done it because you were either insane or suicidial. Ah, and here I was trying to pawn all your things off...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHAT? You most certainly did not do any of that! And where's my laptop?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I figured you wouldn't be needing it any more so I traded it for a bowl of Caviar and a Truffle. Best deal ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No way, you most certainly didn't... see, if's just over there. Now stop taking the piss, that's supposed to be my job, and you're supposed to be the straight man.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">W.... what. Since you were acting out of character for once, I guess I ought to give it a shot myself. Seems awfully pleasant to behave just like a certain snarky wisecracking prick every once in a while.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>J... just shut up, okay! I was on... on assignment. I was meeting the first new fellow who moved in to <b>Gensokyo Island</b> for the last few months, all right?</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bargon wan chee Cospa <b>Tenchou</b>! Hohohoho....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A... ahem. So, back to my usual meek unassuming self who has to take all your usual crap, what's this new guy <b>Meito Anizawa</b> like?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, you know, the loud, hot-blooded protagonist-type sort of character? Except instead of being an adventurer he runs a comics store instead! I couldn't have asked for a better new friend on this island!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I see. And I gather that since you don't have any money with you he kicked you out of his store for browsing the comics without paying for them. Assuming they weren't hermetically sealed, that is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>N... normally you'd be right. Except that he was too busy trying to get that other girl <b>Konata Izumi</b> to buy something instead, so I managed to spend the time reading the strategy guide for the latest MMO cover to cover! Once I log back in I'm gonna wipe the floor with those noobs...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... when, you know, you should actually have been doing work here at the news office? And you were actually skiving off instead on the pretext of meeting the new resident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>...whoa, man. What's gotten into you? I mean, yeah, you're usually kinda uppity, but having a sense of responsibility to go along with it? Now that's new...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's not really a sense of responsibility. It's more like.. frustration, after your boss comes into the office and dumps a whole stack of paperwork on your desk, and the only computer you're allowed to use happens to be owned by your lazy senior co-worker who's trying to take the day off? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A... ahem. Yeah, that's right. Remind me again why we're such a great team... to think that neither of us had actually done or intended to do a day's worth of work in our lives before coming to this island.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">S... shut up and speak for yourself. Anyway, three different families each had a son the other day, and all of the kids look nearly identical to their fathers. It's like mother nature got lazy too and just copied their genes over almost exactly. Well, <b>Reimu</b> and <b>ZUN</b>'s tenth child <b>Junto</b> looks a little more like an individual, but it's hard to say that <b>Sanae</b>'s son <b>Lucius</b> and <b>Yuuka</b>'s son <b>Pierre</b> are anything other than just like their fathers <b>Baldren</b> and <b>Sycamore</b> respectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It kinda explains the names too. I mean, what kind of cheesy name is <b>Pierre</b> anyway. At least <b>Lucius</b> sounds way more obviously like a bad guy than <b>Baldren</b> does.</i> <i>But anyway, so I take it that's all, well, that's pretty neat then...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No, it isn't! You think those names are cheesy, what about being inundated with cheesy baby photos and even cheesier catchphrases? I swear to heaven there's more types of cheese on this island than a French supermarket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So I heard... I don't know what's up with <b>Shinmyoumaru Sukuna</b> and <b>Overlord Laharl</b>'s son <b>Harlan</b>, but I hear he cries sometimes while he's lying in bed just to let it all out while it's in his head. Perhaps it's part of the realisation that he has a mouth and needs to scream. On the other hand <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b> and <b>Overlord Mao</b>'s son <b>Pádraig</b> just wants a pint... of Milk or Orange Juice, or preferably Spiced Apple Cider. That kid drinks an awful lot for such a youngster.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's a tale of two Overlords, isn't it? It's surprising that two kids could turn out so differently despite having similar fathers. It's probably because while <b>Harlan</b> resembles his dad, <b>Pádraig</b> goes against the mould and seems to be more like his mom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hmhm.... very cute. But in the end it doesn't matter to <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>, as long as it's another kid sent out into the world to fuel her wicked plans. That's why pretty much everything's a dime a dozen on this island except contraception and family planning advice.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ugh... you don't say. What worries me is that the docks are getting overcrowded again. I heard that <b>Alex</b> has been cleaning the place tirelessly as "part of his programming", or so he claimed, but that place is soon going to reach the limits of its livability again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Really? You heard such a thing? Well... if that idiot alien robot assassin from the future didn't predict such a thing, he couldn't have been all that perfect now, could he? Should have sent a more advanced model, hahaha...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>...<b> Kiba</b>? Hey<i>, </i>what the... are you hiding under the desk again? It's just <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> here to collect our reports... <b>Kiba</b>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Junto</b> was born to <b>Reimu Hakurei</b> and <b>Junya Ohta</b>. It's their tenth child! He is an Independent Free Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lucius</b> was born to <b>Sanae Kochiya</b> and <b>Baldren Gassenarl</b>. It's their sixth child! He is an Outgoing Leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pierre</b> was born to <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> and <b>Augustine Sycamore</b>. It's their sixth child! He is an Independent Thinker.</span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-52185451215513836592015-07-21T23:20:00.000+01:002015-07-29T21:47:40.379+01:00Not Just Any Mate<span style="font-size: small;">Yawn... another boring day at the news office... hey <b>Kiba</b>, I bought snacks from Food Mart just for you, so you don't starve while glued to that computer of y...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>'s gone! Where did he go? Ugh.... most certainly I'm not worried about such a lowlife like him. More rather, I don't want to have to toss out this awful unhealthy junk food. I'd never consume such horrid plebeian food myself, so if he doesn't eat it it's just going to stink up the office and go to waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let's just assume <b>Alex</b> didn't actually kidnap him or terminate him. After all, despite all of <b>Kiba</b>'s weird conspiracy theories and the rather bizarre things <b>Alex</b> has said, <b>Alex</b> is most definitely not some kind of alien robot cyborg assassin from the future sent back in time to fiddle with events of the past. I mean, his face is just like one of those stone statues.... who'd ever have that kind of idea to build a robot that looks like that, anyway?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Minamitsu Murasa</b> celebrated her sixth birthday, and <b>Rin Kaenbyou</b> her nineteenth birthday, which is kind of odd considering that <b>Murasa</b> is a ghost and <b>Orin</b>'s some kind of two-tailed demon cat, but maybe these creatures of Japanese folklore count their years a little differently. How old am I, anyway? Well, in comparison I'd say a fraction of their years, so I suppose it fits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is kinda strange that a drowned ghost and a hellfire cat would have the same kind of meals at their birthday parties ... omelette and rice with ketchup, what the heck kind of birthday treat is that? Ah well, it couldn't be helped, perhaps <b>Gensokyo Island</b> has only one catering company... and a pretty low-class one at that. But it would be good enough for <b>Kiba</b>... or would it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's strange to think of it, but as long as I've known him... well, I'm pretty sure he knows that they give out free food at parties like these, but it's rarely been enough to drag him out of the office, unless he's covering it as part of an assignment. Perhaps it's been something recent that has been surprising and shocking enough to interest him and actually drag him out of the office on its own... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So... hmm... what kinds of things does <b>Kiba</b> like other than food? In fact, I don't think he likes food so much as he needs it to live... eventually, so I suppose that one can be crossed out. What else does he like... hmm... girls? Does he even like girls, or does he just say that so people stop bothering him about... no, wait, let's not go there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, yes of course! Another thing he likes would be games, and lots of them. But it doesn't make sense, if he uses his computer to play games, why would he leave? Surely his computer isn't bust... well, if it was, he'd either be cracking it open himself or trying to get some of the resident mad scientists like <b>Overlord Mao</b> or <b>Maximillian Magma</b> in to help him out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, other than games, what else would he like that would pull him out of his shell? Oh, yes, Japanese animation and comics, I've seen him looking at those when he's not playing one of his computer games. And speaking of newness... I distinctly recall <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> mentioning something about inviting new residents to <b>Gensokyo Island</b> for the first time in many moons. Hmm, let's check the records...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Meito Anizawa</b> is his name. Doesn't ring any bells, is he some kind of famous character from a game or series? And his profession... Anime and Manga merchandise store manager...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">... oh wait. That explains so much. And that also explains why... why that bastard <b>Kiba</b> ran off with my stockpile of Caviar and Truffles. Ghh.... when I find that thieving miscreant, I swear I'm going to string him up, even if he's in some kind of silly cosplay. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Please welcome <b>Meito Anizawa</b>, the newest resident of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>! He is an Outgoing Leader.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For heavens' sake, you're either playing games or dozing. Come on, get up already!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... KYAAAA!!!! <b>Alex</b>, I'm begging you! Anything but rats</i><b></b><i>! Do it to<b> Yugen</b>! I don't care what you do to him!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whaaa... wait, what? Hey, <b>Kiba</b>, what are you on about?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... eh? This isn't Room 101... <b>Yugen</b>? Aw no, this isn't some kind of circuitous psychological torture, is it? Next thing you're going to stick me in that cage with the rats in it and...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Huh... <b>Yugen</b>, for real? Better pinch myself, and... *ouch* ... I guess you might be real after all...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Shut up, you're not dreaming! Anyway, <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> gave us some advance warning that there may be some increased activity around the island over the next few days, and she wants us to capture as much of it as we can for Bunbunmaru Updates.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Productivity"? Ah... so, cranking up the old baby factory again. Things have been slowed down a lot recently since the bad days of mass reproduction. Kind of like about the time you arrived, when <b>Toritori</b> was still here.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whoa... that's going to be a whole tide of babyflesh descending on this island over the next few days! It's a good thing that I sleep in the office now instead of in the rought outside Mii Homes, I wouldn't be able to stand the noise otherwise!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And you only sleep here because <b>Aya</b> doesn't come in as often anymore. Maybe she's implicitly trusting you to be working instead of goofing off all the time like you really are.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted in response to that.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whatever, ahem. Anyway, even <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has got in with the 'increased productivity' business. I heard that, after a really long lull, she's finally sending out advertisements to search for potential new residents for <b>Gensokyo Island</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What, seriously? Incredible, it's been ages since the last one, <b>Kagerou Imaizumi</b>, joined us. Several months, in fact.</i> <i>But I'm not surprised no one has showed up so far, this place is nothing short of a slave-driving, soul-crushing, </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> dead-end abyss of awfulness.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, there have been some people who came here on their own willingly, even knowing what this place is like... I speak, of course, of the traveller children of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, some of whom have returned to visit their parents!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tadakichi Mihama</b> and <b>Tia Arlert</b> received a double blessing today, as two of their children returned to visit them in a single day, each with their own achievements to report. Notable, of course, was <b>Yves</b>, who reported visiting his seventh island, meaning he's back to tying with <b>Chiyoko</b>, daughter of<b> Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b> and <b>Chiyo Mihama</b>, as well as <b>Vytautas</b>, son of <b>Shinmyoumaru Sukuna</b> and <b>Overlord Laharl</b> for the honour of being the most travelled! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I'd say that's really impressive! As for the other one, wait... is that dyed hair I see? Congratulations to that girl... <b>Salvatore</b>, is it? You've reached the pinnacle of a traveller's destiny! Okay... well, it would probably be more impressive to get a brown shirt or better, but getting your hair dyed is already damned awesome.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hmm, that's pretty lucky, isn't it? Being a successful traveller. I wish I could say the same - staying here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s the easy and safe life, but sometimes I'd like to do a little more...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shut up, you. I've been here on this island for six months now. Six bloody months. On one hand I can say I'm awfully pleased to still be alive, considering the kind of horrific things we've seen since we were here. On the other hand, though...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Even a bone-idle NEET like you wants to move on eventually, don't you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>N....nopenopenope, you've got it totally wrong, rich boy. I like it here where it's warm, safe, and I can slack around all day and leech off other people's wifi. Just that... well, I don't like my folks getting worried about what's happened to me...</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Eugh, no sappy, namby-pamby talk, please! I'm an independent person, I don't need to be mollycoddled by anyone, and I don't need to have anyone fussing over me!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But you can't help except be reminded of it every day, right? That maybe there's someone out there wondering what happened to you...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>S... shut up! That's enough! I don't need any of your psychological warfare! </i><i><i>Even just hearing about it makes me ill.</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yves</b> returned from Flevance Island to visit his parents <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>! He has visited 7 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Salvatore </b>returned from Festaland Island to visit her parents <b>Tia Arlert </b>and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>! She has visited 2 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Junya Ohta</b> announced that his wife <b>Reimu Hakurei</b> was pregnant with their tenth child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Augustine Sycamore</b> announced that his wife <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> was pregnant with their sixth child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kikuchiyo Kanbei</b> announced that his wife <b>Rin Kaenbyou</b> was pregnant with their first child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Konata Izumi</b> tried a Capuccino today. She thought it was the <span style="color: orange;">Worst<span style="color: black;">!</span></span></span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-81748061331186521152015-07-15T23:55:00.002+01:002015-07-15T23:57:55.445+01:00Blast from the Past<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whew... with that idiot <b>Alex</b> gone from the office, it's finally time for us to do something a little different!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What's so different, <b>Kiba</b>? In the end it's still work, drudgery for our daily bread. In other words, after finally actually seeing our boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> for the first time in over a week, what should be the first thing she'd do, but to dump a whole pile of letters and reports on us and tell us to sort it out?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ah, but that's where the fun lies, silly! Real jobs where you have to slave away at something you hate are what sucks, on the other hand, being able to pry into other people's secrets, private affairs, all that nitty-gritty they've hoped to keep hidden away... that's the real gem, isn't it?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's a letter from... me? Addressed to... the <b>Kiba</b> of the past. From the <b>Kiba</b> of the future.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What? How is that even possible? Is this some kind of overly-elaborate prank?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>N... no way! I don't even have any idea what such a weird letter is doing here! Let me get it open and see what it's about... oh.... oh crap.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dear <b>Kiba</b> of the past. Beware! It took many efforts to get this letter to reach you, so do not disregard my warnings! You are about to view the contents of some letters, some of which may be too difficult to believe. DO NOT question them. Unfortunately, I did... and now the Ministry of Love has arrested me for doubleplusungoodthink. You know what awaits in Room 101. You DO NOT want to see it. So whatever you do, do not make yourself a target by being some kind of sceptical prick and disbelieving everything you read. Love, <b>Kiba</b> from the future. (P.S. <b>Alex</b> is one of them...) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Er... ahem... I think I will. Next on the pile...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not bad, huh. With a face like that, I'd say it's something right out of a science fiction novel. Terrifying. What more can you say about a family who has produced a grand total of just one non-maladjusted child out of their litter?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>And the next piece of evidence to demonstrate that <b>Gensokyo Island</b> is a perfectly normal place where anyone could live. We hereby present, the grown-up daughter of a girl with a doll obsession... and an unkillable, reality-warping, soul-stealing alien</i>... <i>hey! Isn't <b>Alice Margatroid</b> wearing almost the same (impossibly stupid) outfit that our idiot boss was wearing some time ago?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">An odd coincidence, yes, but It must be the latest fashion in maternity wear... anyway, <b>Gertrud</b> does look awfully cute for such a little thing with a troubled past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hmm, there's also a disclaimer here... that reconstructive surgery was definitely not used to transform <b>Gertrud</b> from some horrid misshapen featureless abomination into a relatively normal looking humanoid for the purposes of infiltrating ordinary society and poisoning them with vile and monstrous thoughts. She is most definitely a normal girl... that's what the note says.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>If it is, it's a pretty mild thing to be warning us about. We all know that that awful <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> performs reconstructive surgery on horribly misshapen children pretty much on a whim. And besides, <b>Gensokyo Island</b> is full of villains, freaks, and abominable monstrosities, another one isn't going to doom the world any more than it already is</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wow... <b>Vytautas</b>? It's been a while... Glad to hear that he's still alive somewhere in Lithuania... I mean Japan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>And now we have a letter here from... who? Wow, I can hardly believe it!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No, no! It's one of the travellers from way back in <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s history... well, half a year ago, that's almost history. Unlike a lot of those chittering little maggots milling about the docks you see today, this guy's been travelling since before I arrived on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ugh, no, I just want to think of myself as... some kind of parasite, leeching off their wifi and clogging up their bandwith with all my online games and illicit downloads... ahem. Anyway, this guy here is <b>Vytautas</b>, the first son of <b>Sukuna</b> and <b>Laharl</b> whom we were talking about just a moment ago! Apparently, the last time he wrote back was all the way back in February, according to our records. That's pretty amazing for him to have survived this long...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Think about what your folks must be wondering about you. <b>Kiba</b> hasn't written back for almost six months, too...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That is... true... but it's not my fault they never check their email... because it's clogged up with spam from all the random weird crap I subscribe to over the Internet. But congratulations to this fellow for leaping up to share the title of Most Travelled <b>Gensokyo Island</b> child together with <b>Chiyoko</b>, daughter of <b>Chiyo Mihama</b> and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>, with 7 islands visited altogether.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Please! Listen to me! The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost p... AHHH... FRESH MEAT!!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hmm... here's another traveller's letter. <b>Aya</b> wasn't kidding when she said we had a whole stack of stuff to chew through. Who's it from... <b>Belle</b>, daughter of <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> and <b>Augustine Sycamore</b>...?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wait... didn't she visit her parents' home over a week or so ago? And yet... huh? It says that she's only visited one island? And... it's not the same island as the one we've got here on her records... is this some kind of time distortion? What my clone in the future said?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There's a much easier explanation, don't be daft. It must have been the first island she visited, before she went to another one, then made the trip home to see her parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lost in the series of tubes, you say. Well... I suppose that's entirely possible, to think about it now... heh, how silly of me to get all suspicious like that... now on to the last one...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>HEY! Wait, weren't we here before? I mean, we were just reporting about it the other day! That <b>Patchouli</b> and <b>Mao</b> had a kid... surely they didn't have another one! What happened to the old one?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's in our records somewhere around here, isn't it? Our report from a couple of days ago? And that their kid was called <b>Patrick</b>... now, this one's called <b>Pádraig</b>? Wait, did they get an Irish guy to play the Doctor now? And he's an Independent Thinker instead of being an Outgoing Leader? What the hell's going on here?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I mean, just look, even his face isn't exactly the same as before! I remember it clearly! Now just hold on to this while I dig through those archives! Surely our last report hasn't gone missing so quickly already? It's gotta be somewhere around here...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shut up and help me find it! Damn, where is it? Or did the Ministry of Truth get to it already...</i></span><br />
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-30102760974415811922015-07-14T22:05:00.000+01:002015-07-14T22:05:18.170+01:00Blackout to the Future<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... ugh ...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... groo ... <b>Yugen</b>? Ugh, of all the sights to see upon waking up. A cute chick would have been so much better...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, don't be unappreciative. Don<i>'</i>t you realise who had to take care of you for the past three days while you were unconscious? You're getting only one guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Unconscious? Three days? Wait... oh my god! I was supposed to meet my clan mates for a raid! And we had to shell out just to get an instance of that dungeon generated for us... holy crap, they're going to kill me for this!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So... unconscious for three days? In the Bunbunmaru Updates press office? Well, I wouldn't be surprised that our lazy boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> didn't seem to notice at all...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fact, she did, she dropped by to check a couple of days ago if we were still alive, after sending her youngest child <b>Taiga</b> off to the port with her husband <b>Shou Toramaru</b>. You should be grateful, in fact, I'd left you under the table until she forced... er, helped me to haul you out from there.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Under the table? Oh.... OH! That jerkface <b>Alex</b> who was responsible for all of this... uh, I mean... just checking, but he's really gone, isn't he?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, I did observe him walking back down the hill toward the port that day, in fact he didn't look back even once. And he hasn't been back since. He sure walks awfully slowly though... I wonder how he managed to sneak up on us.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Grr... that bastard, I'll teach him a lesson for... for doing something to me and knocking me out! I can't believe it... three days? Three days of computer games that I could've been playing... and I missed a couple of anime episodes too! Don't tell me he's gone back to 'harmonising' the rest of the island in the interest of his space alien overlords!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but he's definitely responsible! After all, all those weird coicidences with things falling neatly into place with each other and everyone getting along fine and dandy happened before he showed up at the office. Now that he's gone... it's started again. Suspicious, don't you think?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It could just be fortuity. And besides, all the time he was here, neither of us could have left. He was the one feeding us with information. It's entirely possible that he covered up anything too compromising so we didn't find out about it. But since he left, though, there have been some odd coincidences...if this picture of <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b> and her newborn... son, <b>Patrick</b>, mean anything...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But the two looked exactly alike, except one was a boy and one was a girl... speaking of which, <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has also been unusually muted recently. Given that she's probably the most disruptive thing on this island it's entirely possible she might have been silenced somehow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">M... maybe. Or it could just be that there were too many leftover party costumes from earlier this month, and <b>Overlord Laharl</b> decided to put one on to celebrate his soon-to-be fifth child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right. Well, then, why don't you just run along back to the docks and get ready to depart for your home planet, or wherever you came from? It's not like we're asking you to help us here at Bunbunmaru Updates any more, and if <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> doesn't get back to the office, you don't get paid. So you can go back to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I understand. So you see, what I'm telling you now is that you've already done everything you could for us, and it's really appreciated, really... so you can go now. In other words, goodbye and be off with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This <b>Ramza</b> is no wallflower... nor is he a good guy any more. For 'justice'.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Name:</b> Ramza Beoulve</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nickname:</b> Ramza</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date of Birth:</b> 20th January 1997</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Personality:</b> Confident Brainiac</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Favourite Colour:</b> Dark Blue</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Quotation:</b> "For 'justice'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ramza" target="_blank"><b>Ramza Beoulve</b></a> is the main character of the game Final Fantasy Tactics by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation. Although born an aristocrat, he was originally destined for a life of mediocrity compared to his two older and more successful half-brothers. All that changed after a chance encounter following his graduation from the military academy, which set him on a path to not only quell the nation's raging civil war, but also uncover horrible truths about his family, his friends, and the nation's official religion and finally pitting him the hidden conspiracy driving it all, orchestrated by a cabal of ancient demons seeking to reawaken their dark master. Did I also mention that everything he did was also officially forgotten by history, he was condemned as a heretic, and all his real achievements were laid claim to by others who knew the truth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've never hesitated to assert that Final Fantasy Tactics is, in my opinion, the best computer game ever created. It has the perfect mix of an enthralling, captivating, and original story, a memorable cast of characters, a complicated yet flexible game system, challenging yet manageable difficulty, and even an AI that was surprisingly capable for its time. It was thus only right that I pick someone from this game as a representative on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, and while there were several candidates perhaps it was the heroic yet hapless everyman nature of <b>Ramza</b> himself which made him easiest to reproduce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As with all good intentions, however... <b>Ramza</b> is one of the characters on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> who deviates most wildly from his original incarnation. Perhaps it's due to the personality he was assigned, but he is nearly nothing like the original, who is kind, earnest, a little naïve, but ultimately heroic. Instead, the <b>Ramza</b> of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, is sarcastic, cunning, and often spiteful as well... thankfully, if there's one thing that carried over right, he's at least still (nominally) a good guy. Unlike <i>actual</i> villains, he has yet to do anything bad on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> apart from snark at just about anyone and everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Just look at his smarmy wink! <b>Ramza</b>'s all like, heh heh, I shacked up with the most hyperactive... I mean awesome anime girl this side of Japan!</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wife:</b> Konata Izumi</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Best Friend:</b> Mitsukuni Haninozuka</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Children:</b> Almaz Beoulve</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ramza</b>'s courtship and marriage of <b>Konata Izumi</b> were in themselves nothing out of the ordinary... after all, it's pretty much the modus operandi of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> to get random characters from Japanese games and anime paired up for hilarity. Howeve, what did make their marriage unique was that <b>Ramza</b> and <b>Konata</b>'s marriage was the first in which one partner was considered an adult, while the other was a child. And no, <b>Ramza</b> is a good guy, he's not a pedophile like a certain perverted teacher who won't be mentioned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This came because, while both <b>Ramza </b>and <b>Konata</b> hooked up while they were treated as children, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ramza</b> experiencing his 18th birthday while still in the relationship, making him an adult according to the game, As a result of this, when the time came to apply Age-o-matic Spray to allow <b>Konata</b>, who was still considered a child, to get married, <b>Ramza</b> himself did not change at all physically... making him look ridiculously short compared to the aged-up <b>Konata</b>. Silly, isn't it? Later, <b>Suika Ibuki</b> and <b>Ken Izumi</b> ended up experiencing a very similar phenomenon as well... perhaps the <b>Izumi</b> name is cursed somehow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It might be possible that their lopsided relationship might have had some effect on their compatibility, since after their marriage, <b>Ramza</b> and <b>Konata</b> were one of the couples most fond of just outright not getting along with each other, although it did not descend into actual fights. However, as a result of his vertically-challenged state, <b>Ramza</b> appears to have found kinship with <b>Mitsukuni Haninozuka</b>, after all, they have so much in common. Not only are both short (<b>Honey</b>, intentionally so, though <b>Ramza</b> ended up that way as an accident), but they're both blond and have an aristocratic background, and they're also fond of blue uniforms. <b>Ramza</b> might not get along that well with <b>Konata</b>, but his friendship with <b>Honey</b> has proven to be one of the firmest on the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">He's not actually going to do it, right? He's a good guy, after all. (Not like <b>Baldren</b> and <b>Maxie</b>, who are both naturally backstabbing scum).</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Worst:<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">Hot Chocolate</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Okuu's Look-alike Rating - Hot Chocolate: </b><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="color: magenta;">Love</span><span style="color: black;">! A more detailed opinion on Hot Chocolate was already posted back on <b>Aliasse Foerster</b>'s character introduction, but it probably bears repeating here - Hot Chocolate is great stuff! (also because there's not much else that goes in this section otherwise.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">He really isn't a villain, right? He's doing everything for justice and he's just awfully fond of his friends, isn't he?</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Apartment:</b> Apt. 407</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ramza</b> was introduced to <b>Gensokyo Island</b> at the same time as <b>Sanae Kochiya</b>. However, unlike her, he hasn't had as much luck with discovering foods he likes. What does make him stand out, however, is his extremely demanding nature. He's constantly insisting that he deserves all kinds of new shiny things, in particular hats of all sorts, as well as interiors, which is a request which is much more difficult to fulfil. Ultimately, I gave him the Cinema interior and I insist he stick with it - after all, it represents his rather cinematic, action-packed life which would be a perfect subject for the silver screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ramza</b>... well, the <b>Gensokyo Island</b> version of him, is one of the more forceful and assertive characters on the island. Though he gets into arguments extremely frequently, he pretty much always gets his way in disputes with other characters - it's rare to ever see him sad. Therefore, the lack of a favourite food has not held him back as much as it normally would. In fact, <b>Ramza</b> is such a brawler that he has actually tried<i> </i>every single 1/4 fullness food available in the shop - the first character to do so despite the fact that he's from the fourth batch of residents. Now, he chows down on 2/4 fullness food items as a matter of course. It's unfortunate for him that his all-time favourite is most definitely not a 1/4 fullness item, but it clearly isn't stopping him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe there was a mistake somewhere in the pipeline - I wanted to create a character who was generous, caring, and ultimately heroic, and instead by attempting to replicate the various aspects of his personality I ended up with someone who was on average snide, snippy, and, at least nominally, still a hero. Well, we can't have everything in this world. Perhaps the <b>Ramza</b> of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> knows how his story ended, explaining his becoming increasingly dispassionate to just about everything - you would too, if almost all your friends are dead, you were forgotten by history and all your achievements were stolen by the person who framed you for everything bad that ever happened... At the same time, though, he's still fighting for what he believes is right, and like a real hero, he will not let any circumstances sway him from his path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh yes, he's a Capricorn. So, how compatible are you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's the closest to an actual squire uniform you can get from the selection of clothes. And his 'idiot hair'... not so idiotic after all.</span></span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-11859821760096698532015-07-08T23:20:00.003+01:002015-07-08T23:20:37.633+01:00Doom-o Arigato<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I said I would be back.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So... you came back, <b>Alex</b>... it's almost as if you've never left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neither have you.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, yeah! We were trying to stay the heck as far away from y... I mean... yet more work! We barely get paid anything for our labour as it is!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you not have a duty to uphold?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Huh? What do you mean...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you not have a duty to uphold?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Duty... the hell, mate, you're scaring us more and more with every passing day!</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Duty, you say? N... no way! Also, that's the best hat <b>Reisen</b> could possibly have while melting into a puddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Regardless, I will overlook your transgressions this once.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Psst... <b>Kiba</b>... he's kinda right. We've locked ourselves in the office for the past week, or longer, even though we're suppoed to be intrepid junior reporters of a sort...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>But with that... that thing around...! And besides, it's not like our boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> even showed up to yell at us to get back to work. We're doing what's best in our current situation!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Concerning the individual known as Shameimaru, I have silenced her...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait, wha... <i>WHAAA???!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>... by presenting her with the results of investigative journalism to which both of you have failed to contribute.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh... for a moment I thought you bloody killed her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hey, if Mister Roboto here can do it, it sure would save us a lot of trouble...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Um... <b>Kiba</b>, in case you didn't realise it, there's a laser point on the wall right above your head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today, the offspring demarcated "Kiyomasa" and "Sadie" were equipped, bestowed with an article of communication, and debarked on the global exploration operation. A new product, entitled "Gertrud" was manufactured in the Margatroid residence. Owing to the presence of disfiguring alien DNA, emergency cosmetic surgery was performed before photographic evidence was acquired.</b><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I... see. That sure is pretty neat, <b>Alex</b>...<i> </i>thanks for collecting that data for us...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Belle, gender female, today transmitted information regarding a foreign land designated Smiley Island under the authority of an individual entitled Gen's Lookalike. Material evidence provided include heated comestible known as Reuben, description not located in databanks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not located in... wait, didn't you say you were from the future? If this thing happened in the past, then you people from the future would have known about it, right? So why isn't it in your knowledge?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Why don't you get up from your desk and go take a look?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>But... what kind of nerd would I be if I actually had to step away from my computer? Come on, there's no way I can win the ladies without some really solid geek cred. No, really, just tell me if he's gone, because I'm just too terrified to check...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ladies, you say... oh, all right, allow me to... GOOD LORD! He's right at that window over there, watching you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wait, whaaaat?! No way! I didn't even see... ARGH!!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's what you get for not being independent enough to check for yourself, you lazy lout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">How about a little financial aid from the Marshall, er, the Miko Plan? The only thing you need to give up - your religious freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You jerk, <b>Yugen</b>, making a fib like that. Damn... I don't think these swivel chairs are supposed to spin that fast, let's just hope that <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> doesn't string us up and make us pay for a replacement.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Us? What do you mean by 'us'? After all, aren't you the one who refused to get up from the chair in the first place? And besides, I wouldn't have problems paying for a replacement for something I broke, while you on the other hand would probably have to pass the hat around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wow. So you're going to make fun of me for being poor, are you, you self-entitled stuck-up wannabe aristocrat?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, having money of your own helps you be independent of handouts. You don't want to leech off someone else for the rest of your life like the NEET you are, do you, <b>Kiba</b>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Implying that you're any better. You're just using your parents' money to act posh without actually doing any work of your own. How's that supposed to be called independence?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I... well, as travellers, we're all independent in our own way. That much cannot be denied. Otherwise we'd never have got this far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You're mocking me. Why else am I here with you, actually doing some labour for my pay, instead of skipping out on work like <b>Alex</b> does? Three reasons, the first being that I have personal pride in earning what I spend. The second being that I'm not some kind of robot assassin from the future and I actually require sustenance. The third being that my parents haven't sent... well. So in essence there's just one very important reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well. If anything I'm glad the humility of working here in the bloody trenches like the rest of us plebs has taken you down a notch or two. Isn't that the dream of every traveller? To become a self-made person, someone with their own individuality, identity, and assets.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's absolutely true. That's why we bother to strive in the first place. That's why we force ourselves through waves of bloody mist in order to claim our next accomplishment. It's because of our dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Of course., it would be so much easier if we could just find a pile of wealth and good fortune somewhere and solve all our problems without doing any work at all... sigh...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Such frivolous thoughts. Of course, we cannot count on the winds of fate for good fortune to simply drop into our hands. We have to strive, we have to fight for what we desire. That's the only way for a traveller to realise their dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You're right. I can't believe how much I've fighting everyday to realise my dreams too. Fighting sleep, boredom, the urge to vomit on hearing all these platitudes about success and dreams. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So you're saying you'd never bother to fight for what you want? That probably explains why you're still an unemployed, lonely internet addict for all this long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ahem, excuse me? I just think it's more important that we focus not on the process, but the destination. Why fight at all, if you don't know where you want to end up? If you don't know what you want to achieve? What do you want to achieve, huh, rich boy?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yup, that's you. And what I want is an easy life, full of slacking and contentment. That's why I'm working hard to ensure that I'm always in a situation where I have to work as little as possible.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's not a contradiction. It's just logical. Working to ensure I don't have to work.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">My dream is... to use babies as improvised biological weapons to rid the rest of the world of babies. To put it bluntly...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Do cattle have dreams, <b>Yugen</b>? Do androids dream of electric sheep? It's hard to say whether they do anything other than live out their lives in happiness... I mean, constant fighting, demands, and attempts to induce apocalyptic rage.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Indeed, all our discussion seems moot when we compare it to the blissful idleness of the denizens of this island, who have their every need met, their every dispute resolved... (except when they don't, of course)... while we have to struggle and fight for our survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sad, but true. That's our life. Say, can you see it? We travellers are an immigrant people, we don't simply live, but carve out our own destinies with our own hands. Whatever that destiny may be. I bet even that stone-faced alien robot assassin has to deal with that, doing his darndest to mould a future free from infestation by eldritch tentacle beings. Heh heh...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We thought you would be, uh, lonely down at the port by your lonesome, lonely self. That's it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ahem, that's right! So... uh, what brings you to our wonderful Bunbunmaru Updates office this time of the year? Lovely summer, the birds are chirping, the cicadas are also chirping, the burglar alarms are also chirping....</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">T... that's right! We didn't actually think you'd show up here, because we didn't think you'd actually do any... um... I mean didn't think we asked you to actually do anything... that's right. So you can go back any time... don't let us keep you...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I told you. I will be back.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ugh... where's our lazy boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b> when you need her...</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gotta go fast, gotta go fast... <b>Aya</b>'s engaged in some on-to-one training, though it's not clear who's the one being trained...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">S... so was there something you wanted, <b>Alex</b>? You know, since you came all the way here... not for nothing, I presume...? Can I get you, er, a Green Juice, maybe?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Uh... I'll be fine, really! I'll just stand over here, and just shut down my computer while I'm at it...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All right! <i>All right!</i><b> </b><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now, ever since I arrived on this island, I have been tracking a certain individual</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>He goes by a false name, with a false identity, but the danger he poses is very real.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's not me, right? I mean... I'm really <b>Kiba</b>, everyone knows that! You know, <b>Kiba</b> as in Akiba? Because I play computer games and watch anime all day?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And it really can't be me either, because everyone knows I'm harmless! Really! And I'm not just being self-deprecating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">19 years old? You've got to be kidding! Do you tell that to every girl you try to meet? (Every "adult" with an undefined age started at 18 years...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The individual known as "Kimura" was earlier today observed commemorating his impartation into this continuum.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, that's... really nice, yes. ("Whew... I'm glad it wasn't me that freak was talking about...")</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I'm sure it was fun. That's for sure! ("Luckily he didn't check the art I downloaded... I hope...")</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subsequently, Kimura was observed discussing his romantic feelings with his companion, the child-like being of female appearance known as "Suwako".</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Uh, yeah, we knew he was a bad guy all along. Preying on children is absolutely creepy and disgusting.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Child-like being, that's right.. there's more truth to that description than <b>Alex</b> may know... definitely more than <b>Yugen</b> knows, by the sound of it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>They concluded that the ritual known as matrimony was the only logical next step to take regarding their status as living beings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I had a feeling this was coming, but... yuck.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>It is remarkable to note that Suwako was the one who opted to broach this course of action.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wait, whaaaat...? That's... you can't be saying... no way!</i></span><b> </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">When does <b>Mister Kimura</b> <i>not</i> think about <b>Suwako</b>? When you try to play the proposal mini-game, that's when! (he thinks about <i>other</i> little girls.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Your conclusions are correct, Kiba. Kimura has unwittingly become part of a ploy to propogate an alien species across this world, which will consume and eradicate all Miis, and eventually the planet itself.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No... no, no, no... they picked the perfect target! There was a reason why they held back for this long, but...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's it. If we don't break them up, the world is doomed to be consumed and transformed into a writhing mass of flesh, eyeballs, and tentacles. <b>Yugen</b>, you idiot! Didn't you read Saya no Uta?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So... it was their master plan all along. <b>Suwako Moriya</b>, the tentacled alien goddess, has finally started the last phase of her plan to conquer the planet. To find an unwitting mate oblivious enough to her otherworldly nature even when it's revealed in their intimacy, then to find a foolish island's owner who would defend their relationship to the death no matter what hellspawn she produces, and gift her the means by which she would send her progeny around the world to repeat the process anew...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Huh? What are you talking about? <b>Suwako</b> is... a girl, right? Right? Not a living embodiment of Yog-Sothothwatzisface, or some kind of soul-sucking interdimensional alien working against the heat death of the universe, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What kind of girl has "eyes" on her face that never ever move and another pair of eyes on the top of her head... that actually blink?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">W.... what are you saying?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I'm saying, <b>Yugen</b>, that this planet is screwed! </i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>it's only a matter of time before all of us are transformed into writhing masses of primal chaos! </i></span> </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm not dreaming, am I... are you two telling me that not only is <b>Kiba</b>'s conspiracy theory actually correct for once, but even a hard-nosed chap like <b>Alex</b> actually believes him?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Speaking of which... <b>Alex</b>, how do you know all this? I mean... not about what happened today, but about <b>Suwako</b> and her wicked plans?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I came... to warn you. To warn all of you. To warn this planet itself.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHAAAT???!!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">W... wait, you mean <b>Alex</b> is actually a robot cyborg alien assassin from the future who also happens to be made out of stone? <b>Kiba</b>, how in the world...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I warned you about giant stone head robot alien assassins from the future, bro! I told you bro!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suwako Moriya</b> proposed to <b>Mister Kimura</b> today. He accepted! Congratulations to the newly married couple!</span></span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-18482918971826072162015-06-30T21:00:00.000+01:002015-06-30T21:00:41.654+01:00Shale Shocked<span style="font-size: small;">It seems like it's gotten all quiet again here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, hasn't it, <b>Kiba</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, <b>Kiba</b>, can you hear me from under that tinfoil hat of yours?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... whaaat?! I can't take it off or the harmonisation waves will get to me! I won't let myself be turned into one of them, I swear! I'm far too much of an individual!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's because of the precautions I've taken! I mean, do you really want to be brainwashed into becoming polite and compliant and all around perfect? I don't think so, do you?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dear lord... since when was that ever an accurate description of the bedlam that occurs around here on a daily basis. It's toned down a bit, but hasn't been eliminated, that's for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Um... I haven't a clue what it is you're talking about. And regarding <b>Mima</b>, it's just a book about her life that she's decided to publish. And it happens to be suspiciously empty regarding anything that happened in the 21st century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That doesn't mean it won't happen! It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Some higher power has been meddling with our destinies to smoothen everything out and make it all rosy and peachy, as if we were some sort of pets or lab experiment!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not without reason! It's the Illuminati... government... alien... whatever conspiracy covering it up. I mean, just the other day we got a letter from a traveller, we haven't had one in a while! And that proves that things turned out okay!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And... how exactly is that proof of a cosmic conspiracy again? It's not as if anything at all that actually goes right is a cause for alarm.</span><i> </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It seems that <b>Minosuke</b>, one of the numerous children of <b>Utsuho Reiuji</b> and <b>Rinnosuke Morichika</b>, has just written back from Funland Island, and he's having the experience of a lifetime. As a gentleman adventurer myself, I'm happy for him as well, though I do have to say that this isn't anything especially out of the ordinary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>But... but didn't you read what he wrote? That everyone started mispronouncing his name! They're out to get him! They're out to get us!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait... weren't you saying that the conspiracy was about everything going right? And now something's gone wrong, so how can that be part of the same conspiracy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's all a trick to catch us off guard, I tell you. Those evil future alien robot Illuminati government freaks are planting all these false herrings so we'll be lulled into a false sense of security, and one day when no one's looking, poof! Free will, imperfection, everything that makes us alive will be wiped from the earth.</i> <i>Even now, their spies walk among us, monitoring us, covertly "correcting" all those things that are inconvenient to their master plan...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Why did you bring up <b>Chiyo Mihama</b> and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>'s youngest child <b>Kiyomasa</b> just when you started talking about spies? Are you implying that a newborn infant happens to be an alien assassin or spy from... from the future, or whatever?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">*slap* To think that all this started from the time that stony-faced, oddly-handsome looking and unnaturally composed chap <b>Alex</b> happened upon <b>Gensokyo Island</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's right! <b>Alex</b>! He's the mastermind! Even now, he's sending his agents, observing us, monitoring us, tracking our every move. He knows, <b>Yugen</b>, he knows!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't be ridiculous, he's down at the port waiting for the next transport ship, after he decided that he wouldn't help us out at Bunbunmaru Updates. What makes you think he'd be here right now, as if he was stalking us all this time...</span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-60450919068140677732015-06-27T23:55:00.000+01:002015-06-27T23:55:15.154+01:00Termy Natter<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, <b>Kiba</b>, what's that you've got there on your computer? Some new game? Haven't seen you playing something like that before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>New game? Yes... well, more accurately, it's not a new game, so to speak...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">No? Well, it's awfully flashy, I thought it would be something new-fangled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, actually it's a pretty old game, but I've just started playing it because I'm in a mood to play old games. Y'know, it's not like every single game I've got is some online killfest with the latest in ragdoll physics and gore rendering. Some of these old games need to be seen for what they are in the context they were made - far simpler, less pretty, and yet kinda fun in their own right. And there's nothing wrong with liking old games, there's a whole culture around it called retro gaming. You getting any of this?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wha... I didn't understand that last bit, but it sure sounded like some kind of philosophy of gaming. I mean, on my part if I wanted to play something a little more sedentary yet traditional I'd go for chess, rather than polo or bowls, but...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Isn't that like the mint, or something? And why would you need a bowl to eat mints? You like mints that much?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Goodness, you sure are impoverished, <b>Kiba</b>. I mean, it's understandable that someone of more common birth such as yourself might miss out on the pleasantries in life, but to not know at all is simply breathtaking, being deprived of knowledge itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, excuse me. So says the culturally-stilted individual such as yourself who can't eve</i>n <i>understand the appeal of retro gaming. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But in the end it's still a computer game, right? And you're still glued to a television screen or its analogue, giving the same commands, up up down down left right left right. Be a more adventurous person and try doing things that are actually different for once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Computer games ARE different from each other. I mean, there are roleplaying games, real time strategy games, first person shooters, tactical games, four X, dating sims, multiplayer online battle arena... hell, there are even sports games! You know why no one ever made Polo Simulator 20XX? Probably because no one even plays that sport in the first place... no, probably because they'd get sued for using a copyright, but anyhow.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But you're still playing a computer game! Get outside and actually do something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who do you think you are, my parents? Hell no. And besides, they already did send me outside... that's why I'm here on this blasted island in the first place!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, I'm definitely worried. That thing we talked about the last time, that feeling that everything on this island's being slowly harmonised? I was just... testing to see if I could provoke a response out of you.<i> </i>Because I don't know if you've been outside, but it's been far too quiet, too pleasant, in fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, if these statistics about the amount of killer litter flung from the higher stories of Mii Apartments are reliable, it's not like fights stopped existing. <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> still needs to be called in to try to break things up as well, if the random screams and gunshots are any indication.</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes, that is true. But remember how <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> used to rant on and on about Travel Tickets, and married couples hating each other for no reason? It's like she just stopped going on about that, too. Instead, whenever the news of any household spat gets around, she's just stares on dreamily in a nearly oblivious state, as if her only response was to blink rapidly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yeah, like writing our discoveries down before we're mind-controlled into forgetting them... you know, <b>Yugen</b>, you're an awful lot more thoughtful than I'd expect of a self-obsessed toff. I'm actually starting to be impressed a little.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks... well, I hope that isn't a sign of us being harmonised as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I certainly hope not! Because if it is, I swear I'm going to find that villain <b>Alex</b>, drag him all the way over here and beat the truth out of him. I don't care if he's a giant stone head alien robot cyborg from the future,.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, there's no proof that <b>Alex</b> has anything to do with it at all, except that... all these things started after he arrived. And he's been strangely silent on the issue despite us having attempted to press-gang... I mean invite him to join Bunbunmaru Updates. I mean, he showed up, looked around, and took off after that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Right, now you've got me all riled up, thanks to mentioning that bastard <b>Alex</b>. If he's thinking of bringing salvation to this island </i><i><i> by being genesis of the brainwashing of my favourite anime and game characters!</i>with his secret mind control, let me tell you, I'm going to rise from my machine and lug him over here to make him face his judgement day!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Did someone say Judgement? I swear I heard someone say Judgement! Wachaganadu...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shanghai Margatroid</b> and <b>Konata Izumi</b> became Best Friends!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... w.... what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's in the air... it's like this island has suddenly become...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">More quiet? Bah, don't be silly. Compared to those bad days from some time ago, <b>Gensokyo Island</b> has been positively bustling. <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> running around pandering to the denizens' whims like a proper servant should be doing, instead of sequestering herself away making snide remarks about islanders' unusual lassitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not exactly that, rather... it's like the island's become more agreeable somehow. Everyone's started to get along. And not necessarily in a good way.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">That's right. It's as if some portal leading to a place dark and ominous has appeared, and the character of the island itself - the very thing that makes it distinctive - has mysteriously fallen in.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm not sure I understand you at all, <b>Kiba</b>. I mean, yes, it does feel that something's different from day to day, but nothing so fundamental or so exceptional as to be a cause for worry. I do hope you're not imagining things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I most certainly am not. Even as we speak, it feels like... it feels as if something special, unnatural, even otherworldly is happening at this moment. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm not feeling it... well, perhaps I am, a little, but I can't really say for certain. And how exactly would you describe this unusual, otherworldly feeling?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's as if... as if all the world's problems have been solved. As if a great black hole, leaching away at the very essence of our being itself has been closed up... a strange feeling of contentment and satisfaction. That kind of feeling.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, yes. It would be pleasant. If only it wasn't so bizzare and unnatural. In other words, it feels that this world has been slowly but most definitely "harmonised" somehow. It has been forcefully laid alongside some existential ruler and straightened into a shape which it would never have assumed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What? I don't... you've lost me, <b>Kiba</b>. That's a little far-fetched for my understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What I'm saying, <b>Yugen</b>, is that some cosmic forces are at work here.</i> <i>The reality of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and its fate have bent to suit some even greater purpose, and all of us - the islanders, <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>, you and me... we're just haplessly curved along with it. We're being moulded into something which neither you nor I... something which none of us had even fathomed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You're... unusually philosophical, <b>Kiba</b>. Please don't tell me this isn;t just another one of your conspiracy theories born out of playing way too many computer games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A conspiracy theory would be a more reassuring way of describing it, if only it was so. Unfortunately, this shaping. of our fates... this moulding, this harmonising... it is real. How do you explain that so many things have gone right and ended happily for <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and its denizens over the past week or so?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Don't you get it? The alien robot giant stone head assassin from the future. It's got to be him! He's been sent here for the very purpose of warping <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s reality to suit the desires of his overlords resident in another dimension. He's the reason why everything's inexplicably turned out for the better over the past few days. He's been 'harmonising' us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alien... robot... stone head... what, you mean <b>Alex</b>? Oh, goodness me, I can't believe I even put a single microbe of faith in your words. This is just another weird conspiracy theory of yours, <b>Kiba</b>, and I'll have none of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>It's no theory, it is real! I mean, just look around you! <b>Gensokyo Island</b> is mysteriously healthier, happier, even our futures have been rewritten to make them ever more pleasant than before. A place like this doesn't have a sniff of a chance to carve out a happy future for its own... clearly, it must have been edited in for us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kiba</b>, I've had just enough of your nonsense. I'm not listening to any more of your attempts to lure me into some conspiracy or practical joke of yours, however vivid you might make it out to be. If I could just escape from your mad ramblings for a moment...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>And so, according to my hypothesis, this should be about the time when reality rewrites itself to conveniently give <b>Yugen</b> what he wants. As long as it conforms to the whims and desires of the otherworldly beings guiding our fate.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just shut up, you con. Are you saying you expect a boat or a Travel Ticket to just mysteriously appear out of nowhere? You're so full of yourself, you can't even accept the insanity of your own illogical claims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is that so, <b>Yugen</b>? Is it not that I too have been made a part of this strange contentment and satisfaction by being allowed to be aware of this phenomenon. Fret not... stranger things have happened. Stranger things indeed. We should merely be happy that whatever overlords have chosen to mould our fate happen to be benevolent ones.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Marisa Kirisame</b> and <b>Mothra Kazamatsuri</b> became Best Friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Almaz Beoulve</b> announced that his wife <b>Koyomi Saigyouji</b> was pregnant with their second child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yuuko II</b>, daughter of <b>Yuyuko Saigyouji</b> and <b>Maximillian Magma</b>, wrote back from Tatsumi Island! She has visited 1 island so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... yawn ... what's up, <b>Yugen</b>. Don't tell me you've got some news, because I like it much better when there's none. More time for MMOs...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, no, I've got nothing. And have you seen the new hire <b>Alex</b>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Him? No... and besides, he seems to take his own sweet time to get from one place to another. I'm surprised you didn't see him leaving while on your way in. I told you, it's like he's made out of the same thing as those giant stone heads.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, that means we don't have to do anything today? And what about our boss <b>Aya Shameimaru</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, you know, same old. Skipping out on actually doing anything in the office because of maternity leave again.</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sycamore</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> was so shocked at<b> Aya</b> and <b>Shou</b>'s uninspired name for their kid, he asked for a little punishment from <b>Yuuka</b> to get it out of his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So it seems like her and her husband <b>Shou Toramaru</b> have decided to name their kid, inspiringly enough, <b>Taiga</b>. Because... maybe they were inspired by the beauty and splendour of vast swathes of frozen plains... or they decided to make a lame pun using the name of their kid. I wonder which one it could be.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Let's say it was so bad that <b>Augustine Sycamore</b>, who overheard it, was so shocked that he decided for the evening to finally succumb to his sadistic wife <b>Yuuka Kazami</b>'s evil wiles and let her have her way with him, simply to get it out of his head. It was just that awful.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Would you really tell <b>Yuuka</b> that you didn't like it? <b>Yuuka</b> the sadistic super-powerful maniac who singlehandedly genocided an entire Hell's worth of demons?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>If you're that keen on doing something productive, rich boy, you could try dropping down to the Food Mart to that new Soft-Serve Ice Cream that's been on sale. I hear that when <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> heard about it, she tore down the stairs and barged straight in to snap it up like a starved wretch.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's Ice Cream! Who the hell wouldn't want Ice Cream! Not to mention that means only one more food left to go to collect them all!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And you don't like Soft-Serve Ice Cream, <b>Kiba</b>? Strange, considering your otherwise... youthful tastes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not for its taste, but rather it gets my hands all sticky. Makes a mess of my keyboard, so I try to avoid the stuff as much as possible. But if you're really that starved of things to do, you're welcome to help me get one... with your pocket money, of course.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nnh... typical peasant, taking advantage of his betters... fine, I'll get one for you. I'll just be heading off again.... WHAAA???<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHAAAA??? What the hell's going on! I'm in the middle of a raid and you made me ... gosh darn it wiped again.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I... I don't believe it! There are ships, many ships... in fact a whole fleet of ships lining up to dock at the port! There are so many I can see them all the way from here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bah, just ignore it, you clot. It's probably <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> who's activated that space-time distortion device again....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But didn't you say she was at the Food Mart gorging her face on Soft-Serve Ice Cream? And besides, I don't see that ominous mist or anything, it's clear skies all the way. <b>Kiba</b>, get off your computer and take a look at this, this is phenomenal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh fine, I'll just be over there in a moment to see what's going on, what the... holy... I don't believe this! I'm getting that camera with the ultra-powerful zoom lens, this we've got to record!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I... I don't believe this. This is the most I've ever seen all at once, not including <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>'s attempts to fiddle with the timestream. It's almost unreal.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And the names of the travellers... <b>Belle</b>, <b>Giuseppe</b>, <b>Enma</b>, <b>Albert</b>, <b>Christian</b>, and <b>Yuuko II</b>.<i> </i>There were even two boats that left without picking anyone up at all! I'm truly impressed, if this wasn't the work of some reality-distorting device it must have been a very fortuitous day indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yes... and considering that two out of the eight boats that arrived came from such islands, and none dropped off a traveller... I'm a bit fearful for continued existence of the travellers who left today. Except for that <b>Christian</b> dude, that fundie can go preach at the bottom of the sea for all I care. But yes, the rest of them...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>She's fine... um... I mean... what were you talking about again? Anyway this sort of thing is detailed in the warning manuals that all of us travellers get, so it's something all of us need to be wary of! That's how it is!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The hell? Is that <b>Alex</b> over there at the docks? So that's where he went, he was off booking his place on the next trip while the two of us were slogging away here actually doing something helpful. That sneaky bastard!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I agree, that just ain't cricket. That bounder, leaping ahead of me... I mean us, that's simply unacceptable and ungentlemanly, breaking his promises to go off fulfilling his own agenda. Outrageous, since we have nothing to do shall the two of us head over there and drag him back together?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well! As much as I'd like to give him a piece of my mind I have the suspicion that he'll worm his way back here eventually. He hasn't even been fed, let alone paid, and assuming he isn't actually a giant stone head alien robot he'll be crawling back here in no time begging for a morsel of sustenance. And then we can take it out on him.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Lemon Island arrived. <b>Giuseppe</b> of Verona Island departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Teehee Island arrived. <b>Albert</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Augustine Sycamore</b> announced that his wife <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> was pregnant with their sixth child! </span></div>
Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-59327096730033376972015-06-19T23:15:00.000+01:002015-06-23T23:50:53.856+01:00Stepping Stones<span style="font-size: small;">I say, <b>Alex</b>, we've been waiting for you for a couple of days already! What took you so long to arrive at our press office?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I am... a slow walker</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">More like a slow talker, you mean? What kind of layabout takes over two days just to walk up the hill toward the Mii Apartments building? Besides, we have photographic evidence sent in by one of our readers that even if you did get here eventually, you took an awfully long detour to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's right. Seems that our correspondent was headed over the strait to the isle of recreation when she spotted an unusual figure in the doors of the cafe...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But certainly not while heading from one place to another, to be sure! Anyway, now that you're here, with <b>Kiba</b> having wandered off to look for you I suppose it falls to me to welcome you to the ranks of the young journalists of Bunbunmaru Updates, <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s own amateur reporting service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Perhaps he used the opportunity to evade work.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hmm, now that you mention it... come to think of it, <b>Kiba</b> rarely even leaves his computer, never mind leaves the office. You must be right! Why, that conniving bounder... well, in any case, I suppose we have no choice but to throw you right into the frontlines of reporting on your very first day. Consider it a baptism of fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eh? Didn't you understand what I said? We... report things. That's what we do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like... hmm... like the children of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s residents growing up and being sent off to the meat processsing... um, I meant to say off to see the world, of course.. See, take a look at our most recent photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Most recently, <b>Reisen Udongein Inaba</b> and <b>Nozomu Itoshiki</b>'s firstborn child <b>Nozaki</b> was sent off to become a traveller by his parents in the hopes of realising his artistic talents. Just a couple of days before that, <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b> and <b>Overlord Mao</b>'s daughter <b>Patricia</b>, as well as <b>Unyuho Morichika</b> and <b>Berthold Gregor</b>'s daughter <b>Regina</b> were set off on the biggest one-way trip of their lives as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, you don't say. I had quite a bit of difficulty when I first got here myself. However, <b>Kiba</b> seemed to have adjusted to it very quickly, or so he claims. Apparently, he'd been fans of some of the characters living here for quite some time. However, he never really did expect they'd be so... hapless... regarding their lifestyle choices. Not to mention their rather lackadaisiacal attitude toward procreation.<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well the answer to that question is, surprisingly, yes. You'd be surprised at what even a mass-produced traveller lacking any sort of individuality beyond a hackneyed catchphrase is capable of living through - physical abuse, deprivation of food, water, and sanitation, drowning, even being flung through the mists of time itself. These vagabonds from <b>Gensokyo Island</b> are surprisingly resilient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Uh, why, yes, of course. Take these latest reports, collated from information gathered through interviews conducted with <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've had quite a few letters coming in recently from some of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s diaspora. You may not know <b>Lilith</b>, daughter of <b>Shinmyoumaru Sukuna</b> and <b>Overlord Laharl</b>, but she was the one who clambered onto the boat that you arrived from, <b>Alex</b>. Seems like she's chumming up well with the last bunch of people you used to hang around with. Meanwhile the pensive-looking <b>Kurei</b>, son of <b>Reimu Hakurei</b> and <b>Junya Ohta</b>, seems to be doing pretty well for himself, even despite his odd name. Well, that seems to be <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s modus operandi, throw things everywhere and eventually something will stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why, certainly they do! <b>Desco Kazamatsuri</b> and <b>Mitsukuni Haninozuka</b>'s son the demon-slaying martial artist <b>Bruce</b> just dropped by some time ago on a specially-chartered speedboat, in fact.<b> </b> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bruce</b> is a little special because he's one of those who was ejected into the warp of the fabric between dimensions... uh, well, some sort of time-space anomaly, by <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>, the vicious dictator of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>, as part of a project to reduce the the population of travellers, test out their survivability, and infect territory across time and space with more of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s vile ilk. And apparently <b>Bruce</b> has not only survived but found his own way back to show that he's no worse for wear... apart from having forgotten the brutal way he'd been treated as part of the process of coping with post-traumatic stress disorder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Indeed they are. One of the few benefits of working here at Bunbunmaru Updates is getting to observe not only the actions but the motivations driving the development of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> from an insider's perspective. It doesn't actually make you immune to the machinations, though, as a former colleague of my friend <b>Kiba</b> found out first-hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pretty much, yes. Let me put it this way... even if the cruelest of fates is gunning for you here, at least you'll be able to see it coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And this job of yours... who exactly are you working for?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ah, yes, I didn't elaborate on that. Bunbunmaru Updates is administered by a certain individual by the name of <b>Aya Shameimaru</b>, who's supposedly some sort of crow lady who has the ability to run and fly incredibly fast. You can say that she's basically our boss. Apparently, journalism is all she lives for, I heard she used to work for the military reconnaissance department back during the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Uh... well... she said she was busy recently, although <b>Kiba</b> and I hypothesise that she's probably helping herself to some more of her favourite Tiger brand Hot Dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, that's really nice... wait, that's not a euphemism for anything too, is it? No, don't tell me, I don't want to know about your private affairs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maiko</b>, daughter of <b>Marisa Kirisame</b> and <b>Miko Toyosatomimi</b>, wrote back from Streetpass Relay Point Island! She has visited 5 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bruce</b> returned from Torraccia Island to visit his parents <b>Desco Kazamatsuri</b> and <b>Mitsukuni Haninozuka</b>! He has visited 3 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nozaki</b>, son of <b>Reisen Udongein Inaba</b> and <b>Nozomu Itoshiki</b>, grew up. He was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lilith</b>, daughter of <b>Shinmyoumaru Sukuna</b> and <b>Overlord Laharl</b>, wrote back from Pokemon Island! She has visited 1 island so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kurei</b>, son of <b>Reimu Hakurei</b> and <b>Junya Ohta</b>, wrote back from Zaratustra Island! He has visited 2 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aya Shameimaru</b> announced that she was pregnant with her and <b>Shou Toramaru</b>'s seventh child!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nozomu Itoshiki</b> tried some Beef Jerky today. It's his <span style="color: blue;">All-Time Favourite<span style="color: black;"> food!</span></span> </span></div>
Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-66653396226739780772015-06-16T19:20:00.000+01:002015-06-16T19:20:12.188+01:00Oh Moai God!<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, <b>Kiba</b>, have you heard the good news...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHOA!!! Bloody hell, <b>Yugen</b>, don't tell me that freak <b>Christian</b> got to you! I don't want yet another weirdo wandering around handing out pamphlets and evangelising about...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, calm down! I'm being perfectly serious here. And it has nothing to do with that rather obtrusive chap insistent on forcing his dogma into people's faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, whew. You frightened me for a second. So... what is this "real" good news?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A couple of boats pulled up at the port earlier, and better yet, they were real visitors, not summoned from the mists of time or anything similar. And it turns out we have a new traveller, another bloke...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">What luck, not only do we have two visitors in a day, but we have an actual normal-looking traveller, too! Not to mention crazy staring <b>Edwado</b> is gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ah... yes, I'll gather the necessary equipments. It's a time like this which induces me to reminisce about the time we spent together with <b>Rebecca</b>...</span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wow, just look at that sculpted face, those bronzed features... a masterwork of a Mii.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So, he doesn't really seem anything like I was expecting. I was thinking we'd find another kid we could sucker to do our bidding... instead it's someone tall, dark, and kinda quiet but fierce-looking. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You are right, <b>Kiba</b>. I'm reminded of... of a native warrior, a tribesman of some sort...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I've got it! It's that giant stone head that keeps showing up in</i> <i>computer games as some sort of cameo... what's it called again?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No, a Moai! Those giant stony faces. I mean, just look at him! It's like he's hard as rock. And that nose...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I understand your suspicions. I assure you, I am neither a stone head nor an indigenous warrior. I am a traveller from Green Island.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, that's a little underwhelming. I was expecting a more dramatic background, but I guess just being a traveller like us is pretty decent as well. But his accent is rather unnerving. Almost monotonous, in fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Surely you meant Austria, not Australia... and besides, the Maoris are from New Zealand, not Austria... I mean Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Aliens! If it's not a robot, t's gotta be aliens!</i><b> </b><i>You know, like the aliens that came to Earth and built those giant stone heads, and even put hats on them as well! So he's gotta be an alien giant stone head futuristic Australian robot assassin thingy. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But the giant stone heads were built by tribal warriors, not aliens! That's why I said he was more like an indigenous native warrior. And he already said he was a person, not a robot or a stone head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>That's just what the illuminati want you to believe! Don't tell me you're starting to succumb to all those lies after you had a talk with that <b>Christian</b> fellow...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right, right. As I am a gentleman, I apologise for the trouble, sir. My name is <b>Yugen</b>, and I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I heard you the first time, worry not. So, according to your traveller passport here, you've... whoa, visited more islands than both <b>Kiba</b> and I put together? Oh, well, it seems like it's been mostly moving between the same two islands, but it says you started your journey almost a year ago? Now that's pretty impressive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Speaking of Pokémon, I've got it! With that red hair and rock-hard face and hairstyle, you know what he reminds me of?</i><b> </b><i>That Pokémon with a stone face and a giant nose and a red hat! That's it! </i><i>So, is that great big hooter of yours magnetic or something?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Pokemon Island arrived. <b>Alex</b> of Green Island alighted, <b>Lilith</b> departed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Windfall Island arrived. <b>Edwado</b> of DaiDueLati Island departed. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Patricia</b>, daughter of <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b> and <b>Overlord Mao</b>, grew up. She was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Regina</b>, daughter of <b>Unyuho Morichika</b> and <b>Berthold Gregor</b>, grew up. She was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-37571245319123659792015-06-13T23:40:00.003+01:002015-06-13T23:40:57.293+01:00Vacation or Bust!<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> was in a bit of a temper recently, I wonder what's been up with her? After all, the summer vacation has just started, and what better time than now to just let loose and enjoy yourself?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It would really be quite a shame to be missing a great time like this because of a tantrum. After all, back home when I was growing up, my favourite hobby around times like this was trotting on down to the fountain to observe the peasants... I mean, the other islanders setting up stalls for the seasonal carnival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">W... what do you mean I got the wrong season? If I get one of the three foods remaining it's a holiday any how!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Hmm, let me ponder... what other things seem far more fun during summer than during any other season? Ah, I know! Paying a visit to your local oceanarium is one of them. After all, it's just that perfect time of the year when the salty spray of the sea feels so cooling, while the ocean breezes are balmy enough to be comforting. In another other season, it's either miserably cold or just too rainy to be out, appreciating the beauty of nature at million-dollar man-made establishments dedicated to showcasing its multifarious wonders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">And no, <b>Yuyuko</b>, dressing up as a walrus is not going to get people to feed you fish. We're not that easily fooled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">But yes, <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has been looking very different than usual. Being the island's supreme dictator, I thought she bore the trials of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s slippage into the sands of time with a certain level of dignity and even leadership, considering the decisive actions that needed to be done to keep the island from falling into a state of eternal tedium. And yet now... those narrowed eyes and distrusting sideways glances, what could have happened?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hmm, perhaps this could be related to one of the occasional genuinely serious pieces of news that has been relayed over the crowdfunded Mii News network here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> over the last few days. Apparently, a certain infamous child predator has been charged with mailing lewd and distressing videos of himself to the residents of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. Within this videos, he has filmed himself performing everyday activities... which are now immediately declared obscene because he, a known child predator, stars in them! How filthsome! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It wouldn't be surprising that <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> was targeted by him as well, along with the other islanders, given that she only has the mind of a child. </span></span>Kind of like someone under Age-o-matic spray. Let us only hope that this certain infamous villain will soon be brought to justice and made to pay for his crimes against common sensibility and decency.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... what? That's all it takes to impress you? Come on, I can show you a couple pics of how my raid party got wiped out by the noob mid-boss, now that's disturbing.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Goodness, dear chap, don't you have a scrap of humanity in you? <b>Shinichi Yasaka</b> was just about to leap from the top storey of Mii Apartments<i></i> after having been ditched by his former girlfriend <b>Toyohime Kirisame</b>, and all you can think about are your silly computer games?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hey... hey, now that's completely untrue. Computer games aren't silly at all. In fact, computer games are my life, which is way more than I can say about someone who told rubbish jokes, totally cheesed off his girl, and blames her and his fate for it rather than his own idiotic self. Their life, my life, two separate things, right?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wow, <b>Kiba</b>, I mean... that is just unnecessarily harsh. I always found it incredibly hard to respect you due to your plebeian ways and all, but that... that kind of attitude is just vile, sir. The lowest of the low.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Says you, mate. Who was throwing a tantrum today because "some stupid low-class trollops" were writing home with lots of letters about their travels and travails and all that certain individual could do was muck about on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and act like some spoilt aristocratic prat?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ohhh... now you've done it. As difficult as it may be to overlook your insults, I insist for the sake of propagating the truth to clarify the last statement of yours! I wasn't complaining that their ability to send back letters and postcards to their parents was what annoyed me, but rather their insistence on doing so excessively despite not having made any especially groundbreaking achievements since we last heard from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blah blah blah, what?</i> <i>Nope, didn't hear anything. All I feel is the intense waves of jealousy radiating from a certain somebody about how some penniless vagabonds are able to accomplish waaaay more than he can despite having but a fraction of the inheritance, oh yeah.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">How dare you! I'm absolutely bursting with rage right now, in fact I'm boiling over even as I speak. <b>Kiba</b>, you imbecile, I'm throwing down the gauntlet. For my honour, and for my family's honour, I'll extract your repentance from your battered body!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whoa, challenging me to a duel, are you? You wanna fight? Then we'll settle it online, like a real man. Pick your fighting game, MMO, or even a puzzle game and I'll wipe the floor with you... but ooh, you won't. Because you're too bloody technologically illiterate to even know how to type on a keyboard or fiddle with a console, never mind actually play a computer game.</i> <i>Well, you'd better learn fast, because the way your are in meatspace with your flabby body you couldn't fight your way out of a cardboard box.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Still dare to underestimate me, do you? Right, I'll show you I'm not as think as you thick... um, I mean... not as dumb as you'd imagine. Let's settle things here and now, just like the residents of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> would do, and have it out with a danmaku battle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Khh... you bastard. I don't even know where you hid that Disco Ball, but sure as heck I'm not gonna forgive you for that. Now eat this!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can't remember, actually. Well, whatever it was, it certainly wasn't very gentlemanly of me to resort to violence over something so petty. I'm sorry for starting this mess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... wait... out there, at the corner of Mii Apartments, is that... it's <b>Shinichi Yasaka</b>? And he's, oh my goodness, is he trying to drown himself? We've got to stop him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What? <b>Kiba</b>, how dare you say such a thing? You heartless bastard, how can you just point and laugh while people's lives are in danger?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>... hey, pardom me for interrupting, mate, but if we're going down this road again... this time, let's just use Pokémon instead, all right?</i></span></div>
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Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-78796165319271753772015-06-09T22:00:00.000+01:002015-06-09T22:00:09.218+01:00Interesting Times<span style="font-size: small;">*yawn*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whoa! Who's that... oh, it's just you, <b>Yugen</b>. For a moment I thought it was someone actually important.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delightfully chuffed to hear that... *yawn* ... pardon me, it's just so... so dull around here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dull, you say? How so? Are you not entertained?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, I'm not someone like you who'd be satisfied watching old movies and playing online games on his laptop all day. Sometimes I feel the most interesting thing that happens around here are the random nonsensical press releases by Mii News, which we all know are designed to placate the common individual by instilling into them the fear of the eldritch and unknown.</span><i> </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">What the flippin' eck? Are the news people quackers? And yet, <b>DESCO</b>'s face seems to fit almost perfectly...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>There's hardly a dull moment in <b>Gensokyo Island</b> with all the
nutcases and maniacs in residence here. And that's not including the
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should be resolved through the massive application of explosive force. So I don't see why you should be dissatisfied.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, violence gets old after a while, even if its perpetrators don't. And duffing each other up over a minor slight is hardly gentlemanly and certainly not worthy of praise. It's probably because the majority of this island's residents subscribe to it, that's why it's such a plebeian concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, so you like something of a higher order then? What about <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>'s stated plan to subjugate the world by inundating it with a tide of specially-nurtured babyflesh spouting bad catchphrases and making wild allusions to popular culture?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, that... it's certainly aspirational at the very least.<i> </i>But it must get very tiresome after a while, especially when all we're seeing is the window into one person's twisted psyche. At the end of it all, it's just one person - admittedly, an utterly evil, incorrigibly vile and corrupt person, but just one person. It's not the whole world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Surge, spill forth, and consume, my minions! On top, newborn children <b>Nozaki</b> and <b>Regina</b>, below, newest travellers <b>Jacques</b> and <b>Patricia</b>... ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I mean, even if we're supposed to be the caretakers of an assembly line dedicated to churning out the world's most monstrous biological creations, in the end it's just an assembly line and we're just the button pushers. Now see, in the last photograph with <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b> and <b>Overlord Mao</b> and their daughter <b>Patricia</b>? Something's gone all wonky again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh dear... but you wanted something interesting, didn't you?</i> <i>So there you go.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No, look here, that is the very opposite of interesting and we both know why. Once the limit on travellers is reached the entire island shuts down because... because apparently the costs of handing out welfare cheques to all these good-for-nothing low-class layabouts completely drains the rest of the island of its will to function. And that's outrageous, not to mention simply unfair for the rest of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I... resent your statement about low-class layabouts (you know that includes us, right?), but yes, I don't like it either when this island seems unusually stifled, and we now know that the numbero f travellers has something to do with it. So it's during times like that when we should be grateful to that ever-so-convenient time manipulation device allowing us to cast <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s surplus travellers across the time-space continuum.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As opposed to having boats naturally arrive on their own. Rather takes the charm out of it, don;t you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What? I'm just being utilitarian here. You want a problem solved, you do what you need to solve it. While it's absolutely charming for some random island to send emissaries here on their own initiative, completely unaware of our pernicious reputation, such incidents are few and far between. In contrast, <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>, and you and I, would like to see this logjam at the port resolved as soon as possible.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Welcome to <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. Our chief export is death. Make that death and vileness. Death, vileness, and swanky Round-Collar Blouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>See, <b>Yugen</b>, for your charming gentlemanly tastes the 'natural' unsolicited arrivals at <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s port may suffice, but for the purposes of <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>'s plan to despoil the world, thae slow rate of arrival and long interval between them are hardly enough. That's why we've resorted to all these underhanded methods, even at the risk of disasters, accidents, and gross mutations and mutilations befalling the travellers of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. But after all, they were created to be expendable.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, don't misunderstand me! I'm not against the ethics of it - it's just that... well... mechanising that as well kind of ruins the aesthetics of it, doesn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ethics, aesthetics... how's it different again apart from the "aesth"? Now, don't get all arty-farty with me, and just step out of your damned ivory tower for a moment.</i> <i>I'm all for doing what needs to be done, and besides it's been conclusively proven that travellers who have been cast across time and space actually have a better chance of survival than those who meet <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s so called contemporaries. Probably because our contemporaries have heard of our bad reputation and people in distant lands haven't.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But think of it this way - doesn't the fun from anything come out of the challenge or difficulty in succeeding in the first place? If you could accomplish anything just by turning on some machine or another, what satisfaction could be derived out of that? That's what I mean by aesthetics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>And doen't the most fun from raising living biological weapons</i> <i>come from hearing about all the havoc that they wreak in distant lands? Let's simply describe our course of action as... 'utilising effective dispersal mechanisms'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Given up for dead. now newly proclaimed as <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s most experienced travellers - <b>Chiyoko</b> and <b>Yves</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I'm sure you'll agree with me that the most thrilling part of sending all these hapless travellers off to their almost certain doom would be watching them not only survive against the odds, but possibly even prosper! Remember <b>Chiyoko</b>, daughter of <b>Chiyo Mihama</b> and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>, and <b>Yves</b>, son of <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>, two of the travellers who were given up for dead after the events of Massacre Monday? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes, what about them? If I recall correctly they somehow survived against the odds, and they've just written back with a new update?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yes, It turns out that they've overtaken <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s previously most well-travelled</i> <i>individual, <b>Junichiro</b>, son of <b>Junya Ohta</b> and <b>Reimu Hakurei</b>, who had visited five islands. Now, <b>Yves</b> has reported having visited six islands, while <b>Chiyoko</b> has written from a stunning seven islands! So much for a bunch of no-hopers.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I... I say, that's rather impressive. More impressive than either you or I, <b>Kiba</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Only because we're of the sort that chooses continued survival over fame and glory. Not like <b>Toritori </b>or <b>Rebecca</b>, neither of them could really sit still for long, which is why they'd happily throw themselves into the abyss if it meant a fantastic new adventure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm not sure it's that simple, but I suppose you are right. In summation, we had very contrasting personalities, ideals, and opinions. It's surprising that we were all able to get along for so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, you never know what could have happened...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait, what? Holy... where are these photographs from? Is that <b>Toyohime Kirisame</b> and <b>Shinichi Yasaka</b>? What the heck happened to them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I thought someone said he was bored?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, yes, I was, but now I want, no, I demand an explanation for this. What happened between the two of them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Do these sorts of things really have an explanation? Whatever happens, happens. It's only when something catches your eye that you realise you live in interesting times.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yves</b>, son of <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>, wrote back from Edelweis Island! He has visited 6 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Tortimer Island arrived. <b>Lily</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shinichi Yasaka</b> and <b>Toyohime Kirisame</b> are no longer Sweethearts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Iosif</b>, son of <b>Suika Ibuki</b> and <b>Ken Izumi</b>, grew up. He was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nozaki</b> was born to <b>Reisen Udongein Inaba</b> and <b>Nozomu Itoshiki</b>. It's their first child! He is an Independent Artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chiyoko</b>, daughter of <b>Chiyo Mihama</b> and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>, wrote back from Streetpass Relay Point Island! She has visited 7 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maiko</b>, daughter of <b>Marisa Kirisame</b> and <b>Miko Toyosatomimi</b>, wrote back from Streetpass Relay Point Island! She has visited 2 islands so far. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Konoha Island arrived. <b>Minosuke</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from PandaCity Island arrived. <b>Kurei</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Konoha Island arrived. <b>Tamako</b> departed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jacques</b>, son of <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> and <b>Augustine Sycamore</b>, grew up. He was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Regina</b> was born to <b>Unyuho Morichika</b> and <b>Berthold Gregor</b>. It's their third child! She is a Confident Adventurer. </span></div>
Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-11918382752176485932015-06-06T23:55:00.000+01:002015-06-06T23:55:04.959+01:00A Man of Letters<span style="font-size: small;"><i>*clickclick* *tap* *taptaptap* *taptap* *click*</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, <b>Kiba</b>, are you free for a mo... WHOA! Who are all those girls on your computer supposed to be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>W... what girls...? I'm just doing some, uh, research. Yes. Historical research. Y'know, about what happened during the last World War or so. That's right.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But what do girls have to do with the war? I mean, they're rather cute and have lovely guns and all, but... you haven't just been looking at lewd pictures online while on the job, have you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Actually all I wanted to do was for you to catch me in the middle of browsing some anime girl art so you wouldn't think otherwise except that I'm a perfectly normal, healthy, and ordinary male, that's all.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">W... what??? Why would I think... what does that have to do with anything?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ahem. Anyway, <b>Kiba</b>, I'm sure you're aware, but apart from the newest batch of news reports, a whole heap of letters has come in over the past few days</span><span style="font-size: small;">. Was it perhaps because whatever it was that was affecting <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and its position in the timestream had also stopped the vast majority of the mail from coming in?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait, you did read them, right? And not just spend the time browsing girlie pics on the Internet?<i> </i>I mean, <b>Aya </b>told us to get the whole pile of them sorted out as our first priority...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, I did read them, of course! I might be a nerd for Japanese culture, but that doesn't mean I slack off on what I have to do. It's just that, well, as to the content of the letters...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What? Hell no! What in the world gave you that idea? Your financially adequate but life-experience-deprived mind is full of perverted thoughts today, isn't it?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But you never said such a thing! And you just made an incorrect assumption about me right there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Maiko</b>, the daughter of <b>Marisa Kirisame</b> and <b>Miko Toyosatomimi</b>, has been quite the writer as of late it seems. Wasn't it just two days ago that we got a letter from her from Streetpass Relay Point Island? Well, it seems that she's finally got off of no man's island, and into the company of a wanted criminal! Who has also apparently decided to become a member of a biker gang.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You... make a very good point. Still I'm surprised nothing <i></i>outrageous or even remotely world-threatening has occurred so far with all the maniacs here. Well, apart from <b>Gensokyo Island</b> being lost to the mists of time for the last fortnight or so, but other than that... it's astounding how this uneasy truce has managed to last for so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>If I were to venture a guess, it would be the presence of equally overpowered so-called heroes and protagonists on this island to keep them in check. It's my belief that all their insanity and quirkiness just sort of cancels each other out. You know, there's the pervy schoolteacher who likes children way too much for his own good, and there's a mad dictator who really really hates children and wants them impaled on a pike, so they sort of balance, don't they?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whoever said anything justifying their actions? We're pretty much in agreement that they're all incorrigibly awful people.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hmm, so the next letter we've got coming in is from a certain... vampire demon lord? Although I'm not sure what the heck a vampire demon lord would be doing writing to us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, that's kinda discriminatory, isn't it? Dismissing people just because they happen to sustain themselves off the blood of the innocent. Besides, if <b>Desco Kazamatsuri</b> is a reliable informant, said vampire demon lord is actually a really nice guy who doesn't even drink blood, and seeks nothing more than to terrify humans to extract their fear to power the netherworld.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">WHAT?! Isn't that just as bad? And you're trusting the word of the spawn of a world-eating eldritch abomination on this one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bah, you rich people, thinking that you should be entitled to all the luxuries of this world. I'm sure demons need electricity too... anyway, he wrote in to suggest some new recipes regarding the preparation of his favourite dish, Sardines.</i> <i>That's all.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wait... all that build up... just for Sardines?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>So what's this we've got next on our list? Another letter from <b>Maiko</b>?</i><b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I say, that's impressive. Has she managed to visit another island already since she sent that previous letter?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No, it's just another letter from Streetpass Relay Point Island. Nothing to write home about... but she did write home anyway. I guess we can toss this one back on the pile.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe she was worried that her parents were worried about her, and so she wrote back to reassure them. That's a really sweet thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>You think so? With a minx-like face like that, I'd be surprised if she was worried about anyone in this world. And speaking of worried parents, <b>Gensokyo Island</b> has finally evicted all its resident leeches... um, I mean children who didn't get the opportunity to head to the port since it has been overcrowded for the past week. Among them, <b>Yuyuko </b>and <b>Maxie</b>'s third daughter <b>Yuuko II</b>, <b>Mima</b> and <b>Gary Oak</b>'s second daughter <b>Fantine</b>, and <b>Tia </b>and <b>Tadakichi</b>'s fourth child <b>Ralph</b>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>More accurately, who approved them. In fact, I hear that naming their kid "II" was <b>Yuyuko</b>'s idea, not <b>Maxie</b>'s. He and <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> just rolled with it because it sounded like some kind of bizarre science project.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oh, and last but not least, a very special letter from... the office of <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b>? It reads... dear Mr. <b>ZUN</b>, congratulations on being the second islander from <b>Gensokyo Island</b> to reach the fabled heights of Level 99! Please find enclosed your very special gift which I hope you'll enjoy as much as I enjoyed your latest installment of the Touhou Project franchise.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I figured just as much. It's probably because <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has yet to even play that latest game, not even the demo version of it. So, it's a subtle hint.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I guess you can say that if he doesn't release the game soon, the writing's on the wall<i> </i>for him...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whaaaa!!! Oh, it's just you, <b>Yugen</b>, thank Go...odness. I presume the latest manoeuvre was a success?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Indeed, yes it was, old boy. "Operation Preaching to the Choir" has been accomplished, and we are safe, at least for the time being. We shan't be seeing <b>Christian</b>'s face anywhere in this office for the next couple of days, and hopefully not ever if things work out right.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whew. You're a lifesaver. I can't believe anyone would ever be so dumb was to actually want to volunteer to write for Bunbunmaru Updates, but after hearing about his plans to turn it into "Good News Times" and to insist that the imminent armageddon and rapture of the faithful was a piece of news worthy of printing... let's just say I'm alarmed to even conceive of someone who can stump even <b>Aya Shameimaru</b>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Without a doubt, good sir. Thankfully he was rather eager to spread his message of salvation to the unpolished masses clinging to the meagre hope of salvation in the afterlife, with nothing more to lose on this earth than their mortal bodies. I trust he shall remain there for a long time - hopefully, for the rest of the time that he remains on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, apart from that recent upsurge in religious fundamentalism, things are slowly starting to recover here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. I never thought I'd be relieved to hear the screams of those accursed younglings filling the air again but such is how it has turned out the past few days. It's a subtle reminder that we aren't... rather, we're no longer displaced from the rightful flow of time, trapped forever in the mists of an eternal stasis.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I profess to having that very same opinion. When I first arrived, it was you and <b>Toritori</b> who informed me of this island's tendency toward... explosive procreation. Not in the sense of that movie about extraterrestrials, but rather in numbers.<i> </i>So it was rather underwhelming when the predicted geometric increase in natality failed to materialise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jacques</b>, the fifth child of <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> and <b>Augustine Sycamore</b>, was born after what seemed like an interminably long gestation period, but he certainly doesn't seem any worse for wear. The reason for this delay may be shrouded in mystery, but the origins of his name certainly aren't, for <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> was heard thinking out loud after being consulted on suggestions for a name for an impossibly cheerful looking infant of Gallic stock. She was considering something like Andre for a moment, only to be reminded that the couple's first child and aspiring supervillain <b>Alexandre</b> already took that name. So she suggested <b>Jacques</b> - and was immediately told off for mispronouncing the name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Seems like standards of governance here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> are diving ever lower. Apparently it's pronounced something like "dzhac", pretending you're sort of pseudo-Russian and not French at all. But it most definitely isn't pronounced "Jay-queez" at least! I bet the idiot running this place can't even pronounce the word "Quebec". Well, neither can I, haha.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It seems to me like you need a crash course in diplomatic language, <b>Kiba</b>. But while <b>Jacques</b> remains bound to terra firma for now, it's strongly encouraged that his parents train him in some nautical skill, as I forsee that he shall soon have to take the plunge in becoming acquainted with his new home at the bottom of the sea in about a week or so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>In our second showcase for today we have the latest experiment by resident mad scientist <b>Overlord Mao</b>, who attempted to clone his wife <b>Patchouli Knowledge</b>. And it looks like it was an overwhelming success!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Don't question it! It was all For Science! And since <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> declined <b>Mao</b>'s suggested names of "Mini-Me', or '<b>Patchouli</b> II' (honestly, only <b>Yuyuko</b> is airheaded enough to name her kid Something-II), they decided to go with <b>Patricia</b> just to keep the name as close as possible without being identical.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, just like <b>Yuuka</b> and <b>Sycamore</b>'s son <b>Jacques</b>? It seems that this new batch of <b>Gensokyo Island</b> youth has an adventuring spirit in them, perhaps from being trapped in limbo for so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Marisa</b> and her husband <b>Miko Toyosatomimi</b>'s daughter, <b>Maiko</b>, who was the last traveller from <b>Gensokyo Island</b> to be tossed into the mists of time, has just written back from the middle of nowhere</i> <i>, a.k.a. Streetpass Relay Point Island, with the delightful words "LOL Screw all of you, I'm free. FREE!!!" Or something very similar. It had a tone very close to someone who was saying 'Goodbye forever' but with a heck of a lot more sarcasm.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've never been there myself but I've heard about it. Streetpass Relay Point Island is the kind of place travellers write from when they're pressed to explain their lack of success in actually getting anywhere significant or meaningful, so they, uh, write it off as being a kind of place in itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><br /><i>And not being 'anywhere' is, from a traveller's point of view, pretty much equivalent to death. So aren't you glad you're here on <b>Gensokyo Island</b> with me, huh, rich boy?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I... I beg your pardon? What kind of tone is that! I hope you're not propositioning me or anything, I rather resent that you make assumptions about my personal preferences based on my accent and manner of speaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>No, I'm just saying how appropriate it is that I've always been using the italics in my conversations with <b>Toritori</b>, and you've been using the plaintext when speaking with <b>Rebecca</b>, so now that it's just the two of us left we're evenly matched!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now, I don't mean to criticise, for I know she has been through a whole lot, but <b>Layla</b> isn't exactly a looker in her current condition, having been cursed with her current apperance due to <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> having dragged her out from her proper place in the timestream. But I hope her agony is finally eased after being sent back to... to wherever she came from, with the temporary reactivation of the time-distortion device. Most certainly her situation was rather unfortunate, but perhaps due to her unflappable confidence, or her pride in wearing that grey jumper, she didn't seem very upset by the whole ordeal at all.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gensokyo Island</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">! We export impossibly self-obsessed youth and import religious fundamentalists! Sound like any Western democracy you know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now, I remember how the previous time-displaced traveller <b>Giuseppe</b> (who's the chap at the end of the queue at the port, by the way), happened to so brusquely dismiss me when I offered him the opportunity to be part of Bunbunmaru Updates, and it seemed that he lived up to his word, somehow being able to cut into the queue of travellers departing this island ahead of <b>Kiba</b> and I. How typical of such a ruffian, although I guess you can consider it a form of noblesse oblige on my part. This new traveller to arrive seemed like a whole other sort of fellow altogether, though, and I felt I was in with a chance on this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Steeling myself, camera in hand, I decided to go for the frontal approach. We were a little shorthanded to do the stealthy blackmailing route, after all... not that I ever had very much success with it myself apart from being a textbook case of how things should go for the person on the receiving end. And yet, how startled I was to find that this new individual gazing directly out from his resting place within his tent, an impenetrable smile of contentment on his face, as if he had been expecting my arrival!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What? I mean, how could he have been expecting me when he had no reason to know who I was? But perhaps it was the serene, distant, and oddly rehearsed tone of his voice which suggested that he wasn't addressing me personally, but rather speaking to any one of a subset of people who might be in my position. And why exactly was it a wondrous day?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Have you heard the good news, friend? 'Seek ye, and ye shall find', so sayeth the Holy Book. It is never too late to turn from darkness back towards the light."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"The Lord is our shepherd, and we are his flock. The gates of the house of the Lord are always open. Will you join me in embracing the promise of eternal life?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So saying, he held out to me a glass... a chalice, of some mysterious sweet-smelling liquid the colour of his hair. I mean, it smelt like some sort of Sports Drink, to be sure, but I was most certainly not in any hurry to accept such a gift from a complete stranger, let alone one who utterly creeped me out. I hastily excused myself, and above his objections and repeated attempts to reassure and calm me, I made myself scarce as best as I could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I learned a little later, from the Immigration Office records, that my erstwhile companion's name was <b>Christian</b> (Indeed, it was a <b>Christian</b> name), and he had been seeking an audience with all manner of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s residents - in fact, anyone at all he could meet. The locals here, being mostly practitioners of Japanese mysticism (or heathen gods themselves) mostly ignored him, apart from <b>Yuuka Kazami</b> who took him in with a similarly inscrutable smile on her lips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, given that when I did meet him he was still in one piece and still preaching his gospel, whatever happened to him couldn't possibly have been too dangerous to his continued existence. Surprisingly. Perhaps he just got to see a little glimpse of the afterlife for himself... and decided he liked it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It has been a long time in coming, but finally a married couple has booted one of their freeloaders... I mean, ever-loving children, out of the family home to face the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune that is life as a traveller. <b>Enma</b>, daughter of <b>Chiyo Mihama </b>and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>, was but one of a number of such recalcitrant children on this island, but with the sudden thaw, has made her mark by being the first of her kind to be so evicted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps we may finally return to the older days, when all manner of hectic happenings occurred every day and there was much more to talk about than would fill the typical broadsheet newspaper. Although there's a niggling suspicion at the back of my mind that perhaps we've only secured some temporary relief from the vast nothingness we've been experiencing for the past weeks, or perhaps even that <b>Gensokyo Island</b> would be better off trapped in a time paradox of its own creation, rather than be allowed to resume its path of spreading its toxic doctrine across the islands of the world. One thing is for sure, though...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... and it's that I'm absolutely not drinking whatever's in that chalice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>BUNBUNMARU UPDATES</u>, 1st June 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from miiland Island arrived! <b>Layla</b> of Tayburger Island departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from ChiriNicky Island arrived! <b>Christian</b> of del cuore Island alighted, <b>Maiko</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Enma</b>, daughter of <b>Chiyo Mihama</b> and <b>Shikieiki Yamaxanadu</b>, grew up. She was made to leave <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and become a traveller! </span></div>
Charlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693662438393329170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819501999106373715.post-35744902854810492872015-05-30T22:35:00.000+01:002015-05-30T22:35:20.749+01:00Sinister Designs<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, <b>Kiba</b> here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gensokyo Island</b> somehow hasn't been the same recently, despite having made use of the Time-Space Anomaly to send off a good quantity of travellers from its docks and free up the congestion and overcrowding there. But I don't mean that it has changed, in that it isn't just as filthy and disease-ridden as it was before. In fact, by demanding that no new <b>Gensokyo Island</b>-born travellers make their way to the docks, <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has simply made it more visible to the naked eye how pathetically squalid that place is without all those bodies in the way. No, that's not what's different at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But I think I feel it when doing my rounds in the evenings, trying to catch some scoop among the houses of Mii Apartments. It's not the nattering of this island's ever-unpleasable residents, ranting and raving about how somesuch or what's his face won't share their bear or disposable diaper or whatever. I've already gotten so used to it I'm able to tune it out of my head naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mmm... first <b>Shou Toramaru</b>'s Tiger brand Hot Dogs, now her Strawberry too? Let the imagination run wild.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's the eerie silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I mean, I don't want to bring up my memories of <b>Toritori</b>. But the truth is, when the ceaseless caterwauling of babies from just about every other bungalow here at Mii Homes was pushing me to do something reckless, <b>Toritori</b> was there to calm me down and prevent me from losing it completely. But now it's the absolute absence of those very same screams and wails that's driving me nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And it's not that these children don't exist, either. It's been a week or more since we reported the eviction of yet another freeloader their parents are no longer obliged to provide for in their maturity. Perhaps their parents are content to allow them to continue dwelling at their homes and leeching off them in a tender yet disturbing form of neoteny. Or perhaps said parents don't really have a choice, given that <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has barred new travellers from being sent to the port for the time being to avoid a repeat of Massacre Monday's debacle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> And, for that matter, we haven't reported the birth of a new child either, despite several islanders having reiterated their intention to procreate. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The world's longest pregnancy? Some new method of incubation? A bit of a mess-up with the alcohol supplement at the cloning vats? Someone's been shooting the stork on the way here? Who knows? After all, it's the lack of an explanation which makes the situation so much more mysterious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With the lack of any growth or new developments, it feels like time has stopped abruptly. And yet, judging by the evidence, it most certainly hasn't.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Salvatore</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> reports that she's stuck on a desert island with nothing but a deckchair. And <b>Yves</b> has learned to slurp steak. Yeck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ironically, it seems that it's the travellers whom <b>Okuu's Look-alike</b> has cast into the time spiral who have actually progressed through time, while <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and all who dwell upon it have remained frozen. Two recent cases, both from the same family, provide a shining example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Salvatore</b>, the only daughter of <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>, recently wrote back to say that she was fine and well, despite being completely disoriented from her journeys and having nothing to eat beyond a fruity tropical drink and a crab that was still alive at the point of writing. A day later, <b>Yves</b>, the couple's eldest son, managed to charter a boat back to <b>Gensokyo Island</b> using his savings to repay his parents for having faith in his continued survival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We tried to stop him for an interview but, being too late, we could not catch much other than a couple of photographs and the fact that <b>Yves</b> has now got quite a few adventures under his belt since we last heard from him. In fact, with four islands visited, he's now tied for joint second place for most islands visited among all of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s travellers. And yes, that makes him more travelled than me - but I wouldn't say more experienced, given how much I've been forced to adapt to the ordeals that living here has placed upon my back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But yes, the case of <b>Salvatore</b> and <b>Yves</b> serves to demonstrate a subtle, yet extremely worrying point. Perhaps it is not travellers like them, but rather <b>Gensokyo Island</b> itself, which has somehow been trapped in the mists of time. And perhaps the misuse and overuse of the time-space distortion, or maybe even the policy of temporarily barring new travellers from being sent to the port, may have been responsible for this predicament facing <b>Gensokyo Island</b> and its haplessly oblivious residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not to say that nothing happens around here at all, though...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some rather horrific news emerged recently over the airwaves of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>'s local broadcasting service (which is, incidentally, far less reliable than even <b>Aya Shameimaru</b>'s Bunbunmaru News. And that's saying something.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In a hideously unfortunate accident, resident supervillain and ecoterrorist <b>Maximillian Magma</b> got his toe caught in a fan, stunning him for one whole minute. It's not clear what exactly that one minute was expended upon, whether it was dashing to preserve his dismembered toe in ice, or otherwise growing a new one in his cloning vat, since he eventually emerged no worse for wear within a short time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But the most terrifying of all details had been laid bare before the eyes of the world - the disgusting state of the infamous supervillain's unshod foot, swollen to twice its size as blood flowed ceaselessly from the gaping wound left by the amputated digit, while the toe itself writhed about the planks of his apartment floor animated by the spilling of its ghastly ichor. Lesson to be learnt - don't stick your toe inside a fan, kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, so that might be an exaggeration? That he didn't necessarily have his toe sliced right off despite running into a fan with it? Well, call that embellishment for a story designed to bring excitement to the everyday drudgery of <b>Gensokyo Island</b>. Of an island that has been trapped in time by the machinations of its dicator herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A boat from Mattsland Island arrived. <b>Salvatore</b> departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Salvatore</span></span></b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">, daughter of <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>, wrote back from Streetpass Relay Point Island! She has visited 0 islands so far.</span></span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">BUNBUNMARU UPDATES</span></u><span style="font-size: large;">, 30th May 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yves</b> returned from Skidoonien Island to visit his parents <b>Tia Arlert</b> and <b>Tadakichi Mihama</b>! He has visited 4 islands so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Junya Ohta</b> and <b>Kyubey Incubator</b> are no longer Best Friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Junya Ohta</b> and <b>Koyomi Saigyouji</b> became Best Friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Margit Ravelli</b> and <b>Koyomi Saigyouji</b> are no longer Best Friends! </span><br /><u><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b></u></span></div>
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