mayfield_rpg | 1st Spellcard: Transcendence of Faith "Armed Only With Prayer"

Action A: 842 Hastings Boulevard; locked to housemates

(Greetings, housemates! You have a new daughter/sister in your home who's understandably worried about her new location and the loss of her powers; unlike typical Mayfield newbies, however, Reimu here has gone and pretty much ~~littered~~ decorated the entire house with paper charms to ward off the evil that brought her here. You just might see her writing up a few more charms or hanging up the finished ones, but she's taking as much of her shrine as she can into this new place.)

Action B: Outside 842 Hastings; Open to all

(With the house now ~~buried~~ protected by charms and seals, Reimu, in an unfortunately gray plaid dress, sits outside her home in a state of meditation and prayer. With her hair bow gone, her long hair flowed with the wind. While she should investigate the area, the lack of her power and even her normal clothes made her feel vulnerable. With her shrine gone (again), the yin-yang orbs missing and the Hakurei border nowhere nearby, Reimu resorted to prayer as her only means of leveling her mind so she could think rationally.

Translation: this is the best time to annoy her and disrupt her with whatever you want. Fellow Touhou girls are more than welcome to ~~taunt~~ greet her and ~~tease~~ comfort her regarding the formerly powerful miko of Hakurei losing everything but her sense of self.)

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[Marisa smiles and then gives Reimu a light shove.]

That's not something that'll happen, ze. This place... it kinda says girls liking girls is bad. So... We kinda keep it quiet. Remilia still doesn't quite accept it and, well... it's only something we'll ever have here. Apparently we won't remember when we get back to Gensokyo.

I, uh, don't like thinking about that part.

Then I'll tell no one of it. (She covers her lips with one of the many paper charms she's made. ~~Her lips are "sealed" 8D~~)

No memories, eh? Just bring us here, do what they want and then send us off with no recollection? I'd hope they'd at least cover the medical charges.

It's strange that even a place like this can have positive memories, can't it?

Yeah. I've met some good people, too.

[She holds her hand out and her broom flies to it.] Lemme gives you a tour of this hellhole we're in.

(Reimu nods.)

I think I'd like that. It feels so weird, not being able to fly anymore...

I know the feeling, ze.

[And up onto the broom they go, Marisa holding onto Reimu.]

This place makes finding individual houses hard from the air, so I painted a big star on the roof of mine. For when you do get flight back.

(She's holding on to Marisa, curious about why every house looks exactly alike.)

I'll definitely remember that. Do you think mine could use more charms? They're kind of hard to see from up here.

I think the charms are completely pointless right now, ze. But if you want something painted on the roof for easy identification, we can put like... a yin-yang on it.

I guess the lack of spiritual power makes them more aesthetic than anything else.

That sounds like a great idea! I'll have to search the house for paint when I get back.

It's probably in the basement, ze. You have any actual housemates or just a bunch of drones?

A mix of both, from what I could tell. There were traces of actual people there, but I didn't see any of them. Just the drones who make me uncomfortable.

You get used to them after a while. I used to be in a house of almost all drones, but over time they got replaced with actual people. Except for Stabdad, I like my housemates. Just, uh, don't ever tell Ciel that.

Anyways, what sucks the most about the drones is that if you're not careful, this place can make you like one of them for a bit. It's for breaking certain rules. Like sleeping away from your house three days in a row or missing school three days in a row. And school really sucks. You're going to get bored of it real fast.

(She'll sooner forget than tell anyone. Like, much sooner.) I feel I should ask about this "Stabdad," but it sounds self-explanatory.

I rather enjoy not being a drone, but to mandate school? I can't imagine it being any more exciting than the rest of the town. Staying in this home I can manage, but school is just insult to injury.

Don't worry about him, ze. He only almost killed me once, but I barely had any magic then. Nothing to worry about now, especially with Ciel there. She has to share a bed with him cause she's 'Mom'. Nags like one too...

School... eh. Just hope you don't get the Yama for a teacher like I do. She MAKES us pay attention and attend.

That's...unpleasant to hear, but nothing a master spark can't fix, right?

(Reimu still remembers that lesson from the Yama when she came down to Gensokyo...still hasn't gotten over it yet. Now that I know that's possible...I hope I don't. I respect her wisdom, but it overpowers mortals like us.

You're assuming I've been given Master Spark back, ze.

[She HAS, like just recently, but she's not telling anyone she has it back.]

We get stuff back in increments after really bad stuff happens.

Ah, I guess it'd be too easy for this town to just return that spell.

This stuff is usually incident-level bad, I guess?

Yuuup. And totally sucks. I've already died once because of it.

[She sighs and angles the broom to take them up over Makeout Point. Best view of the damn town.]

But we're not gonna harp on that, okay?

(~~How romantic~~~ She nods in understanding.)

So this is all Mayfield: very plain, very organized and almost innocent looking...yeah, I'm not buying it.

Exactly.

[Marisa is going to point out some buildings that bear noting and are fairly visible from their perspective.]

The Post Office is over there. The Postman has all our stuff, but we can't get it back until he gives it to us. Don't even try to break in and get it back - been there, done that, got cursed like woah.

Over there is the Dairy. It's a place of pure evil and so is the Milkman. Don't drink the milk that gets delivered every day. Seriously, Reimu. Don't drink the milk. Whatever you buy from the store is good, but not the stuff delivered. And in there... it's got the machine that brings everyone back to life and maybe some other stuff, but... just bad, ze. Like scary bad.

The Mayor's office is over there - he's kind of a dick. The Police Station is there, but it's a big sham. Um... There's a UFO on the ground over there that had a party in it, but no treasure. Kinda pointless now. And that factory right outside over there. That I wish I could blow up.

So many bad memories...almost makes me think I'm lucky to have been brought here when I was.

It sure sounds like one hell of a conspiracy going on here, but you mentioned the postman, the milkman and the mayor. Are they the ringleaders behind all of this?

Still working on that, ze. Too many different groups that don't like each other but mess with us. Not sure who the real leader is.

It sounds more like a gang war when you put it like that. Perhaps we're just the ones stuck in the middle?

1st Spellcard: Transcendence of Faith "Armed Only With Prayer"

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