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Who: Reimu and whoever feels like stopping by the Shrine
What: Reimu working (and slacking off) at the Shrine. Also, ~~possibly screwing around with new powers behind the shrine when no one's around~~ doing other things.
Where: The Shinto Shrine near the park in Japan Town
When: Any time between The 22 to the 26th of November

[While the network has been pretty busy the last few weeks, things have been quiet for Reimu. On the one hand calm and quiet are things she's starting to appreciate more, the more time she spends in Locke City. On the other hand, it gets kinda boring some times. She still does her chores around the shrine of course, though she also takes way more breaks than she should be taking. When she's not on duty, she's mostly walking around the park or playing video games.

Speaking of quiet, it actually not as quiet as the shrine maiden would have liked, thanks to that stupid buzzing noise. Even after finding out what was causing it from Danny, she'd still felt compelled to go check out the Towers herself. Not that she'd actually been able to get very close with the police still patrolling around. Ultimately, the adventure had been completely pointless, and Reimu had gone back to deciding not to care.

There was one thing she got out of it though. While she still wasn't sure she liked getting strange new powers from who knows where, being able to fly as her other self had in the visions was kind of neat, and with the monsters and things around the other new powers might also prove useful at some point. She had been testing these things out a little bit at the back of the shrine when no one else was around, though there was a limit to how much she could do there (she couldn't really fly very high for one thing). Only a little bit of experimenting though. She didn't bother to practice or anything.]

((Alright, so, she actually went to the Tuning Towers on Sunday, so the part about her new powers only potentially comes up after that. Anyone who wants to hang out can. She'll either be slacking off on the steps of the shrine again (whether or not she's supposed to be on duty) or sweeping the shrine grounds, or doing some other chore while on duty. Just be sure to specify when the thread is taking place.))

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Marisa breezed on in through the front gate as if she had been there a hundred times before. She had a bag containing a spare USB controller and a pirated copy of Kioh Gyoku on a burnt CD, because Reimu had sounded awfully confident talking about the game and needed to be put in her place.

"Hiiiiiiya Reimu!" She shouted, waving. Then she took a moment to look around the shrine curiously. She had never been here before, after all.

As it happened, Reimu's shift at the shrine was about to end and the lazy shrine maiden had been in the process of finishing sweeping the courtyard before calling it quits when she heard Marisa call her name.

She turned to glance at the girl, a little surprised for a moment to see Marisa standing there. There was... something weirdly familiar about this scene. "Marisa? What brings you here?" Though thinking about it, she thought she had a guess, considering their last conversation on the Network.

Also, something about this felt weirdly... natural somehow.

She held the game up.

"Putting your money where your mouth is. You got a computer around here?"

Reimu makes a face at her, snorts and turns back to finish sweeping.

"Of course I do. Just hold on a second. My shift's about to end anyway."

Once done she started back towards the shrine to go put the broom away. "Alright, follow me."

The nice thing about working at the shrine when her family owned the place was that this shrine had been built so that the owners had their own living space, just like Reimu's grandmother's shrine did, and her relatives had chosen to use it rather than live somewhere near by. So once the broom was put away Reimu could just lead Marisa straight to her room.

She slides open the door to her room and steps in. "Here we are."

Her room is fairly normal, other than the fact that she's got a futon instead of a bed (It's a more western style futon than the one back home, but that was okay so long as it was a futon in Reimu's opinion). She keeps the place pretty neat, but there's still games all over the place and a small TV against one wall. There's also a desk with a computer, with Reimu's own usb controller still attached to it.

Edited 2013-12-01 00:16 (UTC)

Marisa could be attributed many virtues: bravery, intelligence, drive, energy. Not patience, though. She pestered Reimu with questions about the shrine while she waited for her to finish up sweeping. Did people actually COME here like to a church? Just what exactly is Shinto? Is the sweeping sacred? Can she make holy water? Is she actually a priestess? Could she chase off vampires with her holiness? And so on.

Eventually they got down to business, and Marisa wandered into Reimu's room looking around curiously. "So you actually live here? In the shrine?"

The questions really annoyed Reimu of course, but she answered some of them anyway. No it's not quite like a church, but people do come to pay respects to the gods and receive blessings. No, the sweeping is just a normal chore. No they don't use holy water for exorcisms in Shinto. They use talismans. Ugh, would you cut it out already?

While Marisa looked around her room, Reimu sat down on the futon. "Yes, most Shinto Shrines have rooms for the family who owns the shrine on the grounds. Apparently it's not as common here as it is back home though."

"So if you brought a copy of that game with you, you didn't really need to, since I already have mine here." Well it's not like Marisa could've known that, so she's just stating a fact.

She plugged in her controller to the other USB port.

"Wouldn't want to miss out just because you didn't have it installed or something."

She got up from the futon to boot up Kioh Gyoku. Her copy of the game doesn't have an English patch installed, but that shouldn't matter for Marisa.

"Alright. I guess I'll let you chose who you want to play as first then, since you're the 'guest.'" She said, once it was set up, going to mess with the futon. Obviously they couldn't both sit at the desk. Since her futon was a western style futon, and the screen on her computer was of a decent size anyway, it wasn't that hard to fix that though.

"A'ight"

Marisa's didn't have an english patch either. She had just figured out where everything was on the menus by experimentation. She chose her normal favorite: Some girl with a rolling pin who seemed fond of missiles.

Once she was done messing with the futon so they could sit there, Reimu picked up her own controller and sat down.

Seeing that Marisa had chosen VIVIT, Reimu tch'd and decided to use Milia. She played Milia more often anyway.

"Alright, ready to start?"

A couple months of Japanese 1 under her belt means she can actually sort of read the names, now. Kind of.

"Ready."

Marisa's strategy was violently front loaded. The few times she had played this before with other humans, she had usually either won quickly, or lost dramatically after blowing all her power.

Reimu's was a bit more balanced between defensive and offensive, with a heavy use of hit and run tactics when need be. She deftly dodged around attacks and made her own count rather than wasting her energy, finding and exploiting holes in her opponents defense, such as there was. She'd played against human opponents perhaps a bit more frequently than Marisa had, though even her friends back home who'd been into Seihou hadn't played against her often because none of them had managed to beat her yet.

None had managed to beat Reimu yet, but then, they hadn't been Marisa Kirisame. She dived into the battle headfirst, spamming missiles and bombs like a maniac! And then...

Absolutely failed to hit her opponent. She got the distinct impression that she might be in over her head here, though she didn't let it show on her face.

Reimu meanwhile was getting into her groove now and starting to smirk a little. Marisa might not have managed to hit her yet, but it was obvious that she was at least competent at this game, which was good. Still she was also obviously over confident too.

So, after dodging the next volley Reimu found her opening and ruthlessly took it.

Edited 2013-12-13 10:48 (UTC)

And Marisa was annihilated.

"Hmph. Lucky shot."

Reimu smirked. "Not so confident now, are we?"

"That was a warmup round!" Marisa declared, starting another round. She chose the same character again.

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