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Tom:
> You're Seija Kijin the rebellious Amanojaku.

> Tonight is Gensokyo's Full Moon festival and Shinmyoumaru has asked you to accompany her to the festival, you figure it must be intimidating for inchlings to be around all these powerful Humans and Youkai.  She's pretty much your only ally in Gensokyo who hasn't forgotten about you since your self imposed isolation after pilfering the Hakurei Shrine of all its valuables.  For as long as you can remember she's dreamed about just being big and even though you're an Amanojaku for some reason it feels wrong to refuse her little desire.

> While walking up the long stairway to the Hakurei Shrine to meet Shinmyoumaru you spot Aya's newspaper on the top step and stop.  You consider ignoring it but you figure it might be interesting to learn what's been going on in Gensokyo every once in a while, even though the Bunbunmaru is hardly a reliable source of information.

> When you decide to unroll it you immediately notice the overly large heading:
                             A Competition among Gensokyans
                                      To Fulfill all Ten Desires
Wealth? Knowledge? Prestige? Magic? Longevity? Any one of them can be yours~
Whoever can successfully cause an Incident without being caught will have their
greatest wish fulfilled~!
Everyone interested should gather at the Hakurei Shrine Grounds at Sunset.

Also in this Bunbunmaru issue:
>Another year of excellent crop yields thanks to Minoriko's blessings. (Page 2)
>The Kraken confirmed!?  Eyewitness reports from fishermen about strange sightings
under Misty Lake's surface! (Page 3)
>Reading Tarot Cards 101!  5 cards link you to your past, present and future, according
to an expert.  But which cards provide the highest accuracy of readings?  We compare results
from 5 different sets of cards across 30 individuals. (Page 4)
>An exclusive interview with Village Physician Unshou about the health benefits of
smoked herring, a village delicacy. (Page 5)

> Seems you've found yourself at the right spot at just the right time~
> It's not sunset yet though, you reckon you have over an hour before Gensokyo's sky turns to its usually beautiful shades of orange and yellow.

> You form a small smirk as you think of your deepest desires...
Kilgamayan:
> Relationships (other than the Princess)
> To what extent can we apply our inversion abilities?
> How do we look?
Tom:

--- Quote from: Kilgamayan on December 05, 2020, 04:23:55 AM ---> Relationships (other than the Princess)

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> After your plan to invert society was stopped for the next 10 days you became the closest thing Gensokyo had to an "outlaw".  Various prominent figures did everything in their power try and capture you but you always had another trick up your sleeve.  Even Shinmyoumaru turned against you, recruiting some of the strongest in Gensokyo to stop you, but with no results. 
> On the eleventh day however something unexpected happened, Shinmyoumaru revealed that she was actually the one leading the revolution and also claimed that you were just one of her many advisors, shifting the blame upon herself. While it's true that she held the highest 'rank' in your rebellion, in reality she was just a figurehead.  She spent all her time in the Shining Needle Castle transforming it into a fairy-tale castle while she let you handle the revolution below and only occasionally inform her of progress.
> To this day you still can't comprehend why she took the blame for the incident when everyone was already suspecting you.  Was she really that naive to actually think she was the one in charge and thus felt responsible for it?  Regardless it's one thing you've been afraid to bring up or ask about ever since...

> Not wanting to face Shinmyoumaru after being punished for an incident she didn't really mastermind and with your Amanojaku nature being satiated for years to come from those 10 days of exile you moved out to a peaceful and isolate region of Gensokyo far away and free from the corrupt society you hate so much.

> With all that in mind your relationships should be generally neutral with everyone, you only being associated with cheating at danmaku and unfair gimmicks in your spell cards.

> The only person you're little worried about is that shrine maiden, since you were behind what became known as the "Great Hakurei Heist".  On the 8th night of your exile you managed to steal all the shrine's valuables and even turn some of the shrine itself into coins using the remaining power of the Miracle Mallet.  No one even suspected you were the culprit as you were wanted "outlaw" at the time... While she was busy trying to hunt you down, you we're busy stripping the shrine of every asset she's ever owned!

> You recall all the shrine's valuables and extra coins you converted are stashed away near where you live, it's not like you have any place to spend it and you never cared much for wealth anyways.  You mostly stole it out of pure spite at the time for the unreasonable means people were prepared to use to try and stop you.


--- Quote from: Kilgamayan on December 05, 2020, 04:23:55 AM ---> To what extent can we apply our inversion abilities?

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> Your trademark "inversion" technique where everything flips upside down depends on many factors like if you're in a spell card duel, if you're playing by the rules, how susceptible others are to inversion, how sharp their spatial perception and movement coordination is, how easily they can determine their orientation, and many other factors.
> For an ideal scenario you think of midnight on a cloudy night with no moon, you could easily defeat anyone without raising a finger just by creatively using the environment itself as a weapon.
> For a worst-possible scenario you think of midday in the human village, you'd only be able to confuse someone for a short while before they regain their (now upside down) bearings.

> When inverting more abstract things like one's motivation or one's luck your ability functions a bit differently, it's more like swapping your motivation or luck with someone else's, and depending on the complexity of the concept it could require significant or insurmountable amounts of effort and energy.  You're more likely to accidentally invert something entirely different that what you intended.  Nevertheless you don't know the full extent of this ability due to it's complexity and difficulty.

> Otherwise you're just very perceptive and analytical, excellent at figuring out what you need to manipulate to flip a situation on its head.


--- Quote from: Kilgamayan on December 05, 2020, 04:23:55 AM ---> How do we look?

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> You look better than ever~
Kilgamayan:
> Do we know where the Princess is right now?
> If inverting more conceptual abstract things is similar to swapping an aspect of ourselves with an aspect of the target, have we ever tried inverting the Princess's size, so that she becomes our size and we become her size?
Tom:

--- Quote from: Kilgamayan on December 06, 2020, 12:18:33 PM ---> Do we know where the Princess is right now?

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> Well since she asked you to accompany her to the Full Moon Festival tonight, so you expect her to be either already be at the Hakurei Shrine or arrive sometime before the festival starts.


--- Quote from: Kilgamayan on December 06, 2020, 12:18:33 PM ---> If inverting more conceptual abstract things is similar to swapping an aspect of ourselves with an aspect of the target, have we ever tried inverting the Princess's size, so that she becomes our size and we become her size?

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> You've mostly experimented with swapping immaterial and logical concepts rather than physical properties.  You don't believe it's beyond your abilities but it would require great amounts of magical energy, certainly more than you can channel on your own.
> In previous occasions where Shinmyoumaru became big she used the Miracle Mallet to do so, however the Mallet can only grant her wishes for so long until it runs out of energy and she reverts back to being small.
> With that in mind you think of maybe using the mallet's assistance to perform the swap?  The reason it runs out of energy is because it requires some type of exchange for the miracles it grants, so maybe swapping bigness with Shinmyoumaru could be considered a fair exchange?
> Though the idea of being small and feeling insignificant is scary to you!
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