[IC] TotMV:G^2: Touhou: Twilight of Paradise Butterfly

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Rory

The snake faunus nods, before sighing. "Rory Gilroy. Well, my group set up camp down that way. It's the area with the newly crashed train. If any of you guys want to talk to us that's the best place to check."

 

Joan and Dani

Dani takes a step back as Joan flies into his hand in weapon form. He takes a knee as he activates his soul sight, trying to get an idea of what they're dealing with.

[Lucky Lulu 2]

Admittedly, the odd looks were not unmerited.  Humans weren't exactly common guests on the youkai mountain, outside the Moriya Shrine--they certainly weren't regular sights in the lands where the tengu made their home.  Even for someone as famously eccentric as Masako, bringing them here was rather strange.

 

Not that Masako seemed overly worried about it, if she cared about the staring at all.  She seemed content just to wave at a few familiar faces as the unusual group walked or flew on by, while she lead them to...

 

Well, who knew where?  It was probably becoming increasingly clear, by now, that the tengu settlement was a bit more complicated than it seemed from the outside.  She seemed to know where she was going, anyway.  And for now, it seemed to be somewhere further up the side of the mountain, crossing several steep roads and more than a few bridges to reach and doing little to lessen the likely impression that the settlement planning didn't really have typical human sensibilities in mind.  Still, long as the climb up the winding path might have been, it did have a few perks.  Amongst them, the view of the small but bustling youkai town layered along and built into cliffs surrounding but a few of the many waterfalls for which the Youkai Mountain was known.   It was a curious mix of nature and artifice, traditional architecture interspersed with electrical lighting and more modern--if unusual--structures and contrivances worked in throughout the trees.  The denizens walked or flew to and fro about their business, several moving from small shop to printing house to shop in what appeared to be a market somewhere below, or stopping by one larger building or another that may have been either an office, a meeting hall, or a sake house depending on your best guess.

 

To all of this, Masako paid no particular heed.  Indeed, it wasn't terribly long after the last bridge that she stopped, gesturing to a stairway carved into the side of the cliff.  "Well?  Do hurry up.  My house is just up here, and I'm sure I'll have someone stopping by soon."