>>18040
For the record, I'm not greatly bothered by extensions or the un-contestlike-deadliness thereof. As long as it doesn't stretch indefinitely.

To play it safe, how do 2 more weeks sound?

>>18042

Personally this'd be a godsend, it'd leave me a week after my work finishes to get ready for submission and reading.

Relevant captcha is relevant.

>>18042

Sounds good, I can finish all my exams before finishing my piece

Just realized I forgot to say what it even is, Gensokyo D20 is a Touhou D&D 3.5 conversion.

Have you tried asking the Touhou Subreddit? Or maybe /jp/ now that 4chan is back online?

>>18013
I remember his posts. He's already been to both, as well as /tg/ and, IIRC, an altchan or two. From what I gathered, most of the rules were found saved elsewhere except for the ones he specified which unfortunately seem lost. About the only thing you could do is try tracking down the author for them, or do your best to homebrew up those monsters and magic items.

I think the only backstory Alice needs is Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit".

>>17991
>By the way, I don't have a concrete idea of how exactly Alice left Makai
My apologies, clearly, it was to work as Mima's maid. (Yes, I know it was just a gag...)

I really liked the Tewi discussion in the first character discussion thread so I wanted to bring her up again. Namely some of her dialogue that I liked
Starting from the top in PoFV, when Lyrica asks if Rabbits used to fly in the sky, Tewi answers that they did but evolved away from that. After winning, when answering why she flies, Tewi says that there wasn’t anywhere else she could go any more so she decided to go up.

When Youmu says it's strange for an animal like her to enjoy the netherworld, Tewi answers that rabbits are high class animals who exchanged a lot with gods in the past.

Finally in her story mode, She then tries to buy part of Medicine’s flower field from her, but gets poisoned instead.

After that Eiki scolds her for being a trickster, leading to her versus dialogue where she dispenses these fortunes.
If Reimu makes the Torii gate of the shrine face south instead of east she will have good luck
If Marisa moved out of the forest of magic she would have good luck
If Yomu stabs herself with her sword, she will have good luck
Tewi tells Cirno to go after frogs of higher rank, getting Cirno eaten by the great toad. This probably isn't a fortune and is just a prank.
Tewi tells Merlin she’s willing to help promote her as a solo act as some sort of business deal.
Tewi advises Mystia to open a new business, causing her to open her lamprey stand.
Tewi talk to Aya about improving how well her papers sell. Later Aya starts handing out free extra additions, it isn't successful due to Aya being dumb and not much happeneing.
Tewi goes back to medicine to ask if she's reconsidered selling some of the land in her field of flower. (Just speculation, but since Medicine and her flowers poison can also be used to create medicine, she probably wants to align her desire to see pretty flowers and secure a new source of resources for the Hourai Pharmacy.)
Tewi scolds Komachi for being wasteful with money and using it as a Danmaku (I find it funny, I've seen more poor Komachi's then rich ones, but in reality she's loaded just poor at handling money.)
When talking to Eiki in the versus mode, she says she’s giving people good a

>>17973
People said the same about several touhous with little lore, and yet Satono/Mai and Nemuno produced very interesting discussions in the end, leaning precisely into the personal interpretation angle.

>>17976
Exactly!
Also, PC98 characters have the benefit of there not being all that much to know in the first place. Their in-game appearances are basically what they are, you won't even have to do a lot of reading or anything. Which is why I'm suggesting it! The barrier to entry is lower for people who may not really engage with the cast outside of a few favourites, but may still want to comment. And it's just fun! Old works are fun, th1 especially is very fun to talk and think about.

Well, are we going to get new characters to discuss? The irregular discussions thread seems to be active enough, even if people aren't writing huge posts every time. If Teruyo is fed up and doesn't want to run the discussion thread, should someone else take over?

>>17983
No problem. The writer was a friend of mine, though we've lost touch for various reasons, so I can't pass on those sentiments. I'm sure he'd have been glad to hear it.

>>17980
Best story on the site, in my opinion. There's nothing quite like it, and I wish there was more. If only The Kinu Yasumi Almanac got finished...

>>17987
Speaking as a collaborator on that one, it would have been hard for Kinu to finish since the writer, uh, didn't plan much and lost interest in figuring it out after a while. Rural Concord ended up being something like a spiritual continuation, even if it wasn't strictly the same.

>>17927
Yes? I didn't say it wasn't. But you're not supposed to sympathize with the master, he's cruel drunk who beats children. The boy killing him is him being repaid with the same kindness he gave onto the world, which is none. The boy then feeling terrible for what he did tried to confess, but the Tanuki covered it up since they feel bad for him.
Also the narrative clearly signals, that it's supposed to be a truthful story, if it wasn't meant to be truthful it would have been framed differently. Probably starting out with the myth having the Tanuki, only to reveal they're more underhanded or weren't involved at all and the story has a perfectly normal explanation.
Also I don't understand what the Tanuki being self serving has to do with anything here, the question that's being asked here is.
1. Do the Youkai have an interest in keeping humans alive and the human village stable?
Which I think is yes. The human village is constantly highlighted as being important to maintaining Gensokyo in its current state.
and
2. Would a Youkai help deal with problems like crime in the village?
And I think that depends on the Youkai, in Mamizou's case, I think she would if it could benefit herself and kept the village stable.
Neither of these questions take into account if the Youkai is acting in self interest or now, and I'm not really concerned with the motive. The Questions are asking if a course of action could be realistically taken, which there can be any number of motives for.

>>17928
I'm not arguing with you about anything? I'm just making a whatever comment, dude. The subject's kind of run itself out.

>>17086
I think you're thinking of Zanmu's ending where it reveals Zanmu's real goal was to take over Gensokyo, but after she found out about Reimu and recognized her as the absolute power in Gensokyo gave up on her goal.

>>17507
As I said before, it's fine if you can't. While I'm interested in what I'm interested, the simpler idea about the aftermath at the Hakurei shrine is also ok. I'm partial to a series of short notes/articles by Aya following attempts to interview the involved parties as a style and/or framing device. Though, perhaps, that might end up being more about Aya and her pushiness rather than the interview subjects (Reimu, Aunn, Marisa?, others?) themselves. Dunno what the other anon might think.

https://www.thp.moe/th/res/183417.html#183938

Kind of late, considering spring's already begun, but I feel the need to bring up the above post because it's something that's stuck in my head for years. I honestly can't get rid of the concept of Lily White automatically going from a sedate, perhaps intelligible individual to a babbling maniac upon the transition to spring. Something about it just makes me giggle endlessly like a schoolboy.

Posting this here because I don't feel it's right to necro the thread even if the board won't block me yet.

I really want >>/others/69170 back. There's not much running currently that's as fun to me. Yeah, yeah, I know, the usual barriers. Doesn't stop me from wanting.

>>17891
Mystery Celebrations author here. A huge thank you for taking the time to analyze the prose of my writing, and for rewriting the paragraph to illustrate your points. I'll definitely reserve some time to learn more about storytelling and rhetorical techniques. I think it'll be valuable knowledge for both reading and writing.
I wanted to focus on the house at the very beginning because I like to have a very good stage for whatever scene is in play. The house was going to be the main setting of my work, after all. I wanted to set the stage and the tone and hook at once. Hook? Yeah, the hook was intended to be the setting of Yukari's house itself, since its still a mystery in canon. But as others have said, thats a trapping of fanfiction - presupposing that your readers are familiar with the material.

>>17892
>But as others have said, thats a trapping of fanfiction - presupposing that your readers are familiar with the material.
My own issue with that mindset/approach is less about familiarity with material being adapted as much as a presupposition of investment by default in particular understandings/interpretations thereof. For instance, I'm not invested in, say, Alice and Marisa being friends unless a very good reason is established within the narrative; i.e., the onus is on the writer to show how that's true and why we should care, not simply tell us that's the case or take it all as a given.

My comments part three.

On Alcohol & Oceans

Sorry, I don't really get it. It's just not a very Touhou-like piece to me. Everything's so surface-level. I don't think Alice is the kind of person to waste emotions on berating herself for mis-timing the fuze on one doll, for example, considering how many she must go through a month. She care a lot about her craft, sure, but she's ambitious about it and, like, owns it in a way that I feel should indicate a more robust attitude towards setbacks. Maybe she just happens to be a sorry drunk, but that doesn't mean that any reason to be sorry is as good a reason as any other, you know? Or, like, Kokoro has personal pronoun confusion and doesn't understand what drinking is? I don't really buy it. Feels like it takes too much of a generic "artificial and/or alien plural-self ingénue" template. Murasa's depressed because she was randomly reminded of the ocean by a total stranger she wanted to fuck? It's all this superficial stuff that's way too easy to reach for, draped over characters who talk and think and act like they could be in fanfiction for any other piece of media.

It's just a bad match for me, I guess. I don't really have anything constructive to say. Maybe the same thing I said to the Ranout: Chen Buren author—try and go beyond just walking and talking and set dressing, and try to actually delve into being. Like... I can't help but compare it in my mind with Sinker, another Ichirin/Murasa piece from elsewhere on the internet. The Murasa there still kind of talks like a fanfiction character; I guess it can't be helped; but on a deeper level she doesn't think that way. Her background informs what she uniquely is and what she uniquely needs, and what happens in the story is driven by that. It's importan

Considering the entire theme of my story, it only felt fair for the contest reward to feature one last Satori fakeout.

But in all seriousness, thanks for being our artist, Kosu. The art you've provided for R/R and USiL both has been fantastic, and as I had no particular ideas on a Mystia story myself, I decided to outsource the problem. And, as per usual, Gooboi's done a terrific job with it - the misadventures of little tiger Mystia were a joy to both read and edit.

And with that... thanks to everyone who was part of the contest, thanks to Gooboi for hosting it, and I'll see you guys when I've got something else written. Until then.

>>17840
I, personally, loved it. Mystia is the sort of person to use the jeweled pagoda as a fuel source for her stove.

My one question is how Kyouko got sent to her.

I'm not crying, someone's chopping onions!

This was completely unexpected and it absolutely made my day, my whole week, everything.
I have to thank both of you, I can't find words to thank you enough, this meant a lot to me!

It's always a pleasure to draw stuff for the worlds you have gifted us, and I'm always happy to help you in any way I can.

Shit Fart Online sucked and VR is a forced meme.

Gensokyo is still not real and VR is shit.