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[windgodgirl]

[oh look, a new face! however, unlike most newcomers' first posts, it looks like this is an intentional recording. it certainly looks like she knows what she's doing, anyways.]

Ah, there we go!

[she holds whatever she's using to communicate in front of her at arms length; slim black feathered wings protruding from her back come into view. the winged girl is perched high up in a tree. distant mountains and more treetops are visible around her.]

A community that spans across different worlds... a perfect pool for all sorts of interesting news and gossip, just as I'd imagined! I can't say I was expecting to find something like this when I picked up this item that fell in from the outside world. What an incredible stroke of luck~ [she folds in her wings and sits back against the trunk of the tree.]

Ahh, where are my manners? I am Aya Shameimaru, reporter and photographer for the Bunbunmaru Newspaper of Gensokyo. I don't expect any of you to have heard of it. Well, one of you should have, at least. [cough lazy armpit miko cough.]

Anyways, why don't you all tell me something about yourselves or your worlds? But let's make this a challenge- I only want to hear something that would be worthy of the front page! Don't bother introducing yourselves with names. You see, I've taken the liberty of browsing through posts on the community beforehand to familiarize myself with as much of this as possible; I already know who most of you are.

[Aya balances the recording device in front of her and flips open a notebook, pen at the ready. two crows suddenly fly down and perch on a branch above her head. one of them hops down onto her shoulder and lightly pecks her ear, but Aya only acknowledges it with a brief tilt of her head.]

One more thing- I'd love to have a worldhop device of my own or someone to teach me to travel between worlds. Name your price for either and we can negotiate. Of course, currency obviously isn't an option here but I'm sure you can think of some other method of payment.

Now then! Everyone share something interesting about yourselves, please!

Comments

[spiritually]

If it were that easy to get a worldhop device, I think everyone would have one by now.

[windgodgirl]

Oh, I never said anything about it being easy. But I am aware there are those on this community who have access to one or the other. Surely at least one of those people could be of some help, hm?

[spiritually]

I guess so... Good luck, Miss Shameimaru.

[windgodgirl]

Thank you, Takashi Natsume.

permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ Gensokyo? ] You're from the above world!

[windgodgirl]

I am, I am. And you're from Former Hell, correct? [playin' it cool. except not really.]

[omnomsgods]

That's right. [ OMG HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT ]

[mightletyouknowme]

I could make the front page without any help.

[windgodgirl]

I'm sure, I'm sure. Sena Kashiwazaki, popular with the opposite sex and graced with beauty that draws the envy and resentment of other girls! What a character indeed.

[mightletyouknowme]

If you understand that much, you must be a decent reporter.

[selfished]

Uh.. one time I ate four pizzas in one day, does that count?

[windgodgirl]

... I don't cover stories like that, I'm afraid.

[selfished]

What?! Why the heck wouldn't you, it's a great story! Anyone likes stories 'bout pizza!

[dekillerqueen]

You may want to be careful with how deeply you research certain people, young miss. Some may not appreciate it...

[windgodgirl]

I am aware. But as a reporter, I must take those risks. [nah she just doesn't have any shame when it comes to that.]

[dekillerqueen]

How bold.

[everything_is_dangerous]

Hm... Unless you cover a lot of politics, I don't think I can come up with anything particularly interesting around here. The most exciting thing for a while happened a year ago; the Marquess of Caelin's brother tried to take over, and out of nowhere his long-lost granddaughter showed up at the head of a little army of her own to stop him.

[windgodgirl]

Politics? I think I'd lose a good chunk of my subscribers if I wrote about political activity... if there was even any occurring in Gensokyo. Still, I think broadening my spectrum would be useful for the future. Tell me more!

[everything_is_dangerous]

Well, it never hurts to at least think about broadening one's horizons.

Let's see. Things got quite intense toward the end. The Marquess had actually sent out knights looking for his granddaughter before the coup, and when the brother succeeded in taking control, he had her declared an impostor and the knights oathbreakers. Had all the other Caelin knights out after them, though I suspect some of them regretted it when General Wallace came out of retirement on the granddaughter's side.

What was it he said again...? "A giant walks among you! Come, break your weapons against me!"

[oceanicbutterfly]

Of course a reporter would have dug all these things up already.

[windgodgirl]

Anyone else with similar interests would have done the same thing, Minazuki-san.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Believe me, this comes as no surprise.

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[lotuslegend]

...so you're one of the tengu, huh. [Easy enough to see from the wings and the silly tokin hat.

Oh, right. That dumb gossip rag. She'd heard of it being popular amongst the youkai, and frankly, wanted it gone, but it had never actually done anything incident-worthy. There goes her motivation.]

Welcome to the network, I suppose.

[windgodgirl]

[HDU HER NEWSPAPER IS NOT A "DUMB GOSSIP RAG"!!]

Reimu-san! Just the person I wanted to speak to! [get ready for an interview, yo.]

[lotuslegend]

I'd ask how you already know my name, but that would be a pointless question.