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Finally got to write out a post. And after a rough day of work too. Before I go to bed, I've mentioned some choices the group makes have a random outcome. This is a good example, with myself setting up a pool of options and rolling a 1d100 to determine which outcome happens. In this case, I rolled a 71. Higher than the 1-39 I planed for Reisen and 40-69 for Tewi. Who found Houdini then? Well normally I would post the table of options, but I didn't get around to it. All I can say is you can probably guess. Instead of a direct action, Houdini is visited by a dream, from a mysterious force, the same Oscar has access to. As his familiar, Houdini can draw on knowledge through dreams as well. After a quick aside, he is sure to wake up, a little stronger and with more options for attracting help for Oscar.

The Grassroots Youkai Network An informer affiliation of lesser Youkai, the Grassroots Youkai Network is often used to pass on information between weaker Youkai. Usually as a means of protecting themselves, whether against Humans, stronger civilized Youkai, Wild Youkai, Spirits or other threats. Many of these Youkai act as informal advisors to Otherworldly Ventures, confirming details in this book and assisting in tracking down rumors. Its members are usually anonymous, leading the Otherworldly Ventures team to assume the Network is widespread throughout Gensokyo. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guessss Whhhooooo? Back again for more of your money! If you had any. I’ll take your jewelry. Don’t give me that look, you’re a Kami. You’ll make it back in donations in a few months...or decades, depending. Now to flip this ring. Heads, Houdini goes to the Stalls. Tails, the Buddhist Temple my loser sister stays at. ...Wellwell, I guess he goes to the stalls. But if you thought meeting the local bunny girls would be that easy, you’re going to be very disappointed. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The rabbit made its way down the cobblestone road with long hops of his back legs. Though as he bounced frantically towards the line of stalls, he could feel his strength leaving his legs. His bones, old for rabbits, ached painfully. Each hop brought him closer to his friend’s rescue, but also towards his own exhaustion. He could see them ahead. The figures were dressed in peasant clothing, one taller, the other shorter. But even his old nose could smell they were rabbits. The two sat around a table, eating. The taller gagging, even as her companion pointed and laughed… ...Why were they so hard to see… The periphery of his vision grew dark. His throat struggling to take in a breath. The two stood, grasping their great bamboo packs before turning to leave… No! The sight brought new strength to his limbs and he bounded forward. But his body failed him. Even as he struggled to catch his breath, he fell forward onto the road. Darkness consumed his vision, and he slipped into a despairing sleep… A pair of red shoes crossed the cobblestone pathway. Their owner gazing off towards the horizon. Dour thoughts clouding an otherwise youthful mind. Even if the basket hanging from the crook of her arm promised some cheer. Her eyes slowly passed the homes that lined the space. Idly wondering if life would be better if she moved out from the Village. It was not easy living in hiding all the time after all. But experience had taught her that life was just as dull anywhere else. Perhaps moreso, as the Human Village was a magnet for Incidents. And it would be lonely without her friends around. Her eyes turned towards the Heida Temple as she passed the road, a voice in the back of her head wondering if Keine would try to rope her into going back to night school. Before she stopped in mind stride. In the center of the road lay an elderly rabbit. Breathing heavily with his eyes closed. The day was still early, so no humans had seen him, but he was sure to be a lucky hawk or dog’s lunch… With a soft sigh, she turned. Changing her path to walk towards the wheezing creature. Stopping in front of it to set her basket down. The cloth over the top rustling as a pair of red eyes peered out at him. Crouching down, she studied it for a moment. As though rethinking what she was even doing. “Hey.” There was no reply. Only more ragged breathing. “Hey. Wake up.” Her words didn’t seem to be helping much. But at least he opened his eyes to that. A hand reached into her basket. Ignoring the feeling of hair and the odd nip of teeth against her arm. “Ugh, you’re in a rough state...I’m not much of a pet person. So sorry if you don’t like it or whatever.” Her slender hand emerged. Offering an Onigiri to the exhausted rabbit. For a moment, it could only sniff at it, before slowly nibbling at the offering. “Wonder what you are doing here...this is the worst place a rabbit could be. Did you come here with the rabbits from Eientei?” Only the sound of munching met her ears. “Not much of a talker, are you? I think we’ll get along.” Gripping the exhausted rabbit by the scruff of the neck, the young lady awkwardly lifted the fluffy creature. Dropping it into the basket. Its food soon following. “You just get some sleep. We can sort out introductions later.” The basket began to sway again, drifting from side to side as Houdini caught his breath. The basket itself was half stuffed with Onigiri. Cooked rice, plums, fish and other fine foods mixing in the space. But he could pay no mind to that. Nor to the one he had already been chewing on. For across from him, was a human head watching him. “Hey.” Oscar would probably have startled at that. Houdini however, was too relaxed at his age for that. He was just grateful he had dinner and a ride. A pleasant enough thought, as he returned to sleep. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well. You found someone at least. What distant dreams does your Patron share with you? = Wait, and Dream of your Best Friend. = Wait, and Dream of a Witch's Strings. = Wait, and Dream of an Afflicted Soul. = Wait, and Dream of Stranger's Self-Loathing.

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12 entries as far as I'm aware

aw man, what a shame.. what's the minimum requirement, by the way?

About awareness agree. But sometimes I see that some my posts doesn't fully cover mentioned topics (that mostly happens after months the post was published, because during such period of time you can find and learn a lot of things you didn't know before). Agree that there is no starting point. The only problem is that a lot of fans are interested only in some aspects of the series, and the things which are not on the surface are very likely to be missed. From lore side ZUN tried to do retrospection of old characters in FDS. About the whole series, well, he just does what he wants to do. Things just work, so he doesn't change them. What actually are "the things that made touhou as touhou"? For different people they are different. From gameplay side it can be from patterns themselves to scoring, for these things you can play fangames as ZUN doesn't improve these aspects. From music side, well, ZUN still does good music (but not everyone agrees with this) (+ Touhou style music exists nowadays). About lore and story it always was vague and "not perfect" and it was good for fanwork creators. From the side of doujin circles, "any Touhou work can be sold" was very important. It is hard to say what ZUN actually wants to do with the series. Maybe the printing work ZUN is doing now will show us that? Somewhat yes, but he works with some people (and asked some help with UDoALG and the patch for it). + Recently, he drank beer with some doujin circles, they could offer some help and ideas (if I remember correctly many of them + BeatMARIO asked to make games harder). Also, ZUN works with Ruw (does he care about the series and fans? The answer is obvious. But it is important to note that he didn't appear out of nothere), and already have a lot of contracts with semi-official (do all of them actually care abiut the series?). ZUN can become less lazy and begin to work more with people, but there are some things that would be hard to change for him. For now I don't have such work to do. If you are not afraid of statistics and monotonous work, then you can try to make lists of all Touhou events for each year (some ideas how it can be used were offered here). About less boring work, if you have access to QQ, I can offer you to count the scale of Chinese Touhou Doujin (make a table of all Chinese Touhou-only events (THBWiki's one is not full)). Or you can read some research papers and come up with your own idea for your research.

Added Interesting. I don't know how it works, but maybe it works like that It is strange. Maybe yes, it is a temporary issue.

Update on 月刊ナイトバグ (Monthly Nightbug) and まんがイースタン I have decided to check on those axfc.net links again, and I have found most of the links are now able to download the files. Yep, a solution to download axfc.net is to wait, and then somehow the servers will be able to serve the files correctly? Anyway, the pdfs that I have been able to download have been archived on Internet Archive. IA: 月刊ナイトバグ (Monthly Nightbug) IA: まんがイースタン If you check out the Internet Archive links, you will also find which pdfs still need to be downloaded from axfc.net. As for the CORRUPTED notice for the last issue of 月刊ナイトバグ (May 2011), it appears that the corruption issue relates to axfc.net given that axfc.net gives a different MD5 hash on the online file info compared to the downloaded file. However, this is the first time I have encountered a file that is able to be downloaded from axfc.net that was corrupted, so hopefully this is an temporary issue.

I guess it's more about awareness since your works fully covering mentioned topics in them. Touhou has no starter point to get dragged in (You can obviously start from touhou 2/6, but it doesn't really matter if you start getting intrested in touhou from written work or any kind of music since it leads to one thing - getting into series), and it really never needed it because it's like putting together a puzzle to get one image in result. It was always this way and even now, but touhou got distorted and ZUN really needs to do retrospection on his series to realise the things that made touhou as touhou and reappraise what he really wants for touhou. In realistic scenario he is only one able to carry this out, he needs to work only with people who actually care about touhou itself as series(opinion of a dilettante(who asked>?)). If there's manual work that can be putted on someone else i would be glad to help with this.

Notice: Due to the minimum requirement of contestants not being reached, the event will be postponed until the next weekend.

Hi guys, I've introduced a new bug tracker to help and sort all issues with site and downloads into a trackable section. This will make it easier for our mods, rather than using forums posts and you will be able to see the status of each report. It's pretty simple, just click on Report new bug and enter as much information as you can and it will be created and it will notify the responsible peoples. This will be a replacement to the forum section, Nitori's Workshop. I will be adding more features to it as time goes on. You can find the section here and it's also in the menu manager above.

Hello. Thank you for your post. I am sorry for late reply. Sadly, I cannot say that my contribution is very big. My posts are not very popular, because I post them on Touhou forums (and they are not very popular nowadays). In addition the latest topic I covered is niche (but it is important if you want to understand the roots and how it works from inside). Touhou has a lot of different interesting things and sadly a lot of them aren't well known. For example critical doujinshi, how much have you heard about them? But there are at least 4 Japanese critical Touhou events (+ 1 Korean and several Chinese), one of them is Touhou critical-only doujinshi sales event + some Touhou reading clubs have critical doujinshi and critical presentations. On the West such things are not very popular. The problem is that for newcomers it is difficult to get into Touhou nowadays, and, as you said, aren't very motivated to get into it. There are a lot of interesting things for different people, but it is hard to make these things more noticable. (From this side I really like Japanese and Chinese Touhou communities. Japanese fans make books about such things while Chinese fans have sites about that (and there are some links to these sites from THBWiki or Touhou.Pub)). Many Touhou fans know (hear) that there are a lot of things, but rarely interact with them. About the first post in this topic I made, I cannot say it is that good (I have made some post above there I explained why). I can recommend you to read this article I published, which is about Touhou Doujin in Japan and how it changed. It is based on data and it is better. I don't have a lot of free time this month, but my current plans is moving to the topic of commercialization. + There will be some post before that are somewhat related to that topic.

WKG Tupper Records - The Place of Numerous Voices I usually struggle with "True Administrator," because I perceive its parts as lacking sufficient transition between each other. I have similar issues with "Nuclear Fusion," but have found several remixes that remedy it for me, so I often look out for "True Administrator" arrangements with alternative structure. At the same time, I want something that preserves or even accentuates the pieces elegantly powerful tone. This particular remix isn't quite what I have in mind, but was the best ratio of dynamic quality and presentation that I came across in my searches for this feature; I would have preferred stronger incorporation of the main melody, but the tone is there. Xenoglossy - Youkai Festival Shrine Road The original's strongest quality is its ominous tone, and at first I was worried this arrangement wouldn't retain that. To be sure the intent is a completely different direction, but I appreciate the nods to the source being seamlessly fitted into the progression. Otherwise this is just a really good remix with great instrumentation and creative arrangement! Shironekobeat - Futatsuiwa from Sado May not be the best idea to go with two folk-adjacent remixes in such proximity, but I couldn't pass this one up. "Futatsuiwa from Sado" works so well with folk components, especially when complimented by addition instrumentation. This is a comparatively light arrangement to what I've heard in the past, but it still delivers on the original's direct presentation, giving the perception of intensity without needed to go overboard with the performance.