Day 241 [OPEN] - Wakeup call

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Who: Ibuki Mioda and whoever!
Open: Open forever
When: Day 241, very early in the morning
Where: Around the Monument.
What: Ibuki Mioda arrives at the Bastion... loudly.
Format: Log, but willing to switch to other formats!
Warnings: Scary ghost! 2 spooky!

It was just only becoming daylight at the Bastion when a new arrival would show: A young lady with wild hair. There was nothing particularly extraodinary about her, unless one was to notice the "horns" on her head; but that was only her hair styled to resemble such a feature.

She looked a bit confused and travel-worn; but a one hour walk was really nothing to her. Ibuki was far from exhausted.

And now that she arrived at what appeared to be civilization, where should she go? The apparent center of the village seemed like a good start.

"Yoohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?!" she shouted once she reached the Monument, apparently having no regard for people who may still be sleeping, "Hellooooooooooooooooooooo?! Is anybody here?!"

If nobody came out to answer, she'd have to start invading buildings...

[Edit: Now that she's been given the lowdown on the situation, ... you can still feel free to come across her being loud. Ibuki wants to meet new people!]

[Edit of nostalgic regret: This was before I had Ibuki use -chan and made up weird nicknames instead...]

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Jeez, Ibuki. That's... awfully quick. That's probably the quickest she's heard anyone refer to her by a nickname. Anyway, she's not so stuffy that she's just going to tell Ibuki to stop, not anymore. Of course, that's probably largely due to Aoi. If it weren't for their interactions, too, Patchouli would probably be calling Ibuki 'Miss Mioda' (if she knew her full name), and that'd just get to be a pain after a while, right?

"I'll see what I can do, Ibuki."

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"Really? Reallyreally?!"

Yes, the prospect of floating sure sounded great to her. Maybe she'd even get to fly.

"Does Ibuki need to do anything, or are you going to use magic on me?"

She'd seen the dragon already, after all, so............ yeah, magic wasn't a hard concept for her to grasp, now.

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"Well," Patchouli explained, "the hope would be that you eventually wouldn't need me to cast magic on you, and that you'd be able to do it to yourself. But, I guess if we can't get to that point, then yes, it'll just be me using magic on you."

Besides, wouldn't Ibuki rather not have the ability to float be so dependent on someone else?

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Of course she'd like to fly at will, but she doesn't know how magic works. For all she knew, Patchy could've just cast a one time spell that lets her fly forever.

"I see, I see... Ibuki would like to fly on her own! If you can teach me, Ibuki is willing to learn!"

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Well... tht actually would be kind of inconvenient. Unless Ibuki could break the height constraints the Bastion sets on Patchouli's flying ability. That would make Patchouli cry.

"I will do what I can. My magic is... fairly limited here, compared to before my arrival." That probably shouldn't preclude her too much from teaching Ibuki to fly, though.

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Unless flight was powered by music aptitude, there was no way Ibuki would outdo Patchouli in that regard.

"Really? Ibuki hopes that her music isn't limited here!"

But, now that she thinks about it...

"Say, does this place have any electric guitars? Amplifiers? Bass guitars? A good drum set?"

She's already being distracted from the prospect of flying...

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"Well, I don't see why it..."

She actually had to pause when Ibuki brought that up.

"Actually, I'm not entirely sure! I'm sure we could see to getting hold of one of those, I think."

Really, Patchouli did end up spending most of her shards on other people. Maybe she did have a side of her that wasn't just a loner jerk.

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"Ibuki would be in your debt, Patchy!"

While flying would be cool, she really couldn't live without her music! She at least had some priorities in her life, even if she often seemed to bounce around subjects quite a bit.

"You can come to my concert when Ibuki figures out a good venue to hold it at!"

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"Well, I think you might need more performers than just yourself, from the sounds of that..."

Then again, she had no idea who else Ibuki could play with. Maybe she could try to rope Patchouli into it. Which would probably fail miserably, to be fair.

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"It's fine! Ibuki has been playing solo for awhile, the other instruments are just in case I ever find other bandmates. You could join!"

Granted, she has no idea how much music aptitude Patchouli had, but she wasn't against teaching.

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"I don't really know how to play any of those instruments... I can learn, though! I tend to learn things very fast and am quite capable with my hands."

She probably knew to play an instrument, but certainly not something of much use to Ibuki.

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"Yahoo! Alright!"

So agreeable! Ibuki couldn't complain about that.

"But first, we need to see what instruments we can get!"

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She was probably expecting Ibuki to just tackle her right out of the air in excitement. She was glad that Ibuki didn't.

"That's true. We probably should do that first."

She still hadn't explained the matter of shards to Ibuki yet. Maybe she already knew.

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"Ibuki is so excited she could bite you~!"

No, she wasn't actually going for a bite. She says weird stuff like that when she gets excited....

"But... Ibuki doesn't know where the instruments are kept..."

She hasn't heard about the shards yet, no...

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"Please don't..."

Oh. Right. Getting to finding the instruments would be a good idea. Of course, they probably wouldn't find them. They could still use shards, though.

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Don't worry, her bites are gentle wait I mean-

"Maybe there's some in that building?"

She just happens to be pointing at your library, Patchouli... totally a coincidence.

"We could have our concert there, too."

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is that where our cr is going already

Patchouli looked over in the direction that Ibuki pointed to, before turning back to face her, albeit a little slowly.

"Um... that's... where I live. I highly doubt they're in there and it probably wouldn't be a good place to perform."

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n-nooo wait I don't know is it?

"If you live there, then you'd know best! But then, where would instruments be kept around here? Ibuki is new and has no idea!"

She gives the library a considering look.

"Still, if you live there, you can give Ibuki a tour of the place after we find our instruments!"

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this would probably be the strangest pairing ever

"I'm not entirely sure either, but I haven't ever really looked. I guess we may as well search everywhere."

Wow, Ibuki, you've known her ten minutes and you want to know what her house is like?

"I guess I could do that, yes."

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about as strange as the patchouli and marisa ship really

"After we find instruments, though."

The instruments were important. She absolutely had to get something in her hands, music was her life after all.

"But where to start...?" Ibuki crossed her arms, "Are there any other musicians here?"

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perhaps; probably less violent, though, too

Patchouli... honestly wasn't sure anymore. There had to be someone, right? She knew Jay seemed musically inclined, but he also seemed like he came from a time before the invention of the electric guitar. He'd probably be of no help.

"Not that I know of," she responded, "but we can ask around, I guess."

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yeah. you shoot ibuki with danmaku and she'll go down like a sack of potatoes, so hopefully considerably less violent

"If all else fails, Ibuki will have to make everything herself!"

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"Ibuki has no idea how she'll do that, but she'll do it anyway if it's necessary!"

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yyyyyyyeah, definitely far less violent, no need for ibuki to do her sack-of-potatoes impression

Patchouli laughed a little. Ibuki's enthusiasm was impressive.

"Well, I guess that, after the instruments are assembled, electrifying them can't be that hard, anyway. I believe the very earliest electric instruments, from the twenties or so, used modified telephone transmitters. Of course, I don't think we have easy access to that kind of thing, but we'll make this work. Or I could just spend some of my shards on proper instruments and we wouldn't have to worry about that level of jury-rigging."

So yes, technically, they still could make everything on their own.

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...

Okay, all the technical stuff is out of her league. It's actually a bit offputting.

"If Kazu was here, he could rig up something pretty easy, I bet."

... well, crap, and here she was trying to forget about the fact that all her friends apparently died in some catastrophe she somehow slept through.

She didn't quite pick up the bit about shards.

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Patchouli noticed that Ibuki completely glossed over the shard thing. She just seemed to be lost in her own little world, maybe. Oh well.

"Look, don't even think about that," she responded. "I think I know a way that we can accomplish this easily." Having a fairly massive stockpile of shards helps a lot with many things. Most of what she does with them is spend them on other people. Also that library, but aside from that...