Touhou Thread 6 - Fear and Loathing in Lunar Voyages by Hunter S. Clownpiece

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Takoluka: Jun 26, 2009; Don't look at me!

Did Walfas even go to this thing?

# ? Sep 23, 2015 16:45

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:12

leather fedora: Jun 27, 2004; The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"

No, he's since moved on to anime idols, although he was kind enough to update create.swf with LoLK characters.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 03:22

waddler: Jan 3, 2008

leather fedora posted:

So did no one in this thread go to Touhoucon?

Still morbidly curious about the Walfas and the "fandom into career" panels.

I was only there for marasy, though I'd have skipped those panels regardless.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 05:09

Takoluka: Jun 26, 2009; Don't look at me!

leather fedora posted:

No, he's since moved on to anime idols, although he was kind enough to update create.swf with LoLK characters.

He's an Aikatsu Ojiisan in the making.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 06:13

Inverness: Feb 4, 2009; Fully configurable personal assistant.

Is there a summary somewhere of what LoLK's story is actually about?

# ? Sep 24, 2015 13:41

Pureauthor: Jul 8, 2010; ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

Here you go, from way earlier in the thread.

Clarste posted:

Okay, here's the plot (I think):

Junko is a former Lunarian who has a grudge against Chang'e (although she doesn't even care why anymore, since she purified her own grudge and is now pure grudge). Chang'e is locked up in the Lunar Capital at all times, so she can't reach her. She came up with a plan get her to move by laying siege to the Lunar Capital with purified fairies, who are made of pure impurity (life energy). When the Lunarians are forced to evacuate, she'll have an opportunity to attack Chang'e while she's being transported. She didn't have any fairies on the moon though, so she called in her good friend Hecatia, a god of Hell, who's always in favor of some sweet sweet vengeance. Clownpiece is a minion of Hecatia's, who's being borrowed by Junko. The moon has no atmosphere or plants or anything, but Clownpiece loves it anyway because it's better than Hell.

The Lunarians responded to the encroaching impurity by moving to the Dream World (which I guess doesn't really count as moving), where they created a perfect replica of the Lunar Capital out of dreams, and most of the residents don't even realize they've moved. Junko predicted this though, so she got Hecatia to help out on that front too with more fairies. Anyway, the Lunar Sages (apparently including Sagume?) realize that they're losing this battle, so they come up with a plan to move the Lunar Capital to Gensokyo, just in case (which would kill everyone there, but whatever). This plan revolves around Sagume's powers, which is to change the world with her words. She's basically a super amanojaku god who can only tell lies. Not because she's a liar, but because the world hates her and makes anything she says untrue. Reality warper tier. So she made the Power Stones from ULiL, which have a bit of her power to make untrue things true. When worse comes to worst, she can trigger them at any time by spreading a rumor about the Lunar Capital, which would immediately cause it to materialize in Gensokyo and purify the surrounding area (ie: kill everyone).

Eirin doesn't want that though, so she sends purified-through-drugs protagonists to the moon via the Dream World. Sagume realizes that they don't give a poo poo about impurity, so they can attack Junko's base directly. And then they do, the end. Junko is ultimately satisfied with the resolution because frankly she thought winning like this would be too easy, and she's glad that the Lunarians are still crafty enough to stop her.

However, this doesn't cover the Extra stage, so here goes:

Junko already anticipated the Lunarians entering the Dream World, and so got Hecatia to be the one to trap them there. Sagume realizes something is wrong because none of the evacuated Lunarians are returning and so comes to ask the protagonists for help.

They go in, find Hecatia, and beat her and Junko up. Afterwards Junko admits she's been defeated for real and Hecatia lets all the Lunarians in the dream world go. Junko also says she's interesting in meeting and talking to Eirin in the flesh, and so off they go.

Pureauthor fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Sep 24, 2015

# ? Sep 24, 2015 14:47

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

For the record, my description of Sagume's power turned out to be inaccurate, or rather it's much more complicated and has more to do with changing fate than changing reality.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 15:16

Hokuto: Jul 21, 2002; Soiled Meat

If we're discussing moon plot, here's what I don't get about IN.

Kaguya got banished to Earth for centuries for the crime of drinking the Hourai Elixir and granting herself immortality. But Eirin only remained on Earth because she chose to burn her bridges and stay with Kaguya when she found out that Kaguya was happy on Earth.

If Eirin wasn't punished equally for crafting the Hourai Elixir to start with, does that mean the elixir had some legitimate purpose? If so, what was it?

# ? Sep 24, 2015 15:40

BlitzBlast: Jul 30, 2011; some people just wanna watch the world burn

It was just another failure on the journey to creating the ultimate alcoholic luxury.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 15:46

a cartoon duck: Sep 5, 2011

It's all politics. Eirin is a vitally important leader figure on the moon whereas Kaguya is one of like, a million princesses of the moon. How many princesses does the moon even have?

# ? Sep 24, 2015 15:50

FractalSandwich: Apr 25, 2010

a cartoon duck posted:

It's all politics. Eirin is a vitally important leader figure on the moon whereas Kaguya is one of like, a million princesses of the moon. How many princesses does the moon even have?

You know what they say - "a princess in every rock and every blade of grass".

# ? Sep 24, 2015 21:56

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

a cartoon duck posted:

It's all politics. Eirin is a vitally important leader figure on the moon whereas Kaguya is one of like, a million princesses of the moon. How many princesses does the moon even have?

To be fair, it's not like Kaguya got punished for her role in creating the elixir either. It was only after she drank it she was exiled, and then a few years later she was forgiven.

If anything Kaguya and Eirin are criminals for disobeying orders to come back to the moon, rather than actually anything to do with the hourai elixir.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 22:50

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

There's some mention of the Lunarians using the elixir to torment the people of Earth (make them fight for it and stuff?), so I guess that's considered a legitimate purpose.

# ? Sep 25, 2015 01:09

Space Flower: Sep 10, 2014; by Games Forum

And another Lunarian story comes and goes without discussing Sakuya and Eirin. ZUN! :argh:

# ? Sep 25, 2015 09:30

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

Space Flower posted:

And another Lunarian story comes and goes without discussing Sakuya and Eirin. ZUN!

Sakuya has silver hair and red eyes (in EoSD). Sagume has silver hair and red eyes.

Coincidence!!?!?!?

# ? Sep 25, 2015 09:52

Suenteus Po: Sep 15, 2007; SOH-Dan

Space Flower posted:

And another Lunarian story comes and goes without discussing Sakuya and Eirin. ZUN!

Mima will explain it all in the next game.

# ? Sep 25, 2015 15:39

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Sakuya has silver hair and red eyes (in EoSD). Sagume has silver hair and red eyes.

Coincidence!!?!?!?

"Whoops, thought you were Sagume for a second. Nevermind, it wasn't important."

And now we know the real story behind Eirin's surprise.

# ? Sep 25, 2015 15:41

Space Flower: Sep 10, 2014; by Games Forum

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Sakuya has silver hair and red eyes (in EoSD). Sagume has silver hair and red eyes.

Coincidence!!?!?!?

You may be onto something here. Did you know Sagume's defeat sprite is sitting unused, in the code? WHAT is ZUN hiding?

# ? Sep 25, 2015 16:38

Dr Pepper: Feb 4, 2012; Don't like it? well...

Hokuto posted:

If we're discussing moon plot, here's what I don't get about IN.

Kaguya got banished to Earth for centuries for the crime of drinking the Hourai Elixir and granting herself immortality. But Eirin only remained on Earth because she chose to burn her bridges and stay with Kaguya when she found out that Kaguya was happy on Earth.

If Eirin wasn't punished equally for crafting the Hourai Elixir to start with, does that mean the elixir had some legitimate purpose? If so, what was it?

It's brought up that the point is to cause trouble on Earth by offering temptation to people.

Basically Lunarians are dicks.

# ? Sep 25, 2015 18:37

Hokuto: Jul 21, 2002; Soiled Meat

Clarste posted:

There's some mention of the Lunarians using the elixir to torment the people of Earth (make them fight for it and stuff?), so I guess that's considered a legitimate purpose.

Dr Pepper posted:

It's brought up that the point is to cause trouble on Earth by offering temptation to people.

Basically Lunarians are dicks.

This explains a lot. Thank you!

# ? Sep 25, 2015 18:38

Nages: Dec 31, 2011; Just yell at her like you always do. Bitch, get out of the way!

Suenteus Po posted:

Mima will explain it all in the next game.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 05:04

HGH: Dec 20, 2011

I think there was a stream ZUN was in recently and he said something like "Enough with Mima please".
We're probably onto him.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 10:48

Space Flower: Sep 10, 2014; by Games Forum

Yeah, people in niconico were spamming the TGS livestream with her until Zun said "no Mima". RIP.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 11:08

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

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# ? Sep 26, 2015 13:13

Freak Futanari: Apr 11, 2008

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We've been over this several times. Clownpiece is good.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 13:14

BlitzBlast: Jul 30, 2011; some people just wanna watch the world burn

Space Flower posted:

Yeah, people in niconico were spamming the TGS livestream with her until Zun said "no Mima". RIP.

We are the reason Mima will never appear again.

:smith:

# ? Sep 26, 2015 13:47

El Burbo: Oct 10, 2012

Frankly, I'm glad

# ? Sep 26, 2015 16:11

celeron 300a: Jan 23, 2005; by exmarx; Yam Slacker

Freak Futanari posted:

We've been over this several times. Clownpiece is good.

and

BlitzBlast posted:

We are the reason Mima will never appear again.

celeron 300a fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 26, 2015

# ? Sep 26, 2015 18:52

El Burbo: Oct 10, 2012

Mima, was too much of a meme-a

# ? Sep 26, 2015 18:54

Do not even ask: Apr 8, 2008

"mima of poo poo" just doesn't have the same ring to it

# ? Sep 26, 2015 18:57

AdorableStar: Jul 13, 2013

Piece of poo poo

# ? Sep 26, 2015 18:58

celeron 300a: Jan 23, 2005; by exmarx; Yam Slacker

I feel like I'm one of those guys who are still complaining about Star Wars episodes 1-3 and wish that it had replaced the love stories with more lightsaber battles and replaced gungans with rhodians and had the clone wars involve an army of lobots.

But ZUN, like Lucas, is only interested in his own ideas. Good for ZUN to stick to his ideals... they keep things fresh.

Only when Disney picks up touhou from ZUN will we definitely see some serious audience pandering.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 19:06

celeron 300a: Jan 23, 2005; by exmarx; Yam Slacker

Space Flower posted:

Yeah, people in niconico were spamming the TGS livestream with her until Zun said "no Mima". RIP.

I want my
mima back
mima back
mima back
mima back
mima back
mima back
(imagine me spamming this for 2000 more lines and getting probated)
barbeque sauce!

(the reference)

celeron 300a fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Sep 26, 2015

# ? Sep 26, 2015 19:13

Nages: Dec 31, 2011; Just yell at her like you always do. Bitch, get out of the way!

Mima is good and will be back exactly when she needs to be (the next game)

# ? Sep 27, 2015 00:25

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Yes, stuck in the eternal "next" that never materializes. Very appropriate.

# ? Sep 27, 2015 01:23

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

I trust in Nages' insider knowledge, so I believe Mima will return.

# ? Sep 27, 2015 01:32

Redmark: Dec 11, 2012; This one's for you, Morph.
-Evo 2013

I've never actually bothered to play the PC98 games, should I? (Given that clearly Mima will never appear on a modern computer architecure :v:

)

# ? Sep 27, 2015 02:32

AdorableStar: Jul 13, 2013

Redmark posted:

I've never actually bothered to play the PC98 games, should I? (Given that clearly Mima will never appear on a modern computer architecure )

Yes. #5 is my favourite.

# ? Sep 27, 2015 03:00

lick it or ticket: Apr 12, 2013; When you want to laugh cry as hard as you can, when you want to cry laugh all you can. When you see rain, just think of it as the world laughing with you, and laugh until you can't anymore.

From weird fan art

# ? Sep 28, 2015 03:45

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:12

Meowywitch: Jan 14, 2010; Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

I am glad ZUN vindicated easy mode for lolk, maybe i'll beat it now

# ? Sep 28, 2015 04:55

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