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[wrigurun]

[Wriggle sits at the terminal with her chin resting in her hands. She seems rather tired and irritable in her expression and the way she moves but when she speaks it seems almost bored]

So I've been thinking a lot, and then I realised that I'm not very good at thinking. I'm getting kinda sick of this place, I don't remember the last time I was somewhere that wasn't here but I've got important stuff to do.

You guys know the monsters that have been running around, right? The one with the blue mask, which one is that? That girl... Ruana? I was talking to her but she wasn't making any sense something about killing them when they're normal but I don't know what that means.

I know I don't really know a lot of you guys and I really hate to ask for help but do any of you know what we're s'posed to do? I don't wanna just lay low while all this stuff happens, I wanna do something but I don't know what.

I just hate feeling so useless all the time.

[From her, that's actually quite a big thing to admit]

Comments

[chainsawn]

Can you do that..? [ The kind of rescue she has in mind is maybe not what Wriggle had in mind, considering it's like the classic superhero rescue.. ]

Do you have special powers? Like a superhero?

[wrigurun]

I don't know about special powers but I can fly! I know a lot of humans can't do that.

And I can use spell cards and shoot things too, most people I've met here can't do that either.

[chainsawn]

Most people can shoot guns. They just need one. [ She nods a little to herself.. ] I've never heard of spell cards though, they must be pretty special. It sounds like something you'd normally only see on tv.

[wrigurun]

I don't need guns though, and I can shoot lots of things at once!

I think you can only find spellcards in Gensokyo. No one from other worlds knows what they are.

...and what's a TV?

[chainsawn]

... [ Give her a moment. Urotsuki thinks a lot of ridiculous things are normal, but this can't even be normal to her - she's borderline shocked, really. ]

You don't know what a TV is..? So you've never seen any TV shows?

[wrigurun]

[Wriggle simply shakes her head. It must have been a tower thing she hadn't come across yet. She'd learned of so many new things here]

[chainsawn]

Woah.. that's so weird. [ That's right for you to say, Urotsuki. ]

TVs are a lot of fun. I used to watch a lot of TV back home all the time. You can watch a lot of different shows on them from all over the world..

[wrigurun]

Really? Could I even watch shows from Gensokyo?

Are there any here? Show me!

[chainsawn]

I'm not sure.. but we could probably look. There's so many floors that at least one needs to have a TV. A house without a TV is just sad, so a tower without one would be even sadder..

[wrigurun]

Do you think so? I don't think I ever saw a TV in any of the houses where I came from.

... Oh! I think I get it! It's like one of those future things isn't it? There's a bunch of stuff here that we don't have back home but other people say they have stuff like it where they come from.

Like the screens, you know the ones! The ones that show letters and moving pictures and people use it to talk to each other.

[chainsawn]

... Woah. [ Despite the surprise, it's.. still blank more than actual emotion. At least she tried. ]

So you're from the past? TVs have been around for a really, really long time.. you must be from the time there were still dinosaurs all around.

[ THAT'S MAYBE A LITTLE TOO EARLY.. ]

[wrigurun]

I... No, I'm from Gensokyo!

And what's a dinosaur?

[chainsawn]

They're really, really big, and then go like.. [ She moves her hands in front of her as if they're dinosaur paws. ] .. gao..

[ That wasn't a very impressive growl. Nope. ]

They used to live a long time ago, back when there wasn't TV. That's why I thought maybe you lived with them.

[wrigurun]

No, I live with the insects in the forest. But you get all kinds of creatures passing through like fairies and magicians...

If I ever get home I'll go dinosaur hunting then!