Jerl !Qj7OhFhEyA 2009/01/20 (Tue) 05:08 No. 13713 Well, might as well go see Eirin. The other people you can think of to go see, those being Tewi, Reisen, and Mokou, all are bad decisions for various reasons. Tewi is Tewi. You're not going to risk it. Reisen is probably busy. Mokou was outside burning stuff; you don't even know where to find her. That leaves Eirin. She's possibly busy too, but she didn't seem to hate your guts just yesterday the way Reisen did. Besides that, you have to tell her just how well her medicine helped your psychosis: absolutely none.
...Wait, wasn't that a vaccine? Either way, doesn't matter.
You stand up and leave the room to begin your journey through the mansion to the clinic where Eirin works. It's a somewhat long walk, as you lose your way a couple times on the way because of an occasional spaceout thinking about something dumb. Mostly a continuation of the thinking you went through while being attacked.
Yes, that. If you can synchronize your reality with someone else's, it becomes more real of a reality, right? Wait, that makes no sense. Where's your basis in the idea that reality is based on perceptions? It's the other way around. Reality creates faith, faith doesn't create reality.
...But what if that's wrong? You can't rule that out. Everything that's happened in Gensokyo is evidence that your perception of what is real is flawed, or at least doesn't apply here. Perhaps here, some fundamental things are flipped around. Perhaps faith creates reality, meaning that a perceived reality combined with other percieved realities create the real reality by taking the greatest common factor of them all? Well, that could potentially lead to some flaws. Or, well, maybe not. maybe it's not the GCF it gets, but rather the average. Yes, that makes a hell of a lot more sense. It takes the average of all of the percieved realities and uses that to make the real reality, which influences the percieved realities causing the real reality to change again...
Bah. Stop. You're getting out of hand. Overthinking things like this isn't good. Well, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if these thoughts weren't racing through your head so quick that that entire internal exchange only took you a fraction of a second. Something's wrong with that, but that's still irrelevant.
...But now that the train of thought is there, it won't leave. You find yourself slipping into another one of those hallucinations. Again, this one appears to be only internal, not affecting your external body. You hope.
"Come on, do you really believe that?" One of your internal voices shouts at another. "That's not possible, it can't be! It defies all logic!" Almost screaming, at all of the rest of them. You notice a nametag on his shirt. It identifies him as Logic.
"...Hey, wait. We've been arguing too heatedly recently. And who the hell are those guys? They too often step in on our debates and force us to do something that isn't very good. Especially him." he points at one of the four people sitting on chairs away from the rest of the group. His nametag simply says "Pe".
As soon as Logic finishes talking, Pe raises his hand and points it at him. Suddenly he's bound by ropes. It felt more like a dream binding, though, where you don't even question why the binding happened. Is it possible that this state is similar to a dream.
"Shut up. You're weak, if I let you do anything you'd just get us all killed." the ropes tighten and Logic begins gasping for air.
"I'm stronger than you. So much so that every single one of you combined together couldn't stop me. Don't even try, I swear I'll kill you all." The rest of the group shows frightened expressions.
...Hey, isn't that a bit... Wait, aren't these all parts of your mind? Everyone else seems to be a normal thing that would normally be present in a person's thought processes, everyone except those four. Their nametags all are too short to draw a conclusion from. There's Pe, Py, C, and A. C and A both appear to be dead, or at least weak enough to not be able to sit up. Pe and Py, however, look strong, confident, assured, and dangerous.
"Pe, you can't get them to remember your lesson without proving to them that you'll kill them all." Py speaks up while pulling a red Zippo, exactly like yours, out of his pocket. He flips it open and rolls the wheel, causing sparks to ignite the wick. Simultaneously all of the rest of the people inside of this empty dark space, save Pe, Py, C, and A, catch on fire and start rolling on the ground attempting to put it out.
...Wait! That's really going to kill them! Those people are your mind, what you use to think! You don't know who the hell these four people are, but they can't be good if they're going to kill your thinking and take over your mind.
"STOP." Without thinking, you give a stern, strong command. Hey, you can talk? That's interesting.
"...Oh, what have we here? They manifested into one thing. Ah, wait. No, he's the manifestation of all of us. But he still can't be as strong as us, right?" Pe speaks with a sadistic grin. Hmm.
You're suddenly bound by ropes, but they take no effect. You can move just straight through them. This is all a hallucination, after all, even if parts of your mind are embodying themselves.
"Geh, guess not. Looks like we're going to have to wait until he isn't there anymore."
"Yes, let's kick him out." As soon as this is said, everything starts dimming, then brightening again. You find yourself in front of the door to Eirin's clinic.
...Well. At this point it doesn't really matter whether that was a vaccine or an anti-insanity shot she gave you, you're asking her for some help right now. Suddenly you don't feel comfortable with your insanity. It feels out of control, like it's going to wreck the rest of your mind and everything else along with it. It feels more dangerous and important to take care of than if you were to suddenly be attacked by Yumou. It's pressing that you get some help.
After knocking on the door, it opens quite quickly. Reisen greets you and lets you in, saying that she's too busy to talk about anything and that you should go directly to Eirin's office.
...Wait, you seem to have gotten a different clinic from before. This one seems more like, well, a clinic. There's a smallish lobby with a desk on it, kept neat and organized. To the left there's a narrow hallway that ends at a 90 degree angle at the end. In front of you and to the right there's another narrow hallway, but you can see multiple doors along its walls, as well as a branch that leads somewhere else.
You notice some colored strips along the celing. Each of them is labeled differently. One of them says "materials storage." One says "expirament lab". Another says "examination room a", and two more totaling 3 examination rooms. The final one says "main office", and you decide to follow it.
Along the way you find another colored bar that leads to where you just were. It says "lobby." There's another one that leads to the hallway, and says "patient rooms."
You really can't remember any of this clinic. You helped carry Kaguya and Mokou here last night, but by the time you got there you were a bit too tired to take much notice of anything. Combine with that the fact that you just left them in the lobby and Eirin and Reisen both took them to their separate rooms.
You arrive at the end of the "office" line. It stops right above a normalish door with a small glass window above the doorknob. You reach up and open it. Inside you find it to be the same room as you'd initially met Eirin in, only you're entering from a different angle this time.
Eirin is sitting at her desk writing something into a notebook. The title from this angle appears to be something about superstimulants.
"Oh, it's you. I heard you disappeared. Seems you made it back alright." She finishes what she was writing, then closes up the notebook.
"Take a seat." You comply.
"So, for what reason would you be visiting me for?"
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