Might as well start this. Thanks for the 2 who think this will work out.

So. Let's get this on the road.

Name: John Coulman
sex: male
Age: 21
Characteristics:short black hair, green eyes, 187cm tall. Wears black Trenchcoat, blue-white breton and a white scarf.

Occupation:

[ ] normal human being, doing normal human stuff.

[ ] machinist, with doctorate title.

[ ] mage with knowledge of:

[ ] elemental and null magic(upside: fast casting/downside: pretty weak)
Comes with: 2 incomplete spelltomes,
components for fast casting in form of semi-
precious stones.
Bloodline: (???)
Comment: you might hurt an fairy if you are not
careful

[ ] ritualistic and soul magic(upside: long lasting
effects/downside: long preperation)
Comes with: 1 "book" made of the loose pages of
different tomes,components for rituals in form of
Animal bones, strange sticks and leaves
Bloodline: (???)
Comment: we might wing it with dangerous
halfknowledge

[ ] herbalistic and nature magic(upside: youkai and
Gods might favor you,potions...so
many potions/downside: nature might
deny you, potions might have strange effects)
comes with: animal and plant speech, potion
notes an treeroot staff and diverse animal treats
in your pockets.
Bloodline:(???)
Comment: i'm the Lorax and i speak for the trees
and for some reason they are making fun of me.

[ ] Music,Charm and Illusion magic(upsides: many
love a good time/if people become strange, you
might be the first one to see an mini-hakkero
from the wrong side)
comes with: [ ]Instrument of choice, musical
scores, 2 tomes
Bloodline:(???)
Comment: let's hope some polter ghosts won't
dislike me on priciple.

Starting skill(if mage): minor magical sight(can see if an object is magical or not,doesn't discern it's properties)

Inventory:
1 strange pocket watch(clearly magical,duh)
Description: as big as the palm of an adults hand, on the inside are 9 planets rotating around the face. On the face are 3 clock hands, studded with rubies and an 3 digit counter with the number 241.On the backside is the french inscription: may our love be eternal. P.C. Fabergé
1 Trainticket
Description: an washed out japanese trainticket with an brown/grey stain in a corner.The destination is unreadable due to the stain.
1 MP3 player+headphones
Description: old model with cracked glass, works just fine with either it's charger or an AA battery.
1 Motorola flip phone
Description: loose hinges, scratched back and a broken headphone jack. The battery is on an blinking last Bar. But the camera is fine.

Miscellaneous stuff:
Depending on behavior, MC can become an incident on his own.
Incident meter:
0-25 : normal odd occurence
25-75 : noteworthy strange, but it's an Land of wonder.
75-100: people will question your actions, your oddity is too odd for even the odd ones.
100-150 the shrine maiden and Witch duo will look into your actions.
150-175 you goofed, you are actively hunted by Reimu and Marisa
175-199 the Sages of Gensokoyo take notice and think about getting rid of you. Personally.
200 Yukari is pissed and will try to expell you from Gensokoyo. All inhabitants(and adjecant) will either avoid you or try to kill you.

So...with that done, happy voting for 1 week or depending on the number of votes. See you lot.

AUTHORS NOTE: Heyo, i decided on writing now, since i have an job interview coming up. I hope you lot will like the 3 hours that have gone into the working of the grammar. I threw my thoughts of the Instrument of choice into an random generator, didn't like the results before making the choice on my own. (^_^)

John dislikes big cities. He dislikes how they are so full of life, but devoid of dreams and magic.

Berlin is like any other of these mega cites. It's loud, claustrophobic and somehow dull.
He is currently taking the subway to to get his flight home after an trip to Japan which nettet him an seemingly normal train ticket. If not for his gift, he would have overlooked it in the second hand store in Akihabara.

It's brimming with magic, just like the very old flute he found in france. While he prefers string Instruments like Violin or even something like an erhu, it's still a piece of magic.

An voice crackles over the loudspeakers of the platform. Instead of the neutral male voice, an melodic female voice tells about an incoming train to Gensokyo. No one except John seemed to wonder why the announcement was in japanese and told of an japanese destination.

In comes an affront to any who wants to commute with a train. The thought the model and it's obsolescence flung itself through his mind. The NAGADEN on the crumpled front was an telltale for Nagano electric railway series 3500. The glass was smashed, one of the front lights out, rust, lichen and moss creeped out of the panel corners, the lights of the first Waggon flickering and the wheels where not running round. Even more strange are the purple curtains held to the sides with golden tassels.

It's an heap of scrap is Johns decision before thinking of how it was able to move at all in the first place. It could roll since the railwidth between Japan and germany are the same, but it's still an train that relies on overhead lines.

The front of the second Waggon drives over before the train came to an stop. The only door that opens is the one in front of him. The other people don't seem to acknowledge the train an were still waiting for one of their own.

John...

[ ] took his luggage and went inside, it's something worth an investigation.

[ ] stood back as the doors closed and choose to wait for his own train.

Huhu...i can't sleep and thought i might as well give this the next chapter for you lot.
PS.: you avoided an bad end. The train ticket and Train are after all an invitation. With all of that, rejecting Yukari would have been rather rude.

John had conflicting thoughts but decided to go inside anyway.
Unlike the first Waggon, which was in shambles, the second was turned into cozy cubicles with wooden walls. He took the second one, since the first had an shattered window. He stowed away his luggage into the overhead compartment and sat himself in direction of movement to the window. The train took on speed and it became dark. After roughly 20 minutes of travel he set himself to sleep when the train left the Tunnel into what seems to be the coastline of rural Japan. John blinked and recoiled from the woman now sittng opposite from him.

She has blonde hair, violet/reddish eyes that sparkled with an hint of curiosity while the rest was hidden by an paper fan. She wasn't even looking at you, but played with the chain of your pocket watch, which should have been in the breast pocket of your Trenchcoat.
"What an interesting toy" she stated and switched her focus from the watch to him.
"Sadly it's soulbound and for all it can do, the outside world has lost too much of mystery for it to work properly." John was decidedly uncomfortable with the kind of gaze she regarded him.
To break the arkwardness, he decided to introduce himself.
"Ah, how rude of me, my name is Yakumo Yukari, or Yukari Yakumo for the western Lands. Do you have your Invitation?" Johns thoughts ran rapidly to think of any invitation he could have recieved, before taking in his suroundings and put the train ticket on the table.

Yukaris eyes took on an crescend shape while she slammed an stamp on it, where it came from, he didn't know.
"It seems everything is in order, even if the ticket was once made for another individual. I wish you an nice ride and an pleasant life in Gensokyo.Hm...you are a bit weak and i'm in an very good mood, thanks to your watch. So...you might take an look around the station where the things Gensokyo forgets are gathering."

John blinked and wanted to answer,but Yukari vanished. He looked out the window, only to see darkness and millions of red eyes staring back at him.
He gaped at the very disturbing scenery before fumbling with the tassels that hold the curtains in place. Once closed, he tried to calm down his hammering heart. In the comfortable yellowish light he registered both the ticket and his watch. He looked at the blue stamp of an stylised eye with ribbons in it's eyecorners and let the ticket vanish into the depths of his many pockets while taking the watch to look at it. After all, the woman, or whatever it was, was very interested in the watch. An cursorily examination of the front he noticed an change of the epigraph.
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͋͗̏̽͒͠�
̡̨̡̢̙͇͔̰̯̟͓̞̖̭̬̝̣̩̭̯͎͙̟͚̮͎͎̬̫͕͚̳͖͕̭̦͕͉͖̔̾̈̓͜ȅ̸͐̑̽̈́̎̎͂͂̂̾̔̏̀͑̕͠�
̧̧̢̲̮̺̣͖͙͕̼͎̙̳̳̊́̐̈́̾̋̑͂͛̈́̚̚͠ be eternal P.C. Fabergé". It hurt to look at text for more than a few moments, so he decided again to simply do nothing with it, For it wasn't any threat to his wellbeing and couldn't be changed anyhow. He pocketed his watch and was a bit angry at Yukari for messing with his stuff.

After a while, the train came to an stop. John lifted the curtain to see an station. He took his Suitcase and went out to have an look of where the hell he was. Before him was an small clearing full of trash suroundes by an barrier(?) full of these creepy eyes and at the other side was an faded red torii gate that seems to go to an path lined with red spider lillies.

John saw an multitude of colourful magic inside the small and big heaps of broken things. He decided to gather all with noticable more magical energy in one place.

Since he couldn't take all of it, he needed to carefully select what he would take with him on his journey.
(All choices are semi-permanent and can't be made again after the next 3 choices.
You, beloved Anons, can take maximal 4 items with you.)

John takes:

[ ] an broken blonde porcelan puppet with an blue eye, wearing an threadbare deep red outfit. She is tangled in silverish string and constantly tries to hug you with her remaining arm.
(damage: missing right arm, broken right leg, missing right eye and cracks on right side of face)

[ ] an long red box with broken shinto seals. Inside is an right female arm with an chained cuff. It's absolutly plastered with shinto seals

[ ] an sword-shaped stick with an leaf growing on the guard. It's inside an western swordsheath. On it is the name Mystletainn. It reeks of blood.

[ ] an complete magical tome. The title is " binding of body and soul" by Shinki. The words are in hebrew.

[ ] an suitcase with an broken staff and 3 strange ying-yang orbs. One is utterly destroyed, the second is white-red with an strange pattern and the third is green-white. The third one has an crack that is mended(?) With two seals crossing each other. The staff is broken in two with an crescent moon on one end made of an unknown metal. D̴̜͖̫͈͆͗ō̴͔̪̪͉̉̄n̶͈͋͛̔̇�
'̸̛̙͑͝t̵̟͍̝̋̓̈́͋ ̸̭̪̍y̶̠̪̹͌o̶̖̼̫͑u̷̹͌͠ ̴̢͓̪̈́͘͘d̷̛̻̜̮a̴̞͓̪̖̾͋r̷̛̝͐e̴͎̗̎͘ ̸̩̤͖̜̓̓̃̈ţ̸̰̻͋̃̓o̸̟͓͗͗̓ ̴̧͍̈́̈̈͊l̴̫͒ę̵͍̊̄ǎ̴͓̯̀̉v̷̊̉�
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[ ] an white red shinto priest outfit with an gohei. It's immaculate and seem to have some selfrepair properties.

[ ] the shard of an red, oversized shattered sake dish. The interesting thing is the small wooden splinter embedded into the ceramic.

[ ] an Erlenmeyer flask with an clear liquid. It feels strangely like the moon. It's magic shines in an rainbow hue.

[ ] an boxed Erhu with all of it's impliments. Someone scratched "Rin Satsuki" on the backside.

[ ] and golden key. The keybit constantly changes shape.

Status:

Name: John Coulman
Race: Humanmade wizard
sex: male
Age: 21
Characteristics:short black hair, green eyes, 187cm tall. Wears black Trenchcoat, blue-white breton and a white scarf.

Occupation: mage of music, Charm and Illusion

Bloodline:(???)

Inventory:
1 pocket watch with words that promise headaches
and an nosebleed
1 flip phone
1 MP3 player
9 Sets of musical sheets
1 book of Illusions( title: the senses of being)
1 book of Charm ( the muse of an opera)
1 train ticket
1 suitcase of clothes
1 old flute of unknown origin

Skills:
Minor magical sight
Musical talent
Charm magic
Illusion magic

Incident meter: 0

Archievements: 0

AUTHORS NOTE: Here again, i think i can pat my own shoulder for the chapter length as an first time author. Any constructive critique is welcome and if you find an mistake in grammar, tenses or spelling, you can keep it. Feed it, play with it and find some Joy in your life. So...yeah, see you lot.

PS.: somehow i fail horribly in the task to change the colour of some text...i don't know what to do. I have these brackets (paraphrased) [colour Code/ begin]my text[colour end] and that give me the middle finger and leaves me confused...

PPS.: i don't know how to link threads together. Help appreachiated.

Well, i tallied up the votes, saw 4 clear winners,didn't want to loose an nice piece of plot, so...fuck it we ball and now let's go...

John thought about it and slipped the golden key into a pocket, stuffed the tome into an makeshift bookholder on his waist and tied some faded buddhist flags into a rope to shoulder the Erhu.

He then closed the suitcase which brought some peace from the pointed words of the red-white Ball and the incessant deluge that the unknown entity in the white-green ball threw at him.

So he took of slowly to the Torii gate as he heard paper ripping behind him. John slowly looked back to see the arm floating sorounded by miasma. It seems the uncareful handling by ripping the Box out of it's trashpile damaged the seals on the arm.

Taking one look at the slowly building flesh told him he would be in for a very bad time if he lingered any longer, he ran to the gate, only to feel something holding back his wrist. John needed to blink to see the silver thread tangled around his wrist, his instinctual reaction was to jank at it. He fell backwards through the Torii gate into some unknown pile of bones that were hidden by the dense canopy of flowers.

The tear closed slowly and John felt his heart drop as some horned woman with long pink hair wearing an dress with a red flap tried to run up to him. Luckily the tear closed fast enough to sever the left hand reaching through it, leaving him in an heavily breathing pile with his acquired possessions, bar an very animated doll tieying herself to his shoulder.

It seems he was again unlucky with his landing as the locks of the orb suitcase broke open, leaving all the world and their mother to hear the screaming match between one male and 2 female voices.

Since the front was an unpleasantly 30 meters high cliff onto some even more unpleasantly looking mix of jagged rocks and broken furniture, he looked into the other three directions.

What he saw didn't gave him much hope.
Behind him was an meadow full uf phantoms till an forest. 2 women were slowly floating/hopping towards him. The one in the red/blue outfit was definitly an hopping vampire, the other woman could only described as eye cancer inducing blue.
Said woman gave an animated wave with her hands, accompanied by an very unsettling smile while she floated a bit faster towards John.

Left of him was more flowerfield, ending into an very high set of stairs. An big black ball dripping with darkness skipped towards him. An childlike giggle and the words "tasty human" were heard from it.

Right of him was even more flowerfield, in the far distance was some sealed japanese gate. But only 150 meters from him were 5 growling werewolves ripping apart what was once an man wearing a suit. They looked up as you looked at them.

John...:

[ ] runs forward off the cliff.

[ ] runs backwards to the creepy woman and her corpse.

[ ] runs towards left, to the ball of darkness.

[ ] runs towards right, to the werewolves.

[ ] runs diagonally left, hoping neither the women or the dark blob catch up to him.

[ ] runs diagonally right into an pile of broken furniture, hoping neither the women catch him, nor the werewolves smell or hear him.

[ ] uses item/magic...(what, on who? Example: green-white orb on John)
->[ ] readers choice.

Status:

Name: John Coulman
Race: Humanmade wizard
sex: male
Age: 21
Characteristics:short black hair, green eyes, 187cm tall. Wears black Trenchcoat, blue-white breton and a white scarf.

Occupation: mage of music, Charm and Illusion

Bloodline:(???)

Inventory:
1 pocket watch with words that promise headaches
and an nosebleed
1 flip phone
1 MP3 player
9 Sets of musical sheets
1 book of Illusions( title: the senses of being)
1 book of Charm ( title: the muse of an opera)
1 stamped train ticket
1 suitcase of clothes
1 old flute of unknown origin
1 golden key(NEW)
1 tsukomogami puppet(bound itself to him)(NEW)
1 Tome (title: binding of body and soul)(NEW)
1 Erhu case with contents(NEW)
1 suitcase with posessed ying-yang orbs (NEW)

Skills:
Minor magical sight
Musical talent
Charm magic
Illusion magic

Incident meter: 50 noteworthy strange, but it's an Land of wonder.
+10: John stands out with his odd sortiment of things and an puppet tsukomogami on his shoulder.
+20: unleashing Ibaraki onto Gensokyo, Ibaraki remembers you.
+20: bringing back the ghosts of the past(literally),Mima wants to see your magic prowess to make an contract, Singyoku thinks about contracting you.

Archievements: 0

AUTHORS NOTE: Here again, let me remind you, there are NO WRONG CHOICES, all of them lead to an continueation of their own, death isn't the end.
PS.: i hope this time i didn't fuck up the pov, grammar or spelling...i tweaked this chapter for 3 hours to get it cleaned up. I will leave out the zalgo Text, since neither the preview, nor the site like it. Well...i tried and the site shat itself and died for half an hour...
PPS.: sorry that it came out so late, i was at the dentist, getting an molar pulled after it shattered. Enamal hypoplasia is a bitch.

Well, short Update. The Voting extends because i caught an nasty stomach flu and i am nursing an 43°C fever. I am sadly in no shape or form to finish an chapter while my intestines try to escape through the rear...

so yeah, Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yeah...thanks for the kind words. But im writing from the Hospital. Today night (~2:00)i was about to call an ambulance for the 44°C fever when my body crashed from dehydration induced problems.(bless my dad for hearring it as i took the Kirchen cart with a teasett with me) On arrival my blood pressure was like 70/30 with an body Temperature of 35°C. Dr. Told me it was my body giving up, that'swhy Temperature tanked so hard in the 15 min till they picked me up. How i am alive ,let allone conciuoss is baffling me, also didnt know body can loose water this fast. I dunnno what they did but now im laying here with IV and heart monitor while they are make me drink this absolutly vile concoction of water,salt and sugar.
Dont know how shit works onyl can tell what Dr.s told me.somthing,something bad viral infection. Something Something Organs fine.

No chapters till further notice.

Friendless sad sopp that needs to vent somewhere and is unapologetic about the mess of letters here.
Alastor

For all normal readers or voters, it's dangerous to go alone, take this KFC bnuuy. After that, simply jump to the last paragraph for story related update. The rest can bore themself with my ramblings.

Thanks for the nice words. So today was the day i got myself explained in Detail why and how i tickled deaths ballsack and got away with it.

Dr. (Insert polish name i definitly get wrong spelling)
Explained to me that i got some nice virus, with an name that makes DnD sorcerers blush and will probably summon a demon if said incorrectly(damn latin), that infected my intestines.
That had an strong inflammation, even stronger diarrhea and fever as response. Not many symptoms to go by without lab testing.
So yeah, got infected, couldn't keep my food, water and mineral household together which in turn let the virus spread rapidly through my blood to other organs.

This was the point my body tried anything and everything to combat the invaders. It burned me up and spat out all stored things like hormones, of which the adrenaline woke me up to that ungodly time. But without supplies in form of food and water, it was an lost fight, so the system crashed down burning. Yeah...i was actively dying.
Dad woke up with me taking down our kitchen trolley and shattering our best tea set. Where he immediatly called an ambulance.

They filled me up with as much fluids and strong antibiotics my body could withstand and hoped for the best while monitoring me and waiting for the lab tests. The blood tests showed high kidney- and liver values as well as the white bloodcell count of terminal cancer patients(his words, i don't know) that showed them it was in fact an viral infection.

Well, all in all, im good now. I got wheeled out of intensive care, which i am very glad about since i got the room for coma patients which had an wonderful view consisting of the raw grey cement wall of the next building. My organs haven't taken any lasting damage, Im still treated with antibiotics, still need to drink an ungodly amount of water and will be in hospital for at least the next 2 weeks.

I'm absolutly bored between my extremly long periods of sleep, so my dad will bring my laptop with the story stuff on monday, so i can work up an new chapter.
As written, the poll will be closed Monday, so who wants, can still toss their hat in the ring.

See you lot around and bye bye.
Alastor

Please be patient, chapter is currently being proofread. So depending on how long it takes and how bad i fucked up tenses, grammar and spelling.

Im very open when i say, the 3rd chapter isn't bad if we go purely by the content. But it's very bad when i torture you by making you lot read the Word "slowly" 5 times in 2 paragraphs...
So yeah. Im dumb and i am unable to see my own mistakes in time to edit, then cringe myself into oblivion by reading my very stupid mistakes. That's why im letting someone proofread over discord.

Edit: poll is closed...naturally.

Recovery is going on
Alastor

[X] uses item/magic...
-(X) the senses of being on ball of darkness
--{X} lead it to werewolves by affecting its sense of smell and hearing (if can only affect one, affect sense of smell)
--{X} then run towards left
This is the winning choice, so yeah, let's go...

Against the overly unhealthy option of simply swan-diving off the cliff, John decides to subvert the least likely threat.

He opens his book 'Senses of being', to first take the sight of whatever that thing is, while the dark orb crashes through a rusty streetlantern.

So, with sight already out, he uses a combination spellmatrix to erase his own smell and presence while lying flat down into the meadow of flowers.

The ball of darkness floats directly over him to chase off the werewolves, so it could take what’s left of the businessman for itself. John jumps up, grabs his suitcases and runs for the stairs while keeping the blue woman in sight. To John's discomfort, she is already crossing the meadow, leaving behind the much slower zombie.

At the bottom of the steps, the footpath split into four. One to the stairs that were sitting behind another Torii gate, one into the stretch of woods next to the third which John gives an very unwelcome feeling and the last to some shack stapled wildly together from tabletops, furniture parts and wooden planks.

Thinking fast, the woods won't make his pursuer give up. The shack is swarming with rodents and he doesn’t want to make a deal with whatever rodent deity it shelters since it will be abyssmally stacked against him for perhaps only temporary or no safety at all.

So he walks up the stairs. He feels himself going through some sort of barrier while going through that Torii gate.

A wind blew.

"Dear visitor, the Hakugyokurou is currently closed to normal hu..., oh, it seems you are in posession of not only rather troublesome company, you also have an invitation of mistress‘ friend."

John exhales at the swordwoman popping up from seemingly nowhere. It seems he is overdrawn on his daily quota of fucks to give and asks about where he is, who she is and what‘s up with the soul-like thing floating around her.

"I am Konpaku Youmu, a half-phantom in service of her Lady Saigyouji Yuyuko. We are in Gensokyo, more precisely on the stairway between the Muenzuka and the Hakugyokurou, which is anchoring the two together."

As John digests her answers, the blue woman catches up and looks at them from the bottom of the steps, just outside the gate. She announces herself in an annoying sing-song voice.

"Heyo, Youmu, do you need that human or can i have him? I would say finders keepers, since i saw him first."

"No you disgrace to vermin, him stepping here with invitation, he is, until stated otherwise, a guest of my Lady. You cannot "have" him, Seiga. If you as much as step an foot inside, we will have a problem."

John thinks, while they spoke over his head, it would be the smartest thing to not speak up for now.

"Oh, c‘mon. He has such a nice mix of energies; he would make a perfect guard for my little defenseless self. Don't ya think? Well, i have time, can always collect him later. Don't damage him too much. See you, my knight and you sword maniac."

With her intent declared, she floats away. Youmu sighs deeply, while mumbling something about a „shitty hermit“ and „annoying shrew“. Youmu then turns to him.

"Well, that was that. I must ask you to either follow me for a talk with my Lady, for she will have a few questions, or leave the premises."

John:

[ ] takes up her offer and follows her.

[ ] leaves into the woods.

[ ] excuses himself for a moment to speak to the ying-yang orbs.

Status:
Name: John Coulman
Race: Humanmade wizard
sex: male
Age: 21

Characteristics:short black hair, green eyes, 187cm tall. Wears black Trenchcoat, blue-white breton and a white scarf.

Occupation: mage of music, Charm and Illusion

Bloodline:(???)

Inventory:
1 pocket watch with words that promise headaches and an nosebleed
1 flip phone
1 MP3 player
9 Sets of musical sheets
1 book of Illusions( title: the senses of being)
1 book of Charm ( title: the muse of an opera)
1 stamped train ticket
1 suitcase of clothes
1 old flute of unknown origin
1 golden key
1 tsukomogami puppet(bound itself to him)
1 Tome (title: binding of body and soul)
1 Erhu case with contents
1 suitcase with posessed ying-yang orbs and broken staff

Skills:
Minor magical sight
Musical talent
Charm magic
Illusion magic

Incident meter: 51 noteworthy strange, but it's an Land of wonder.
+10: John stands out with his odd sortiment of things and an puppet tsukomogami on his shoulder.
+20: unleashing Ibaraki onto Gensokyo, Ibaraki remembers you.
+20: bringing back the ghosts of the past(literally),Mima wants to make an contract, Singyoku thinks about contracting you.
+1: necromantic interest, Seiga wants to make you her "knight"

Archievements: 1
let me be the one who got away(NEW)
Congrats, John escaped an adversary far more powerful than himself. For now...

Authors note: heyo, im back with an chapter.
My deepest gratitude to Maxis for helping me sorting this mess out. Have fun.

PS.: Archievement title is from Grave Digger, made by Blues Saraceno.

Authors note: im sorry it's late, but life happened and here it is. Please enjoy and revel in the plot.

BE WARNED THERE 2 QUESTIONS. FOR BOTH YOU CAN CHOOSE.

[X] excuses himself for a moment to speak to the ying-yang orbs.

While John got some information about this realm he landed in, another source to verify these things is far better than stumbling around blindly further.

He excuses himself for a moment and eyes the tsukomogami on his shoulder. The chance that a mute puppet will give anything meaningful is low. So he took the now even worse looking suitcase, or what miss Konpaku described as "troublesome company", with the ying-yang orbs and walks down to the last step. John opens it again to be greeted by silence, the two orbs and debris of the third that was everywhere inside the suitcase.

The first to speak up was a male voice from the white-red orb.
"You are in danger, traveler."
"Oh, fuck off with that mystery crap. We both know the condition of his soul can only be described as a deplorable mess!" shouts the green-white orb.
Before the 3 voices can start another shouting match, he first asks.
"I’m John, may I have your names, since referring to you with the color of the sealing orbs is rather rude, isn’t it?" The green-white orb answers.
"I had many names over the eons, you can call me Mima of the Stars, be grateful and try to not forget it."
"And ours is Shingyoku, child," Is the answer of the red-white ball.

John asks them, "Back to your statement, miss Mima, you said that there is something wrong with my soul?" Mima answers.
"The question is, what isn't wrong with your soul. It looks like some halfassing shithead destroyed a soul and then desperatly smashed together any piece he could find to repair it. I can count the shards of over 36 different individuals in your soul. Whoever did this also circumvented the judgement of souls, so your very existence is a sin to nature. Your soul will probably destroyed once it goes over the Sanzu river or straight down to hell, whatever is more convenient for that nagging midget. Anything else you will find in this realm, that can feel or see souls, will try to get rid of your sorry ass the fastest way possible."

Shingyoku quips in with the female voice.
"That aside, you would have been fine outside Gensokoyo. But since you are here, your magic will clash with the divinity and dragon fire I can sense. You have not much time before you will experience the first few symptoms of a soul collapse. I have seen it firsthand, and it's not a good fate." The male voice takes over. "You need to stabilize your soul. We had a discourse after meeting you for the first time." Mima concludes. "Well, since we can't kill you because we both would be mortally injured and Shingyoku is already the fusion of two souls. They are not suitable to do this. Your soul would be snuffed out like a candle and fade out of existence."

Mima pauses. "With what we have, both you and I need to...“ An embarrassed silence follows. „Well, it's a ritual I once perfected after a Chinese emperor botched it terribly. It's called "The Emperor's ghost marriage" and ties our souls together. Yeah, i know it sounds bad, but this connection can't be cut and if one of the parties dies, they will inhabit the body of the other party and have equal control of the body. Next to halting the collapse of your soul, my soul would also shield yours from prying eyes. You should feel honored that your meager magic will be enough to wield my staff and with it the elemental- and magic of the celestial bodies"

John thinks about it, while Shingyoku continues.
"We assume there will be side effects. They may include bleed over of emotions and knowledge or changes in the body's appearance. There might also be moments where you will fall unconscious. For her, it would mean that her status of a vengeful ghost would revert to that of a normal soul.
But be assured, she can't perform a hostile takeover to possess your body and expel your soul. It's because of how your body is uniquely tailored to the brokenness of your soul and the energies it emits."

This gives John much to think about. The advantages and disadvantages are evident. But he isn't as naive to simply trust the words of people who were sealed away.

John...

[] takes the offer of Mima and Shingyoku.

[] tells them that he will think about it.

And then he...

[] takes Youmu's offer to meet Yuyuko.

[] bids Youmu goodbye and walks off into the forest.

Status:

Name: John Coulman
Race: Human made wizard
sex: male
Age: 21

Characteristics:short black hair, green eyes, 187cm tall. Wears black trench coat, blue-white Breton and a white scarf.

Occupation: mage of music, Charm and Illusion

Bloodline:(???)

Inventory:
1 pocket watch with words that promise headaches and a nosebleed
1 flip phone
1 MP3 player
9 Sets of musical sheets
1 book of Illusions (title: the senses of being)
1 book of Charm (title: the muse of an opera)
1 stamped train ticket
1 suitcase of clothes
1 old flute of unknown origin
1 golden key
1 tsukomogami puppet (bound itself to him)
1 Tome (title: binding of body and soul)
1 Erhu case with contents
1 suitcase with possessed ying-yang orbs and broken staff

Skills:
Minor magical sight
Musical talent
Charm magic
Illusion magic

Incident meter: 51 noteworthy strange, but it's a Land of wonder.
+10: John stands out with his odd sortiment of things and a puppet tsukomogami on his shoulder.
+20: unleashing Ibaraki onto Gensokyo, Ibaraki remembers you.
+20: bringing back the ghosts of the past (literally), Mima awaits your answer, Shingyoku thinks about contracting you.
+1: necromantic interest, Seiga wants to make you her "knight"

Achievements: 1
let me be the one who got away

Authors note: voting will end Sunday evening at 12 CET. I'm sorry that this chapter is a bit of an info dump, but it was needed.

Edit: needed to repost chapter...i was stupid and forgot to add a title...yeah...