User:NekoRex/Outside2

 "Whoa, there's a huge buncha structures out over yonder!" Marisa exclaims. "Bigger then I've ever seen!" <>Ambiance<>	 ''So.. a city, then.'' 	"Yeah." *	Marisa_Kirisame of course starts off towards the city, excited to see what exactly a city was. <>Ambiance<>	 ''And you're just.. going to approach it without care. Okay, that sounds like a good idea, even if you have absolutely no idea what you're to be doing there...'' 	"All the roads are black an' stuff, too. And there's these metal boxes flyin' around on them. They're real far away though, and movin' pretty fast." 	"People out here still speak the same, right? It's not like I'm gonna be some kinda alien." <>Ambiance<>	 ''... I've got a map here. What direction did you leave the boundary from?'' <>Ambiance<>	 They should, although there might be non-natives who speak something else. 	"Ehhhh..." Marisa says, looking up at the night sky. Oddly, it seemed to be a lot less detailed the closer she got to the town, but she can still find the North Star quickly enough. "A bit hard to tell, but probably south." <>Ambiance<>	 ''South? So you're heading into.. looks like Yamanashi prefecture. There's a large valley that's surrounded by mountains.. and the biggest city is Kofu. But you didn't describe a gigantic city, so you're probably still out in the country..'' 	"Huh? They get bigger?" <>Ambiance<>	 ''Human cities are gigantic, Marisa. The human village is tiny, and is barely a fourth of where I lived as a child.'' <>Ambiance<>	 Even then, Japan's capital may be even bigger than London... 	"Whoa. I dunno how big London is, but it sounds huge." <>Ambiance<>	 ''Yes. I would not be surprised if some human cities were as big as Gensoukyou, or even bigger.'' <>Ambiance<>	 ''Either way.. try not to get lost. There's a good chance that if you stay out here for too long, the border may be attended to, and you won't get back in so easily...'' 	"What about Reimu? Can't she just let me in or whatever?" 	"And sheesh, that sounds gigantic." Marisa continues, getting close to the small town. It seemed nobody else could fly. What a shame. <>Ambiance<>	 The city, Kai, isn't too far off. Oriented along the riverside, it's no Tokyo, but it's still probably quite striking for someone from Gensoukyou. 	 ''I'm not sure if she can downright tear a hole in the barrier.. I suppose if you got stuck out here, I could ask her, but..'' 	"I was sure Reimu guarded some kinda hole through the shrine, but I've never actually seen it, to be fair." 	 ''Mmh.. I'm really not all that sure, so don't stray too far from the mountains. I'd hate to have you get stuck out there just because you got distracted and lost..'' 	"Anyway, I'm gettin' into the town right now." she says, still flying in. "If I need to get back real fast, I can just use Master Spark to go real fast, right? It can't be a big deal." 	 Ah, no, Marisa, humans in the outside world don't commonly use magic! 	 ''It's quite rare among them. They don't even fly. You don't want to stick out and cause a fuss..'' <>Ambiance<>	 It's still just the outskirts of Kai, but since it's about 8 PM, cars still rumble down the road at high speed. There appears to be a small residential area not too far off, and then a nearby cluster of shops. It's all quite quiet, the larger buildings are further ahead. 	"Wait what?!? Only now you tell me that? How am I supposed to know?" she says, quickly findng a spot to land before anyone looked up. She seems to have gotten pretty far into the city without getting spotted so far, since nobody ever seems to look up. <>Ambiance<>	 I figured it was obvious from all the reading you do.. <>Ambiance<>	 ''Many humans of the outside world don't even believe in the existence of magic, not even back in the 1940s. Only a few are probably all that aware, and even less could use it..'' <Marisa_Kirisame>	"What a bother. I've never read about the outside world. I didn't even know we had any books on it." Marisa says, walking out into the shopping district. <>Ambiance<>	 ''I did at one point, but it was destroyed in your house fire. I'm sure the village knows more than I do, I'm mostly speaking from experience.. and even then, I was about nine when I fell into Gensoukyou..'' <>Ambiance<>	 It appears to be a cluster of strip malls. There's a few clothing shops, a nearby gas station, a couple of little restaurants, a video game store, and a coffee shop. <>Ambiance<>	 There's still people out and about, of course, but it's not as busy as it would have been four hours ago or so. All of the shops are still open, bar one of the clothing shops. One of the people out and about takes a moment to stare at Marisa, seeing as she's.. not really dressed too normally! <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Ya sure know a lot then," Marisa says, ignoring the onlookers, still talking to the doll. At least the doll wasn't flying around. She could tell what clothing stores, coffee shops, and restaurants were. The gas station didn't take long to figure out as she watched the metal boxes file in and out of it. Clothing of the Outside looked pretty strange, in fact, but not her style. Videogames, on the other hand... <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Huh, these people sure sell some weird stuff. You want me to pick you anything up? They have a buncha odd clothing. And- oooh, this store has a word I don't really know..." <Alice_Margatroid>	 Um.. I'm not sure if there's anything that I'd particularly like.. bring back some interesting food, maybe? ... What word? <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Games...something. It's fulla odd kappa-lookin things." <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Like the stuff I'd find at Kourin's place." <>Ambiance<>	 ''Games. And kappa-looking? That sounds like an arcade that my book wrote about, with electrical puzzles that humans make.'' <Marisa_Kirisame>	Marisa decides to enter the videogames store, looking around, quite interested in the weird boxes displaying all sorts of strange art and people. <>Ambiance<>	 ''Don't waste all your money, though. You can't just rob people out here.'' <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Too many people around." Marisa says. She hopes the shopkeeper wasn't too attentive to hear that, looking over at him. "I got plenty of money saved. Would be nice if I could figure out how this stuff works, though." <>Ambiance<>	 ''Well, you would need electricity... so anything you'd bring home would be useless.'' <Marisa_Kirisame>	"How do I get that?" <Shopkeeper>	 Hello, (stranger-san), welcome to Kita Games. Did you need something? <>Ambiance<>	 ''Why are you asking me that? I don't know much about engineering, and Gensoukyou as a whole doesn't have electricity, besides the kappa...'' *	Marisa_Kirisame keeps switching her line of sight between the doll and the shopkeeper. At least he was polite. "Maybe I'll ask." she tells Alice as she wanders over to the desk. <Marisa_Kirisame>	Marisa tries to think of an excuse why the weirdly dressed witch would know nothing about electricity or videogames. "Yo... I'm interesed in buyin somethin, but I don't know nuthin' about... this stuff. Call me old fashioned." <Shopkeeper>	 ''You.. are? Are you from way out in the country or something, then? We've been here for almost twenty years now..'' He seems pretty confused. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Oh! Yes! I'm from somewhere really far off! Somewhere really behind the times. It's a miracle I know how to speak to the locals, really." <Shopkeeper>	 ''Well, um.. you need a console that you put the games in, as well as a television to attach the console to, and a place to plug in the console. Instructions are inside each box that a console comes in, you see, I can show you a manual if you want..'' <Shopkeeper>	 ''Somewhere really far off? Where's that? Kai's already rather out in the woods, so seeing someone who is from an even more remote place is interesting.'' <>Ambiance<>	 Alice sighs softly. Don't tell me you're going to try and buy something from the arcade.. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"I bet it is!" Marisa agrees, rather to the point. She was terrible at lying, but being rather direct was an easier thing. "What about that thing?" she says, pointing at a handheld system, a Nintendo DS, to be exact. She's seen at least something like that before in Kourin's shop, so maybe it didn't need a television, whatever that was. <Shopkeeper>	 Oh, that's a DS. They're handheld consoles with their own screens, they only need to be charged and to have a game, and then they'll run great. <Shopkeeper>	 They're fairly cheap right now, too, we've having a sale since there's a new model of it coming out here soon.. <>Ambiance<>	 ''You're.. you're buying something, aren't you. Well, if you don't have enough money for dinner, that's your own fault.'' <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Oh? How do I charge them, then?" she asks, hoping to find a solution to that immediate problem. <Shopkeeper>	 They come with chargers, of course. One end of the charger fits nicely into a slot on the top, and then all you need to do is plug it in and it'll charge great. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Ehh... plug... in?" <>Ambiance<>	 ''You should just pretend you're Amish.. because that's technically what we are, anyways..'' <Shopkeeper>	 Do they not have electricity where you live, customer-san? <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Yeah! Like I said, old fashioned." <Shopkeeper>	 That's.. really old fashioned. My apologies if I sound rude. Um.. well, electrical outlets, you know? If you have electricity in your home, they are where you plug in electronics. <>Ambiance<>	 The shopkeeper gestures to a nearby electrical outlet on the wall near the entrance. He looks like he's trying to stay patient, but is having a bit of difficulty.. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Ah, well, I do not have that, it would seem. I'm... Amish. You ever heard of those?" <Shopkeeper>	 Amish.. um, those are the farming people who don't have electricity, right? If you don't have electricity, customer-san, you might find it hard to use anything here at home. <>Ambiance<>	 ''Sigh.. oh, Marisa, why did you have to walk into this store and not another one?'' *	Marisa_Kirisame frowns. "There's no portable way of carrying around electricity? Surely you can tell me where to find something like that." <Shopkeeper>	 Um, I think there's a hardware store on the other side of town that has portable generators for sale.. <>Ambiance<>	 The shopkeeper doesn't seem to pay too much mind to the talking hat. He personally thinks that this girl just has her phone on a funny setting. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Portable generators, huh? That's electricity I can carry around? How big are they?" <Shopkeeper>	 Some of them are about this big. He gestures with his hands, making about the approximate size of a normal-sized microwave. Now, if you have any more questions about generators or electricity, you should ask the people at the hardware store, not me, customer-san... <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Ah, well, that's rather large-lookin'. Maybe I should come back when I get a better source of, ah, electicity." <Shopkeeper>	 That'd probably be a good idea, yes. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Right, where is this hardware store? Other side of town isn't really helpful." <Shopkeeper>	 Um, I'm not all that sure, to be honest.. I think it's by the Taijin, which is a restaurant here in town, but I've never actually been there. You could always find a pay phone and call operator to find out. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Where is the restaurant, at least? Can you give me directions, or at least point the way it is?" <Shopkeeper>	 The Taijin is, as I said, is on the other side of town, near those larger office buildings you might have seen on the way in. I believe the hardware store is just across the street or so from it. <Marisa_Kirisame>	"Oh? Well that helps enough. Thanks!" <>Ambiance<>	 Nodding once, the shopkeeper waves slightly. He still seems rather frazzled and a bit short of patience, but is pretty happy to have Marisa gone now. Why was she dressed like a witch, anyways? Was she from a nearby convention? But if she was, then she couldn't have been Amish...