Log:Touhou Mother Transcript/1 (Meta, no ontology)

From Compile Worlds

[▶ [Video 1]]
(Songs will appear like this the first time. Subsequent times, only the first line will be included.)
[♪ 001 a sacred lot                        (Track number and official / closest approximation name)
                                           (Japanese name if the track has one (this one doesn't))
 <a sacred lot.mid>                        (Exact filename as in the Touhou Mother RPGMaker project)
 Touhou 1 - Highly Responsive to Prayers   (Source of the song)
 Title theme                            ]  (Use of the song in its source, where appropriate)

(There isn't actually anything to transcribe on the title screen, other than Naka saying hi and saying anyone who posts spoilers will be beaten to death with a sack of oranges...)

[♪ 002 Eternal Shrine Maiden
 永遠の巫女 eien no miko
 <永遠の巫女.mid>
 Touhou 1 - Highly Responsive to Prayers
 Theme of Levels 1-4, Hell Levels 16-19 ]

※Caution!※

※It would be best if you have played and
understood the original MOTHER games.
Many spoilers are present.

And that's all three MOTHER games: Earthbound, Earthbound Zero and Mother 3.
Or... Mother 1, 2 and 3.
(Basically, the translators screwed it all up. Again.)

※From Touhou, at least know the characters.
And if you don't know the story,
this one may be harder to understand.
Know about the old ones too, if possible.

※Even some of the battles
resemble those from the originals.

※You have no excuse to call it stupid
if you haven't played the originals!

(Choices will appear with the arrow pointing to the choice that was picked.)
※OK?
▸OK!
 NO!

※By the way, where is this music from?

 Mountain of Faith
▸Highly Responsive to Prayers
 Mother 2
 Mother 4

Please choose a difficulty.

※There is the possibility that Hard and above
are not beatable.

▸EASY
 NORMAL
 HARD
 LUNATIC

Now as with any Touhou game, easy means hard. Normal means really freaking hard. Hard means you're pulling your hair out, and lunatic is... actually quite fitting.

With that, let us begin.

[♪ 003 +
 <タイムパッセージ.mid>
 Mother 1
 Title theme       ]

Nintendo
-------------------------
SPECIAL THANKS

                        S
-------------------------
                 presents

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What's your name?

Junya Itoi...
That's a strange name.

What's your favorite food?

SAKE?
Hey, me too!

What's your favorite thing?

LOVE...
Because it lets you Master Spark things.
[Love is actually a reference to the special ability in Mother 3, and one of the defaults in Earthbound.]
How romantic!

You:   Junya Itoi
Food:  SAKE
Thing: LOVE
This is the start of the game.

[Hakurei Shrine]

One day, in Gensokyo.
At the Hakurei Shrine.

[♪ 004...]

[Reimu appears from behind the shrine.]

[♪ C01 Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle
 +                                      ]

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[♪ 004 +
 <introfield2.mid>
 Mother 3
 Mom's Hometown]

Ah, nothing in the donation box... as usual...

[Suddenly, Marisa appears and runs up to the shrine.]

[♪ C02 Love Colored Master Spark
 +                              ]

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-"It's not magic if it's not flashy."

[Marisa]
Reimuuu!

Well, that's unusual.
You're actually up already!

Seriously, you're turning into Yukari
with that super-lazy lifestyle...

...Or maybe it's the other way around?

...So, uh, Reimu.
I wanted to consult your incident radar.

Has anything happened recently?

[Reimu]
?

[Marisa]
...Well, I've got nothing else to do.
Just wondering if anything... happened.

[Reimu]
...

[Marisa]
...Nothing. Well, nothing to be worried about.
Then we've got some spare time.

Reimu is your standard Earthbound silent protagonist.

[Marisa]
So, Reimu.
...Um, wanna go to the Sunflower Field?

...Yuka might be doing something interesting.

[Reimu]
 YES
▸NO

[Marisa]
Then the game can't proceed.
Sheesh, like YOU'RE busy with anything!

Okay then, it's settled.

[☆ 仲間.wav] (Sound effects will appear like this when they mute the music.)
[]
Marisa joined the party!

[▶ [Video 2]]

[♪ 004 +]

[Donate Box]
As usual, there's nothing inside.

Reimu never gets anything in her donation box... It's a little sad, really. I wonder just how she makes money though.

[Shrine]
It's a papier mache shrine.
Marisa destroyed the old one.

Nice job, Marisa.

[Reimu and Marisa walk off to the west, to a central area. Although it's not as central as you'd hope later on, we'll be coming back here a lot.]

[Sign]
←Sunflower Field ↑Forest of Magic
↓Human Village   →Hakurei Shrine

(Quotes for going the wrong way omitted, watch the video for them.)

[Sunflower Field]

[Marisa]
...There she is.

Hey Yuka, what's up?

[Supposedly this flower field is a reference to a chapter in Mother 3.]

[Marisa]
Hellooo. ☆

[♪ C03 Gensokyo, past and present ~ Flower land
 +                                             ]

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-Invented Master Spark.

[♪ 004 +]

[Yuka]
Haaa... nothing today, either...

[Marisa]
Huh?

[Yuka]
Wh... Marisa?... Haaa...

[Marisa]
What's up, Yuka?

[Yuka]
Have you seen Wriggle around?

[Marisa]
...Why do you ask?

[Yuka]
...I'm pretty sure Wriggle's here somewhere.
[Wriggle appears right in front of her, semi-transparently.]

[♪ C04 Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect
 +                                            ]

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-"Wriggle Kick!".

[♪ 004 +]

Supposedly Yuka's actually quite fond of Wriggle, and she shows her affection by... beating Wriggle up.

[Yuka]
Or at least, I have a feeling...

[Yuka kicks Wriggle far into the sky, completely unintentionally.]

[Yuka]
I want to go beat her up...

I won't be satisfied knowing there might be
someone like her running around.

[Marisa]
...Ah... I see.

[Marisa turns to Reimu.]
...Sorry. I guess she wasn't very interesting.

Oh well. Maybe we can go find something else to do.

[Yuka]
Haaa... I hope she'll show up quickly...

[Marisa]
Quickly? You mean, like, not you?

[Cirno]
Hooold uuup!

[Cirno pops out from under the sunflowers, somehow.]

[Cirno]
It's me, at your service!

[♪ C05 Beloved Tomboyish Girl 
 +                           ]

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-Idiot.

[♪ 004 +]

[Yuka]
...Who asked for you?
I'm not looking for fairies.

What are you doing here?
You'll just make the flowers wilt.

Yuka is very protective of her flowers. Heaven help you if you actually do damage to one.

[Cirno]
You were gonna try to bully Wriggle,
weren't you?!

I am a friend of justice!
I cannot simply stand by and watch!

[Yuka]
...

...Better idea.
Forget Wriggle, you'll do.

[Cirno takes a step backwards.]
[Cirno]
W... what?

[Marisa]
I'll help. Friends of justice are practically
my breakfast!

Reimu! You want in on this too, right?

[Cirno]
...Now you're just being mean.

[☆エンカウントザコ.WAV]
[♪ 005 Bothersome Guys
 <M3_BattleTheme.mid>
 Mother 3
 Battle theme         ]

Cirno wanted to fight!

(Battle omitted. Interestingly, she plays the normal enemy defeated sound when she dies, unlike most bosses. Perhaps Cirno doesn't count as a boss?)
(For reference, Reimu starts with PK Dream α and PK Healing α. Marisa starts with just PK Beam α. Yuka, in addition to being so slow she always moves last, has no bombs at all.)

[♪ 004 +]

[Cirno gets kicked way up into the air. Completely intentionally.]

[Yuka]
Ahahahaha! Thanks!
NOW I'm satisfied!

[Marisa]
...Sorry. She was completely uninteresting.
Oh well. Let's go find something else to do.
...Let's go.

[Yuka]
!

...What's that?!

[Marisa]
W-What?

[☆いんせきおちる.wav]
[A meteor suddenly falls from the sky, knocking the still-airborne Cirno off on a new course as it does so.]

[♪ 006 F-F-Fire!
 <m3ch1.mid>
 Mother 3
 +              ]

[Marisa]
...That was... what...?

What was that?
Something fell from the sky?!

Reimu!
Did the Hakurei border break or what?!

The Hakurei border keeps everything out of Gensokyo. How would... oh well!

[Reimu]
...

[Marisa]
...This is intruiguing...

[Yuka]
...Well then, let's not waste time.

Let's go find out what it is!

[Marisa]
Yuka!

[Yuka walks off to the left. Very slowly.]

Quickly!

[]
Not fast enough!

[Marisa]
...Ah, right, of course.

...Well, we can't miss this!
Let's go, Reimu!

[Reimu and Marisa easily overtake Yuka.]

[Yuka]
W-What?! Wait for me!

[▶ [Video 3]]

[Reimu and Marisa arrive at a fork. They came from the right, and a sign informs them that the [[]]arlet Devil Mansion is to the left, but not what is up. There is no path down.]

[Going up, they encounter the first mook of the game, a Mr. Ghosty.]

[☆エンカウントザコ.WAV]
[♪ 007 Mr Batty Twist
 <バットマーンツイスト..mid>   (Yes, two dots)
 Mother 3
 Battle theme         ]

Ran into Mr. Ghosty!

(Battle omitted.)

Reimu reached Level 2!
PK Lifeup α learned!

Marisa reached Level 2!

[♪ 006 F-F-Fire!]

[Reimu and Marisa continue up the path encountering more Mr. Ghosties along the way. At the end is a patch of mushrooms, which they eat to restore health.]

You felt better!

...Though there might be a secondary effect.
...Perhaps.

[Reference to Mother 3, where upon eating some mushrooms you had an... experience.]

[Reimu and Marisa come to a meteorite impacted in the ground.]

[Marisa]
...So this is that thing that fell from the sky?

[Marisa runs up close to inspect it.]
...But what is it?
...I don't have the slightest idea...

I mean it, ze.

[Suddenly a figure appears on top of the meteor in a flash of light.]

[♪ 008 +
 <ボス出現_rs.mid>]

[???]
...*whirr* We have found it.
A new land. A whole *click* world.

Aw crap, it's a Starman Junior!

[???]
...We will *whirr* take it.
For our angel.

[☆エンカウントボス.WAV]
[♪ 009 Otherworldly Foe
 <eb_miniboss.mid>
 Mother 2
 Miniboss theme        ]

Starman Jr. attacked!

(Battle omitted.)

[Yuka slowly limps into view.]
[Yuka]
...F-Finally... I... caught up...
W-What was that?

[Marisa]
...Yuka?!
You missed all the fun!

[Reimu looks around.]

[Marisa]
What's wrong, Reimu?

[Reimu]
!

[Everyone looks over to the right, where Reimu noticed something.]

[Marisa]
Eh?
...!

[Ahead of them is an overweight, blond-haired boy who appears to be out cold.]

Porky? 

[♪ 010 LOG-O-TYPE
 <mother3title.mid>
 Mother 3
 Title theme       ]

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(As if we've forgotten what game this is already.)

[Yuka]
I wonder if we should really be helping
a guy like this...

[♪ 011 +
 <mother_tank.mid>
 Mother 1
 Tank theme       ]

Yeah, just some random guy you found on the ground?

[Yuka]
He looked fine lying in the flowers to me.

[Marisa]
Hey, I'm a human being, y'know.
I won't just leave other humans to die.

But unless you're really, really lucky,
I'm not gonna obey your every whim!

You're kidding me!
We have to carry him all the way to the mansion?!

Screw that! Hold on tight,
'cause we're doing things my way!

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[Scarlet Devil Mansion]
[The whole mansion shakes violently as something crashes into it. Meiling, the gatekeeper, is standing outside asleep... and no, even this quake doesn't rouse her.]

[♪ 012...]

[Patchouli's room]
[It turns out the "something" was Marisa, Reimu and Porky... and there's now a big hole in the side of Patchouli's wall. How strange that there wasn't a window on that wall.]

[Patchouli]
...Oh, Marisa.
...Couldn't you have used the entrance?

[♪ C06 Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room
 +                                         ]

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[♪ 012 +
 <M3_Tazmily3YearsLater.mid>
 Mother 3
                            ]

[Marisa]
I've made you a new entrance!
How can you complain about that?!

You're always like this, Patchouli!
Anyway, here's this fat guy.

He collapsed.
...Wasn't my fault.

I like how you have to add that in, Marisa.

[Patchouli]
...Ah, yes.
...First, you should lay him down on a bed.

[Reimu]
...

[Marisa turns to Reimu.]
[Marisa]
...Uh, Reimu. Something's suspicious.
But I'm not sure what's fishy, exactly.

No, I'm pretty sure Patchouli's fine.
She's a magician too, so I know her.

Patchouli is actually a youkai. However there is a class of youkai called "magician". This is not to be confused with the human magician, like Marisa. In fact, I think Marisa is the only human magician so any other magician you see from here is the youkai-style magician.

[Marisa]
So... maybe the person I'm thinking of
is you, ze!

[Reimu]
...

[Marisa]
...Uh...
Patchouli!

[Patchouli]
...Marisa, there's nothing wrong with me
saying to use my bed.

Just accept it.

[Marisa]
...I guess there's no explanation.
Anyway! Now to do something for this guy!

[Patchouli]
Yes, yes...

[Marisa just about kicks him onto the bed. His legs are lying off the end of it.]
[Marisa]
How's that?

[Patchouli]
...Doesn't he still look rather uncomfortable?
Whatever, we'll leave him until he wakes up.

Does anybody in this game care about anyone?

[Marisa]
What? Look, you can't just push me around.
I'm not giving out favors.

[Patchouli]
You'd really say that?

[Marisa]
Would I lie, ze?

[Patchouli]
Well, I have some drinks. Want anything?

I believe I have a Big City Cola...

[Big City Cola is a reference to Club Titiboo in Mother 3, where you could buy them.]

[Marisa]
...N-No, we can just relax here...

[Patchouli]
...Well...

.........

............

..................

..............................

[Marisa]
I... I get it...
I'll try not to be too annoying, ze.

[Patchouli]
...Hm.

[Marisa and Patchouli sit down on the sofa.]

[Reimu]
...

[Patchouli]
Right then, Reimu.
Can you go check on Remmy for me?

I'm really worried about her.

Marisa
Why's that?

Patchouli
I haven't seen her lately.
It might not be anything serious, but...

I'm still worried about her.

[Marisa]
...I guess I understand.

TODO: upload Suwako's title card when she actually is part of the story since we're leaving out the save points. (BGM: Native Faith, no annotations.)

TBC