[Well, the Medicine Seller doesn't appear to have a room, so he'll be spending much of the event hanging around the lobby. He's dressed close to the same as usual, except without so many layers--his yukata is almost identical to his usual outer robe, but floor-length, and made of somewhat lighter fabric. His geta and fancy obi remain ( Read more... )

[As the clock strikes midnight and the mansion turns back to normal, a camera flickers on in one of the empty hallways.]

[The Medicine Seller stops in mid-step, his vivid robes stained with red, one pale hand curled around the grip of a blood-smeared machete. The blank expression on his face gives way to actual shock as he realizes what just ( Read more... )

[All right, the Medicine Seller is ready to start his campaign! He has his colorful robes, his latex elf-ears from the costume store, his lovingly-hand-crafted-from-plywood box and scales and sword, and a large bundle of white scrolls with red drawing on them ( Read more... )

If not the Queen...

What is the source?

[Yes, the Medicine Seller is stumped enough to start mining you all for ideas.]

[The Mirror Medicine Seller didn't get the memo. Or, if he did, he used it to make a pretty origami flower and forgot about it ( Read more... )

[In the Japanese formal garden, there's a brightly-dressed figure sitting near the edge of a neatly-raked bed of sand, his sword resting at his side ( Read more... )

[For those of you accustomed to, you know, anything remotely normal, the little corner of the mansion that's been consumed by the Medicine Seller's imagination may be somewhat unsettling.]

[Then again, if anyone happens to be more accustomed to the laws of physics being sort of sporadic, monsters from the most primal depths of the Japanese ( Read more... )

[The Medicine Seller, once again known as "Morita Shinichi" or whatever the name I made up last time he needed to have one was, is at his desk in the infirmary ( Read more... )

[For a long time, it seems as though there might not be anything in this post at all--just an empty, secluded corner of the gardens.]

[Eventually, there's a soft chiming of bells, and... a sparkle?]

[But perhaps it was just your imagination.]

This is really exciting... I've never been over here before! Somebody said that there are animals outside... is that true? I'm going to go look!

First, though, it's nice to meet all of you! I'm... well, I don't really have a name, because he doesn't, but Her Majesty calls me Medicine Seller, so I'm sure it's fine to just call me that!

[He gives ( Read more... )