>Backwards story (CYOA maybe). Start from the ending, work backwords.
How do you plan to do that?

How about a guy who travels in his dreams to gensokyo? Not like AoS but like real dreams, where he does things unconscious and mindless.
He wakes up everytime he gets killed or something like that. The goal in his dreams is not to help people, but to do random and senseless bullshit like in real dreams.
Just a suggestion.

>>103270
Well, first I'd ask what kind of ending people would want. Tragic, Happily ever after, etc... I'd then ask what set of characters to use. (Forest, SDM, Eientei, etc...) Then I'd write a conclusion. The choices thereafter would be cues for what the previous major event in the story would be. And each scene will be written scene by scene in reverse chronological order after that.

Nothing horribly complex, like every sentence or something. And nothing annoying like every word is written sdrawkcab. Just each post.

>>103271
So FUG/FUiG, except with a flimsy plot exposé? Well, it is a good idea, but I am no good with "just screwing around" being the entire plot.

Maybe it can start that way, but soon, the protagonist finds him/herself drifting off more and more often. Unable to keep up with life in both the dream and the waking world anymore, the protagonist tries hard to find a solution in both worlds (though still skeptical about exactly how real this dream world is). At the crux of the story, the protagonist meets another person just like them... except to him/her, this world is the dream and Gensokyo is real.

From there, the questions, "which world should the protagonist live in?", "which world is more real?", "what is the solution to this dream problem?", and maybe a couple others could make for a satisfying plot where the conclusion is answers and decisions.

Also, this post here is a fair example of "Plot Makin' Machine"

"Same old story and..." sounds pretty neat.

{X} The Tears and Quiet Game.

>backwards story
Have you ever seen or read one that actually went well?

>>103273
Sounds good.
[✠] Plot Makin' Machine

>>103277
Yes. But for the sake of discussion, no.

[x]Plot Makin' Machine

[The Sad Story] X

The Tears and Quiet Game
The Sad Story

[x] The Sad Story

[X] The Sad Story

Crying alone until Hina comes along, and the two live a happy, if unlucky, life together.

[X] The Sad Story

This one makes me laugh.

[x] The Sad Story

>>103286
Mystia x Hina intrigues me.

Fiercely.

{Plot Makin' Machien}

Okay, so looks like people want to see a sad story.

Now with which characters/setting?
[ ] Eientei
[ ] Forest
[ ] Border
[ ] Shrine
[ ] SDM
[ ] Youkai
[ ] Underground
[ ] Other

Also, unless an overwhelming majority says otherwise, "Guy dropped into Gensokyo" is the main character.

And would you like a specific touhou for the part as lead female?

[X] Border/Yukari

[x] Forest/Mystia

WHY NOT.

>>103322

>WHY NOT

Why not indeed.

[x] Forest/Mystia

[x] Forest/Mystia

[0] Forest/Mystia

[x] Forest/Mystia

[x] Forest/Yukari

Vote combinin' gaems

[x] Forest/Mystia

Needs more Moeystia.

>>103329
Actually, that train of thought isn't at all bad.

[x] Forest/Remilia

Lead female doesn't necessarily have to be our target, either. It would be nice just to have one as a best friend, or comrade in adventure.

[X]Youkai/Mystia
Did anybody say crazy combinations?

[X] Forest/Mystia

I assume we're naming who we want to play as.

Because I want to play as Mystia.

[x] Forest/Mystia

>>103349
>Also, unless an overwhelming majority says otherwise, "Guy dropped into Gensokyo" is the main character.

>And would you like a specific touhou for the part as lead female?

I'd prefer Guy as the protagonist and Mystia as the lead female, myself.

>>103349

But you just chose Mystia as the lead female.

Maybe we can compromise.

Genderswap Mystia from a parallel universe falls into Gensokyo, where he meets his female counterpart?

I'm joking. Don't.

Seriously. Don't.

{X} Forest/Mystia

Looks like Mystia and forest wins this by a landslide.

FOREST CAST:
Alice, Marisa, Mystia, Rumia, Wriggle, and sometimes the lake residents Cirno and Daiyousei.

If there is anyone else who lives in the forest, or can be argued to live "close enough", now is the time to tell me.

I still think some clarification of who was voting for Mystia to be the protagonist, rather than the female lead, might be in order here.

>>103388
I made it pretty obvious that the question asked for the setting and lead female.

That being said, I do listen to complaints, so if everyone was indeed confused and needs to clarify that you want Mystia as the protagonist and not the lead female, you have until I finish writing the first post to make yourself heard. (approx. 12-24 hours)

ITT reading comprehension.

>>103322 Here

I was voting for Mystia as the main character.

>>103388 speaking.

Naturally, I wanted Mystia as the protagonist.

Can't remember which commentless vote was mine.

I wanted Guy as the protagonist and Mystia as the lead girl.

>>103323

I wanted Mystia as the main character.

>>103325 Here

Mystia should be the main character.

>>103391

I wanted Mystia as the lead female.

Excluding Doujin's story, I can't stand having the main character be a Touhou.

>>103421
Do you have a good reason for this, or are you one of those people who won't read anything that doesn't let you pretend that the hero is you?

>>103423
>are you one of those people who won't read anything that doesn't let you pretend that the hero is you?

That's not it, and I don't have a good reason. Just a personal thing.

>>103425
>I don't have a good reason. Just a personal thing.

A personal thing is a reason. Mind telling me what it is?

>>103426

I just don't like it.

There is no other reason beyond that.

>>103429
...That's a statement, not a reason.

You might think it's too personal/stupid/childish/etc. a reason to have.
You may just not want to tell us for no other reason than to be a dick.
Whatever the case is, it doesn't matter. If you don't want to say it, then don't. You're obviously under no obligation to tell us what the reason really is.
Hell, you may not even know what the reason is, yourself; it could be that it always just unconsciously rubs you the wrong way.

At least show some common courtesy and be honest. "I just don't like it" isn't a reason for not liking something, anymore than "Because I wanted to" is a reason for doing something.

Sage for having to explain basic reasoning to people who should have learned it years ago.

>>103435

Keep bitching, it's not going to get you anywhere.

>>103385
The three fairies live there, and I think Reimu's shrine is pretty close to it, if not actually in it. And it's bordered by the village (Keine, Rinnosuke, etc.) and the bamboo forest (Mokou, maybe Tewi/Reisen), based on the progression of stages in IN, but they aren't quite "magic forest cast". Although, if we're actually going to be Mystia, I don't know if you'll be able to keep people from making Mokou the target.

Story has started. Check /Forest.