>Sort of? I mean, I needed somebody to fill that role anyway, and they
>were right there. In fact, I'm tempted to wonder if the next bit of
>OWaW's planned plot hasn't hung as long as it has because it was
>waiting for me to run across the right characters to put in those
>slots. You may scoff, but this has happened before.

You've said before that the characters often rewrite the story on you, this is just the...next logical step -- preventing you from writing the story until the characters have arrived in the green room (that cross-town traffic is MURDER),

>Alice is, to date, the only character from outside Embodiment of
>Scarlet Devil to come in, primarily because she is in a
>million-billion doujins with Marisa and/or Patchouli (and, by
>extension, Sakuya), so if you research EoSD characters, you'll
>inevitably meet her.

I'm going to love seeing all the interactions here, just to see how it all shakes out. Very cool stuff.