Touhou Tenreikyou ~ Rebellion in Purgatory/Story

This article describes the story of Rebellion in Purgatory in detail.
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Over 1000 years back, a bloody rebellion against the central government of Japan took place. It was led by Taira no Masakado, a fierce samurai. However, when Masakado was eventually slain for his revolt, his sorceress daughter Takiyasha-hime, attempted to continue his cause. Using her black magic, she summoned a great skeleton from the bodies of dead soldiers to attack the city of Kyōto. At some point, though, Takiyasha was defeated and ultimately banished alongside her Gashadokuro youkai into the earth's soil.
After her tale became just a legend, her remains migrated to Gensokyo. Eventually, she was resurrected as a Gashadokuro herself named Kurohime Takiyasha, but upon learning of how things work in Gensokyo, she had to restrain from devouring humans and other living beings. She decided to settle for eating vulgar spirits, but it was not enough. One day, she became friends with a witch known as Colette de la Croix, who had a fascination for the undead. Colette had a ritual she wanted to perform on herself to become an undead, believing their magic power to increase in such a state, but she needed a recipient. She allowed a starving Kurohime to feast upon her, building a new body for her by creating a skeleton, which caused Colette to essentially become a Hone onna. It was a win-win situation for both, but Kurohime needed more souls of the dead to satiate her hunger. She thought of a plan to cause souls to abandon purgatory so that she could covertly eat a lot more spirits.
Kurohime suggests convincing Colette's necromancer witch colleague, Mercury Nachtschatten, as she was an expert and the only one capable of summoning and commanding the dead into the living world. Colette, with her ability to make anything look or sound beautiful, sang a charming song that persuaded Mercury's soul into leaving her body. Turning into an Ikiryō separated from her still-living, but unconscious body, Mercury now acts out of her own volition and proceeds to make preparations for an undead rebellion.
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The story begins with a peaceful day in Gensokyo, when all of a sudden summer becomes extremely cold. Add to that, lots of undead beings such as Zombie fairies, vulgar spirits and ghosts begin showing up everywhere to cause mischief upon the living. The four heroines, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Youmu Konpaku, and Mima are finding this unusual. Depending on who you choose, one of them goes out to investigate.
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*Reimu's Scenario
*Marisa's Scenario
*Youmu's Scenario
*Mima's Scenario
The heroine first follows the rebellious spirits around the Hakurei Shrine , where they encounter Chizu Shiratori, a Tsukumogami newly born from Reimu's own handbell. Believing the current events to be some sort of Hyakki Yagyō ("Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"), she wants to have a dancing Danmaku ritual with the heroine, but is easily defeated. 
As the heroine keeps track of where the spirits are coming from, they meet Kaeru Ikedashima on the Water Lily River, who's looking for a spouse to marry. However, as the heroine notices Kaeru is able to control the temperature around her, she becomes suspicious and easily defeat her. She quickly learns Kaeru has nothing to do with the incident, and rejects her marriage proposal.
The heroine finds herself in a dark forest full of even more spirits and zombie fairies. Here, they bump into Shirley Wollstone, a human girl from the Outside World whose paranormal senses are so strong she materialized into Gensokyo through her dream because of the events taking place. She wants to record the incident for her research, but the heroine wants her to go back home and not speak of Gensokyo's existence. A battle ensues, but Shirley's outsider magic pales in comparison and is defeated. She gives the heroine a hint as to where to go, based on what she's sensing.
The heroine heads into a big graveyard outside the Tower of Purgatory, where she is attacked by a horde of spirits led by Sachiko Hotarumiya. Sachiko, being a flame of grudge, attacks the heroine for intruding. She is ultimately defeated, and speaks up a bit about the rebellion originating from the tower in front of them.
The heroine made it into the Tower of Purgatory, and goes further up the tower. She meets Xiuying Lin, who attacks the heroine. Xiuying is quickly defeated, and her invisibility powers cease, revealing a passageway leading to a huge door. Here, the heroine encounters Colette de la Croix, who battles the heroine whilst trying to persuade her into surrendering to the beauty of the undead. She fails, however, and the heroine is allowed through the door. 
Finally, the heroine has traveled inside purgatory itself, where Colette makes a last ditch effort to stop her, but is quickly defeated. At last, the heroine makes her way through, and encounters a necromancer witch, Mercury Nachtschatten. Mercury is the culprit of the incident, as she sneaked into the Temple of Purgatory with Colette's assistance and used her dark magic to command all the spirits and undead beings from purgatory and the graveyards to rise and overthrow the living. The heroine and Mercury have a fierce battle. The heroine is victorious.
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*Reimu's Extra
*Marisa's Extra
*Youmu's Extra
*Mima's Extra
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