Reisen Quest Furthermore: A Z-Machine Adventure

[WHMZakeri]

>"The weird thing about the winds is that it's "Being interfered with". I'm not sure of the specifics."
>"Well, I don't know about the web, but if it has anything to do with the wind, I'd like to look into it. What can you tell me?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"The weird thing about the winds is that it's "Being interfered with". I'm not sure of the specifics."
>"Well, I don't know about the web, but if it has anything to do with the wind, I'd like to look into it. What can you tell me?"

>"Oh." says the faeries.
>"I bet it's the web!"
>"Gotta be the web."
>"Yup."
>"It's such a pain."
>"But it's so pretty!"
>"Still a pain."
>It seems they've forgotten about you for the moment.

>_

[Rin Kagamine]

> "Can you take me to the web?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Can you take me to the web?"

>"Nuh-uh!"
>"No way!"
>"Uh-uh!"
>"Forget about it!"
>The second faerie adds, "The monkey spider is a real jerk. We don't have anything to do with him."

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>"Oh, I'm real good with dealing with jerks. There is a wolf around here that used to be a Jerk until it met me."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh, I'm real good with dealing with jerks. There is a wolf around here that used to be a Jerk until it met me."

>"Oh, okay," says the third faerie.
>"Still not going," says the second, crossing her arms.
>"It's thataway," says the third, pointing eastward and toward the bush.
>"Don't let it get on your face," says the first faerie. "Monkey spiders are really bitey!"

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>"Thank you. I'll go take a look now."
>Prepare for battle
>Take off sunglasses
>Doublecheck cards
>Head eastward

[Hello Purvis]

>"Thank you. I'll go take a look now."
>Prepare for battle
>Take off sunglasses
>Doublecheck cards
>Head eastward

>You remove your Pair of Tinted Lenses. A couple of the faeries shy away from you. The world seems intolerably bright, but your eyes quickly adjust.
>Your spellcards are:
>Wave Sign: Mind Shaker
>Visionary Wave: Mind Blowing
>Lunatic Sign: Visionary Tuning
>Lunatic Gaze: Illusion Seeker
>Loafing Sign: Idling Wave
>Indolence: Mind Stopper
>Spread Sign: Invisible Full Moon
>Lunar Eyes: Tele-Mesmerism
>You examine the eastward part of the road, picking through the dense foilage, and soon discover a narrow path that lets you continue on.
>You fight your way through the forest, nearly tripping a few times and getting tangled more than once. Thankfully, your clothing is enough to protect you from any scratches, though lacking gloves means that you have to be especially careful with your hands.
>Zigging and zagging your way through, leaving the road a ways behind, you come to a clearing. Ahead of you, you can see strands of gossamer woven between the trees, forming a kind of web. However, it is not a two-dimensional weaving like a normal web, but rather somethign that looks almost like a crude frame a labyrinth. While there are no walls, a great amount of debris and snow are caught in it and make it a bit difficult to move freely through it. The snow, in particular, makes it sparkle in the sun. You estimate the web is about twenty feet across, and weaves a dozen or so trees together, as well as several rocks on the ground. Obvious exits are East, West, and North

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> How opaque is the gossamer?

[Hello Purvis]

> How opaque is the gossamer?

>Fairly. But at a glance you can't tell if individual strands are opaque, or if its just due to having so much as once. Regardless, you really can't see into the web very well.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>I think it's heavy enough to be able to block the winds, and certainly large enough to hamper anything that tries to come through here. I think there's enough evidence to whip out the Unprecedented Serious Affairs.
>Proceed further in, trying not to get any in our hair.

[Hello Purvis]

>I think it's heavy enough to be able to block the winds, and certainly large enough to hamper anything that tries to come through here. I think there's enough evidence to whip out the Unprecedented Serious Affairs.
>Proceed further in, trying not to get any in our hair.

>You approach the web.
>Drawing closer, you can see the that the silk, for lack of a better term, is somewhat translucent. But the debris and the sheer amount of the stuff serves to make it difficult to everywhere inside. Taking a closer look, it's not really web-like at all, most of the silk is joined randomly to other things rather than to each other. It looks rather like a loose pile of chopsticks. Some of the strands, you note, cut across and seem to serve as tripwires and barriers. Trying to move about inside it will be tricky.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Roll a 20 on our dexterity Check
>Alternatively, can we use our regular attacks to cut some of the strings?

[Hello Purvis]

>Roll a 20 on our dexterity Check
>Alternatively, can we use our regular attacks to cut some of the strings?

>What is this dice shit? This a Z-Machine Adventure, where you survive on your brains and cleverness, not some chintzy dice!
>You can certainly try!

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Well, it's the only plan I can think of that has the least likely chance of us looking like a wobbling buffoon, so let's cut down as many strands as we can see in our way as we move further in.

[Kilgamayan]

> Shoot a few mind bullets at the gossamer to see what happens

[Hello Purvis]

>Well, it's the only plan I can think of that has the least likely chance of us looking like a wobbling buffoon, so let's cut down as many strands as we can see in our way as we move further in.

> Shoot a few mind bullets at the gossamer to see what happens

>You fire upon the strands, and are pleased to see your shots pierce through them rather easily. There is an issue of the debris getting in the way, some improvement is better than none.
>You hear an angry, animal shriek within the web.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Hold Ground, Prepare for incoming attacks.

[Hello Purvis]

>Hold Ground, Prepare for incoming attacks.

>A black thing emerges from around the corner of the web and comes straight at you, shrieking madly!

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Declare "Visionary Wave: Mind Blowing"

[Hello Purvis]

>Declare "Visionary Wave: Mind Blowing"

>You grab and declare your spellcard. Then the blur slams into you! You feel your back hit the ground, while something heavy sits on your torso, raining blows upon your face and upper torso.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Amidst the pain, briefly wonder what the point of having spellcards is if no one bothers to follow danmaku rules anymore.
>Try to roll backwards and kick whatever is on top of us in that direction.

[Chaore]

>Amidst the pain, briefly wonder what the point of having spellcards is if no one bothers to follow danmaku rules anymore.
>Try to roll backwards and kick whatever is on top of us in that direction.

> Remember this is probably not a PERSON.

[Hello Purvis]

>Amidst the pain, briefly wonder what the point of having spellcards is if no one bothers to follow danmaku rules anymore.
>Try to roll backwards and kick whatever is on top of us in that direction.

>You decide to do the latter first and hopes of making the hurting stop. You use the motion from the fall and use it to keep rolling, and throw the thing off you before it can pummel you too badly.
>You come up to your knees, and look over to see that the black blur appears to be a sort of monkey, a little less than half your size. Curiously, it seems to have two sets of arms, and two sets of legs. No wonder it took a liking to punching you. It launches itself back up to its feet and starts toward a tree. In the blink of an eye, it is latches onto the trunk and starts climbing.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Shoot a bullet towards a dense wall, hoping it would pierce a piece of web.
>Glare into the thing's eyes as it looks toward you.
>Try to perception-fail it into getting tangled into one of the walls, Using our Lunatic Eyes.

[Kuma]

> shoot it with an optic blast.

[Hello Purvis]

>Shoot a bullet towards a dense wall, hoping it would pierce a piece of web.
>Glare into the thing's eyes as it looks toward you.
>Try to perception-fail it into getting tangled into one of the walls, Using our Lunatic Eyes.

>You fire at one of the more dense bits of web, and are pleased to see it makes a hole.
>The beast isn't looking at you right now, it seems to be putting a few trees worth of distance between you and it.

> shoot it with an optic blast.

>It's too far away.

>_

[WHMZakeri]

>Where is it going?
>Look around for now, since it didn't react to the second shot towards the web like I had expected it to.

[Hello Purvis]

>Where is it going?
>Look around for now, since it didn't react to the second shot towards the web like I had expected it to.

>It seems to be moving from tree to tree, circling around to the other side of the clearing.
>You look around. There seems to be nothing exceptional that you missed from your original look around.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Shoot at the gossamer a few more times
> If nothing noteworthy happens, try to walk around it, shooting mind bullets at larger chunks of debris and seeing how far inside the webbing you can see
> Keep an ear out for the monkey just in case it decides to come back