Yukari Quest VI - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> "Let us begin, then."
> Search the right half of this new area.

>Where in the right half will you be focusing your efforts?

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[Kilgamayan]

> The walls.

[Hello Purvis]

> The walls.

>You move to the right side of the room. You don't feel like you are walking anymore; rather feels as though you are floating through water and barely moving at all. You don't even fell the floor underneath you.
>You begin to examine the walls. You try to feel them, and the sensation you get is not quite like touch. Rather, it feels more like the wall is pressing against you than you pressing against it. The sensation is more of an internal one. It is a bit strange, then, when you feel something along part of the wall shift slightly under your hands.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Let's work at whatever that shifting thing is.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's work at whatever that shifting thing is.

>You apply some more pressure, and a small part of the wall sinks in to reveal a recess with a hole. A large wad of string tumbles out and falls to the floor, one end of it stretching from the hole.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Ugh, more of this?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Ugh, more of this?"

>"More of what?" says Maribel, her "voice" perfectly clear despite being on the other side of the room.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I have discovered another wall string."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I have discovered another wall string."

>"Ah," says Maribel. "Well, let's just take that as a good sign."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Continue seaerching in the immediate area for any other hairline cracks, like what we've found before.
> If nothing interesting is to be revealed, move onward and search other walls.

[Hello Purvis]

> Continue seaerching in the immediate area for any other hairline cracks, like what we've found before.
> If nothing interesting is to be revealed, move onward and search other walls.

>You check over the area, and don't find anything else.
>Moving on, you continue to examine the walls. Sometimes, you wonder if you're actually moving your legs as you proceed along the wall, you can't really feel the motion anymore. Minutes pass as you continue to check the walls, but you do not turn up anything new by the time you've reached the point where you know Maribel has searched.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Have you found anything that could go with the string?"
> Make our way back over to the string.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Have you found anything that could go with the string?"
> Make our way back over to the string.

>"Not yet," Maribel says, as she moves to join you at the string. "Think that's the same thread?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> How close is this new thread to the previous thread source?
> Is this thread a part of the wall as last time?

[Hello Purvis]

> How close is this new thread to the previous thread source?
> Is this thread a part of the wall as last time?

>It seems to be coming from a different wall altogether. so it's some yards from the previous source.
>It is not attached. It seems to be coming from a small hole in the wall.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Pull on it.

[Hello Purvis]

> Pull on it.

>You pull on the string. Nothing happens; it feels as though it is attached to something heavy enough that you could not hope to move it.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I think this string is the same string as before."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I think this string is the same string as before."

>"Me too," says Maribel. "Now we just have to figure out what to do with it."

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[Yaersulf]

>Search any un-searched walls.

[Hello Purvis]

>Search any un-searched walls.

>Between the two of you, all the outer walls have been searched. The outside walls of the previous room seem to be out of reach.

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[Yaersulf]

>Search the floor.

[Hello Purvis]

>Search the floor.

>You begin to comb over the floor, starting near the hole and string. Maribel joins in without a word.
>The sensation of examining the floor is a curious one, you barely feel any kind of weight on your hands or knees. It almost feels as though you're flying, or perhaps swimming, over a river bed. It does not take you too long to find a small seam in the floor, a few yards from the spot in the wall where the hole rests.

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[Yaersulf]

>Prod and poke seam.

[Hello Purvis]

>Prod and poke seam.

>You prod at it, which is a curious experience. You can feel it move, but you can't exactly say that you feel it with your fingers so much as your whole arms. A bit of examination reveals that the seam appears to life upward.
>"Found something," Maribel calls out, some distance away.

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[Yaersulf]

>"So have I, be there in a second dearie."
>Lift seam upwards.

[Hello Purvis]

>"So have I, be there in a second dearie."
>Lift seam upwards.

>"Got it!" says Maribel.
>You lift the seam to reveal something like a handle. Lifting it further, handle may the wrong word. Rather, it seems to be a kind of crescent, or rather a bull's horn shape, attached to a diagonal rod that seems to be attached to the floor. The tip of the horn shape points upward, while the rest curves downward until it is parallel with the floor. Both ends come to broad, flat points. The rod connects a little ways below the skyward pointing tip. You can pull it a couple inches from the floor before it stops, seeming to lock in place and neither rise nor lower any further.

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[Yaersulf]

>"What have you found?"
>Check out Mary's discovery.

[Hello Purvis]

>"What have you found?"
>Check out Mary's discovery.

>"There's a part of the floor that seems like a switch," says Maribel. She touches a part of the floor, which sinks ever so slightly.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Interesting. Does it activate anything?"