Nue Quest Alter Code 6: A Z-Machine Adventure

[Solais]

Maybe you could try and restore the economy using the gems as currency, like it was done in the beginning. Maybe Rinno will react if his belief that the people will adapt to his methods won't come to light, as they adapt to a new currency instead, that is basically the same as the old.

[Kilgamayan]

> Look in Rinnosuke's direction.
> "Oh, I'm sure he heard the question. Whether or not he'll answer, though, who knows."

[Hello Purvis]

> Look in Rinnosuke's direction.
> "Oh, I'm sure he heard the question. Whether or not he'll answer, though, who knows."

>"S'point," says Mokou, as she looks toward Rinnosuke herself. "What've you got to say about that, Morichika?"
>"I have accepted that may happen," he says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Seems a pretty poor business decision. Unless you no longer care about the business aspect."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Seems a pretty poor business decision. Unless you no longer care about the business aspect."

>"That is because you think in terms of personal gain," says Rinnosuke, "and not in improvement of the world."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "If I were concerned with personal gain first, I wouldn't be back here after your curse zapped me the first time."

Solars: That would involve allowing this ritual to complete, which is an unacceptable outcome.

[Hello Purvis]

> "If I were concerned with personal gain first, I wouldn't be back here after your curse zapped me the first time."

>"Then why are you ascribing such motives to me?" he says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Because what you're doing gives you untold power without accountability,  and you were remorselessly willing to steal and buy your way into the situation, two things that are rather contradictory to your claimed ideal. Pardon me while I, uh, don't believe anything you say about wanting to make the world a better place."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Because what you're doing gives you untold power without accountability,  and you were remorselessly willing to steal and buy your way into the situation, two things that are rather contradictory to your claimed ideal. Pardon me while I, uh, don't believe anything you say about wanting to make the world a better place."

>"First you point out it would ruin me, and I would never be able to make another trade again," says Rinnosuke. "Then you tell me it would also give me untold power. Such contradictory thoughts are unseemly, Miss Houjuu."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "You wouldn't need to trade yourself. You could live off the sparks made by the trades of others, and the sparks made by exchanging sparks for other things."

[Hello Purvis]

> "You wouldn't need to trade yourself. You could live off the sparks made by the trades of others, and the sparks made by exchanging sparks for other things."

>"Whatever gave you that idea?" says Rinnosuke. "It would be rather like proposing a gourmet could taste a meal being eaten by someone else."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "And how do we know you can't do it?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "And how do we know you can't do it?"

>"Why would you believe anything I've said at all, if that's the viewpoint you intend to take," says Rinnosuke.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Because there's evidence all around us that you can do something strange."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Because there's evidence all around us that you can do something strange."

>"So you'll take my word on the rest of it, but not on what I just said?" says Rinnosuke. "Very well."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Is it yet cold enough enough for us to see our own breath?

[Hello Purvis]

> Is it yet cold enough enough for us to see our own breath?

>Not yet, but it's getting there. You note some ice creeping up the walls near you, as well.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Make a note of when we start seeing our own breath.
> "Well, there's also a degree of thinking about what I would do in your position. I've been a criminal myself for a very long time, probably longer than most of the people in this room have been alive."

[Hello Purvis]

> Make a note of when we start seeing our own breath.
> "Well, there's also a degree of thinking about what I would do in your position. I've been a criminal myself for a very long time, probably longer than most of the people in this room have been alive."

>"Likely so," says Rinnosuke.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Gesture at the places where the ice is being stopped from creeping up on the money.
> "Now, it's pretty clear you've put a lot of thought into what you're doing. If I were in a position where I felt I could change the world for the better, and I put that much thought into what I was doing because I knew what I was doing would be very controversial, I'd be sure to also put some thoughts into the specifics of what people might object to, and be prepared to offer reassurances before the concerns even came up, so as to avoid conflict as best as I could."

[Hello Purvis]

> Gesture at the places where the ice is being stopped from creeping up on the money.
> "Now, it's pretty clear you've put a lot of thought into what you're doing. If I were in a position where I felt I could change the world for the better, and I put that much thought into what I was doing because I knew what I was doing would be very controversial, I'd be sure to also put some thoughts into the specifics of what people might object to, and be prepared to offer reassurances before the concerns even came up, so as to avoid conflict as best as I could."

>"And how would you describe music to the land of deaf, Miss Houjuu?" says Rinnosuke.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "What does that matter? I can understand 'hey, I can do this, but I can't do that' perfectly fine without needing to know the details of your sparks. One doesn't need to know the specifics of faith to be able to understand the practical consequences of applications of it."

[Hello Purvis]

> "What does that matter? I can understand 'hey, I can do this, but I can't do that' perfectly fine without needing to know the details of your sparks. One doesn't need to know the specifics of faith to be able to understand the practical consequences of applications of it."

>"It matters because you are here," says Rinnosuke. "You are the deaf, resisting the coming of music because you have no way to understand it. There is no further way to educate you, all that can be done is demonstrate."
>You think you're starting to see bits of your breath.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Whatever. The point is that someone that actually believes what they're doing is right and puts the amount of forethought into it that you apparently have, they'd realize the potential practical dangers. Like with this case, where I just pointed out the idea of harvesting sparks from any exchange. When that matter was first discussed, you said, and I quote, 'Just as the beauty of the exchange violates the idea of equivalency, it creates a spark, so to speak. A kind of friction is made with each exchange, each time the paradox grows a little deeper. And I harvest it.' There was nothing in there to say that you can only harvest sparks through your own exchanges, and in fact it is sufficiently ambiguous that it sounds very much to the otherwise uninformed listener like you're harvesting it whenever it happens, not just whenever it happens to you. That seems a rather large oversight for one that has put in the forethought that you have and claims to be doing this for the greater good like you are."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Whatever. The point is that someone that actually believes what they're doing is right and puts the amount of forethought into it that you apparently have, they'd realize the potential practical dangers. Like with this case, where I just pointed out the idea of harvesting sparks from any exchange. When that matter was first discussed, you said, and I quote, 'Just as the beauty of the exchange violates the idea of equivalency, it creates a spark, so to speak. A kind of friction is made with each exchange, each time the paradox grows a little deeper. And I harvest it.' There was nothing in there to say that you can only harvest sparks through your own exchanges, and in fact it is sufficiently ambiguous that it sounds very much to the otherwise uninformed listener like you're harvesting it whenever it happens, not just whenever it happens to you. That seems a rather large oversight for one that has put in the forethought that you have and claims to be doing this for the greater good like you are."

>"You may think as you like," he says. "I've told you the facts, you may ignore or acknowledge them as you like."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Could we see his breath when he was talking?

[Hello Purvis]

> Could we see his breath when he was talking?

>No.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Keep watch for it.
> Frown.
> "Man, is that really it? And here I was hoping the savior of the world would actually care about the people he claims to be helping."

[Hello Purvis]

> Keep watch for it.
> Frown.
> "Man, is that really it? And here I was hoping the savior of the world would actually care about the people he claims to be helping."

>You keep your eye open for clouds on his breath.
>"You've already made your decision," he says. "Is there any reason I should bother further?"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Were they not visible that time?