Sakuya Quest 4 - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> "I will wait here as well. I suspect she will awaken soon. Let us lay her on the bench, at least."

>Alice nods and does so.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> Is there room for anyone else to sit on the bench?

[Hello Purvis]

> Is there room for anyone else to sit on the bench?

>There is, at the end.

[Suwako Moriya]

> Gesture to that spot.
> "Have a seat if you wish, Alice. You've done more physical work than I recently."

[Hello Purvis]

> Gesture to that spot.
> "Have a seat if you wish, Alice. You've done more physical work than I recently."

>"Thank you," she says, as she has a seat at the end of the bench.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> Wait a few minutes for Juza to regain consciousness.

[Hello Purvis]

> Wait a few minutes for Juza to regain consciousness.

>You wait for a minutes, your eyes continually turning toward the roads. The museum sits at the intersection of a larger road; the one that leads east toward the shrine and west toward the village; and a smaller road that runs north and south. Watching the traffic for awhile, you see a number of house servants come and go in every direction. Here and there you note a merchant pulling a wagon or leading a pack animal loaded down with goods. Twice, you catch sight of a palanquin being carried up the main road, one turning away from the museum and the other past it; presuming the master of some villa inside. Other times, you watch the fish lazily swim in the fountain.
>You hear Juza groan as one of the fish vanishes around the side of the water spouts.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> Look toward Juza.
> "Ah, she awakens."

[Hello Purvis]

> Look toward Juza.
> "Ah, she awakens."

>"What now?" says Alice.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> "We wait until she is coherent, at which point I will explain myself and make my offer."

[Hello Purvis]

> "We wait until she is coherent, at which point I will explain myself and make my offer."

>"What offer?" Juza mumbles.

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[Monarda]

//You do know that bringing Juza with us would likely be like someone asking us to dismiss our duties to the Mistress and follow them right ?

[Suwako Moriya]

//I'm aware.

> How much of our situation did we tell Juza earlier? (Sorry, I'm at work and can't check fully right now.)

[Hello Purvis]

> How much of our situation did we tell Juza earlier? (Sorry, I'm at work and can't check fully right now.)

>Not much, and you don't know how much she really got.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> "Oh good, you're awake. You're just outside a museum in Old Hometown. Don't worry, your camp is where you left it, untouched, outside of a torch I had to borrow and return."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh good, you're awake. You're just outside a museum in Old Hometown. Don't worry, your camp is where you left it, untouched, outside of a torch I had to borrow and return."

>She shits up unsteadily and looks around, frowning.
>"Why am I here?"

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[Suwako Moriya]

> "My apologies, but I needed to continue my business, and I did not wish to leave you alone where you were."

[Hello Purvis]

> "My apologies, but I needed to continue my business, and I did not wish to leave you alone where you were."

>"Hmph," says Juza,

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Once my business here is concluded, I will return you there if you wish, though I do hope you would also hear me out before that as well before making that decision."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Once my business here is concluded, I will return you there if you wish, though I do hope you would also hear me out before that as well before making that decision."

>"I cannot imagine you have anything that persuasive to say," she says, absent picking at one of the cuts in her right sleeve.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Perhaps. I would not be surprised at all of you were not interested, really. But I figure that the worst you will do is say no."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Perhaps. I would not be surprised at all of you were not interested, really. But I figure that the worst you will do is say no."

>"...Likely," Juza says, examining the sleeve damage.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Let me start with an abbreviated version of my story, then. The mansion that used to attend on those grounds was my home...back in my time. I am actually from almost a millennium in the past, and have been searching for a way to get home to my proper time."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Let me start with an abbreviated version of my story, then. The mansion that used to attend on those grounds was my home...back in my time. I am actually from almost a millennium in the past, and have been searching for a way to get home to my proper time."

>"There is something to be said about elders who long for the past so much they forget about the present," says Juza. "To be honest, you don't seem like a youkai."

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[Serela]

>Shake our head. "No... I am not a youkai. To be more specific, this morning from my point of view, I was standing in that mansion, still built and intact. A mansion that hasn't existed, in the present, for centuries. In an explosion there, I was sent nearly a millennia into the future to today. I am, unwittingly, moreso a time traveler than an elder."
>Nod. "And so, I wish to travel back to the time in which I belong... it certainly doesn't feel like the present to me, when I myself have not been present for the last thousand years."

[Hello Purvis]

>Shake our head. "No... I am not a youkai. To be more specific, this morning from my point of view, I was standing in that mansion, still built and intact. A mansion that hasn't existed, in the present, for centuries. In an explosion there, I was sent nearly a millennia into the future to today. I am, unwittingly, moreso a time traveler than an elder."
>Nod. "And so, I wish to travel back to the time in which I belong... it certainly doesn't feel like the present to me, when I myself have not been present for the last thousand years."

>"Strange indeed," says Juza. "So you were a servant of Patchouli?"

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[Monarda]

>"Not quite, both Miss Patchouli Knowledge and i were servants to Mistress Remilia Scarlet, that is why the mansion`s name was Scarlet Devil Mansion."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Not quite, both Miss Patchouli Knowledge and i were servants to Mistress Remilia Scarlet, that is why the mansion`s name was Scarlet Devil Mansion."

>You do your best not to miss a beat at that unspeakable thought.
>"She was real?" says Juza.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Indeed. So her name is still known among the far reaches of this land, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Indeed. So her name is still known among the far reaches of this land, then?"

>"Not as such," says Juza. "I saw it mentioned in some records I studied before leaving."

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