Patchy Quest One More Time: A Z-Machine Adventure

[Chaore]

>Shouldn't that be Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 B.C. Version 4.0 Beta?

>Was off the top of my head, Sue me.

[E-Nazrin]

>Wait, didn't the Silver Medal provide courage? Would that help Suwako?
>try very lightly nicking Rumia with Youmu's sword to see if that speeds her up? Like... press the flat of the blade against her arm or something.

[Hello Purvis]

>Lets go try to ladle all of Rumia's bees over to Suwako. It sounds kind of mean, but the difference in Suwako's amount of bees will be basically unnoticable, while Rumia will be bee-free!(and maybe time-stopped?)
>Also... if the bees seem to speed up the people that have been stopped in time, would it be possible to utilize the bees to speed up someone like Yukari to help us?
>Well... maybe we can just hope everything goes back to normal when the bees go poof D:

>You return to Rumia, and find that all of the bees have left her. She seems to be as still as the rest of the world now.

>given that the bees are part of a ruinous cosmic horror, offing them is bound to do SOMETHING.
>How to do so is another matter.
>"Jeff, what else worked on this... thing aside from Rumia and Suwako trying to eat it?"

>You then ponder trying to spread them out. You come to the conclusion that you have no idea what the longterm effects of this would be.
>You ask Jeff a question, instead. "Uh, ...nothing, I don't think. But to be fair, I didn't have a lot of options at the time."

> Well, this voice got nuttin'.
> Attempt to communicate with the bees:
> "Er, bees? Hi. I was just wondering if we can solve this whole "cosmic horror" thing you've got going in a civilized, talky manner."

>There are no bees around Rumia that you can see.

>Pray to super mega death christ.
>Really, Its the only thing I've got left at this point.

>Shouldn't that be Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 B.C. Version 4.0 Beta?

>Was off the top of my head, Sue me.

>You are not Rapture-Ready enough to do this. And you probably would be sued.

>Wait, didn't the Silver Medal provide courage? Would that help Suwako?
>try very lightly nicking Rumia with Youmu's sword to see if that speeds her up? Like... press the flat of the blade against her arm or something.

>You try to lightly nick Rumia, but at this point it is like trying to lightly nick stone.

>_

[Rin Kagamine]

> Pop back to Suwako

[Hello Purvis]

> Pop back to Suwako

>You return to Suwako.
>At glance, it seems that nothing has changed.
>"Uh..." says Jeff, who seems to be remarkably adept at following you, "behind you."
>You back in time to see a small swarm of bees flying along the path from the front of the shrine toward the pond.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>"Where'd they come from? Did some escape from Rumia?"
>unfortunately, it is too late to grab the Franklin Badge Silver Medal to grant Suwako courage
>hail bees

[Chaore]

>Do yourself a favor and not get bee attacked.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Where'd they come from? Did some escape from Rumia?"
>unfortunately, it is too late to grab the Franklin Badge Silver Medal to grant Suwako courage
>hail bees

>"Seems like it," says Jeff.
>Unless you were exceedingly quick.
>Instead, you try to greet the oncoming swarm. This works about as well as you'd expect.

>Do yourself a favor and not get bee attacked.

>You also step out of their way.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>come to think of it, WE'D need it to stand up to the full Giygas, and it looks like that moment is approaching
>"Jeff, keep an eye on things for a minute."
>go get the badge and equip it

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Ponder if the Devil's Machine can be turned back on
>Wait, that's stupid. Instead, check your inventory for anything that might help against a cosmic horror made of bees. Also, pop over the library and see if you can find stuff by H. P. Lovecraft that might help.

[E-Nazrin]

>Ponder if the Devil's Machine can be turned back on
>Wait, that's stupid. Instead, check your inventory for anything that might help against a cosmic horror made of bees. Also, pop over the library and see if you can find stuff by H. P. Lovecraft that might help.

>the first difficulty against a cosmic horror is managing to not collapse in horror when you encounter it. Hence, courage badge.

[Hello Purvis]

>come to think of it, WE'D need it to stand up to the full Giygas, and it looks like that moment is approaching
>"Jeff, keep an eye on things for a minute."
>go get the badge and equip it

>"Huh?"
>You vanish off to Kourindou, grab the Silver Medal, and affix it to your robe. You don't feel any different, but at the same time you are not exactly testing it.

>Ponder if the Devil's Machine can be turned back on
>Wait, that's stupid. Instead, check your inventory for anything that might help against a cosmic horror made of bees. Also, pop over the library and see if you can find stuff by H. P. Lovecraft that might help.

>Your Inventory contains:
>Suspiciously Sleepwear-Like Witch Gown (worn as clothes)
>Witch Cap (Worn as Hat)
>Metal Sign: Metal Fatigue
>Ballpoint Pen
>Pad of Paper
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon (Used)
>Fire & Earth Sign: Lava Cromlech (used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine (Used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine High Level (used)
>Wood Sign: Sylphae Horn High Level (used)
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon High Level
>Earth Sign: Trilithon Shake (used)
>Metal Sign: Silver Dragon
>Wood and Fire Sign: Forest Blaze (used)
>Wood and Water Sign: Water Elf  (Used)
>Earth and Metal Sign: Emerald Megalith (used)
>Moon Sign: Silent Selene (used)
>Lucky Coin
>Banson's Aria
>AOL Disk with a Cardboard Sleeve
>Ladle
>Floating Trumpet
>Half of a Grilled Lamprey Sandwich
>Tiger Cub Pin (wore as accessory)
>Explosion Sign: Mega Flare (Used)
>Electric Train Set
>Wheel
>Shoddy Drawing
>Ruined Hat
>Doughnut
>Box
>Butterfly Fan
>Book Entitled: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
>Sun Sign: Mega Flare (used)
>Sun Sign: Royal Flare (used)
>Pair of Black Glasses
>Horribly Out of Date Map of Gensokyo
>Double Handful of Charred Legos of Fuckwin
>Mona Patchy, by Flandre Age 501
>Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room
>Youmu's Short Blade.
>Book Entitled: Monday Magic by Patchouli Knowledge: 1500☼
>Silver Medal (Unpaid, Equipped as Accessory)
>You do have some books on various things that humanity and youkainity were never meant to know, but by the time you would have been able to research something, you'd already be dead.

>the first difficulty against a cosmic horror is managing to not collapse in horror when you encounter it. Hence, courage badge.

>You simply hope it's enough.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>take a deep breath and jump back to the entrance of the Moriya Shrine grounds
>look

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Before jumping, put on glasses. Keep them on when you jump unless they make it too hard to see.

[Hello Purvis]

>take a deep breath and jump back to the entrance of the Moriya Shrine grounds
>look

>You return to the Entrance of Moriya Shrine. It is more or less as you left it; Wriggle and Sanae frozen in time while enjoying some tea and conversation together.
>One of the filaments extending from you leads toward the pond, suggesting Jeff is still there.

>Before jumping, put on glasses. Keep them on when you jump unless they make it too hard to see.

>You put on the Pair of Dark Glasses. They make it almost impossible to see, with everything being in shades of gray.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>head back to pond and call out to Jeff

[Hello Purvis]

>head back to pond and call out to Jeff

>You head back to the pond, and call out to Jeff. He does really answer you.
>You note the bees are swirling around Suwako more erratically now; she also seems to no longer be stuck in slow time, judging from the sound of her sobbing.
>_

[Rin Kagamine]

> Call out to Suwako

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Ask if she's crying because of the bees, or something else
>Ask if we can help
>Keep an eye out for eldritch abominations.

[Hello Purvis]

> Call out to Suwako

>You call out to Suwako. She looks up at you,tears still streaming from her eyes, bees still climbing from her hair and clothing.

>Ask if she's crying because of the bees, or something else
>Ask if we can help
>Keep an eye out for eldritch abominations.

>You ask why she is crying. "It's wrong," she says. "The world's wrong. It's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong. It hurts!"
>"Help?" She asks, saying the word as though it were a foreign concept.
>You are pretty sure you are looking at one simply by looking in the general direction of Suwako.

>_

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Ponder if this is actually Suwako or Giygas disgused as Suwako
>By moving the bees to Suwako did we just create a Nice Job Breaking It Hero situation?
>Wonder if there's a way to see the true form of Suwako.

[E-Nazrin]

>summon Sound Stone
>"What's wrong? I know things are really weird right now, but there must be a way to fix it without really hurting anyone."

[Hello Purvis]

>Ponder if this is actually Suwako or Giygas disgused as Suwako
>By moving the bees to Suwako did we just create a Nice Job Breaking It Hero situation?
>Wonder if there's a way to see the true form of Suwako.

>You honestly don't know.
>Do not bring this trash here.
>You don't think she has multiple forms.

>summon Sound Stone
>"What's wrong? I know things are really weird right now, but there must be a way to fix it without really hurting anyone."

>If you could do that you wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
>"It's all dead," she says, "The soil, the the rocks...there's nothing alive in them anymore... It hurts to think, I can barely hear you. What's happening?"

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>"There's something very wrong with the bees. I think we need to get rid of them, but I'm not sure how, and it doesn't look like eating them is working."

[Hello Purvis]

>"There's something very wrong with the bees. I think we need to get rid of them, but I'm not sure how, and it doesn't look like eating them is working."

>Suwako looks bewildered through her tears. "Bees?"

>_

[Serela]

>"Suwako, everything isn't dead; it just seems to have been stopped in time. Me and Jeff seem to be the only things that are okay... with the exception of things being swarmed by strange bees. You can't see them...? There is a huge swarm of them around you, the frogs are eating them, but... the eaten ones just come right out of your body. They seem to be the root of the problem here."

[E-Nazrin]

>"What do you see, Suwako? Things are weird for us right now, too, so I expect we're seeing things very differently. Look up - is the sky some sort of muddy rainbow of colors?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Suwako, everything isn't dead; it just seems to have been stopped in time. Me and Jeff seem to be the only things that are okay... with the exception of things being swarmed by strange bees. You can't see them...? There is a huge swarm of them around you, the frogs are eating them, but... the eaten ones just come right out of your body. They seem to be the root of the problem here."

>She seems confused by this explanation. "It's stopped? Bees?" She looks around. "I can't see anything. Not even you. It hurts so much..."

>"What do you see, Suwako? Things are weird for us right now, too, so I expect we're seeing things very differently. Look up - is the sky some sort of muddy rainbow of colors?"

>"It's dark," she says. "Everything is dead and broken... I can't see the sky, it's too dark. There aren't any stars or moon. But it feels a little brighter now, since you've started to talk."
>It feels a little darker now, the bees are buzzing more strongly.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>"Jeff? Does this sound familiar?"
>have Youmu's sword on hand

[Hello Purvis]

>"Jeff? Does this sound familiar?"
>have Youmu's sword on hand

>"Yeah...a lot more like where I met It last time..." says Jeff in a surprisingly small voice.
>You have Youmu's Short Blade ready.

>_