Patchy Quest One More Time: A Z-Machine Adventure

[E-Nazrin]

>is Aya placed so that she could easily see the Patchu and Remi on the ground?

[Fightest]

> Wait until she comes around to Marisa's front again, we can't have Marisa being caught flat-footed on this. Do keep an eye on Aya though, if she spots us and seems to pause, then assume we've been busted and have Remilia charge. Also if she seems to be leaving, do the same.

[E-Nazrin]

>check Aya's underwear style/color given a safe opportunity

[WHMZakeri]

>remind selves of input method errors. Bemoan forgetfulness.

You assume that the voices must speak to Patchouli when in reality, the voices are discussing with each other.

>Is Aya within easy striking distance? Is Aya's back turned towards us?

[Hello Purvis]

>is Aya placed so that she could easily see the Patchu and Remi on the ground?

>Immediately, she is hovering overheard. But this quickly changes as she swings over to catch Marisa's front again.

> Wait until she comes around to Marisa's front again, we can't have Marisa being caught flat-footed on this. Do keep an eye on Aya though, if she spots us and seems to pause, then assume we've been busted and have Remilia charge. Also if she seems to be leaving, do the same.

>Aya is again photographing Marisa's front, and thus flying over the opposite side of the wing from you.

>check Aya's underwear style/color given a safe opportunity

>You decide that turnabout is fair play, and wait for an opening to learn this mystery.

You assume that the voices must speak to Patchouli when in reality, the voices are discussing with each other.

>Is Aya within easy striking distance? Is Aya's back turned towards us?

>Not really. And unless you intend to toss those oranges, you doubt that she would. Her back is presently not turned.

>_

[Fightest]

> Okay, wait until we're obstructed from Aya's view by Marisa, then have Remilia use that blind spot and charge right out from behind Marisa at Aya. Hopefully Marisa gets the idea.

[Kuma]

> Fikkin' just charge her now!

> Tear up her cloths, optinoaly remove her undergarments

> Get her camera and take pictures of her

> Victory flexing

[Hello Purvis]

> Okay, wait until we're obstructed from Aya's view by Marisa, then have Remilia use that blind spot and charge right out from behind Marisa at Aya. Hopefully Marisa gets the idea.

> Fikkin' just charge her now!

> Tear up her cloths, optinoaly remove her undergarments

> Get her camera and take pictures of her

> Victory flexing

>Thankfully, these two things overlap pretty pretty quickly.
>You give Remilia a small push. She unfurls her wings and takes to the sky.
>"Gyah!" Aya cries as Remilia crests the roof and angles toward her. Marisa ducks out of the way as Remilia closes in on the surprised tengu, cackling.
>Aya ascends, moving out of the path of Remilia's tackle. Remilia comes in low, and misses the tengu. Then she rolls over in midair and snakes her hand out, catching Aya by the ankle.
>Aya screeches in surprise, then brings her free foot down on Remilia's face before the vampire can get a more firm grip.

>_

[Toasty]

>GO REMI
>Aid with spellcards

[E-Nazrin]

>Aid with spellcards

>try not to be too much of an idiot about messing with spellcard rules and forgetting a complete lack of ones on hand
>Anyway, charge! Flank her, if possible!

[Hello Purvis]

>GO REMI
>Aid with spellcards

>You cheer Remilia on! It's important to instill confidence in someone who is currently being stomped in the face.
>What spellcards, muchango?

>try not to be too much of an idiot about messing with spellcard rules and forgetting a complete lack of ones on hand
>Anyway, charge! Flank her, if possible!

>So far, this is not a spellcard duel, rather it's a proper tussle.
>You charge! Remilia is doing a good job of keeping Aya in place, while cleverly blocking the Tengu's kicks with her face.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>TASKUTE MARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAA~!

[E-Nazrin]

>if Marisa hasn't caught the hint yet, shout out a reminder
>club tengu with a sack of anonymous stage 1 bosses

[Fightest]

> When Marisa gets a hold of Aya, toss Remilia the other sack of oranges.

[Kuma]

> Take Aya's camera, Tear up her clothing and take embarassing pictures of her.

> Distribute these pictures to all of Gensokyo. Also, save 2 copies, just in case we ever go to the sun and/or mon again.

[Hello Purvis]

>TASKUTE MARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAA~!

>if Marisa hasn't caught the hint yet, shout out a reminder
>club tengu with a sack of anonymous stage 1 bosses

>You shout at Marisa to help out. She slips behind Aya, and quickly catches her in the a full nelson.
>You then introduce the sack of oranges to Aya's torso. She gives a most satisfying cry of pain. But to be honest, you really don't have the strength to make truly effective use of such a bludgeon.
>"Is this how you treat me after I helped you save Remilia?!" she shouts.
>"What?" asks Marisa, giving you a pointed look.

> When Marisa gets a hold of Aya, toss Remilia the other sack of oranges.

>You had to use both hands to get in a good swing in on Aya, and thus only carried one of them.

> Take Aya's camera, Tear up her clothing and take embarassing pictures of her.

> Distribute these pictures to all of Gensokyo. Also, save 2 copies, just in case we ever go to the sun and/or mon again.

>You grab Aya's camera. She is doing her best to keep a grip on it, but circumstances are not in her favor.
>You obtain: Aya's Camera.
>You do not have anything to tear up her clothing with, but she's in a rather prime position for embarrassing photos as it is.
>"Patchy, what is this about her helping Remilia?" Marisa demands.

>_

[Fightest]

> "At one point she, for reasons unknown, assisted in holding up a shade whilst Remilia was fighting in the sun. While appreciated, it was too little, too late - a mere chip, if you will, off the iceberg of the misdeeds she is responsible for."
> Pause in swinging the sack.
> "Admittedly, I am engaging in mob justice, but I do intend to hand her over to the tengu after I'm done. I do believe everyone who she's slighted in this manner would agree with me on this little bit of self-satisfactory revenge."
> Resume swinging the sack.

[Toasty]

>Take pantyshots at every oppurtunity

[Hello Purvis]

> "At one point she, for reasons unknown, assisted in holding up a shade whilst Remilia was fighting in the sun. While appreciated, it was too little, too late - a mere chip, if you will, off the iceberg of the misdeeds she is responsible for."
> Pause in swinging the sack.
> "Admittedly, I am engaging in mob justice, but I do intend to hand her over to the tengu after I'm done. I do believe everyone who she's slighted in this manner would agree with me on this little bit of self-satisfactory revenge."
> Resume swinging the sack.

>"Wait wait wait," says Remilia. "You're telling us that she helped keep me from being mugged by Youmu. And then you expect us to help you do this sort of thing? Patchouli, are you trying to break our heart now?"
>Marisa drifts back, tugging Aya out of your range.

>Take pantyshots at every oppurtunity

>Your hands are full of orange sack.

>_

[Seian Verian]

> "Um..."
> Quickly drop oranges, then use camera to take pictures of Aya's predicament.

[WHMZakeri]

You...
We...
Aya...
What?

I obviously missed the part where Aya helped Remilia defend the mansion, but judging from the way it was phrase, I am to assume many other people did not miss the fact that that happened? So then, why did we think attacking Aya would be a good idea?

No. forget it.

>do not take pictures
>mukyu
>delete quest list
>go to library
>spend rest of absurdly long youkai life with your nose stuck in a book.
>you are not a hero, you are not the smartest person in gensokyo, you are just a hikkikomori that does not know how to deal with social situations even when you try your hardest.
>true end.

[Fightest]

You...
We...
Aya...
What?

I obviously missed the part where Aya helped Remilia defend the mansion, but judging from the way it was phrase, I am to assume many other people did not miss the fact that that happened? So then, why did we think attacking Aya would be a good idea?

No. forget it.

>do not take pictures
>mukyu
>delete quest list
>go to library
>spend rest of absurdly long youkai life with your nose stuck in a book.
>you are not a hero, you are not the smartest person in gensokyo, you are just a hikkikomori that does not know how to deal with social situations even when you try your hardest.
>true end.

> We are a protagonist, goshdarnit, and we've decided that Aya needs to be taught a lesson. A small act of assistance on her part does not atone for all the things that she's done, and she needs to be taught an objective lesson in responsibility and humility. If nobody else does it, then we should. Call it vigilante justice, but it's still justice. A little hard love will take her a long way.
> Say the same to Remilia and Marisa. This took all the fun out of beating her with a sack of oranges.
> "At least help me tie her up and take her back to the tengu. Or is that also too cruel a fate for innocent little Aya?"

[WHMZakeri]

>No, Patchouli, listen to me. You are not some sort of protagonist like in a book. All that fiction that you read? It's just fiction. You're not some hero for Gensokyo. Have you really let searching for the spell component go to your head? All you needed was for a way to remove the humidity from your library so you could read in peace, but you got caught up in this so called "adventure" to the point where you've lost focus on what was important.
>Remilia has been worried sick this whole time about you, you know. You know deep down how caring she is of you, She took you in, and she constantly worries about your health. And how do you repay her? By tricking her into attacking someone who moments ago saved her. At this point, you would be one lucky witch just to even have access to that library anymore.
>That's right, This isn't even your Library, and most of these books aren't even yours. Can you even keep track of them? How long have you known that Rinnosuke was selling one of your books, one that you made with your own hands? Marisa owns most of your books now, and you only got them back because she decided The Mansion's library was a good place to store them. The Library is part of the Mansion. The Mansion that Remilia Owns. The Mansion that Sakuya cleans every day.
>You are just a freeloader, who takes up space just because the mansion itself needs something to take up space, and here you are, having betrayed someone who just moments before was worried sick over you, as if you were her friend.
>Your best bet now is to just hope that you can go back into the Mansion's library and spend the rest of your days reading in darkness like you were always suppose to. Stop pretending you're the protagonist of this grandiose adventure, bring yourself back to the reality around you, and just pray that you can apologize to Remilia profusely enough to get back into that large brown dusty room you use to think belonged to you.

Spoiler:

ITT: Zakeri demonstrates how to take a text adventure with no rails off the rails.

[Fightest]

> Pff, we didn't trick or betray anyone. We explained what was going to happen, and what we were going to do. Anything beyond that were misinformed assumptions. No coercion or browbeating were performed on either Remilia or Marisa - they decided for themselves that they would help us dispense mob justice on Aya.
> That Library is ours in all but name. We're the only one who even approaches knowing an appreciable percentage of its contents, and without us it stops being a Library and becomes a glorified warehouse.
> Finally, we've played lawyer, group psychiatrist, exorcist, occult scholar, diplomat and many other things in the course of this adventure, mostly succeeding along the way. We get to call ourselves a protagonist just for that.

[WHMZakeri]

>Can you honestly look Marisa and Remilia in the eyes right now and not realize that you're the enemy right now?

[Hello Purvis]

> "Um..."
> Quickly drop oranges, then use camera to take pictures of Aya's predicament.

>do not take pictures
>mukyu
>delete quest list
>go to library
>spend rest of absurdly long youkai life with your nose stuck in a book.
>you are not a hero, you are not the smartest person in gensokyo, you are just a hikkikomori that does not know how to deal with social situations even when you try your hardest.
>true end.

> We are a protagonist, goshdarnit, and we've decided that Aya needs to be taught a lesson. A small act of assistance on her part does not atone for all the things that she's done, and she needs to be taught an objective lesson in responsibility and humility. If nobody else does it, then we should. Call it vigilante justice, but it's still justice. A little hard love will take her a long way.
> Say the same to Remilia and Marisa. This took all the fun out of beating her with a sack of oranges.
> "At least help me tie her up and take her back to the tengu. Or is that also too cruel a fate for innocent little Aya?"

>No, Patchouli, listen to me. You are not some sort of protagonist like in a book. All that fiction that you read? It's just fiction. You're not some hero for Gensokyo. Have you really let searching for the spell component go to your head? All you needed was for a way to remove the humidity from your library so you could read in peace, but you got caught up in this so called "adventure" to the point where you've lost focus on what was important.
>Remilia has been worried sick this whole time about you, you know. You know deep down how caring she is of you, She took you in, and she constantly worries about your health. And how do you repay her? By tricking her into attacking someone who moments ago saved her. At this point, you would be one lucky witch just to even have access to that library anymore.
>That's right, This isn't even your Library, and most of these books aren't even yours. Can you even keep track of them? How long have you known that Rinnosuke was selling one of your books, one that you made with your own hands? Marisa owns most of your books now, and you only got them back because she decided The Mansion's library was a good place to store them. The Library is part of the Mansion. The Mansion that Remilia Owns. The Mansion that Sakuya cleans every day.
>You are just a freeloader, who takes up space just because the mansion itself needs something to take up space, and here you are, having betrayed someone who just moments before was worried sick over you, as if you were her friend.
>Your best bet now is to just hope that you can go back into the Mansion's library and spend the rest of your days reading in darkness like you were always suppose to. Stop pretending you're the protagonist of this grandiose adventure, bring yourself back to the reality around you, and just pray that you can apologize to Remilia profusely enough to get back into that large brown dusty room you use to think belonged to you.

> Pff, we didn't trick or betray anyone. We explained what was going to happen, and what we were going to do. Anything beyond that were misinformed assumptions. No coercion or browbeating were performed on either Remilia or Marisa - they decided for themselves that they would help us dispense mob justice on Aya.
> That Library is ours in all but name. We're the only one who even approaches knowing an appreciable percentage of its contents, and without us it stops being a Library and becomes a glorified warehouse.
> Finally, we've played lawyer, group psychiatrist, exorcist, occult scholar, diplomat and many other things in the course of this adventure, mostly succeeding along the way. We get to call ourselves a protagonist just for that.

>Can you honestly look Marisa and Remilia in the eyes right now and not realize that you're the enemy right now?

>You are feeling very conflicted right now. But you can't deny you did some good things for people.
>"Well?" Remilia says. "Are you going to answer us or what?"
>"Oh, I saved you, alright," says Aya.

>_

[Fightest]

>Can you honestly look Marisa and Remilia in the eyes right now and not realize that you're the enemy right now?

> Yes we can.
> Narrow eyes at Remilia.
> "Don't judge me, Remilia, I'm doing what I think is right. But I'll concede that you don't want to help me beat her. At least help me tie her up, I trust you'll agree that she needs to be put back into custody after unlawfully escaping from under escort?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Yes we can.
> Narrow eyes at Remilia.
> "Don't judge me, Remilia, I'm doing what I think is right. But I'll concede that you don't want to help me beat her. At least help me tie her up, I trust you'll agree that she needs to be put back into custody after unlawfully escaping from under escort?"

>"We're more disappointed you didn't tell us she helped us out before," says Remilia. "We never would have gotten involved otherwise. When did we ever care what those birdbrains on the mountain think, I ask you that!"
>"Hey!" says Aya, shooting Remilia a glare.
>"I didn't know either," says Marisa. "It's one thing to rough up someone whose completely shameless and irredeemable-"
>"Hey!" says Aya, trying and completely failing to twist her head up to give Marisa a look.
>"But if she did help you when you needed it, isn't it a little much? Even if she is a huge pervert?"
>"Same to you, musclehead!" Aya cries.
>"I do think we need to take her back to jail, though." Marisa finishes.

>_

[Fightest]

> "Oh, I would have considered not having my revenge had I gotten the impression that Aya decided to set herself on the right track and better her life, starting with that little bit of help. But, of course, that did not happen. As such, it's like giving a gift mug in return for burning down their house - it's just not enough."
> Stare pointedly at Aya.
> "Or, of course, I could have been mistaken, isn't that right, Aya? I could have just misunderstood your intentions, and you were going to make up for all your misdeeds, starting today, right? Then I wouldn't have to use this sack of oranges on your kidneys any more. Am I right, Aya?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh, I would have considered not having my revenge had I gotten the impression that Aya decided to set herself on the right track and better her life, starting with that little bit of help. But, of course, that did not happen. As such, it's like giving a gift mug in return for burning down their house - it's just not enough."
> Stare pointedly at Aya.
> "Or, of course, I could have been mistaken, isn't that right, Aya? I could have just misunderstood your intentions, and you were going to make up for all your misdeeds, starting today, right? Then I wouldn't have to use this sack of oranges on your kidneys any more. Am I right, Aya?"

>"Maybe when I do something wrong," says Aya. "All I do is record people doing that they do. And go on, compare saving Remilia's life to a cheap gift again. I'm sure she likes that."
>Remilia frowns at you. "What did you mean by that, anyways, Patchouli?"

>_