Yukari Quest VI - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's just go over the last of the floor. We still need something that generates motion.

>Combing over the last of the floor, you unfortunately turn up nothing new.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Mental review of what we've found in this third room so far.

[Hello Purvis]

> Mental review of what we've found in this third room so far.

>Thus far you have found four elements: The string coming from the hole in the wall, the two horn-like crescents, and the series concentric rings and grooves in the floor.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Let's try grabbing the horns (not the pointy parts) and rotating them.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's try grabbing the horns (not the pointy parts) and rotating them.

>You grab the nearer horn, the one you just discovered, and try to turn it.  You find that it turns freely. As well, you feel it move across the floor with the force of your turn, drifting a bit to the right.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Oho.
> Keep turning it and sliding it across the floor.

[Hello Purvis]

> Oho.
> Keep turning it and sliding it across the floor.

>You continue to do so, and find that it seems to move freely across the floor, leaving no trace of its passage along the floor. It seems that the two motions are independent of each other.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Lift it off the floor.

[Hello Purvis]

> Lift it off the floor.

>You try to lift it from the floor, and find that it does not lift.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Slide the horn we're currently sliding around so that it is connected to the other horn.

[Hello Purvis]

> Slide the horn we're currently sliding around so that it is connected to the other horn.

>How do you intend to arrange the two so that they connect together?

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[Kilgamayan]

> Arrange them so their near-horizontal parts are touching each other.

[Hello Purvis]

> Arrange them so their near-horizontal parts are touching each other.

>You try to do this, but find that they are both at different heights. You also note that the horizontal tips seems to be rather in line with the vertical ones.

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[Kilgamayan]

> So the horizontal tip of each horn is the same height as the vertical tip of the other horn?

[Hello Purvis]

> So the horizontal tip of each horn is the same height as the vertical tip of the other horn?

>Yes.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Do the horn structures have some sort of base, or are they simply attached to the floor?
> How does the heigh of the horn with the horizontal tip up top and the vertical tip on the bottom compare to how far the ground sank when creating the miniature Marble Madness level?

[Hello Purvis]

> Do the horn structures have some sort of base, or are they simply attached to the floor?
> How does the heigh of the horn with the horizontal tip up top and the vertical tip on the bottom compare to how far the ground sank when creating the miniature Marble Madness level?

>They are each attached to the floor by a rod with extends downwards from the horn structures diagonally and connects to the floor.
>The recess is about twice as deep as the lower vertical tip is tall. It is about half-again as deep as the upper horizontal tip.
>You note that Maribel has crawled over, and is watching silently.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "This is an interesting development, being able to move these structures."

[Hello Purvis]

> "This is an interesting development, being able to move these structures."

>"The look like the go together, don't they?" says Maribel. "Do they both move?"

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[Suwako Moriya]

> "They do look like they go together, yes."
> Move the other one around a bit.

[Hello Purvis]

> "They do look like they go together, yes."
> Move the other one around a bit.

>You move the other one, and find that it moves as freely as the first.

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[Yaersulf]

>Are the vertical tips close in height?

[Hello Purvis]

>Are the vertical tips close in height?

>No.

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[Yaersulf]

>Could we use the indentations to alter the elevation of one of the horn-esque things so that the horizontal tips were at an equal height?

[Hello Purvis]

>Could we use the indentations to alter the elevation of one of the horn-esque things so that the horizontal tips were at an equal height?

>You don't think so. As far as you can tell, the indentations do not seem to have height-altering capabilities.

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[Yaersulf]

>Move one of the horn-esque things into the depression.

[Hello Purvis]

>Move one of the horn-esque things into the depression.

>You move one of the horn-like crescents toward the depression. As you reach the edge of it, the horn does not move any further.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Hmph, it won't go into the depression here. How rude."
> Let's try something different; line up the vertical top of one horn with the horizontal top of the other horn, so they are touching and going in the same direction.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Hmph, it won't go into the depression here. How rude."
> Let's try something different; line up the vertical top of one horn with the horizontal top of the other horn, so they are touching and going in the same direction.

>"I guess it can't go around corners," says Maribel.
>You fit the vertical tip of the upwards pointing horn with the horizontal of the downward pointing horn, and find that the former fits quite neatly into the indention of the latter.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Aha."
> Move one of the horns around a bit. Does it drag the other with it?