Chen's Day Out! ヾ(＾∇＾)

[Chaore]

> "We'll have to dam this up, dry it out and then bury the chamber."
> Say this in a theatrically loud voice to echo around the chamber.

"Yes, Well, I suppose we may have to do something about this... The river has to flow through though, or the Lake would dry up. And the existing pollution has to be dealt with too..."

Your voice echoes through the chamber, along with the splashing of water. Its actually kind of hard to hear anything you're not looking to hear in here.

[OkashiiKisei]

> Examine the area more closely to see if the culprit is in the vincinity.
> Examine the filthy pool to see if there's something in it, like an evil gem, a diabolical beast......or a certain poisonous doll.....

[Kasu]

> Ponder list of possible culprits.

[Chaore]

> Ponder list of possible culprits.

You really do have to wonder, I mean, Yamame appears to be incredibly distressed over all the work this'll mean for her, and really few other people could and would just evade Yamame. Medicine was well... Forced to pass on, it'd been her time for a while though. Eirin could've actually done all this with ease, and you do have absolutely no idea where she is, she COULD have managed to get back...

> Examine the area more closely to see if the culprit is in the vincinity.
> Examine the filthy pool to see if there's something in it, like an evil gem, a diabolical beast......or a certain poisonous doll.....

You look around for the culprit as you ponder. Someone did this, and its likely that they're still in the room. You begin towards the pool and try to find a spot clear enough you can look in. Before you reach it, Yamame lets out a shout and tackles you away from where you were standing. A sharp blade slices through the floor where you where, and begins cutting towards you. You guess it probably wasn't anyone you knew after all.

[Kuma]

> Avoid blade.

> Freak out.

[Chaore]

> Avoid blade.

> Freak out.

You get yourself and Yamame to you feet, and get out of the way of the blade. It doesn't turn quickly, but does so in quick and precise order. It seems like it would rather keep moving straight.

"This is certainly new. Whatever it is is... digging with an unnatural speed through the ground here..."

[OkashiiKisei]

> Lure the moving blade towards a rock or other hard object. Wait until it closes in, and jump out of the way when it tries to strike, making it keep going and get jammed into the rock (hopefully).
> Also, if you have the chance, examine what kind of blade it is. Is it a fairly standard kantana? Our local half ghost will be the culprit. Is it a a blazing, ethereal sword? Resident angel bitch is behind this.

[Kasu]

> Curse the horrible luck thats been plaguing you all day.

[Kuma]

> is it coming from above or below?

> If it's from below, Lure it to cut in a circle/square/whatever so that the floor falls on whatever is trying to hurt us.

[Chaore]

> Lure the moving blade towards a rock or other hard object. Wait until it closes in, and jump out of the way when it tries to strike, making it keep going and get jammed into the rock (hopefully).
> Also, if you have the chance, examine what kind of blade it is. Is it a fairly standard kantana? Our local half ghost will be the culprit. Is it a a blazing, ethereal sword? Resident angel bitch is behind this.

> is it coming from above or below?

> If it's from below, Lure it to cut in a circle/square/whatever so that the floor falls on whatever is trying to hurt us.

You watch the blade... Its cutting through the floor, so its coming at you from BELOW. You figure your best plan is to try and get it to follow you in a way that it hurts itself. Your first though is to try and get it to drop the floor on itself. That doesn't end up too well, you notice that just side stepping is enough to dodge the quick blade, and it turns far from you. Yamame outlines the next floor.

"Somethings not right here, I can't see the cuts from where it's been!"

This leads you to further examine this strange blade, its clearly cutting the floor, but as soon as you stop acknowledging the cut in your eyesight, it vanishes. You're not sure what kind of sword it is, but its clearly different than any design Tenshi or Youmu have used. Its heavily curved backwards and incredibly thick, the full blade must weigh much and be rather unwieldy. You decide its probably a cutlass.

This all proves rather pointless, as mid turn around this time, The blade bursts from the ground at you.

You apologize to yourself, Thats not a blade. That appears to be a SHARK FIN. Belonging to a shark that is effortlessly crashing straight through the earth like it is swimming.

...

> Curse the horrible luck thats been plaguing you all day.

This is the worst day off ever.

[Hello Purvis]

>Scream in terror. Because, goddamn. It's the legendary axe murderer of the seas, so infamous it's even known about in places that don't have seas! And fish are not supposed to eat cats!
>Presuming the freakings out don't get us killed, suggest Yamame get onto the walls so it hopefully can't get to her. Then ask her to pick you up.

[Kuma]

> Make Yamame give it SUPER AIDs!

[Chaore]

>Scream in terror. Because, goddamn. It's the legendary axe murderer of the seas, so infamous it's even known about in places that don't have seas! And fish are not supposed to eat cats!
>Presuming the freakings out don't get us killed, suggest Yamame get onto the walls so it hopefully can't get to her. Then ask her to pick you up.

You don't think -anyone- could blame your yelp in terror, it comes with a free dive the fuck out of the way. You suggest Yamame get on the wall as the shark plunge itself back into the floor. You've lost sight of it.

Yamame gets on the wall, and with gust, you scamper up for her to grab you. All is quiet.

> Make Yamame give it SUPER AIDs!

"I'd love to kill it too, but calm down and make more sense. I can feel it digging in the earth... What the hell is this thing?"

[Kuma]

Why do I keep imagining Yamame has GIANT FUCKING SPIDER LEGS

> calm yourself down and asses the situation.

[Hello Purvis]

>Try not to whimper. Because goddamn.
>"It...it might be able to dig up the side of walls..." Keep an eye on the walls. We don't need Yamame getting sharked.

[Chaore]

Why do I keep imagining Yamame has GIANT FUCKING SPIDER LEGS

> calm yourself down and asses the situation.

You take a few deep breaths and calm yourself. You're facing a shark. A shark that swims in the earth itself. Its probably responsible for the poison too. You're going to have to take it down. Yamame has the power of Disease, but this thing is decidedly not a normal shark. It doesn't appear to be a youkai though, so it probably is a familliar. It also is notably limited, its a shark, it swims, jumps, and chomps. On the wall and in the air, you should be perfectly sa- Wait...

>Try not to whimper. Because goddamn.
>"It...it might be able to dig up the side of walls..." Keep an eye on the walls. We don't need Yamame getting sharked.

You try not to. Its really really hard.

"...No, Its definitely able too. Its starting to circle the room. I'm not sure if thats required for it to get up here, but its starting to reach our height."

Oh. Its a shark that can climb walls too.

[Hello Purvis]

>"C-can you g-get on the ceiling? M-maybe it c-can't d-dig ups-s-side d-down?"
>Take some breaths
>Does it look like THE ROC can do anything in here, if were were able to summon or conjure him into this chamber?

[Chaore]

>"C-can you g-get on the ceiling? M-maybe it c-can't d-dig ups-s-side d-down?"

Yamame nods, climbing up higher towards the ceiling. You're rather glad the nice little youkai perks like this didn't go away, or you'd be in some trouble!

"It should buy us time at least."

[Hello Purvis]

>Take some steadying breaths
>Does it look like THE ROC can do anything in here, if were were able to summon or conjure him into this chamber?

[Fightest]

> Lure it out of the chamber. If it's not quick, we can guide it somewhere with some open space.
> It seems to be burrowing through rock. Let's see how it'll work with something harder:
> Ask Yamame to, if possible, lure it towards the epicenter of Utsuho's explosion - there should be a lot of glass there, and glass is hard.

[OkashiiKisei]

Why do I keep imagining Yamame has GIANT FUCKING SPIDER LEGS

Not so farfetched, since she has them under her dress (along with her normal legs) on her Ex-form sprite in Touhoumon. I'm also imagining her sprouting them when climbing.

> If it digs through earth, is it still capable of going through water? Either go with Fightest plan, or lure the thing into the dirty pool and hope it's traded it's ability to swim for digging, and watch it drown.

[Chaore]

>Take some steadying breaths
>Does it look like THE ROC can do anything in here, if were were able to summon or conjure him into this chamber?

You're not sure how well THE ROC could fair against this thing. On one hand, he has the room and a lot more maneuverability, even in this room, on the other thing this thing may be just on another level... THE ROC is just basically a super strong giant eagle. This thing chews through the ground and has a bladed fin.

> Lure it out of the chamber. If it's not quick, we can guide it somewhere with some open space.
> It seems to be burrowing through rock. Let's see how it'll work with something harder:
> Ask Yamame to, if possible, lure it towards the epicenter of Utsuho's explosion - there should be a lot of glass there, and glass is hard.

> If it digs through earth, is it still capable of going through water? Either go with Fightest plan, or lure the thing into the dirty pool and hope it's traded it's ability to swim for digging, and watch it drown.

You decide you may want to test both series. You get Yamame to go towards the center of the pool Ceiling wise and wait. A few moments later, Yamame jumps away as the shark goes crashing downwards into the pool with a tremendous splash. The water is pulled straight back into the pool after.

... You don't see it's corpse. You guess you aren't so lucky.

You ask Yamame if she can take you towards the remains of the palace. She nods and dashes along the wall to the exit as the fin appears behind the two of you. Within moments, you're out of the room and both of you are dashing towards the palace.

Yamame stops a few minutes later, glancing back. "I don't feel it digging around here. It hasn't followed us."

[Hello Purvis]

>"I wonder who's controlling it? What would you do to a thing that lives in the ground like that, anyways?"

[Chaore]

>"I wonder who's controlling it? What would you do to a thing that lives in the ground like that, anyways?"

"Controlling it? Wait, Someones controlling that thing? ...If that is how it is, that thing is definitely a watchdog. There is something in that room the shark doesn't want us near. Probably the poisoned water. Who would seriously want to poison the fairies, though?"

[Kasu]

> "Hmm...  Maybe it's not the fairies they're after...  And who knows, maybe someone faked their death during the incident and went into hiding for reasons unknown..."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Or maybe they don't even care about the lake, and are looking for something else? Is there anything down here that does that to water?"

[Chaore]

> "Hmm...  Maybe it's not the fairies they're after...  And who knows, maybe someone faked their death during the incident and went into hiding for reasons unknown..."

"Its possible, They could have the wrong water stream or something... Or maybe live in the wrong time, if you're right."

>"Or maybe they don't even care about the lake, and are looking for something else? Is there anything down here that does that to water?"

"Besides us? Well... I suppose if you hit a bad pocket of -something-... They could just be trying to keep us busy while they use the tunnels, too... But with that thing, I don't think they'd -need- a tunnel."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well, I think it's a familiar. But maybe it's one that got away or something?"

[Chaore]

>"Well, I think it's a familiar. But maybe it's one that got away or something?"

Yamame pauses, looking a bit thoughtful before nodding.

"Yes, I suppose that IS probably a familiar... If it got away though, why is it staying there, Whys it guarding that one place?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Maybe it's crazy? Hey...can't familiars usually talk?"