Yukari Quest VII - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Mr. Sacchi]

I'm going to assume you don't want to drop the whole ring thing on Renko?

[Kilgamayan]

Absolutely not. All feelings on the use of Reality Play-Doh aside, that's Mary's surprise to spring, not ours.

> "I wouldn't sell yourself short like that, dear. But I understand where you are coming from."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I wouldn't sell yourself short like that, dear. But I understand where you are coming from."

>"Right, then," she says, her expression betraying she clearly doesn't know how to follow this up.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Breathe.
> "I believe we should follow up on this in the future. But perhaps this is enough for tonight. I am in no condition to dwell so heavily on the subject, and I suspect you are not much better off."

[Hello Purvis]

> Breathe.
> "I believe we should follow up on this in the future. But perhaps this is enough for tonight. I am in no condition to dwell so heavily on the subject, and I suspect you are not much better off."

>"Yeah, I suppose," says Renko.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Would you like a lift home? It is the least I can do."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Would you like a lift home? It is the least I can do."

>"Yeah, I suppose," she says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Open a gap near Renko that leads to the front of her house.

[Hello Purvis]

> Open a gap near Renko that leads to the front of her house.

>You do so, and she proceeds through it. You suppose it's something that she didn't expect you to dump her in the middle of an ocean.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Something indeed. At least we have a better handle on the situation now.
> Regardless, now that that's over and done with, let's use our astrolabe to check once again for a possible gap-opening point in the dissolving dimensions. Hopefully it's not too far gone just yet...

[Hello Purvis]

> Something indeed. At least we have a better handle on the situation now.
> Regardless, now that that's over and done with, let's use our astrolabe to check once again for a possible gap-opening point in the dissolving dimensions. Hopefully it's not too far gone just yet...

>It takes a bit of searching, but you are able to find a few points of entry. Two of them are not safe, three of them are for the time being. You aren't able to determine more than relative levels of stability; there is a kind of stable one, a very unstable one, and a not quite stable one.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> If we traveled to the very unstable one, would we have enough purchase to create another gap and head elsewhere almost instantly?

[Hello Purvis]

> If we traveled to the very unstable one, would we have enough purchase to create another gap and head elsewhere almost instantly?

>You don't know, but it seems iffy.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

> Let's head to the third one, then. A little risky, but better than the second.

[Hello Purvis]

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

> Let's head to the third one, then. A little risky, but better than the second.

>You head for the one of middling stability.
>You step through, and find yourself in the middle of a wasted plain, bathed in soft purple light. Beneath your feet, and stretching in every direction, is a hardened and compacted mass of green, yellow-white, and brown, looking somewhat like very strange form of rough and colorful ceramic. You suspect you are in the forests, and in particular standing in one of your footprints. Looking toward the sky, you can see that the colors have vanished, replaced with a kind of dark purple morass that looks somewhat like sludge. The borders here are stable enough for the time being you should be able to open another gap, and with all of your tools, it shouldn't be hard to go to any other place that can support a gap.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Not much time to act. Do we remember any forest paths we didn't fully explore, such as perhaps the path beyond where we found the pieces of the sun disk?
> Where would the dollhouse shrine be from here?

[Hello Purvis]

> Not much time to act. Do we remember any forest paths we didn't fully explore, such as perhaps the path beyond where we found the pieces of the sun disk?
> Where would the dollhouse shrine be from here?

>There is, in theory, an awful lot of forest to explore. However, when you did your circuit around it, you found that much of it was unremarkable. This said, beyond the sun disk was one of the gaps that manipulated size upward.
>You think it would be some distance to the north.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Did the path continue on after that size-manipulating gap?

[Hello Purvis]

> Did the path continue on after that size-manipulating gap?

>It did continue down the hill.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Let's gap ourselves over to that size-manipulating gap, then, and hurry further down that path.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's gap ourselves over to that size-manipulating gap, then, and hurry further down that path.

>You do so, and step out to to find an immense borderless hole of glowing purple where the gap used to be, stretching for yards in every direction,  tendrils of it spreading through the surrounding trees and landscape. Many of the trees have fallen, and others seems to have...somewhat collapsed upon themselves, or lack of a better term. Being unable to fly, you find the ground more uneven and treacherous than before. It's difficult to make your way downward, though you find that a non-trivial amount of the underbrush is simply gone, leaving bare dirt in its place. You hear a couple of trees fall in the distance as you proceed onward. It's hard to tell where the original path was, and as you reach the bottom of the hill, you don't see anything of interest.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> So the floating islands are probably kaput. Makes sense, since they used to be connected to the wasteland, which was the first thing to go.
> Was there a gap from this forest to the field of fronds?

[Hello Purvis]

> So the floating islands are probably kaput. Makes sense, since they used to be connected to the wasteland, which was the first thing to go.
> Was there a gap from this forest to the field of fronds?

>This feels like it may be so.
>There is one to the northwest, though you hardly need it anymore.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Gap to the dollhouse shrine.

[Hello Purvis]

> Gap to the dollhouse shrine.

>You do so, and find that it is still mostly intact. A tree has fallen across its grounds, but the shrine itself is still there. As you step out from the gap, you hear the sound of wood bursting nearby, as though it were under great internal pressure.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look around quickly to be sure a tree is not about to fall on our heads. If it is, gap ourselves several feet away to avoid it.
> Do we have enough control here to create a gap large enough to take the shrine with us?

[Hello Purvis]

> Look around quickly to be sure a tree is not about to fall on our heads. If it is, gap ourselves several feet away to avoid it.
> Do we have enough control here to create a gap large enough to take the shrine with us?

>You don't seem to be in immediate danger.
>You suspect you could, but doing so will destabilize the area significantly as a result.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Really? How so?

[Hello Purvis]

> Really? How so?

>It will put a significant strain on the borders of this area, and they likely will not survive the act.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Bah.
> Is there any small and obviously loose and/or detachable piece of the shrine that we could take with us as a souvenir?