Sword Quest IX - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Push it to the side and continue meditating.

>This is significantly more difficult compared to everything else, but you are able to push aside the desire around you and tune it out of your conscious.
>You feel relaxed and centered now.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Examine ourselves.

[Hello Purvis]

> Examine ourselves.

>You have a look at yourself. With one exception, you seem to be fine and in good health. This exception seems to be a curse that has taken root within your being, slowly affecting your physical state. You are certain it is why you feel so unaccountably weary lately.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Can we remove this curse?
> If not, can we at least resist it?

[Hello Purvis]

> Can we remove this curse?
> If not, can we at least resist it?

>You don't think you can do it on your own, at least not without a lot of time and preparation.
>You suppose you can try. However, you feel that it is pretty relentless.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Can we tell where it came from?

[Hello Purvis]

> Can we tell where it came from?

>The cause is...external, you're pretty sure. You can definitely feel it is emanating from somewhere.
>After a few moments of contemplation, you suspect it is coming from all around you.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Is it coming from the illusory environment, or coming from the desire?

[Hello Purvis]

> Is it coming from the illusory environment, or coming from the desire?

>You cannot tell.

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[Kilgamayan]

Okay, we have a couple of hours before Purvis will be back. Any observers have any ideas?

[Raikaria]

> Is it coming from 'all around us' as actually from from all directions; or just surrounds us?

[Hello Purvis]

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> Is it coming from 'all around us' as actually from from all directions; or just surrounds us?

>It definitely envelopes you, and you because it is coming from all directions, so to speak.

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[Raikaria]

So whatever it is it is targeting us. It's not something clinging to us, it's something coming at us. I just popped my head in at the cry for help; I ain't read the entire thing so I don't know everything going on.

> Consider the likelihood this is a hostile act considering the nature of it, against potential alternatives, such as environmental or supernatural.

> Who or what do we know that would have a motive and ability to do something like this to us?

[Hello Purvis]

> Consider the likelihood this is a hostile act considering the nature of it, against potential alternatives, such as environmental or supernatural.
> Who or what do we know that would have a motive and ability to do something like this to us?

>You imagine it could be any of those possibilities. It doesn't help you don't really know where here is or why you are in it.
>As for who, that's a hard question. You are not intimately familiar with people enough to conclusively rule out or rule in many people. You suppose it is not likely that Reimu is behind this.

>_

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[Kilgamayan]

> Can we still feel the environment around us?

[Hello Purvis]

> Can we still feel the environment around us?

>You are trying specifically not to at the moment, so no.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Continue meditating, and see if the extra time analyzing this curse provides more information.

[Hello Purvis]

> Continue meditating, and see if the extra time analyzing this curse provides more information.

>You feel the curse is slow and not particularly ravenous, so to speak, but it is definitely relentless.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Would extra meditation help get more information? Or have we 'seen' just about everything we're gonna 'see'? Or do we not know one way or the other?
> When we were studying the desire around us earlier, could we have kept studying it to learn more information? Or are we not sure one way or the other?

[Hello Purvis]

> Would extra meditation help get more information? Or have we 'seen' just about everything we're gonna 'see'? Or do we not know one way or the other?
> When we were studying the desire around us earlier, could we have kept studying it to learn more information? Or are we not sure one way or the other?

>While it is always possible that you haven't seen everything is to see, you don't feel there is more to find.
>You aren't certain, but you wouldn't have had that much time left then.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How might we resist this curse?

[Hello Purvis]

> How might we resist this curse?

>How indeed.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How would we normally do such a thing?

[Hello Purvis]

> How would we normally do such a thing?

>In your case, you've never done such a thing. But generally, it depends on the curse. Some you can defeat by turning power against them. Others require force of will. Some require you to leave their individual eccentricities. Some simply cannot be fought once they have taken hold.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Can we tell if any of those apply to this one?

[Hello Purvis]

> Can we tell if any of those apply to this one?

>You cannot tell with any degree of certainty.

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[Kilgamayan]

> If we let ourselves focus on the desire again, would we have enough time to do more investigating than we did last time?

[Hello Purvis]

> If we let ourselves focus on the desire again, would we have enough time to do more investigating than we did last time?

>You think so.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Let's try that, then. Shift focus to the desire so we can analyze it further.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's try that, then. Shift focus to the desire so we can analyze it further.

>You shift your focus to the desire again. What will you be trying to look into, primarily?

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