Author Topic: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure  (Read 44437 times)

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Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« on: July 15, 2012, 04:09:23 AM »

>You are Kisume, Genoskyo's premier drifter, and you got husted by a mysterious man apparently posing as a farmer.
>You live underground, in a bucket, mugging people whenever you can. What meager amounts of money you make tends to go toward food and cheap liquor during your periodic forays into the Ancient City when things seem calm. Otherwise, you make your living scavenging in the caverns.It's not a glamorous existence, scraping along the bottom, but you're proud of it. You're making your own way through the world and that's something they'll never take away from you. You could have had an easy and completely boring life, once, but you decided to forge your own way and live like a proper youkai. You don't regret it. You're proud of the fact that you can live on the go, when so many other youkai have settled down. You're proud that you never stopped making a living as a bandit, even after the Hakurei Maiden established the spellcard rules. You don't have much, but you have your pride and you don't owe anyone anything. You'll never go back to Higan.
>You are able to be extremely patient, sitting in one place for hours without budging an inch. You tend not to keep more than you can carry in your bucket, though you're capable of carrying an awful lot. You have an fondness for old-timey slang, such as calling coins 'thin ones' and referring to your name as your moniker and so on. You have a distaste for settled life; though you don''t mind borrowing its creature comforts. In particular, you hate bureaucracy, paperwork, proper procedures, and the like. Thankfully that seldom comes up. You have a  distaste for open spaces, and a distinct preference for narrow or tight places. While you can be friendly, you're seldom polite.
>You had a run-in with a man dressed as a farmer who managed to deftly fling you into a wall. Upon waking you found yourself left in unfamiliar caverns and slowly worked your way back to the tunnels you know, running into a surprising number of faeries wearing canine ears and requesting that you give them riches. After some misadventures, you learned that the human went into the oni city, and seems to have disappeared.  You explored the unknown caverns, found an old side chamber with a fair amount of things to salvage and an angry evil spirit. You helped a faerie recover a pearl earring that fell in the river, and now have a favor to call in from the canine-eared faeries. Things were going rather well until you accompanied a tengu into the Ancient City and got into a fight with an oni musician. Much to everyone's surprise, yours included, you managed to win that fight. You spoke with Nue and then Yamame, before deciding to go out to the surface to see what you can find about your assailant; especially after hearing from Yamame that he has passed by.  The trail seemed to have gone cold, no one knows of a farmer matching that description, though at least one other person has seen him. You've delivered a message to Eientei for a nice fee, and managed to mooch a relaxing bath and meal off of them in the process, as well as get an enchanted scarf you've found identified. You've gotten on the good side of the Harvest Goddess. You have taken a couple of jobs from Kourindou, which you have largely completed.
>After getting into a scuffle at the graveyard with a jiang shi, you found the man again, only to lose him in the human village after a mad dash through it, finding him again with Sanae's help, and losing him in the forest after he attacked her with a shuriken.  You convinced Kasen to accompany you, and managed to get find the missing pet snake. The latter let you to working with Iku to convince a shy poltergeist she didn't need to disguise herself so heavily. You managed to get some basic information on the man in farmer's clothing with Patchouli's help, finding he was in communication with a woman whose hair is styled in loops. From this, you learned that the woman is awaiting the awakening of someone known as The Prince, and that the man in farmer's clothing was allied to her and this effort in some manner. You managed to kidnap the jiang shi you met from before with Kasen's help, and get her to tell you that the man promised her master an army, and that he came from far away on a chariot that was somewhere in the Forest of Magic. You and Kasen managed to locate a metal room on stilts in the southeastern part of the forest, and entered it to find a maid who called you master and offered you tea. Unfortunately, the tea was drugged, and you awoke to find yourself bound, and the maid speaking with the man in farmer's clothing, who had changed into green clothing of alien design.
>Presently, you have managed to free yourself without alerting either of them, while the room makes strange noises and feels like it's moving.

> Move slowly to reposition ourselves with our hands within reach of the ropes on her legs. Once that is the case, get to fingerin' those ropes quickly.

>You scoot down until you can reach Kasen's feet, and untie them. This is less painstaking than untying your own feet, thankfully, and goes by reasonably fast.

>_
« Last Edit: July 13, 2013, 03:15:59 AM by Purvijiri »

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2012, 04:20:08 AM »
> Phew.
> Look back around toward our captors. Is our bucket visible?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2012, 05:03:26 AM »
> Phew.
> Look back around toward our captors. Is our bucket visible?

>You look around, and see that your bucket is by the chair that you sat in previously, in the middle of the room.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2012, 12:54:42 PM »
> Is there anything in the immediate vicinity of the bed that both ourselves (in the bucket) and Kasen could hide behind, such as a wall?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2012, 03:23:24 PM »
> Is there anything in the immediate vicinity of the bed that both ourselves (in the bucket) and Kasen could hide behind, such as a wall?

>There is a counter not too far away that you could hide behind. You don't know if Kasen is going to be hiding anywhere, given she is presently unconscious.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2012, 03:30:12 PM »
> Is Kasen facing away from us?
> Is there enough room on the other side of the bed that would float over and position ourselves on it such that Kasen is facing us?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2012, 03:43:50 PM »
> Is Kasen facing away from us?
> Is there enough room on the other side of the bed that would float over and position ourselves on it such that Kasen is facing us?

>Kasen's back is turned to you, which was helpful in untying her.
>There is not enough room on the bed to do this. There's barely enough room for the both of you as it is.

>_

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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2012, 03:47:33 PM »
> How high off the ground is the bed?
> Can we tell if there is enough room on the ground on the other side of the bed that we could plop down next to it in the bucket and be face-to-face with Kasen?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2012, 04:02:35 PM »
> How high off the ground is the bed?
> Can we tell if there is enough room on the ground on the other side of the bed that we could plop down next to it in the bucket and be face-to-face with Kasen?

>The bed is a couple feet from the ground.
>Checking the bed a bit further, you see that it is actually less of a bed and more of a wall cot, with Kasen facing the wall. In fact, it is more accurate to say that she is pressed into the wall recess that the cot seems to fold into. If you weren't in these kind of circumstances, this would actually be pretty impressive, it manages to support both you and her and fold into a wall.

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2012, 04:27:05 PM »
> Damnit. We'll just have to improvise.
> Carefully float ourselves up and over to our bucket.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2012, 04:45:59 PM »
> Damnit. We'll just have to improvise.
> Carefully float ourselves up and over to our bucket.

>You take to the air, and float over toward your bucket. It is...slow, stressful going. All it would take is for one of them to look over at the other while talking and they would probably see you. But you manage to get over it without any problems, thus far. You note that all your stuff is still inside it.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2012, 04:54:40 PM »
> Let ourselves down into it gently. We want to make minimum rattling noise.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2012, 05:07:08 PM »
> Let ourselves down into it gently. We want to make minimum rattling noise.

>You gently let yourself down into the bucket, and feel a a whole lot better for it as you settle back in quietly.
>VIVIT and the man in green haven't said anything for the past few minutes, instead staring at the machines in front of them, and manipulating little buttons periodically in ways that don't make any sense.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2012, 05:26:00 PM »
> Give ourselves a few seconds to recover.
> Is the door closed?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2012, 05:29:53 PM »
> Give ourselves a few seconds to recover.
> Is the door closed?

>You take a few moments to recover. The door is currently closed.
>VIVIT begins to speak, though thankfully she doesn't look over. Instead she begins to drone single words every heartbeat or so.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2012, 05:31:36 PM »
> Get a good grip on the bucket, then take flight.
> Ramming speed aimed for the back of the man in green's head!
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2012, 05:43:19 PM »
> Get a good grip on the bucket, then take flight.
> Ramming speed aimed for the back of the man in green's head!

>You gather get a good grip on the edge of your bucket, and then do what you do best.
>VIVIT's droning suddenly gives way to a surprised cry. The man turns his head to look at her, and she moves to push him out of the way. But it is too little and too late. You slam firmly into the side of the man's head, and he simply goes down. Perhaps a youkai could take a hit like that, but there's no way for a human to shrug that off. He's out cold, and he's going to need a lot of rest to get over that.

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2012, 05:49:29 PM »
> Land on his body. If he's slumped over, just get close to him (preferably on the side of him that's not next to VIVIT) and hover in mid-air.
> Summon some more demon fire and hold it close to his head while glaring at VIVIT.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2012, 05:56:07 PM »
> Land on his body. If he's slumped over, just get close to him (preferably on the side of him that's not next to VIVIT) and hover in mid-air.
> Summon some more demon fire and hold it close to his head while glaring at VIVIT.

>He has slumped over onto a panel of machinery, so you hover next to him and conjure some demon fire close to his head, almost but not quite close enough to start singing some hairs.
>"I knew I shouldn't have used most of the sedative on the other one," she says, as she regards you coolly.

>_

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2012, 06:02:18 PM »
> "Waste of decent tea is enough of a crime in itself. Now what's really going on here?"
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2012, 06:11:56 PM »
> "Waste of decent tea is enough of a crime in itself. Now what's really going on here?"

>"You butted in, and now we have to make sure you don't blow our cover any further than it already is," says VIVIT. "It's not very difficult."

>_

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« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2012, 06:12:42 PM »
> "Not with that, that's obvious. What's going on with the blue-haired woman and this sleeping prince and all those jiangshi?"
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2012, 06:18:14 PM »
> "Not with that, that's obvious. What's going on with the blue-haired woman and this sleeping prince and all those jiangshi?"

>"Ah," says VIVIT. "Well, you'd have to ask Agent Sombraluz about the details. Unfortunately, he's a little indisposed at the moment. But, as far as I understand? They're useful dupes."

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« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2012, 06:19:18 PM »
> "Useful for what?"
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2012, 06:55:54 PM »
> "Useful for what?"

>"Information, largely," says VIVIT. "You'd have to ask the agent for details, I'm not the one who debriefs him."

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Re: Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2012, 07:02:10 PM »
> Roll our eyes.
> "Fine. Why's he throwing shurikens at shrine maidens?"
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2012, 07:20:17 PM »
> Roll our eyes.
> "Fine. Why's he throwing shurikens at shrine maidens?"

>You roll your eyes, which does not seem to impress VIVIT.
>"I imagine that's because she was attacking him," she says.

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« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2012, 07:45:20 PM »
> "Not lethally. You combat danmaku with danmaku, not that nonsense."
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2012, 07:55:52 PM »
> "Not lethally. You combat danmaku with danmaku, not that nonsense."

>"I would say that's the risk the that shrine maiden took when she took the first shot," says VIVIT. "Either way, quibbling over it won't change anything now."
>The room shakes a little bit, and some of the noises come to a stop.

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« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2012, 08:01:12 PM »
> "...So, wherever we were going, are we there now?"
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"