Space Fairy Quest - The Legend of the Red Shirt (Complete)

[Kilgamayan]

> "She can't hit you if you get her thing. She'll have to be nice to you."

[FinnKaenbyou]

>Give the piece of paper to Ember.
>"You go get her thingy from the doctor, I'll explore the secret passage."

>"What?" Ember pouts. "How come you get to do all the cool stuff?"

> "She can't hit you if you get her thing. She'll have to be nice to you."

>Ember growls for a moment longer, then eventually sighs. "Fine, I'll go get her thingy. Stupid bunk law..." She flutters off out the door and into the corridor, leaving you alone with Bolt - who still doesn't seem to have taken the slightest bit of interest in you over her 'work'.

[Yaersulf]

>Search for traps and secret doors.

[FinnKaenbyou]

>Search for traps and secret doors.

>Roll Cunning: 16

You find a trap door hidden beneath the engine. Looking inside you can see the machine whirring, magical fairy glitter tumbling about inside it to power the entire ship. There's just enough leeway for you to crawl under the engine, and the door doesn't look like it's locked.

[O4rfish]

That ... isn't made from ground-up fairies, is it?

[FinnKaenbyou]

That ... isn't made from ground-up fairies, is it?

>Oh, no, don't be silly! It just took some recruits a few hours of wing-flapping to produce enough glitter to get the machine going. Really takes the wind out of you, y'know.

[t0k]

>Crawl underneath the engine just far enough to be in arm's reach of the glitter.
>"Oooh... so this is where the sparkles went!"

[Yaersulf]

>Open the trapdoor.

[LaserTurtle]

>If it's so easy to make the sparklies, why don't you help out by making more?
>SPARKLIES EVERYWHERE! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[FinnKaenbyou]

>If it's so easy to make the sparklies, why don't you help out by making more?
>SPARKLIES EVERYWHERE! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

>You flap your wings frantically for thirty seconds, producing a few specks of glitter before you start feeling tired. This really isn't a very efficient way to produce shinies.

>Crawl underneath the engine just far enough to be in arm's reach of the glitter.
>"Oooh... so this is where the sparkles went!"

>The glitter is inside the machine. Would you like to put your hand inside the machine?

>Open the trapdoor.

>Surprisingly the door isn't locked, and opens to reveal a ladder down into the depths. You can't make out what's down there from where you are, though - it's pretty dark.

[Hello Purvis]

>Descend!

[LaserTurtle]

>going down into dark places is scary, so you should flip upside-down, then go UP into the darkness!
>It works because you are only going into depths if you're going down, so if you're going up, you must be going into the not-depths.

[Kilgamayan]

> Bolt's still smacking the poster with her wrench?

[Fightest]

Guys, guys, we've overlooked something extremely critical:

>The glitter is inside the machine. Would you like to put your hand inside the machine?

> YES.

[FinnKaenbyou]

> Bolt's still smacking the poster with her wrench?

>She is starting to make some impressive dents in the wall. You hope there isn't any sort of machinery behind it for her to damage.

> YES.

>You find a small flap into the engine, just large enough for you to slip your hand in. You dip it in, and it's immediately soaked in the glorious shininess of fairy glitter. It's one of the best feelings you can imagine-
*CREEEEEEEEAK*
-At least, until the engine starts to whine.
"Eeeh?" Bolt turns around, drawn to the engine by the sound. "Oh, fer chrissakes, is the glitter leakin' out again?!" She wields the wrench and targets the flap. "A smack oughta fix it-"

>Descend!

>going down into dark places is scary, so you should flip upside-down, then go UP into the darkness!
>It works because you are only going into depths if you're going down, so if you're going up, you must be going into the not-depths.

>You suspect hanging around here is inadvisable. You pull your hand out of the engine, flying upside down through the open trapdoor!
You hear a loud, sharp clang as the wrench clashes with metal, and the trapdoor closes behind you. It's still almost pitch black down here, but luckily you now have a light source - your own glitter-soaked hand!

[Hello Purvis]

>Boggle at hand for awhile.
>Then look around.

[Kilgamayan]

> If our hand doesn't provide enough light to see well, eat the darkness until it does.

[O4rfish]

>Review what we know about fairy reproduction.

[Fightest]

>Review what we know about fairy reproduction.

> Do we, uh, do this sort of reviewing often? 'Cause it's an odd thing to review at a time like this.

[FinnKaenbyou]

>Boggle at hand for awhile.

>Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

> If our hand doesn't provide enough light to see well, eat the darkness until it does.

>You've got enough light to move forward with. Besides, you're not a fan of eating darkness - tastes like a fat load of nothing.

>Review what we know about fairy reproduction.

>Ummmm...you weren't paying much attention when the Fairy Queen told you this story. Something about a stork?

> Do we, uh, do this sort of reviewing often? 'Cause it's an odd thing to review at a time like this.

>Fairies are very bad at maintaining focus. They have a habit of being distracted by anything and everythi-OOH WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE

>Then look around.

>You walk forward into the dank musty tunnel, your shiny shiny fingers lighting your path. This is probably the unshiniest part of the ship you've seen so far. You're really not sure why anyone would want to come to a place so dreary.
>After about a minute of walking you come up to a large metallic door that blocks off your path. Written in massive cartoonish letters are the words 'BOOTSTRAP'S ARSENAL. IF YOU'RE NOT MEANT TO BE HERE, ABOUT FACE AND GO AWAY'

[Kilgamayan]

> Wait, what about our face?
> Check our face for abnormalities.

[FinnKaenbyou]

> Wait, what about our face?
> Check our face for abnormalities.

>Oh god no what happened to you
>You run a few shards of glitter along the surface of the door and use it as a mirror. You count carefully - two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with you! Did that door just call you ugly?!

[Kilgamayan]

> Well, the door's dumb anyway! If we're here, that must mean we were meant to be here! We can't be somewhere we're not meant to be! That's just basic logic.
> Show the stupid door what for by opening it.

[Yaersulf]

>Giggle at BOOTSTRAP'S ARSE, hehehe

[Fightest]

> We're meant to be here because what is shiny is ours by right, and there may be shinies in there. Manifest Destiny, baby.

[FinnKaenbyou]

>Giggle at BOOTSTRAP'S ARSE, hehehe

>Teeheeheehee~ You don't even know what an 'arse' is, but you do know it's a naughty word that good girls are never meant to use. That makes it inherently funny.

> Well, the door's dumb anyway! If we're here, that must mean we were meant to be here! We can't be somewhere we're not meant to be! That's just basic logic.
> Show the stupid door what for by opening it.

> We're meant to be here because what is shiny is ours by right, and there may be shinies in there. Manifest Destiny, baby.

>Channeling all your frustrations, you grab at the door and tug at its side. The metal seal stays well and truly shut, no matter how hard you tug or how many times you yell MANIFEST DESTINY at it.

[Kilgamayan]

> No stupid door is gonna call us ugly and keep us from shinies and get away with it! We spent many years training for moments like these. Now it's time for us to put our skills to use.
> Eat the door. (Try not to chew too much if we can avoid it, though, we don't want to break our teeth on the metal.)

[FinnKaenbyou]

> No stupid door is gonna call us ugly and keep us from shinies and get away with it! We spent many years training for moments like these. Now it's time for us to put our skills to use.
> Eat the door. (Try not to chew too much if we can avoid it, though, we don't want to break our teeth on the metal.)

BGM: Pie wo Torimodose (Instrumental)
> It takes a good bit of dental acuity in order to get a grip on the sheer metal, but that's why you're a professional. You bite down, and the steel resists you with all its might. A mighty clash erupts between man(?) and machine.
No ordinary chewing technique will make it through this material. You'll need to resort to the forbidden technique.
"OMMMMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM-"
Through focused effort and immense practice, you turn your mouth into a dicing weapon that would put a garbage disposal to shame. The military strength steel creaks, then buckles, then finally punctures under your relentless assault.
"-MWAAHCHAAA!"
The moment you've managed to release a piece of metal, you spit it out at the rest of the door. The sheer force behind your teeth causes the rest of the doorway to bend, presenting you with a hole large enough to walk through.

You'd have eaten it if you felt like it, but you are already fed.

[Yaersulf]

>Are we some kind of fairy of eating now?
>Walk through the hole and claim our reward!

[FinnKaenbyou]

>Are we some kind of fairy of eating now?
>Walk through the hole and claim our reward!

>Apparently! The command interpreter rolls with whatever comes.

>You walk into the arsenal (tee hee) and find yourself in a small steel-plated room. (Shiny steel. The best kind.) Racks upon racks of weapons have been laid out for use - some are fairy weaponry, like the water guns in the corner; others are guns taken from other races, like that laser rifle in the back. And then there are the guns in front which don't look even remotely familiar to you. A small label beneath this rack labels them as 'PROTOTYPES'.
There are also some flashbangs (throw them, and you get a REALLY BIG SHINY for a few seconds) and some metal things that look sort of like pineapples.