Kisume Quest VI - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

Idea!

> Put our arms up in the air with a very small smirk.
> "Fine, fine. Need four of you to take a crippled girl, eh?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Put our arms up in the air with a very small smirk.
> "Fine, fine. Need four of you to take a crippled girl, eh?"

>You put your arms in the air.
>"She didn't drop anything," says the soldier to the right.
>"The is your last warning," the soldier on the left says. "put  down the weapon!"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Open our hands if they're not open already.
> "Look at my hands! Do you see any weapons to drop?!"

[Hello Purvis]

> Open our hands if they're not open already.
> "Look at my hands! Do you see any weapons to drop?!"

>"Then we'll guess you have them hidden in your sleeves or somewhere else," says the soldier. "Put the weapons on the ground now!"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Make a short show out of shaking both of our sleeves out toward the ground.
> Once the show is done, put our hands back in the air.
> "See? I don't have anything!"

[Hello Purvis]

> Make a short show out of shaking both of our sleeves out toward the ground.
> Once the show is done, put our hands back in the air.
> "See? I don't have anything!"

"Roll them up, slowly," says the approaching soldier.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Slowly roll each sleeve up to our shoulders, then put our hands back in the air once we're done.

[Hello Purvis]

> Slowly roll each sleeve up to our shoulders, then put our hands back in the air once we're done.

>You slowly roll up each sleeve, revealing your bare arms. Both of the soldiers are fairly close now, though they seem to be wary of getting too close.
>"What did you do to them?" says the soldier on your right.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "I told you, I don't have any weapons! And how would I use any weapons with my hands in the air anyway?!"

[Hello Purvis]

> "I told you, I don't have any weapons! And how would I use any weapons with my hands in the air anyway?!"

>"I said, what did you do to them!" the soldier says.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Just knocked 'em out! They'll be fine later!"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Just knocked 'em out! They'll be fine later!"

>"How!" the soldier barks. Both of them have stopped a couple yards from you.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How is 'a couple of yards' in shooting range terms, given that these guys are very suspicious right now?
> Where are our palms pointed?

[Hello Purvis]

> How is 'a couple of yards' in shooting range terms, given that these guys are very suspicious right now?
> Where are our palms pointed?

>Given they are armored and clearly suspicious, you aren't extremely confident you could take down both of them, but you could at least make them jump.
>Where are your palms pointed? You have them both up in the air.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> So we can say they're pointed outward at the guards, then?

[Hello Purvis]

> So we can say they're pointed outward at the guards, then?

>Sure!

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Are they on opposite sides of us?
> Are they both still pointing weapons at us?

[Hello Purvis]

> Are they on opposite sides of us?
> Are they both still pointing weapons at us?

>They are both opposite of you right now, though they are both a bit off center; likely to keep from hitting each other if they have to attack.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> I'm confused. Can I get a rundown of the positions of the guards, the surrounding walls and Ruukoto relative to ourselves? Reference memory for anything we can't immediately see instead of looking around.

[Hello Purvis]

> I'm confused. Can I get a rundown of the positions of the guards, the surrounding walls and Ruukoto relative to ourselves? Reference memory for anything we can't immediately see instead of looking around.

>You are outside of the elevator and a couple yards from the doors, which you think has closed behind you. Ruukoto is somewhere behind you, but you aren't immediately sure where.  The soldiers are at your left and right sides and a bit forward; if the wall were right at your back, they would be about 10 and 170 degrees from it. There is a pile of bottles and such to your right, and fallen soldiers flanking you to the left and right, roughly.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

[Hello Purvis]

> "...You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

>"We'll be the judge of that," the soldier says. "It will be much more pleasant than the alternative."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Shrug as best we can given the circumstances.
> "Fine. It's magic."

[Hello Purvis]

> Shrug as best we can given the circumstances.
> "Fine. It's magic."

>The silence that follows is pointed and painful. You might actually find it funny, if not for the weapons pointed at you.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Told you. Want me to do it again?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Told you. Want me to do it again?"

>"...This is going to be your final chance to disarm yourself and come peaceably." says the soldier on your right.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Or you'll shoot the crazy crippled foreign girl, right? That'll go over well in the ambassadorial wing."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Or you'll shoot the crazy crippled foreign girl, right? That'll go over well in the ambassadorial wing."

>The soldiers do not reply. Instead you hear a small sort of bursting noise, and you think you see something flying at you from the right. You aren't sure what hit you, but it certainly feels like a oni just smacked you with a boulder! Your body tightens up, and there's a horrible sort of buzzing feeling that runs through your whole body, feeling like it's simultaneously underneath and over your flesh. You know you're in pain, but you're also too numb to feel it right now. Dimly you are aware that you've fallen over, and you think you hear a woman screaming. Is it Ruukoto? You think it is.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Screaming? That sounds good. Let's do that. A lot.

[Hello Purvis]

> Screaming? That sounds good. Let's do that. A lot.

>You try to, but what comes out mostly is strained groans.
>After a moment, the buzzing feeling fades, and you feel your muscles loosen up. Now the pain comes, feeling rather like you smacked into a wall at full speed.  You feel weak, like you were just on the losing side of a danmaku match. You're also away of a pair of hands grabbing you around the waist.

>_