Author Topic: Kisume Quest - A Z-Machine Adventure (Read 47176 times)

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #60 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:27:11 AM »

Quote from: GET SMART on February 02, 2012, 04:01:46 AM

> How periodic are we talking? Wing flapping periodic? Longer, shorter?

>A bit longer than that. Every couple of seconds, it's a rather soft noise.

Quote from: Remilius on February 02, 2012, 04:04:56 AM

> Do we recognize this as Yamame's skittering?

>No, it doesn't sounds quite like that.

Quote from: DracoOmega on February 02, 2012, 04:06:58 AM

>Try to move to get a better look down the ravine, keeping to the shadows while we do so

>You get a bit closer to the ravine, keeping close to a couple of crags in the floor, and peer down into it.
>The ravine plunges a good forty feet or so; much of it narrow and somewhat craggy. Water is pooled at the bottom, you aren't sure how deep it is, but you imagine it is probably brackish and not fit to drink. Moss lines much of the ravine walls, and you can see a few mushroom patches as well. The sound seems to be coming from a lone faerie, about ten feet from the top, who is plucking tiny mushrooms and putting them in a bag. She is small, probably no more than than a foot and a half tall, wearing a green dress that blends in well with the moss, and a hood that sports a set of canine ears, rather similar to the last faerie that you had seen.

>_

Vhaltz · « **Reply #61 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:36:22 AM »

> Ponder the possibility of blending in with the faeries and tricking them out of their food if we acquired similar canine ears.
> Wait what. Since when do faeries wear stuff like that? Have they started forming factions or subgroups or something?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #62 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:52:57 AM »

Quote from: Remilius on February 02, 2012, 04:36:22 AM

> Ponder the possibility of blending in with the faeries and tricking them out of their food if we acquired similar canine ears.
> Wait what. Since when do faeries wear stuff like that? Have they started forming factions or subgroups or something?

>There's no way they'd mistake you for one of their own. They aren't that dumb. ...Are they?
>You've never really paid much attention to faeries, but you don't think you've seen them wear anything like that. This might well be some kind of group identification thing.

>_

DracoOmega · « **Reply #63 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:12:42 AM »

>Do we recognize the mushrooms she's picking? If so, are they edible?
>For that matter, do scavenged mushrooms actually form part of our diet down here?
>Do we hear anyone else besides this fairy?
>Do we think we could be readily seen by her at the moment, if she looked our way? Particularly if, say, we called out to her?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #64 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:30:59 AM »

Quote from: DracoOmega on February 02, 2012, 05:12:42 AM

>Do we recognize the mushrooms she's picking? If so, are they edible?
>For that matter, do scavenged mushrooms actually form part of our diet down here?
>Do we hear anyone else besides this fairy?
>Do we think we could be readily seen by her at the moment, if she looked our way? Particularly if, say, we called out to her?

>Taking a glance at the mushrooms, you recognize them them as something you call whitecaps. They are edible. You hear they have other uses, but none of those applied to you.
>They sure do. Mushrooms are a pretty sizable part of Subterranean cuisine in general.
>You don't hear anything else of interest.
>You don't think she'd see you immediately, but if she looked for you, she probably would after a moment.

>_

theshirn · « **Reply #65 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:47:21 AM »

> Gank this mark. We've got a quota to hit, and no moonshine-haired human's gonna stop us.

Vhaltz · « **Reply #66 on:** February 02, 2012, 11:58:41 AM »

Hmmm, should we knock her out and take her dress and ears too? or do we just snatch the mushroom basket and run?

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #67 on:** February 02, 2012, 12:00:56 PM »

Why are we mugging a fairy when we've established that we don't mug fairies because they aren't worth mugging?

Vhaltz · « **Reply #68 on:** February 02, 2012, 12:04:45 PM »

Because this one's got food!
What he meant by that is probably that faeries never have any money or valuables of the sort, this was when the other fairy was asking to take our money and gems, after all.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #69 on:** February 02, 2012, 12:10:01 PM »

They probably don't, because they're fairies. Why do we think this one is different enough to be worth mugging?

Potential rewards (or lack thereof) besides, note that we mug people by dropping down on them and smashing them into the ground. This fairy is ten feet from the top of a roughly forty-foot-high ravine and is hovering in mid-air. How is this even going to work logistically?

Vhaltz · « **Reply #70 on:** February 02, 2012, 12:21:40 PM »

Well, even if it's been established that faeries usually aren't worth mugging, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do so if they happen to have something we want. This seems like a nice mushroom spot, so either taking what she's picked so far or scaring her away to pick our own would be a good way to get our provisions for the day.
The mugging of the dress and hood thing is up to whether you people want to infiltrate the faeries to see what's going on with them. Going after a guy who managed to take us out even though we took him by surprise doesn't seem like that good an idea for now, unless we're equally curious to find out what he's doing around here.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #71 on:** February 02, 2012, 01:05:06 PM »

That doesn't answer the logistics question.

Desu_Cake · « **Reply #72 on:** February 02, 2012, 01:11:33 PM »

>Ignore the fairy and just gather some mushrooms. No sense picking fights over something if there's lots of it around.

Vhaltz · « **Reply #73 on:** February 02, 2012, 01:14:14 PM »

Totally missed that.
We're supposed to be pretty strong for our size, so giving her a flying tackle with our bucket could work. In case we're not confident of that being enough, we could make use of our stealth to sneak up behind her and knock her out with a rebar to the back of the head.

Cut by Desu_cake, so we might as well go with that. There seems to be a lot of these hooded fairies around so we'll find out what the deal with them is sooner or later.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #74 on:** February 02, 2012, 02:30:58 PM »

> Do the canine ears on the hood look natural or decoratively artificial?

It might be worth asking the fairy what's up with the hoods, especially if we've never seen them before. There could very well be something to them.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #75 on:** February 02, 2012, 03:44:16 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on February 02, 2012, 02:30:58 PM

> Do the canine ears on the hood look natural or decoratively artificial?

>You're pretty sure they are decorative.

Quote from: GET SMART on February 02, 2012, 05:47:21 AM

> Gank this mark. We've got a quota to hit, and no moonshine-haired human's gonna stop us.

Quote from: Desu_Cake on February 02, 2012, 01:11:33 PM

>Ignore the fairy and just gather some mushrooms. No sense picking fights over something if there's lots of it around.

>You consider mugging the faerie, then decide it's not really worth it to just for a bunch of mushrooms that you could easily gather on your own.
>You descend down into the ravine, and approach one of the mushroom patches. The faerie squeaks as she sees you and stops her own mushroom gathering. Then she looks at you with a smile and says, "Hey! Do you have any gold?"

>_

Desu_Cake · « **Reply #76 on:** February 02, 2012, 03:49:39 PM »

Hmm, this sounds familiar
>How is the gold market in Gensokyo lately?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #77 on:** February 02, 2012, 03:55:00 PM »

Quote from: Desu_Cake on February 02, 2012, 03:49:39 PM

>How is the gold market in Gensokyo lately?

>Like you have any stake in that! You really don't know, you've certainly not heard of any problems in the gold market. Then again, you also missed out on the time that all of the coinage in Gensokyo vanished just due to not having any. It wasn't until Nue told you about it that you found out.

>_

theshirn · « **Reply #78 on:** February 02, 2012, 03:56:02 PM »

> "Sure I do. It's in the bucket, next to the fluffy elephants and the shinigami scythe."
> Mugger faeries? The Underground's going to hell.

Vhaltz · « **Reply #79 on:** February 02, 2012, 03:59:24 PM »

> "Do you seriously get any gold from anybody blatantly asking for it like that?"

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #80 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:08:14 PM »

Quote from: GET SMART on February 02, 2012, 03:56:02 PM

> "Sure I do. It's in the bucket, next to the fluffy elephants and the shinigami scythe."
> Mugger faeries? The Underground's going to hell.

>The faerie's eyes widen, as does her grin. "Can I have some?"
>If this is the competition, then...you really don't know how to complete that analogy. Just what?

Quote from: Remilius on February 02, 2012, 03:59:24 PM

> "Do you seriously get any gold from anybody blatantly asking for it like that?"

>"Uh..." says the faerie, frowning now.

>_

theshirn · « **Reply #81 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:12:30 PM »

> Equivocating will probably just confuse her, and besides, she's thick enough that this'll probably work...
> "Say, what's with the ears, tiny?"

Vhaltz · « **Reply #82 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:21:49 PM »

> Point at them just in case she's forgotten that she's wearing them.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #83 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:48:05 PM »

Quote from: GET SMART on February 02, 2012, 04:12:30 PM

> Equivocating will probably just confuse her, and besides, she's thick enough that this'll probably work...
> "Say, what's with the ears, tiny?"

Quote from: Remilius on February 02, 2012, 04:21:49 PM

> Point at them just in case she's forgotten that she's wearing them.

>You gesture toward the faerie's decorative ears and ask about them. "Oh, they're what we wearl!" she says. "So, about that gold..."

>_

theshirn · « **Reply #84 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:50:10 PM »

> "Who's 'we'?"

Desu_Cake · « **Reply #85 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:53:43 PM »

>"Why are you faires so keen on getting gold all of a sudden anyway?"

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #86 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:35:35 PM »

Quote from: GET SMART on February 02, 2012, 04:50:10 PM

> "Who's 'we'?"

>The faerie blinks. "Us," she says.

Quote from: Desu_Cake on February 02, 2012, 04:53:43 PM

>"Why are you faires so keen on getting gold all of a sudden anyway?"

>"Because we wanna be rich," she says, tilting her head slightly.

>_

GuyYouMetOnline · « **Reply #87 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:36:46 PM »

>"Yeah, me, too."

Vhaltz · « **Reply #88 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:43:24 PM »

Oh fairies, you so silly :V

> "But there's a problem, you see. Being rich will make you famous, and strong people will come to beat you up and take your gold!"

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #89 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:52:19 PM »

Okay, multiple fairies wearing bizarre hoods we've never seen before using the same mannerisms to ask for the same thing that's incredibly uncommon and unlikely to be delivered simply on request really makes me want to check in on the Ancient City. I don't like most of the directions this could be headed and I want a control group ASAP.