Author Topic: Yukari Quest II - A Z-Machine Adventure (Read 50851 times)

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #930 on:** July 08, 2013, 02:13:03 PM »

> Let's try heading up that way, then. At least until we get far enough that we can resecure both our feet on footholds and go back to climbing up in a more normal fashion.

Yaersulf · « **Reply #931 on:** July 08, 2013, 02:13:57 PM »

>Use some of the protrusions to aid our ascent also.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #932 on:** July 08, 2013, 02:43:37 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 02:13:03 PM

> Let's try heading up that way, then. At least until we get far enough that we can resecure both our feet on footholds and go back to climbing up in a more normal fashion.

Quote from: Yaersulf on July 08, 2013, 02:13:57 PM

>Use some of the protrusions to aid our ascent also.

>It is slow going and a bit uncomfortable, but you shimmy your way up the log. After a couple yards of this, you are able to secure new handholds and climb more normally. The rest of the trip up goes smoothly as you can expect, and you pull yourself back up to the pavilion, aching and your dress unpleasantly covered with bark dust.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #933 on:** July 08, 2013, 03:38:59 PM »

> Give ourselves a minute to rest and de-ache, then dust ourselves off and resume the trek back to the musical bubble.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #934 on:** July 08, 2013, 04:46:24 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 03:38:59 PM

> Give ourselves a minute to rest and de-ache, then dust ourselves off and resume the trek back to the musical bubble.

>You rest for a moment, letting your limbs cease their complaining and trying to ignore your growling stomach. Once you feel sufficiently rested enough to resume the trip, you dust the bark from your dress and make your way back to the gap in front of the shrine. Stepping through the gap, and returning to your proper scale, it doesn't take too long to return to the first place where you encountered music without a source.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #935 on:** July 08, 2013, 04:50:24 PM »

> We thought we had a few ideas in how we could combine the two musical borders. What are they?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #936 on:** July 08, 2013, 08:01:37 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 04:50:24 PM

> We thought we had a few ideas in how we could combine the two musical borders. What are they?

>You may just be able to bring one inside of the other and remove its borders completely. Alternately, it may be possible to graft one onto the other, or to fuse their borders together entirely.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #937 on:** July 08, 2013, 09:39:25 PM »

> Let's step back inside the bubble, then (being careful not to pop it).
> Once we're inside, let the smaller border out of its gap.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #938 on:** July 08, 2013, 10:35:16 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 09:39:25 PM

> Let's step back inside the bubble, then (being careful not to pop it).
> Once we're inside, let the smaller border out of its gap.

>You step into the larger bubble, carefully opening a gap through it. You are immediately met with the same aimless shamisen music as before. You withdraw the sourceless harp music from its gap. Holding it, and trying not to pierce it with your fingers, you notice nothing unusual about it at the moment.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #939 on:** July 08, 2013, 10:43:00 PM »

> How dangerous to the harp sound would eliminating its borders entirely be?
> Are there any obviously suitable locations where we could fuse the two borders together?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #940 on:** July 08, 2013, 10:53:36 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 10:43:00 PM

> How dangerous to the harp sound would eliminating its borders entirely be?
> Are there any obviously suitable locations where we could fuse the two borders together?

>You have no idea. You aren't sure if the borders themselves are containing it or causing it.
>You could fuse them at just about any point that you like. They are overlapping in numerous places already outside of conventional space.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #941 on:** July 08, 2013, 10:58:52 PM »

> How reversible a process is fusing the borders?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #942 on:** July 08, 2013, 11:41:00 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 10:58:52 PM

> How reversible a process is fusing the borders?

>You aren't entirely certain, you don't quite know how well and thoroughly they will blend. But, as long as some element somewhere remains separate, you suspect you can prise them apart. It simply becomes a question of time and effort.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #943 on:** July 08, 2013, 11:44:23 PM »

> Let's try fusing them at a suitably symmetric location, then.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #944 on:** July 08, 2013, 11:52:45 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 11:44:23 PM

> Let's try fusing them at a suitably symmetric location, then.

>What do you wish to try to achieve with this fusion?

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #945 on:** July 08, 2013, 11:58:19 PM »

> What are our options?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #946 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:12:06 AM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 08, 2013, 11:58:19 PM

> What are our options?

>Largely, anything you can imagine. What do you wish for the result of this fusion to be?

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #947 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:22:00 AM »

> Something unusual to happen.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #948 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:23:48 AM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 09, 2013, 12:22:00 AM

> Something unusual to happen.

>Do you have no interest in trying to manipulate what the result may be?

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #949 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:34:20 AM »

Man I don't bloody know.

Anyone have any ideas? <_<

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #950 on:** July 09, 2013, 02:28:40 AM »

Whatever I'll just randomly pick something.

> Combine them in such a fashion that the two disembodied instruments play together.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #951 on:** July 09, 2013, 03:54:25 AM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 09, 2013, 02:28:40 AM

> Combine them in such a fashion that the two disembodied instruments play together.

>You set to work trying to fuse the borders together. You are pleased to find they are relatively similar in structure, which makes the task much less arduous than it could be. *You bind them together at a couple points at first, then work to secure the two borders together, finding that they fit quite nicely despite their different sizes. The small border stretches and skews itself as you work, distorting from a small oval into a kind of twisted star shape, then into brittle cone before vanishing altogether into the edges of the larger barrier. The lyre's music joins with the shamisen's, neither seeming to really compliment the other.

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Kilgamayan · « **Reply #952 on:** July 09, 2013, 03:58:57 AM »

> So nothing else unusual has happened, like maybe slightly more stable borders or anything?
> Can we play any musical instruments?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #953 on:** July 09, 2013, 04:20:57 AM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on July 09, 2013, 03:58:57 AM

> So nothing else unusual has happened, like maybe slightly more stable borders or anything?
> Can we play any musical instruments?

>Looking around, the borders may be a little less chaotic. It's hard to tell.
>You can play most simple woodwind instruments reasonably well. There was a time when you could play bow-based stringed instruments, but it's been so long that your skill has likely gone a few steps beyond rusty. Of late, you've taken an interest in those newfangled harpsichords, but you've never really found the time properly sit down and learn how to play more than the very basics.

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Yaersulf · « **Reply #954 on:** July 09, 2013, 05:43:26 AM »

>Would it be possible to get this new combined musical border into a gap?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #955 on:** July 09, 2013, 06:08:07 AM »

Quote from: Yaersulf on July 09, 2013, 05:43:26 AM

>Would it be possible to get this new combined musical border into a gap?

>It is much too large, you think, to make a gap that could fit it with conditions as they are.

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Yaersulf · « **Reply #956 on:** July 09, 2013, 10:29:06 AM »

>Would it be possible to compress it, while keeping it's musical functionality intact?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #957 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:24:18 PM »

Quote from: Yaersulf on July 09, 2013, 10:29:06 AM

>Would it be possible to compress it, while keeping it's musical functionality intact?

>This may be possible, if labor intensive. If you had your wrench, it would be markedly less so.

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Yaersulf · « **Reply #958 on:** July 09, 2013, 01:20:51 PM »

>What kind of factor of difficulty reduction are we looking at here?

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #959 on:** July 09, 2013, 01:52:49 PM »

Quote from: Yaersulf on July 09, 2013, 01:20:51 PM

>What kind of factor of difficulty reduction are we looking at here?

>As it stands, you would probably have to spend around an hour working on it. Which isn't very appealing on an empty stomach. With the right tool, you could probably reduce this to fifteen minutes.

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