Yukari Quest IV - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Start following the yellow strip.

>You begin to follow the yellow strip, as it twists and wends its way through the field of royal purple. Soon, you can see there is a reasonably thick cluster of green dots in the distance around it, as well as a number of black dots that are somewhat harder to distinguish.

>_

[日巫子]

> Do the green dots give off any sort of emotions that we can feel from here?

[Hello Purvis]

> Do the green dots give off any sort of emotions that we can feel from here?

>You are not quite close enough to tell right now, but they seem to match the color of the green field you were in earlier, which imparted a pleasant sensation.

>_

[日巫子]

> Are we sensing anything from the black dots?
> Can we see an end to the yellow strip?

[Hello Purvis]

> Are we sensing anything from the black dots?
> Can we see an end to the yellow strip?

>You are also not close enough to them. But if they are like the black dots you experienced before, they would impart a deep and powerful sense of confusion.
>As of yet, you have not seen an end to the yellow strip.

>_

[日巫子]

> Keep following that yellow brick road!

[Hello Purvis]

> Keep following that yellow brick road!

>You continue to follow it, slipping around the dots of black and green, confirming they do give off the sensations that you anticipated from each. In particular, you find the black to be extremely disorienting, but you feel you feel strong enough that you can still keep your wits about yourself.
>Following the strip of yellow for a bit more time, you find that it soon leads toward another field of black.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Go back to the green dots.
> Once we're there, approach one and emanate unpleasant thoughts... Say, the moment we woke up in the caves.

[Hello Purvis]

> Go back to the green dots.
> Once we're there, approach one and emanate unpleasant thoughts... Say, the moment we woke up in the caves.

>You backtrack to where the dots are, the amber cloud switching directions and following you.
>It is not difficult to find unpleasant thoughts to fixate upon with regards to this situation.  The green dot before you quickly fades away into the surrounding royal purple, you aren't sure if had a notable effect on the field

>_

[日巫子]

> Continue to emit feelings of unease and anxiety towards the green dots.

[Hello Purvis]

> Continue to emit feelings of unease and anxiety towards the green dots.

>With the amber cloud's assistance, you do so, melting them into the surrounding royal purple, which seems to darken a bit as you complete the task.  The black dots remain around the strip of yellow, a couple dozen of them.

>_

[日巫子]

> What kind of sensation do the black dots give off?

[Hello Purvis]

> What kind of sensation do the black dots give off?

>The give of an overwhelming sense of confusion. Normally, it is enough to be very unpleasant to you. But, at the moment, you feel that you can endure it.

>_

[日巫子]

> Try emitting a sense of confidence and understanding...say, how we feel when we find one of our tools.

[Hello Purvis]

> Try emitting a sense of confidence and understanding...say, how we feel when we find one of our tools.

>You try to emit a sense of confidence and understanding toward a black dot, and it does not react.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>Let's try a sense of contentment and satisfaction at the confusion blobs.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's try a sense of contentment and satisfaction at the confusion blobs.

>You try this as well, and the black dots do not seem to react.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>What does royal purple give off again?

[Hello Purvis]

>What does royal purple give off again?

>A feeling of strength, in sense of power and in the sense of physical and emotional hardiness.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>Mm...and the black dots are also in this field, aren't they?

[Hello Purvis]

>Mm...and the black dots are also in this field, aren't they?

>They are. You aren't certain if they are affected by it, they don't feel any stronger than the ones you've dealt with before.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>But they're resilient...
>Convey a sense of clarity to the black to the black dots.

[Hello Purvis]

>But they're resilient...
>Convey a sense of clarity to the black to the black dots.

>They do seem to be.
>How will you convey a sense of clarity?

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>Let's remember that time of the Brocken Spectre issue, when we finally figured everything out regarding it, and deigned to offer Iku our benelovent and necessary aid.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's remember that time of the Brocken Spectre issue, when we finally figured everything out regarding it, and deigned to offer Iku our benelovent and necessary aid.

>Focusing on a reasonably proud moment when everything came together, you project a sense of clarity toward the black dot. Its color fades to a charcoal gray, and the sense of confusion fades from it.

>_

[UncertainJakutten]

>What sense are we getting from the charcoal gray?

[Hello Purvis]

>What sense are we getting from the charcoal gray?

>It feels like part of a gap, if you had taken one and messily shredded it into pieces.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Anymore black dots around? If so, approach each one and emanate the same feeling as before.

I assume we can make a full gap if we take care of the black.

[Hello Purvis]

> Anymore black dots around? If so, approach each one and emanate the same feeling as before.

>There are still a couple dozen of them.
>You move from black dot to black dot, projecting a sense of clarity at them and causing them to lighten from black to charcoal gray. The amber tries to assist, but it does not seems to have any luck with causing any of them to lighten. After a few tries, the amber radiates more frustration than clarity and returns to examining the strip of yellow.
>Once you have finished, there are now a couple dozen dots of charcoal gray.

>_

[Serela]

>Attempt to gather them

(...no, I'm not sure how to go about doing that, at all >_>; Try to herd them around if we can't use any kind of gap-manipulation tricks on them instead?)