Yukari Quest IV - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> "Are you sure you wish to ask me that question?"
> Open the gap with the screwdriver while speaking.

>"I wouldn't be asking otherwise," says Maribel as you open the gap without an issue.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Put the screwdriver away with a chuckle.
> "But isn't life more interesting when some mysteries are never solved? You may look now."

[Hello Purvis]

> Put the screwdriver away with a chuckle.
> "But isn't life more interesting when some mysteries are never solved? You may look now."

>You stash your screwdriver away and tell Maribel she can look now. She turns around and shakes her head. "Even if you can't solve 'em, you still have to try. What what'd you do, anyways?"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Gesture at the gap.
> "I gave us a puncher's chance. Come, follow."
> Here goes nothing!
> Step through the gap.

[O4rfish]

A what?

[Kilgamayan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Humanities/2006_July_18#The_origin_or_history_of_the_phrase_.22Punchers_Chance.22.

[Hello Purvis]

> Gesture at the gap.
> "I gave us a puncher's chance. Come, follow."
> Here goes nothing!
> Step through the gap.

>"A what chance?" says Maribel, but you step into the gap and she is hastens to keep up before the gap closes.
>You are met with powerful wave of dizziness as you step from the gap, followed by a deep and uncharacteristic sense of disorientation. You cannot tell which way is up or down, which is an incredibly rare situation for you even outside of three-dimensional space! There are colors everywhere.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Is this a gravitational issue or just a visual issue?

[Hello Purvis]

> Is this a gravitational issue or just a visual issue?

>You suspect it may be both at the moment.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Close your eyes!"
> Turn around and find Maribel and the gap.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Close your eyes!"
> Turn around and find Maribel and the gap.

>You try to shout out to Maribel, but find that your efforts to speak simply do not work. In fact, you cannot feel the effort having gone through at all...
>You attempt to turn, but nothing happens. Instead, you feel a curious sense of disembodiment, and the colors seem to shift around you. Two of them immediately catch your attention, one is an amber-colored sort of cloud that emanates a strong feeling of confusion and disorientation. Just behind it is a thin slash of charcoal gray, which feels precisely like a dormant gap.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> We must be a cloud as well, then. Now we know how our screwdriver felt!
> Send feelings of calm and reassurance toward the amber cloud.
> Shift our orientation around and focus on some of the other colors here.

[Hello Purvis]

> We must be a cloud as well, then. Now we know how our screwdriver felt!
> Send feelings of calm and reassurance toward the amber cloud.
> Shift our orientation around and focus on some of the other colors here.

>You quickly decide you must have undergone a process similar to your screwdriver's, and try to send feelings of calm and reassurance toward the amber cloud. In turn, you are met with a feeling of surprise, followed by a sort of pleased sensation and then a general wariness that doesn't seem to be directed at you in particular. The sense of disorientation remains, but seems less intense.
>You focus your attention elsewhere taking in other colors. There is a fair amount of green here, you find, with wisps of yellow and blue moving throughout.  Above, as you decide to label it, you can see the green give way to a kind of bright brown, with swirls of red visible here and there. The green gives you a reasonably comfortable feeling, the others do not seem to. You suspect they may not be close enough.

>_

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Can we sense anything from the blues and yellows?
> Is there any sound?

[Hello Purvis]

> Can we sense anything from the blues and yellows?
> Is there any sound?

>Right now, you do not sense anything from them.
>You have not heard any sounds at all. In trying to listen for them, you become aware of a kind of weak vibration that you can feel within yourself.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Fortune favors the bold cloud. Let's try to float upward a little towards those browns and reds.

[Hello Purvis]

> Fortune favors the bold cloud. Let's try to float upward a little towards those browns and reds.

>You ascend toward the light brown color. As you do, you pass close to a wisp of yellow, and feel vibrations from it, not until the ones within you. It passes as you leave the yellow behind.
>Approaching the cloud of light brown, you get a feeling of excitement and giddiness from it. There is a little red nearby, and you feel it is pushing you away.
>The amber cloud follows after you, radiating a feeling that has less disorientation than before, and a mingled sense of curiosity and wariness.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> ...Ran and Reimu??
> Send feelings of curiosity and unsure happiness at both the brown and red clouds.

[Hello Purvis]

> ...Ran and Reimu??
> Send feelings of curiosity and unsure happiness at both the brown and red clouds.

>You ponder if they correspond to Ran and Reimu, and attempt to communicate with them. The feelings you receive from them do not change.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Float toward the brown in excitement.

[Hello Purvis]

> Float toward the brown in excitement.

>You float toward the brown region, leaving the green behind.  As you do, you can almost feel its sense of excitement permeate your being. While you've never been able to personally experience being a kid on a festival morning, you are certain this is akin to what it must feel like.  Beyond it, you can see a field of orange; filled with waves of red and yellow, and speckled with motes of black.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Has the brown moved at all since we spotted it?

[Hello Purvis]

> Has the brown moved at all since we spotted it?

>You the edges of it may have ebbed and flowed a little with the green, but overall it has not seemed to have moved.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Emote concern toward the brown. If it's another person, like Ran, why haven't they moved?

[Hello Purvis]

> Emote concern toward the brown. If it's another person, like Ran, why haven't they moved?

>You send your concern toward the brown, and receive nothing in response. The sense of excitement from it does not change.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Strange.
> Orient our focus toward the red.

[Hello Purvis]

> Strange.
> Orient our focus toward the red.

>You face the small splash of red, and feel a sense of repulsion from it, as though it is trying to push you away.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Float toward it regardless.

[Hello Purvis]

> Float toward it regardless.

>You attempt to force your way closer to the red, crossing into the brown in the process. You can feel the brown's excitement all around you as you approach the red, finding that your approach grows slower and slower as you get closer. Soon, it feels like you are making no progress at all toward it.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Try opening a gap from our current position to behind the red cloud.