Yukari Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

> "Good. Let us resume."
> Continue walking toward the center temple.
> "There is something else quite curious on top of what we have already observed. Out of curiosity, when you woke up and found yourself here, did you have anything with you?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Good. Let us resume."
> Continue walking toward the center temple.
> "There is something else quite curious on top of what we have already observed. Out of curiosity, when you woke up and found yourself here, did you have anything with you?"

>"Right," says Maribel.
>Will you be proceding along the road, or making a more direct path to the temple?
>"I...don't know what you're asking," Maribel says, frowning.

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[Kilgamayan]

> What would be the disadvantage to taking the direct approach?

[Hello Purvis]

> What would be the disadvantage to taking the direct approach?

>It's not certain to be faster; both ways are littered with debris. Aside from that, you can certainly think of several stories about those who stray from the path in alien situations...

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[Kilgamayan]

> Let's stick to the path, then.
> "Well, for example, were you wearing all of what you are wearing now?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's stick to the path, then.
> "Well, for example, were you wearing all of what you are wearing now?"

>You keep to the path, picking your way around broken and fallen columns.
>"You mean my nightgown and slippers? Well, yes. It was a little chilly that night."

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[Kilgamayan]

> And we were wearing nothing when we went to bed before waking up in the cavern?

[Hello Purvis]

> And we were wearing nothing when we went to bed before waking up in the cavern?

>Yes.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "So you haven't found any other clothing of yours, or personal items."

[Hello Purvis]

> "So you haven't found any other clothing of yours, or personal items."

>She shakes her head. "No, I haven't. Just what I had on me."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "When I woke up, I had nothing but my bedsheet. What you see on me now, I have recovered from these various worlds. Undergarments from the cavern, shoes from the forest we were just in, and dress for the fake Gensokyo."

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "When I woke up, I had nothing but my bedsheet. What you see on me now, I have recovered from these various worlds. Undergarments from the cavern, shoes from the forest we were just in, and dress for the fake Gensokyo."

>"Well that's weird," says Maribel. "Never heard of any kind of dimension crossing or whatever that stripped you when you passed through."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Oh, there's no need for concern in that regard. I was not wearing any of this last night when I went to bed. I am more concerned with the scattering of my outfit, as well as several of my personal items that should not have been accessible without my consent."
> Wave the magnifying glass around a little for emphasis on that last part.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh, there's no need for concern in that regard. I was not wearing any of this last night when I went to bed. I am more concerned with the scattering of my outfit, as well as several of my personal items that should not have been accessible without my consent."
> Wave the magnifying glass around a little for emphasis on that last part.

>"Yeah, that's weird," says Maribel. "Um...where were you things? Before you got drug here?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> What had we done with our clothes when we went to bed?
> We normally store our tools in pocket dimensions, yes?

[Hello Purvis]

> What had we done with our clothes when we went to bed?
> We normally store our tools in pocket dimensions, yes?

>Your clothing was scattered about the bedroom. Ran tends to do that.
>That is indeed how you store your tools.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Where they usually are."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Where they usually are."

>"Aren't you usually wearing them?" says Maribel. Then she pauses. "...Oh. Wait. Okay, I get what happened. So...huh. What do you think happened?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I don't know. I would perhaps be willing to chalk it up to a random scattering of things out of spite, but I found this dress at my house in the fake Gensokyo, and despite other garments and linens that I found there being fake, this is the real deal. It even had one of my possessions safely in its pocket, despite all of the other ones I have found so far being horribly mangled and deformed into things like balls of light or clouds."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I don't know. I would perhaps be willing to chalk it up to a random scattering of things out of spite, but I found this dress at my house in the fake Gensokyo, and despite other garments and linens that I found there being fake, this is the real deal. It even had one of my possessions safely in its pocket, despite all of the other ones I have found so far being horribly mangled and deformed into things like balls of light or clouds."

>"Sounds like that fake place is a bit weird, then," says Maribel. "Well, different weird than this weird. And, mangled? Your dress looks mostly fine, at least."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "My clothes have been relatively fine. My other non-clothing possessions, not so much. Aside from the one I found in my pocket, of course."

[Hello Purvis]

> "My clothes have been relatively fine. My other non-clothing possessions, not so much. Aside from the one I found in my pocket, of course."

>"Maybe different things happened to those non-clothing possessions?" says Maribel.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Evidently something did. But given what happened to all of my other clothes, and all of my other non-clothes, I find it very hard to believe that my real dress ended up in my fake house, hung where it would normally belong, with a perfectly intact object in its pocket by accident or chance."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Evidently something did. But given what happened to all of my other clothes, and all of my other non-clothes, I find it very hard to believe that my real dress ended up in my fake house, hung where it would normally belong, with a perfectly intact object in its pocket by accident or chance."

>"Well, it does suggest maybe that place is different," says Maribel, givign a shrug. "I dunno, I don't know enough about what happens there to say for certain."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Nor do I. I wish I had a better idea of what happened here. Hopefully our questions will be answered sooner rather than later, now that we have new places to investigate."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Nor do I. I wish I had a better idea of what happened here. Hopefully our questions will be answered sooner rather than later, now that we have new places to investigate."

>"Well, tell me about it on the way there," says Maribel. "You said it was fake. How was it fake, exactly? You said something about the houses being weird."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "The houses had no sense of interior design. They were all the same bland, boring houses, each similar to the last."

[Hello Purvis]

> "The houses had no sense of interior design. They were all the same bland, boring houses, each similar to the last."

>"Yeah, that's wrong," says Maribel. "Anything else catch your eyes?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I asked the Komeiji matriarch to scan myself as a test. During the process, I thought of several things she should have reacted to, but she never did. In fact, she eventually...broke herself somehow, I think."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I asked the Komeiji matriarch to scan myself as a test. During the process, I thought of several things she should have reacted to, but she never did. In fact, she eventually...broke herself somehow, I think."

>"That sounds weird. What do you mean by broke?" says Maribel.

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