Yukari Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

> "She simply stopped doing anything and went into a sort of catatonic state. I dropped her off with the Lunarians, for whatever good it will do if my theory about that world is correct."

[Hello Purvis]

> "She simply stopped doing anything and went into a sort of catatonic state. I dropped her off with the Lunarians, for whatever good it will do if my theory about that world is correct."

>"Yeah," says Maribel. "If she's fake, then I suppose it's hard to actually fake mind reading. Was there anything else notable?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Recall the circumstances that led to us discovering the gap that led us out of fake Gensokyo in a different location than expected.

[Hello Purvis]

> Recall the circumstances that led to us discovering the gap that led us out of fake Gensokyo in a different location than expected.

>The one time you remember it happening clearly was when you tried to look into the Outside World from a naturally occurring hole in the Hakurei Barrier, and found the outside world was just a hazy and indistinct sort of shifting landscape that dissolved away into nothing but gray mist as you observed it.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "There was one other thing, yes. When I tried to peer into the Outside World, it was very hazy, and sort of faded away into gray mist, eventually revealing the gap I had used to arrive in the fake Gensokyo in the first place."

[Hello Purvis]

> "There was one other thing, yes. When I tried to peer into the Outside World, it was very hazy, and sort of faded away into gray mist, eventually revealing the gap I had used to arrive in the fake Gensokyo in the first place."

>"Huh," says Maribel. "So it was kind of like an illusion melting or something? I've read about those a little."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "That is one way to describe it, yes. Where have you seen this sort of thing before?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "That is one way to describe it, yes. Where have you seen this sort of thing before?"

>"Not seen, just read about," says Maribel. "I figured it'd be important if I ever met a fox youkai or something. But, maybe the gap didn't move at all?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "That is quite possible, given one accepts that the Gensokyo I found is indeed fake."

[Hello Purvis]

> "That is quite possible, given one accepts that the Gensokyo I found is indeed fake."

>"Sounds pretty fake to me to me so far," Maribel says. "I'm guessing you have some reservations, though?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "Some of the people there are very good actors if they're fake."

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "Some of the people there are very good actors if they're fake."

>"Foxes are pretty good at that, aren't they? Making fake people? Not that I really think it's a fox, just it's possible."
>"Thinking about it, the fact everything turned gray and misty seems to be the real important part. You didn't see that anywhere else, did you?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> We haven't, have we?

[Hello Purvis]

> We haven't, have we?

>The closest you can think of was when you were first experimenting, and tried to bring a rope tied to a tree through the gap. When you looked back through the gap after the rope failed to follow you through, all you saw were wisps of gray mist dissolving away. Given how little there was and how little time you had to examine it, you aren't sure if they were the same thing, but...

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[Kilgamayan]

> "There was one other time, yes. After unsuccessfully trying to take some things out of the fake Gensokyo through the portal,I tried tying a rope to a tree and taking it through. whel it did not follow me through, I looked back into the fake Gensokyo, and saw it dissolving into gray mist-ish."

[Hello Purvis]

> "There was one other time, yes. After unsuccessfully trying to take some things out of the fake Gensokyo through the portal,I tried tying a rope to a tree and taking it through. whel it did not follow me through, I looked back into the fake Gensokyo, and saw it dissolving into gray mist-ish."

>"Mmm," says Maribel. "I suppose a broken illusion could give off mist? Or be made of mist? I'm not sure, I didn't read anything like that, but I didn't see anything that said it could be impossible..."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "So what exactly did you read about?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "So what exactly did you read about?"

>"Just some basics," says Maribel, stepping over a column section. "I was kind of hoping to pick up the knack for it, but I never really had time. So I just figured out what I could about the general theories and stuff, so I'd be better prepared if I ended up someplace like the edge of the netherworld again."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "So what do you think what I have described means?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "So what do you think what I have described means?"

>"I can't say for sure," says Maribel. "But the part where you saw the gap where it wasn't supposed to be really sounds like something was up."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Oh, definitely. I'm not sure why it happened that way, however."

[Serela]

>We've been walking towards the temple, right? Are we there yet?

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh, definitely. I'm not sure why it happened that way, however."

>"Why what happened that way, exactly?"

>We've been walking towards the temple, right? Are we there yet?

>You have been, and you're getting close.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Why that gap appeared in two allegedly different places at once. Though I suppose the implication would be that, if that fake Gensokyo is just illusion magic, it was actually the same place and I didn't actually move around the way I thought I did."
> A gap like that wouldn't just move on its own somehow, would it?

[Hello Purvis]

> "Why that gap appeared in two allegedly different places at once. Though I suppose the implication would be that, if that fake Gensokyo is just illusion magic, it was actually the same place and I didn't actually move around the way I thought I did."
> A gap like that wouldn't just move on its own somehow, would it?

>She nods. "That's what I was thinking."
>You'd be aware of it if it did.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Hmm, an interesting theory. I do wonder why I was able to find my dress and its contents, however."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Hmm, an interesting theory. I do wonder why I was able to find my dress and its contents, however."

>"I'd guess that they also came from outside, like you did," says Maribel.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I meant more in the sense that I moved somewhere, found them, and then moved other places."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I meant more in the sense that I moved somewhere, found them, and then moved other places."

>"Well, if this is right, you didn't actually move at all, though," says Maribel. "They would have been there the whole time. Just hidden."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "By more illusions?"