Yukari Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Frown. "Ah, my sympathies. You will be okay to keep going onward, I hope?"

>"Yeah, I'm fine," she says. "It's just a stub."

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"Very well, this isn't exactly the best place to incapacitate yourself; as I'm sure you're aware."
>Where in relation to where we are now is the area with the music bubbles?
>Could we gap there?

[Hello Purvis]

>"Very well, this isn't exactly the best place to incapacitate yourself; as I'm sure you're aware."
>Where in relation to where we are now is the area with the music bubbles?
>Could we gap there?

>"Yeah, yeah," says Maribel.
>You are still a world away.  But once you cross through the gap here, it should be easy enough to gap directly to it.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Do we remember where the gap on this island is?

[Hello Purvis]

> Do we remember where the gap on this island is?

>You are pretty much on top of it. Unless you mean the one that brought you here from caverns; that one is more toward the center of the island.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> Head on through the gap back to the forest dimension.

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> Head on through the gap back to the forest dimension.

>You open another gap, and return to the island that you set down into the forests below. Glancing around, you are pleased to see that nothing seems to have changed.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Gap ourselves on down to where the music bubble is.

[Hello Purvis]

> Gap ourselves on down to where the music bubble is.

>It is a simple manner to create a gap down to the larger disembodied music. You step out and can sense it in front of you. Maribel draws back a little bit once she emerges.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Now, let's see here..."
> Pull out the drum bubble.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Now, let's see here..."
> Pull out the drum bubble.

>You withdraw the disembodied music that you recently found.
>"Do I need to duck and cover or anything?" Maribel asks.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "I certainly hope not."
> Give the drum another listen, and then give the shamisen/lyre pseudo-combo another listen. How do they match up rhythmically?

[Hello Purvis]

> "I certainly hope not."
> Give the drum another listen, and then give the shamisen/lyre pseudo-combo another listen. How do they match up rhythmically?

>You sample both the instances of disembodied music. As it stands, the combination of shamisen and lyre don't really mesh too well. But, the drums could bring them together.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> While combining the drums with the stringed instruments, could we adjust their tempos at all?

[Hello Purvis]

> While combining the drums with the stringed instruments, could we adjust their tempos at all?

>You might be able to? You would have to figure out what exactly controls their tempo to begin with, which is a slight problem as you aren't sure what is making the music to begin with.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Unfortunate. Let's combine the drums with the strings in the same matter that we combined the strings earlier, then.

[Hello Purvis]

> Unfortunate. Let's combine the drums with the strings in the same matter that we combined the strings earlier, then.

>You introduce the two borders together, carefully stripping them down and recombining them into a whole without trying to denature either. This isn't as hard as it could be, as both are zones of relative stability. It does take a few minutes to complete, as the borders warp and shift, spreading and recombining in different ways. As far as normal space is concerned, the field of sourceless music changes and shifts, reaching into the sky some yards and spreading, taking on a shape rather like an hourglass on one side, and a slightly concave curve on the opposite, rounding itself out between them. The border feels markedly more stable now. Not quite what you would expect from home, but sturdy enough that it doesn't feel as though it will unavoidably collapse upon itself anytime soon.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Let's have another listen.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's have another listen.

>Sampling the music itself, you find that the drums have blended in fairly well. It's still fairly incomplete as a song, you think, but the basic harmony of a song is starting to form now, rather than just two instruments barely interacting with each other. It sounds like a rather folksy tune, rather than anything you would expect from from a high-born composer or classically-trained musician.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Pull out, smile and gesture toward the bubble.
> "It seems the composition is starting to come together. Would you like to have a listen? Be gentle entering it, though."

[Hello Purvis]

> Pull out, smile and gesture toward the bubble.
> "It seems the composition is starting to come together. Would you like to have a listen? Be gentle entering it, though."

>"Sure," says Maribel, as she approaches and passes into it.
>"Oh, it feels way less unsettling, too," she says. "I had almost forgotten what it was like."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Pardoning the pun, how well-versed are we with musical knowledge?
> "Can you think of anything that might be missing?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Pardoning the pun, how well-versed are we with musical knowledge?
> "Can you think of anything that might be missing?"

>Reasonably. You have quite a good deal of formal knowledge in theory, but in reality it was centuries ago when you had an interest in that, and you've forgotten a lot of the finer points. You can still play a few instruments, though you are likely intolerably rusty at the moment.
>"Well," says Maribel. "I'm no songwriter, but maybe some kind of flute? Or an accordion or something? I don't know, but it definitely isn't a whole song."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> What, in our pseudo-professional opinion, might be missing, then? Perhaps a flute or other woodwind, like Mary suggests? Maybe vocals? Something else entirely?

[Hello Purvis]

> What, in our pseudo-professional opinion, might be missing, then? Perhaps a flute or other woodwind, like Mary suggests? Maybe vocals? Something else entirely?

>You could conceivably fit a lot of things into the missing space, so to speak. A woodwind or keyed instrument would do well, a singer could do nicely.  A brass instrument might we welcome, too.

>_

[O4rfish]

Maybe a trumpet and an electric keyboard.

[Kilgamayan]

> List of unexplored gaps.

[Hello Purvis]

> List of unexplored gaps.

>Aside from the two you recently discovered in the temple and the island. You can only think of a couple now; the one in the crystal palace and two in the rocky wastelands.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "A flute might be nice, yes. Or perhaps some brass, or even a voice. But I suspect we'll find the answer sooner or later. Shall we resume our exploration?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "A flute might be nice, yes. Or perhaps some brass, or even a voice. But I suspect we'll find the answer sooner or later. Shall we resume our exploration?"

>"If you're ready," says Maribel. "And yeah, those could work too, I suppose."

>_