Yukari Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> How would we go about doing this?

>The simplest way would be to open gaps between their composite borders via your screwdriver. Creative use of your tools may be able to do it in other ways.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Could we open a very precise gap to gap-storage so that the item would fall into it but not any of the roots?

[Hello Purvis]

>Could we open a very precise gap to gap-storage so that the item would fall into it but not any of the roots?

>Given it is being held, this is terribly unlikely.

>_

[Serela]

>Let's go stabbity stabbity with the screwdriver at the roots then. Erm. Using gaps between their borders to break them, that is.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's go stabbity stabbity with the screwdriver at the roots then. Erm. Using gaps between their borders to break them, that is.

>Taking careful stock of the situation, as much as you can with the uneasiness that you feel around these roots, you open a series of small gaps around the roots, neatly prying apart the physical borders. The roots break and sever, and your Vise Grips begin to tumble toward the ground, the ends of the roots still attached to it.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Could we now grab them?

[Hello Purvis]

> Could we now grab them?

>It would likely be very unwise to grab it, but you could.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Attempt to pry the root-bits off the Vice-Grips with the end of our screwdriver.

[Hello Purvis]

>Attempt to pry the root-bits off the Vice-Grips with the end of our screwdriver.

>You do not presently have the Vise Grips in your possession to do this. Do you wish to let it fall, then risk reaching through the roots to do this?

>_

[Serela]

>Can we have it fall into a item-storage gap?

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we have it fall into a item-storage gap?

>You can do this.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Do so.

[Hello Purvis]

>Do so.

>You open up a gap under the falling vise grip and put it among your other things.
>You obtain: Yukari's Vise Grip (Root-tainted)
>The broken roots begin slowly ooze a viscous clear fluid from their broken parts. Some of this drips down in globs, splashing down and splattering on the roots below,

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Gather up our things and return to Maribel.
>"We're done here let's go."
>Escape from this personal hell.

[Mr. Sacchi]

You sure we don't want to explore the rest of that path? Roots aside, it is more to explore.

Unless you wanna leave this area for last so we can do all of the things our Vise-Grips will allow us to.

[O4rfish]

>Can we tell what it would take to cleanse the taint from our tool?

[Hello Purvis]

Will process the other in a few hours if there's no objections.

>Can we tell what it would take to cleanse the taint from our tool?

>You would have to get the root bits and ichor off of it.

>_

[Yaersulf]

We've found something here, this place is full of roots, and we don't want to keep Maribel waiting. We can come back here later if we run out of places to go, but I think Yukari really wouldn't want to stick around.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Well, if I'm being Right Genre Savvy here, the tool that would let us finish the quest (Astrolabe) would be in the most challenging place possible (And a corridor full of roots is as close as we've gotten so far) though that's using outside character knowledge, so whatever.

So I guess if we don't find all of the tools by the time we finish exploring everything else, we can come here again.

>Gather up our things and return to Maribel.
>"We're done here let's go."
>Escape from this personal hell.

> Do this, now.

(Unless anybody else has any objections?)

[Hello Purvis]

>Gather up our things and return to Maribel.
>"We're done here let's go."
>Escape from this personal hell.

>You return to Maribel. "Yukari, is that you?" she says, looking vaguely toward your direction as you approach. She seems satisfied when you reply.  "Yeah, I don't wanna stay here another minute."
>You open the gap and usher Maribel out. Back under the light of the multicolored sky, still among the roots, she has to pause and let her eyes adjust to the change.  As for you, the feelings of unease don't quite go away, but they feel quite a bit more manageable now. "I think I heard something before," she says. "Aas that you making some kind of...I don't know, something like a whine?"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Did we hear whining?

[Hello Purvis]

> Did we hear whining?

>Not that you recall. The only sounds you heard were the sounds of your footsteps and the roots being severed, followed by your vise grip bouncing off of a couple of other roots before you caught it in a gap.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Retrace back our memories, do we think we may have slipped and whined without really noticing?

> If not: "I didn't hear anything, deary."

[Hello Purvis]

> Retrace back our memories, do we think we may have slipped and whined without really noticing?

> If not: "I didn't hear anything, deary."

>You most certainly did not slip, you were very careful in there.
>"Weird," says Maribel, "So, was there anything in there?"

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> We did mention about our tools to Maribel, right?

[Hello Purvis]

> We did mention about our tools to Maribel, right?

>She knows they exist, but not what they are or why they are important, just that secrecy is paramount.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> "I managed to find another one of my tools entangled by the roots, I managed to retrieve it, but it is - unfortunately - still covered by them."
> List of unexplored gaps.

[Kilgamayan]

> "Though...hmm. There was a point where I had to sever a couple of roots. When exactly did you hear this noise?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "I managed to find another one of my tools entangled by the roots, I managed to retrieve it, but it is - unfortunately - still covered by them."
> List of unexplored gaps.

>"Ah," says Maribel. "We should probably do something about those."
>At this point, there are four you haven't looked into. The one in the crystal palace, the one in the floating temple, and two in the rocky wastes.

> "Though...hmm. There was a point where I had to sever a couple of roots. When exactly did you hear this noise?"

>"It was a couple minutes after you left, I think," says Maribel. "I dunno, it's hard to tell time when you're alone in the dark and kinda trying to keep from panicking."

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Which one of these gaps did we need the Vise-Grips for?