Patchy Quest One More Time: A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Check physical condition
> Stare down this new foe

>Your back is in quite a bit of pain from numerous stings and physical activity. Your face and hands are also quite sore. You periodically feel a curious warm, wet sensation on your face. You have having difficulty seeing due to the swarm. You are trying to keep your breath depend your suddenly flurry of activity, and are doing fairly well in that respect.
>You stare down the distorting eye as well as you can, but keeping in motion makes this difficult. It seems to be spreading out like a blob of melted wax, now.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>honey... wax...
>Damnit, Porky. Is THIS what you did with the Perfectly Safe Capsule?
>If possible to speak without suffocating on bees, "And what makes you so happy, Jeff?!"

[Hello Purvis]

>honey... wax...
>Damnit, Porky. Is THIS what you did with the Perfectly Safe Capsule?
>If possible to speak without suffocating on bees, "And what makes you so happy, Jeff?!"

>You are able to spit out a quick phrase without getting any bees in your mouth. The swarm does not seem to reply.
>You hold your ground against the oncoming portion of the face, and flow apart into the rest of the swarm. You think you can glimpse some motion deeper inside. It looks like something light-colored. Perhaps Yuyuko?

>_

[Toasty]

>display positive emotion as humanly as possible
>continue slicing bees with the sword
>inventory
>abilities

[Hello Purvis]

>display positive emotion as humanly as possible
>continue slicing bees with the sword
>inventory
>abilities

>You try to keep a positive outlook, every moment you distract it buys Sanae that much more time. Every moment you defy it is another moment you've denied it it's power.
>You keep the sword in motion as well as you can. No doubt Youmu or Sakuya would click their tongues at your clumsy slashes and slices, but they are not here and they certainly aren't typically in the middle of a swarm of horrors!
>Your Inventory contains:
>Suspiciously Sleepwear-Like Witch Gown (worn as clothes)
>Witch Cap (Worn as Hat)
>Metal Sign: Metal Fatigue
>Ballpoint Pen
>Pad of Paper
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon (Used)
>Fire & Earth Sign: Lava Cromlech (used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine (Used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine High Level (used)
>Wood Sign: Sylphae Horn High Level (used)
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon High Level
>Earth Sign: Trilithon Shake (used)
>Metal Sign: Silver Dragon
>Wood and Fire Sign: Forest Blaze (used)
>Wood and Water Sign: Water Elf  (Used)
>Earth and Metal Sign: Emerald Megalith (used)
>Moon Sign: Silent Selene (used)
>Lucky Coin
>Banson's Aria
>Cardboard Sleeve
>Ladle
>Floating Trumpet
>Half of a Grilled Lamprey Sandwich
>Tiger Cub Pin (wore as accessory)
>Explosion Sign: Mega Flare (Used)
>Electric Train Set
>Wheel
>Shoddy Drawing
>Ruined Hat
>Doughnut
>Box
>Butterfly Fan
>Book Entitled: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
>Sun Sign: Mega Flare (used)
>Sun Sign: Royal Flare (used)
>Pair of Black Glasses
>Horribly Out of Date Map of Gensokyo
>Double Handful of Charred Legos of Fuckwin
>Mona Patchy, by Flandre Age 501
>Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room
>Youmu's Short Blade.
>Book Entitled: Monday Magic by Patchouli Knowledge: 1500☼
>Your Skills Are
>Weekday Magic
>Your magical skills are many, though outside of spellcards it tends to take a lot of components or concentration to achieve anything. You can also make educated guesses about how other people's magic works.
>Enchantation
>With the right items and components, you can create enchanted items. This may take some time. You can also identify what is needed to make a particular item, or make educated guesses on what was used to make any given object if you can examine it.
>Potionwrighting
>You can craft potions, given the proper ingredients. You are also knowledgible about many common and esoteric potion ingredients
>Authorcraft
>You are a competent author. You can write well, and given effective criticism of other writings
>Library Scientist
>You can maintain a library like none other. Book binding, book repair, book organization, and such are like second nature to you.
>Spellcarding
>You can make spellcards that draw upon your knowledge and abilities, given the weeks it takes to do such a thing.
>Research
>You can research like a sumbitch. Given a good library, you can root out all sorts of obscure knowledge with amazing speed.
>Dancecrafting
>You know how to cut a little rug.
>Barristration
>You can argue in defense of someone in a trial and not sound like a mook.

[Fightest]

> Oh well, it's the final showdown, isn't it? And Yuyuko's already dead, right? And fire seems to be working quite well...
> Approach Yuyuko as quickly as possible.
> Apologise profusely.
> Set Yuyuko's clothes on fire.
> Set our book on fire. Screw 3rd degree burns on our hands and arms.
> Wade into the swarm, swinging the burning book.

[Hello Purvis]

> Oh well, it's the final showdown, isn't it? And Yuyuko's already dead, right? And fire seems to be working quite well...
> Approach Yuyuko as quickly as possible.
> Apologise profusely.
> Set Yuyuko's clothes on fire.
> Set our book on fire. Screw 3rd degree burns on our hands and arms.
> Wade into the swarm, swinging the burning book.

>You try to make your way toward the motion you saw. What you find is not Yuyuko, but a random ghost that seems to be lost amidst the swarm. The bees are attacking it, as well.
>Which book?

>_

[Fightest]

>Which book?

>_

> ALL OF THEM Monday Magic. Let's try to keep high literature intact for now.
> A random ghost? That wasn't here last time we checked.
> "Identify yourself!"
> Flail at bees.

[Hello Purvis]

> ALL OF THEM Monday Magic. Let's try to keep high literature intact for now.
> A random ghost? That wasn't here last time we checked.
> "Identify yourself!"
> Flail at bees.

>You try to the Book Entitled: Monday Magic by Patchouli Wisdom. It does not burn.
>...Oh yes, you enchanted it against things like that, as you did not wish to spend another two years rewriting it because Koakuma tripped and knocked over a candle.
>You can feel some more warm wet things splash against your face.
>The ghost does not reply. This is not particularly surprising. Without the proper magicks, ghosts and humans cannot normally communicate, with the exception of Yuyuko.. But usually they can acknowledge each other's presence. This ones doesn't seem to know you are here. In fact, it doesn't seem to be aware that it's being assaulted by the swarm. It just sort of floats there impassively.
>You flail at the bees with Youmu's Shorter Blade, lacking anything else to do it with.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>well, he did say he didn't want to be a doll, and it seems like mr. Giygas needs something to inhabit...
>approach wayward spirit
>recall Mona Patchy and Blessing of the Great Destructor for moral support

[Fightest]

> Set everything on fire that is likely to burn (aside from prized mementoes) - Butterfly Fan, Shoddy Drawing, Pad of Paper, Cardboard Sleeve, Box.

[E-Nazrin]

> Set everything on fire that is likely to burn (aside from prized mementoes) - Butterfly Fan, Shoddy Drawing, Pad of Paper, Cardboard Sleeve, Box.

>it would help more if we could get these flames onto the bees, rather than things we own.
>What's this wet crap anyway? Tears? Honey? Both?

[Hello Purvis]

>well, he did say he didn't want to be a doll, and it seems like mr. Giygas needs something to inhabit...
>approach wayward spirit
>recall Mona Patchy and Blessing of the Great Destructor for moral support

>You work your way closer to the wayward ghost, which is not an easy task, and the pain is starting to make your eyes water.
>Soon, you are close enough that you could touch it under less dire circumstances. It still does not seem to acknowledge you or anything else there. Instead just floats there, rather like a jellyfish.
>You think to the picture residing in your pocket, and it helps fight away some of the despair. If Flandre can persevere, so can you.

> Set everything on fire that is likely to burn (aside from prized mementoes) - Butterfly Fan, Shoddy Drawing, Pad of Paper, Cardboard Sleeve, Box.

> Set everything on fire that is likely to burn (aside from prized mementoes) - Butterfly Fan, Shoddy Drawing, Pad of Paper, Cardboard Sleeve, Box.

>You start trying to shake out the items you have that are likely to burn.
>You feel a few more warm, wet things against your face.

>_

>it would help more if we could get these flames onto the bees, rather than things we own.
>What's this wet crap anyway? Tears? Honey? Both?

>You decide against it that plan, it would leave you too open.
>You do not know what it is. Only that it is warm and liquidly. You feel a couple more.

>_

[Fightest]

> Fine, take the bait. Wipe face, see what the liquidy stuff is. Be prepared for blood, but also hope for a pleasant surprise that it's not.

[E-Nazrin]

>"Yuyuko! Spirit here!"

[Hello Purvis]

> Fine, take the bait. Wipe face, see what the liquidy stuff is. Be prepared for blood, but also hope for a pleasant surprise that it's not.

>You slow down to wipe you face, and check your fingers. It seems to be water, or some other clear fluid.
>You quickly regret this, as the bees converge upon you in your lack of slashing and motion. They're all over you! Your arms and face erupt in fiery agony.

>"Yuyuko! Spirit here!"

>You are too busy trying to scream without getting bees in your mouth to say this.

>_

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>Sanae summoned rain, didn't she?
>keep moving!
>And I guess we've given Jeff enough chances to snap out of it... given the chance, slice that spirit with Youmu's sword!

[Hello Purvis]

>Sanae summoned rain, didn't she?
>keep moving!
>And I guess we've given Jeff enough chances to snap out of it... given the chance, slice that spirit with Youmu's sword!

>You have no idea, but it's a fair hypothesis.
>Try to resume your prior flurry of motion, while violently shaking your head in hopes of dislodging the bees. It works a bit, bit not nearly as much as you'd like. More warm wetness falls upon your face, which soothes away a little bit of the burning pain.
>You are able to regain some focus, and slicing through the ghost with Youmu's Shorter Blade. ...Nothing seems to happen. It still continues to float there. That's odd, you know that Youmu's weapons are supposed to have a dramatic effect upon ghosts.

>_

[E-Nazrin]

>try Jeff's hat

[Hello Purvis]

>try Jeff's hat

>What do you intend to do with it?

>_

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Put on the remains of Jeff's hat
>Check your quests, see where Defeating the Bees falls
>Try throwing the used spellcards at the bees

[Hello Purvis]

>Put on the remains of Jeff's hat
>Check your quests, see where Defeating the Bees falls
>Try throwing the used spellcards at the bees

>You don't think the headband would fit over your cap, and you would have to take a significant risk to slow down and change it. But you could do that.
>Out of Time, out of Mind.
>You have decided to try to help Jeff K Anon get over his non-existence addiction. In the process, you have bound yourself, Sanae, and Yuyuko to facing a cosmic horror.
>You throw Wood Sign: Sylphae Horn at the swarm, timing it so as not to leave too much an opening. The light card does very little to the thousands of bees.
>The feeling of warm water falling upon your face is becoming more steady now; and does a surprising among to relieve some of your pain where it touches.

>_

[Thata no Guykoro]

>Try swapping your and Jeff's caps. If the bees are swarming too much, don't.
>Check on other quests
>Check on inventory

[Hello Purvis]

>Try swapping your and Jeff's caps. If the bees are swarming too much, don't.
>Check on other quests
>Check on inventory

>You do not feel it is safe to try it right now, you would most certainly get swarmed in the gap.
>Your current quests are:
>Destroy All Humidity
>Secret Collect!
>Making Amends
>Get a Map of Gensokyo
>Reunite the Prismrivers
>Dancing Lasers
>Out of Time, out of Mind.
>Now it is Personal
>Your Inventory contains:
>Suspiciously Sleepwear-Like Witch Gown (worn as clothes)
>Witch Cap (Worn as Hat)
>Metal Sign: Metal Fatigue
>Ballpoint Pen
>Pad of Paper
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon (Used)
>Fire & Earth Sign: Lava Cromlech (used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine (Used)
>Fire Sign: Agni Shine High Level (used)
>Earth Sign: Rage Trilithon High Level
>Earth Sign: Trilithon Shake (used)
>Metal Sign: Silver Dragon
>Wood and Fire Sign: Forest Blaze (used)
>Wood and Water Sign: Water Elf  (Used)
>Earth and Metal Sign: Emerald Megalith (used)
>Moon Sign: Silent Selene (used)
>Lucky Coin
>Banson's Aria
>Cardboard Sleeve
>Ladle
>Floating Trumpet
>Half of a Grilled Lamprey Sandwich
>Tiger Cub Pin (wore as accessory)
>Explosion Sign: Mega Flare (Used)
>Electric Train Set
>Wheel
>Shoddy Drawing
>Ruined Hat
>Doughnut
>Box
>Butterfly Fan
>Book Entitled: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
>Sun Sign: Mega Flare (used)
>Sun Sign: Royal Flare (used)
>Pair of Black Glasses
>Horribly Out of Date Map of Gensokyo
>Double Handful of Charred Legos of Fuckwin
>Mona Patchy, by Flandre Age 501
>Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room
>Youmu's Short Blade.
>Book Entitled: Monday Magic by Patchouli Knowledge: 1500☼

>_

[Serela]

>Is the rain bothering the bees?
>We can't hope to defeat all the bees with the way things are going right now. We need to figure out something to do with this spirit.
>If you can do so safely, try touching the spirit with Jeff's hat

[Hello Purvis]

>Is the rain bothering the bees?
>We can't hope to defeat all the bees with the way things are going right now. We need to figure out something to do with this spirit.
>If you can do so safely, try touching the spirit with Jeff's hat

>They seem to be stinging and swooping at you a little less. If rains harder, you could see it bring a real problem for the the swarm. As it stands, your robes are starting to get wet.
>You don't know if it's safe, but you loop the ruined had around your wrist, and try to keep your motions close to the ghost.
>Soon, you see an opening and take Youmu's Short Blade into your right hand, and reach up to swish the headband through the passive ghost. It leaps as though it were startled, and starts to fly about erratically.
>The rain is steadily worsening.

>_

[Seian Verian]

> Hope that the rain soon impedes the swarm.
> Wonder why the arguing voices in your head that have been making you feel insane all day have calmed down
> ...Also wonder how this is a bad thing.

[E-Nazrin]

>hope that Sanae knows what she's doing in trying to flood out the bees
>did the hat's remains get left within the spirit?

[Hello Purvis]

> Hope that the rain soon impedes the swarm.
> Wonder why the arguing voices in your head that have been making you feel insane all day have calmed down
> ...Also wonder how this is a bad thing.

>It is certainly making it harder to see.
>You do not have voices in your head, just active and sometimes confusing thoughts like anyone else!
>The Swarm, however, has certainly been quiet. And the noise of the the rain does help mute it droning.

>hope that Sanae knows what she's doing in trying to flood out the bees
>did the hat's remains get left within the spirit?

>You hope Sanae is doing the right thing. The rain is certainly slowing down the amount of stinging you've had to deal with.
>You are still holding the Ruined Hat.
>The ghost, after its initial confusion, flies away very quickly.
>The rain is getting harder yet. You will be quite thoroughly drenched soon. It would be rather unpleasant if the water weren't already warm.

>_

[Serela]

>Wonder if Sanae is enacting the miracle of the Great Flood
>Maybe we should take the opportunity of slowed bee activity to find higher ground now. Or at least find Yuyuko.
>I guess we can't really combust the bees with all this rain, how else would one kill cosmic horror bees? D:
>IDEA, fly up in the air and look for Yuyuko and the spirit