Okuu Quest After - A Z-Machine Adventure

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

> "I don't know who you are, but I need your help to defeat them! I might not be able to do this alone, we're both on the same side here!"
> Examine the battlefield, what shots are coming towards us. and where are Kanako and Suwako located?

[Hello Purvis]

> "I don't know who you are, but I need your help to defeat them! I might not be able to do this alone, we're both on the same side here!"
> Examine the battlefield, what shots are coming towards us. and where are Kanako and Suwako located?

>You make a plea to this woman. "B-but...I'm no match for them..."
>It seems Kanako is raining pillars on your from above. But rather than just dropping them, she's arcing them through the sky at you, rather like mortar rounds. And on god, they fall fast! Another set is coming at you right now!

>_

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

> Quickly, dodge to the left. Pay attention to the pillars from above so we won't run into anymore of them.
> "It doesn't matter if you're no match for them, if we combine our efforts we can win!"
> How charged are we?

[Hello Purvis]

> Quickly, dodge to the left. Pay attention to the pillars from above so we won't run into anymore of them.
> "It doesn't matter if you're no match for them, if we combine our efforts we can win!"
> How charged are we?

>You dodge left. This lets you slip between two pillars, but oh god was it close. You're going to have to wait until practically the second before reading them well enough to get around them.
>"It's just..." she shakes her head. "What would you have me do?"
>Charged to: 40%

>_

[Kasu]

> "Just do whatever you can do.  That's more or less what I've been doing the entire time."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Just do whatever you can do.  That's more or less what I've been doing the entire time."

>"You don't understand!" she says, "I can't match them! Not like you ca-Suwako's coming!"

>_

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

> Assess the situation, what's heading towards us and what is Suwako and Kanako doing?
> If Suwako is charging directly towards us, fire some fast danmaku directly at her to slow her down

[Hello Purvis]

> Assess the situation, what's heading towards us and what is Suwako and Kanako doing?
> If Suwako is charging directly towards us, fire some fast danmaku directly at her to slow her down

>Kanako is sending another barrage at you; while another is already in the air and coming at you.  And the woman is right, Suwako is approaching at high speed!
>You fire a sunburst at Suwako; she easily moves aside and dodges it.
>The pillars are starting to descend on you.

>_

[Seian Verian]

> "You can at least distract them! You don't need to do much damage, but it would really be helpful if they weren't both focused on me!"
> Dodge to the right, and try firing at Suwako, preferably with some sort of spread shot.

> Come to think of it, can we do something like our splitting danmaku, but have it split horizontally from our perspective, allowing sort of a wall with repeated fire?

[Hello Purvis]

> "You can at least distract them! You don't need to do much damage, but it would really be helpful if they weren't both focused on me!"
> Dodge to the right, and try firing at Suwako, preferably with some sort of spread shot.

> Come to think of it, can we do something like our splitting danmaku, but have it split horizontally from our perspective, allowing sort of a wall with repeated fire?

>"Be nice to Minoriko," says Suwako as she closes in on you  "She's a not a fighter at all, are you dear?"
>You dodge to the right, trying to make the angle of your sunburst work to your advantage, but Suwako reads it easily enough.
>You could make it would horizontally, but it is too fast to make an effective wall. Your strafing technique, however.
>The pillars are right on top of you!
>Charged to: 50%

[DracoOmega]

>"I didn't want to fight you two, either. But some things are worth fighting for! You wouldn't have started this if you didn't care, too, Minoriko."

>Find a gap between the pillars, and position ourself in it.
>Then dash upwards through the path of this gap
>Stafe Suwako as we go, if we can see where she is

>If Suwako closes into close range during this, launch a sun at her

[Seian Verian]

> Actually, if it seems like Suwako can't dodge, use up all our charge on a laser straight into her. If she takes the full force of that, it will probably do severe damage

[Hello Purvis]

>"I didn't want to fight you two, either. But some things are worth fighting for! You wouldn't have started this if you didn't care, too, Minoriko."

>Find a gap between the pillars, and position ourself in it.
>Then dash upwards through the path of this gap
>Stafe Suwako as we go, if we can see where she is

>If Suwako closes into close range during this, launch a sun at her

>"I agree," says Suwako, winking at you.
>You find a gap and fly upwards. You strafe Suwako, whom you can see through the pillars, but she doesn't move enough for it to be a problem for her.
>She doesn't close range at all, remaining outside the rain of pillars.

> Actually, if it seems like Suwako can't dodge, use up all our charge on a laser straight into her. If she takes the full force of that, it will probably do severe damage

>She seems perfectly capable of it, given her past performances, but simply isn't doing much at the moment.
>Charged to 60%

>_

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

> Try to ask Stargazer if she can pull down the large brown thing over that girl's head again.

[Hello Purvis]

> Try to ask Stargazer if she can pull down the large brown thing over that girl's head again.

>She's willing to try!

>_

[communist unity (comm-unity)]

> Start by firing a shot that curves/splits at Suwako's sides
> Tell Stargazer to pull it down now, and get away as fast as possible after doing so.
> Charge forward, fire a laser above Suwako, and sweep it vertically from top to bottom.
> Dive down below while charging Suwako, punch her with all we've got if she tries to dodge by dropping altitude.

[Hello Purvis]

> Start by firing a shot that curves/splits at Suwako's sides
> Tell Stargazer to pull it down now, and get away as fast as possible after doing so.
> Charge forward, fire a laser above Suwako, and sweep it vertically from top to bottom.
> Dive down below while charging Suwako, punch her with all we've got if she tries to dodge by dropping altitude.

>You fire a series of curving danmaku, which doesn't seem to deter Suwako much as she works her way around it. She responds by sending dense line of lasers at you; you aren't sure if you can slip between them or not.
>The next barrage of pillars is drawing close by.

>_

[DracoOmega]

>If we can slip between them, move away from them entirely
>Find a gap between the pillars, and be prepared to ascend through it when the pillars move, and away from these lasers
>Once we ascend past the pillars, strafe over Suwako, firing downwards, then round around and lay down some crossfire

>"Minoriko, even if fighting isn't what you wanted, it's what's happening now! They said they'd deal with you once they were done with me. I'm not sure you can avoid that by just staying back now. But if you can help, you help both our chances."

[Hello Purvis]

>If we can slip between them, move away from them entirely
>Find a gap between the pillars, and be prepared to ascend through it when the pillars move, and away from these lasers
>Once we ascend past the pillars, strafe over Suwako, firing downwards, then round around and lay down some crossfire

>"Minoriko, even if fighting isn't what you wanted, it's what's happening now! They said they'd deal with you once they were done with me. I'm not sure you can avoid that by just staying back now. But if you can help, you help both our chances."

>You move away from the spray of beams entirely, and find yourself come up against another such spray from the opposite direction. Then the pillars are upon you. You find a gap in them and fly upwards, narrowly escaping the second spray of beams.
>You fly over Suwako, spraying down more fire upon her.  With some of your prior attack lingering about, you are able to force her to move about a little. She answers with a wave of blue cards, firing out in spokes akin to your own sunburst attacks, then follows with another at a slightly different angle.
>Minoriko doesn't answer you, but Suwako says, "Wow, you're colder than I thought if you mean that."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"I don't want to drag anyone else into this. But you were the one who said you'd 'deal' with her. How am I supposed to know what that means? Your idea of 'dealing' with me hasn't been too much fun for either of us, so far. I still want to protect people, whether you believe that or not!"

>Find a path between the spokes, and dive towards Suwako, firing towards her as we go
>Mentally to Stargazer: "If you can do it, do it now!"
>If we see Suwako falter, fire a sun at her
>Otherwise, dive down, and bank up underneath her

[Hello Purvis]

>"I don't want to drag anyone else into this. But you were the one who said you'd 'deal' with her. How am I supposed to know what that means? Your idea of 'dealing' with me hasn't been too much fun for either of us, so far. I still want to protect people, whether you believe that or not!"

>Find a path between the spokes, and dive towards Suwako, firing towards her as we go
>Mentally to Stargazer: "If you can do it, do it now!"
>If we see Suwako falter, fire a sun at her
>Otherwise, dive down, and bank up underneath her

>"That's pretty cold," Suwako continues, "because if Kanako were to go beat on her, you're saying it wouldn't be a problem or a distraction."
>You make your way between the spokes; finding that Suwako is using a left/right pattern that forces things to be uncomfortably close.
>You get a reply from Stargazer, but you don't really understand it. But you think it is negative.
>Not seeing Suwako falter, you dive down and bank up, and...there are the pillars raining down!
>Charged to: 80%

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"That's not what I'm saying at all! I'm saying that I'm worried you'll do that ANYWAY."

>Position ourselves at a gap in the pillars that is close to where Suwako is
>Thrust up through it, and shoot a sun at Suwako when we get close to her

[Hello Purvis]

>"That's not what I'm saying at all! I'm saying that I'm worried you'll do that ANYWAY."

>Position ourselves at a gap in the pillars that is close to where Suwako is
>Thrust up through it, and shoot a sun at Suwako when we get close to her

> Unfortunately, pulling up out of a dive is not the best dodging position, and one of the pillars tears through your left wing. It hurts, but it's not so bad as last time. Still, it took a good deal out of you when you don't have a whole lot more left to lose.
>But, you are moderately close to Suwako. You launch a sun shot at her.
>Charged to 40%

>_

[DracoOmega]

>Continue shooting through the sun, and follow in its wake
>If Suwako moves out of the sun's path, and we can use the sun to navigate towards her (by dashing through it, or using it as a shield), do so

[Hello Purvis]

>Continue shooting through the sun, and follow in its wake
>If Suwako moves out of the sun's path, and we can use the sun to navigate towards her (by dashing through it, or using it as a shield), do so

>You follow the sun, and shoot through it.
>Suwako appears around the left side of the shot, grinning sending a stream of lasers at you.
>"The next ones are coming soon!" shouts Minoriko

>_

[DracoOmega]

>Can we see the pillars incoming from above us, again?
>If so, try to position ourselves through another gap, near the sun

>After the pillars fall, or If we think we have enough to pull the following off before the next barrage of pillars fall:
  >Dive into the sun
  >From inside one position, launch several streams of bullets at Suwako
  >Then, with the sun masking our position, emerge from the OTHER side of the sun (compared to where we were shooting from), and shoot a fusion laser at her while she hopefully thinks we're elsewhere, and is dodging the previous streams

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we see the pillars incoming from above us, again?
>If so, try to position ourselves through another gap, near the sun

>After the pillars fall, or If we think we have enough to pull the following off before the next barrage of pillars fall:
  >Dive into the sun
  >From inside one position, launch several streams of bullets at Suwako
  >Then, with the sun masking our position, emerge from the OTHER side of the sun (compared to where we were shooting from), and shoot a fusion laser at her while she hopefully thinks we're elsewhere, and is dodging the previous streams

>You glance up, see them, then glance back and find the lasers are very very close to your face.

>_

[DracoOmega]

>Do we have enough room to simply move quickly up through the pillars, and avoid the lasers?
>If so, do so
>Otherwise, can we see any other openings?

[Hello Purvis]

>Do we have enough room to simply move quickly up through the pillars, and avoid the lasers?
>If so, do so
>Otherwise, can we see any other openings?

>You don't know if you have enough room to move between the pillars, but the lasers are a thick gathering of beams like the last two, you don't feel comfortable trying to move through them. With them this close, you'll need to take some kind of quick action.

>_

[DracoOmega]

>Try diving quickly, getting further down than the lasers, without the pillars catching up to us
>Then, when away from the lasers, find a gap in the pillars and get into it
>If it doesn't look like we're going to be able to get away this way, launch a sun defensively against the incoming offense