Keine Quest (Part 3): Broken History

[Hello Purvis]

>How do you propose to do this, if you're currently in a different timeline?

>Oh. Seemed like both were visible. =[
>So there is an event from last night that we can sense, and an identical one seven years ago? If so, can we sense any real deviance between them?

[DracoOmega]

>Oh. Seemed like both were visible. =[
>So there is an event from last night that we can sense, and an identical one seven years ago? If so, can we sense any real deviance between them?

>You can currently read the history of an event that took place here last night, in this timeline. From what you can sense, it seems to have been very similar to the one you actually experienced last night in (presumably) your own timeline. You cannot currently read the history of the event in your own timeline, since you're not there, but your non-magical recollection of it works just fine. The strange thing is that two nearly identical events seem to have occurred at the same place and the same time in two seperate timelines that have been diverging for seven years by this point. At first glance, that seems rather implausible.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's focus on the no history person. Aside from coming out of nowhere, can we sense any similarities between her and the rifts? What about differences?

[DracoOmega]

>Let's focus on the no history person. Aside from coming out of nowhere, can we sense any similarities between her and the rifts? What about differences?

>Well there's the obvious difference that she's a person, while the anomalous history you sensed at the rifts was from a momentary event. After their creation, the rifts had history in the same sense that you would expect any rock feature to have it; there was nothing further unusual about it. But both this girl and those events seemed to originate from somewhere beyond your history's reach, something beyond the normal flow and sequence of events.

[Hello Purvis]

>Is it possible to reasonably conclude they experienced time more or less the same way we do from what we see, or that they may not move through it normally?

[DracoOmega]

>Is it possible to reasonably conclude they experienced time more or less the same way we do from what we see, or that they may not move through it normally?

>It's hard to say whether they move through history differently or not as a general rule. At the very least, while she was here, she seemed to flow through history like any mundane human would. How she got here, and how she left, you don't know.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's check a few minutes ago. What caused that drowsiness effect?

[DracoOmega]

>Let's check a few minutes ago. What caused that drowsiness effect?

>You... think something reached out for you. It was different than the last time you were here. That was something passive. This... you think was targeted.

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we find a point of origin, and what was aiming?

[DracoOmega]

>Can we find a point of origin, and what was aiming?

>It feels a lot like that fuzzy presence you encountered here initially, but you're fairly certain it is not the same being. Sadly, your history reading generally can't function precisely enough to act as a true radar.

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we tell if it's still lingering about?
>If it is, can we devour it?

[DracoOmega]

>Can we tell if it's still lingering about?
>If it is, can we devour it?

>You... think it may have left. Or at least it's hiding very well. You don't feel as drowsy as you did earlier.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well, whatever hit me with that sleeping it gone..."
>Does the event seem devourable, regardless?

[DracoOmega]

>"Well, whatever hit me with that sleeping it gone..."

>"Yay!" Rumia exclaims.
>"Well, that's good.... I guess," Mokou says, looking back at the trees.

>Does the event seem devourable, regardless?

>You don't think you could use your history powers to prevent it from affecting you, if it happens again. Generally, individual short-term spells are too transient to have enough history to grasp on and affect directly like that.

[Hello Purvis]

>If Mokou and Rumia were to enter, could we trace them via this history perception? Or is it too current for that?

[DracoOmega]

>If Mokou and Rumia were to enter, could we trace them via this history perception? Or is it too current for that?

>Whether recent or not, you can't really track people as specifically as that. You can see people's involvement with pivot points in history, and in how they've interacted with events, but you can't really follow someone directly."

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we discern anything about that fuzzy presence, where it came from and where it went?

[DracoOmega]

>Can we discern anything about that fuzzy presence, where it came from and where it went?

>It seems to have dissipated, or at least fallen below a level your senses can detect. Looking back, you think it probably arrived by whatever mechanism the other fuzzy presence used to materialize themselves here.

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we discern where they both were?

[DracoOmega]

>Can we discern where they both were?

>If you mean where they were physically standing, no.

[Hello Purvis]

>"I can't find a damned thing... There's two people, I think, slipping into and out of history as we know it. I can't track them. I can't track what they're doing. One of them practically didn't even have history until it appeared and faded. And since I can't track them, I can't fix a thing! We pretty much wasted the whole night, as far as that's concerned..."

[DracoOmega]

>"I can't find a damned thing... There's two people, I think, slipping into and out of history as we know it. I can't track them. I can't track what they're doing. One of them practically didn't even have history until it appeared and faded. And since I can't track them, I can't fix a thing! We pretty much wasted the whole night, as far as that's concerned..."

>"....damn." Mokou replies. "You sure there's not something else you're overlooking? And, well, you did still fix the moon and the forest. That's gotta count for something, right?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"....damn." Mokou replies. "You sure there's not something else you're overlooking? And, well, you did still fix the moon and the forest. That's gotta count for something, right?"

>"I don't think so...I've looked for both the people who where there...I've tried to probe the spot where the timelines diverged. I've tried to find causes for a lot of things. And yeah...that's a good thing. I was just hoping for...I don't know. I wanted to be able to fix this stupid timeline and make everything like it's supposed to be."

[DracoOmega]

>"I don't think so...I've looked for both the people who where there...I've tried to probe the spot where the timelines diverged. I've tried to find causes for a lot of things. And yeah...that's a good thing. I was just hoping for...I don't know. I wanted to be able to fix this stupid timeline and make everything like it's supposed to be."

>Mokou walks over and puts her arm around your shoulder. "We'll get it straightened out. History ain't going anywhere, right?"
>"If you can't find what happened this way," she says, "there must be something else you can try. Somewhere else you can look. Right?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"At this point, about all I have left is hope that Patchouli discovers something. Well, that and the weird girl at the village, but I don't think she's connected. She's too...mundane."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"At this point, about all I have left is hope that Patchouli discovers something. Well, that and the weird girl at the village, but I don't think she's connected. She's too...mundane."

>"Someone still lives in that old place?" Mokou says, then shrugs. "Was going to say it was strange, but I guess it's not a whole lot different than me, really."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yeah, she said something about honoring the people who died there, something like that. I don't think she's connected."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"Yeah, she said something about honoring the people who died there, something like that. I don't think she's connected."

>"Kinda noble, in a way," Mokou says.

[Hello Purvis]

>"In a way. Ultimately unrelated, though.  Suppose there's nothing left but to go drop in on Patchouli and hope for the best."
>Get on with that.

[DracoOmega]

>"In a way. Ultimately unrelated, though.  Suppose there's nothing left but to go drop in on Patchouli and hope for the best."
>Get on with that.

>"Here's hoping." Mokou stops and looks at you. "C'mon, we'll get it. Ain't come this far for nothing."
>You take off again and head back towards the mansion. Meiling looks up at you as you arrive.
>"Never saw any of those shadow things you mentioned," she says, sounding a little tired. "You sure you weren't just making that up to spite me?" She looks over at Mokou. "New friend?"