Keine Quest (Part 6): Broken History (Complete)

[Hello Purvis]

>"They wouldn't need to be conscious. Those gaps out up to reality, right? They'd just need to be sucked in."

[DracoOmega]

>"They wouldn't need to be conscious. Those gaps out up to reality, right? They'd just need to be sucked in."

>"But they couldn't exist here," Mugetsu continues. "There's no part of them which would even make sense to be here. Even counting everything else here."
>"Well," Marisa says, "me and Reimu got sucked through one of those things and we never ended up in here, either. And we do have consciousness last time I checked."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Even though there are literally gaps between here and reality? And that some element or extension of Gengetsu managed to escape through one of said rifts? A dream thing wouldn't have any meaning in reality, either, but it happened."

[DracoOmega]

>"Even though there are literally gaps between here and reality? And that some element or extension of Gengetsu managed to escape through one of said rifts? A dream thing wouldn't have any meaning in reality, either, but it happened."

>"Dreams may be able to manifest a physical form, but without consciousness, no physical form should be able to manifest in dream." Mugetsu sighs. "I don't know what else I can say."
>Marisa raises an eyebrow. "You're really saying you think the shrine's inside here, somewhere?"
>"I've sense nothing like it," Mugetsu says, "and we've all but turned the dreamscape inside out to do what we just did."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Then where did it all go? If it's not in reality, and not in here, then where?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Then where did it all go? If it's not in reality, and not in here, then where?"

>Marisa shrugs. "Beats me."
>"I'm not sure, either," Mugetsu says. "Maybe it's somewhere in the space in between Gensokyo and outside?"
>"Can always build a new shrine if someone really wants to," Marisa says.

[Hello Purvis]

>"If I could just figure out where one of these gaps leads...I might be able to answer the question. That they lead to different points in time, and that the Gengetsu thing came from here at that crater suggests heavily that whatever pulled those parts of Gensokyo from their proper places was pulling them toward here. So I don't think they'd be lost between Gensokyo and the outside, but rather Gensoyo and here. I wonder if you where and Reimu appeared had any relation to it, Marisa... Did you both end up there together?"

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"If I could just figure out where one of these gaps leads...I might be able to answer the question. That they lead to different points in time, and that the Gengetsu thing came from here at that crater suggests heavily that whatever pulled those parts of Gensokyo from their proper places was pulling them toward here. So I don't think they'd be lost between Gensokyo and the outside, but rather Gensoyo and here. I wonder if you where and Reimu appeared had any relation to it, Marisa... Did you both end up there together?"

>Marisa nods. "Yeah, pretty close. 'course, I was over at the shrine when this happened in the first place. And it just dumped us on a hill near the outskirts. Never found anything special about the place."

[Hello Purvis]

>Ponder for a moment.
>"What kind of buildings and such were near the hill? Or parks?"

[DracoOmega]

>Ponder for a moment.
>"What kind of buildings and such were near the hill? Or parks?"

>"There were some houses not too far off," Marisa says. "No parks out in that end, though. Why?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"I'd be willing to gamble that Maribel was at one of them, about that time."

[DracoOmega]

>"I'd be willing to gamble that Maribel was at one of them, about that time."

>"Really?" Marisa raises an eyebrow. "Ya think?"
>"Actually," Maribel says, "I live in one of the student dormitory at Kyoto University."
>Marisa shakes her head. "Nowhere near that part of town, sorry."

[Hello Purvis]

>"But seven years ago?"

[DracoOmega]

>"But seven years ago?"

>Maribel frowns. "Oh, sorry. I moved to Kyoto two years ago to attend university there, so I would have actually been much further away seven years ago."

[Hello Purvis]

>Nod.
>"I suppose it might not be that direct, then. Now that I think about it, Patchouli did mention stuff about ley lines and such being involved. Still, even without that bit of evidence, this is still the most likely thing that has happened. And, thinking on it, Mugetsu, you're saying that things with no consciousness cannot enter dreams, right? What about you? Or more precisely, the things you're wearing? It mind makes sense for Marisa and I, we just fell asleep. But not you."

[DracoOmega]

>Nod.
>"I suppose it might not be that direct, then. Now that I think about it, Patchouli did mention stuff about ley lines and such being involved. Still, even without that bit of evidence, this is still the most likely thing that has happened. And, thinking on it, Mugetsu, you're saying that things with no consciousness cannot enter dreams, right? What about you? Or more precisely, the things you're wearing? It mind makes sense for Marisa and I, we just fell asleep. But not you."

>"These clothes are no more physical in this realm than yours are," she replies. "I wear them because I choose to."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh. What happened to your real ones, then?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Oh. What happened to your real ones, then?"

>"When I exit a dream," she says, "I appear wearing what I had when I entered. They are outside of my self inside the dream, nor can I carry anything from dreams into the waking world."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yeah, but implies they're somewhere else that's not either place. I mean, it's not like you leave an empty dress behind in the waking world. But you see what I'm getting at, right?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Yeah, but implies they're somewhere else that's not either place. I mean, it's not like you leave an empty dress behind in the waking world. But you see what I'm getting at, right?"

>Mugetsu frowns. "I'm not sure..."
>"Are you saying that you think these piece of land went to the same place?" Maribel asks. "Somewhere between waking and dream?"
>Mugetsu frowns further. "I'd have no idea how to find them if they were."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Pieces of land, pieces of Gengetsu, pieces of this whole mess... Who knows how that kind of thing might be messing with all this, in ways even Mugetsu can't detect right now?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Pieces of land, pieces of Gengetsu, pieces of this whole mess... Who knows how that kind of thing might be messing with all this, in ways even Mugetsu can't detect right now?"

>Marisa frowns. "And, uh, any idea how we're supposed to do something about that, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Not immediately. But it's something to keep in mind. Worse comes to worst, I'm sure Patchouli could devise a way to track it."
>Look at the gaps we think lead outside. Count them, and compare them to the map Patchouli gave us. Hopefully it will manifest in a useful way here.

[DracoOmega]

>"Not immediately. But it's something to keep in mind. Worse comes to worst, I'm sure Patchouli could devise a way to track it."
>Look at the gaps we think lead outside. Count them, and compare them to the map Patchouli gave us. Hopefully it will manifest in a useful way here.

>Marisa frowns. "She knows a lot of stuff, I'll give her that. I think this is a bit out of her area, though."
>You try to count the gaps which lead outside, but quickly discover this is easier said than done as many of the smaller ones and even some of the larger ones blend into each other. You take another look at Patchouli's map, which is basically as you remember it. There are certainly not obviously fewer gaps to the outside than there are indications on the map, but beyond that it's hard to tell for certain.

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we determine how old some of them are? In particular, one that would have formed only recently?

[DracoOmega]

>Can we determine how old some of them are? In particular, one that would have formed only recently?

>You can get a vague sense of relative age. No single gap strikes you as clearly the very most recent, however. There are at least a handful that might qualify.

[Hello Purvis]

>Have a closer look at the most likely candidates for the very recent one.

[DracoOmega]

>Have a closer look at the most likely candidates for the very recent one.

>You try to more carefully inspect the gaps that seem the most recent. There are at least 7 whose point in time is close enough to be indistinguishable to the vague sense you get from them. There may even be more. You can't tell anything more specific about where in space they exit.

[Hello Purvis]

>Does this mean we can ascertain that they also open to a similar location?
>...Look around for a loose yen coin.

[DracoOmega]

>Does this mean we can ascertain that they also open to a similar location?
>...Look around for a loose yen coin.

>It's more that your sense of what is spatially on the other side of any gap is vague to the point of uselessness. They may lead to similar areas, or very different ones. You feel sure that they lead to Gensokyo, based on the impression of familiar history you feel. Beyond this, you really have no way to tell.
>You just so happen to have such a thing in your wallet.