Nue Quest: A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

>Shift aside from the attack, and keep our distance. Let's get a gauge of her speed and followthrough.
>If she threatens too close, use our trident to redirect her sword aside

>You move away from the swing. It's a fairly fast swing, but she doesn't control the follow through perfectly. She does use the opportunity to try to close the distance, before you drive her back with a well-placed jab.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Should that comma be a period, or is there more to that update?

[Kilgamayan]

Not that I expect this will be over so quickly, but I do want to talk to Tenshi before they depart.

[Hello Purvis]

> Should that comma be a period, or is there more to that update?

>Yes.

[DracoOmega]

>Take a few steps back, and ready ourselves to receive the next attack
>As the attack arrives, sidestep if possible and otherwise parry
>Follow up with a thrust aimed such that it should be dodgeable without being too threat-less. Either way, make sure not to actually cause damage with it.

[Fightest]

> We have a trident. Why haven't we won yet?
> As the next attack comes in, catch the sword between the prongs, twist and wrench the sword downwards with our weight, then keep it pinned to the ground with our foot.
> Should force our opponent into a handy kneeling pose as well.

[Rin Kagamine]

> We have a trident. Why haven't we won yet?
> As the next attack comes in, catch the sword between the prongs, twist and wrench the sword downwards with our weight, then keep it pinned to the ground with our foot.
> Should force our opponent into a handy kneeling pose as well.

Wanna unsheath it first?

[Hello Purvis]

>Take a few steps back, and ready ourselves to receive the next attack
>As the attack arrives, sidestep if possible and otherwise parry
>Follow up with a thrust aimed such that it should be dodgeable without being too threat-less. Either way, make sure not to actually cause damage with it.

>You step back, dodge away from her next attack, and jab close to her. She moves away without too much trouble.
>"She's just going to keep backing up," says Tenshi. "You gotta do something about that."

> We have a trident. Why haven't we won yet?
> As the next attack comes in, catch the sword between the prongs, twist and wrench the sword downwards with our weight, then keep it pinned to the ground with our foot.
> Should force our opponent into a handy kneeling pose as well.

>You decide to stop being nice.
>You wait for her to slash at you again, and move your trident to intercept. It hits with a meaty wooden thwack, and immediately try to wrench it downward. It works well, though she manages to catch what you are doing and resist enough to avoid being forced onto her knees and keep the blade from the ground, you do put her into a poor position.
>"What now, Yuli?" says Tenshi.

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[Rin Kagamine]

> So the blade hasn't touched the ground yet?
> Twist the trident and push it sideways.  Try to knock the sword away.

[Hello Purvis]

> So the blade hasn't touched the ground yet?
> Twist the trident and push it sideways.  Try to knock the sword away.

>Not yet.
>You try to twist the trident, but she moves to resist being disarmed.
>"Not bad," says Tenshi, "But you still need to get it out of there and not get stabbed."

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[Kilgamayan]

> From what direction did she slash when we caught the sword with the trident?
> In which direction did we try to twist to bring her down?

[Fightest]

> From what direction did she slash when we caught the sword with the trident?
> In which direction did we try to twist to bring her down?

> Too reactionary. We've got the momentum.
> Swing the entire trident by the very end in a sweep through the legs, step forward and do another sweep through the legs.
> If she's still standing, get right up to her, catch her right wrist in the trident's tines with our left hand, put our right hand on her face and shove downwards.

[Kilgamayan]

What's reactionary? o_O I want to do a mental check of what has already happened, which takes zero game time.

[Fightest]

What's reactionary? o_O I want to do a mental check of what has already happened, which takes zero game time.

In this situation it doesn't really matter how things were, unless there's some cunning master plan behind our prior positioning. Of course, I'm being presumptuous, but that mental check, to me, carried with it the intention to let up on pressure to try something tricky. Indeed, I apologise if I assumed incorrectly.

[Kilgamayan]

Eh, don't worry about. It's not like I haven't done a whole bunch of it myself already.

I had asked because my imagination was having a hard time keeping up with precisely what was happening. I have no spatial geometry mind for text adventure fights at all: I expect I will only get involved if people really want me to or if several hours go by with no new inputs and I think I might have an idea.

[Hello Purvis]

> From what direction did she slash when we caught the sword with the trident?
> In which direction did we try to twist to bring her down?

>She slashed from left to right, by your perspective.
>Clockwise.

> Too reactionary. We've got the momentum.
> Swing the entire trident by the very end in a sweep through the legs, step forward and do another sweep through the legs.
> If she's still standing, get right up to her, catch her right wrist in the trident's tines with our left hand, put our right hand on her face and shove downwards.

>You decide to try to press your advantage, shifting your grip and sweeping at her legs. She sees the attack coming, it's quite hard not to, but she is still off balance enough there isn't much she can do about it. You connect firmly and send her to the ground.

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[UncertainJakutten]

>If she's flat on the ground, poke the trident at her throat, but don't jab. Just have it lightly touch
>If this happens, say "And you've lost."

>If she's still able to recover from her fall, shift the trident to where she'd try to step and block it.

[Hello Purvis]

>If she's flat on the ground, poke the trident at her throat, but don't jab. Just have it lightly touch
>If this happens, say "And you've lost."

>If she's still able to recover from her fall, shift the trident to where she'd try to step and block it.

>She is flat on the ground, but recovers with surprising speed. You get the feeling this is something she's had drilled into her. Still, you manage to put the trident at her throat while she is standing. Given the tines are pretty sharp, you opt not to poke her in the throat with it lest she move wrong and impale her trachea.
>"I yield," she says calmly.
>"And I hope you learned something, Yuli," says Tenshi. "Alright, now the rest of you get in there. And if you've not figured it out yet, go around the head!"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Since we have Tenshi around as reference material, how long do we think we would need to transform into her?
> Would this effect our tridenteering in any way aside from the obvious physical changes, or is transformation purely a magical drain?

[Hello Purvis]

> Since we have Tenshi around as reference material, how long do we think we would need to transform into her?
> Would this effect our tridenteering in any way aside from the obvious physical changes, or is transformation purely a magical drain?

>You need a bit of time to study her features and properly memorize them. Then you'd need some time and a mirror to practice getting them just right. Then more time to get her voice right. It'd take a good while, at least. Getting a specific form down tends to take a couple hours.
>It shouldn't have any real effect on your physical strength.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How about just the hair and a rough estimate of the facial features?
> How do our heights compare?

[Hello Purvis]

> How about just the hair and a rough estimate of the facial features?
> How do our heights compare?

>Hair is easy, you can almost certainly replicate her hair as it is. A rough approximation of her face should be doable in a few minutes.
>Your natural form has a similar height to hers. Build is a bit harder to tell due to that skirt.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Pull the trident back from Yuli's neck and raise a hand in a 'stop' pose.
> "Hold up! I don't mind this, but give me a minute before we go again. I have an idea, and I wanted to talk to you regardless."

[Hello Purvis]

> Pull the trident back from Yuli's neck and raise a hand in a 'stop' pose.
> "Hold up! I don't mind this, but give me a minute before we go again. I have an idea, and I wanted to talk to you regardless."

>"Huh?" says Tenshi, frowning. "What idea?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Give a small grin.
> "Sorry, that's a surprise. But you'll see in a couple of minutes. Don't worry, I have no plans on running away or anything."
> Drop the grin.
> "Unless you lot have somewhere you need to be."

[Hello Purvis]

> Give a small grin.
> "Sorry, that's a surprise. But you'll see in a couple of minutes. Don't worry, I have no plans on running away or anything."
> Drop the grin.
> "Unless you lot have somewhere you need to be."

>"Well, I was going to go looking for something," says Tenshi, "But it can wait a couple minutes."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "All right. This won't take long."
> Pull out our hand mirror and angle it so we can look back and forth between Tenshi and our reflection without moving our head.
> Begin working to make our face match Tenshi's. If we need a distinct starting point, begin at the top of the face.
> "So what are you looking for?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "All right. This won't take long."
> Pull out our hand mirror and angle it so we can look back and forth between Tenshi and our reflection without moving our head.
> Begin working to make our face match Tenshi's. If we need a distinct starting point, begin at the top of the face.
> "So what are you looking for?"

>You take out your mirror and start to try to match Tenshi's face.
>"Well, nothing in particular, just a little something for-Hey! What're you doing!"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Give a wider grin. At least, as much as we can given the work we're doing on our face.
> "Making things interesting."

[Hello Purvis]

> Give a wider grin. At least, as much as we can given the work we're doing on our face.
> "Making things interesting."

>You take a moment to grin, as you work on getting the nose roughly right. It's a lot faster this way, you might be able to get a pretty close approximation that would fool many people in a minute or so.
>"What do you mean interesting?" says Tenshi, while her follows look between you, her, and themselves in a kind of serene bewilderment.

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