Nue Quest Vth Vanguard: A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

> "Yeah. Hurry. And stay safe."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yeah. Hurry. And stay safe."

>She nods, and takes to the air.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Turn back around, and quietly re-enter the shop.
> Make our way back down to the staircase headed to the basement exactly as we did before, floating and peeking, until we're back where we stopped when we first saw the money.

[Hello Purvis]

> Turn back around, and quietly re-enter the shop.
> Make our way back down to the staircase headed to the basement exactly as we did before, floating and peeking, until we're back where we stopped when we first saw the money.

>You make your way back inside, and down the stairs with proper caution, until you get to the where you first saw the money. Nothing surprising happens along the way.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Slowly float a few more feet down the stairs. Keep a sharp eye out for anyone.

[Hello Purvis]

> Slowly float a few more feet down the stairs. Keep a sharp eye out for anyone.

>You make your way further downward. As more of the basement becomes visible, you can see great heaps of money, coins of all types that seem to reach higher and higher to the air, disappearing past the line of sight that the door frame allows you.  Golds, silvers, grays; every kind of metallic color you can think of sparkles in the light. Merely floating down a few feet, you do not see anyone.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Float all the way down the stairs, so we are floating a couple of inches off the floor.

[Hello Purvis]

> Float all the way down the stairs, so we are floating a couple of inches off the floor.

>You make your way down, finding it very difficult t tear your eyes away from the piles of money. It is difficult to estimate how large the basement actually for all the coinage that has been stored in it! Then you see a small table amid the piles of money, and a white-haired man in blue and black clothing sitting at it, his eyes closed. Without a doubt, that is Rinnosuke.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Is there anything on the table?
> Is Rinnosuke asleep?

[Hello Purvis]

> Is there anything on the table?
> Is Rinnosuke asleep?

>There is a cloth over the table.
>He does not seem to be asleep, given he is sitting upright.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Does he appear to be actually doing anything?

[Hello Purvis]

> Does he appear to be actually doing anything?

>It doesn't look like it, now that you think about it. At most, maybe meditating.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Slowly float a few feet toward him.

[Rin Kagamine]

We're going in here alone?  Why not wait until Byakuren shows up?

[Kilgamayan]

I'd rather have Byakuren as a surprise trump card, especially when Rinnosuke is not going to cause a huge destructive ruckus in his own house. With Mystia being ordered to stay at the village, we'll have no one behind Byakuren and Ichizan, unless one of Shuuei and Ichiro are perceptive enough to realize why Byakuren's really at that shop.

[Hello Purvis]

> Slowly float a few feet toward him.

>You float into the basement chamber. Everywhere you look is money, more than you've ever seen in your life. Enough to bring a mikado to his knees. It almost boggles your mind to look at it all, you could literally build a sizable house out of it! You could paved the streets of the human town with all this money. Here and there, scattered among it, are little objects only noticeable because they don't sparkle in the light. The money is piled to the ceiling, some yards overhead; you think the ceiling may be the floor of the shop above.
>Rinnosuke doesn't seem to react.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> While keeping an eye on Rinnosuke, slowly float over to the nearest little object we can see.

[Hello Purvis]

> While keeping an eye on Rinnosuke, slowly float over to the nearest little object we can see.

>You keep an eye on the shopkeeper, and float toward the nearest object. Nestled atop a pile of gold and copper coins is a Jacinth Tiger

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Was that in stock earlier?
> Are there any obvious exits other than the one through which we entered?
> What is the room's light source?
> Is there anything else notable in the room, aside from the money, the table and the shopkeeper?

[Hello Purvis]

> Was that in stock earlier?
> Are there any obvious exits other than the one through which we entered?
> What is the room's light source?
> Is there anything else notable in the room, aside from the money, the table and the shopkeeper?

>You think it was.
>Looking around, you don't see any other ways in or out. Then again, so much of the room is filled with currency that there could easy be several doors hidden by it.  You cannot even tell how large the room really is right now. Towering mounds of coins dominate everything.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

brb bleeding shoulder

> What are Rinnosuke's hands doing?
> Circle around the desk, still keeping an eye on Rinnosuke, until we get behind him. Take a quick look at any other objects that stand out in the money piles. never mind don't do this
> Turn back toward the table.
> Pull out our two broken sword pieces and carefully put them together again.
> Try to will the sword back together like the previous two times.

[Hello Purvis]

brb bleeding shoulder

> What are Rinnosuke's hands doing?
> Circle around the desk, still keeping an eye on Rinnosuke, until we get behind him. Take a quick look at any other objects that stand out in the money piles. never mind don't do this
> Turn back toward the table.
> Pull out our two broken sword pieces and carefully put them together again.
> Try to will the sword back together like the previous two times.

>They seem to be folded in front of him, as he seemed to do while running the store earlier.
>You face the table again and pull out the sword parts and put them together, trying again to will it to rejoin. You again get that strangle sensation that's not quite heat or cold or pain or anything.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> No stronger or weaker than before?

[Hello Purvis]

> No stronger or weaker than before?

>It does not seem to have changed, though rating intensities on this feeling is a little difficult.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Put the sword pieces away, then float up to the table, to the opposite side to where Rinnosuke is sitting.

[Hello Purvis]

> Put the sword pieces away, then float up to the table, to the opposite side to where Rinnosuke is sitting.

>You put the sword parts away, and begin to approach Rinnosuke's table.
>You float and float...and it don't seem to be getting any closer. You are sure that you've covered the seven or so yards between the two of you, but it doesn't seem like you're closer at all.
>"I'm afraid I can't just allow that," he says, not opening his eyes or moving.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Frown.
> "And here I only wanted to see what the tablecloth was made of."

[Hello Purvis]

> Frown.
> "And here I only wanted to see what the tablecloth was made of."

>"Of course," he says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look around again.
> "That's quite a collection you have. I was gonna ask you about the sword handle you sold me, but it seems a little less important than it was an hour ago."

[Hello Purvis]

> Look around again.
> "That's quite a collection you have. I was gonna ask you about the sword handle you sold me, but it seems a little less important than it was an hour ago."

>"It is something that happens to us all from time to time."

>_