Kisume Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

> Point back to the nearest room with an open door.

[Hello Purvis]

> Point back to the nearest room with an open door.

>You point to the nearest room, and Ruukoto begins to back toward it.
>She pushes you through again, though not quite so quickly as last time, then shuts the door behind you. This room is virtually identical to the last one, even the beds and curtains are in the same position as before.
>"Soldiers?" says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Yeah. I'm guessing they won't just let a little crippled girl pass whatever they're guarding."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yeah. I'm guessing they won't just let a little crippled girl pass whatever they're guarding."

>She nods. "That's got to be either your friend, or Agent Sombraluz," says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "That's what I was thinking, yeah. Which means we gotta get by them. Didn't one of you mention something about a fire suppression system? How does it work?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "That's what I was thinking, yeah. Which means we gotta get by them. Didn't one of you mention something about a fire suppression system? How does it work?"

>"Well, if you get enough of a fire going to set it off," says Ruukoto, "An alarm goes off, and water sprinkles down from the ceiling.  You see that thing right there?" She points to a small metal objected in the middle of the ceiling, "That's where the water comes from come. Well, I think it's water. They might use some kind of chemical suppressant? Either way, that's what happens. And I think they send a team to where the fire was detected to investigate it and get things under control."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "That sounds useable, but it also sounds like I'd need to be really close to these guys to make the metal thing rain on them."

[Hello Purvis]

> "That sounds useable, but it also sounds like I'd need to be really close to these guys to make the metal thing rain on them."

>"Kind of," says Ruukoto. "But I think we're only going to get to do it once or twice; I don't think there's ever been a fire that sounded the alarm before, and they're going to be suspicious when they don't find anything there. But, probably everyone around would leave when it does go off until they're told the coast is clear!"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Oh, there's an alarm? That'll be sure to chase them off, unless they're a part of that investigative team."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Oh, there's an alarm? That'll be sure to chase them off, unless they're a part of that investigative team."

>She nods. "I don't think they are. They might try to help evacuate anyone who get get themselves out, though."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "All right. How about this? I start a fire in one empty room and we hide in another empty room until this alarm goes off. Once we hear those guards go by, we check out that room they were guarding."

[Hello Purvis]

> "All right. How about this? I start a fire in one empty room and we hide in another empty room until this alarm goes off. Once we hear those guards go by, we check out that room they were guarding."

>"If there's anyone in there, they'd probably get them out," says Ruukoto. "If it's the agent, I don't know if they would leave his things or not."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "You think they would leave my friend in there? Just from what I've heard of this place, it sounds like they're more interested in her as an experiment than as a person."

[Hello Purvis]

> "You think they would leave my friend in there? Just from what I've heard of this place, it sounds like they're more interested in her as an experiment than as a person."

>"Well, it wouldn't do any good if their experiment burned up," says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I guess."
> Frown.
> "There goes that idea, I guess."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I guess."
> Frown.
> "There goes that idea, I guess."

>"Well, I'm sure you have other tricks up your sleeve!" says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I'm sorry to say that I'm not as great as Yumemi wants me to be."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I'm sorry to say that I'm not as great as Yumemi wants me to be."

>"Oh," says Ruukoto, frowning.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Yeah. I'm good for setting things on fire and mugging people. If you want anything else done, you'll have to ask any of the multitude of people in Gensokyo stronger than me."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yeah. I'm good for setting things on fire and mugging people. If you want anything else done, you'll have to ask any of the multitude of people in Gensokyo stronger than me."

>"Couldn't you mug them?" says Ruukoto. "Or something like that?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "If there was one of them and I could get at them from behind. But I'm not changing headlong at two guys with machines that shoot lethal and undodgeable bullets."

[Hello Purvis]

> "If there was one of them and I could get at them from behind. But I'm not changing headlong at two guys with machines that shoot lethal and undodgeable bullets."

>"What if you shot first?" says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I can't shoot lethal or undodgeable bullets."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I can't shoot lethal or undodgeable bullets."

>"Well, they don't have to be lethal, right?" says Ruukoto. "Don't they just have to work?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "If their bullets are really as undodgeable as you all say, my bullets wouldn't have even reached them by the time I hit the floor dead."

[Hello Purvis]

> "If their bullets are really as undodgeable as you all say, my bullets wouldn't have even reached them by the time I hit the floor dead."

>"Even if you're really close?" says Ruukoto.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How far away were the guards?

[Hello Purvis]

> How far away were the guards?

>They were some yards away.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "We're not 'really close'."

[Hello Purvis]

> "We're not 'really close'."

>"Well, you can get close, right?"

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