Yukari Quest IV - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Did we feel any colors that could be connected to either our astrolabe or our vice grips?

> If not, list of colors and their respective feelings/emotions.

[Hello Purvis]

> Did we feel any colors that could be connected to either our astrolabe or our vice grips?

> If not, list of colors and their respective feelings/emotions.

>None of them have struck you as such.
>The colors you have encountered include:  Amber, which was Maribel. Charcoal Gray, which were gaps or at least parts of one. Black gave an overpowering sense of confusion. Red, which gave a sense of repulsion. Blue, which gave a sense of anger. Yellow, which gave a sense of vibration. Green, which imparted a pleasant sense. Orange, which had a feeling of electricity around it. Purple, which emanated hatred. Light brown, which gave a sense of excitement and giddiness. Cobalt carried a sense of motion, and caused such when you entered it. Royal Purple gave a feeling of strength.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

Guize, halp :ohdear:

[Serela]

I'm not familiar with this world we're currently in so I don't know what to suggest to progress the search, but the immediate goal should be exploring around it for the rest of our wrench. Even if you rate it a low-priority tool, progress is progress and we're already here, so we should take care of business before we go.

Going back to Color World and exploring about/melting colors until something maybe happens should be simple enough, afterwords.

[Kilgamayan]

We can always go back to the gap that brought us here from the color world and explore around that area.

[O4rfish]

You know, our goals aren't limited to finding our tools. If we're going to keep Maribel in the dark about our tools then we need to have reasons for going places and searching for them.
Also, we need to get her some food, and a reliable source of water like a canteen.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Food is one things but so far we haven't found anything edible, which I would assume would require us going to a new area. As for water, we could always go back to the wasteland since there seems to be an unlimited source of water in the sky.

[Hello Purvis]

>"You're being awfully quiet," Maribel says. "Find something?"

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> "Just what we feared I guess, this bubble seems to be in no way connected to that sigil."
> sigh

This is a let's-buy-some-time post.

Somebody else handle mary please, my parenting hat has been destroyed due to sleepyness.

So our options are:

- Stick around, find wrench.
- Go back to Wastelands, try to find new border.
- Try to get something done on Color Space

We need our Vice Grips for two different gaps, which we'll probably only find on either new terrain or the color space.

Thinking on it, if the Color Space has any of our tools, it would be either the Astrolabe or the Mirror (gut feeling) and since the Field of Fronds -> Caves border is pretty much wrecked, we're essentially stuck without our astrolabe otherwise, so I think our best bet would be to go back to the Color Space and try to get something done.

Note: Yay, I was wrong about the Astrolabe!

[Hello Purvis]

> "Just what we feared I guess, this bubble seems to be in no way connected to that sigil."
> sigh

>"Well, that not too surprising, says Maribel. "I'd think you'd probably want to find another painting or something. Well, maybe not, given this place..."

[Hello Purvis]

>"So, how much of this place have you seen?" She adds after a moment. "Maybe there's some other buildings around?"

>_

[Yaersulf]

>If the gap to the caverns is unstable, would we be able to stabilise it with our tools?

[Hello Purvis]

>If the gap to the caverns is unstable, would we be able to stabilise it with our tools?

>It is highly unlikely that there is enough of a gap left to stablize anything, with the borders as chaotic as they are. In a better place, you might be able to salvage something.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Are there any paths in this forest area which we haven't followed to conclusion?

[Hello Purvis]

>Are there any paths in this forest area which we haven't followed to conclusion?

>A couple. One leading from the shrine that you noticed back when you first visited, and one that you found when you returned here with Maribel, before heading off toward the stream.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Do we feel confident we could gap ourselves to the shrine?

[Hello Purvis]

>Do we feel confident we could gap ourselves to the shrine?

>Easily.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"I just remembered a path in this forest I haven't yet checked. Would you mind if I gapped us over there?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"I just remembered a path in this forest I haven't yet checked. Would you mind if I gapped us over there?"

>"Not at all," says Maribel.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> Open up a gap to the path at the shrine that we have not yet traversed, and head on through.

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> Open up a gap to the path at the shrine that we have not yet traversed, and head on through.

>You open of a gap, and step through to arrive at the shrine. You quickly find the path behind it and prepare to follow it, but Maribel is a bit too busy looking at the shrine itself to follow.
>"I would have loved to have something like this when I was a kid," she says, as she walks around it, then kneels down and peeks through one of the second story windows. "Hey, do you mind if I do something real quick?"

>_

[O4rfish]

>"Go ahead."

[O4rfish]

>How much does Yukari know about chemistry and physics?

[Hello Purvis]

>"Go ahead."

>She nods, then slides the front door open and reaches inside. She feels around for a few moments, then lays down on the pavilion and sticks her whole arm inside. "Got it!" she says after a moment, as she carefully withdraws her arms and stands back up. In her hand, you can see the boulder; now a palm-sized rock, that was enshrined there. "There," she says, as she slips it into a pocket in her nightgown. "Ready!"

>How much does Yukari know about chemistry and physics?

>You are wise enough to understand that sciences are a matter of perception more than a matter of reality, and are a matter of perception most unfriendly to youkai. You put little stock into them beyond a certain point of common sense.

>_

[O4rfish]

>why didn't we think of that.
>Explore path.

[Mr. Sacchi]

I feel so dumb for not thinking of that before.

[Kilgamayan]

Why do we want the stone again?

[Mr. Sacchi]

Didn't it block a path or something?

[Kilgamayan]

I don't remember it doing anything, particularly if it was enshrined.

But I didn't even remember the boulder existed until she spotted it earlier, so :shrug:

Also it occurs to me that we could now have one person go through the shrinky gap and meet back up with the normal-sized other person at the shrine. I haven't yet thought of a way to take advantage of this, but it's worth remembering.

[Hello Purvis]

>why didn't we think of that.
>Explore path.

>That's a good question. But she seems happy to have it.
>You continue further east from the shrine, picking your way through undergrowth. The going is fairly slow with Maribel in tow, but that is expected by now. The trail winds this way and that, snaking its way eastward, and you note you are walking down a gentle hill. The trees continue to be strange and unfamiliar things, taking less and less resemblance to the trees you know. Branches reach toward the ground. Others bear green vines in place of leaves. One you pass seems to have no bark at all, instead bearing five-pointed leaves in place of such. Maribel mutters, "Hands," as you walk past it.
>After a few minutes of travelling down this path, you notice a soft yellowish glow emitting from the ground, largely but not entirely obscured by the underbrush. "Do you see that?" Maribel asks.

>_