Yukari Quest V - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

>We should be able to open a gap to the mountain with the hole easily enough right?

>Unless there is some factor you have not noticed or failed to account for, it should give you no trouble at all.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Very well."
> Let us open such a gap, then.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Very well."
> Let us open such a gap, then.

>You open a gap to that region, having no unexpected difficulties.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Here's hoping for the best!
> Head on through.

[Hello Purvis]

> Here's hoping for the best!
> Head on through.

>You step through the gap.
>On the other side, you find yourself surrounded by smooth rock walls that stretch about ten feet above you. The ground is smooth as well, and stretches a few yards across, before coming to an end at one of the eight walls. One one of the walls, about seven or so feet up, you can see a hole, large enough that you could easily stick your arm into it with room to spare if you could reach it. A couple of cast off flowers lay on the ground, identical to the ones that you left here while you were were larger. Aside from that, you see no real distinguishing features here; the walls have no decoration or anything of that nature. Above, you can see the multi-colored sky clearly.

>_

[Serela]

>Does this seem like it might function musically if we blew into it while huge?

[Kilgamayan]

> Did Mary not follow us?

[Hello Purvis]

>Does this seem like it might function musically if we blew into it while huge?

>You might get some kind of sound out of it, but you don't think it would be noteworthy.

> Did Mary not follow us?

>Whups. Yes, she did follow you. Currently she is looking around, talking the sights in.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Point to the hole in the wall.
> "Ah."

[Hello Purvis]

> Point to the hole in the wall.
> "Ah."

>"Yeah, I noticed that," says Maribel. "Have any ideas about it? And, why are there flowers here?"

[Kilgamayan]

> "Even mountains deserve to be prettied up from time to time, don't you think? For the hole, I suspect our best bet would be for me to boost you up there so you can inspect it."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Even mountains deserve to be prettied up from time to time, don't you think? For the hole, I suspect our best bet would be for me to boost you up there so you can inspect it."

>"Okay," says Maribel.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Let us proceed, then. How would you prefer to be lifted?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Let us proceed, then. How would you prefer to be lifted?"

>"Um, whatever works best, I guess," says Maribel.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> How tall are we?
> How tall is Mary?

[Hello Purvis]

> How tall are we?
> How tall is Mary?

>You are fairly tall, a bit over six feet. Maribel is about five and a half feet tall.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> Make our way over to the part of the wall under the hole, then crouch down onto one knee and hold our hands at raised-knee height so the palm of the lower one is pressed up against the back of the upper one.
> "Step here. Use myself and the wall to maintain your balance. Let me know if I need to lift you up so you can see into the hole."

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> Make our way over to the part of the wall under the hole, then crouch down onto one knee and hold our hands at raised-knee height so the palm of the lower one is pressed up against the back of the upper one.
> "Step here. Use myself and the wall to maintain your balance. Let me know if I need to lift you up so you can see into the hole."

>She nods and approaches. "Alright, got it."
>Maribel then steps into your foot and boosts herself up. She is heavy, no question about it, but you do have a youkai's strength, she is not that bothersome, you should be able to hold her for a bit. She learns against the wall, her waist in front of you face. "Okay, I can see inside it," she says. "Um, it's too dark to see anything. But, I think I can feel something inside it. Some kind of border... It's...missing something, I think?"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Do we have anything we can use to light the hole?

[Serela]

>We have the sun disc thing. Could we realistically hand it to Maribel like this?

[Hello Purvis]

> Do we have anything we can use to light the hole?

>You suppose you could try to so something with the Solar Disk, but you imagine it would be awkward. Alternately, you could try to set something on fire...

>We have the sun disc thing. Could we realistically hand it to Maribel like this?

>You don't know if she could hold it and balance and cast any useful amounts of light inside the hole.

>_

[Serela]

>Could we stick our top half through a gap to examine the hole ourselves rather than have Maribel doing it for us? It's nice to involve her, but, have to get stuff done in the end.

[Hello Purvis]

>Could we stick our top half through a gap to examine the hole ourselves rather than have Maribel doing it for us? It's nice to involve her, but, have to get stuff done in the end.

>You could do this.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Ah, I have an idea. Step down, please."
> Once Mary is back on the ground, gap our top half up just a little bit so we can see into the hole ourselves.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Ah, I have an idea. Step down, please."
> Once Mary is back on the ground, gap our top half up just a little bit so we can see into the hole ourselves.

>"Okay," says Maribel.
>You let Maribel down, then open a gap around your waist and give yourself a little boost upward. Maribel giggles, but doesn't say anything.
>With a nice view of the hole, you can see that it slopes downward, then makes a turn to the left after a few feet. Maribel is correct, however, there is definitely a sensation in there, one of power. It reminds you quite strongly of the sigil that part of your wrench has become.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Hmm."
> Reach into the hole for the power.

[Hello Purvis]

> "Hmm."
> Reach into the hole for the power.

>"You can feel it, right?" says Maribel.
>You reach inside, but find that you cannot reach far enough to touch it; it is beyond the bend in the tunnel in any event.

>_

[Serela]

>"Yes. It's related to the sigil we saw in the shrine."
>Use a gap to send our hand in further. Be slow and careful with reaching in, though.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yes. It's related to the sigil we saw in the shrine."
>Use a gap to send our hand in further. Be slow and careful with reaching in, though.

>"I was thinking they could be related," says Maribel.
>You open another gap to extend your reach. Moving entirely by feel now, you find that the tunnel is smooth and continues to spiral downward.  After reaching in as far as you can, you feel your fingers brush against something. and feel a sensation of power and incompleteness, similar to that of the sigil you have encountered.

>_

[O4rfish]

>Can we accurately open a gap to where the sigil is?