Reimu Quest (Part 9)

[Hello Purvis]

>Are our instincts telling us anything?
>Have a peek through that door, unless we get the feeling this would be a bad idea.

[日巫子]

>Are our instincts telling us anything?
>Have a peek through that door, unless we get the feeling this would be a bad idea.

> No.
> You crawl over to the doorway and look through.  It's just another hallway, similar to the one you and Ran were going through until that weird girl showed up.  This one is narrower, however, and looks a bit like the night sky.  Pretty.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Obvious exits?

[日巫子]

>Obvious exits?

> The doorway you're looking through, and the tunnel leading back up to the fight.

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[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

> Advance.

[日巫子]

> Advance.

> You go through the door.
> As you enter this hallway, the sounds of battle disappear completely.  It's eeriely quiet, except for the sounds of your footsteps padding along the floor.  You would feel mildly claustrophobic in here if it weren't for the illusion of bigness the hallway casts.  As you walk, you pass the occasional mural, most of them unrecognizable shapes but one being human enough to give pause.



> If this is another tapestry, it's a very good one.  The excessive use of white hurts your eyes, though.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Contemplate it for a moment. Does it feel unusual in any particular way? Or does it just seem to be another thing.

[日巫子]

>Contemplate it for a moment. Does it feel unusual in any particular way? Or does it just seem to be another thing.

> You pause and look at it.  You don't sense anything, but it makes you feel...well, it just feels kind of mysterious.  It's been a while since you've observed any artwork.

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[Sect]

> Shake our head and continue on.

[日巫子]

> Shake our head and continue on.

> You don't have time for this.
> You continue on.  You pass by many more murals, but eventually those stop appearing.  The path twists and turns a little bit and then continues on straight.  You walk and walk, and soon even the stars disappear.  The hallway becomes a void, but once in a while your shoulder does brush up against a wall, so you haven't gone anywhere strange for now.
> In the distance, you see the tunnel fade from black to dark purple again.  You must be nearing another room again.

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[Sect]

> Onward.

[日巫子]

> Onward.

> You walk on until you pass through the doorway.  You are now standing in a dark purple room.  The only visible exit is the way you came from.  Unlike the past rooms you were in, this one feels spacious.  At the center of the room is a rectangular prism that, standing from here, you guess is around chest height.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Approach the prism.

[日巫子]

>Approach the prism.

> You walk up to the prism and take a look at it.  You were right; it is about chest height.  There are three photos lined up on the prism's surface.
> You instantly recognize the middle photo Tamiko.  The ones on either side of that, however, are unfamiliar to you.  The left photo is a girl you don't recognize, standing beneath a tree by a river.  The right photo appears to have been taken as a portrait.
> Above these three photos are three rectangular indentations in the prism's surface, all of equal size.

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[Sect]

> The indentations are about the size of the photos?
> Pick up the portrait of the two people and study it. Is the woman Tamiko?

[日巫子]

> The indentations are about the size of the photos?
> Pick up the portrait of the two people and study it. Is the woman Tamiko?

> No.  They're bigger than the photos.
> You take a closer look at the portrait.  This woman is definitely not Tamiko.  She looks a little more...stern than her, you guess.  The photo is also not in color, which means it's old.  Much older than you.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Take the photos, then look over the indentations.

[日巫子]

>Take the photos, then look over the indentations.

> You pick up the photos and look at the indentations.  Each one is six inches wide and six inches long.  You could easily put any of the photos in one of them and be able to take it out later, if you so wished.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Place the Tamiko one in the middle, while cursing Yukari quietly.
>How did we recognize it, if we've never seen her? Did we recall something?

[日巫子]

>Place the Tamiko one in the middle, while cursing Yukari quietly.
>How did we recognize it, if we've never seen her? Did we recall something?

> You place the color photo in the middle while grumbling under your breath.
> You still don't remember anything, but if the year on the photo is anything to go by, it has to be her.  It's pretty recent, at least compared to the other two.  Or maybe it's just your intuition speaking.

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[Hello Purvis]

>How old is the photo? As well as the other two?

[日巫子]

>How old is the photo? As well as the other two?

> The year is 128, and the photo was taken in 105.  Therefore, the picture is 23 years old.
> The other two don't have dates on them.  They must have been taken before color photography was invented, but your knowledge on this particular topic is lacking, so that could be any number of years ago.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Examine the photos for any other details of note.
>If nothing presents itself, place the other two in the indentations, the portrait on the right.

[日巫子]

>Examine the photos for any other details of note.
>If nothing presents itself, place the other two in the indentations, the portrait on the right.

> You look closely at the photos.  You feel like there's something you're missing, but you can't quite place your finger on it.
> You put the portrait in the right indentation, and the photo of the girl by the river in the left indentation.  Nothing happens.

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[Hello Purvis]

>Try placing them in order of age of the female subject.

[日巫子]

>Try placing them in order of age of the female subject.

> Will you be going by oldest to youngest, or youngest to oldest?

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[Hello Purvis]

>The latter.

[日巫子]

>The latter.

> You place the girl by the river on the right, the color photo in the middle, and the portrait on the left.  Nothing happens.

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[Sect]

> Swap the two pictures on the outside.

Personally I think the order is when the pictures were taken. I'm not sure whether the portrait or the hat girl picture is older, though, so I was guessing river, portrait, then color.

[日巫子]

> Swap the two pictures on the outside.

> You place the portrait on the right, and the girl by the river on the left, returning the pictures to their previous position.  Nothing happens.

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