Yukari Quest VII - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> Bah.
> Is there any small and obviously loose and/or detachable piece of the shrine that we could take with us as a souvenir?

>You suppose you could rip off the doors. To be honest, you don't think this region is going to last for long anyways.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Meh, forget it.
> Use the astrolabe to gap-hop to our house in the fake Gensokyo, if it's still there.

In case someone takes over while I sleep for the next four hours, if they're still there, I want to investigate the tree behind the Hakurei Shrine, the Usami/Hearn house, and the PrismReznor manor.

If they're not still there, it might be worth poking around the floating islands if THOSE are still there (I said earlier that they weren't, but the gap we saw that has been destroyed doesn't actually lead there, so they might still exist). If those aren't around either, we might as well just leave, because looking for the last music border would be blind flailing. Maybe we could try to nab the dollhouse on the way out so it doesn't matter that we're wrecking the borders further.

[Hello Purvis]

> Meh, forget it.
> Use the astrolabe to gap-hop to our house in the fake Gensokyo, if it's still there.

>You try open a gap to false Gensokyo, but cannot find any borders to offer any purchase. You suspect it is no longer there.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Try to open a gap to the floating islands, then. Use the mirror in conjunction with the astrolabe to make sure we don't appear in the middle of the air.

[Hello Purvis]

> Try to open a gap to the floating islands, then. Use the mirror in conjunction with the astrolabe to make sure we don't appear in the middle of the air.

>It takes you few moments to find a spot there that isn't open air, but you do.
>Stepping through, you find yourself among a number of stone foundations, on a grassy island that is riddled with fissures, looking around, you suspect it is about a half long and maybe a quarter mile across. The sky here has the same viscous purple quality as the sky in the forests.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Do we recognize the island we are on?
> Look around for any nearby islands. Let's see if we can find the ones we mashed together.

[Hello Purvis]

> Do we recognize the island we are on?
> Look around for any nearby islands. Let's see if we can find the ones we mashed together.

>You do not.
>Looking around, you find the sky is very empty. Only a couple of small islands remain, and one of them is presently crumbling apart.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look around our current island. Anything interesting/noteworthy?

[Hello Purvis]

> Look around our current island. Anything interesting/noteworthy?

>You look around, noting some other house foundations, a few stands of trees and tall grass, and a number of fissures criss-crossing the ground.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Gap around to some of the house foundations, to see if we find anything, music-border-ish or otherwise.

[Hello Purvis]

> Gap around to some of the house foundations, to see if we find anything, music-border-ish or otherwise.

>You move between some of the foundations. Nothing of particular interest jumps out at first, just some potsherds and the like, though at in the third house you note some footprints in the dirt.
>The fissures are getting more numerous, you can head some rock crumbling in the distance.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Do they look like Mary's footprints?

[Hello Purvis]

> Do they look like Mary's footprints?

>They appear to be the proper size and shape.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look around for an island that still appears to be in good shape and gap to it.

[Hello Purvis]

> Look around for an island that still appears to be in good shape and gap to it.

>You look around, and spot another island and move over to it.
>Stepping out, you find yourself in the middle of a light forest. The ground is crossed with some small cracks, and a few of the trees have fallen.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look around for anything noteworthy.

[Hello Purvis]

> Look around for anything noteworthy.

>Looking around, you find this island appears to be mostly empty, save for trees and rocks. As you look around, one of them loudly splits open, and you can see a dark velvet hole in space within its trunk.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Any other relatively intact islands in the vicinity?

[Hello Purvis]

> Any other relatively intact islands in the vicinity?

>There was one other, a smaller one. You can't quite see it right now, but you should be able to reach it.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Let's gap to it, then.

[Hello Purvis]

> Let's gap to it, then.

>You gap to the island, and very quickly notice that is is quite a bit smaller than you recall, and the edges are quickly crumbling! There is not much else to see, just a couple hundred or so yards of grass and some flowers along the quickly vanishing edge.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Astrolabe ourselves to the field of fronds!

[Hello Purvis]

> Astrolabe ourselves to the field of fronds!

>You do so!
>The voice looming over the field is much closer than it was before, giving you a feeling akin to low-hanging storm clouds. The field itself is mostly unchanged, but a purple glow emanates from the ground as the fronds sway. Somewhere in the distance, you can see a tree, split into twain and both halves fallen to the ground. This may well be the worst place to be, if the void is indeed encroaching.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Gap ourselves to the vicinity of the gap that took us to the fake Gensokyo.

[Hello Purvis]

> Gap ourselves to the vicinity of the gap that took us to the fake Gensokyo.

>You do so.
>Emerging, you find much of this region has fallen apart entirely, leaving only a purple chasm that glows silently as it stretches across the horizon.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> One last thing to check...
> Astrolabe gap ourselved to the ruined city dimension area.

[Hello Purvis]

> One last thing to check...
> Astrolabe gap ourselved to the ruined city dimension area.

>You are just able to get purchase into the ruined city and enter it.
>Stepping out into it, you can see some of the buildings have collapsed, and others in the distance are shedding a disturbing amount of concrete from their sides. Looking upward, you can see that the city which hung upside down from the sky is floating away, leaving a large rift between it and the ground where dark purple light shines through. All around you are the sounds of twisting steel, crumbling rocking, and shattering glass.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> So this place is really close to too unstable to enter/exit, then?

[Hello Purvis]

> So this place is really close to too unstable to enter/exit, then?

>It won't be too long, you imagine.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Damnit, we didn't plan this properly at all.
> Well, we're certainly not gonna head back to the whacko cavern, thanks. Astrolabe-gap ourselves back to the dollhouse shrine in the forest.