Sword Quest III - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Kilgamayan]

welp

> Are we facing her?
> Is she facing us?
> Are either of her legs in grabbing range?

[Hello Purvis]

> Are we facing her?
> Is she facing us?
> Are either of her legs in grabbing range?

>Yes
>Kind of.
>No.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Is this oni wearing shackles? Don't spent a tempo examining if we don't know.

[Hello Purvis]

> Is this oni wearing shackles? Don't spent a tempo examining if we don't know.

>She seems to be, but you've not been paying attention.

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[Kilgamayan]

LEEROOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIIIIINS

> Make a dive to grab at her ankles.

[Hello Purvis]

> Make a dive to grab at her ankles.

>You dive at her ankles as soon as you can regain your balance. However, you do not get a good shot at them, as she rights herself from the charge.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Did she pull away from us to do this?
> How far down did we go before she righted herself?

[Hello Purvis]

> Did she pull away from us to do this?
> How far down did we go before she righted herself?

>More that she staggered away in the aftermath of colliding with you.
>You have managed to avoid overextending yourself before discovering she was too far gone to grab.

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[Kilgamayan]

> How are the two of us positioned now, relative to the roof line?

[Hello Purvis]

> How are the two of us positioned now, relative to the roof line?

>The oni on the roof is closer to the edge of the roof than you are. You aren't immediately sure where the other is; you don't see her.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Who is the other?

[Hello Purvis]

> Who is the other?

>You have no idea, you have only heard her voice.

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[Kilgamayan]

Oh, right, that one.

> Back off a bit further down the roof line, but keep our hands in front of us in the same defensive position.

[Hello Purvis]

> Back off a bit further down the roof line, but keep our hands in front of us in the same defensive position.

>"Oh, you're a tough one, ain't ya?" says the oni as she recovers her balance. Then she charge toward you, her right arm drawn back and aimed at your torso.

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[Suwako Moriya]

Okay, that's sufficiently many chances to call it off. I'm ready to strike back now.

> How far away is she?

[Hello Purvis]

> How far away is she?

>She is a couple yards away, and closing fast.

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[Suwako Moriya]

> Zoom upward, spreading our feet apart a bit past shoulder width so as to make it harder for the punch to accidentally connect with one of them.
> After we start moving upward, lean forward with our torso a bit, clasp our hand together, and swing them downward in an attempt to hit the oni in the back of the head with an axe handle strike on her way by. It is okay for the top half of our body to be moving forward with the lower half of our body still being flung upward if letting this happen reduces the amount of energy we spend on halting bodily momentum.

[Hello Purvis]

> Zoom upward, spreading our feet apart a bit past shoulder width so as to make it harder for the punch to accidentally connect with one of them.
> After we start moving upward, lean forward with our torso a bit, clasp our hand together, and swing them downward in an attempt to hit the oni in the back of the head with an axe handle strike on her way by. It is okay for the top half of our body to be moving forward with the lower half of our body still being flung upward if letting this happen reduces the amount of energy we spend on halting bodily momentum.

>You zoom upward, the oni's fist passing between your legs. Your fists come down as her head turns upward, and you come much closer than you would like to accidentally bringing your hands down on her horn. But you avoid that, and slam your fists into the back of her head. SHe gives a kind of squawk as she falls to her knees, just barely catching herself before she falsl further, while you twist in midair from the motion, your feet flying upward and a bit above you, leaving you vertical in the air.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Upside-down in the air is perfect.
> Swoop down with a hand outstretched, aiming at the back of the oni's head. Once we're two feet away from her head, fire a stream of our preferred shot type (arrowheads?) at the back of her head and slow down so we don't collide with her. If we see her starting to turn her head to look behind herself, however, fire our shots early. Tilting her head up is okay to keep waiting on, since she still won't be looking behind her; only fire prematurely with a left- or right-turn.

[Hello Purvis]

> Upside-down in the air is perfect.
> Swoop down with a hand outstretched, aiming at the back of the oni's head. Once we're two feet away from her head, fire a stream of our preferred shot type (arrowheads?) at the back of her head and slow down so we don't collide with her. If we see her starting to turn her head to look behind herself, however, fire our shots early. Tilting her head up is okay to keep waiting on, since she still won't be looking behind her; only fire prematurely with a left- or right-turn.

>You extend your hand and send a stream of arrows at her head. She grunts as you do, staggering and sinking a bit lower. Then suddenly her fist comes up from below, an uppercut aimed directly at you head!

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[Kilgamayan]

> Does 'from below' mean below relative to our current perspective, thereby being from our torso level toward our chin?

[Hello Purvis]

> Does 'from below' mean below relative to our current perspective, thereby being from our torso level toward our chin?

>No, you are still fairly horizontal in the air. Her fist is coming up directly at your head.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Which hand did we use to fire at the back of her head?

[Hello Purvis]

> Which hand did we use to fire at the back of her head?

>Your right, which is dominant.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Tilt our head back and to the left, leaning the same way with our upper torso. At the same time, sweep our left arm, positioned more or less up-and-down, left-to-right across our body in front in an attempt to deflect her punching arm to the right. Time this sweep so our arm collides with hers; we don't want to get punched in the arm.

[Hello Purvis]

> Tilt our head back and to the left, leaning the same way with our upper torso. At the same time, sweep our left arm, positioned more or less up-and-down, left-to-right across our body in front in an attempt to deflect her punching arm to the right. Time this sweep so our arm collides with hers; we don't want to get punched in the arm.

>You lean off to the side, and try to push her arm aside as it comes up. Her fist just grazes past you; you can just feel it brush past your hair, your precautions prevent your arm from getting jarred as it did last time. However, you have a more immediate problem as bright green danmaku blazes into the air in the wake of her fist. Thankfully, none of has touched you immediately, but it begins to float outward as the oni stands up from her uppercut.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Float backward long enough to right ourselves back into a proper vertical position.
> As we're repositioning ourselves, sweep our right arm in front of us down-to-up to let loose a vertical stream of arrowheads. Only do this if we can safely sweep our arm and not smack it into the oni's danmaku, however.

[Hello Purvis]

> Float backward long enough to right ourselves back into a proper vertical position.
> As we're repositioning ourselves, sweep our right arm in front of us down-to-up to let loose a vertical stream of arrowheads. Only do this if we can safely sweep our arm and not smack it into the oni's danmaku, however.

>You float backward and right yourself. Before you can counterattack, several of the danmaku shots slam into your chest, torso, and legs as you present a wider profile to it. You can barely hear the oni guffaw over the sudden flash of pain and weakness.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Urgh, didn't expect that from fist shots. Won't make that mistake again.
> Can we at least still see?

[Hello Purvis]

> Urgh, didn't expect that from fist shots. Won't make that mistake again.
> Can we at least still see?

>You can still see reasonably alright.

>_