Sakuya Quest - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Monarda]

>Keep it up until we can drag her safely, resist the burning agony !
>Inhale and exhale air as controlled as we can.

[Hello Purvis]

>Keep it up until we can drag her safely, resist the burning agony !
>Inhale and exhale air as controlled as we can.

>You keep your breathing controlled, but it's harder and harder. You have to fight for each breath, harder than the last one.  Your eyes are starting to swim; you try to ignore the brightly-colored sparks floating around them. You throw aside books as the sparks become dark spots that swim across. It's getting hard to concentrate!
>...
>...
>You feel cold grass on your cheek. A dull pain pounds in your head. You can hear birdsong, somewhere.

>_

[Monarda]

>Can we get up ? If so do it.
>Examine our surroundings.
>"Ughhh...."

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we get up ? If so do it.
>Examine our surroundings.
>"Ughhh...."

>You try to get up, and find that you are laying on the ground. Opening your eyes, which you had not realized were closed, you find yourself in the middle of a forest. Bright sunlight pours in from above. You head throbs, but less so than before. The trees are oaks, with a few beeches mixed in, nothing unusual there. The birds, you can't quite identify from their song, but they sound normal enough. The air is warm and light. Looking around, all you see is forest. Thick green grasses and leafy bushes are everywhere, you don't see any signs of civilization. A few insects drift lazily through the sky here and there. Your mouth feels dry as you groan.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Examine ourselves.

[Hello Purvis]

> Examine ourselves.

>You look yourself over. You seem to be fine, no wounds or scrapes or anything like that. Your clothing is a little ruffled, but given you were apparently laying on the forest floor, that's not too surprising.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

I have a sinking feeling that we flung ourselves forward/backward in time.

> Examine the canopy. Is it crestable without too much difficulty?

[Hello Purvis]

> Examine the canopy. Is it crestable without too much difficulty?

>You look up. It shouldn't be too hard to push through the trees. Their leaves block the sunlight more than their branches.

>_

[Monarda]

It was either that or risk losing Keine, that`s why i`d rather not tamper much with time, too sensitive. However, how far have we deviated in time ? And are we on the same place geographically ?

>Can we fly ? Try doing so to get a aerial view from our position.

[Hello Purvis]

>Can we fly ? Try doing so to get a aerial view from our position.

>You tentatively try to fly, and have no problem with it.
>Hovering upward, you poke your head above the trees and look around. There is forest in all directions.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

I have a sinking feeling that we flung ourselves forward/backward in time.

If I had to guess, backwards.

> Look up - roughly what time of the day is it?

> Second bodily check for any aging changes.

> Inventory

[Hello Purvis]

> Look up - roughly what time of the day is it?

> Second bodily check for any aging changes.

> Inventory

>You look upward. It's midday, from what you can tell. The sky is clear.
>You seemed to be about the same when you checked yourself before. If there was a change, it was too subtle to detect.
>Your Inventory contains
>Maid Headband:
>A statement of your career, pleasantly frilly.
>Uniform
>It reveals a daring amount of leg, but sometimes one must be daring.
>Silver Knife x20
>Kept in your skirt pockets, and a few hidden in comfortable spots in and under your clothing. These are the basis of your danmaku. When adventuring, you tend to keep quite a few more.
>40☼
>This is 40☼
>Something  is missing?

>_

[Monarda]

>Wait, where is our pocketwatch ?
>Search around on the ground.

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Have we ever tried to do the whole "step out of time and then in again" thing for only a split second? If so, any ill effects or specific difficulties?

[Hello Purvis]

>Wait, where is our pocketwatch ?
>Search around on the ground.

>You don't know.
>You look toward the ground, but do not see anything like a watch, or any other metal object.

> Have we ever tried to do the whole "step out of time and then in again" thing for only a split second? If so, any ill effects or specific difficulties?

>You have not, mostly because there hasn't been any need. You imagine you could.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Alright, shoot a single bullet towards the ground.

> Assuming that works as intended, attempt to step out of time, assuming everything goes okay, step in after a moment.

[Hello Purvis]

> Alright, shoot a single bullet towards the ground.

> Assuming that works as intended, attempt to step out of time, assuming everything goes okay, step in after a moment.

>You test your capabilities. You have no difficulty with a single bullet. When you freeze time, it works as it should, as does returning.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Were there any obvious footpaths when we were down in the forest?

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Are we still looking over the canopy? If so, look around for fairies.

> We moved in to Gensokyo from the outside world before - are there any immediate things that we noticed that make us feel like the two are inherently different? If so, can we tell if we're still in Gensokyo?

[UncertainJakutten]

>How painful was our split second step out of time?
>Has this ever happened before?
>How good is our relationship to time in terms of being able to innately know it, like season, hour, etc.

[Hello Purvis]

> Were there any obvious footpaths when we were down in the forest?

>Not that you saw.

> Are we still looking over the canopy? If so, look around for fairies.

> We moved in to Gensokyo from the outside world before - are there any immediate things that we noticed that make us feel like the two are inherently different? If so, can we tell if we're still in Gensokyo?

>Moved? Outside World? Not you.
>This said, you suppose it doesn't feel inherently different? Though maybe there is something else bothering you, now that you think of it.
>Looking around, you think you see some faeries to the east.

>How painful was our split second step out of time?
>Has this ever happened before?
>How good is our relationship to time in terms of being able to innately know it, like season, hour, etc.

>Not at all.
>No.
>Your sense of time is about average.

>_

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Does this look like the Forest of Magic?

> Well, drop back down to the ground proper if we haven't done before, and do a double, more meticulous check for our stopwatch.

[Hello Purvis]

> Does this look like the Forest of Magic?

> Well, drop back down to the ground proper if we haven't done before, and do a double, more meticulous check for our stopwatch.

>The trees are the same varieties, at least, but you don't recognize anything.
>You descend back down and check around for your watch. You have no luck, after checking a few yards within where you woke up, and poking through a couple bushes.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Crest the canopy again, and head east toward the possible-fairies.

[Serela]

>Survey the surroundings further as we move. Can we recognize any vague landmarks in the distance or somesuch to get our bearings? Like a mountain?

[Hello Purvis]

> Crest the canopy again, and head east toward the possible-fairies.

>Survey the surroundings further as we move. Can we recognize any vague landmarks in the distance or somesuch to get our bearings? Like a mountain?

>You make your way eastward. Looking around, you do notice some mountains in the distance, toward the east.
>You approach the faeries. There are four of them, engaged in something between an game of free for all tag and shouting at each other.
>"Moron!"
>"Doody head!"
>"Worm!"
>"Lamebrain!
>"Mook!"
>"Plastic vicar!"
>"Stooge!"
>"Faker!"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Clear throat audibly.
> "Excuse me."

[UncertainJakutten]

Hrm, the fact we're able to understand the fairy language fine implies we didn't get bent that out of shape time wise...I think

>Is there any historical language shift in Gensokyo, do we know?

I would rather let our resident faelosopher handle these.

[Hello Purvis]

>Is there any historical language shift in Gensokyo, do we know?

>You have no idea. Generally, everyone just speaks Japanese. Sometimes Mistress will use French when she wants to sound important, and Meiling is clearly fluent in Chinese, though she mostly only uses it for the swears. There are probably other polyglots out there.

> Clear throat audibly.
> "Excuse me."

>You call for attention. The faeries all stop, and look at you.
>"Oh, a human appeared," one of them says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> We are human, yes?
> "Indeed. Who are you?"