Maribel Hearn Quest: ACT III

[AzyWng]

>Add: "When you were trying to make an umbrella out of the darkness, I saw it shimmer for a second."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Can you tell me more about this strange ribbon, Rumia?"

>"Huh? That? Oh, I've had that for as long as I can remember." Rumia replies, "Apparently it's a seal or something... I can't touch it."

>Add: "When you were trying to make an umbrella out of the darkness, I saw it shimmer for a second."

>"Is that so?" Rumia tilts her head, "I don't think it ever shimmered before..."
>_

[Neovereign]

//Screwing with boundaries for Rumia's ribbon might yield similar results to Koishi. I'm sure Maribel would be curious enough to try it, but also worried enough not to try it thanks to how Koishi reacted.
>"A seal?"

[AzyWng]

//Screwing with boundaries for Rumia's ribbon might yield similar results to Koishi. I'm sure Maribel would be curious enough to try it, but also worried enough not to try it thanks to how Koishi reacted.

//Yeah, I know this qualifies as meta-gaming, but I'm really not interested in releasing the seal on a youkai that is many times stronger than we are.
>"Why can't you touch it?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//Screwing with boundaries for Rumia's ribbon might yield similar results to Koishi. I'm sure Maribel would be curious enough to try it, but also worried enough not to try it thanks to how Koishi reacted.
>"A seal?"

>"Yup."

//Yeah, I know this qualifies as meta-gaming, but I'm really not interested in releasing the seal on a youkai that is many times stronger than we are.
>"Why can't you touch it?"

>Rumia shrugs, "I just can't. It's like trying to touch fire."
>_

[Neovereign]

>"How hot does it feel? Do you think you could just do it quickly?"

[AzyWng]

>"How long have you had that ribbon, anyway?"

[Samaren]

>"How long have you had that ribbon, anyway?"

>"Huh? That? Oh, I've had that for as long as I can remember." Rumia replies, "Apparently it's a seal or something... I can't touch it."

It have been answered already.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"How hot does it feel? Do you think you could just do it quickly?"

>"Like, really, really hot." Rumia tries to touch the ribbon to demonstrate, only to quickly jerk her hand away in pain as soon as her finger makes contact. "Ow..."
>_

[AzyWng]

>"Oh... Probably best not to bother it, I guess..."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Oh... Probably best not to bother it, I guess..."

>Rumia frowns a little.
>_

[Monarda]

>Pat her head.
>"Aw relax, look at the good things, you have all these friends that care for you Rumia, some weird ribbon can't take them away from you right ?"
>Smile a bit.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>Pat her head.

>You pat her head.

>"Aw relax, look at the good things, you have all these friends that care for you Rumia, some weird ribbon can't take them away from you right ?"
>Smile a bit.

>"I know... But I've always been curious if I could ever do anything beyond my ball of darkness... I always feel I could do much more, but my ribbon... it feels like it's always holding me back..."
>"If it bothers you so much, why don't you ask someone to take it off?" Daiyousei asks.
>"I didn't think anyone would want to..."
>_

[Monarda]

>"If only we could first a way to make sure everything goes okay..."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"If only we could first a way to make sure everything goes okay..."

>"Would you need to?" Cirno asks, "I mean what's the worst that could happen?"
>_

[Neovereign]

>"It could probably just let her control her darkness better. Or maybe she would make all of Gensokyo dark..."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"It could probably just let her control her darkness better. Or maybe she would make all of Gensokyo dark..."

>"I don't think Rumia will do something like that. Reimu would just beat her up before she could."
>"Rumia doesn't seem like the kind of person to do that either," Daiyousei adds "well... not without a reason..."
>_

[Monarda]

>"I know, i am just thinking stuff too much."
>Pet Rumia.
>"Besides all of her friends live here, so doing that would be bad for everyone."

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"I know, i am just thinking stuff too much."
>Pet Rumia.
>"Besides all of her friends live here, so doing that would be bad for everyone."

>You start gently petting Rumia.
>"Well, maybe not for Flan," says Rumia, "But then again she doesn't get out mu-E-Eh!?!?"
>"Uh... Merry? What are you doing?" Renko asks.
>Everyone seems to be staring at you and Rumia.
>_

[Monarda]

>"Huh ?"
>Stop petting her and look a bit confused.
>"What ?"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

>"Huh ?"
>Stop petting her and look a bit confused.

>You stop petting Rumia, only to realize that you already stopped. And that your hand is now on her ribbon, and seems to have been tugging at it. It definitely looks slightly looser now.
>You notice one of YuugenMagan's eyes on your hand, staring at you.
>_

[the old guy]

>"NO! I THOUGHT YOU DIED!"
>Put our other hand on the eye.
>Try poking it out if that doesn't work.

[Monarda]

>"NO! I THOUGHT YOU DIED!"
>Put our other hand on the eye.
>Try poking it out if that doesn't work.

//Hey, not all that, we have been on our guard for this kind of thing, plus others are looking at us.

>Let go of the ribbon, step back and hold our hand.
>"Eargh !"

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//Hey, not all that, we have been on our guard for this kind of thing, plus others are looking at us.

>Let go of the ribbon, step back and hold our hand.
>"Eargh !"

>You reflexively let go and hold your hand.
>"M-Merry!? Is something wrong!?" Renko looks genuinely worried now.
>_

[Neovereign]

//We haven't really been on guard for it. We've been enjoying our time, playing with Meiling just a bit and meeting Rumia with Rengeteki.
>"I-I didn't mean to try and grab it, b-but I saw her again! S-She was looking right back at me."
>Examine our hand and try to stop shaking if we are.

[Monarda]

//Oh, so i was the only one that was waiting for it to happen again ?

[Neovereign]

//That's a (sort of trauma related) eye suddenly appearing on our hand again as well as almost taking Rumia's ribbon off without meaning to. This thing that only happened back at the start of the day iirc would be in the back of my head (next to worrying about our powers), especially after we decided not to worry about it yet and continue a bunch of other things, like helping Rengeteki, discussing with Rumia about her seal, and the music and the kidnappings.

[Monarda]

//Makes sense.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//We haven't really been on guard for it. We've been enjoying our time, playing with Meiling just a bit and meeting Rumia with Rengeteki.
>"I-I didn't mean to try and grab it, b-but I saw her again! S-She was looking right back at me."

>"H-Huh!? But how? She's dead, Merry...."
>"H-Her?" Rengeteki looks confused.
>"Who?" Meiling, Rumia, Wriggle, and Sanae ask.
>Cirno and Daiyousei begin looking around.

>Examine our hand and try to stop shaking if we are.

>You stop shaking and examine your hand.
>it appears normal.
>_

[Neovereign]

>"Uh, s-sorry."
>^{_{"Gotta get a grip... She's dead. It's not real... I'm worrying Renko too much."}}