Iku Quest P?t: A Z-Machine Adventure

[DracoOmega]

>"How exactly are you sensing things, anyway? I mean, you don't seem to have eyes or ears in the conventional sense, at the moment. Does it still feel like you're seeing and hearing things in the usual way, from your perspective?"
>"Can you, perhaps, sense some of this place in ways that your normal senses wouldn't be able to?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"How exactly are you sensing things, anyway? I mean, you don't seem to have eyes or ears in the conventional sense, at the moment. Does it still feel like you're seeing and hearing things in the usual way, from your perspective?"
>"Can you, perhaps, sense some of this place in ways that your normal senses wouldn't be able to?"

>She writes: "Well, it's pretty clear that something weird is going on, since I'm kind of stuck to you, but I don't see any reason my my senses wouldn't work. I'm pretty sure I have eyes and ears. Things feel about right to me."
>She seems a little perplexed at your question. "Like what?"

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[DracoOmega]

>"Do you... not look like just a shadow, from your own perspective?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Do you... not look like just a shadow, from your own perspective?"

>She tilts her head, then writes, "No. I guess that's what you see, then?"

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[DracoOmega]

>"Yes. From my perspective, you're just a shadow, on the ground. Looking like any normal shadow, except for the part where you move on your own. In fact, you're basically where my shadow would be. That's how you seem to be attached to me."
>"How does it look, from your perspective?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yes. From my perspective, you're just a shadow, on the ground. Looking like any normal shadow, except for the part where you move on your own. In fact, you're basically where my shadow would be. That's how you seem to be attached to me."
>"How does it look, from your perspective?"

>She writes. "I'm standing right beside you. But I kind of get drug along when you do things. I did see my shadow was kind of stuck to yours, though. I thought that was causing it, that and you've got real colors. I've tried to touch you and stuff, but it just didn't work."

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[DracoOmega]

>"So, you're colorless, like the rest of this world?"
>"But, if you're standing beside me, yet your shadow is on mine, even from your perspective, does that mean your shadow isn't being cast from your own body at the proper expected angle?"
>"If you have your own body, I don't suppose you're carrying any items or tools on you?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"So, you're colorless, like the rest of this world?"
>"But, if you're standing beside me, yet your shadow is on mine, even from your perspective, does that mean your shadow isn't being cast from your own body at the proper expected angle?"
>"If you have your own body, I don't suppose you're carrying any items or tools on you?"

>She nods to your first question. When you ask your second, she says, "No, it's just pointed toward you all the time no matter where I go."
>"Just the basic stuff. I don't think I'll be able to do anything, though, since I can't touch anything with them."

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[DracoOmega]

>"Can you not touch anything in the world, at all? Or just not touch me?"
>"So if your shadow stays pointed towards me no matter where you go, does that mean you can step away from me?"
>"This is a bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose you have a compass on you?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Can you not touch anything in the world, at all? Or just not touch me?"
>"So if your shadow stays pointed towards me no matter where you go, does that mean you can step away from me?"
>"This is a bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose you have a compass on you?"

>She writes, "Can't touch anything. I don't even feel the ground under me. And I could step away, if you didn't move. And yeah, I got a compass. I think it's busted, though, it doesn't point anywhere."

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[DracoOmega]

>"Hmmm... so much for that idea. I guess there's no magnetic pole here for it to point at, wherever we are. It's not easy to tell which laws work here, and which don't."
>Take the shadow knife out, and try making a mark in the ground with it

[Hello Purvis]

>"Hmmm... so much for that idea. I guess there's no magnetic pole here for it to point at, wherever we are. It's not easy to tell which laws work here, and which don't."
>Take the shadow knife out, and try making a mark in the ground with it

>Who would put their nets on a pole?
>You use the Shadow Knife to make a small gouge in the ground.

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[DracoOmega]

>Well, at least some shadows can still affect their environment
>Put the knife away again
>About how long a trip would it be from here to Guest Island, normally?
>"You can't feel the ground, but you can still connect solidly with it? You're actually walking, and not just floating about it?"

[Hello Purvis]

>Well, at least some shadows can still affect their environment
>Put the knife away again
>About how long a trip would it be from here to Guest Island, normally?
>"You can't feel the ground, but you can still connect solidly with it? You're actually walking, and not just floating about it?"

>It would take you awhile to fly there at top speed if you had the usual landmarks.
>She nods.

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[DracoOmega]

>"Can you still fly?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Can you still fly?"

>She shakes her head, then writes, "Only when you do. And...I kind of fall when you leave the island. I figured it was because I wasn't supposed to leave them like you can, at first. "

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[DracoOmega]

>"I wonder if it's just your own consciousness that perceives a body for you, then? And physically, all there really is here is the shadow? With all the limitations that implies?"
>"How far away from me can you move, if I stay still?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"I wonder if it's just your own consciousness that perceives a body for you, then? And physically, all there really is here is the shadow? With all the limitations that implies?"
>"How far away from me can you move, if I stay still?"

>She shrugs

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[DracoOmega]

>"Just try it, then."
>Point to a somewhat distant house
>"Try walking over to that house, and see how far you can get."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Just try it, then."
>Point to a somewhat distant house
>"Try walking over to that house, and see how far you can get."

>She nods.
>Once you stop moving, her shadow starts to stretch. Soon it is quite distant from you, reaching to the end of the house. She waves, though the gesture is hard to interpret, given how stretched the shadow is.

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[DracoOmega]

>How clearly can we see our own shadow, anyway? With hers on top of it?
>Take a small step to the side

[Hello Purvis]

>How clearly can we see our own shadow, anyway? With hers on top of it?
>Take a small step to the side

>Not very clearly; unless she moves away from your shadow, you tend to see her more than your own just due to her tendency to move independently.
>You take a small step to the side. Her shadow follows you. It remains stretched out.

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[DracoOmega]

>Call out: "Just stay there for a moment!"
>Start walking away from her for a while, and see if there's a point where she seems forced to catch up

[Hello Purvis]

>Call out: "Just stay there for a moment!"
>Start walking away from her for a while, and see if there's a point where she seems forced to catch up

>You give out instructions, but either she didn't listen to you, or she is powerless to resist as her shadow moves along with you without hesitation.

[DracoOmega]

>But it remains as stretched out as before?

[Hello Purvis]

>But it remains as stretched out as before?

>Yes.

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[DracoOmega]

>Ascend a couple feet off the ground
>Does her shadow remain largely the same?

[Hello Purvis]

>Ascend a couple feet off the ground
>Does her shadow remain largely the same?

>The angle on it changes slightly, but otherwise yes.

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[DracoOmega]

>Call out: "Sorry for using you as a guinea pig, Nitori, but I just want to test another thing."
>Keeping low to the ground, fly to the edge of the current island
>Then slowly move out over the edge, while observing the shadow. See if there's a point where it changes abruptly

[Hello Purvis]

>Call out: "Sorry for using you as a guinea pig, Nitori, but I just want to test another thing."
>Keeping low to the ground, fly to the edge of the current island
>Then slowly move out over the edge, while observing the shadow. See if there's a point where it changes abruptly

>She makes a dismissive wave.
>You walk toward the edge of the island.  The tip of the shadow falls over the edge as you do, until you move over it and it completely disappears due to having nothing to fall upon. But until that point, you could see it at your feet.

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