Iku Quest Otto - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Suwako Moriya]

> Put on a concerned look.
> "Okay, but...is it really that difficult to hear this sort of thing?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Put on a concerned look.
> "Okay, but...is it really that difficult to hear this sort of thing?"

>"It's annoying," she says. "You're making me out to be what I'm not. "

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...I see. Then, if I may ask...what am I, to you?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "...I see. Then, if I may ask...what am I, to you?"

>"Well, uh, it's a bit hard to say," she says, frowning. "You've been all weird lately."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "In what I've been doing, or how I've been doing it?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "In what I've been doing, or how I've been doing it?"

>"Kinda both," she says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...Would you rather I not have tried to get closer to you, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "...Would you rather I not have tried to get closer to you, then?"

>"I dunno, maybe," she says. "It's just weird. You're pretty much the biggest pain in my ass, since you're kinda in charge of the celestials and we've already talked about what's wrong with them. And you're the one who can get me in trouble in any  time. It's weird seeing you all friendly and stuff, especially when you start saying a bunch of nice things about me that aren't all that true."

[Kilgamayan]

> "You...really don't trust me, do you?"

[Kilgamayan]

> "But I don't want to just 'get you in trouble'."

[Hello Purvis]

> "But I don't want to just 'get you in trouble'."

>"But you could," she says. "Whenever you wanted. All I have to do is do one thing you don't like..."
>She shrugs.
>"I mean, I don't think this is supposed to be a trap or anything, just...you know..."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Are we still flying along toward Youkai Mountain?

[Hello Purvis]

> Are we still flying along toward Youkai Mountain?

>Yes.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Stop and hover where we are.
> "And you'll never be able to fully trust me as long as this is how things are?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Stop and hover where we are.
> "And you'll never be able to fully trust me as long as this is how things are?"

>"Uh, I dunno..." she says, frowning and stopping along with you. She isn't really looking at you right now, more toward the ground. "I mean, um, I guess I can get used to anything, if, you know...you keep being okay like you've been. It's just, you know...I know you don't like what I do or how I am. So you say things like you were, so you can say I'm something else. But I'm not, you know?"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Sit in silence for a few seconds.
> "...Yes. I think I understand. This is why you hate it in Bhava-Agra, isn't it? We all want you to be something you're not."

[Hello Purvis]

> Sit in silence for a few seconds.
> "...Yes. I think I understand. This is why you hate it in Bhava-Agra, isn't it? We all want you to be something you're not."

>"Kinda," she says. "I'm used to expectations and stuff. It's just, then you all...well, maybe they all, I don't know... It's just when they all go at act like uppity jerks over it. I see how they look at me, and I know what they say when I'm not around. And I can hear it when they're talking at me. Just trying to act they they're not all worse than me. It pisses me off."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Well, I cannot speak for anyone else. And I don't know what you've seen or heard. But I don't think you're just some inferior celestial. I don't care where you came from. All that matters to me is that you're here now, standing here as a trusted companion, as an equal."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Well, I cannot speak for anyone else. And I don't know what you've seen or heard. But I don't think you're just some inferior celestial. I don't care where you came from. All that matters to me is that you're here now, standing here as a trusted companion, as an equal."

>"Yeah..." she says. "Just remember what I said, okay."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"About speaking of you as if you were different than you see yourself? I apologize; I meant no disrespect or presumption."

[Hello Purvis]

>"About speaking of you as if you were different than you see yourself? I apologize; I meant no disrespect or presumption."

>"Yeah," she says, "And thanks."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>"Tenshi... I know you've had to deal with more than your share of judgement and criticism; people telling you how you should behave, or what kind of person you should be. What is it you want? If the expectations and obligations of Bhava-Agra were not upon you, do you know how you would wish to live?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Tenshi... I know you've had to deal with more than your share of judgement and criticism; people telling you how you should behave, or what kind of person you should be. What is it you want? If the expectations and obligations of Bhava-Agra were not upon you, do you know how you would wish to live?"

>"Pretty much doing what I do now," she says with a shrug. "Like I said, I stopped caring about what they want after I figured out what they're really like."

>_

[DracoOmega]

>From our experience, how much of the duties that would typically be expected from a celestial does Tenshi actually do?
>More than the bare minimum that she'd be unable to avoid in some fashion?

[Hello Purvis]

>From our experience, how much of the duties that would typically be expected from a celestial does Tenshi actually do?
>More than the bare minimum that she'd be unable to avoid in some fashion?

>If she can shirk something and run off, she generally will. Yesterday's example in the orchard is pretty typical, if a bit more clever than usual for her.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "Mmm. Well...hmm."
> "...Tenshi, if you were given the option, right now, to leave Bhava-Agra for good...would you take it?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "Mmm. Well...hmm."
> "...Tenshi, if you were given the option, right now, to leave Bhava-Agra for good...would you take it?"

>"Hell yeah," she says. "Let the uppity jerks have it to themselves."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "You would choose never to see it again? And to have no one from it see you ever again?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "You would choose never to see it again? And to have no one from it see you ever again?"

>"I don't minf Bhava-Agra that much," she says, "Just the people who live in it. And, I guess I'd miss my family."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "I presumed you would. But would you miss them enough to not take this opportunity, were it offered to you?"