Author Topic: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure  (Read 61700 times)

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #360 on: July 01, 2011, 04:31:23 AM »
> Fish through our collection of skirts for something that wouldn't clash with our normal outfit and stow it away in our purse, just in case we want to get tall later.

> Are our jeweler's tools readily handy?
> Do they include a microscope or something magnifying device?
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #361 on: July 01, 2011, 04:50:29 AM »
> Fish through our collection of skirts for something that wouldn't clash with our normal outfit and stow it away in our purse, just in case we want to get tall later.

> Are our jeweler's tools readily handy?
> Do they include a microscope or something magnifying device?

>You obtain: Black Skirt.
>You do have some jeweler's tools on your table, including a jeweler's scope, a tiny chisel and hammer, and some less portable tools.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #362 on: July 01, 2011, 04:55:00 AM »
> Pull out the rose quartz again.
> Head on over to the tool table, and give it a real good close examination.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #363 on: July 01, 2011, 04:59:24 AM »
> Pull out the rose quartz again.
> Head on over to the tool table, and give it a real good close examination.

>You take out one of the rose quartzes you've been carrying with you, and give it a proper examination.
>The mineral is translucent, and seems to be of good quality. There's a couple blemishes here and there, impurities in the crystal, but those are not uncommon.
>One of the blemishes catches your eye. It's shaped....oddly. You are rather reminded of amber with insects trapped in them, but quartz doesn't form that way...

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #364 on: July 01, 2011, 05:03:13 AM »
>Examin a few other jewels. Do they have anything similar?

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #365 on: July 01, 2011, 05:23:02 AM »
>Examin a few other jewels. Do they have anything similar?

>You examine a couple more stones. Looking at the opaque ones, you don't see anything. But, when you look through translucent gems, you can find blemishes that look sort of similar, among the more normal flaws.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #366 on: July 01, 2011, 05:28:11 AM »
>Is the only thing odd about the blemish its shape?
>Have a closer look at one of the larger, clearer examples of this we can find, and see if we can notice any other details about it

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #367 on: July 01, 2011, 05:36:32 AM »
>Is the only thing odd about the blemish its shape?
>Have a closer look at one of the larger, clearer examples of this we can find, and see if we can notice any other details about it

>The shape, and that similar blemishes seem to be present in all of the gems.
>You find the largest sample you can, and have a look at it. It's very hard to make out the details, the blemish is small enough you probably couldn't see it with the naked eye no matter how hard you stared. But, as you turn it over and look at it from different angles, you get the feeling that it is not a just a single blemish, but small ones overlapped in the same place.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #368 on: July 01, 2011, 05:43:25 AM »
>Does there seem to be any pattern with which these smaller blemishes are arrayed?
>Do we know of any place that would have a lens that could attain a higher magnification than our own?

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #369 on: July 01, 2011, 05:46:43 AM »
>Does there seem to be any pattern with which these smaller blemishes are arrayed?
>Do we know of any place that would have a lens that could attain a higher magnification than our own?

>You can't tell, they're too small and jumbled together.
>Not off of the top of your head.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #370 on: July 01, 2011, 05:56:10 AM »
> By "overlapped," does that mean the blemishes appear to be on top of one another, merged together, or something different?  Or can't we tell at this point?
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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #371 on: July 01, 2011, 05:58:21 AM »
> By "overlapped," does that mean the blemishes appear to be on top of one another, merged together, or something different?  Or can't we tell at this point?

>You can't tell for sure, but it seems to be like that.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #372 on: July 01, 2011, 05:58:53 AM »
>Is it possible for us to shift our eyes such that we can sharpen or magnify our own eyesight?
>Would the unusualness of these blemishes be apparent to a non-jeweler, or are they only unusual looking because we know they're not supposed to be there?
>Do we know of anyone with distinctly better eyesight than our own?

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #373 on: July 01, 2011, 06:24:43 AM »
>Is it possible for us to shift our eyes such that we can sharpen or magnify our own eyesight?
>Would the unusualness of these blemishes be apparent to a non-jeweler, or are they only unusual looking because we know they're not supposed to be there?
>Do we know of anyone with distinctly better eyesight than our own?

>You sometimes can make your eyesight better, but it is not a process you fully understand, despite practicing off and on for a long time. It's slow and takes a lot of time and concentration. the manipulations you make to your eyes are subtle ones whose purposes you don't entirely know. You also run the risk of damaging your eyes if you really screw it up, meaning you won't be able to shift them back until you heal. As well, keeping your vision sharper than it's supposed to be it disconcerting when you do it too long. It messes with your reflexes when you're doing fine things, and throws off things like dodging danmaku, where you don't have time to correct for the differences.
>You doubt a non-jeweler would notice.
>You don't know anyone with a reputation for keen eyesight. You generally assume people can see as well as you do, by and large.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #374 on: July 01, 2011, 06:49:55 AM »
>If we were to take the necessary time here to do it carefully and slowly, do we think we could sharpen/zoom our sight long enough to get a better look at the blemishes, reasonably safely?

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #375 on: July 01, 2011, 07:30:08 AM »
>If we were to take the necessary time here to do it carefully and slowly, do we think we could sharpen/zoom our sight long enough to get a better look at the blemishes, reasonably safely?

>You honestly don't know if you can do it enough to make difference, or do it safely, but you feel reasonably confident. If you do, you can hold it as long as you like, but it may become problematic if you keep it that way.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #376 on: July 01, 2011, 08:35:10 AM »
I realize this is something of a risk, but I can't think of any obvious other way at Nue's disposal at the moment to get a closer look, or co-operative characters that she has access to whose powers could be employed in this fashion. Given that we're doing this under controlled conditions and as slowly as necessary, the risk is probably fairly minimal. I'll take 'fairly confident' if I have to. If anyone is strongly opposed, please say so.

>Relax ourselves as necessary, and begin the process of adjusting our eyesight to get a better look at the blemishes. If looking at the blemished while we do so would help with getting them into sharped focus, do so, but if not, trust our own instincts and experience. Do this very slowly and carefully, taking all the time we need to be comfortable. If we think we're going to injure ourselves if we go further, stop.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #377 on: July 01, 2011, 08:50:41 AM »
>Relax ourselves as necessary, and begin the process of adjusting our eyesight to get a better look at the blemishes. If looking at the blemished while we do so would help with getting them into sharped focus, do so, but if not, trust our own instincts and experience. Do this very slowly and carefully, taking all the time we need to be comfortable. If we think we're going to injure ourselves if we go further, stop.

>You sprawl out on your bed and look at the ceiling, then close your eyes and get to work. Looking at things is just a distraction.
>Slowly, gently, you focus on your eyes and begin to ever so slowly mold them. You grow keenly aware of their shape, aware of the feeling of them resting within your head. You can dimly feel the backs of them, and the cords that connect them to your body. You try very hard not to focus on the latter, partially because it promises to lead you to things you dare not mess with, and partially because it would only distract from your current purpose. Gently, you prod them here and poke them there, rather like flexing muscles you don't actually possess. You can't change their shape, that would be disastrous, so instead you try to change the insides, though you can only dimly sense what actually is inside, and understand little of it. Even if you did know, you would still be largely using guesswork. Every so often, you pause and open your eyes, letting them focus and gauging how blurry everything is. Then you close them again, and tinker some more. You begin to gently experiment with the front; gently, every so gently, manipulating your pupil. You have a vague knowledge of how you need to shape it, but you're working entirely by feel. And should you make one part too thin, you shudder to think what would happen...
>After several tries, you open your eyes and let them focus, and are pleased to see that your vision is markedly more keen than before, you can see the wood grains on your ceiling more clearly than before.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #378 on: July 01, 2011, 08:52:22 AM »
>Go take another look at those blemishes, and see if we can make out anything that we couldn't before

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #379 on: July 01, 2011, 09:21:03 AM »
>Go take another look at those blemishes, and see if we can make out anything that we couldn't before

>You take your scope in hand again, trying not to let how sharp everything looks distract or disorient you too much.
>You examine the most visible of the blemishes you found, and can make out quite a few more details. Most definitely, they are the result of a number of tiny, tiny little scratch-like flaws in the gem's material. Looking at them closely, it gives you the feeling of a lot of letters and kanji smushed up together into a kind of incomprehensible and illegible mess.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #380 on: July 01, 2011, 09:24:44 AM »
>The illegibility is because they're all more or less on top of each other, correct? And not something that could be compensated by a theoretical something with a better zoom?
>If we turn the gem around to look from different angles, can we make out any depth to the placement of these maybe-letters? Or get any better sense of differentiation among them?

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #381 on: July 01, 2011, 09:34:06 AM »
>The illegibility is because they're all more or less on top of each other, correct? And not something that could be compensated by a theoretical something with a better zoom?
>If we turn the gem around to look from different angles, can we make out any depth to the placement of these maybe-letters? Or get any better sense of differentiation among them?

>If they actually are writing, then the fact they are all written together would keep them from being read, even if they were just on a normal page.
>You turn the jewel over. Looking at the blemish, it looks rather like a sea urchin, with little bits coming out at all angles. The appearance of smushed up kinda-letters remains.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #382 on: July 01, 2011, 09:36:48 AM »
>Are there any patterns to the letters that would indicate what sort of language they're in? In particular, do they look like the Celtic from the sword? More flowing letters like in Japanese? Or a mix?
There was something here once. Wonder what...

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #383 on: July 01, 2011, 09:45:07 AM »
>Are there any patterns to the letters that would indicate what sort of language they're in? In particular, do they look like the Celtic from the sword? More flowing letters like in Japanese? Or a mix?

>The varying widths of the scratches look much more like the letters you are used to and view every day, rather than the curious glyphs on the Broken Sword Blade.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #384 on: July 01, 2011, 10:41:54 AM »
> Are the kinda-letters stacked in a certain direction as if in layers, or do they appear to be all on the same geometric plane? Or do they come up from the center of the gem at all angles?
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[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
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[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #385 on: July 01, 2011, 11:06:11 AM »
> Are the kinda-letters stacked in a certain direction as if in layers, or do they appear to be all on the same geometric plane? Or do they come up from the center of the gem at all angles?

>They seem to come up from a central point at all angles. They don't all seem to be on the same geometric plane.

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #386 on: July 01, 2011, 11:07:13 AM »
> Is our scope portable?
> How difficult would it be to teach someone how to use it?
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[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #387 on: July 01, 2011, 11:09:07 AM »
> Is our scope portable?
> How difficult would it be to teach someone how to use it?

>You could slip it in a pocket, it is pretty much just an eyepiece.
>Not very, you'd just have to look through it. It's rather like a magnifying glass, but more focused. You can focus it a little by twisting the lens on the outside, but hopefully most won't need to if they're just looking at gems.

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« Last Edit: July 01, 2011, 11:13:58 AM by The Purvis »

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #388 on: July 01, 2011, 11:16:54 AM »
I think we've seen enough for the time being if we can't make out what the letters say. It's likely more significant that they're there at all.

> Restore our eyesight to normal, then pocket our scope.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #389 on: July 01, 2011, 11:25:35 AM »
> Restore our eyesight to normal, then pocket our scope.

>You take a few moments to fix your eyes. Thankfully, it's never hard to restore your proper form, you just have to relax yourself and everything returns to normal, assuming you didn't break anything..
>You obtain: Jeweler's Scope.

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