Murasa Quest Continues 2 - A Z-Machine Adventure

[It's Purvis!]

>Get a good look at the nearby trees, and indicate for Stargazer to do the same.

>You take a look at the nearby trees and...they sure are a bunch of varied trees. You're no arborist, and while you can see which are different species, you have no idea what the majority of them are.
>Stargazer looks around, and her eyes go wide before she starts swimming ahead. She settles by a fairly tall tree with heart-shaped leaves and radiates a sense of excitement.

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[Yaersulf]

>"This the tree you were looking for?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"This the tree you were looking for?"

>She nods, then shakes her head.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Ah, not this specific tree but one like this?"
>Examine the tree more closely. Are the leaves heart-shaped in an unusual way?

[It's Purvis!]

>"Ah, not this specific tree but one like this?"
>Examine the tree more closely. Are the leaves heart-shaped in an unusual way?

>Stargazer shakes her head again. She radiates a sense of confusion, then she gestures deeper into the forest, in a wide, sweeping direction.
>The leaves do not strike you as unnatural. In this case, heart shaped means that they have two parts past the stem that curve back, and the leaves come to a point at the end.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Sorry, I don't quite follow. Is this tree what we've been looking for?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"Sorry, I don't quite follow. Is this tree what we've been looking for?"

>She nods, then shakes her head, and gestures deeper into the forest again. You get a feeling that the picture is incomplete.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Alright, over this way it is."
>Go with Stargazer in the direction that she's indicating.

[It's Purvis!]

>"Alright, over this way it is."
>Go with Stargazer in the direction that she's indicating.

>You start to head further westward. She throws out her arms and shakes her head. Then she gestures broadly toward the west, then the east, then the south; radiating frustration.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Ah, so somewhere with a tree like this one?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"Ah, so somewhere with a tree like this one?"

>She tilts her head, then slowly nods, then holds up several fingers and brings them together in a circle.

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[Branneg Xy]

>She tilts her head, then slowly nods, then holds up several fingers and brings them together in a circle.

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> " A few or several Trees,maybe with a Prime One amongst them...? Like this one but  forming some kind of hard-to-pin-down circle in the 3 directions you are tirelessly scanning?"

> Taking and changing(watery) altitude properly, are we able to discern ,and/or or help Stargazer better discern ,some sort of range,silhouette,edge or else of "Interest"?

[Yaersulf]

>"A circle of them?"

[It's Purvis!]

> " A few or several Trees,maybe with a Prime One amongst them...? Like this one which are forming some kind of hard-to-pin-down circle in the 3 directions you are tirelessly scanning?"

> Taking and changing(watery) altitude properly, are we able to discern ,and/or or help Stargazer better discern ,some sort of range,silhouette,edge or else of "Interest"?

>"A circle of them?"

>When you say circle, she nods enthusiastically.

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[Branneg Xy]

>When you say circle, she nods enthusiastically.

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> " Oh...! So is it a Particular Circle of Trees located in 1 of the 3 directions you were focusing on trying  to pin-point out earlier?"

> Can any Standing-Out Circle of Tree be seen from where we are?

> If not,can we notice any if we try swim-fly higher or lower?

[Yaersulf]

>"Hmm, I wonder."
>Pick our way back up through the canopy.
>Are the leaves of this tree distinct enough that we could pick it out from the other trees from above.

[It's Purvis!]

> " Oh...! So is it a Particular Circle of Trees located in 1 of the 3 directions you were focusing on trying  to pin-point out earlier?"

> Can any Standing-Out Circle of Tree be seen from where we are?

> If not,can we notice any if we try swim-fly higher or lower?

>Stargazer shrugs, radiating a guarded uncertainty.
>You are in the middle of the woods, you can't see very far at all.
>Possibly?

>"Hmm, I wonder."
>Pick our way back up through the canopy.
>Are the leaves of this tree distinct enough that we could pick it out from the other trees from above.

>You carefully make your way above the forest once more.
>The leaves are not something you'd really notice at a distance, they aren't particularly unusual for tree leaves. But investigating up close, you suspect that they wouldn't slip by you without something weird happening.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Alright Stargazer, let's stay low over the canopy here and look for patches of leaves that look like this. It should be easier than stumbling around in the forest."

[It's Purvis!]

>"Alright Stargazer, let's stay low over the canopy here and look for patches of leaves that look like this. It should be easier than stumbling around in the forest."

>Stargazer narrows her eyes, radiating determination, and nods.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Let's also stay a bit apart so we cover more ground."
>Move away from Stargazer, but not so far that we'll miss something in between us.
>Begin combing the canopy for heart shaped leaves.

[Branneg Xy]

>"Let's also stay a bit apart so we cover more ground."
>Move away from Stargazer, but not so far that we'll miss something in between us.
>Begin combing the canopy for heart shaped leaves.

> If Closely looking out  for Weird Heart-Spaped or Other Weird Tree Leaves yields nothing, progressively Take Altitude to also look out for Weird Fish Movements or Particulair Tree Circles.

> In any case Move Closer to Inspect  Whatever Is Noticed Weird or Particular

> At the same keep staying in Reachable Range from Stargazer for beckoning her... or be beckoned by her.

[It's Purvis!]

>"Let's also stay a bit apart so we cover more ground."
>Move away from Stargazer, but not so far that we'll miss something in between us.
>Begin combing the canopy for heart shaped leaves.

>You start to comb over the forest canopy!
>...It doesn't take long to realize this could take days, if you don't use something else to help narrow this down.

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[Yaersulf]

>Call out to Stargazer. "I think there might be too much forest for this."
>Make our way over to her and continue. "Let's go see if Yukari has some vague bullstrawberries that could help with this."
>Look around to see if we can still see Yukari and Sakuya.

[It's Purvis!]

>Call out to Stargazer. "I think there might be too much forest for this."
>Make our way over to her and continue. "Let's go see if Yukari has some vague bullstrawberries that could help with this."
>Look around to see if we can still see Yukari and Sakuya.

>You look around, and find you have long left Yukari and Sakuya behind; or perhaps vice versa?
>Stargazer seems to be pondering, you get the sense she wants to know how you came to this spot to begin with.

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[Yaersulf]

>"It was a hunch when I noticed that the fish were avoiding parts of the forest. Ah right, of course. Let's look for other places the fish are avoiding and see if we can find the same sort of trees."
>Look around for other areas absent of fish, particurlarly any larger ones if possible.

[It's Purvis!]

>"It was a hunch when I noticed that the fish were avoiding parts of the forest. Ah right, of course. Let's look for other places the fish are avoiding and see if we can find the same sort of trees."
>Look around for other areas absent of fish, particurlarly any larger ones if possible.

>It takes you a few minutes to narrow it down, but you note a large spot to the southeast that the fish seem to go out of their way to avoid.

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[Yaersulf]

>"Let's try over there."
>Head over there and see if we can see any of the leaves we're looking for.

[It's Purvis!]

>"Let's try over there."
>Head over there and see if we can see any of the leaves we're looking for.

>You make your way toward the southeast, swimming for some distance between reaching it. It doesn't take long to pick out some heart-shaped leaves.

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[Yaersulf]

>Make our way down to ground (seafloor?) level again and see what Stargazer makes of it.

[It's Purvis!]

>Make our way down to ground (seafloor?) level again and see what Stargazer makes of it.

>You make your way down to the ocean floor. Much like before, it is full of seaweeds, anemones, and other such things. Except for one spot, a kind of rough ring in the middle of the woods perhaps 20 feet in diameter. Looking along the edge of it, you can see it is between a ring those trees, about a dozen of them.
>Stargazer looks around, her eyes go wide and she nods enthusiastically, practically shining with a sense of epiphany

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