Murasa Quest Continues 2 - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Branneg Xy]

>You've been thinking of it as North in the sense of up on a map. Thinking on it, you don't feel like you're moving northward at all. This place is so strange that you really weren't even thinking about that...
 

>You try to open the curtain, and find that it doesn't really slide over. You can just lift it and move under, though. Past it seems to be...an L-shaped "room", this one completely empty.

>_

> Take a testing step in and focus then repeat.... no particular presence or perceptions or "currents"? 

> If the " interior coast " Is clear, Inspect Inside   this "Empty L-Shaped Room " to find out how  empty or dead end or "hider in plain sight"  really is.

[Yaersulf]

>"ROAR! MURASA SMASH!"
>Try to tear them off whatever they're attatched to anyway.

[It's Purvis!]

>"ROAR! MURASA SMASH!"
>Try to tear them off whatever they're attatched to anyway.

>You grab on the curtains and tug!
>They do not budge, holding fast to whatever firmament they are attached to. Then you hear a loud rip, as part of the curtain tears and you stumble back.

> Take a testing step in and focus then repeat.... no particular presence or perceptions or "currents"? 

> If the " interior coast " Is clear, Inspect Inside   this "Empty L-Shaped Room " to find out how  empty or dead end or "hider in plain sight"  really is.

>You step into the new room to the "south", and nothing bad seems to happen. You can still feel a kind of current swirling through this place.  A good portion of room is off to the side, past the corner, you think. You don't see anything of interest from this spot.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>You grab on the curtains and tug!
>They do not budge, holding fast to whatever firmament they are attached to. Then you hear a loud rip, as part of the curtain tears and you stumble back.

>You step into the new room to the "south", and nothing bad seems to happen. You can still feel a kind of current swirling through this place.  A good portion of room is off to the side, past the corner, you think. You don't see anything of interest from this spot.

>_

> Before proceeding further in, turn back to examine the ripped part of the fabric of the curtain and what is  support is.

> Afterwards. enter the room again and go off the the side past the corner to see if there is any point of interest or unsualty .

[Yaersulf]

>How much of the curtain was ripped off?

[It's Purvis!]

>How much of the curtain was ripped off?

>It doesn't seem to be ripped off so much as you put a fairly noticeable rip in it. Large enough to see it from a ways off, you think.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>It doesn't seem to be ripped off so much as you put a fairly noticeable rip in it. Large enough to see it from a ways off, you think.

>_

> Good!  A Landmark beneath and among currents of solid memories and mentality...

> Map it as " 1st-South-R(ipped) -C(urtain)  Point ", could as be short-handed as "1st-S-R-C. Point", or possibly fairly similar, then...

>... try and tear off further Without Manhandle a smaller piece of fabric and do Carry it with us, IF feasible at all; it could be useful in the futur3 especially for " Its Conserved Utility UnderWaters", followIng... 

>... trying and feeling what is the texture+condition of this 1 single, or is it somehow linked set albeit not seamless, support of the Curtain?

> (//)Whenever  ready (//), WHILE checking "in-sight" the. "1st S-R-C-Point, ENTENTEthe room again and going off its side past the corner EXAMINING is any point of interest or unusual or orientation...

[Yaersulf]

>Fully explore the L shaped room.

[It's Purvis!]

> Good!  A Landmark beneath and among currents of solid memories and mentality...

> Map it as " 1st-South-R(ipped) -C(urtain)  Point ", could as be short-handed as "1st-S-R-C. Point", or possibly fairly similar, then...

>... try and tear off further Without Manhandle a smaller piece of fabric and do Carry it with us, IF feasible at all; it could be useful in the futur3 especially for " Its Conserved Utility UnderWaters", followIng... 

>... trying and feeling what is the texture+condition of this 1 single, or is it somehow linked set albeit not seamless, support of the Curtain?

> (//)Whenever  ready (//), WHILE checking "in-sight" the. "1st S-R-C-Point, ENTENTEthe room again and going off its side past the corner EXAMINING is any point of interest or unusual or orientation...

>Fully explore the L shaped room.

>You try to rip off some of the curtain, but it seems like the fabric holds together to when you aren't tearing along its weave.
>You step into the room fully and look around. The floor patterns are the same, though you haven't noticed any repeating among them, you think. The room is mostly empty, but peeking around the corner into the bottom of the L, you see that there is an empty picture frame on the floor. You...think you can hear something. Laughter? It's so faint.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Listen more closely to see if we can tell where the laughter is coming from.

[It's Purvis!]

>Listen more closely to see if we can tell where the laughter is coming from.

>You take a moment to listen. There doesn't seem to be an apparent source, at least not immediately. Maybe in another room? The laughter sounds rather happy and innocent; you think it's...a couple children? Not quite teenagers.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>You take a moment to listen. There doesn't seem to be an apparent source, at least not immediately. Maybe in another room? The laughter sounds rather happy and innocent; you think it's...a couple children? Not quite teenagers.

>_

> Move to the each wall of the room and  try each time to discern where the laughter is resounding stronger...

>...note that direction if possible.

> When that is done,or cannot be done,get closer to the "empty picture frame on the floor" in order to examine it.

[Yaersulf]

>Are we familiar with the classic ghost tradition of disembodied children's laugther?
>Is there any indication around that there was ever anything in the picture frame?

[It's Purvis!]

>Are we familiar with the classic ghost tradition of disembodied children's laugther?
>Is there any indication around that there was ever anything in the picture frame?

>Not from personal experience, but you are aware of it. It doesn't feel like this spot is haunted. But given how weird it is, it certainly could be haunted...
>You look at the frame. While you don't see any conclusive evidence that there was never anything in the frame, you don't see any evidence that it held anything. Taking a closer look, you see it has quite a bit of corrosion along its metal surface. There is a goldish sheen over it, but you think that might has been applied from another metal via some outside world technique. It certainly doesn't resemble anything from Gensokyo.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>Not from personal experience, but you are aware of it. It doesn't feel like this spot is haunted. But given how weird it is, it certainly could be haunted...
>You look at the frame. While you don't see any conclusive evidence that there was never anything in the frame, you don't see any evidence that it held anything. Taking a closer look, you see it has quite a bit of corrosion along its metal surface. There is a goldish sheen over it, but you think that might has been applied from another metal via some outside world technique. It certainly doesn't resemble anything from Gensokyo.

>_

> No feeling of of  " any presence OR ghostliness or extra-sensorial OR an extraneous if fleeting (again like half a day before ) awareness of a being " , beyond the "Distant  Children Laughing " who are still laughing...?

>... if the are still laughing note that direction or if they are somehow resounding  , IF possible , then TRY to  Move to the each wall of the room and  try each time to discern where the laughter is resounding stronger... then there must be a part of link with the Very Peculiar  but Ever-Present Current

> ...in such cases case is the Current or any like before ,unaligned for paths, or is  Sorta-Guiding Aspects through  leading back "The Landing Corridor" or even...beyond walls through other rooms?




> When that is done,or cannot be done,get closer to the "empty picture frame on the floor" in order to examine it.

[Yaersulf]

>Pick the frame up and turn it over to see if there's anything else notable about it.

[It's Purvis!]

> No feeling of of  " any presence OR ghostliness or extra-sensorial OR an extraneous if fleeting (again like half a day before ) awareness of a being " , beyond the "Distant  Children Laughing " who are still laughing...?

>... if the are still laughing note that direction or if they are somehow resounding  , IF possible , then TRY to  Move to the each wall of the room and  try each time to discern where the laughter is resounding stronger... then there must be a part of link with the Very Peculiar  but Ever-Present Current

> ...in such cases case is the Current or any like before ,unaligned for paths, or is  Sorta-Guiding Aspects through  leading back "The Landing Corridor" or even...beyond walls through other rooms?




> When that is done,or cannot be done,get closer to the "empty picture frame on the floor" in order to examine it.

>Pick the frame up and turn it over to see if there's anything else notable about it.

>The laughter quickly dies out before you can determine anything for sure. It didn't seem to be coming from anywhere in particular, but maybe you just didn't hear it well enough?
>You do note that you seem to have been moving with the current the whole time.
>Picking up the picture frame, you look at the back and see nothing of immediate interest. It seems to have been made by a Yatadera Gifts, according to an imprint on the back.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Go south under the next curtain, making a visible tear in it as we go.

[It's Purvis!]

>Go south under the next curtain, making a visible tear in it as we go.

>You follow the current, moving 'southward' and pausing to tear the curtain along the way.
>You come into a roughly rhombus-shaped kind of room, smaller than the previous ones. In one corner, there is some kind of long, metal thing on a wide base that is tipped onto the ground. Opposite of the base, there is what looks like shattered glass and whisps of cloth on an metal frame that encircles the top. It gives you the feel of outside work technology.
>There are sounds in the water, almost like voices. YOu strain your ears to hear, and it feels like a conversation, though you can't make out anything.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>What is a lamp?
>Do we have even the remotest idea about outside world technology?
>Set the thing upright to see if that helps us have any more idea what it is.

[It's Purvis!]

>What is a lamp?
>Do we have even the remotest idea about outside world technology?
>Set the thing upright to see if that helps us have any more idea what it is.

>A miserable little pile of secrets!
>You understand that you don't understand it. Most of it doesn't even work in Gensokyo, as far as you can tell.
>You set it upright. I kind of reminds you of the candelabras in Scarlet Devil Mansion. THough with busted glass in place of the candle. And deeply corroded. You could probably break it without a lot of trouble, if you didn't mind getting that corrosion all over your hands.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Shrug.
>Continue to the next room to the south, tearing the fabric as we go.
>As we continue, be ready to pay close attention to any voices we hear.

[It's Purvis!]

>Shrug.
>Continue to the next room to the south, tearing the fabric as we go.
>As we continue, be ready to pay close attention to any voices we hear.

>As you make your way through the rhombus-shaped room, you think you can make out two voices. It feels like they are havng a conversation, but not quite with each other. Something about...school, maybe? It's hard to make out.
>Coming to the next room, you see that it is shaped roughly like the number 8, though with no holes in the middles. Here and there, you can what look like book bindings scattered about the floor, spines and covers lacking pages between. They seem to be made of outside world material, that soft sort of stretchy stuff that never seems to get soaked.
>The currents here feel off, you think there might be something moving nearby?

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>As you make your way through the rhombus-shaped room, you think you can make out two voices. It feels like they are havng a conversation, but not quite with each other. Something about...school, maybe? It's hard to make out.
>Coming to the next room, you see that it is shaped roughly like the number 8, though with no holes in the middles. Here and there, you can what look like book bindings scattered about the floor, spines and covers lacking pages between. They seem to be made of outside world material, that soft sort of stretchy stuff that never seems to get soaked.
>The currents here feel off, you think there might be something moving nearby?

>_

> Get back to the Inner Entrance of This Room.

> Are the currents here deviating from us instead of accompanying us, then?

> Can the direction where the currents are off or deviating be determined?

[Yaersulf]

>Freeze and pay very close attention for any signs of movement.

[It's Purvis!]

> Get back to the Inner Entrance of This Room.

> Are the currents here deviating from us instead of accompanying us, then?

> Can the direction where the currents are off or deviating be determined?

>Freeze and pay very close attention for any signs of movement.

>You freeze at the edge of this room and pay attention. There aren't any sounds of note, but there is something off in the current,, it feels like something reasonably solid is...waving about in it? Maybe to the 'west'?

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Investigate the west section of the room.
>If we don't see anything take a cautious peek under the edge of the west curtain.

[It's Purvis!]

>Investigate the west section of the room.
>If we don't see anything take a cautious peek under the edge of the west curtain.

>You look to the west and don't see anything.
>Looking toward the west, you see a crescent-shaped room; though the near side still bears the 8 shape. In the closer tip of the crescent, you see what appears to be Shou, who is laying on her side and apparently unconscious. The bubble around her is still intact.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>You look to the west and don't see anything.
>Looking toward the west, you see a crescent-shaped room; though the near side still bears the 8 shape. In the closer tip of the crescent, you see what appears to be Shou, who is laying on her side and apparently unconscious. The bubble around her is still intact.

>_

> Proceed carefully toward Shou until we are near her: is she looking alright?

> Call out to her.

[Yaersulf]

>Rush to her side and call out.
>"Shou! Are you all right?!"