Murasa Quest Continues 2 - A Z-Machine Adventure

[NucleusWаfflеs]

>You continue, you think you are now probably further southward than you were when you met the doppelganger. The taint is heavy in the water, laying over it like oil. You can hear calls to dinner, idle chat about the weather or gossip about this or that neighbor. Warnings against visiting the Forest of Magic in a motherly tone, smells of tofu and soy sauce. The feel of bedsheets against your skin, the moisture in the air at the public bath house, the sound of chickens clucking as they hunt for bugs. It's starting to get a little loud, so to speak.

>_

>Unscrew or spit or slap myself in the belly with the screwed bottle of ship-in-a-boat

[Yaersulf]

>Do all of the sensations seem like they'd be at home in the human village, or is there anything strange mixed in?

[It's Purvis!]

>Do all of the sensations seem like they'd be at home in the human village, or is there anything strange mixed in?

>You wouldn't find them out of place.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>Do all of the sensations seem like they'd be at home in the human village, or is there anything strange mixed in?

>You wouldn't find them out of place.

>_

> Take out our "Bottomed Dipper" and try to focus& establish an affinity-link with the Water here.

> Is the "Taint in the Water" increasing the more we are carefully proceeding to the source of those sounds?

> Are the "Curtained Rooms within The Hallway" visually changed,or changing, as well?

[Yaersulf]

>Continue but be wary for anything especially out of place, like another doppelganger.

[It's Purvis!]

> Take out our "Bottomed Dipper" and try to focus& establish an affinity-link with the Water here.

> Is the "Taint in the Water" increasing the more we are carefully proceeding to the source of those sounds?

> Are the "Curtained Rooms within The Hallway" visually changed,or changing, as well?

>You focus on the water, and don't learn a whole lot. It kind of doesn't really feel a lot like water. But this is hardly a surprise. You are sure the taint is getting moreso, though.
>The chambers remain as they ever were: Red curtains, white tile floors with curious clusters of black tiles.

>Continue but be wary for anything especially out of place, like another doppelganger.

>You continue onward, the halls and chambers are quiet. The rush of sensations is becoming stronger, nearly overwhelming your own senses now. You can hear whole conversations coming and going, blending into each other. Family, friends, they almost feel like your own. When your eyes blink, you see other places; scenes of the human village, but unfamiliar. Older.
>You also feel the water underneath, straining.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>You focus on the water, and don't learn a whole lot. It kind of doesn't really feel a lot like water. But this is hardly a surprise. You are sure the taint is getting moreso, though.
>The chambers remain as they ever were: Red curtains, white tile floors with curious clusters of black tiles.

>You continue onward, the halls and chambers are quiet. The rush of sensations is becoming stronger, nearly overwhelming your own senses now. You can hear whole conversations coming and going, blending into each other. Family, friends, they almost feel like your own. When your eyes blink, you see other places; scenes of the human village, but unfamiliar. Older.
>You also feel the water underneath, straining.

>_

> Are we still able to hold some sort of control and affinity with This Water?

> Does "we can feel the Water Underneath,straining" means that with our Water-Affinity as a Ship Ghost we can feel it making the equivalent of straining?

> Try to Stop & Recover or even Stop & Meditate to regain our bearing but, if unable to do so,retreat back until we can Stop & Meditate to Recover.

[Yaersulf]

>Keep going, see if we can find the source of all this.

[It's Purvis!]

> Are we still able to hold some sort of control and affinity with This Water?

> Does "we can feel the Water Underneath,straining" means that with our Water-Affinity as a Ship Ghost we can feel it making the equivalent of straining?

> Try to Stop & Recover or even Stop & Meditate to regain our bearing but, if unable to do so,retreat back until we can Stop & Meditate to Recover.

>You don't know why you feel that the water is straining, but you do. You take a moment to stop and center yourself, and feel a bit better for it.

>Keep going, see if we can find the source of all this.

>You press onward, and can practically feel yourself in another body at this point. ...Bodies, rather, there's more than one person you're feeling; two of them. A bit shorter than you, you can almost feel their thoughts overlaid with yours. Thoughts of home and family, moments of happiness and hardship. The water underneath is practically like a coiled spring under the weight of it all.
>...
>...
>...
>You are uncomfortable. This shouldn't be, yet it is. You are vast and without form, the land around you gives you something like shape, as you settle into the low places from the high. Within you teems so much life, so many creatures of all types. This is none of your business. You do not have 'business', so to speak. You simply are. It is strange that you even know this much, you shouldn't know at all. You shouldn't feel, but you do. You don't know why; you don't know what a 'why' is. This is strange; you are uncomfortable.
>You...remember. Why, you don't know or care, and you shouldn't remember. But you do. You have rested here for so long, flowing and shifting as life comes and goes, as the things within your formlessness came and went, spread, coalesced, and washed away. Then you weren't.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Who, or what, are we? Do we know that much?

[It's Purvis!]

> Who, or what, are we? Do we know that much?

>Neither of these concepts matter. You flow to the low places, it is what you do. You were old when creatures first appeared, though this means nothing to you. You shouldn't know at all, but you do. Something happened.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Are we aware of a specific spectral entity that has been coming and going in recent times? If so, is it possible that entity did something that made us Know? Perhaps the entity became us, or at least a part of us, somehow?

[It's Purvis!]

> Are we aware of a specific spectral entity that has been coming and going in recent times? If so, is it possible that entity did something that made us Know? Perhaps the entity became us, or at least a part of us, somehow?

>None of these concepts make any sense to you. Things come and go, as it has always been. Some may be drawn to you, it does not concern you. You flow and rest.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Can we feel?
> Can we see?
> Can we hear?
> Do any of those concepts make sense?

[It's Purvis!]

> Can we feel?
> Can we see?
> Can we hear?
> Do any of those concepts make sense?

>You have a sense of feel, though you should not.
>The others are incomprehensible to you.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Can we 'do'? Or can we only 'be'?

[It's Purvis!]

> Can we 'do'? Or can we only 'be'?

>You feel. You think. You remember. None of this should happen, but it does. You flow where there is a place to flow.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Have we been called a river before?

[Kilgamayan]

> What places are there to flow right now?
> For how long have we Known?

[It's Purvis!]

>Have we been called a river before?

>You wouldn't know. You are sure you've been called all kinds of things before. ...How do you understand that concept?

> What places are there to flow right now?
> For how long have we Known?

>There are places, and you cannot get to them, not yet. It is...irksome.
>It is new. Not immediate, but very new. You have been here since before there were things that lived within you. Trying to think of 'how long' is strange. Why would you know this? But you do, it seems. There was a point where it began, recently.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> How can we get to those places?
> What kinds of things live within us?
> What happened, generally considering, at that point in time where it began?

[It's Purvis!]

> How can we get to those places?
> What kinds of things live within us?
> What happened, generally considering, at that point in time where it began?

>You've never had to consider this before, it just happens as it should. Maybe something is wrong?
>You don't know what they are. They've had so many shapes and sizes, coming and going. But the ones now are odd.
>It is difficult to make sense of. You were where you always were, then you were not. You were in another place. But only part of you, a small part. Yet it was...enough. That place was different. You began to...feel? To remember.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

    

> Can we feel?
> Can we see?
> Can we hear?
> Do any of those concepts make sense?

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>None of these concepts make any sense to you. Things come and go, as it has always been. Some may be drawn to you, it does not concern you. You flow and rest.

>_

>You feel. You think. You remember. None of this should happen, but it does. You flow where there is a place to flow.

>_

>You've never had to consider this before, it just happens as it should. Maybe something is wrong?
>You don't know what they are. They've had so many shapes and sizes, coming and going. But the ones now are odd.
>It is difficult to make sense of. You were where you always were, then you were not. You were in another place. But only part of you, a small part. Yet it was...enough. That place was different. You began to...feel? To remember.

>_

> We are flowing then we are resting ... then we had left a "small part of us in another place " enabling us to "feel...to remember"...we flowing then we are resting...then we had begun to notice,to confront ...we flow...we flow then we are resting...

> While flowing and resting until now we are coming to terms with feel,remember, notice,confront which is normal and which is odd ...

> ...could we apply all that to : "remember about the when and where a small,but enough,part of was in a different place when we started to feel & remember" ?
To "feel" if we are " now capable ,or be, to flow ,or if there is a a flow , or even if  the smallest part of us is still in another place where and when we had begun to feel ?
To remember " whether the  normality of the beings living within us coming and turned oddity right there and then "?

[Yaersulf]

>Are we able to remember anything about that place?

[It's Purvis!]

   
> We are flowing then we are resting ... then we had left a "small part of us in another place " enabling us to "feel...to remember"...we flowing then we are resting...then we had begun to notice,to confront ...we flow...we flow then we are resting...

> While flowing and resting until now we are coming to terms with feel,remember, notice,confront which is normal and which is odd ...

> ...could we apply all that to : "remember about the when and where a small,but enough,part of was in a different place when we started to feel & remember" ?
To "feel" if we are " now capable ,or be, to flow ,or if there is a a flow , or even if  the smallest part of us is still in another place where and when we had begun to feel ?
To remember " whether the  normality of the beings living within us coming and turned oddity right there and then "?

>Are we able to remember anything about that place?

>You remember...at one point, there was suddenly land within you. And where the land was, part of you appeared. It was then that it began. It was only a short time, then that land went back, and you back to where you belong. But...you also fell somewhere...

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>You remember...at one point, there was suddenly land within you. And where the land was, part of you appeared. It was then that it began. It was only a short time, then that land went back, and you back to where you belong. But...you also fell somewhere...

>_

> Where there interacting denizens in that land?

> Could we compare the place where "we fell" with that one,and also who had been there at that time?

[Yaersulf]

>So our awareness spread from the part of us that was in contact with this land?

[It's Purvis!]

> Where there interacting denizens in that land?

> Could we compare the place where "we fell" with that one,and also who had been there at that time?

>You...recall some things that swam within you, and outside of you. Things you do not remember seeing for a long time, in some cases.
>You aren't sure what a comparison is.

>So our awareness spread from the part of us that was in contact with this land?

>You think so. But something is strange, with yourself. You cannot flow s you should.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Is this because of a specific part of us, or is all of us affected at this point?

[Branneg Xy]

>You...recall some things that swam within you, and outside of you. Things you do not remember seeing for a long time, in some cases.
>You aren't sure what a comparison is.

>You think so. But something is strange, with yourself. You cannot flow s you should.

>_

> Did  "our issues" about  "we cannot flow as we  should " commence when there were "some things that swam within you, and outside of you.  things you do not remember seeing for a long time, in some cases" or when " we fell " or...?

> Around and within us at that time, what and/or who did we" began feeling & remembering small part of us was once on that land and  " ? What about the other one, a small part of us as well perhaps, where "we fell"?