Nitori Quest 3 - A Z-Machine Adventure

[It's Purvis!]

> What's a bank account?

>You have no idea. You know about river banks? But you wouldn't want to put money around those, some other kappa would surely find it.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...What's a bank account?"

[It's Purvis!]

> "...What's a bank account?"

>"It's what you put money in so -Good Evening!- it's there when you need it without having to worry about it in the meantime," Lamplighter says, while she lights the lamp as she passes into the darkened region of the planet.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Can't you just put it in a locked box or something for that?"

[It's Purvis!]

> "Can't you just put it in a locked box or something for that?"

>"It's easier this way," she says as the planet rotates her away from you once more. "I don't have to bother with it."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look at our travel companions with a confused-and-slightly-horrified expression.

[It's Purvis!]

> Look at our travel companions with a confused-and-slightly-horrified expression.

>Glancing back, you see that Aoi is discreetly listening in from her spot looking over the engine. Meeting her eyes, she just shrugs, looking as confused as you felt a moment ago.
>Koa, however, has crept close to the door; you imagine she's out of Lamplighter's sight. She also looks confused, but you think it's less that she is trying to grasp the concept and more that she doesn't grasp the concept at all.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Mouth "What?!?" to them.

[It's Purvis!]

> Mouth "What?!?" to them.

>Koa mouths back something that you think is "I don't know!"

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look back out the door.
> "Uhh...right. In that case, do you happen to know your boss's name?"

[Branneg Xy]

>"I happen to think these planets are plenty valuable," she says. "But, well, I don't get out very much."
>She pauses her words as she comes closer to the shaded part of the rock, lifting her stick up to it, revealing a small branch on it with a softly glowing coal. She touches it to the lamp's wick, lighting it once more as she and the lamp pass into the shaded reagion
>"Good evening," she says. "I think most of them are kind of empty. The boss lives out there, somewhere."
>She gestures vaguely in a direction away from both Gensokyo and the Tsurube-Otoshi constellation. You can see quite a few more points of light in that direction; dozens if not hundreds. "I think there's a planet with some really nice roses I heard about, once."
>She pauses to consider a bit more.

>_

>"Well, I've never met 'em," she says, as she rotates toward you. "My folks said that they were kind of a wet noodle, though."

>_

>"It's the family business, isn't it?" Lamplighter says. "Someone's gotta take care of the lamp."

>_

> Ask Lamplighter if it was one or more of her  family membes who  had already known, or even vistited, and had passed on the tales personally kn not only about their"boss" but also what is interesting and about those planets.

[It's Purvis!]

> Look back out the door.
> "Uhh...right. In that case, do you happen to know your boss's name?"

>"I'm pretty sure it's Boss," she says as she vanishes over the horizon again. "But I guess that could just be a nickname?"

> Ask Lamplighter if it was one or more of her  family membes who  had already known, or even vistited, and had passed on the tales personally kn not only about their"boss" but also what is interesting and about those planets.

>"I don't know what -Good Morning!- the folks get up to these days," she says from the other side of the planet. "Just the odd letter every now and then."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Mmm. Do you know anything about Ojin Hachi?"

[It's Purvis!]

> "Mmm. Do you know anything about Ojin Hachi?"

>She shakes her head. "Don't think she's lives around here."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> What else is on our mental list of things to look into while we're here?

[It's Purvis!]

> What else is on our mental list of things to look into while we're here?

>Only you can answer that.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Look to our travel companions.
> Quietly: "Anything I'm forgetting?"

[It's Purvis!]

> Look to our travel companions.
> Quietly: "Anything I'm forgetting?"

>"Treasures, maybe?" Koa says.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "She only mentioned a planet with a lot of roses. Some might value those as treasure, but I don't know that it'll be enough for the contest."

[It's Purvis!]

> "She only mentioned a planet with a lot of roses. Some might value those as treasure, but I don't know that it'll be enough for the contest."

>"Probably not, unless they're special roses," says Koa, frowning.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Might have to keep trying elsewhere..."

[Branneg Xy]

> "Might have to keep trying elsewhere..."

>"I'm pretty sure it's Boss," she says as she vanishes over the horizon again. "But I guess that could just be a nickname?"

>"I don't know what -Good Morning!- the folks get up to these days," she says from the other side of the planet. "Just the odd letter every now and then."

>_

>"Treasures, maybe?" Koa says.

>_

// The Culpritt, or an Accomplicd or Relatble at least, could be "Lamplighter's! Anon! Boss"... of course we are still lacking. almost all the central point-out-track-through-moves-route-trackin 1 of the few dozens or more "Planet more Distanced by the Tsurube-Otoshi Constellation... a mostly-likely more secure and secure-anonymous place, but more practical and known by "their own soecial means, plans, purpose ...
or at least indirectly involved and/or sufficien5y info-savvy//
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> Are we are able to properly excavate, conserve, in order to keep outer-space fertile organic terrain....?

>A moderate botanical and geological treasure, more than moderate ref. and if we found to the "Beautiful Roses Patches on a Random. more Constellation-Distanced Planet ", if we may have it rooted to Gensokyo or Boundaries-Neighbouring areas...

> Menta & Situatiinl Estimate if it adds up to adequately worthwile and equip. plus care operative,  but we could also be asking for some helo from Aoi and maybe Koakuma,  for the corresponding. equip and care

>...  the bet-winning-judging criterias are "rarity, higher value of price, higher practical uses and development or any other field with  enough higher-value and practicality or to-developo"...  but it could have some decent complementary or aftermath valuee


> Still...  at the foremost of The Most Important Info or our Main Incident--Solving Mission, and then its reward are these "so far 3 Time-Pieces Of the Star-Disapperaing": from Gensokyo the "Tsurube-Otoshi couple of missing stars" were...

>...  noticed plus observed by ourselves with our trusty equip., in "slightly more than a whole day";. by Orihime. at her poace" around 3 days"; circa 1 and half week, 10 whole days  by " "Lamplighiter's Little Garden and Lampost  Space-Rock""

[It's Purvis!]

> "Might have to keep trying elsewhere..."

>"Or at least come back later, maybe?" Aoi says.

> Are we are able to properly excavate, conserve, in order to keep outer space organic terrain....
>A moderate botanical and geological treasure, more than moderate ref. and if we found to the "Beautiful Roses Patches on a Random. more Constellation-Distanced Planet ", if we may have it rooted to Gendokyo,  or have maybe even also have it done to. a comoatible Neughbouring OtherWorld...
> Mental Check for the corresponding. equì and, at least a certa pafg, measurementx
>...  the bet-winning-judging criterias are "rarity, higher value of price, higher practical uses and development or any other field with  enough higher-value and practicality or to-developo"...  but it could have some decent complementary or aftermath valuee
> Still...  at the foremost of The Most Important Info or our Main Incident--Solving Mission, and then its reward are these "so far 3 Time-Pieces Of the Star-Disapperaing": from Gensokyo the "Tsurube-Otoshi couple of missing stars" were...
>...  noriced plus observed by uurselves with our trusty equip. in "slightly more than a whole day";. by Orihime. at her poace" around 3 days"; circa 1 and half week, 10 whole days  by " "Lamplighiter's Little Garden and Lampost  Space-Rock""

>You think could probably transport some roses more or less safely, depending on how large the bush is. But you'd need a pot for it. As for how valuable it could be, well...you suppose that depends on how well you can argue for it to the judges.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Wait for Lamplighter to get into view again.

[It's Purvis!]

> Wait for Lamplighter to get into view again.

>You glance out in time for hear her call out "good morning" once more, a few moments later, you see her crest around the edge of the planet.

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Good morning. Remember when I asked you about valuable stuff nearby a few days ago? You mentioned the planet with the roses, then stopped and seemed like you were thinking. Have you had the chance to think of other things?"

[It's Purvis!]

> "Good morning. Remember when I asked you about valuable stuff nearby a few days ago? You mentioned the planet with the roses, then stopped and seemed like you were thinking. Have you had the chance to think of other things?"

>"Oh, well," she says. "I think there's a king out there. I think they probably have some kind of treasure. Not that they're my king. I dunno whose they are."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...A king?"

[It's Purvis!]

> "...A king?"

>"Yep," she says, the planet's spin bringing her pretty close now. "Don't know anything about them. But I'm pretty sure they're just a normal person like me."

>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Do we think we could reach out and grab her?