Murasa Quest Continues - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Yaersulf]

>"Lead the way, you'll have a better idea of what we're looking for than I do."

[It's Purvis!]

> Try to reach and touch the floating kotatsu.

> Try to take it with us or, if too cumbersome, any single object portable and recognizable enough.

> Exit the Building.

> If a Particular Presence is felt, Stop and Try and Focus on it, otherwise proceed outside to look for, or maybe have a feeling about, "The Stargazer's Trees" and "Possible Watching Mediums".

>"Lead the way, you'll have a better idea of what we're looking for than I do."

>You grab the kotatsu by the bottom of its blanket, and kind of drag it along with you.
>The presence is here, it has not changed. You try to discern more about it, but cannot. You do not see any medium that strikes you as something it is watching you through.
>Heading outside, you pass through the main hall, similarly flooded like the room outside. Leaving the manor, you can see Mayohiga and the mountainside it is perched on, completely buried under the unrelenting water. It almost feels like the sky is still there, if you can just squint the right way. A few fish dart around here, but not terribly many.
>Stargazer looks around. Then you get a sinking sensation from her, and a strong feeling of being lost.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"You can't see any of the trees you're looking for?"
>Look around for trees.

[It's Purvis!]

>"You can't see any of the trees you're looking for?"
>Look around for trees.

>There are a fair few trees dotting the mountainside, a few forests here and there.
>Stargazer radiates uncertainty in response.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>There are a fair few trees dotting the mountainside, a few forests here and there.
>Stargazer radiates uncertainty in response.

>_

> Approach the Nearest Single Tree first ...

> ...how is it planted and sprouting from the "ground"?

> To Stargazer encouragingly  :" Do not get discouraged and disoriented;consider that Those Trees we are looking "Sprouted" There in the Sunken Human Village after it " Materialized" ,after we visited it quite a few times and due to External Displacements , whereas Here at the Sunken Mayohiga Mansion with its Mountainous Forested Areas  we are at Our First Visit and On Our Own Exploration ".

[It's Purvis!]

> Approach the Nearest Single Tree first ...

> ...how is it planted and sprouting from the "ground"?

> To Stargazer encouragingly  :" Do not get discouraged and disoriented;consider that Those Trees we are looking "Sprouted" There in the Sunken Human Village after it " Materialized" ,after we visited it quite a few times and due to External Displacements , whereas Here at the Sunken Mayohiga Mansion with its Mountainous Forested Areas  we are at Our First Visit and On Our Own Exploration ".

>You approach a maple tree not far from the manor. It seems to be quite normal, aside from being underwater.
>The cactus radiates a feeling that there's nothing odd about this one.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"So it's not just any old tree here? Do you remember any places that you saw them before?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"So it's not just any old tree here? Do you remember any places that you saw them before?"

>The cactus radiates uncertainty. After a moment, the uncertainty seems to coalesce around this location.
>You feel a sort of shift in the water behind you, moments before a familiar voice says, "Ah, this is rather exotic, isn't it?"

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Spin around.
>"Bwuh!?"

[It's Purvis!]

>Spin around.
>"Bwuh!?"

>You spin around to see Yukari walking from the mansion's front doors. She doesn't seem to be particularly inconvenienced by the water; she doesn't even seem to be particularly wet.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"You should have said you were going to try and follow me! Nearly scared me back to death."

[It's Purvis!]

>"You should have said you were going to try and follow me! Nearly scared me back to death."

>"Really, I thought it was obvious?" says Yukari.
>A moment later, Sakuya follows out behind her. Unlike Yukari, she does seem to be affected by the water; and thus is currently wrapped in a large bubble that encases her entire body. She looks around, her expression one of cool calmness, but you get the feeling that her thoughts are very different. She's probably never even been underwater to this degree, let alone seen a seen a sight like this.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"Oh, Sakuya too. Welcome to Gensokyo but wet."
>Make a sweeping gesture with our hand.

[It's Purvis!]

>"Oh, Sakuya too. Welcome to Gensokyo but wet."
>Make a sweeping gesture with our hand.

>"Very wet, yes," Sakuya says, as she looks upward.
>"Hm," Yukari says, as she glances around, "I don't feel like I'm being watched. How about you, Sakuya?"
>"I don't...think so?" Sakuya says, as she turns her gaze toward the distance.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Do we feel like we are being watched?

[It's Purvis!]

>Do we feel like we are being watched?

>Not watched, exactly. But there is some thing that is certainly aware of you. It has been for the past several times you've been here.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"There is definitely still something here that is... aware of me."

[It's Purvis!]

>"There is definitely still something here that is... aware of me."

>"It doesn't seem to notice me, we'll assume," says Yukari.
>"I don't feel a thing at all," says Sakuya, as she looks along the distant, flooded vista.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>"It doesn't seem to notice me, we'll assume," says Yukari.
>"I don't feel a thing at all," says Sakuya, as she looks along the distant, flooded vista.

>_

> " Maybe feelings of Its Awareness could be perceptible and in Indirect Modus, sort of centered around myself or Stargazer...  after a while... "

> ".. It took "A While of Exploring Trips" before That Unseen Clergy took a casual " Interest ", but yet more intense, than the Current One interest... well after the Fishes,and Men o' War...

>"... only afterwards Successive Meetings with a Very Special Man O' War, turning out to be our successive to Our Stargazer, The Unseen Clergy was somehow " on my mapping" ".

> To Stargazer: " To be Sure, do you stil notice that... persistent hard to pin down... feeling of awareness on you or even the both of us, in this moment you are zoning in on The Special Tree? "

[It's Purvis!]

> " Maybe feelings of Its Awareness could be perceptible and in Indirect Modus, sort of centered around myself or Stargazer...  after a while... "

> ".. It took "A While of Exploring Trips" before That Unseen Clergy took a casual " Interest ", but yet more intense, than the Current One interest... well after the Fishes,and Men o' War...

>"... only afterwards Successive Meetings with a Very Special Man O' War, turning out to be our successive to Our Stargazer, The Unseen Clergy was somehow " on my mapping" ".

> To Stargazer: " To be Sure, do you stil notice that... persistent hard to pin down... feeling of awareness on you or even the both of us, in this moment you are zoning in on The Special Tree? "

>Stargazer nods in response.
>"Perhaps it will notice us in to good time, then," says Yukari. She then claps her hands, which works precisely as if the water weren't in the way. "So, let's decide how we shall approach this investigation?"

>_

[Yaersulf]

>"Well Stargazer reckons that there aren't any of her suspicious trees around here, so probably worth trying to find somewhere we can find them."

[It's Purvis!]

>"Well Stargazer reckons that there aren't any of her suspicious trees around here, so probably worth trying to find somewhere we can find them."

>"Troublesome," says Yukari. "Do you know where that might be?"

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Look to Stargazer to see if she's had any luck remembering.

[It's Purvis!]

>Look to Stargazer to see if she's had any luck remembering.

>She radiates a sense of being lost.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>"Troublesome," says Yukari. "Do you know where that might be?"

>_

// Well, it won't be as straightforward and faster-linking as we 2 are explaining&aiming for but doable nonethless ;  to proceed, after a"triple check" and a few insightsts of course, to a Self-Displacement in an angle of The Human Village's Angle, to Usefully investigate and find&elaborate back results//

> Reminesce That Single Instance of The First Underwater Tree with "Its Afterwards-Appering Companions... "

> Fist Palm: "The Sunken Copied Human Village's Inner Courtyard...That Fake Village is the Place I and then I and Stargazer explored the most because most of the "Pull-Downs"were indeed while in The True Human Village... "

>... More precisely during the " Later Explorations " That had been the first and only time&place we had clearly seen A Tree Strangely Down Here, Strangely also due to No Tree or such to be Mirrored from the True Human Village... ".

 > "... Interesting Note is that at the Same Time&Occasion, but with The Important Difference Those Appearend Only After-Clear-See  of That First Tree and that Our Gensokyo-Return was Right After Their Sprung-Up  ,a  Bunch of Similar Trees Appeared  ".

> To Stargazer for "Triple-Check": " Is it all Correct and, more importantly,  are there particular Aiding Edges for you,  Stargazer my friend?

[It's Purvis!]

// Well, it won't be as straightforward and faster-linking as we 2 are explaining&aiming for but doable nonethless ;  to proceed, after a"triple check" and a few insightsts of course, to a Self-Displacement in an angle of The Human Village's Angle, to Usefully investigate and find&elaborate back results//

> Reminesce That Single Instance of The First Underwater Tree with "Its Afterwards-Appering Companions... "

> Fist Palm: "The Sunken Copied Human Village's Inner Courtyard...That Fake Village is the Place I and then I and Stargazer explored the most because most of the "Pull-Downs"were indeed while in The True Human Village... "

>... More precisely during the " Later Explorations " That had been the first and only time&place we had clearly seen A Tree Strangely Down Here, Strangely also due to No Tree or such to be Mirrored from the True Human Village... ".

 > "... Interesting Note is that at the Same Time&Occasion, but with The Important Difference Those Appearend Only After-Clear-See  of That First Tree and that Our Gensokyo-Return was Right After Their Sprung-Up  ,a  Bunch of Similar Trees Appeared  ".

> To Stargazer for "Triple-Check": " Is it all Correct and, more importantly,  are there particular Aiding Edges for you,  Stargazer my friend?

>Stargazer just seems lost.

>_

[Branneg Xy]

>Stargazer just seems lost.

>_

> Look at the trees in the area: are they "complete" with a grass bed or...?

> To Stargazer: " it is when you tried helping me by  thinking hard what specifically in " The Water World" could be "interfering" with me, and that came out as " The Trees" but not Gensokyo's you were gazing since you pointed out to "Those Trees in The Water World"...

>"... coincidentially it happened after we had found A Few Trees Mysteriously, due to never having seen them during exploring and being planted through the Ocean Bottom,  Springing Up from the grounds of " The Sunken Human Village ""

> Are there Other Buildings, besides Mayohiga's Mansion?

// I hope this is beneficial https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=22258.630
  //

[Yaersulf]

>"Maybe if we went back to where I originally found you? It was around this world's Eientei I think."

[It's Purvis!]

> Look at the trees in the area: are they "complete" with a grass bed or...?

> To Stargazer: " it is when you tried helping me by  thinking hard what specifically in " The Water World" could be "interfering" with me, and that came out as " The Trees" but not Gensokyo's you were gazing since you pointed out to "Those Trees in The Water World"...

>"... coincidentially it happened after we had found A Few Trees Mysteriously, due to never having seen them during exploring and being planted through the Ocean Bottom,  Springing Up from the grounds of " The Sunken Human Village ""

> Are there Other Buildings, besides Mayohiga's Mansion?

// I hope this is beneficial https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=22258.630
  //

>"Maybe if we went back to where I originally found you? It was around this world's Eientei I think."

>You don't seen any grass around the trees; there's no grass here.
>There are other homes and such around Mayohiga; they seem as empty as they've ever been.
>There is a feeling of hesitant agreement from Stargazer, then a worry that she has no idea how to get there, and worry if there are even trees there.

>_

[Yaersulf]

>Can we travel as fast as if we're flying here or does the water slow us down?