Sword Quest II - A Z-Machine Adventure

[Hello Purvis]

> "Of course, you could always follow us around as we look for you. Might make her talk faster if I join the chase."

>"I suppose I could," she says.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Shall we pretend to look for you, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Shall we pretend to look for you, then?"

>"Go ahead," she says. "I'll follow for now, I guess."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "Don't forget my offer."
> Head back to the door of the manor and inspect the ground for footprints.

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "Don't forget my offer."
> Head back to the door of the manor and inspect the ground for footprints.

>You look around the front door, and do not find anything. The ground here has been hardened by years of coming and going, you imagine it would take a rainy day to make any footprints here. You can hear the raven looking around around the side of the house, muttering to herself every so often.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Raise our voice a bit above a normal spkeaing voice.
> "No footprints here at the door!"

[Hello Purvis]

> Raise our voice a bit above a normal spkeaing voice.
> "No footprints here!"

>"Crap, not having much luck here, either," says the raven youkai from around the side of the house.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "So why exactly are you looking for her, anyway?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "So why exactly are you looking for her, anyway?"

>"Come back here and help me look," she says.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Head back to where the raven woman is.

[Hello Purvis]

> Head back to where the raven woman is.

>You head around back, where you find her poking around the small grassy yard around the house.
>"Bleh, I'm not having any luck," she says. "Do you see anything?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> Inspect the ground around us, as well as any nearby manor windows.

[Hello Purvis]

> Inspect the ground around us, as well as any nearby manor windows.

>You look around, seeing nothing like footprints in the grass that could belong to Koishi. You do see a number that could be the raven's, though.
>Peeking into the windows, you get glimpses a well-appointed sitting room.
>The raven makes her way behind the house.
>"I don't think she heard you," says Koishi.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Shake head.
> Follow that raven!
> "So why are you looking for her, anyway?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Shake head.
> Follow that raven!
> "So why are you looking for her, anyway?"

>"She's been missing for awhile,"  the raven says. "Years. It's complicated, but we had a falling out...a real bad one. Tore our family in half."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Yikes...I'm sorry. Are you here to try to bring her home, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yikes...I'm sorry. Are you here to try to bring her home, then?"

>"I'd like to," she says, as she starts to look around. "But I doubt I could convince her. There was just a point where she couldn't take being down there anymore."

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[Yaersulf]

>Frown.
>"Sounds like you guys have had things tough."
>"So you just want her to hear you out?"

[Hello Purvis]

>Frown.
>"Sounds like you guys have had things tough."
>"So you just want her to hear you out?"

>"You wouldn't think so," she says, "But that's how this all got started, I suppose. And yeah, just get heard out, I guess. Or at least say a proper goodbye, if nothing else."

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[Yaersulf]

>"Well, I'll do what I can. She doesn't sound easy to find, especially if she doesn't want to be found."

[Kilgamayan]

> "And hopefully she'll be willing to hear whatever it is that you have to say."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well, I'll do what I can. She doesn't sound easy to find, especially if she doesn't want to be found."

> "And hopefully she'll be willing to hear whatever it is that you have to say."

>"It's a shot in the dark, alright," says the raven youkai. "But you gotta take it, don't you?"
>"Hmmm," Koishi says.

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[Yaersulf]

>"She obviously means a lot to you if you're willing to go so far for her sake."

[Hello Purvis]

>"She obviously means a lot to you if you're willing to go so far for her sake."

>"Yeah," says the Raven. "I should have tried harder, back then. But...eh, don't wanna get into that."
>"Ask her what she thought she could do," says Koishi.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "What do you mean? What more could you have done?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "What do you mean? What more could you have done?"

>"I don't know," she says. "Maybe I could have been less on edge, or maybe I could have tried harder to work with Kanako, or maybe I just could have been smarter. I don't know..."
>"Maybe you could have thought about someone other than myself." Koishi says. Judging from the way that the raven youkai jumps, you assume she heard it too.
>"Koishi, where are you!?" she says.
>"I'm right here, Utsuho," she says. "So if you have something to say, say it."
>The raven youkai, presumably Utsuho, takes a breath, and looks around. Then she says, "I've been going over this in my head a lot. And...I'm sorry things worked out like this. I don't know what we could have done differently. I don't know if things could have been different, but...I want them to be different, okay?"
>"Go on," says Koishi.

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[Kilgamayan]

> Observe with an interested look. This is not our place to interrupt. Not yet, at least.

[Hello Purvis]

> Observe with an interested look. This is not our place to interrupt. Not yet, at least.

>"A bit," says Koishi. "I fixed it, you see, I fixed everything. My sister and I were no longer hated, everyone was happy...and then she tore it all down."
>"It wasn't that simple," says Utsuho.
>"It was," Koishi says. "You just couldn't handle it, just being you. You had to be special, you had to be better than everyone, no matter what. So you did whatever you pleased, and didn't think about anyone else."
>"It wasn't that simple!" Utsuho says. Then she sighs. "But that doesn't matter now, does it?"
>"Not to you, anyways," says Koishi, "you got what you wanted."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Wait, what? We didn't say that just now, that was earlier.

[Hello Purvis]

> Wait, what? We didn't say that just now, that was earlier.

>Wacky!

>_