Nue Quest 3rd Impact: A Z-Machine Adventure

[DracoOmega]

>"Any way to find out what it was? Or even repair it, for that matter?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Any way to find out what it was? Or even repair it, for that matter?"

>"Perhaps when I'm less busy, I could do it," says Patchouli. "I imagine any deity you could con into it could tell you. Possibly a shrine maiden, as well, though I suspect our selection is alternately too lazy or inexperienced to do much with that. As for repairs, there would be more to it than merely hammering it back together. The force within it would have to be respected, for the lack of a better term. Just putting it back together wouldn't treat that, and is likely to diminish or extinguish it. Hm. Your best bet would be to find who made it originally, or even better, who used it originally. But, this is off the top of my head. There may be other things, this is not a field I am intimately familiar with."
>"Couldn't you just use your metal-based magic?" says Renko.
>"I could drive nails with a screwdriver," says Patchouli. "That wouldn't mean the end product is worth the effort."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "So I want to find someone in Gensokyo that might have been exposed to Celtic."
> Frown.
> "And there's not exactly a wealth of Westerners around here."

[DracoOmega]

>"Well... maybe the inscription might say something about who made it, or who it was made for, maybe?"

[Hello Purvis]

> "So I want to find someone in Gensokyo that might have been exposed to Celtic."
> Frown.
> "And there's not exactly a wealth of Westerners around here."

>"I am reasonably sure the only ones would be at the Mansion," says Patchouli.
>"Possibly Yukari," says Alice. "Or someone else who is obscenely old."
>"That's a point," Patchouli says. "But I wouldn't recommend bothering Yukari for it."

>"Well... maybe the inscription might say something about who made it, or who it was made for, maybe?"

>"I've considered that," says Patchouli. "Let me record them and give me some time. Maybe I'll find time to sic Petite onto the project."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Nod.
> "That'd be helpful. Thanks."

[Hello Purvis]

> Nod.
> "That'd be helpful. Thanks."

>"That settled, have we anything else to contribute to this issue?"
>She looks around the table.

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[DracoOmega]

>"Nah, I think that's good on the sword for now, thanks."
>"But just thinking back to motive for this incident... anyone have any idea what whoever it is wants with all this money? I mean, they can't really go and spend any of it for a whole bunch of reasons now, so it's not about getting rich. And they probably weren't just interested in the precious metal, or they wouldn't care that Komachi's stuff wasn't currency, either. I mean, it's still made of the same thing, right? So, uh... what do you do with money you can't spend, and that you don't just want for raw metals?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Nah, I think that's good on the sword for now, thanks."
>"But just thinking back to motive for this incident... anyone have any idea what whoever it is wants with all this money? I mean, they can't really go and spend any of it for a whole bunch of reasons now, so it's not about getting rich. And they probably weren't just interested in the precious metal, or they wouldn't care that Komachi's stuff wasn't currency, either. I mean, it's still made of the same thing, right? So, uh... what do you do with money you can't spend, and that you don't just want for raw metals?"

>"Perhaps they don't intend to spend it here?" says Alice. "It's not terribly unusual for magicians to deal with places like Makai, for instance."
>"It's possible they do want the raw material," Byakuren said, "But found it easier to take things identified as money rather than things identified as metallic disks?"

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[DracoOmega]

>"Huh. That's a good point on the metals bit. So much for that thought. But as for Makai, how do we know the same thing didn't hit them, too? I mean, if it reached the Netherworld, it could probably have reached that place, too, couldn't it?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Huh. That's a good point on the metals bit. So much for that thought. But as for Makai, how do we know the same thing didn't hit them, too? I mean, if it reached the Netherworld, it could probably have reached that place, too, couldn't it?"

>"I'd hope not." says Patchouli. "It would trigger chaos that would put anything we're capable of to shame."
>"Not to mention that it would put Shinki on the warpath," says Marisa. "I'd hope we wouldn't have to deal with that..."
>Alice nods along.
>"That said," Byakuren says, "We can't rule out the possibility."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Frown.
> "Do we investigate directly, then?"

[Hello Purvis]

> Frown.
> "Do we investigate directly, then?"

>"I wouldn't recommend it until all the other options are exhausted," says Alice. "It's not a place to visit, normally, and if it were affected things would be much worse than normal."

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[Kilgamayan]

> Have some of that cake we were served earlier.

[DracoOmega]

>"Well, if we can't rule out that they have a place to spend it, or that they did just want the metal after all... that doesn't leave us with much, does it?"
>"As for Yukari being involved... if she is, I kinda don't think Ran knows. Which, well... I guess that's possible, too..."

[Hello Purvis]

> Have some of that cake we were served earlier.

>You sample some of the shortcake. It's quite lovely; it's a bit heavy with the whipped cream, but the balances it out well. The strawberries are particularly good, they must have been recently picked.

>"Well, if we can't rule out that they have a place to spend it, or that they did just want the metal after all... that doesn't leave us with much, does it?"
>"As for Yukari being involved... if she is, I kinda don't think Ran knows. Which, well... I guess that's possible, too..."

>Patchouli nods. "That is a point. Ran would probably know what her master is planning."
>"You think maybe the gems themselves are special?" says Maribel.

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[DracoOmega]

>They looked like perfectly ordinary gemstones to us in every way, correct?

[Kilgamayan]

> "The ones that were actually gems didn't look out of the ordinary to me."
> Pull out a rose quartz and examine it again.

[Hello Purvis]

>They looked like perfectly ordinary gemstones to us in every way, correct?

>As far as you could recall.

> "The ones that were actually gems didn't look out of the ordinary to me."
> Pull out a rose quartz and examine it again.

>"Nor I," says Patchouli, "But I'm not quite a mineralogist."
>You examine the rose quartz. It certainly looks like a typical one to. You don't see anything wrong with it.

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[Kilgamayan]

> "I'll admit I haven't taken my tools to any of these things, but I'm positive Ichiro did, and I'm further positive he would have said something to me had he noticed something out of the ordinary."
> Put the rose quartz away and pull out one of the non-gem beads.
> "These, though...no idea what these are."

[Hello Purvis]

> "I'll admit I haven't taken my tools to any of these things, but I'm positive Ichiro did, and I'm further positive he would have said something to me had he noticed something out of the ordinary."
> Put the rose quartz away and pull out one of the non-gem beads.
> "These, though...no idea what these are."

>"Hm. We'll keep that in mind," says Patchouli. "I may have a few things to try on them. But as far as I can tell, they aren't particularly enchanted."
>You show a Green Glass Bead to the group.
>"I'm pretty sure it's glass," says Alice.
>"It's not very valuable, right?" Renko says. "So maybe that's what loose change turned into?"

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[Kilgamayan]

> "It's not really worth much of anything, no. 1☼ if you're a decent talker, and don't expect to get 1☼ per if you have a whole bunch of them."

[Hello Purvis]

> "It's not really worth much of anything, no. 1☼ if you're a decent talker, and don't expect to get 1☼ per if you have a whole bunch of them."

>Renko nods. "Yeah, but that's probably true of any grouping of things. On their own, though, if you sold them just one at a time, I bet you'd get one each."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Possibly. But still, they're not worth much. Less than the actual gems for sure."

[Kilgamayan]

Sorry, Fightest, life hasn't slowed down enough for me to write up a summary just yet.

I'll try to get to it tomorrow, if someone doesn't do it overnight.

[GuyYouMetOnline]

>"You're probably right that this sort of thing is what loose change became."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Possibly. But still, they're not worth much. Less than the actual gems for sure."

>"Well, 1☼ isn't worth much either," says Renko. "But glass is kind of like a gem."
>"I wonder if anyone ended up with salt, or something else common?" Byakuren says, rubbing her chin.

>"You're probably right that this sort of thing is what loose change became."

>Renko nods. "I mean, all our money turned into a couple pearls. So there's some grouping involved."

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[Kilgamayan]

> "Yeah, and I got some grouping as well with my cash. Didn't notice anything ordinary that was out-of-the-ordinary like salt, though."

[Hello Purvis]

> "Yeah, and I got some grouping as well with my cash. Didn't notice anything ordinary that was out-of-the-ordinary like salt, though."

>"Me either," says Marisa. The rest nod in agreement; with Renko saying "Same here."

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[DracoOmega]

>"I'm wondering if maybe the gem thing wasn't just someone trying to be 'kind' or whatnot, by giving people something it thought was of equal value, but an intrinsic part of the effect? Value for value? Although I don't know if that being true would help narrow down how it was done. I mean, kinda out of my element on the mechanics bit..."