o/~Metaphysical!o/~
I had intended to get a little farther
along with the Jumi storyline here, but as has happened so often in
the course of this Text Play, I bumbled into an entirely unrelated
quest instead. In this case, it was a quest called “Rachel”,
after the daughter of the shopkeepers in Domina. I'd gone there
looking for clues as to where I was supposed to go after the last
part of the Jumi arc. What I found was that Mark, Jennifer and
Rachel are all completely and utterly batshit insane.
So, the setup here is that Rachel
finally got all fed up with her old man and went off to Geo to learn
magic so she could do something about the loonie. While there, we've
gotta get into the library while Nunuzac is teaching his class so
that the mummy lady there can have her students open an
inter-dimensional portal or some such thing. In doing so, this makes
the Rachel we've seen running around Domina thus far in the game swap
bodies and lives with some other Rachel. And this is where things
start to get confusing, because we don't find out about this until we
get back to the shop in Domina.
When we get there, there's a scene
where we see Mark and Rachel in her room, and things are... creepier
than they should be in that situation really. They talk about how
maybe Rachel wanted to do magic or upgrade Teapo to a Model Two or
some such thing. And then I had to leave town so I could go right
back in and find Jennifer in the town's marketplace. She tells us
something about how Mark's been having dreams lately about a blue
jiggly thing that calls itself Rachel and it worries her.
What worries me is the fact that that
last line is the last sane thing anyone's going to say until the end
of this quest. Back at the shop, there's a scene in the attic about
how Rachel is Rachel and yet somehow not and there was some sort of
body swap that happened in Geo. As if that weren't confusing enough,
we start to lump in some bull about blue jigglies and green wigglies
that just blew past me like stink. And then there's the part where
Teapo the Magic Teapot is full of explosives because she's a bomb or
the engine for a rocketship and either way, Domina's shop is at risk
of getting blown all to hell as a result.
Confused yet? Don't worry, the
punchline here is that the person we thought was Rachel is some sort
of spirit that's on a cosmic soul quest while the little girl that's
in Mark and Jennifer's house wants to be called Rachel now. And
Jennifer's just as confused by all this as I am, chalking it all up
to Mark carrying on about being a wanna-be Zephram
Cochrane or something when one of the Rachel entities was
younger. And with that, the quest ends.
When the hell did I get to SilentHill? (Wiki
Article Here)
At any rate, maybe I'll figure it out
as I get this whole Jumi thing sorted. I really gotta get Elazul out
of my bedroom. It's creepy and I'd really like to get that save
point back.
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