melodiesoflife | Event || Terra Incognita

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Event || Terra Incognita

Characters: Anyone who signed up for the trip!
Where: The Enterprise / Mysidia.
When: Starting from the 18th of November.
Summary: The first trip to the Continent of Ruins is finally happening! The Heroes of Light, the Enterprise Crew, Cid and O'aka are all onboard for the trip. What will the Heroes of Light find there? Will they come back alive? Feel free to start your own top-comment thread about your character exploring Mysida and its surroundings! For details regarding Mysidia, please click here.
Warning: Nothing (yes, they'll come back alive).

Open Mingle || The Enterprise
Event || Welcoming Committee

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

There you go. You're getting the hang of it now.

[Cloud frowns as he works the controls. He's definitely getting the hang of it but he's not sure if it's a game he'd want to dump a lot of money into.

He's nearly through the whole level when the character swings wide into a course hazard.]

OH COME ON!

Oh, yeah, I forgot to warn you about those.

[After all, it would be too easy if there weren't things rolling and swinging around to knock you off course.]

[The next few tries don't go too much better, mounting frustration at the traps lead Cloud to make the same mistakes and then even simpler ones. After a few tries he stops and takes a breath to clear his mind.

It's the attempt after that one in which he finishes the level.]

[Chiaki just stands there watching silently as he tries. And once he's finished with the level, she smiles.]

It's tougher than it looks, but you did pretty good.

Thanks a lot. I guess I'd just need to play it a bunch of times to get it down. I can see why you think it's fun though. So what happens if we get through all the levels?

[He's certainly played worse games. He swears that rock paper scissors fighting game the arcade has is rigged. This one just seems finicky.]

Nothing special, really. You just compete for the high score and best time in this one.

Ah okay. The motorcycle game over there just drops you out to a game over and then the title screen even if you win. Those games are fun but it'd be great to play a game with something more to it.

Arcade games tend to be a little simpler since you can only play for as long as you can keep putting money in. If you want something more involved, what you really want is to get a dedicated gaming computer or a console.

[Cloud blinks a little in surprise.]

So wait...they have a way you can play games like these at home back in your world?

[He just hopes that the amount of jelly he's going to need to hold isn't above 99.]

Yeah. There's computer games, gaming consoles, and even handhelds.

Wow....they must be really expensive though right? Or bulky?

Kind of. But most of them aren't too big. Especially the handheld models, since they're meant to be portable.

Wow...that's kinda amazing. I think they might be able to make something like that in my world? But ShinRa controls most of the tech development in Midgar and they mostly just make cars and mako reactors.

[And arm a military force to invade neighboring regions for their resources.]

Yeah, I heard about them from Sephiroth a while ago. I still don't understand why an electric power company needs its own private military force.

Yeah...they mostly said it was for the security of the reactors and the cities and towns near them. There was also the war with Wutai but looking back I'm not sure if we were on the right side of that fight. It all started when I was pretty young when it all started anyway.

[In spite of Wutai being relatively close to Nibelheim it still felt so far away. It was past the mountains after all.]

Yeah. Stuff like that is what worried me.

[Companies don't need to be starting wars.]

[Cloud frowns and turns more of his focus back to the game. He doesn't need to be told that he was probably on the wrong side of things.]

Thing is, there really wasn't much else for someone wanting to get out of the backwaters. It was go off and join the army or stay home and be a farmer or a miner or a reactor tech.

[Maybe once in a blue moon a boonies kid was good enough to do something more with his life, but then they'd still have to move to Midgar anyway.]

Oh. Did you not like where you grew up?

[What other reason would there be to leave?]

Pretty much. I grew up out in a backwater mountain town. There was nothing for me there and I convinced myself I was better than everyone else. That and most of the adults in town blamed me when Tifa got hurt after her mother died.

[He glances from the game to Chiaki for a moment. Better to just explain this one.]

She'd gone off into the mountains to try to get to the other side. Her other friends followed her but they gave up. In the end I was the only one following her when the bridge collapsed. All the adults thought I was the one who convinced her to go out there in the first place. Her dad was screaming at me every day until she woke up and wouldn't let me see her when she did.

...What was on the other side of the mountains?

[Yes, that's the detail she's chosen to focus on.]

Huh?

[That sound you hear is a train of thought derailing. So many dead and injured. It's like AVALANCHE made a master attack.]

Oh...uh...not much really...another small town I think? Nothing special.

(ooc: I checked, it doesn't become Rocket Town until after Cloud ends up in the tank)

Did she think she'd find her mom on the other side? Is that why she went?

Yeah. I think she knew better but at the same time she just didn't want to accept her mom was gone. She couldn't just sit and quietly accept it. I can't really blame her.

It's hard... experiencing the death of someone important to you.

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