melodiesoflife | Intro Log || This Keeps Happening

Intro Log || This Keeps Happening

Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of January. The new Heroes of Light will awaken early in the morning.
Summary: The new Heroes of Light awaken in Aqures Ixen and are informed by their assigned Moogles of what the situation and what their destinies are. This a log for them to react to the situation, meet each other and be welcomed by the former batches of Heroes of Light.
Warning: Snow. Also some leftover decorations from Christmas.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Within an instant, the world around you collapses. Reality twists and shatters... Or maybe you are the one who is collapsing and shattering away from reality as you knew it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, your world vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see. Even you feel different: all the powers you might once have had, are now gone. It is silent, cold and it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you.

At this moment, when it looks as though nothing but a never-ending void awaits you, a red Crystal forms before you. In this void, its warmth compels you to grab it. Upon doing so, you can hear a soft, soothing voice speaking:

"Wake up."

Soon, the void itself vanishes and is replaced by distant noises of engines. Had it all been nothing more than a dream? The soothing voice repeats its call one more time, but is soon replaced with a much less graceful "Wake up Kupo." Hand clutched on your Crystal, the call of the Moogle may finally wake you up. But you are no longer in your world, nor in the void. You are before the Crystal of Fire, in the third district of a city called Aqures Ixen. At this point, you may realize the engine noise actually originates from an Airship flying low over the city and headed to dock beneath the castle. As if it wasn't strange enough, your clothes have changed as well. They are now a reflection of the Jobs you are wielding. Last but not least, you are surrounded by Moogles, small and fluffy creatures who are more than happy to tell you about everything you want to know, about your 'destiny' as a Hero of Light, about what awaits you.

Or at least, they will tell you everything they do know, which isn't much in the end.

The only people around you are like you-- There are quite a few of them, all clothed in their Job garbs and most likely wondering what is happening. If somehow you do not realize it, the Moogle who woke you up will be more than happy to inform you there are others like you around. In fact, there are other Heroes who have arrived in the course of the past year and they will come soon! Like you, they have Jobs and a Crystal.

If asked, the Moogles will mention that the Heroes of Light - that is to say you - are fighting against time to save Crystallis from the Calamity that is about to awaken to devour the entire world. Sounds terrible? Welcome to Crystallis.

The Other Heroes
— Shortly Thereafter —
Thanks to the efficiency of Mognet, it does not take long for the other Heroes to come around: those who arrived in this world within the past year. You may have imagined heroic and charismatic figures when your Moogle told you that there were other Heroes of Light in this city. You may have imagined persons with fearsome powers when they told you about how they managed to push back the Empire and defeat gigantic beasts in the past. And more importantly, you may have imagined them as people who would have all the answers to your, doubtlessly, numerous questions.

If so, you may be up for a tragic disappointment. Still, for the most part they know more than you on the situation and may be more than happy to fill you in, especially if your Moogle didn't tell you much.

The City of Aqures Ixen
— Anytime —
With Christmas being barely over, there are still Christmas Decoration in the streets, and while the reconstruction are nearly over, there are still traces of the attack the Empire led against the city six months ago. A few buildings are being worked on.

And besides the decorations and reconstructions, there are a lot of things to do in the city for newcomers. A few groups of Triple Triad players are playing before Mognet Office in the ninth district, and a Blitzball Match is set to start at 20:00 in the stadium! Characters are also free to visit the city-- Mognet Office just behind the Triple Triad games is filled with Moogles, most of them discussing about the election for the future director of Mognet. They can also visit Airship Port in the twelfth district from where characters can board for free Airships from Shoopuf Airline.

Or maybe you could visit your new house in the 11th District, and get to know your new neighbors and housemate. Hopefully your neighbors are people you will get along with.

The Laboratory
— Anytime —
A location where a lot of Heroes of Light seem to be gathering is Palitutu's Laboratory. It is a place where employed characters can research into various topics. However, most importantly, characters can see a file with their name...

Should your character decide to go there and peek at their file, there are two possibilities. Either the file is corrupted and they cannot access it: too bad for them, but at least their life will remain a mystery. Or should you decide the file isn't corrupted, they will find a summary of their lives up to their canon point, as if written by a third-person omniscient narrator. On the column left to the text, to the top there is a portrait of them, and beneath it there is a 3D model of them. Said portrait and model can be switched to any year of their life. At the bottom there is a percentage, indicating 0%. On the right column, there are various links, most of which are grayed out. The clickable links lead to their Homeworld History and their future post-canon point history (corrupted file for unfinished canons).

At least, they can lock this file away if they don't want anyone to see it.

The Hospital
— Anytime —
Characters who have already been in Crystallis before do not wake up by the Crystal of Fire like everyone else. Instead, they will wake up in the Hospital of Aqures Ixen, in a room where there are over a hundred of other Heroes of Light like them-- Maybe even some familiar faces... Except they're all in Crystal Stasis.

A couple Moogles and a few nurses will be waiting by the room, and they will welcome all characters waking up. Upon exiting the room, they will also meet a lot of guards, and they all have for order to shoot anyone that comes out of this room without a Moogle. Hopefully you won't try running out without waiting for your Moogle. As for why the guards are so on edge, it might be a good idea to ask the other Heroes of Light about what happened a couple months ago.

Close Encounters of the Third(?) Kind
— 15:00 —
Characters venturing by between the city's outskirts and the Chocobo Farm at this specific time will be able to see a most peculiar sight: a flying saucer seemingly abducting a Chocobo before flying away and disappearing into the sky without leaving any traces of its presence. If your character do see it, hopefully there will be someone with them. Otherwise, nobody will believe their story.

Was it an UFO or just a hallucination? Previous sightings of such a thing have happened. It might be a good idea to investigate this sometimes...

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... Except none of those names sounded remotely familiar to Tear, but it's to be expected when there were so many worlds being represented among the Heroes. So she nods to acknowledge his efforts.

"At the very least you can say you've been trying, maybe you'll find it given time."

"Sure! I don't mind. We'll just be over here," she pointed at the bench again, then trotted off to sit down with Kuponia, where she received a rudimentary lesson on the basics of astronomy.

While Aya was tutored on the basics of being a prophesied Hero of Light, Rialynn and Kuponia were deeply engaged in conversation. The former was filled with questions, and the little Moogle seemed only too delighted to be of help in answering everything the bard had to query.

Even when Aya was finished, they were still talking about it.

"So the sun is actually a planet of fire?"

"Not quite," Kuponia patted her knee like a kindly grandmother might. "It's a ball of burning gas, so hot that we feel the heat all the way from out here."

"Oh." She glanced up and beamed at Aya, jumping to her feet once she saw that the other was all caught up. "How did it go?"

[He nods. At least that was something, not outright refusal towards their situation. Or actually, which Jaeha that might be a lot already.]

I think it must be about four months now. At first, it was because I have decided to accept this destiny as well, and to return to the Princess as fast as possible, but now I have also come to care about the other heroes and wish to support them.

[Ah, well, things do change, and he was swayed before. Who knows? It might happen again, but he's not counting on it happening any time soon. Kija's answer seems to please him at least, since it's a decision that he made on his own, and not because he was told it was what he should be doing.]

Perhaps you'll introduce them to me sometime.

[If they're willing to travel. He looks back toward the city and his smile vanishes. He doesn't feel good about any of this]

Are you really so tied to this city? There's a big world out there.

"Thanks. I've been trying at least. Now that I don't have some of my worries slowing me down, I can continue dancing." Zack was confident things would work out, and even this place needed some dancing.

"I-- I didn't!" Yuna's tone was an admonished one, her hands wringing together as she looked from Vaan, back to Tidus, then deflated just slightly -- though it was all in good fun. "Well... maybe a little," she couldn't help herself, running into family and friends that could actually remember her had become a bit of a rarity in Crystallis... So when Vaan had arrived, maybe she had gotten a little carried away -- something like now. She didn't even mind the teasing.

When she heard a groan though, she looked over Tidus's way, well, more towards his stomach at first, then up at him -- a bit unsure of where the noise had actually come from. It was enough to get her laughing again, as one of her hands crept up towards her mouth to try and stop herself. "Maybe we should head towards the market first, then."

She glanced between her two companions, "What do you say?"

Duster didn't understand how it worked, but that it did. He was just a confused and horrified by the idea of chimeras as Rialynn was. What was important that they treat the possibility with the seriousness it deserved.

"I'll be fine. I've always been," he assured her. Right. It was time to look for help and find some clues. Crystallis was going to be free from scientists thoughtlessly manipulating nature to fit their own needs. Duster continued onward, already having found something important to protect the first day of a new life.

"Not really." Though he perhaps didn't mean to sound so blunt, Sephiroth would rather be plain about it than spout off a tirade about how there were only a limited number of residences available for new Heroes of Light. Even though he did empathize a little; he'd always preferred his own space over the shared accommodation that he'd had to get used to. It was a case of having to.

He followed Aya's gaze as she looked around for her moogle, similarly resting on the pom floating atop one of the nearest pieces of shrubbery. His expression softened a little at the very obvious fact Aya pointed out; remembering well how Spencer had explained to him in the past that being allocated to a Hero of Light was a big honor for mooglekind.

"I see. Well that's understandable I suppose." He flashed a small smile in the direction of the bush before looking back to Aya. "It's a big deal, to most moogles. Being partnered with a Hero of Light is a huge responsibility."

"It won't be if I got a say in it. I'd like to get this done sooner than later. Got a post to get back to. And, y'know, friends 'n stuff I guess." The likelihood of people going home, even if they stopped the Calamity, were slim to nil, but Sparks refused to believe it.

"Lemme guess - ya come from a year that starts with a two, followed a zero. That's pretty much been the case of everyone else I've met from Earth here." It's like ancient history to him, but that seems to be the typical time span people from Earth seem to be from here. "Yep, there's natives, immigrants, terraforming, gravity adjusters, y'know. Makin' it livable for centuries now."

Tazendra shook her head. "No, from my own. Or, rather, I have yet to encounter any of the other worlds they may have visited. They are not native to mine, you see."

Yeah. I'm a Hero? Just like you are now. Jobs, a moogle, savin' the goddamn world, all that nonsense.

[He finally lowers his hands, but stays back, expression still sour.]

I know I don't look like no one else here, but any one of 'em will back me up on it. Okay?

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Ales snatched his hat, which had the wig sewn onto it, out of Jaeha's hands and forced it onto his head, not caring for the locks to settle properly. Alright, so a second of thought had him decide otherwise. Now the hat and wig were properly aligned on his head.

He cleared his throat and gracefully held a hand to his chest. Jaeha's first impression of him may have ruined everything, but he'd be damned if he didn't attempt to salvage what was left.

"But first, let me welcome you to Crystallis! I'm sure the Moogles have explained what's going on, but let me introduce you to the city! As you may know, you are currently in the Temple of Fire, which houses the very important Fire Crystal. Just outside are the museums and library, if you're like to spend the day somewhere warm, and to the north is Aqures Castle, where the legal stuff happens, if that's what you like. I would also recommend the stadium southeast of here as well!"

This person seemed lost, and Ales saw no reason not to give him a brief guide to the city.

"What, they just hand it over when you get powers or something? No lessons?"

"Not quite. We had to haggle for them, and unfortunately the group who made it previously was quite dangerous."

"Ah." Invaders. While the Pigmasks were from Duster's own world, but from another time, they were similar. "Were you able to drive them off?"

"Well, that's good, since it's what ya get." Empathetic as ever. "I mean, you could get a job 'n move if ya want. I haven't bothered. Don't really see a reason to."

Sparks isn't quite sure what else to say, since his new roomie seemed to be pretty quiet. Which wasn't a bad thing, in his opinion. Or maybe he was just still processing everything.

"So, uh. What all've ya been filled in on? Yer moogle getcha up to speed?"

"A job? Wasn't being a Hero a job?" The residents of this world seemed grateful enough that there was a group of people fighting...whatever threatened their lives.

Hopefully lying on the bare mattress will help him deal with everything. First the world ends, then he wakes up in a new one without his friends, then he's asked to save this world - and not mess that up - and now he needs a job on top of all that. As of now, all he can do was steal things, but...

That's not a good way to start his life here.

"Mm hm. Mostly. I might go take a look around the countryside after all this." The city itself is interesting, but actual green pastures take priority.

"An outfit?" The look on Jack's face is taking that concept far too seriously. ~~Okay, everyone, when Jack's drag persona shows up with a chocobo feather boa, it's Erika's fault.~~

"Oh, man, does that sound familiar," Jack is laughing good-naturedly. "I mean, never heard of the- Pretty Cure, but, a world that gets a lot more out of this world traffic than it should? Just like home."

Jack ponders his next question as he leads the way up the road. The barns and bright yellow shapes of chocobos can be seen in the distance. "So, what are they like? Pretty Cure doesn't sound like the name of a special ops group..." Super heroes, maybe?

If he was missing a few days, then everyone was; from going from their home world, to here, and who the heck knew why?

"Allenby. Allenby Beardsley, and that's pretty much the gist of a computer. There's a lot of that kind of stuff where I'm from. A lot." she makes sure the emphasis is there. At least he knew, some people had never heard of such a thing; but they had magic.

"So what'd you do back home, mm?"

"I only just started with them. It's one thing to build a giant robot in a week, but, having to work with new tools, actual blacksmithing to make the parts for a gun and assemble it... Well, when you gotta get good, you get good." he boasts.

But all the same, he gets to 'aid' the heroes, rather than be the big damn hero in a shiny robot himself.

"Monsters... what kind of monsters are you hunting in the twenty-first century? Or do you mean 'monsters'?", air quotes and all.

Zack's Moogle is instantly berated. "Pfft, no custom job can truly make up for what a Belt does. That feeling, the whole... sensation and empowerment of transforming. No, there's no 'custom job' for being a Rider. It's all in the heart, and in the device. Mostly the device."

Or that's his opinion on it since... even if you can be a real hero without it, having all that flash going around... yeah, hypest shit.

"Yeah, total outfit zone." laughed Erika.

She nodded at the next part as she explained. "Precure are young girls who are bestowed the power to fight evil. There's a lot of mythos behind them, and there's a ton of history in our world about them."

"Eh, I wouldn't say that. Old Man Charmant is a trained fighter, and he does better than all of us combined," said Zack.

There's an alarm bell going off in the back of Jack's mind. He gives a slight double take and then looks at Erika carefully and is suddenly trying to figure out how old she is. Normally, he shouldn't be one to judge how things are done on other planets, but the particular internal voice that is raising an objection is the one that doesn't like to be ignored.

"How young is young? And, well, why them? In particular? Any idea why they're the ones who have to fight?" Or is it kind of like it is here? Nope, Jack's going to stomp down on that particular observation. Careful, old man, you might have the measure of this wrong.

"Hmm... well there's been Precure as young as 9, all girls mind you," said Erika, choosing her words carefully. "Make no mistake, they're not drafted or anything, or doing this without knowing what they're getting into."

Erika picked up a frozen handful of snow and formed it into a ball. "Take this comparison for example. A young girl with a pure heart and a desire to protect what they value the most. Family, a nation, their friends, their loved ones. They gather all of this up and bring it into themselves. When evil threatens the world, the Legendary Precure appear. Girls of many ages and nations have become Precure in the past, and defended our world from danger."

She held out the ball. "This is their hope and dreams, and they use their power to defend their homes. Some aren't even from Earth, being born in other kingdoms in the universe."

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