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Melodies of Life Moderators ([personal profile] melodiesmods) wrote in [community profile] melodiesoflife2016-01-07 07:47 pm

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...
stupid_erika_shenanigans: (pic#9811076)

Re: Waking up

[personal profile] stupid_erika_shenanigans 2016-01-10 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Erika smiled, patting Tsubomi on the shoulder. "I just can't leave you alone for two seconds now can I? Okay! Lay it on me."

Erika thumped her chest with a hand. "Tell me what's going on!"
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879858)

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Waking Up

When reality breaks in Rider World, someone was usually responsible for it. This is why Zack wasn't too surprised that the world had changed, or he had woken up with a crystal in his hands.

Getting up, he looked around and examined his surroundings. A city, some kind of temple and a weird floating thing?

"You're awake? Ah, you're awake!" Exclaimed the moogle and Zack blinked.

"... Asami?"

The Moogle tilted her furry head to the side in confusion. "Sorry, I'm Moogla. Not Asami. Welcome to our world kupo!"


The City

The lack of Hellheim fruits told him as such that this wasn't Hellheim World, or any other worlds that Riders might know. In fact, even if he did wake up with his belt and lockseeds, a quick test had proven that they were harmless trinkets right now.

With no funds in his possession and no way to access his bank, Zack found a corner of the street and began to dance. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight--!"

Fortunately one of his powers was the Dancer, and he began dancing to music that was played from nowhere. His moves were slick, professional, and he was incredibly good. Too good. The Dancer job gave rudimentary powers, but this... this was a professional dancer. Soon, people were throwing gil into the hat.


The Laboratory

"I see... so it's like that."

Zack leaned back in his chair after reading his file and a few others he could still access. He had been told some of the Heroes had locked their files, but at the same time, it was still jarring to find out someone knew everything about him. Even your last name. People called him Zack anyhow.

Though... "Custom Jobs... Not that I'm not appreciative to fight, I'll get something more familiar later..."
bag_has_snapped: (Tsubomi: Worried)

Re: Waking up

[personal profile] bag_has_snapped 2016-01-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaand Tsubomi does just that, letting Erika know of everything that's going on since her arrival and a few other things from before.
stupid_erika_shenanigans: (pic#9811057)

Re: Waking up

[personal profile] stupid_erika_shenanigans 2016-01-10 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Erika nodded through the whole thing. When Tsubomi was done, she placed her hands on her friends shoulders. "You've been through a lot, haven't ya? Okay! I'm going to help you out. First things first is that we'll have to get a spot for Precure HQ."
bag_has_snapped: (Tsubomi: Frazzled)

Re: Waking up

[personal profile] bag_has_snapped 2016-01-10 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"P-Precure HQ? Wh-why would we need one?" Tsubomi asked
stupid_erika_shenanigans: (pic#9811092)

Re: Waking up

[personal profile] stupid_erika_shenanigans 2016-01-10 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Cause secret bases are cool." said Erika with a grand nod and a exasperated sigh from the pair.

"But wouldn't it be cool for all of our senior and younger precures to find out that we've got a secret base in another world?"
mindofathief: (knows that feel)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2016-01-10 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Duster considered finding a policeman, but from his experience, they were either working for the Pig Empire or wholly incompetent. Their best bet was to find it themselves.

He lifted his head and turned to Rialynn while waiting for her to catch her breath. "They're going after animals. If they spotted us, they might be careful about coming back to this farm." The chocobos would be safe for a short amount of time. "But they still can catch animals in the forest. We'll need lots of people for this."

He wasn't going to let another Fascinating Chimera Project happen on this world.
mindofathief: (thinking)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2016-01-10 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"The one with the floating crystal?" It felt oddly specific and not one a large group of people would come up with. If he had any other guess, the crystals were supposed to warn everyone that the new world has these glowing crystals everywhere.

What were they, anyway?

The Moogle huffed. "That's what I was just trying to do! But this jerk," he pointed a furry thumb at Duster, "keeps ignoring me. Can you help with that?"

Duster twitched and looked away in embarrassment.
mindofathief: (don't mind me)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2016-01-10 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Tamekichi flew to the side to let Zelda pass, keeping an eye on the Hero and Moogle. Duster put the ocarina he was inspecting back on the shelf, still holding onto the smooth, blue instrument. His eyes lingered on Zelda's pointed ears for a few seconds. He had only seen humans so far, so to see something so human yet with a small difference was unusual.

"Oh." She knew a few things about this world, and wasn't as critical like Tamekichi...Duster could use a lot of help with deciding on an instrument. "I play the double bass, but that won't be easy to carry around." He hoped she hadn't overheard his conversation from earlier. "So I thought something like this would be nice."
umslay: (surprise)

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[personal profile] umslay 2016-01-10 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
With the arrival of a new batch of humans, Ales took a break from his work - as little as he could make after New Year's Day - to great the group. By his judgement, he would be a little late, but that wasn't important. Give the newcomers a few minutes to get over their initial shock. He turned the corner that lead straight to the main room of the temple.

At that moment, a green haired man ran out of the room. In the split second before they collided, Ales froze and attempted to jump out of the way to no avail. The Teensie went flying, his hat and wig tossed far down the hallway. The world passed by in slow motion. This was it. He was going to die for the second time, and in a stupid way to makes things worse.

He twisted in mid air so that he hit the ground nose-first. It protected his head, but in exchange, a trickle of blood formed from the side of his snout.

"Why..." he poked at his tender face. A few more seconds, and he'd realize how angry he'd be at Jaeha.
unalive_them: (Do You See How Angry He Gets?)

The Laboratory

[personal profile] unalive_them 2016-01-10 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Deadpool couldn't help but notice the new face entering the Laboratory and followed him. With all of the stealth of... well... his Ninja job can offer without his brand-spanking new Magitek Knight job clashing and killing that stealth, he looked over Zack's shoulder, blinked, then remarked...

"Hey, are you the guy with the Furby?"
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879855)

Re: The Laboratory

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Zack jumped for a moment, and looked up at Deadpool with a puzzled expression. He was confused and asked, "Furby? No I don't think so..."

Was there a Kamen Rider with a furby?
nomorecowbell: (surprised)

The City

[personal profile] nomorecowbell 2016-01-10 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Nanami wasn't used to seeing street performers in the winter, especially not ones who might be Heroes of Light. In between sets, she asked, "What are you doing?"
Edited 2016-01-10 04:07 (UTC)
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879859)

Re: The City

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Busking," replied Zack as he nodded at Nanami. Taking up a bottle of water, he sipped at it. "I don't have anything to spend right now."
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

Aliens?

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2016-01-10 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Tazendra had been considering getting a Chocobo, or at least instruction on how to find one. But mysterious metal disks were far more interesting. "Perhaps if we ask the farm to borrow mounts, we could track it."

This was going to be fun. At least until she got bored.
nomorecowbell: (annoyed)

Re: The City

[personal profile] nomorecowbell 2016-01-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"You could get a real job, you know," Nanami said. Could she tell an adult that?
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879858)

Re: The City

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Zack laughed for a moment, before shaking his head. "Where I come from, dancing IS a real job. We get sponsors and teams and we can bring people together through its strength. I was looking into going pro before things happened."
nomorecowbell: (surprised)

Re: The City

[personal profile] nomorecowbell 2016-01-10 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
"So you're like a real celebrity?" That was different than being a weirdo that danced for spare change on the streets.
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879859)

Re: The City

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Kinda. Back home I'm the former leader of Team Baron, a dance group. We've all merged into one group now, but back in the day we danced for fame and competition before dancing for real reasons."

Those were the days, when Zack danced with the others. He was still a good dancer, but he had been in recovery for months since the end of the Helheim fighting.
unalive_them: (And They All Lived Happily Ever After...)

[personal profile] unalive_them 2016-01-10 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm... I guess you're right. Not enough green and black." Deadpool said, leaning back and shrugging. "Ah, well, can't get 'em all right!"
charming_jerk: (glare)

I

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-10 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Johnny didn't always show up for the newbie arrivals, knowing he wasn't exactly the most comforting sort. But he was here today to get a look at the new crop and see if there was anything he could do. Or anyone he recognized.

Scanning the crowd, hoping for a familiar face, he's not paying attention to someone backing up into him either. He jumps around probably a little too quickly. Fighting reflexes. At least he's able to suppress the typical rude New Yorker responses.]


Nah, it's nothin' - I wasn't looking either.
mindofathief: (gasp)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2016-01-10 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"We can do that?" The thought of riding this large birds never crossed his mind. Children rode wild Dragos if they befriended them, but Tazmily did not have farm animals meant to be mounts. If this woman was right, their chase would be much easier.
dancingbaronet: (pic#9879858)

[personal profile] dancingbaronet 2016-01-10 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"You're probably thinking of one of the Showa Riders," said Zack, turning to look at Deadpool fully. He looked familiar...

"Hey... aren't you... god I don't know..." When was it that Spider-man fought against his villains? Too long ago...
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2016-01-10 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
"We could ask. I have not ridden one before, but it cannot be that different than riding a horse."

Tazendra never let not knowing how hard something might be to stop her from trying.
nomorecowbell: (confused)

Re: The City

[personal profile] nomorecowbell 2016-01-10 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Real reasons?" Nanami asked. She assumed most people who were professional dancers did it for fame and competition. And for money.

Of course, people danced at parties, but that was more for showing off or fun.

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