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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...
charming_jerk: (annoyed)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-18 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
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?
Edited 2016-01-18 01:32 (UTC)
rialynn: (You're a jerk)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
But you're...

[Her face scrunches up as she sucks in a sharp breath. She's being really rude, isn't she?]

I'm sorry. I'm a little out of my element here.

[Keeping a maintained distance is good. She's very nervous, even if she knows she probably shouldn't be. It's the horns more than anything else. He's not a demon, is he?]

What are you?
charming_jerk: (tsundere idiot)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-19 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
You 'n everyone else.

[That's the follow-up question he usually expects, but he doesn't look happy to be answering it.]

If you must know, I'm a half demon. Is that a problem?
rialynn: (Lizardmen?!)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-19 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[She winces. He's offended, and she can't say she blames him, but he's just confirmed what she was afraid of. Is it a problem? IT KIND OF IS. But she's not sure how to say that, nor does she know him well enough to think he won't lose his temper and rip her soul out of her body. For all she knows, he's losing his temper right this very second. He sure doesn't look happy!]

[Rialynn retreats a little further.]


Um...

[Well, what should she say? He says she can get confirmation from others, but she doesn't know anyone here either.]

I need to... I have to go find my horse...

[GOOD ENOUGH. She starts sidling away, goodbye scary white-haired demon man.]
charming_jerk: (annoyed)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-20 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now his expression flattens.]

Good luck with that. Considering this planet doesn't have horses.

[Well, except for that weird cyborg one that cop rides, but that doesn't quite count.]
rialynn: (I found it and it is mine)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-23 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
No horses...?

[Her voice breaks at the end into a near-comical squeak. But without horses, how do people travel? Surely there had to be something to use before those airship things were invented.]

[And the robo-horse would totally count, since she'd probably think the cyborg parts were just armor.]


But...my horse...who's going to feed it while I'm here...

[She takes another slow, self-conscious step back, but her knee buckles. She might be a little overwhelmed at this point.]
charming_jerk: (glare)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He makes a move towards her reflexively when she stumbles, but stops himself, knowing that's a bad idea. He sighs softly, simultaneously frustrated and feeling bad for her. It's not like he's not been in this same position, new and overwhelmed, more than once.]

Someone else. It sucks, but we're workin' to fix everything here to get people home as fast as we can. Until yer ready to help, just work on learning what this place is like and get to know the other Heroes. We're all in the same boat.
rialynn: (What's happening to my world D:)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-29 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Rialynn nods glumly, staring at the ground. It's better than staring at him in wide-eyed apprehension, which she really does feel guilty about. He seems nice, but the whole horns thing really unnerves her. He did say he was only half demon, though. Maybe that makes a difference?]

Can I ask you...what the other half is?

[If it were something that could just put her mind at ease, maybe she could stop acting so skittish.]
charming_jerk: (frowny)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-01-29 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yer gettin' awfully personal for someone who I just met.

[He doesn't owe it to her, but there's the overly-defensive part of himself that feels the need to explain away his own existence, too. That part usually wins out.]

Not that it should matter, but it's human.
rialynn: (You're a jerk)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-02-01 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. You're right. But...

[But it does matter. If he's part human, that means he's probably more sympathetic to other humans, right? It might be why he's striving so hard to be nice to somebody that's obviously uneasy around him. The terror is less stark once he tells her this. Scared as she is, she believes he's telling the truth.]

...How did that happen? Your parents...?

[Was it a forbidden love, or was his conception much more tragic?]
charming_jerk: (Default)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2016-02-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He tersely cuts her question off.]

My parents are a human and a demon. Was raised by humans. Am I cleared yet?
rialynn: (Lizardmen?!)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-02-02 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[WELP. Now Johnny knows how fast she can run away from his scary temper!]