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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...
rialynn: (Nervous)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-23 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait...turned to crystal?

[Rialynn tenses up, the uneasiness apparent in her voice. How did something like that even happen? And how in the world did someone wake up from that sort of thing?]

Why would you want to stay? Is your own world really that bad?
neverfirstclass: (Thinking about my dreams)

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-01-23 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah it...happens. If you die here, if you're a Hero, you turn to crystal and may wake up a week later. Others just change without warning. Some wake up and some don't.

And no, Gaia's not bad. But almost everyone I care about is here. And as long as Sephiroth and I are here then maybe...well maybe certain things won't happen.

[He sighs and rubs the back of his neck, looking up at the sky.]

Sorry. Maybe it's just selfish of me to think that way. But here I can be a Hero instead of being a grunt. Even if I don't become the person that the others expect me to be, at least it's something I chose.
rialynn: (You're a jerk)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-23 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, I don't...

[She holds out her hand as if to stem the sudden tide of unexpected information. It's a LOT to take in. People being turned to crystal? People didn't die? Did that make them zombies, or creatures of the night? Who's Sephiroth?! What certain things?]

[Hand still extended, her other hand fumbles behind her to find a bench to sit on. There isn't a bench. She falls onto her butt, and massages her temples.]


Well...yeah, that's understandable. Most people want to be a hero, don't they?

[They get inspired by stories, and tales of valor, and want to be something great. Rialynn can focus on that much, at least.]
neverfirstclass: hikaritoyami.dreamwidth.org (Default)

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-01-23 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cloud read that reaction very well. He winced a bit, feeling bad for dumping all of this on a newcomer. Even as things had been pretty peaceful going through the holidays there was a shadow looming ahead of them. He didn't realize quite how much it was weighing on his shoulders.

He sits down next to her, offering an apologetic nod.
]

Yeah. Especially kids like me from a backwater. I'm sorry for just throwing all of this at you. This whole situation with this world is complicated, but all of us here are doing our best to help each other out.
rialynn: (What's happening to my world D:)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-01-28 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rialynn smiles apologetically, but gratefully, as he sits on the ground beside her.]

It's okay. It's just a lot to take in all at once. Here, I've got an idea...

[She shrugs out of her backpack and unfastens the top flap, digging through her belongings until she finds a well-used journal packed with notes, a pen, and a small pot of ink.]

I use this to keep a record of all the interesting people I've met. It sounds like you've got quite a story of your own! If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to add it to my journal. We could start from the beginning, and just go from there. What do you say?
neverfirstclass: (Huh?)

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-01-31 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Cloud watches her fish the notebook out with curiosity, but his eyes light up in surprise as he realizes that she wants to interview him. Even with all he's done over the past year and a half in this world he still considers himself very much a junior Hero. It's still a word he associates with people like Sephiroth.]

Oh, uh, sure...There's not much to me. I grew up in a backwater town in the mountains. I never really got along with any of the other kids there but there was one...one girl I wanted to impress. One day I decided I'd go off and join the military like my Hero Sephiroth and show her how tough I was.

[He chuckles and rubs the back of his neck in embarassment.]

It didn't really go as I planned.
rialynn: (I'm not falling for that)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-02-01 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahhh, so that's who Sephiroth is! Rialynn smiles as she listens, jotting down some brief notes. She's not going to write the story at length, since she'll lose her focus. Besides, it's rude to keep writing when she should be listening.]

What happened instead? And this girl, were you in love with her?

[If so, she'd like to write down her name as well, since she might be an important person in the rest of his story.]
neverfirstclass: hikaritoyami.dreamwidth.org (Smirk)

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-02-01 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
She...A lot of the other boys in town really liked her, and they did a lot to try to impress her. I was always on the outside of her group of friends and I probably overdid it trying to get in.

[He smirks and rubs the back of his neck in embarrassment. For the time being he opts to not tell the tale about how she went off into the mountains after her mom's death and how he was the last person following her before the bridge broke. Or how he got blamed for the whole thing afterwards.]

But we talked right before I left town. She had me make a promise: that when I became a big Hero and she was in trouble I'd come rescue her.

In the end when I got to Midgar they told me I was just fit to be a military grunt. Not the First Class SOLDIER I wanted to be.
Edited 2016-02-02 04:47 (UTC)
rialynn: (o halo thar)

[personal profile] rialynn 2016-02-02 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Aww...that's a really sweet promise to make.

[It's not as if Rialynn is immune to romance herself. She just...doesn't want it pointed in her own direction. It's much more fun to gush about other people and the first time they met, as well as the experiences that bring them closer together.]

But you stuck to your goal, right? And kept training to get stronger!
neverfirstclass: hikaritoyami.dreamwidth.org (Default)

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-02-03 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I wound up on a mission with another SOLDIER, he and I became good friends and he started helping me train so that I could give the program another shot. That's around when I wound up here.

[He pauses for a moment, chewing the inside of his cheek.]

There are others from my world who are...from my future. I know a few things that are going to happen but.

[He frowns and just kinda waves his hand dismissively.]