melodiesoflife | Intro Log || Third Time's the Charm

Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of November. 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. For the first time since it all began, it seems they are the first batch not to have any sort of problems: small miracles?
Warning: N/A

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 arrived these past months too and they will come soon! Like you, they had Jobs and a Crystal-- And you do have your Crystal too, great news!

If asked, the Moogles will mention some "disastrophic" event that happened last month and involved disappearing crystals, heroes of light falling sick and killing each other. Sure sounds like a lovely place to be in! Thankfully it's all over now. Right?

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 months ago. 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 fiercely battled each other past month. 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 minor 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.

Celebrations
— Anytime —
The 'Halloween' decorations are long gone now, but given the impending death threat that floated over the city a couple days ago, the celebrations for the Night of the Thirteen Moogles were all cancelled. Fear not, for people have decided to hold mini-celebrations over the city today to compensate for what's been missed. It's not that much, but there are stands and banquets, especially by the 9nth and 11th District where you can find all sort of food and especially candies: tons of candies that were, unfortunately, not used on the 31st of October. But at least it's a paradise for children who come and go with their hands full of candies.

Oh, and there are a lot of Kupo Nuts as well. Though, most Moogles do not seem to be in particularly high spirits, so they're pretty neglected, for the first and probably last time.

The City of Aqures Ixen
— Anytime —
There are a lot of things left to do in the city, especially for newcomers. A 20:00, a BLitzball game will take place at the stadium located in the tenth district, opposing the Teams of Esdham and Aqures. Earlier at 16:00, a few groups of Triple Triad players are playing: one before Mognet Office in the ninth district next to the celebrations, another near the Blitzball Stadium in the 10th District. And of course, they are more than happy to teach the rule to anyone passing by. Characters are free to enter and play games of Triple Triad, and if they do so they will be given very basic cards and explained the rules. This may be the start of a promising career!

Characters are also free to visit the city-- Mognet Office just behind the Triple Triad games is filled with very busy Moogles, especially now that Mognet just started again after a closed down period. They can also visit Airship Port in the twelfth district from where characters can board for free Airships from Shoopuf Airline. It's in the process of re-opening after having been closed for most of past month, and the next airship departing from Aqures Ixen will do so on the 9th.

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.

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The blue-haired brawler narrows her eyes at the person claiming to live with her.

If Sabin had any evidence, he'd better provide it now, otherwise she's keeping up the assault, though, somewhere, she doesn't mind believing it, and turns her attack into more of a test.

Shifting onto her other foot she brings a kick around to his chest, one that could've been going for his head!

This time, he won't avoid the attack. Rather, he stands firm against it, taking it to the chest and only sliding back a few inches with a grunt. As she seemed pretty adamant to not wait, he was going to have to try and get her to do so himself!

That meant trying to catch the foot she kicked him with before she can pull it back and continue the assault. If he's quick enough, anyway. If not, well, he'd better prepare for more punching.

"I'm not lying! Please, just stop and listen!"

"I am listening. But I don't hear you very well." she says. Her foot is caught, for sure, but she wrenches it back, which keeps her from really pressing that particular attack.

Allenby stands there, fists raised to her face, still well ready to lay into him further. "You're assigned here and nobody warned me... real likely, mister..." Was she smiling behind her stance?

"No one warned you? Do they even do that? Because no one mentioned you, either!"

With the pause in the fighting, he shifts back another step and falls into a defensive pose again, just in case. He's not letting his guard down around her when she's already proven capable!

"Maybe we can ask your moogle? I'd ask mine, but he said he had errands to run..."

"Mine's worn out. She can't keep up with me..."

To punctuate her sentence, she throws yet another straight punch at him, but this one has everything she is put into it...

Well, everything she can do here... sadly her chi isn't quite the same so... none of that Rock-Breaking Sky-Shocking Fist stuff here... today...

Which he catches on upraised forearms, blocking yet again, but the force of it is still enough to make him slide back another step and end up trapped against the kitchen counter.

"Huh. Guess staying on the defensive here just isn't going to work," he admits aloud. To be fair, he gets the feeling she's probably expecting a fight, so he may as well hand one out. He's already started the move before he finishes saying that, too.

It's nothing fancy, just him ducking down and pushing off the counter as he throws himself at her, arms swept out to either grab her around the waist or, at the very least, barrel by her if she goes to dodge him.

"Nope!"

She's happy to respond. She'll allow him to 'grapple' her in that weird manner, of course wanting to test his skill since he's been withstanding her onslaught thus far, but not without bringing an elbow down to his back... more or less the shoulder blade region.

It's mostly to push her out into a bigger area, as he'd been pretty limited in the kitchen, not to mention not willing to put where all the food is on the line. The elbow coming down on his back gets him to let go a bit earlier than he'd intended, but eh, close enough.

He immediately launches into a series of punches, this time actually going all out. If she wants a fight, well fine, she can have one!

There's no way anyone with... limited reflexes can block a bunch of punches at the same time. Many of them hit, of course, but other than the natural flinch of being hit here and there, even ones in the cheek, Allenby powers through.

And retaliates with her own flurry of punches, letting the two of them slug it out faster than most would expect from a barroom brawl. More like a wushu flick but with closed hands!

Likewise, dodging or blocking every punch isn't a possibility, but he's also just as acclimated to taking a hit or two (or three or four) and rolling on with it. Near the end of her own barrage, he'll drop, ducking her latest swing to sweep a leg out, trying to catch her own legs with it.

Allenby sees the sweep and jumps to avoid it.

However she bangs her head entirely on the ceiling and lands, dropping to her knees holding her head. "Ow ow ow ow ow..." she hisses at the pain.

"And I was just getting to have fun too." Hitting her head rang her bell a little and it was totally different than say, being kicked in the head.

"Names... Allenby" she groans, rubbing her head as she gets back up to her feet, offering her other hand.

And so that's how their little scuffle ends, huh? When Sabin comes back up to stand again, he can't help but laugh over it, just a little. He'll take the offered hand and give it a firm shake.

"Sabin," he offers his own name in return. "You have a pretty mean punch there, Allenby."

"Yeah... I've pretty much been trained all my life to fight." she says, shaking his hand rather firmly.

"The second you blocked my punch... I knew you were probably on my level. Or, you know... the same level they put us down on." she huffs. "You might've noticed maybe... Not the difference in us, but the difference YOU have in yourself?"

She finally shuts up for a minute. "So they really assigned you to live here. Well... I don't mind it if you don't. It's pretty boring by myself. And I've someone to spar with!"

Intro Log || Third Time's the Charm

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