Player Plot: The Mysidian Tower!

[jadethenecromancer]

Who: Everyone who signed up for the plot!
What: Jade is taking a team to explore the Mysidian Tower before it'd swallowed by the Calamity.
When: February 8th-12th
Where: The Mysidian Tower on the Continent of Ruin.
Warning: Everything that can be expected of surprise monster encounters. Beyond that, whatever people bring with them.

The Enterprise brings everyone involved to the tower on the afternoon of February 8th. Thankfully the early floors have already been cleared by previous explorers, making the initial entry easy and relatively safe. Once the Heroes start reaching the upper floors, however... Who knows?

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OOC info post
Ground Floor - Campsite
Friendly Monster
Floors 30-39
Floors 40-49
Floors 50-59
Floors 60-69
Floors 70-79
Floors 80-89
Floors 90-99
Floors 100-101 will be open at a later date.

Comments

[not_most_days]

[Kidd glanced at Sephiroth, giving him a nod before looking at the others. She settled back on one heel and crossed her arms, looking at the tower itself with some apprehension.]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been thinking this but I think it's clear by now that this tower has existed outside of the normal "cycles". This place has been lived in, but there's still the signs that someone has been here. There was food on one of the floors that, while beyond eating, was still fresh enough that it hasn't turned to dust entirely. In fact, if this whole world is set back to the beginning in each cycle then why would the food be there at all?

So the questions I have on my mind are how much time a cycle entails exactly, what precisely happens before the starting point, and how has this tower managed to be an exception to all else we've seen in this world.

[The crystals and their locations were indeed important, but there was something 'wrong' here and she isn't simply going to let that slide either.]

But perhaps this is better explored once we decide to do with everything else here. [Like the force field]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena, still looking towards the simulation, has her head cocked to one side. ]

Why does it still complete the cycle during the last three days? And would using two different crystals in two places have an effect? [ Everyone had been talking about using just the sapphire ones. What if... ] What if we used two crystals that canceled each other out? You know like Fire and Ice are opposites?

[ Realizing she's speaking aloud, she clears her throat and looks away, hiding the blush on her cheeks.

At one point, she had thought her Time Mage skills wouldn't have been handy, but at Kidd's comment, she had an idea. ]

Look for a crystal that halts time? Or at least slows it? That would be my guess about this place. That it hasn't exactly been reset; it just hasn't moved through time like the rest of the planet.

[ Stupid idea, right? ]

[wickedone]

[Albel grit his teeth and shook his head. This was incredibly frustrating. No matter what, it seemed, the Calamity would still succeed -- just in varying speeds. Stopping it seemed impossible.]

How would stopping time help? It might stop the Calamity, but we would all be trapped in it as well! In the end, we would all still have the same problem.

[He wondered if those Time Loops had affected the Calamity at all.]

I wish we knew why the Calamity had stopped recently in the first place.

[ninjainviolet]

[ Sheena looked at Albel. She could understand his frustration. There had to be a way to stop the thing. Shaking her head, she pointed to the simulation. ]

We saw what happened to the Calamity when a different colored Crystal was used. Time either sped it up or slowed it down. And only the Calamity was affected. So, it isn't too farfetched to believe that there's one that will stop time for the Crystal itself.

[ Reverse it, then stop it, is what she's thinking. And obviously done from this tower. ]

Yeah. If we knew that, we'd have at least some idea what's going on. Does anyone know if there's anything special about where it stopped?

[shinrasfinest]

[For a long time again Sephiroth falls into silence, fixating his eyes downwards and canting his chin towards the translation he's been holding out for the others to see. As if it might have a hidden answer somewhere in the left-handed scrawl he's written already. About half way through the discussion between Sheena and Albel another thought strikes and he looks between them, patiently waiting for the right time that he could make another comment.]

I...get the feeling we're asking the wrong questions.

[It's followed by a frown, mostly at himself, given as he certainly doesn't know any better than they do. All he has in his favor is the extensive tenure he's spent on Crystallis so far in this cycle.]

What exactly does the reset of a cycle do, exactly? Does it affect physical locations, or only strip all life away from the world at once, and reset it? There are many locations, on Mysidia specifically which have to predate the last cycle.

[Blink. Slower blink. Sephiroth turns to Sheena directly; he's surprised she doesn't remember.]

Remember...the Calamity halted when we were thrown back in time. Given that we all contain a part of the Calamity itself, it doesn't take much to reason out why that might have been.

It had no reason to expand?

[Sephiroth folds his translation back up and then turns a little away from the group; he's clearly unconvinced of his own theories, as yet.]