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Intro Log || Melodies of Eternity

Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of March. 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: Lots of distressed and depressed Heroes of Light.


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. Well, that is if you don't die or crystallize first. A couple days ago, a lot of Heroes of Light crystallized or died out of the blue without any warning! 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 Choco Egg day nearing, there are a lot fo Hypello working on the upcoming competitions and on making chocolates! Want to eat some? Too bad, the Moogles will hit you with the stick they use to make the chocolate if you try to eat them!

And besides the chocolates, there are a lot of things to do in the city for newcomers. Moogles are working hard in Mognet Office of the ninth district following the election of their new director, and while there are no Blitzball Matches today, a lot of Triple Triad players are gathered at the stadium. Why? Because they are working on the early preparations for the Triple Triad World Championship that will happen in May! Characters are also free to visit the city-- They can 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 few Moogles and nurses will be waiting by the room, and they will welcome all characters waking up. However...

Upon exiting the room, they will find the Hospital is very busy. Nurses and healers can be seen moving corpses around on stretchers, and overall a very dark and tense atmosphere reigns over the Hospital. In closed rooms, some of the most skilled healers are trying to analyze the corpses and find out what happened. And these dead people? They are of the Heroes of Light who died on the 29th of February.


Melodies of Eternity
— Anytime —

If you are a Hero of Light who survived that accursed day, your crystal will shine at the very same moment the new Heroes appear before the Crystal of Fire. That means your character is now linked to the Crystal of Fire and will come back to life after a week if killed.

They will also receive their Moogle and their housing in the 11th or 14th District. But that probably isn't enough for the pain to go away.
theendiswherewestartfrom: (JackSmile2)

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[personal profile] theendiswherewestartfrom 2016-03-06 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
It takes a minute for Jack to stumble his way to the door. He is moving very slowly, only recently returned from Mysidia where he and his team came back quite wounded after a fight.

Still, he puts on a smile when he opens the door. "Ah- welcome." Not someone that he met during the recent crisis, so he carefully steps out of the way to let her in. "Captain Jack Harkness, I'm not sure where our other roommate is at the moment."
chasingfireflies: (Conversational)

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[personal profile] chasingfireflies 2016-03-06 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice to meet you!" she said, putting on a polite and friendly smile, the sort she usually wore to show respect to teachers and parents. He'd said he was a captain, so clearly the title meant something, right?

She took off her shoes at the door, neatly setting them aside. That gave her an opportunity to look at the living room and the kitchen beyond. It...wasn't so much clean, as it appeared to be unused?

And was it really okay for her to be roommates with a grown man? Maybe he had his own room separate from theirs.

"Sorry I wasn't able to give any advance notice. I just got the room assignment this morning. Um..." She looked around. "Where will I be sleeping?"
theendiswherewestartfrom: (JackSmile)

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[personal profile] theendiswherewestartfrom 2016-03-06 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Jack is getting oddly used to this, and he gestures towards the back hallway. "You've got a room all to yourself, back here." Previously held by Val, but... well, of all the people to end up in Crystal. "I know this isn't ideal, but we've been making do as well as we can."

"Our other roommate is Chiaki. Another girl, younger than you are. She might be in her room and just not notice." Jack smiles and shrugs. "She's friendly, but when she gets into something, she has a tendency to forget anything else is there."

Jack gestures towards the unused single bedroom. "I hope this works well. I'm in the double, at the moment. I figured you two should get your privacy." Somehow, every single one of Jack's roommates here have been relatively young women, so he's gotten good at trying to put people at ease.
chasingfireflies: (Well how about that.)

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[personal profile] chasingfireflies 2016-03-06 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Keiko took a peek at the room. Little did anyone realize just how girly that bedroom would soon become once Keiko fully settled in. It had a bed, a dresser, a night stand, and a shelf that would probably soon hold a couple of books.

So two girls, and one man. That wasn't so bad. Jack seemed like a decent guy, so Keiko relaxed. "Ideal, are you kidding? It's great! We had to sleep in caves and ruined cities, this is practically a paradise," she said, pointing into the room.

Now that the matter of living quarters was settled, she turned to face Jack once more. "What about chores, and cooking? Do we take turns, or just split things up and stick with certain tasks?"