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Entry tags:
- [*] introduction log,
- [au] robin (male),
- [ou] ales mansay,
- [ou] alisaie leveilleur,
- [ou] bloom,
- [ou] chrom,
- [ou] ed grayson,
- [ou] edna,
- [ou] elsa von spielburg,
- [ou] flynn scifo,
- [ou] hajime hinata,
- [ou] kadaj,
- [ou] kazuma kuwabara,
- [ou] keiko yukimura,
- [ou] lailah,
- [ou] link (ss),
- [ou] lust,
- [ou] midna,
- [ou] mikleo,
- [ou] minako aino,
- [ou] minfilia,
- [ou] monkey d. luffy,
- [ou] rialynn kollmann,
- [ou] rukia kuchiki,
- [ou] selphie tilmitt,
- [ou] vincent valentine,
- [ou] yugi mutou,
- [ou] yuri lowell
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
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Goodness, no, I've been here for several months.
[tilts her head, kinda (?) drooling at the carrot cake]
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. You're obviously on your way to somewhere, so my apologies for being in your way.
[stands aside. but her eyes tell a tale of hunger.]
no subject
[Waaaaaaaaiiiiiit... Ah ha!]
Ah, you're one of the new group that just arrived. I'd heard rumors. I'm Rukia Kuchiki. I hope you feel welcomed here.
[She bows her greeting. This young lady certainly seems very polite and well-spoken, so Rukia approves. ...And she notices the lingering gaze on the cake boxes she's holding. Hmmm... Well, why not. She can buy another.]
Would you like to eat together?
no subject
[Her words say that, but her hands shakily reach for the cake before Lailah drops them abruptly, ashamed of her behavior.]
Sorry, I'm not entirely used to dealing with other people, so navigating social cues is really exhausting.
no subject
[Rukia's impressed. Could it be that she carries the glow of love?! She always thought it was just a cheesy exaggeration. Perhaps there's some truth to the weird things Raven says after all. Now that's a scary thought.]
[She holds out the box of cake insistently.]
No need to apologize. I've had my share of difficulties as well.
[Rukia smiles.]
Rukia Kuchiki.
no subject
[bows politely]
My name is Lailah. No family name, but I'm the only Lailah I know!
[smilesmile]
But it was a wild guess. Or more like intuition.
[
She wasn't psychic, after all.]no subject
[Something about her is oddly reminiscent of Orihime... Maybe that's why Rukia likes her so quickly. She smiles and pushes the cake box into Lailah's hands, as she won't brook a refusal now.]
Let's sit down and eat. Where are you from?
[That box gets a plastic-wrapped disposable fork as well.]
no subject
[shrugs]
I'm from the continent of Glennwood. It's a nice place. I've spent several hundred years there, after all.
no subject
[Rather than look shocked, Rukia actually seems...delighted? Surprised, but delighted.]
It isn't often I meet others older than myself. I'm a shinigami.
[She lays a hand on her chest.]
Or...er...a soul reaper, if you're unfamiliar with the other term. You're not human either, I assume?
no subject
But no, I am a seraph. Or rather, I was before coming here. Long story short, here I am not much more than a simple human.
no subject
Yes, it is quite the shock, isn't it?
[She sits down primly on a bench, settling her cake box on her lap and opening it up.]
Ordinarily the living aren't able to see me. I've found that my appetite has increased quite a bit as well from what I'm accustomed to experiencing. What does a seraph do?
no subject
[Lailah takes a seat as well.]
From my discussions with others, it seems seraphim - or rather, the type of being I am - are not common at all among the other worlds. Long story short, seraphim are beings who are able to manipulate mana that permeates the land into various blessings. We may not be normally visible by humans, but we both depend on each other as there is a balance in the world. When that balance is skewed, a force called malevolence can pervert forms into vicious monsters and disasters known as hellions.
[Oops, she went into lecture mode there.]
Sorry, I didn't mean to say too much. I'm sure it's all very boring.
no subject
[In fact she liked it a great deal. It was interesting to hear about where other people came from, and their different cultures and beliefs. This was especially true when it came to the varying natures of the afterlife and mortality, but Rukia tried not to ask about it without proper preparation so as not to appear too morbid.]
So hellions are created from living people?
no subject
[ooc: we can handwave any other explanations too if we want to avoid spoilers.]
It's a bit convoluted. But in the same sense, I could hardly understand how this world worked when I first came because the mechanics were so different as well. Did you experience any kind of dissonance from being a reaper to being human here?
no subject
[It's a wonder anyone can survive in a world like that. She pops the tape on her cake box and pulls the wrapper off of her fork so she can eat while she listens. At Lailah's question, Rukia tips her head back, sucking the cream cheese thoughtfully off of the tines of her fork.]
Quite a bit. My spiritual senses were completely cut off, which was the most jarring. It left me unable to communicate with my weapon, nor was I able to detect the spiritual presence of others. It was like being blinded, or deafened.
no subject
[shrugs]
It's not an issue here, though.
I had no idea you could have weapons you could communicate with! It reminds me of a story of a blond-haired youth who stowed away on an airship who found a sword who could talk!
no subject
I don't believe I've heard that tale. But it sounds interesting.
[She continues to speak as she pierces the cake with her fork once more.]
Shinigami are given a simple katana once they graduate from the Academy. It is up to each one to become acquainted with their weapons and learn their names, in order to achieve the harmony that allows them to release the full power of their weapons. Mine is Sode no Shirayuki, 'Sleeves of the White Snow.' She's an Ice type.
[It's clear that she speaks of her blade with glowing pride.]
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[Lailah is wide-eyed at this revelation]
Do you miss Sode no Shirayuki? I imagine the bond you two share must be quite close.
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Cid was able to return her to me. She is sealed, so I cannot hear her voice. But once I begin mastering my custom job, I hope to connect with her once more.
[She pauses, looking at Lailah curiously. This is actually rather rare for Rukia, to meet someone and start bonding with them this quickly. Making friends seldom comes easily to her, but this is working out surprisingly well. Maybe it's because they're both SO VERY OLD.]
...Thank you. It's nice to share a dessert and conversation with someone.
no subject
[smilesmile]
Thank you for your kindness, Rukia. If you ever feel like it, please come by to our house! I'm certain my housemates would more than get along with you.
no subject
[She really would. Making friends wasn't easy for her in her world, but here, people seem to be very friendly, and opening up to them isn't as challenging as it once was.]
You are welcome to visit our home as well. We live in C-05. I'm quite fond of each and every person there.