melodiesoflife | Hidden Truth [Log]

What: A log for everyone to gain the information in the Hidden Truth video tape.
Where: The Observatory.

There had been a flurry of letters sent out from Jack and Chiaki, first to Zelda to ask to borrow the Observatory, and then to every Hero of Light, alerting them that they had uncovered some intelligence received in the Heran Empire before the Capital had fallen to Crystal, and that everyone needed to see it immediately.

Jack, Chiaki, and a few others brought in a screen connected to a machine that some would recognize as a VCR. "With our peace mission to the Imperial Capital over Christmas, we returned with a recording made on 20th-century Earth technology, the kind that doesn't have an analogue on Crystallis. It took us time to build a machine to be able to play it. This information comes from Kalki, recorded what appears to be years ago. We obtained it from the Imperial Spy, Jenni. As of right now, we still have no reason to believe that Kalki is alive. But this comes from her, and I apologize to everyone who might be upset by seeing her again."

With that, Jack plays the recording. He stands by the screen and repeats the words for everyone to hear, for those who cannot understand English. Since Kalki's first words are to explain why she is recording it this way, it makes sense why he has to do this. He keeps his own emotions in check throughout, until the explanation of the Bard song that everyone gets to hear. That seems to upset Jack.

Once the recording is over, Jack pauses. "We will need some help from any other English speakers to create a written transcript of the recording so that anyone can access this information at any time. The tape and player will remain here for any Heroes to review. We ask that you please be careful with the machine."

Finally, Jack sits down to let the room descend into the inevitable chaos.

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"The latter. Why else would you follow someone so fanatically unless you trusted them?" Nanami looked so certain about her suggestions. Curious. "This is a serious situation, you know. The end of the world is no lighthearted matter."

"I know it's serious," Nanami said. "I've been here for over a year now." Long enough to see what sorts of things could happen to the whole world.

"Wonder what?" Palitutu's writings were dangerous and bound to interfere with the order of the world, and Duster would much rather not follow the path of humans in his world and destroy the world. The common people's lives were more important.

"You're not thinking of opening the Rift in the lab, are you...?" Tazendra was brave, but that was just plain reckless.

"Than maybe you should start acting like it!" He pointed at Nanami accusingly. "If we all just started taking this threat seriously instead of goofing around, we wouldn't be in this mess anymore!"

Something had finally pushed him over the edge, and Ales just had to vent.

"Oh, maybe this, oh, maybe that. And then everyone runs off without a plan. Where did that get us before? In a worse situation! Now we're stuck grasping at straws, and we'll never get any work done if we keep on waiting for Kalki's answer!" He gripped his hat and bit down a frustrated groan.

"No one is becoming a god. I'm leaving." He hopped off the chair and stormed out of the room. He needed to be alone.

"Why not at all!" Tazendra said. "At least, not unless I could protect the lab, and the world, from the results. Which is what I wonder. If we can do such a thing without damaging the lab and ourselves to no useful purpose."

Tazendra would rather have a far better death than 'blowing herself up'.

Death by being killed by a mysterious otherworldly force could not be good, and Duster preferred not to die at all.

"Well...you won't be alone. We know it's dangerous, but with all of us, I think we could defend the city against it..." Yet this idea didn't sit right with him. It would just be like waking the Dark Dragon to destroy the world on the chance it will rebuild it. That was humanity's last resort, and Lucas was pushed to it only because the Pigmasks initiated the race. Better to have terrible power under the control of a pure hearted boy than an bored immortal.

"But let's leave that as a last resort. It's too risky to try right away."

"Oh, certainly," Tazendra agreed. "I would far rather face overwhelming peril with good allies by my side." She understood that she had accepted a duty to this world, which meant she had to favor what would defend it from harm, rather than whatever risks she personally would take with herself to find challenges. If things from the Rift was going to overrun thing anyway, she'd be happy to be the first line of defense, but it would be ill-considered to let monsters into the city for her own amusement.

Surprise clouded Tear's expression for a moment when Selen placed her hand upon her shoulder, eyes still a little wider than usual before she catches herself and a more neutral demeanour takes its place. Eventually, the smallest of smiles took its place.

A bit tired, certainly hesitant and weary, it was nonetheless appreciative as the girl reached up to lightly touch the woman's hand. What they had witnessed had once again touched upon memories of the vision, but even though they threatened to cloud her thoughts Tear was able to keep them at bay.

The unity they had now wasn't something they had kept back then, and that made it easier to stand firm. "That sounds good to me... I would be glad to fight by your side, Selen."

"2002..." For a moment Tear paused, her expression seemingly thoughtful. "I'm sure our calendars are nothing alike, but that would be the year I was born in my world."

And what an 'odd' year it had been indeed. "If that much is true, I don't understand how Kalki might think there could be any one person capable of doing this on their own."

Unless her last trump card really was the melody they had all just learned, which would be more than a shame for what sounded like a beautiful piece.

"Get the forbidden fruit, become god, reshape the world in your colors. It's a story that has been told time and time again in many myths, legends and my reality. The solution to "become god" comes with a price. One that people are too stubborn to see through when all is lost."

"I still don't get why there has to be one ultimate solution to this problem. With this many people, you'd think there'd be a better solution to Kill everything become god, etc etc."

Oh, did she catch the other off guard? She doesn't mean to but the other looked like she needed a physical gesture of sorts. Maybe her mother instincts were running a little too wild. In any case, she smiled when Tear returned the gesture, pleased that the action was well recieved if anything.

It's a little difficult to forget something like that. Sometimes it takes a lot longer than intended to forget or move on from those kinds of visions. Selen herself wasn't very good at that either.

"That's very good. I look forward to more endeavors with you, whether they be difficult or not."

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