Event || The Answer

[melodiesmods]

Characters: All characters who signed-up for the event.
Where: South Continent of Balance (Imperial Territories)
When: April 20th to April 30th.
Summary: The Heroes of Light have lost consciousness and now find themselves in the middle of nowhere, without their Moogles and away from everything they know. They will have to get back home, but what awaits them on the path? For more information, please check the First OOC Post and Second OOC Post.
Warning: Bad things.

Group 01: Team Hijinks House
Group 02: Team Brigands
Group 03: Team Discovery Channel
Group 04: Sephiroth's (In)Sanity Squad
Group 05: Team (Bad) Shipping Advice
Group 06: Team Blue-Haired Lords on Fire
Group 07: Team Mom and Late Sleepers
Group 08: Nothing Bad Will Happen
Group 09: The Hellhounds
Group 10: Loftwings, A Working Title
Group 11: Team Oni
Group 12: Team F.N.T.I²
Group 13: Team Name-In-Progress
Group 14: Team The-Mods-Couldn’t-Brain-A-Name
Group 15: Seraphim Shenanigans

Comments

[shinrasfinest]

[Suddenly those long hours in one library or another pouring through as many resources about Crystallis as possible end up being perfectly justified. As Yuffie hands him the map, Sephiroth does indeed take a longer look. He's almost memorized the shape of the coast, the more-or-less position of the major civilizations in this World-

-enough to know they're about as far from anywhere remotely useful in regards to getting back to Aqures any time soon.]

If we can make it through the Pass of Roalie- [He indicates to Johnny, and anyone else who might be looking still.]

-that's desert, all the way up to the Republic of Esdham. But we've a better chance of being spotted-

[Sephiroth paused, immediately becoming a pessimist to his own plan. Thats -if- Esdham still ran military fly-bys even towards Heran territory anymore now that the threat of the Empire no longer existed. To say nothing of how many days they might have to hike out in the wilderness from their position, which could be anywhere along the perimeter of the Calamity.

He's a realist, he knows their chances of exposure well outweigh the odds of even making it to the Pass. That's not to mention the local fauna, or where they might find the basic of needs, like water.]

[deadlyvu]

Lydia has been listening, and keeping a wary eye on the encroaching crystallization. Letting them talk, and not surprised at all and grateful to Yuffie. Instead she's focusing on other things...

Like removing her cloak--it's small, but it'll help at least. Moving to pass it to Johnny. "It's not much." Also carefully averting her eyes, as the blush would stand-out on her pale face. Maybe not as much of a crush as she did have when she first met the other, but a twinge of it.

"We need to also figure out how we're doing food, water. Water really. When we're traveling too. If we DO make it to the desert, it'll be better to travel when it's at night and cooler, right?" She thought she remembered that from a class.

[charming_jerk]

Right. Walk. Anyone see any shoe stores anywhere?

[Not that he had his wallet. Which was in his pants. Which were back in Aqures Ixen.

He looks a little surprised at Lydia's move, but after a moment, he takes the cloak.]

Um, thanks. Yeah, we're gonna need a lot more than shoes, I guess.

[tiny bit of retconning re: location, should've checked before, my bad.]

[shinrasfinest]

[Not to mention the vast mountain range that spread up and out in the direction that Sephiroth has come to face. Yet again, that all-to-obvious indication that this world really does seem to have it in for him. At least, it shouldn't prove too hard to at least locate some sources of water and potential food during the trek that laid at their feet. Most mountain ranges as he understood them tended to have an abundance of wildlife within them, which meant that there -had- to be some resources. At least he had some training-

What they'd keep said resources in, though, or more importantly should one of them get injured -like Johnny with his bare feet and ass with only a cloak to cover up- the odds just continued to stack up against them. All the while that Calamity wasn't too far behind, either.]

One hurdle at a time. We've our work cut out for us.

['He' has his work cut out for him, specifically, not that he'd mention but Sephiroth didn't exactly trust Yuffie, or Reno, for that matter.]

Lets go.

[Might as well start as they mean to go on. Sephiroth folds the map up and starts to stride away from the group. With any luck they'll get the hint.]

[shinra_dog]

We could head toward the Empire.

[He called toward Sephiroth's retreating back. It was a risky suggestion, but still valid.]

Steal some vehicles, or a ship -- take a time mage hostage....

[He shrugged. Heroic, no. But a way to get home? Certainly.]

Just spitballin' here. But mountains, desert, yeah that's... that's good, too.

[He reached out to rub Johnny's back. Poor guy really got the worst luck here.]

You want me to carry you?

[He smirked. But he was only half kidding.]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie glances over at Sephiroth before rolling her eyes. Yeah, right Solider boy, now you want to walk.

She steps up next to Johnny and begins unlacing some straps from her hips.]

Carrying him is stupid. We don't know how far we have to walk. Here... [She pulls a fate leather pouch from her side, emptying its contents into her hand and then using a dagger to rip the bag in two.]

Use this as a sole. It'll protect your feet for a bit. We can save carrying for a last resort. [Unless Reno is set on making himself tired.]

[charming_jerk]

[Johnny just gave Reno a smartass smirk to go with his smartass remark.]

Nah. I'll just steal yer shoes when you're sleeping.

[He looked over the bits of pouch, unsure of how to make this work.]

Don't worry 'bout me yet. Worry about getting us all far enough away from the Calamity first. I've gone through worse than just bein' without shoes.

[shinrasfinest]

[Excuse you princess who's all but given him the map to figure out.

Sephiroth delivers Reno a long look over his shoulder, almost as if the red-head has gone mad. Fortunately it seems Reno is only 'spitballin' so Sephiroth tries to tone down the seriousness in his glare a little. Not very successfully; considering the Heran capital has already been swallowed by the Calamity and even if it were possible there is no way they're going that way...or at least HE isn't.]

Johnny's right. We're going to have to keep a steady pace.

[A look further back, towards that creeping mass of crystal.]

It's not exactly chasing us, but it'll be easier to fall behind as we go forward.

[shinra_dog]

[Reno snorted and shook his head. But it was important to keep a sense of humor when the rest of the situation was shit.]

[He gave the leather a similarly uncertain look. It would need some sort of tie or lacing to stay on, which wasn't impossible to make. But it would take time, and that was something they didn't really have. Sephiroth was right.]

Hate t' say it, but yeah, we better haul ass wherever direction we're going. We can take more of a break t' sort stuff out once we have some distance between us and Crystal-pocalypse.