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Intro Log || Puppets

Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of May. 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: N/A.


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.


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 the Triple Triad World Championship nearing, there are a lot of folks working hard to set up the upcoming event! Noticeably a lot of Triple Triad players eager to defy anyone they pass by for a chance at honing their skills, and people from Trano Golsaucia as they're working on the stadium.

And besides card games, there are a lot of things to do in the city for newcomers. Moogles are working hard in Mognet Office of the ninth district and there is a Blitzball Game between kid teams happening at 16:00! 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 couple Moogles and a few nurses will be waiting by the room, and they will welcome all characters waking up. Upon exiting the room, they will also meet a lot of guards, and they all have for order to shoot anyone that comes out of this room without a Moogle. Hopefully you won't try running out without waiting for your Moogle. As for why the guards are so on edge, it might be a good idea to ask the other Heroes of Light about what happened last year.


Close Encounters of the Third Kind
— 12:00 —

Characters venturing by between the Airport this specific time will be able to see a most peculiar sight: a flying saucer seemingly abducting a Hypello before flying away and disappearing into the sky without leaving any traces of its presence. Was it an UFO or just a hallucination?

Previous sightings of such a thing have happened. Maybe we are on the verge of a full-scale alien invasion... Or not really.
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Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-05-15 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a bit of chocobo spit on that cuff, but nothing that can't be wiped away. Zack hadn't gripped it so hard, just enough to keep him from simply walking off.

"Believe me, I know how weird it is to say. I've met multiple people who knew me from their own worlds or wherever they came from before winding up here. Me, I was with the first group of Heroes to wake up here. This cycle anyway...." Cloud frowned. He didn't want to over-complicate things for a newcomer.

"At least...I'm assuming you're not a native of this world, right?" It occurred to him a bit late that Zidane might be a doppelganger, but since he answered to his name the odds were a bit low.
As for that sword, it was something that Cloud had, but he'd been leaving it at home for the most part. He didn't feel right about using it just yet.
virtuous_thief: (Contemplative)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] virtuous_thief 2016-05-16 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Chocobo spit's easy enough to wipe off, though he did it on the vendor's stall table elicting a "hey!" from the vendor himself. Shrugging, Zidane waved his tail in a dismissive gesture.

"Well As far as I know it's my first time here. Apparently I was around before which is why I woke up in the hospital, but...I don't recall this place at all."
neverfirstclass: (I...uh...)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-05-17 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...not all the Heroes who have been brought here are still around. Some of them have turned into Crystal Statues. Supposedly it's some sort of defense to keep them from being corrupted by the Calamity...Sorry. I'm throwing all of this at you.

[Looking around, Cloud frowns. The marketplace isn't the best place to discuss things.]

I need to get these supplies back to the Chocobo Ranch. I can explain things on the way if you want to come along.]

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Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] virtuous_thief 2016-05-17 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Explains why I woke up at the hospital then, doesn't it?

[Zidane walks along with cloud as they move, weaving his way through the crowd easily enough due to his wiry frame.]

I'm fine coming to the Chocobo Ranch. Been a long time since I got to ride one.

[Maybe he could see how much it'd cost to own one? Or get some gyashals to go tame a wild one?]
neverfirstclass: (Smile!)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-05-22 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yeah, your world has them too. I remember that. Other people here, they come from worlds that have 'horses'. Weird. We can see about getting you a bird of your own if you want, and I'm also planning another trip to the Chocobo Forest in the south soon, though there aren't any chocobos there anymore.

[Zack continues to watch Zidane with a wary eye, but Cloud is all smiles now as he talks with the thief. He's more than happy to chat the whole way to the ranch and answer any questions Zidane might have.]

(ooc: up to you how you want to do this. There will be chances to catch a bird in the forest trip or zidane can catch one off screen beforehand. Also Cloud will fill him in on the general goings on of the Heroes, and I'm fine threading it out but you can assume that Cloud told him the basics.)
virtuous_thief: (Smile)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] virtuous_thief 2016-05-22 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[That brings Zidane up short a bit.]

You remember...my world?

[If Cloud was on Zidane's world at some point, that might explain somethings, but leave other questions behind.]

I'd be fine looking for a chocobo in the Chocobo Forest. I found Choco from my world in one so maybe we'll find another.

(ooc: I'd be fine with it being caught during the chocobo forest trip. And we can do the fill in either way too)
neverfirstclass: (derp)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-05-22 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I mean what the other you told me. I kinda figured out it was a good idea to ask people if they knew what chocobos are. It's not perfect, but our worlds tend to have other similarities. And to this world too.

There aren't any chocobos in the forest itself, but I'm sure we can find some on the way. According to the boy and the moogle we met there, there's the ruins of the Chocobo's Paradise there, but that was lost to the Calamity in a previous cycle. Basically this world keeps repeating itself, and Heroes have been brought here to try to stop it...it's complicated.

Anyway, we found this stone map and when we tracked down the location there was this gas and then some of our birds got new colors and abilities.
virtuous_thief: (Surprised)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] virtuous_thief 2016-05-23 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Chocobo Paraidse? Stone Map? This is all sounding a bit too familiar to the thief.

"Wait, Chocobo's Paraidse is here?! And you found chocographs?!" If there was a cycle of calamity and worlds...does that mean his world was already destroyed? But no..wait...he just saved his world from being destroyed by protecting the crystal.

Well He'll worry about it later.

"Well if you've got a way to catch chocobos, we might be able to find more chocographs. That's usually how I got Choco back home to get new abilities and colors."
neverfirstclass: (Smile!)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-06-03 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh....yeah..." Cloud was a bit shocked by the response, used to people being more confused than this. Then again given all they were running into, the odds of such a close link were there. He just never really considered it.

"Yeah...actually I was thinking of going back to the forest sometime soon to see what else we could find. If you want to come with us and see how similar it is to your world you're welcome to join us." Maybe with Zidane along they could get even more information on all of this than they did last time.
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Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] virtuous_thief 2016-06-16 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"You bet I'm going! I've got way too many questions to not join in." Was Mene there? And Choco? Were they the same Mene and Choco as before, or were they decendants of the originals?

"I've got some knowledge about chocographs and how they work and what it all leads to too."
neverfirstclass: (Huh?)

Re: Zidane/OTA

[personal profile] neverfirstclass 2016-06-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Chocographs, maybe it really IS similar then. Yeah, we'd definitely like to have you along." He was welcome along before and this wasn't a make or break situation, but the touch of expertise is heartlifting.

"I'll get in touch when we start to pull everything together. Thanks a lot!"