melodiesoflife | Event || Revelations

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Event || Revelations

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Order's Sanctuary, The Interdimensional Rift and their Homeworlds.
When: August 03rd - August 30th

Summary: Following the battle against Palitutu, all the Heroes of Light were transported into the Interdimensional Rift. They were told by Palitutu they would have to find her to prove they can break the cycle-- But before they could reach their destination, a malevolent entity from the Rift stripped them from their immortality...

And now, they woke up in a decaying and dying world, most specifically in a place called Order's Sanctuary. From there they are ready to jump... Into their homeworlds! Feel free to use this post for the Mingle at Order's Sanctuary and should your homeworld be the stage for the Heroes of Lights' next adventures, feel free to make a thread for it and as many sub-thread as necessary! Please refer to the OOC Post for questions and plotting.

Warning: Whatever you come up with.

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[Squall is quiet for a moment. Unfortunately, even if they had explained everything to Zell would it make any difference once he and Selphie went back through the portal?

He's conflicted on what he wants to do next. There is the very real desire for him to just stay here because this was his home and he's still bitter about being taken from it. But still, there is no way to prove that it's safe from Palitutu.]

Like I said, everything would've been the same for you. But not for us.

And...finding Palitutu will be up to Selphie and I. You'll have to stay here. We have to go back.

[He moves towards the door again.]

"I know, kupo... That he's being open about it is a good sign, though." Lin said, hugging BP back and keeping her voice low. That she was worried for the both of them would be an understatement, going through such things at an age where they could barely be considered adults in some places.

Ira blinked when he felt her hands around his fist, gently urging it to loosen. It took all of his willpower not to automatically pull away. "...I never expect you to," he replied. "Never want you to. What I've seen I wouldn't even wish on even those that created me." He attempted to look her in the eye, studying her for a moment. "Everyone's experiences are their own, even those shared with others, because we take them in different ways."

"...I only wanted to say you aren't alone in your frustration. Even if it may seem like it at times."

Edited 2016-08-28 21:06 (UTC)

Still holding on tightly to his hand in both of her own, Ira couldn't see her eyes as she kept them closed, her head down. Studying her?--she was still, so very still when she'd always been more energetic.

"That's..." Tripping over the words, Lydia started then stopped. "While you were a...a-crystal." Hard to say the words, as Lydia hated the stasis. She hated things so rarely, but she despised that state while many viewed it as a boon.

"Many of us had a vision. It was like--like we lived it, even though it was only a vision. 2 years, maybe less, from now. Maybe more--but things happened, and rifts within the Heroes came. We fought, we disagreed, some left. I...I was numb." Still holding his hand so tightly between her own, clinging as if he were a life-line.

"I can't say I was 'alone', as people I considered friends were still there it was true. But I was--still alone in a crowd, so to speak. Because no one understood. When everything hurt, and there was no point to existence but more pain...why go on existing?" It wasn't clear now if she was speaking about the vision, or something else with the emotions in her voice. Anguish and fear.

[As her first strike lands Ifrit reels back and brings a large claw up to grab the brunt of her weapon. He growls in challenge and attempts to pull her weapon out of her hand Despite blood trickling from his palm.]

Don't let him disarm you.

[Squall casts blizzard again and Ifrit bends in pain but doesn't let go.]

[Squall, Selphie knows that you mean well by heading back and all but honestly, you look like you're about to fall over. Selphie darts to the door ahead of him and thrusts her arms out to either side, intent on blocking his path.]

Not so fast!

[She's praying that this is going to work and that Squall will understand once he wakes up.]

You need a nap first. Nighty-night!

[Selphie pushes her hand forward and prays that she can use some of the stocked magic she had stashed with her GFs.]

Sleep!

He blinked once, twice. He heard a few moogles whisper it before, but he had no idea what the others had seen. That she was clinging so tightly, that aside from maybe a slight shake she remained still... It worried him. It took a lot to make him worried.

He remained silent for a moment, glancing down and to the right with a faint grimace crossing his lips. That's right. He'd seen a few possible futures just before he arrived, hadn't he? Though the existential crisis was something he'd worked through before...

After giving her a moment, he started to try to explain. "That's a question I've asked myself since..." His words caught for a moment, hesitating to put it to words. Yet she was his friend. One of the few he made that only knew him as he was, not who he was meant to be. "--since I learned the truth of my existence."

He gave a long sigh, placing his left hand over Lydia's. So gently, like he almost feared hurting her, that she could easily pull away if she wanted to. "At first, I only did out of spite for everyone else. Yet amidst the pain, severed from most of the others by my own actions, I got to meet the older sister I otherwise never would have. Have the brother I never thought I would."

Xion... his Real Thing, too. It was odd what the constant threat of death did to a person. It was almost funny to him. And that of all people, he would have an answer for this even though his own darkness yet boiled deep inside. "There's a saying that where there is darkness, there is always a little light. Look for that light, and when you find it, it will guide you through the toughest trials." He chuckled. "A bit preachy for my taste, but it isn't wrong."

Cosmos and Chaos...why do all of your friends have weird names.

[He's probably not one to talk, but he is worried this kid is hanging out with the wrong adults now.]

So what did you do here, then?

Some of them fear us. Some of them want to make movies about us. Hell, there's about...what, six million people here? More? They outnumber us. I think there's more people here than on my home world or Crystallis combined.

[It's closer to eight million, and he just can't wrap his head around that number in the slightest. They could easily just...round them all up and put them into some sort of prison, he thinks, but they never do. It's for the best, since what happens when monsters don't feed...

Well, it's not pleasant.]

It makes sense to me. There's human and monster. You can get more specific than that if you need to, but sometimes you don't have to.

I don't need-

[The sleep spell is instantaneous and Squall finds himself losing consciousness immediately.

Unfortunately for his teammates, Squall falls forwards as his eyes shut and his body goes limp.

Don't let him crack his head open on the floor...]

"Of course. I wear them all the time."

He was wearing them right now, as a matter of fact. Just to emphasize the fact, he pat his behind once with a wink. Not many men could get away with short shorts, but he definitely had the legs for it.

[That’s pretty alarming news. So this place isn't safe.]

Is that how you got injured?

[There is... a Sorey-sized hole in the snow several feet away, near a striped red and white pole and in it is the Shepherd who made it. He sits up a little, bracing himself on his hands while looking up at the sign attached to the pole.]

Christmas Town. Hmm. [Never heard of it but there is a lot of snow and it is cold but it's also a whole new world and that is kind of exciting. More than just kind of. More like a lot exciting.

He calls over his shoulder at the sound of the other's voices.] Over here!

Even Jack looked absolutely ready to buy whatever the Doctor was selling, until all of his friends speak up. The Doctor almost looks like he's about to open his mouth in protest a few times, but they are very good at keeping the momentum going. By the time they are done, his expression has settled into that one that Jack can never quite read. Sad, or distant, or pleased, or trying not to get attached, or that second where he's having to accept a weight for someone else? The only thing Jack knows it it makes him look old.

The Doctor moves to Chiaki, takes a knee and puts a hand on her shoulder. "It's normally my job. When a planet can't, or won't save themselves, that's when I come in. I could take care of this all, for this world, right here, right now. But if it would doom another planet, doom- several other planets?" He sweeps a look around at the group. "Not a one of you belong here, there are other worlds, other connections that can't be broken from here, can they?" Settles for a second on K'pandolu, the reason he was wrong about her species and hasn't heard of what she is.

He stands back up, and fixes Jack with that same unreadable look. "Whatever this Calamity thing is, it's bigger than me, and bigger than you. But you're saying," glances at Chiaki again, "it's fed your life force through some crystal? Like a- a focus lens?" Theeeeere's the scientific curiosity and the confusion back again.

The Doctor closes his eyes for a second. "The hardest thing for me to do is to just walk away."

Jack audibly snorts, cutting off whatever the Doctor was about to follow that up with.

"Therefore," the Doctor actually glares at Jack as if to tell him to shut up because they do not have the time for that conversation, "what help can I give you that does not involve cutting the connection between this world and this other one? What is it you're trying to do, there? Cut all the cords, leave this thing trapped in the Dark Space?"

There were a few things that broke through to Lydia, small things on their own, but all of them together got through the memories and fear and anguish. Light and dark? truth of his existence? then he was holding her hands back and chuckling, and a broken chuckle answered from Lydia. Almost a sob, but it was a reaction.

"Preachy? Yeah...definitely preachy." A sniffle--she would. not. cry. "In the future...the vision of it anyway...I tried to destroy everything. End it all. Not just me, but all the worlds, all the pain." A sigh. "When we came out of it, I never wanted to feel that way again. I know what made me feel that way in a future that never was, and I hated it. But I don't know how to stop it." Another sniffle.

"I'm terrified of making friends, of getting close again--even though I have, as protection against that feeling. Because what if you all leave? Go into that damned crystal hell." Okay no, there were hints of tears now and another sniff. "Light and dark--light can burn however, dark offer comfort. Then there's me, who fits more and is happier in the land of the dead, than among my own kind of the living." A long watery sigh, trying to meet his eyes finally. "And here you are, you have way worse problems than me, and I'm--I'm-I'm... I'm not trying to dismiss them. However you came to exist, I'm glad you did, and I appre-appreciate you confiding in me..."

She'd appreciated Sephiroth too, part of how they'd become close was due to his helping her in the aftermath of the vision. Even though he'd died in the future-that-wasn't, he'd understood and shared his files with her. Lydia also still had Ales, who'd been her companion even through the bad future.

She wasn't alone--but in some ways that all made it worse, and it had all been building up. Fear and anger and frustration and it all was coming tumbling out now.

Not exactly the introduction she might have hoped for, but nothing K'pandolu thought they couldn't handle. She turned, eyes narrowing, and employed Dualcast to throw out Fira on two of the spiders, one after the other.

WHAT?! Hey!

[Like hell he was gonna stay put after hearing all that! He stepped closer to Squall, frown on his expression, reaching out to grab Squall to stop him and voice his protest. But Selphie blocked Squall and before Zell knew it she cast sleep on Squall.

Zell responded quickly, moving even closer and using his already outstretched arm to wrap around Squall instead of grabbing onto his arm like he'd been planning to.]

What the hell, Selphie?

[He probably should have just cast the magic to wake Squall up, but instead he moved Squall to the couch to lie him down. Maybe part of the reason he didn't wake Squall up was because he really didn't want to just sit back and do nothing when their world was in danger again. After Squall was situated, he looked back to Selphie for her explanation.]

[Selphie knows that Zell wants to help but she doesn't know what would happen if he did come along. She smiled sadly at her friends before she moved to retrieve a blanket for the sleeping commander.]

Please tell me you noticed that he looks like he hasn't slept. We look after each other and well...

[She comes out of Squall's room with a blanket and drapes it over his sleeping form.]

I don't want him to be in such a bad mood all the time. I know he's not happy about the situation we're being forced to deal with but he's trying to do it all by himself again. I wish he'd lean on me a little more so he doesn't have to get all worked up again...

But Zell, we need you here. You're the only person that we've told all of this to and someone needs to explain it to the others in our stead. [She pointed to Squall.] I'll look after our Leader if you can do that for me.

[While they may have had that creeping feeling, whoever was following them seemed to be virtually trailless. Maybe it was the amount of people on the street making it harder. Dylas doesn't seem to hear anything, though maybe the wind sounds stronger than it should considering there's only a light breeze.

Just as Jack turns to take off, Ash and Ed stop too. Ash wrinkles his nose for a moment, frowning. Ed can't seem to figure it out either, but the lack of clues is a clue itself. Before he can say anything, Ash cuts in.]

Oh, great. It's your little Shadow friend, Doc.

[As Jack backs around, a shape seems to form from the shadows of a nearby alley. It almost seems to take on a human shape, with glowing blue eyes, before the shadows suddenly part and a young man steps out near him. Any locals walking nearby are a bit startled by this, but don't seem to react to severely. Like guys forming out of shadows is just a thing that happens.

The man wears a bright red pinstripe suit and red hat, which make him stand out like a lighthouse in the sea of dark colored suits everywhere. He looks over Jack's shoulders at the others, before looking back to Jack. His voice is teasing.]

Hi there~

[A few yards back with the others, Ed just groans.]

We do not have time for him.

[When he hears "crystal", the image of his own blue one comes to mind. The sphere that he was used to seeing in pictures feels out of place after a year in Crystallis.]

So, like, does it turn into a compass or show us a map?

[Judging from the look on her face, those numbers don't mean anything to Harriet. She sighs and ushers the two in.]

Come in. Take off your shoes, house rules.

[Mordecai turns his head in a manner that indicates he could care less about random townspeople following them.]

Not interested in what you're sellin'.

[Sheesh. They already have enough on their hands, and guys popping out of nowhere is not on the list of things Barkeep wants to deal with today. He rolls his eyes and turns back the way they were headed, hoping to walk away from this nuisance.]

Not to me. Whats so special about humans that they're all in their own group? Because they outnumber you? Teensies make up nearly half the population in my world, but you don't hear us talking about "Teensies and monsters."

[Humans are just as dumb as any other species out there. Ales met his first the day he arrived on Crystallis, but they managed to disappoint him just as anything else. All species disappoint equally.]

So if you're considered a monster, what do you call actual beasts that come out of the forest to sow chaos?

Sparks folds his arms, looking thoughtful.

"We don't just need to stop it. We need to reverse it too. Right now, a huge chunk of Crystallis is covered by crystal, thanks to this. Leavin' it like that makes half the planet unusable. Thousands of people have lost their homes 'n their loved ones."

He lets out a long-suffering sigh. "We also have to stop this nonsense from happenin' every coupla' thousand years, too. Otherwise, why go through all the trouble? Oh, and it's kinda threatening, like, all of our home planets too. So that's a thing."

If Duster knew about the hallucinogenic side effect, he would have dropped that container without regard to where it would roll off the table. Instead, the rules of adventuring take over: take every interesting item you come across and store it. One can never know when it will come in handy.

This is how Duster came to have five bottles of pain killer.

"I have some medicine here in case we run into danger.

No one knew when Rialynn would be back, and the first suggestion that came to Duster's mind (to take a nap) wouldn't do while in the middle of a mission. However, when he and his friends couldn't sleep during the dark nights, talking was the best solution.

"...The stars are out tonight." Thankfully, while the skies were cloudy, the wind provided the group plenty of chances to admire the small lights above them.

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I don't have a good icon of her in pain...

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>D She's doing this cuz she cares Squally~

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Out of order tag because I do what I want :3

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