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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All Reno knew was that Marisa likely had his materia. And Marisa was gone. So, without being able to ask her, they'd simply have to search through her things.

This group decided to tackle Marisa's workshop. Books filled shelves, were scattered with papers on tables and the large desk. Glass tubes, beakers, and flasks were carefully arranged. If Marisa had the materia here, she may have been trying to test it, discern its magical properties. The Heroes would find out.

Edited 2016-09-16 03:36 (UTC)

Wandering slowly into the room, Johnny made sure not to touch anything just yet. He knew that was asking for trouble, from what he'd heard.

"So, uh, anythin' obvious I shouldn't touch? Anythin' in particular I should be lookin' out for? Before I start riskin' setting off whatever might be arming this place."

One thing led to another and now they were tromping around Marisa's place. Kyo'd never met the woman, but he'd heard of her here and there around the island. To the point that it was a little strange to go wandering around someone's how that he knew but never saw. And to find out a lot of this stuff looked like those witches tales you read about in books was even weirder.

"If it's sharp, don't touch it. If it glows, don't touch it. If it moves and you didn't touch it, don't touch it..." Kyo frowned. "Any of those sound good enough?"

"So who does this place belong to then? Someone from your world? One of your dalliances here?" While she didn't mean anything particularly judgemental by the word, the revelation of what its denizens needed to do to avoid death still sat boldly in her mind. And everyone that they'd met did seem on the rather friendly side with the Gaian. The fact that nothing further had been brought up to this point wasn't comforting to the Assassin, leaving her more with a feeling in her gut that the other boot was about to drop. And to know Reno's relationship to this woman might also give her a better idea of what to watch for when it came to hiding places and traps.

But she had to give a nod of approval in Kyo's direction at his own comments. "Those sound like fair rules to live by. And continue to live by." She moved carefully about the room, looking at books and papers, trying to discern a bit about what went on here.

"Some items that glow can be helpful…" K'pandolu murmured. "But- mm, no, I agree that those are fair enough." She made her way over to have a closer look at the flasks, trying not to touch any of them. It suggested alchemy to her, and though she didn't have a lot of practical experience with that, she'd always been told to be just as careful around that as any other craft- perhaps more so, considering the potions alchemy could produce.

Reno only relaxed slightly after disarming a trigger on the door. One trap probably meant more. He glanced back at Mary. She didn't sound especially judgmental, but... on the other hand, he knew how it must look. Whether or not it was the case, he couldn't really blame anyone here for wondering if he'd slept with everyone they'd met. Even without Atia's demands, though, Reno had always been flirtatious. Mary had gone so far as to ask him what his intentions were toward Saori. So she was the last person he really expected so say something about his "dalliances" ...

"Marisa was our landlord," he answered succinctly, setting the record straight. "We might've fooled around once or twice when rent was late... or light... but it was just business."

So it might have been a little bit of whoring, but whatever -- it meant Kyo didn't have to deal with her.

"But Li'l Miss Sticky-Fingers here liked her privacy to do her 'science' or 'witchcraft' or whatever in between, so I've never been here. Yer guess is as good as mine, but I'd watch out for tripwires. Maybe pressure plates...?" He shook his head. "Anyway, we're lookin' for about a large-ish sized... marble lookin' thing. It'll be green and it might glow a little... it's got magic in it."

Behind the flasks, K'pandalu will notice that the light glints off something shiny!

"They drag ya here, put these collars on yer neck and</>i make ya pay rent? I gotta stop bitchin' about Crystallis."

Johnny decided the best thing he could do was keep his hands shoved in his pockets and not touch anything. Just looking, nothing else.

"Green magicky ball. Got it. And I'll look where I'm walkin' too, I guess..."

Some of these cabinets had to be safe, though, right? Not every one of them could be trapped. After a moment of hesitation, Johnny tried to open one with a finger.

Kyo snorted at the "dalliances" comment, but it's not like anyone on this island had a scapegoat out of that word. But he still wasn't sure knowing that was going to really help them. A person trapping their personal belongings probably wasn't going to care who sprung it? But whatever, it might help. Just... personal question. He blinked when the woman approved of his comments, a tiny little grin playing at the agreement. Cool. "Thanks."

Well, maybe some glowing could at least indicate... something. Someone else could touch it first if they felt like being brave (or stupid). Unless no one did; then he might get irked enough to stomp over there and do it himself.

A soft sigh slipped out when Reno had to out with his personal relationships. But he couldn't do anything about that. It was Reno's choice and if he felt comfortable enough to give them a summary, fine. He kept his own opinions to himself.

"A marble?" he droned, looking around the crammed room with all its odds and ends. "Well that shouldn't be too hard to find." Wry sarcasm there.

"Hah," Kyo scoffed, looking at Johnny. "If you think that's the worst of it. You had to get a job too. And if you pissed off one of the gods or one of the bastards thought you offended them, you'd have to fight whatever they came up with as a 'punishment'." He offered sarcastic shrug. "Course, I'm jaded so whatever." Had to throw that little bit in there, just in case people thought he was giving straight facts. But it wasn't exactly untrue. He watched Johhny mess with a cabinet...

"Man, just yank it open and duck."

"I suppose everyone must support themselves somehow," K'pandolu murmured. There were various establishments in Ul'dah, after all. "Fighting something sounds simpler, though. Assuming they didn't cheat somehow."

She glanced over at Reno with interest. A large green marble…? "Green- that means growth magic, or something like it, doesn't it? Does it have another name?"

She straightened up from the flasks for a moment, turning more fully. "There's something shining over here- I'm going to go after it." This way, they'd know that something might happen, and she turned back to move the flasks aside to get at whatever was shining back there.

"You've seen it, right Kyo? It appeared after the Aries thing... I used ta' keep it in the drawer, by -- " By the bed he'd shared with Rufus. Not Kyo. Reno stopped himself. Kyo barely went into that room, and after Rufus disappeared, neither of them did.

He shook his head and moved on. "Growth magic? I mean... I guess with enough use, it grew stronger? But on Gaia, our green materia was elemental magic. This one's for Thunder, just the basic spell." After enough time on Crystallis, he was sure all the Heroes knew the basic spells the Black Mages could cast. "I didn't really get to use it."

At her mention of going after something, he looked over his shoulder. "Just be careful." He shouldn't have worried -- about K'pandalu, at least. Behind the flasks, she'll find fifty Amat, easily exchanged into an equal amount of Gil!

Johnny, on the other hand... talk about bad luck. Even with one finger, he happened to pull right on the trigger of a string of small firecrackers. They popped and cracked, spitting light and sparks and in general provided a large distraction from the heavy shotput ball dropping from the top cabinet shelf right onto Johnny's foot.

"Shit!" Reno jumped at the noise.

Johnny makes even more noise, letting out a string of curses flies from him. He stumbles backward and into anyone who might be standing behind him. He'll be lucky if the shotput didn't just break his foot.

"Sonofabitch! Fuck, that's what I get for even tryin' to look... Goddamnit it, is there at least something in that cabinet worth trappin' it like that for!?"

Kyo couldn't argue with that; they had to "support" themselves not just financially, but also appealing to the gods above them so they could generally get left alone. He snorted at the aspect of "cheating" and shrugged, no intention of hiding his disgust for the idiots lording over them. "They cheat all they time just by being morons to us."

Hitting them with events or spells that forced them to do what they wanted or die via suffocation. Arriving to make announcements of "praise" or "good will" and vanishing the moment someone with the guts tried to attack. Yeah. "Cheating" was a light word to use there.

He glanced over to K'pandalu when she mentioned going after something. "Uh, be careful," Kyo added with a frown. He half expected a boom soon.

But when Reno addressed him, he paused long enough to think back. "Just once, twice maybe." He caught the way Reno cut off the words, but it was too late. He already knew what he was referring to. Look, he cleaned the room... a few times. And cats were curious, even if he controlled it most of the time. But yeah... it was more or less an abandoned room and a painful memory. So he was quick to push it aside and move on.

POW! Kyo jerked upright, practically hitting the ceiling with a yelp of surprise and alarm. Dammit! He instantly regretted egging Johnny on! "Watch it! What exploded?!" And grunted when the other guy more or less backed right into him. Check that- Stumbled.

Kyo caught Johnny by the shoulder, bracing one foot to keep them both from going over. And yeah, he'd agree with that string of cusses. "Who knows?" he muttered, giving the guy a small push to right him again. "You wanna check again?"

You'll have to forgive the woman from the 1700s. Even if she was a pirate, free love wasn't exactly a thing that was looked so easily upon then, especially considering the many men she knew who liked to live that lifestyle. As for her questions about Reno and Saori, it was more to get a sense of what she was getting herself into at the time. The time previous to that she'd seduced a redheaded lass she then wound up getting into a scrape with Calico Jack Rackham.

While she did believe that all people should have the freedom to pursue their lives as they wished, the situation here in this world had her feeling quite the prude by comparison. Then again, it seemed like 'choice' was a fundamental thing missing here as it was. And listening to the way Reno stumbled over his words in the presence of the orange haired young man she didn't exactly feel like her words were chosen incorrectly, even if they were a bit rude. She'd apologize to him later.

She pondered using the device that she'd found in Captain Harkness' world, reaching into her pocket just as Johnny set off the trap or prank, whatever it was. The pirate whirled, instinct calling to her to draw a gun and instead pulled out the penlike device, the tip glowing green and emitting a whirring noise. She held tense before looking around, happy to see nobody was bleeding from a gunshot wound. "Johnny, are you alright?" She flicked the sonic screwdriver off a few seconds later once she realized she activated it.

"Gaia? There's a few of you around from there, aren't there?" K'pandolu hummed, tail flicking lightly, ears up. "Curious- our elemental materia tend more towards a lighter grey, and green materia are associated with fieldcraft."

K'pandolu huffed at Kyo's words, shaking her head. "Gods," she muttered, because it certainly seemed as though nothing good came of any that chose to manifest themselves.

She took the coin in hand with a grin- which then dropped as the firecrackers went off and the shotput ball dropped. "What was that!?" she demanded, stepping closer to see.

Johnny winced as he wiggled his foot a bit. "Uh, anyone got a Cure spell handy? Goddamnit... Woulda been a lot worse if I wasn't wearin' boots, too."

He gives Kyo a nod in thanks for catching him, and hobbles over towards the cabinet. Now that the trap had been tripped, he figured he might as well take a look at what's inside. Whatever it is better be worth it.

"Hang on, I got a potion here." Saori stepped forward as she pulled a bottle out for him. She had kept quiet until then hoping for some kind of hint as to this item they were searching for. She tried to keep a light stock of healing items since she had no curative skills of her own but that meant she couldn't carry much.

"Geeze, firecrackers would've been enough to deter most people." She was starting to wonder if somehow there was a hidden pendulum blade waiting for them.

Honestly if she had her own goddess powers back, she'd love to give these gods a piece of her mind or fist, which ever came first. Her own world's gods could sometimes get her mad but she didn't think it was possible for them to get even worse.

A hidden pendulum blade wouldn't be unreasonable for Marisa to hide somewhere.

Reno caught his breath and looked to Saori gratefully. At least she was prepared. He had nothing but his weapons and the crystal he'd stolen from Palitutu's WEAPON. He couldn't even use any job abilities from Crystallis like this. "Thanks... shit, I'm glad it ain't broken..."

As if to add insult to injury, inside the cabinet is a box of adhesive bandages. They have a heart pattern. But, besides the bandages and the test tube rack, Johnny does find a lead. A collection of notebooks, unlike the scientific and occult texts on the bookshelves. They would appear to be Marisa's personal notes on her experiments. The last entries are about the materia.

"Choice" was very much missing from this place; he knew that full well and still had the memories to prove it. But that was something for later; right now he was dealing with rebounding Johnny back onto his feet and wondering what the hell that pen-like thing was glowing in the woman's hand. Before he got a chance to ask, the light blinked off and the topic went elsewhere. (He was expecting her to pull a gun, but a pen?)

Glancing down, Kyo wondered if the other guy's foot was broken. "Who puts a damn shot put for a trap?" he asked, bending down to pick up the iron ball once Johnny was standing again. He gave the other a nod at the silent gratitude, then tossed the ball up and down a few times. Heavy thing too... For lack of anything better to do and for the chance of using it as a weapon, he held onto the thing.

"Or make them even more curious." Still, what else were they going to do? They had to press on if this thing really was in here. Firecrackers and traps included. While Saori went about helping Johnny, Kyo headed for the desk. If this woman was a witch of sorts, then something magical would probably be where she could study it. His guess.

Unfortunately that means he missed the collection of notebooks. Oh well.

"I have Cure, if anything else should happen," K'pandolu said. She stepped a little closer, though since Saori had the potion everything seemed under control that way, and her eyes were drawn to Kyo taking the shotput instead. "Maybe we ought to find another space for that," she suggested.

"So what's inside? Surely it's interesting, if she put that thing there to protect it." She leaned over to try and see herself, curious.

Johnny thanked Saori for the potion and drank it down fast. He doesn't have time to hobble around on a broken foot.

At least his pain for them a clue. He took out the notebooks and quickly flipped through a couple before tossing one to Reno.

"Bingo. Looks like we found her work. If she was experimentin' with what you're looking for, maybe she wrote about it in here."

"Maybe," Kyo agreed, giving the iron ball a toss up and down. "But if something else happens, better to have something to chuck at it." Besides, considering how tense the air in here could get with potential traps, he could use the minuscule distraction...

But seeing the attention swinging towards the notebooks--a verbal "Bingo" being the best hint--Kyo abandoned the desk he'd been scanning (and the shot put) and headed over to the other pair. Glad to see Johnny was at least recovering.

"She didn't write any of this in code did she?"

Reno caught the notebook and flipped it open, skimming as he turned the pages. Only a few were full.

"Looks like this is the most recent one. Dates go down t' around when she disappeared, otherwise there'd be more here. And I think we're in luck." He held it up for the others to see. While most of the page was covered with numbers and equations, with a few symbols thrown in, the little text there was in bullet-points was easy to read.

"Whether she didn't bother, or Atia's translatin' it anyway, it's all right here." He didn't recognize all the symbols, but most were involved in the equations, so he wrote it off as "smart people" science shit. Not necessary for him to know. The notes, though vague, spoke more to him about what was actually going on.

"These ones, these dates -- they're sorta describing what we're lookin' for, yo. Size measurements, color, weight an' opacity... She's definitely got the idea that it's magic, since I got it from a goddess." He tapped the page, then looked over toward the desk. "Looks like you had the right idea, Kyo. She might have it in 'er desk, or at least somethin' else useful. It was the last project she was workin' on."

The equations didn't make a lot of sense to her on first sight, but it seemed like the sort of thing that might come in handy at some point.

"So we know it's definitely here, at least," K'pandolu put in, and nodded. "Let's focus on the desk for now, then." She turned around to go back to the desk, and look for any compartments where the materia might be hidden.

Kyo listened to the update and peered at the notebooks, though he didn't try to read over Reno's or others' shoulders. It'd come in time, right? Once Reno held up the book, he stepped back slightly to give the rest room to look. Looked like a bunch of math stuff to him, minus the bullet points.

An orange brow arched when he got singled out, but grinned afterwards and gave a casual (cocky) shrug. "Hey someone had to get it right." They all couldn't be looking in the wrong spot. Though remembering what happened to Johnny, Kyo looked at the desk with a slight apprehension.

"So... uh... who wants to start opening drawers?" he asked, kind of trying to insinuate to K'pandolu that it might be dangerous to just start poking around it willy nilly.

"Maybe we should, like, get a stick or something to pull them open with from a distance. Who's got a pool cue?"

Johnny was a tough guy, but the face full of fireworks was really unpleasant, even more so than the shotput.

Event || Revelations

Marisa's Workshop [CW: APHRO TRAP, possible smut, proceed at your own 18+ risk]

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