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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"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.

Mary observed the notebook over the shoulders of the others. Her curiosity briefly itched for a turn at the book to see what secrets it might hold, all before she reminded herself that they likely had little to offer as far as the mysteries of either world she'd call home. Whatever this world held, it was likely best left alone. The last thing they needed were the deities of this world following them back to Crystallis.

Glancing at the desk she stepped forward. "I'll have a look. I think I'm well equipped for this." She had her ninja and thief skills on hand, so a bit of breaking and entering were in her wheelhouse at the moment. She glanced at her sonic screwdriver, turning it over in her hand. Jack said it wouldn't work on wood, but a lock or traps perhaps? And she didn't have a lockpick or tools with her, and her hidden blade might be a tad too rough for this.

Kneeling in front of the drawer she raised the device and pressed the button, the green light and whirring beginning again as she focused it on the lock. "So then...Let's see how this works..."

After a moment of Mary's concentration, the whirring of of the Sonic Screwdriver was interrupted by a click as the lock's mechanism was released. The drawer slowly slid open on its own, the green marble in question rolling into view.

However... something else was released as well. With a soft hiss, a light pink gas began pouring from the keyhole. Further examination of the inside of the drawer would reveal a series of tubes and wires connecting vials of liquid up to the inside of the lock. It would appear that the correct key inserted into the lock would have blocked the circuit, but releasing the lock alone triggered the true trap.

Reno had been in the process of reaching triumphantly for the materia when he noticed. "Oh shit..."

Johnny backed up from the desk in a hurry.

"Oh shit is right. What was that? Poison 'r something?" And Mary was right there when it went off. That's not good.

"Kidd, you okay?"

Kyo snorted in wry amusement. "I'm good for the stick," he shot off as he gave the cabinets wary glances. They other choice was just going straight at them and all but... "Might be better off finding a broom or something." He'd rather not get some kind of anvil falling down on his head for bothering to open a door or some other trap.

But when Mary went for the desk, Kyo quickly slipped to the side, putting a bit of distance between himself and the furniture. Just in case it exploded or something. "Be my guest," he murmured, wondering what "equipped" meant. And that strange device again... He frowned as Mary knelt before the drawer. "Hey, maybe something in front of your face?" Too late; she was already working on it and his curiosity went to the tool in her hand.

Click.

Kyo tensed a bit at the sound, but when the drawer opened and nothing seemed to happen for a second, his hackles went down--Gas! "Get back!" he yelled, retreating from the desk, one hand coming up to cover his face. The scent of the gas was already touching his senses and he cussed.

"Don't breathe, Kidd!" That was her name, right? "Just grab the the marble and bolt!"

K'pandolu turned to watch Mary working, and jerked back when the trap was triggered. "Alchemists," she growled. Oh, certainly they were useful, at times, but this kind of thing that could do without. There weren't any immediately obvious sources of fabric, so she went for her pocket instead, trying to pull a piece of spare fabric out to hold for the nearest person. "Get the door- that should help." She thought she could smell whatever it was, and hoped the fresh air might counteract that.

As an Assassin, a gas trap was nothing new to the pirate. She recoiled as she saw the puff, pulling her sleeve across her face, but as close as she was when the trap went off of course a little of it got past her reaction. She tumbled back from the desk, coughing as she pulled herself into a crouch.

The materia had been left behind in her haste, but that was far from the chiefest of her concerns. She waited a moment to feel the telltale burn or pain of poison but instead she felt...warm. She could feel a heat and a tingling building up inside her. And then it began to spread and...

Her eyes went wide as she felt it begin to take effect, shooting an accusing glance at Reno. "You can't be serious..."

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