Event || Magitek Research Facility

[melodiesmods]

Characters: All the Heroes of Light participating in the event.
Where: Magitek Research Facility; Sixth District of Aqures Ixen.
When: The 22nd of September.
Summary: A letter from Artemicion calls the Heroes of Light for help! Little do they know that they will inadventenly become trapped in the Magitek Facility. The OOC Post for detailed explanations can be found here.
Warning: Weird things, battles, boss battles.

Entrance / Outside of the Facility
Artemicion Q&A
Group A: Mingle || Exploration
Group B: Mingle || Exploration
Group C: Mingle || Exploration
Group D: Mingle || Exploration
Group E: Mingle || Exploration

Boss Battle || Control Room


Group A
[AU] Gaara of the Desert
[AU] Genesis Rhapsodos
[AU] Luke fon Fabre
[OU] Ales Mansay
[OU] Saori Nakagawa

Group B
[OU] Allenby Beardsley
[OU] Angeal Hewley
[OU] Rose Glasdon
[OU] Sho
[OU] Yuna

Group C
[OU] Kobato Hanato
[OU] Princess Hilda
[OU] Sephiroth
[OU] Serah Farron
[OU] Zelda

Group D
[OU] Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca
[OU] Cloud Strife
[OU] Henry
[OU] Sparks Nevada
[OU] Yuffie

Group E
[OU] Baralai
[OU] Genesis Rhapsodos
[OU] Ib
[OU] Link
[OU] Snow Villiers

Comments

Group D: Exploration

[melodiesdungeons]

[ The main point of interest in this room is the closed cardboard box on the table. There are also two doors on the western wall. ]

Re: Group D: Exploration

[holycrows]

Henry blinks a few times during the moments he is phases from the teleportation. A cool and handy spell that he will one day learn from the cold dead mind of someone who knows it.

But right now his attention turns not towards the other 4 people in the room, but the box.

"Oh hey! A box! Nothing bad ever comes from mysterious boxes in strange locations!"

He begins walking towards the box, reaching out to inspect it with his own hands.

Group D: Exploration

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie shakes her head slowly, looking around the room. At the sight of Henry reaching for the boxes she jumps up or she tries to but quickly stumbles over. She feels woozy and tightly grabs her stomach as her head spins.]

If its treasure its mine!

[She falls to a knee as one hand moves to her mouth.]

That was awful.

[red_planet_blues]

[This isn't the first time Sparks has been teleported, and it won't be the last. He shakes his head to clear it, and looks around the room, frowning at all the noises and sirens.]

Is that necessary? They already know they're intruders, geez.

[As for the box, well, it was just a cardboard box. Sparks points at Henry.] If that thing explodes or somethin', I'm blamin' you.

[Hang on. Now that he's paying attention to it, those noises are familiar.] ... Do they got robots here? They do that we aren't the intruders, right?

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud has already let his stomach loose in the corner, but he's still looking a bit pale as he joins the others by the box.]

Ugh...it sounds like they might be coming. It's a bit different but you hear that? They're getting closer. It sounds a lot like the security at a Mako reactor.

[He's been involved in a few practice drills, and then there was also that incident at Modeoheim. Cloud just hopes he's not going to get elbowed in the face this time.]

[melodiesdungeons]

[ The cardboard box just stays still, waiting for someone to open it. The robots noise at far don't seem to grow closer, but they don't fade either. ]

[desertbloomed]

Ashelia moves over to the door immediately, lightning already crackling in her palm. "I do hope you brought Ether with you, Cloud." Boy, is she glad to see both him and Sparks. She may not be super impressed with Yuffie or Henry and their apparent excitement over the box, but it looks like they have quite some time before security shows up and Ashelia is all for taking whatever may be helpful. They aren't exactly in a position to be picky, after all.

She can't help but interject, though. "Do be careful, but be quick about it. The longer we stay in one place, the easier it will be to get pinned down."

[thegreatninja]

[The young ninja slowly stands. Her head still hurts but all that matters is the possible treasure resting in that box. Her eyes fixate on the box as she dashes in front of it. Her goal is to open it and nab whatever is inside.

Her hand touches the lid at the same moment as Henry's]

Ready?

[Her smile widens as she moves to open the box.]

[holycrows]

"Yep!"

Henry grabs the other side of the lid and pulls hard.

[melodiesdungeons]

[ A bright light comes out of the cardboard box as Yuffie and Henry open it and for a second, the light will blind everyone in the room...

You got Sculpted Heads!

... Ew. There are actually five heads in the box, seemingly all sculpted in wax. These heads are the spitting image of each character in this group: one for Ashelia, one for Cloud, one for Henry, one for Sparks and one for Yuffie as well. The only difference between the characters and the fake heads is that their eyes are red.

There is a little hole at the base of each heads, as if they could be inserted somewhere. There is also a note in the box: ]

— From Kalki

[holycrows]

Henry's excitement can barely be contained. His body vibrates with excitement.

"Severed heads! This is great! Everyone grab one! I want Spark's!"

[red_planet_blues]

Severed heads? What-- [Well what do you know. Heads.] No. Put my head down. [Don't make him slap it out of your hands, Henry. Sparks looks them over, poking one to see what it's made of it, and then grabbing the note.] Someone trying to build our evil robot clones or somethin'?

"From Kalki." Who's Kalki, and how do they know us?

[desertbloomed]

Ashelia shakes her head - the one connected to her shoulders. "I know no Kalki, but methinks Jessie owes us an explanation. This is her facility. Why are these grotesque representations here?" She walks over to the table, grabbing the wax replica of her own head before either Henry or Yuffie might feel compelled to. "Unless this Kalki is one of the intruders...?" That brings up a whole different list of questions.

How could they know who would be here? How much do they know? Are they from the Empire? But if their technology is so much more advanced than Aqures Ixen's, what would they want with Jessie's research? Has it to do with us? Just what is Jessie doing here? Is this all part of some carefully laid trap?

Merely a sampling.

Ashelia makes her way back to the door, tucking the wax head away, making sure the red eyes weren't seen. "I say we each carry our own. When you're ready, we depart. Marshal, if you would take point. Corporal, if we are to face these 'robots' we'll need your focus on Bolt spells."

[neverfirstclass]

Cloud blanches a bit at the replica heads, or maybe he's just still getting his stomach settled, looking about as waxy as the head in the box. He has no idea what these could be for, or rather he can't think of anything that doesn't give him an uneasy feeling in his stomach.

'Please don't let it be something like what was happening at home,' he thinks to himself. He doesn't know the details, but the few things he heard about experiments and clones among the SOLDIER elite flit to the top of his mind. In turn he then begins to worry about Zack, hoping his best friend is okay.

He jerks out of his distraction as Ashelia talks to him and gives her a nod. "Y-yeah, sure." He takes his own model head and tucks it under his free arm while holding his staff ready in the other.

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie picks up the strange item that was supposedly shaped like her head. "This is gross." She still tossed the thing in her bag and walked over towards the others. Her stomach felt awful but she wasn't going to let that stop her from finding treasure.

"Also. I'm way cutier than this head." She added it as an after thought.

She walked forward, pausing next to Ashelia. "Why don't we just take them a part. If its a machine it might have a power source we can use." Or sell.

[holycrows]

"Gross? This is a capital miracle! I've always wanted a copy of my own head."

Henry picks up the head and places it under his hat.

"Two heads are better than one nyahaha."

[red_planet_blues]

"Gross is right. Oh, take my own head? Right. This ain't creepy at all." Sparks picks up his replica head, and after a moment of looking grossed out, he shrugs. "I gotta say, they did a good job on 'em." He then takes his own hat and pops it over the face of the wax head. That's enough of those red eyes, though.

While not exactly fond of taking orders, Sparks keeps any comments to himself at the moment. He pops on a robot fist on the hand not holding the head, and heads for the door. "Guess so. Say Corporal, ya 'bout done losin' yer lunch?"

Once everyone was ready, the marshal threw open the door.

[melodiesdungeons]

[ Upon opening the door, Sparks will reach a dimly lit room-- It is hard to see at first, but there are more wax sculptures in this one. Specifically, five real size statues of people he knows from his homeworld (whoever works best), all lined up. On the side not far from the five sculptures, there is a sixth one, but its head is missing. Yet, it is apparent the sculpture looks like Sparks and sports the same clothes than he did upon first waking up in Aqures Ixen. One of the statue's arm is raised above its missing head.

There is another door, but it is locked. On Sparks' sculpture, there is a note where the head should be. It is written in the same handwriting than the note that was in the cardboard box. ]

— Did you ever wonder what a Hero of Light is?

[red_planet_blues]

Sparks takes a few steps in, squinting, but soon stops dead is his tracks. There should be enough room for the others to look around him. He can hardly believe his eyes.

Standing in line are a handsome, easy-going looking man; a confident woman sporting a pair of pistols; a wild-eyed teenage girl; an older, excitable-looking man; and what looks to be some sort of blue person with antenna and large, sold black eyes.

"......Whaaat. What? Are you-- How would they know what the people from my world looked like?"

His surprise fades into anger as he pulls the note off his own replica. "I don't know what a Hero of Light is, 'Kalki' but this one is gonna make ya sorry ya messed with 'em."

[desertbloomed]

Ashelia steps into the room closely behind Sparks, holding a small, crackling ball of lightning in her hand. She freezes when she sees the wax figures. They do seem to be statues...but the queen has enough experiences with ancient statues coming to life and trying to kill her that she keeps the crackling energy alive in her hand for the time being. She has enough ether to keep her going for quite a while.

She walks through the room cautiously, on the lookout for any movement not belonging to her comrades. She glances back at them, making sure they're getting along okay. That dark knight seems completely unperturbed. She isn't sure how to feel about that, given his reaction to the wax heads, but she decides to focus more of her attention on Yuffie and Cloud. "If you care to take the time to disassemble these constructs, Yuffie, you're welcome to it; however, I think it more prudent that we focus on finding Biggs, Wedge and Jessie and finding out who this Kalki is."

Ashelia switches her attention over to Sparks, raising an eyebrow. These figures are people he knows, from his homeland? Curioser and curiouser. "Are you all right, Marshal?"

The note, though, sends a chill up her spine, so much though that she doesn't repeat her thoughts out loud for fear of disturbing the others. Do I ever wonder what a Hero of Light is? She thinks back to her first day in Aqures Ixen, back to watching the play about the Legend of the Heroes. What is a Her of Light? She feels her stomach drop down to her feet. A sacrifice.

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie swallowed the lump in her throat as she walked into the room. "I don't think I like this place anymore." She felt the figures eyes follow her as she moved closer. Her own wax head felt like a brick in her pocket. If these were Sparks, did they all have figures like this? She didn't want to find out. She wanted to go home, where she belonged.

Once she got further into the room she froze. "What are the heroes of light? You guys have been here longer, right? You must know something?"

She thought this factory would be full of treasures like the abandoned ones back home. She hasn't expected anything like this and it was more than a little unsettling.

[holycrows]

Henry is quick to respond to Yuffie, very matter-of-factly.

"Us! The Heroes of Light are us. Duh. Didn't the Moogles explain this all to you?"

He is following the group, mostly unperturbed by the statues. He's seen way worse, even if he wasn't a huge fan of creepy decapitated statues.

[red_planet_blues]

The marshal leaned in close to the figures to get a better look at them. Talk about uncanny resemblances. He answered Ashelia while he did so. "Yeah, just... annoyed. They tell us they can't send us home and know nothin' about how we got here or why. Talk about a load 'a hypercattle crud." He was angry about being lied to - and falling for it - but this is Sparks Nevada, so it was fairly held back.

He cocked a thumb at the figure of the woman. "Y'know, I swore I thought I saw a lady in town who looked just like Mercy, but I thought my eyes were playin' tricks on me. Didn't think much of it after that. Now I wonder what these things had to do with it."

Sparks took a closer look at his own, too, mostly around where the head was supposed to go. Maybe he could get a look at what sort of mechanical parts it had. He didn't have much of an answer for Yuffie, either. "Kid, we only been here 'bout a month longer than you. Even the books don't tell us much about the Heroes of Light, and the last ones were here so long ago, who knows how much of what they know is true."

[melodiesdungeons]

[ There doesn't appear to be any mechanisms or mechanical parts of interests where Sparks' head should be on the figure. However, it looks like the hole at the base of the heads they just found would fit just fine and click in if put on the headless figure. ]

[neverfirstclass]

That sinking feeling in Cloud's belly has only gotten worse with the discovery of that note. He made a mental note to talk to Angeal about this later when they finally got out of this place.

If they got out of this place. He watched Sparks warily as the marshal investigated the statues. He was ready for a fight, but the whole situation had him more on edge than he liked. "I'm not sure taking those things apart is a good idea."

He could guess what they're supposed to do with it. The head felt heavier under his arm, though it was pretty clear that his own wasn't needed here. "The moogles haven't told us much. They don't seem to know much more than we do, but they were the ones who brought us the news in the first place." He turned to look back from Yuffie to Sparks, "Do you think we should put the head in there?" It was the obvious question, but maybe asking it would help them come to a decision.