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

[melodiesnpcs]

[ She turned to Yuffie. ]

I think they had new Jobs. I had heard the Empire had been was working on creating new Jobs but I didn't think they would succeed, let alone implant them within active agents.

[thegreatninja]

Wait...

[Yuffie stops and stares.]

So they were like spies or something?

[melodiesnpcs]

I believe so. They were after special crystals stored here. Another group helped as one of them came here to question me.

[red_planet_blues]

Do you guys have any idea what's going on out there? We walked into one room that had replicas of our heads in them. And then a room full of wax figures that looked like people from my planet. And those spies? We fought one of 'em, the eyepatch guy, and he--

[Sparks doesn't have the energy to be as irritated as he'd like. His shoulders fall as he lets out a slow breath.]

We lost someone in that fight, y'know.

[melodiesnpcs]

Wax figures?

[ But then she paused as he mentioned someone died during the battle. ]

...

[melodiesnpcs]

... We are sorry for your loss.

[ He sounds genuinely sorry. Even Biggs has stopped his cold stare. Well, a bit less cold anyway. ]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie is trying to push the thought of Clouds death from her mind. He really had been their hero when they needed it.]

So you know nothing?

[melodiesnpcs]

The spies were after four black crystals we kept in the facility. Very dangerous crystals, they're part of why this facility was closed. They got at least two of them, they asked me where the last two were. Another group stopped them before they could get answers out of me. I don't know if they got the remaining two.

[desertbloomed]

Sorry...for our loss?

[Ashelia looks just awful. Her face is all bloody from the back of her head being rammed into the wall. She clutches her midsection with one arm, breathes shallow - possibly a broken rib? Both her lower legs are also covered in blood, though the bullet wounds have been healed.]

Corporal Strife gave his life trying to find and protect you, a young life cut down in a world not his own, for a cause not his own. You will tell us what these black crystals are, how the Empire managed to infiltrate so far into your defenses, why such dangerous crystals were simply abandoned in an old facility, who this Kalki is and what you plan to do now that the Empire has effectively declared war!

[melodiesnpcs]

I'm sorry, I--

[ But Wedge is interrupted as Biggs starts speaking. ]

Soldiers under my commands have died before, but their death have never entitled me to give orders around and act as if I were the center world. We shall grieve, but his death does not entitle you to give us orders. [He looks at Wedge.] Very heroic behavior indeed.

[melodiesnpcs]

[ Wedge just facepalms when Biggs is done speaking. ]

[desertbloomed]

That boy was not a soldier! [Ashelia coughs, wincing at the pain in her ribs. Yelling at Biggs is clearly taking a toll on her.] Have you no shame? We saved you - civilians saved you, and more than one of them died trying to do it. You owe us answers.

[She looked at Wedge, a questioning look on her face. Most of her fire was gone already.] Wedge? I know you at least feign to possess a conscience.

[melodiesnpcs]

Let's not call each other names, shall we?

[ He motioned to both Ashelia and Biggs for them to calm down, Biggs just shook his head annoyingly. Wedge then took a pause. ]

I don't know why the crystals were kept here. Guess we couldn't store them anywhere else. I don't know what they did exactly either, you'd need to ask Dr. Cid for that, and he's most likely prisoner of the empire. This being said, as the former director of this facility, it is not impossible to imagine they got from him the intel on how to infiltrate this place. He's the only person aside from Jessie who would have known how to do it.

[holycrows]

[Midway through their conversation Henry finally manages to wander in with the rest of his party.]

Someone say prisoner? Sounds like a rescue mission! When do we start?

[melodiesnpcs]

We don't even know where they're keeping him.

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie tilts her head to the side.]

It doesn't mean you can't try, just be sneaky.

[Part of her wants to help but she doesn't want more people to die. Cloud had been from her home world and now he's never go back.]

[melodiesnpcs]

We did try and...

[ A pause. ]

Let's simply say that operations in imperial territories generally end up being one-way trips. We've already lost too many people to them.

[thegreatninja]

...oh...

[Yuffie will quietly stand to the side for a moment.]

[red_planet_blues]

Why are we-- Okay, let's just... table that idea for a minute. This place needs to be shut down or whatever immediately. Is there an AI or intercom or something? We ain't the only team here, y'know, practically all the Heroes are runnin' around this place. They need to know about those other two spies, if'n they ain't run into 'em already.

And then after that, yer gonna tell me who Kalki is, and why we found our fake heads in a box when we showed up here.

[melodiesnpcs]

One other group has fought one of the intruders. Wedge told me a group he met fought another one. if like you they won, with the security system deactivated this place should be safe. Moogles are going to search every room soon and we should receive reinforcement from Esdham by tonight.

As for fake heads, I have no idea what you are talking about?

[melodiesnpcs]

Kalki you say? [A pause.] That's a name that sounds familiar. Pretty sure I heard it before.

[red_planet_blues]

There was a note in the box, with the name Kalki on it. There were copies of our heads in there, with red eyes. We took 'em with us, and in another room, we found five full statues things of people I know back from Mars. And I mean they looked exactly like 'em. Mine was there too, missin' it's head. There was a note on it - "Have you wondered what a Hero of Light is" or somethin' like that.

So, we decided to pop the head on mine. The eyes went from red to blue. Then the other five statues knelt down, and mine hit a switch that made these big blades fall from the ceiling and lop their heads clean off.

[Sparks just shakes his head, still confused about that.] It was, uh. It was pretty weird. Think someone's tryin' real hard to make a statement. They're prob'ly still in that room, if ya wanna take a look for yerselves.

But weirdest part? I swear I saw someone in town that looked like someone I know from back on Mars. Thought my mind was playin' tricks on me, but now I ain't so sure.

[Sparks gives the three each an appraising and distrustful look.]

So. If y'all keep sayin' you don't know how we get here, or from where, well... someone out there sure does.

[melodiesnpcs]

[ The three of them remain silent Sparks tell them what happened... With different levels of reaction. Wedge looks surprised, Biggs a mixture of annoyed and surprised, whereas Jessie seems to have a scientific interest in the matter.

And Artemicion, well he just flies around. ]

Someone out there... Kalki... Hm.

[ He sighs and thinks some more, looking questioningly at Biggs and Jessie. ]

[melodiesnpcs]

[ And Biggs is the first one to reply. ]

The Triumvirat. Only Kalki I've ever heard of.

[desertbloomed]

The Triumvirat? [Ashelia looks between Wedge and Biggs, one eyebrow raised.] Some kind of organization? This Lady Kalki was not one of the three intruders we encountered. Is there a third party involved in all this? Or is The Triumvirat Heran military?

[After another Cure spell cast on herself, Ashelia brings out the wax figure of her head. She holds it in front of her, arm shaking a little less than before.] This, in likeness to each of us. I noticed a similar effect to the woman's illusion spell when Henry and Yuffie opened the box containing them.