Intro Log || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

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Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of October. The new Heroes of Light will awaken early in the morning.
Summary: The new Heroes of Light awaken in Aqures Ixen and are informed by their assigned Moogles of what the situation and what their destinies are. This a log for them to react to the situation, meet each other and be welcomed by the former batches of Heroes of Light. New Heroes of Light will not have their Crystal.
Warning: N/A

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Within an instant, the world around you collapses. Reality twists and shatters... Or maybe you are the one who is collapsing and shattering away from reality as you knew it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, your world vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see. Even you feel different: all the powers you might once have had, are now gone. It is silent, cold and it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you.

At this moment, when it looks as though nothing but a never-ending void awaits you, a red Crystal forms before you. In this void, its warmth compels you to grab it. Upon doing so, you can hear a soft, soothing voice speaking:


"Wake up."

Soon, the void itself vanishes and is replaced by distant noises of engines. Had it all been nothing more than a dream? The soothing voice repeats its call one more time, but is soon replaced with a much less graceful "Wake up Kupo," the call of the Moogle finally waking you up. But you are no longer in your world, nor in the void. You are before the Crystal of Fire, in the third district of a city called Aqures Ixen. At this point, you may realize the engine noise actually originates from an Airship flying low over the city and headed to the castle. As if it wasn't strange enough, your clothes have changed as well. They are now a reflection of the Jobs you are wielding. Last but not least, you are surrounded by Moogles, small and fluffy creatures who are more than happy to tell you about everything you want to know, about your 'destiny' as a Hero of Light, about what awaits you.

Or at least, they will tell you everything they do know, which isn't much in the end.

The only people around you are like you-- There are quite a few of them, all clothed in their Job garbs and most likely wondering what is happening. If somehow you do not realize it, the Moogle who woke you up will be more than happy to inform you there are others like you around. In fact, there are other Heroes who arrived these past months too and they will come soon! Like you, they had Jobs and a Crystal-- Wait, you don't have a Crystal...? That's weird.

Your Moogle will be puzzled by this fact, as all Heroes of Light are supposed to have a crystal with them. Well, maybe you are not a Hero of Light after all?


The Other Heroes
— Shortly Thereafter —
Thanks to the efficiency of Mognet, it does not take long for the other Heroes to come around: those who arrived in this world one or two months ago. You may have imagined heroic and charismatic figures when your Moogle told you that there were other Heroes of Light in this city. You may have imagined persons with fearsome powers worthy of being revered as heroes. And more importantly, you may have imagined them as people who would have all the answers to your, doubtlessly, numerous questions.

If so, you may be up for a minor disappointment. Still, for the most part they know more than you on the situation and may be more than happy to fill you in, especially if your Moogle didn't tell you much.


The Night of the Thirteen Moogles
— Anytime —
Something that may be obvious, is that the city has a spooky feel to it. There are various decorations, it clearly looks like a work in progress but it seems the idea is to make the city looks as scary as possible. Characters familiar with Halloween may recognize the decoration as being strikingly similar. The Moogles will be more than pleased to explain these are all preparations for the upcoming Night of the Thirteen Moogles on the 31st, and they will explain the legends to characters if they ask.

Hopefully all this talk of curse and King Moggle Mog is nothing more than legend.


The City of Aqures Ixen
— Anytime —
There are a lot of things left to do in the city, especially with everyone excited for the upcoming celebration. Starting from 18:00, a series of BLitzball games will take place at the stadium located in the tenth district, opposing amateur teams in a friendly competition. At the same time, a small group of Triple Triad players are playing before Mognet Office in the ninth district, and they are more than happy to teach the rule to anyone passing by. Characters are free to enter and play games of Triple Triad, and if they do so they will be given very basic cards and explained the rules. This may be the start of a promising career!

Characters are also free to visit the city-- Be it Mognet Office just behind the Triple Triad games is filled with very busy Moogles, or the Airship Port in the twelfth district from where characters can board for free Airships from Shoopuf Airline, knowing the next airship departing from Aqures Ixen will do so on the 9th. Still, characters can board an exposition Airship should they like and visit it.

Or maybe you could visit your new house in the 11th District, and get to know your new neighbors and housemate. Hopefully your neighbors are people you will get along with.

Comments

The Other Heroes/Anywhere

[umslay]

"Hm?" Ales had been talking to his Moogle regarding the missing crystals, but the new hero speaking to him took priority. "Sure, ask me anything!"

It had been a while since others viewed him as the knowledgeable one, and despite the fact that he had been here for only a month, his instincts told him to explain any of the basics.

[dragonflame]

Now that she had managed to get someone's attention, she was happy about starting an investigation of figuring things out.

"I just wanted to know if you would happen to know anything about crystals? My moogle friend mentioned I should have one, but I don't. So I thought I would try and find the answer as to why."

[umslay]

"Ah, yes, the crystals." He was sure he knew enough about them. "They're apparently what marks us as the Heroes of Light, as we all wake up with them." He took out a spherical crystal from his pocket and held it out for Bloom to see. It' was red as the one seen in their visions.

"They are what give us the power to use Jobs and the abilities associated with them. People from this world can also use Jobs, but not to the extent we can, and they certainly can't change them like us."

He put it back in his pocket. "But I'm not exactly sure why you don't have them. Why else would you be brought into this world?"

[dragonflame]

Bloom couldn't help but lean in slightly to take a closer look. So that is what they look like. Kind of reminded her of the crystal she had when she changed into Bloomix, but it wasn't the same at all. Not at all.

Standing up straight she couldn't help but be somewhat confused. "I'm not sure myself, I was kind of hoping to find answers and see if it can be explained. So did anything happen before new people like me arrived? Sometimes little things might change something."

[umslay]

"I don't think so?" He rested his chin on a closed hand. "We have started looking into the crystals and why they function the way they do, but nothing that would have changed the very nature of them." At least, not intentionally, if some of them had accidentally done something they shouldn't have.

"But still, I apologize on behalf of Jessie and the others that your arrival did not go as smoothly as possible. I really hope they have an explanation for this."

[dragonflame]

That was interesting to say the least. There was nothing different, but it seems something different happened never the less but no one would know the answer too? She couldn't help but give a tiny sigh and smile, it didn't give her the answers she wanted, but it was still something at least.

"Thank you for telling me, I hope someday it will be explained. My name's Bloom by the way. It's nice to meet you."

[umslay]

"Oh, I wish it would be explained right away!" he said desperately. "This whole hero business hinges on the fact we can use our crystals!"

But there was no use in complaining about it now, as he had no power over finding out what happened. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Bloom. I'm Ales!" The smile returned to his face.

[dragonflame]

"I have to admit though, I don't quite get why they take away abilities we have and give us new ones? Could we still be heroes and help them while still keeping what we had before? Why the change?" That had been something pondering the young woman. Taken were her powers and replaced with new ones she had to quickly learn how to use again.

[umslay]

New abilities? Ales was sure that the crystals expanded on your current ones instead of giving you entirely new ones.

"What kind of abilities were taken away from you, then?"

[dragonflame]

"I was in my home world the keeper of a power that could never be destroyed. So I kind it kind of ironic that it got taken away here and yet in any other situation either I was the only one with magic left or the power never left me even when I thought it had."

But here was different and it made her even more curious as to how they managed to take it away from her.

[umslay]

"So...you had some sort of important power in you? I'm actually surprised that they could've taken that away from you." Unless...

"Did someone mess with the order of things in your world, and that's what caused your magic to disappear?"

[dragonflame]

"That is what I was always told anyway." She admitted, being quite open about it. She trusted that even if she did have her power this guy wouldn't take it.

She knew what her situation was before she ended up here, but that had managed to sort itself out so she couldn't think of anything else off the top of her head. "We did have an incident. But before I arrived here it was resolved. So it couldn't be that reason. What about you, did you have powers before you came here?"

[umslay]

There was always a way, Ales told himself. If someone could get into the heart of their world and mess around with the source of magic, it would be possible to remove it.

"What kind of incident? Could it have happened again?"

Hopefully, Bloom would forget her question to him, as he didn't want to think of the best way to respond to that right now.

[dragonflame]

She shook her head slightly, "Not to take it away no, the incident just made me very weak because of actions I took." But she did it for her friends so that they could fight alongside her against the new or in this case old enemy, the Trix.

Right now she had put the other question to the back of her mind for now.

[umslay]

"What sort of actions? If those can weaken your powers, who's to say that something similar is happening here."

He then remembers his previous train of thought. "Is your power tied to some place in your world?"

[dragonflame]

"I just gave up a bit of my power to my friends, I don't think that is happening here as my powers aren't here." She admitted, knowing full well that problem was already passed and she had to think on other things instead.

"No to some place, more something."

[umslay]

His eyes lit up at that moment. "And that something is back home? Does it need to be protected.?"

[dragonflame]

Well technically she had to admit that something was her and that the power she wielded belong to solely her, but she knew at the same time it had belonged to a great dragon before that.

"I guess in a sense it is. I mean I'm the guardian of the power so it's solely mine to use, but people do tend to want to take it for one reason or another. So I guess it is something I protect myself by using it to fight." She answered starting to wonder if that was a little too confusing.

[umslay]

"Then it is possible for whoever brought you here to take away that power. But if they wanted you to save the world, why would they want to make you less powerful?"

No sense at all, especially since this world was just as reliant on magic as both of theirs. Was her magic incompatible with this world's? The mystical can be fickle like that.

"I might have to look into this sometime soon and find an explanation."

[dragonflame]

"Possible, but it would take great magic to do so. After all I've found it never really leaves me but here... It has to be greater than even that to have a chance of taking it away." She paused at the question she was asked, she honestly didn't know herself nor could the moogle actually answer her either when she asked before.

"I don't know, whoever brought us here would know but, well... we aren't going to get that answered any time soon."

But when he mentioned about looking into it, she had to admit she kind of wanted to look for answers too. "If you need help trying to find an explanation, I'm always willing to help."

[umslay]

Ales sighed. He never really understood why magic worked this way, which was why he was glad that he didn't deal with it. But if there was something powerful enough to steal someone's magic entirely, who was to say it didn't have the ability to ruin the world?

"I'll go to the library to look at it. You might want to go as well, since you'd have an idea where to start looking."

[dragonflame]

Going to the library was always a good first place to go in her mind, after all there were so many books and she would have thought that there would at least be one book that will give them the answers. At least this is what she believed.

"It's always a good first stop in finding answers, so I'll be more than happy to go to the library myself."

[umslay]

"Fantastic! We can always head there together. I have some things I'd like to look at while there as well."

He was meaning to visit the library more often, but his recent find of mechanical parts made him too obsessed with organizing them and thinking of ways to use the, causing him to neglect his studies of the world. Besides, he could always check out books on Crystallis engineering.

[dragonflame]

"Some things? There's something else that you are curious about?"

She asked as she had already started to walk with no idea of where she was meant to be going, but she figured the other would know anyway. She wondered if there was more to this world other than what they were originally meant to be here for.

[umslay]

"Well, first off, I'm studying how airships stay afloat in this world. They are some of the most complex machinery I've even seen, yet I still don't know how they're powered." Seeing multiple large flying machines have him a goal in this world, which was to build one of his own, only better.

"One a less personal note, there's a few things about the importance of crystals here I need to learn. Why we have them, what powers they have, you know."

He kekept walking down the street until he reached a fork in the road. "Where are you headed? If you want to return home, you'll have to take that road." He pointed towards the left.