melodiesoflife | Intro Log || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

Intro Log || The Night of the Thirteen Moogles

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.

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

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.

"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."

"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."

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."

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."

"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.

"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.

"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.

"Airships..." She had to admit she hadn't seen an airship yet even with her small amount of exploration, but he did mention that to could stay afloat, so she couldn't help but wonder something.

"Are you trying to say that it continuously stays afloat or something else? Because in my world we have things that float through the skies too."

She kept walking till the fork in the road as she started to wonder where she was going to head next. She could go and see where she'll be living or she could go the other route and see what would happen.

"Well, I did think I should at least do some research but at the same time I should go see my new living arrangements. It's quite a hard choice."

"They're used for transportation via air, yet are so massive and well constructed! We have a few similar things back in my home world, but nothing as elegant as this! The pirates' was rather clunky, I hear, but considering they were also robots, it was expected of them to be such great engineers." He smiled as he spoke of the ship. "And there used to be a massive fortress in the sky, which required a greater energy source than anything else. It fell apart, though, but it was wonderful while it lasted."

He face fell at the end of that, lost in his own world, but then he jerked his head towards Bloom. "Sorry about that tirade. This marvels of engineering just get me so winded."

He put his smile back on. "I'd recommend seeing your living quarters first. It'd be much safer if you knew where to return if you found yourself leaving the library on you own."

"Sounds like a few things we would of had back in the world I came from too." So in her mind it wasn't anything so fascinating right at this moment, maybe later though. She paused afterwards, pirates that were robots is what she thought he meant in his sentence, but at the same time she couldn't be sure.

"So...pirates that were clunky and are robots? Did I get that right? And that was from your worlds, right?" She asked taking some sort of interested in how others lived their lives at least.

She gave a small nod, so she was going to head to her new room first then. With that now sorted she smiled looking at him. "Then I shall go see my new place and settle in, then maybe we'll see each other again."

"Well, they themselves were pretty well-made, but their flying ship was made in a rush by those criminals, from what I heard." Frankly, he was impressed that a group of people could build aircraft, though he wished that they didn't use their resources to spread chaos.

"They weren't too common, at least in my homeland, thought I think robots are more common in other parts of the world."

He shrugged and gave a little wave at Bloom. "A wonderful idea! I'll be heading to my house for a moment, then straight to the library."

She gave a small nod of her head, paying attention to his every word. It was quite interesting to hear about other worlds after all.

"So I guess here you'll see them more here than at your home world. I'm sure that is a very nice thing for you." She said giving a small smile. For now that she knew from here they would be going different ways as she gave a small wave, starting to head off the other way.

"I'll see you around hopefully."

Crystallis was an unfamiliar world with none of the species he knew back home, but he really enjoyed how so many here embraced the wonders of futuristic technology.

"Oh, yes. This is like a wonderful trip where I can study up on construction!" He didn't mention the bits where he was terrified for his life during quests that he was dragged into.

"So long, then!" He gave her a hearty wave and turned his way.

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