Event || In Your Worst Memory

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Characters: All Heroes of Light. Only those who signed-up can start a memory.
Where: Interdimensional Rift
When: May 27th - May 30th
Summary: The Heroes of Light relive some of their worst memories, with a twist. All characters participating in this will be physically missing from Crystallis for the duration of the event.
Warning: It depends on the memory.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Everything around you freezes, nearly as if time itself stopped, as if the world was frozen in time. And before you have a chance to understand what is happening, you can hear a voice right behind you.

"Kali Shashidhwaja."

Should you turn around, you may see a child who seems to be the only one aside from you unaffected by what is happening. And as she stares right at you, it makes no doubt these strange words are aimed at you. But before you can reply to her, 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 know it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, Crystallis vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see.

And once again you feel different: all the powers from your Jobs are fading. Not only that, but you might find that your Crystal is gone and your clothes back to what they were before you woke up in Crystallis. It is silent, cold and before long it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you... And yet, slowly the world reforms around you. The darkness fades away and a new world appears, yet at the same time this is not a world.

This is a memory. The question is, is it yours or that of someone else?

Comments

[unyieldingspirit]

K'pandolu stooped to check on Zelda for a moment, one ear turned towards Ramza. The way he was acting now didn't seem to fit, and she frowned as she straightened again, turning to consider him herself. The others had noticed, too, and she tilted her head towards Kidd for a moment. "Whatever it may be, we'll listen. We'd try to help," she said, a note of determination in her voice.

[zodiac_brave]

Ramza studied each of the Heroes standing around them, a little confusion starting to appear though the grief-stricken expression he wore. He lingered on the fallen Zelda, wondering why no one was accusing him of not saving her. He still heard biting words of blame whenever they spoke, but their words did not align with their expressions. He held up a hand for silence.

"You...would not say such things," he ventured, still piecing it together in his mind. Even if they felt it was true, they'd not utter those words aloud to him. They were his allies, his friends. But was he hearing their true thoughts, or was something more sinister afoot?

"You are not going to kill me," he turned to Kidd. He still spoke tentatively, not certain of his words, but gaining conviction.

He turned to MarKus, Ashelia, and K'pandolu. "You will help me rescue my sister, regardless for what happened here." Of that, he had faith. No matter his sins, he knew the caliber of the Heroes before him, and they would not leave an innocent to suffer at the hands of evil.

[desertbloomed]

Ashelia looked at K'pandolu as she stooped to check on Zelda, shaking her head slightly. Ashelia was convinced that death was transitory for the Heroes, even in this place, but the sight of one of her comrades laying there dead was still hard to take.

"Kill you? Father above, Ramza, what are you on about?"

[not_most_days]

Mary's eyebrow raised once more at Ramza's comment but she give Ramza a firm nod. "I'm not. And I hope it never comes to be that I have to. And whatever happened here is clearly beyond our ken and not a trial of your own choosing. If your sister is in trouble then of course we'll lend our aid."

Zelda having fallen still gave her cause for concern but she couldn't afford to think about it right now. It was her sincere hope that if they could get out of this place then they would be made right as rain. This was a realm of magic after all, right? That's how it should work, right?

[zodiac_brave]

Ashelia gave Ramza an incredulous look. "Killed him? Saint Ajora, Ramza, you let him just die?" The intonation was off, like she was asking him a question.

Kidd's words were also strange and stilted. "You failed. Why didn't you try harder to save him somehow. He's dead you did not save him you murderer why did you not choose to save his soul. If your sister is in trouble you cannot be trusted to render her aid." As he watched the pirate's lips move, they did not seem to quite match the words that had come out. And Kidd had nodded at him.

Things were not as they seemed.

As if the realization had somehow warped whatever spell he was under, the voices in the chapel rose higher, barking out a chorus of "Your fault!" and "You should have died instead of him!" in his friends' voices. But a slow look around the room confirmed that none of them were speaking them.

Ramza picked himself up off of the cold stone floor. He knelt down on the ground where his brother had disappeared, and murmured a quick prayer. Then he turned back to the others.

"We must away," he said, speaking loudly so he could hear himself over the ghostly voices still spitting venomous words at him. He bent down once more, this time to gather Zelda's limp body into his arms. He felt impossibly tired, but he could no more leave Zelda behind than he could abandon Alma to the Templars' clutches.