Event || The Empire Strikes Back

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Characters: Everyone participating in the event
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: July 27th to August 02nd
Summary: The battle for Aqures Ixen is about to begin! The Heroes of Light are going to do their best to defend Aqures Ixen, but will this be enough? Feel free to participate and reply to appropriate threads. New top-level threads will be posted regularly as the battle progresses.
Warning: N/A, will be updated.

July 27th || Mingle
July 28th || Bomb Defusing / Imperial Assault
July 29th || Mingle / Attack on the 13th District / Aerial Battles / Imperial Camp
July 30th || 14th District on Fire / The Hospital / Mognet Office Attacked
July 31st || The Fire Spreads / Betrayals
August 01st || The Second Wave / Ultima Weapon
August 02nd || Final

Comments

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud smiles and offers his hand. Cloud Strife. Corporal back home. Here? Hero, I guess. And Chocobo rancher.

[He chuckles and shakes his head.]

Well, if a washout like me could become a hero, maybe they can too. Good luck out there and be safe.

[unyieldingspirit]

[she reaches out to take it for a moment, with a nod and a smile.] You work with the birds, then? How do you find it?

A… washout? […he seems to be handling that weapon well enough, as best she can tell. Still, she nods.] The same to you.

[neverfirstclass]

A little smelly. And the stablehand likes to load me up with work. But the birds are taken care of and it's a good place.

[He smirks a bit as she pushes the point on the washout.] Back home I joined the military with the dream of being a big hero. A SOLDIER First Class, like my own hero. Instead I wound up only being fit for grunt work. I made another friend in SOLDIER who was trying to show me the ropes. Help make my dream come true.

[He chuckles and shakes his head.] Zack has been in crystal stasis for a long time now and ever since we got here me and Sephiroth have been almost evenly matched thanks to how this world works. It's funny, isn't it?

[unyieldingspirit]

[she chuckles at that] They do have a distinctive smell, don't they? [and her expression softens for a moment.] That's a good thing, then.

[she listens, ears twitching forwards.] Well… Everyone has to start somewhere. [start with the small tasks, Momodi had said, and build a reputation for herself. That had always been her plan, even if she hadn't gotten mixed up with the affairs of the Ul'dahn upperclass.] Having someone who'll support you should be a help, too.

[though it's not so good to hear he's caught in stasis. She nods, expression dropping for a moment.] I suppose it is. It seems almost as if it wants to start everyone on the same footing.

[neverfirstclass]

Yeah. We have our hands full right now but I still wonder why it is we've been picked and were given these powers. I mean, whatever Kalki is saying about the Calamity probably has something to it but... [The who and why, the force more than any vague things that Kalki had been telling them, that's what Cloud still wonders about.]

Sorry. I have a lot on my mind right now. There will be time to find out more about all of this once this battle is over. Be safe out there, okay?

[unyieldingspirit]

I'd like to hear more about it from other people. [why should they trust her, after all?]

[she nods, expression serious. If they come through this…] Of course. I'll see you when this is all done.