Event || Genesis

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Characters: Everyone!
Where: Aqures Tosf.
When: July 27th - August 03rd, twenty-eight years in the past.
Summary: As the Heroes of Light were transported to the past, they now have the possibility explore Aqures Tosf and take part in the events that ultimately led to their arrival in Crystallis. Feel free to start your own threads with your own prompts for everything your characters will do during this week! Please look at the OOC Post for information as to what can be done in the city and for what is happening during the Festival of Light!
Warning: N/A

Rescue
The Little Girl
Meeting NPCs
Meeting Moogles

Comments

[whereishe]

[Yuna takes the bottle and takes a very long drink before lowering it from her lips. She wipes her mouth and then glances around them as if the answers might be in those walking pass.]

It is surreal but I think we should face what we can.

[Even if it doesn’t make sense. Somehow Yuna knew that everything would work out of they kept trying. She had looked into a few things but she hasn’t really learned anything.]

I wanted to see what music they had here. We found a journal. In the ruins of the temple here, a while back. There were musical notes scribbled along the inside and I wasn’t sure what it meant.

[It might mean nothing, except to the woman who wrote it.]

[charming_jerk]

Music notes? Damn, wish I'd seen it. What else was in the notebook? Was it all just music?

[Johnny usually feels like he can't help with much, but here's one thing he does know and know well.]

[whereishe]

No, it was a lot of different things. I honestly don't know what a lot of it was. Genesis translated some of it before...

[She pauses chewing on her lip.]

Either way it's something that we can look into right?

[charming_jerk]

Yeah, I guess. I mean-- [He stops to think something over. The gears in his head are turning slowly.]

You said ya found the book when lookin' through ruins, though, right? Ruins of this place? How're we gonna, like, equate that to when this place was still normal? I think we need more to go on.

[whereishe]

[Yuna nods.]

It was Kalki’s journal. At the Temple of Fire. There were musical notes written a long the page. I don’t think they meant anything besides that Kalki liked music but it made me wonder what might have been lost with this city.

[Music is important to Yuna and if there is some lost tune here she wants to learn it and bring it back with her to the future. Assuming they get back.]

[charming_jerk]

Huh. How 'bout that. Maybe she was just writing songs in her spare time or somethin'.

If it's her journal, and it was at the Temple, maybe she was at ground zero when things went bad. But then she managed to survive?

[He's had too much to drink, so thinking clearly isn't easy. He rubs his forehead.]

I dunno, man. Maybe I oughta think this over tomorrow. Or in a few hours at least.

[whereishe]

Or maybe wait until you aren't drunk?

[She teases playfully with a smile before her expression shifts to something more serious.]

Try not to worry about it to much while we are here. We were sent to watch and I don't know if there is more that we can do about it.

[charming_jerk]

Yeah, or that. [He grins a little, for a moment. He can't agree with her second statement.]

I'm sure there's plenty here we could do. I've been on dozens 'n dozens of missions for the Initiative, sent into the past to do stuff that'd fix the present. We just need to figure out what, first.

[After a moment's thought, he decides to correct what he just said.]

Okay, so "fix" an't the right word. Change. Cuz sometimes shit went loco when we screwed with the past. We had to take the chance, though.

[whereishe]

But wouldn't we change the future? If we changed the future would our memories be rewritten?

[Yuna thought about it and ended up in a loop. She looks like she's making herself dizzy.]

I think I've just confused myself.

[charming_jerk]

Yeah, we would. Might be bad, might be good. I mean, that's what the Initiative's whole deal was. But they had ways to figure out what would change, how much, what the odds of everything was. Um, we don't. So it's all a gamble.

[Johnny shrugged exaggeratedly. He wasn't an expert, but he realizes that he's probably more of an authority on this than anyone else around, thanks to his work with the Initiative.]

All depends on what ya wanna change, and if ya think it's worth the risk.

[whereishe]

Do we really want to change anything?

[There is so much that she doesn't know. So much that she doesn't understand. She can't say for sure if one outcome would be better than the other. She'd like to know more but it doesn't feel like enough.

With a heavy sigh she finishes the beer she had swiped from Johnny moments before.]

I realize you don't have an answer to that... I just... it's a little much, you know?

[charming_jerk]

Yer right. I really can't answer that. Especially since we don't know why we're here in the first place, y'know? There was, like, a lot of math and science and theory behind the stuff the Initiative did. But I was always just a grunt. I can't even pretend for a second that I had any idea how they did what they did. I don't even know if they knew as much as they claimed to. I'm sure with even their most educated guesses, we were still mostly just rollin' for the dice and hopin' for the best.

[Now he wishes he had another drink. Now that Yuna finished hers off, maybe it was time for another round.]

Maybe it's all a bad example anyway. Crystallis and that world have a lot in common, in some ways, but they're still pretty different situations. I just wish someone hadn't gone and thrown time travel into the whole damn thing here too.

[whereishe]

I'm more used to magic than I am to science... I was learning more but that was at the place I was at before here.

[She can't really keep her studies up here.

Yuna's head tilts to the side. She would agree to another drinks besides she had to catch up to Johnny.]

So what now?

[charming_jerk]

[Johnny's response to that question is a defeated huff, as he has no idea. He looks at Yuna for a moment, thinking, a suddenly comes to a decision.]

I say we get more to drink, because I'll be damned if I know anythin' else to do about this. We're at a festival and just went through a week of hell. We deserve a night off, right?

[whereishe]

[Yuna smiles at Johnny.]

Alright.

[That's probably the best idea that Yuna has heard.]

So where do we get something else to drink?

[charming_jerk]

We find the drunkest people at the festival and convince 'em into buyin' us drinks. When yer broke, ya gotta do what ya can.

[You know, short of pickpocketing cash or stealing them. But he's trying to be good here.]

[whereishe]

[Yuna laughs softly.]

Maybe I should let the pro show me how it’s done then?

[She leans forward with a wide smile.]

Come on!