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

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Jack shrugs. "Energy's energy." He pulls the small machine out of his pocket and shows the screen to Johnny. It still displays their current year (3943268), not the previous graph that he had seen.

"How she did it? Not sure. What she used to do it? We kept popping up at the Crystal of Fire, right? There's got to be some kind of stored energy from those shifts, that's become a focus point for each of our pulls from our worlds to this one." Jack puts the manipulator away, trades it for his crystal, instead. "And these are the other focus."

[charming_jerk]

Johnny thinks this over, looking a little annoyed. This stuff was so confusing.

"I still wanna know why the Crystal calls us here. If it's workin' off stored energy, like, using energy to make our crystals and bring us here, what happens when it runs out? What if ours run out? I mean, Kalki probably used the Fire Crystal to send us here. So is she why we showed up, too?"

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

"Trrrue..." said very slowly as Johnny has just brought up a thought that hasn't come before. "Make our crystals, what if these are smaller pieces of something larger? Either, the Crystal of Fire, itself, or..."

Jack looks at Johnny sideways. "Remember the- memory-dreams?" A little reluctant to bring it up, because both Jack and Johnny saw some awfully personal things about each other there, and neither one wants to talk about it, thank you very much.

But he is going somewhere with this. "There was this- in-between place. What if these," holds up his own crystal, "are pieces of that crystal? Something to-" Jack shakes his head and holds up a hand, as if he's unsure, "I dunno, tie us to this world?"

[charming_jerk]

"But can draw us back and forth to that dream place."

He considers a moment, and then shakes his head in a quick motion to clear the thought.

"Shit, dude, I ain't in any shape to try 'n puzzle this out now. Or maybe if I drink more, it'll all start making sense. Sure as hell can't make less at this point."

He sighs and finishes off what was left in his mug. Beer will take care of this problem for now.

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Jack pauses, and then he laughs into his own drink. "I'm sorry. Really. It's a hard thing to turn off. Used to be my job to," what's the word he's looking for? "Analyze. Solve a problem before it blows up this big. We just wanna know what's going on. Even if we don't have a clue at figuring it out."

He takes a long drink, and then makes a noise like he's figured something out. Swallows, then gestures with his drink. "You know. You know. I don't think I'd be quite as pissed off about all this, if it didn't feel like this whole thing was directly rigged against us figuring it out. Kalki. The people in the castle. All of 'em."

[charming_jerk]

"'N my job was to do whatever mission the Initiative sent me on, so we could fix things." A sudden realization makes Johnny suddenly pull a surprised yet disgusted face. "Jesus Christ. They really did make a solider outta me." He shakes his head, as if that would clear that label from him, and wished his glass wasn't so empty now.

"Sure does seem like no one on any side wants us to know shit here. We're just, like, runnin' from one stupid thing to the next and actin' like we got a clue. We don't know shit. Some Heroes we are."