Intro Log || The Return of the Heroes

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Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of September. 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. It marks the first time since January that Heroes of Light have appeared in Aqures Ixen.
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." Hand clutched on your Crystal, the call of the Moogle may finally wake 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 dock beneath 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 have arrived in the course of the past year and they will come soon! Like you, they have Jobs and a Crystal.

If asked, the Moogles will mention that the city was recently attacked by the Heran Empire and nearly destroyed by Ultima Weapon. What's the Heran Empire? What's Ultima Weapon? Better to ask to the heroes who saw it 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 within the past year. 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 when they told you about how they fiercely battled each other past month. 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 tragic 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 City of Aqures Ixen
— Anytime —
With the recent attack, Aqures Ixen is under reconstruction. The city was saved for the most part, but there are ruined buildings, the Sixth District is nothing but wasteland now and the Thirteenth District has become a graveyard. Even so, there are a lot of things left to do in the city for newcomers. A few groups of Triple Triad players are playing before Mognet Office in the ninth district, mostly Moogles as many of them are not working after what happened. And of course, 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-- Mognet Office just behind the Triple Triad games is filled with Moogles, most of them panicked, tired, busy or slacking now that their director has disappeared. They can also visit Airship Port in the twelfth district from where characters can board for free Airships from Shoopuf Airline-- Though they have to make a request 48 hours in before to do so.

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.


Close Encounters of the Third Kind
— 19:00 —
Characters venturing by the city's outskirts at this specific time will be able to see a most peculiar sight: a flying saucer seemingly abducting a cow before flying away and disappearing into the sky without leaving any traces of its presence. If your character do see it, hopefully there will be someone with them. Otherwise, nobody will believe their story.

Was it an UFO or just a hallucination? Only the future will tell...

Comments

[kobatonotdobato]

"My name is Kobato Hanato. Though most people just call me Kobato." She didn't think he was being rude though and she was pretty sure she had met some rude people. But as she looked at Ursa for a moment the moogle nodded back slightly. "Sorry that you came at a pretty bad time though." Kobato added, a small frown passing by her lips.

"We just had a lot happen over the past couple of months and it;s knocked a lot out of the people here both natives and heroes."

[areasontohope]

"I came here at a bad time?" This question was asked softly as usual but he saw her frown and wondered at the reason for it.

"A lot happened? What's been going on?" And while he hadn't meant to ask questions, Yuki's curiousity got the better of him as it sometimes did. He didn't know whether or not to trouble her for answers since she did frown at mentioning it, but he was suddenly in a world that he knew absolutely nothing about.

[kobatonotdobato]

"Well you could have come at a worse time, before all the fighting that happened and then odd things happened and...I don't exactly know how to explain what exactly happened without it hurting my head a little." Time travel was not a easy thing for the young woman to understand, so she wasn't sure that they could understand it himself.

"But...As you look around you'll noticed what damage has happened, so right now a lot of people are trying there best to help rebuild."

[areasontohope]

He didn't know anything about what she was talking about, but he was determined to make sure that he would look around to see the things that she was talking about. Surely she knew more than him so Yuki knew that it was a good thing to stop and take notice.

Not being much of a fighter other than one on one didn't exactly help him either, so he was determined to try and figure that part out. "Are..the new people helping rebuild too?"

[kobatonotdobato]

That was an interesting question and not one she knew the answer to, after all she hadn't really seen many of the new arrivals just yet. Maybe in passing but not talking, face to face.

"I don't know. I hope they do, but I can understand if they don't. It's odd suddenly arriving here in a new place after all." It had been a year since she had that feeling, now for her this place was pretty much home.

[areasontohope]

Yuki shook his head and stopped himself before he could ask a question that would be too forward. But one he could ask which was a sort of version of his original question.

"Are you helping rebuild your home here too Miss Hanato?"

It was his way of seeing if she was native to this place and how long she'd been there. Yuki found that he was curious about Kobato. In a way or two she reminded him of Miss Honda and in a few others of Machi.

And that was where Yuki turned his head away so that he didn't dwell on wondering what was happening back there.

[kobatonotdobato]

"Uh, yes. Though it wasn't as damaged as some others it still got burnt in some places." She didn't know how long it was going to take or if they would even let her handle anything big without her messing up or falling over.

"But... there are many other places that were worse off. many people lost there homes completely." It made her more than a little sad and it was obvious as she started to look around. She really wished she could do more.

"But we are doing our best to make the natives happier a day at a time."

[areasontohope]

"You.." and then he cut himself off. Her unselfish nature was pretty hard to ignore and Yuki found himself drawn to that kindness, one that was bestowed on him once by Miss Honda.

His gaze turned back to look at two children playing ball and he shook his head. Maybe he was just being a child again, thinking only of himself when he'd learned that the world didn't revolve around him.

Yuki was more of a one on one person but he had to ask. "What is it that motivates you to help them?" If she wasn't a native, he was simply curious as to what made her tick,

[kobatonotdobato]

"I..." She tilted her head slightly, she was sure there was more to it than that, but she couldn't figure out what it was exactly, but when he spoke again she had to really think about the answer.

"Well... I don't know exactly. I just... I guess I don't like seeing people being so sad. Especially now. Especially since it was partly our fault." Her eyes looked over to the kids playing ball, they seemed happy enough and that was enough to give her a small smile, but as she spoke she didn't feel like they had achieved much.

"But I guess that's what motivates me. It might seem stupid, though, but I don't mind."

[areasontohope]

"Our fault?" Yuki cocked his head to the side and couldn't really help it. How was it possible that she was taking the blame when she wasn't a native from what she was telling him.

"I don't think it's stupid." And Yuki wondered why he thought his opinion would matter here because it really didn't at the end of the day. But if she was one to try and stop people from suffering and being sad, he didn't figure that was stupid at all.

[kobatonotdobato]

She nodded "Because of who we are is probably the best reason to explain it... I mean it was because we were here that they attacked this place and as you can see... a lot of casualties happened." She glanced to the side, she knew that she had offered to help out as much as possible, even if it was just healing people with her White Magic.

Though she was surprised that he thought it wasn't stupid. Really she would have thought there would be someone who had thought that, but so far she found that to not be the case. Giving a small smile, she was brightening up a bit.

"I'm glad you don't think so. It makes me happy knowing that."

[areasontohope]

He shook his silvery head. "I don't understand. We're brought here because someone makes us and then they attack because we're here." His hand went to his head. "That lacks both logic and common sense."

The hand went down when she said that she was happy knowing that he didn't think her stupid. "I mean..you care about people..and that's important."

[kobatonotdobato]

"I don't think the Empire ever wanted us here. It's someone else completely. Someone we all trusted, but now we know we shouldn't have." Her eyes were always on the ground with each word she spoke, she couldn't bring herself to look up for the moment.

"Caring is important, right? I mean back home I would be doing it for my mission, but here... I had no reason to want to help, but I did anyway. What do you think you will do while here? Will you do your own thing or help?"

[areasontohope]

"If we don't know who brought us here, how could someone betray us that we shouldn't have trusted?" Again he felt like his head was spinning out of control because now here he was saying 'we' and 'us'.

And Yuki really wasn't sure as to why she kept looking at the ground. For some reason it bothered him but he couldn't really explain why. None of this was her fault and she seemed to be taking it personally.

So he took a step towards her and shook his head. "Caring is the most important thing." Machi and Miss Honda had shown him that much. Yuki shook his head at her last question. "I..don't really feel like I have much choice but to try to help. But then maybe we can go home afterwards."

[kobatonotdobato]

"Well we recently figured out something that happened so many years ago that happened that was to start up brining us heroes to this world, so we know who was the cause of this whole thing starting, but they have since run away." She held her hands firmly in front of herself before glancing to the side. Caring was important and it was what she was meant to be back home, to be able to achieve her goals. But deep down that had never been an issue.

"You do have a choice though, I mean some might just stick to things like working while others do get more involved since they all believe that beating this calamity is what will send us home. But overall, it's all up to you and what steps you take."

[areasontohope]

The silvery head shook. "I really don't know what I can do to help." And that was honest, here he felt lost and he wasn't familiar with just about everything that was here. Survival wasn't too bad here as a whole even if he wasn't sure what to do about this long coat.

Glancing around, Yuki saw more people going about their day to day lives and he sighed. "There has to be something I can do to help though..no matter how small." It was a part of the rest of the process he was going through, to be able to grow into something and someone that he could be proud of.

[kobatonotdobato]

"I'm sure you'll be able to find out how to help." Kobato was already trying her best to be positive about all the things in the hopes that it would help people.

"If you aren't sure I can always tell you what people do around here to give you ideas."

[areasontohope]

"If I need that in the future I'll be sure to ask." Really Yuki didn't want to come off as a pest or needy even if right now he didn't have the first clue in his head as to how he was going to help. But books and libraries and research would prove fruitful, that much he knew already.

[kobatonotdobato]

She just nodded, she somewhat understood anyway. As she looked around she realized she had things to do right now. "Ah, I should leave you to have a wonder and get to know this place." And with those words she turns on her heels and starts to head off.

[areasontohope]

He wasn't sure what to say, but he bowed his head. "Thank you." And he meant every word.

And as she turned to go, Yuki's eyes watched until she disappeared from sight. And once she was gone, he sighed and turned around to continue on his own way.