melodiesoflife | A Fighting-Soaked Past Time

Who: Meteor (The Adventurer), OPEN
What: Money's getting low. Time to go hunting.
When: 10/25 to 27
Where: Outskirts of Town, Aqures Ixen borderlining Calm Plains
Warnings: FF14 Violence

A. In Town
Meteor realized he was getting low on money.

While monsters dropped gil back home, it wasn't an assured thing here. But it was good income if he could take and loot a little mini dungeon or find some kind of request board.

So, placing out a open mognet letter to be delivered, and his location, Meteor took his time off and went hunting.

You can catch him early on, saddling up his chocobo, getting bags and provisions up.

B. Midday Early 24th

Meteor's taking a break, skinning some of the furs and preparing the hides for curing. There had been no end of the monsters once he had waltzed bravely, or foolishly into the middle of a monster nest and soon, the axe-wielding warrior was fighting off monsters left and right. Currently he's sitting in a circle of dead enemies, tending to some minor wounds and sipping on a hi potion.

He isn't hard to find, the small area where he had fought was probably littered with corpses and the occasional bomb corpse. He's already looting fingers and other things from the enemies, and gathering up gil.

C. Old Flashbacks, 26th

MARBORO! Well, this was annoying. The monster was lashing everywhere with its tendrils and Meteor ran and ducked around it. Slashing at its tendrils with a power break, he Jumped to avoid a gust of toxic bad breath.

Leaping on a outstretched tendril, he bounced up onto its head and started hacking away. "Just... lay... down, and die!" Exclaimed Meteor angrily, slamming his axe. "I swear, steropes are just as bad as you and you won't fall!"

Thrown from it, his moogle sighed. "That's what you get for attacking it recklessly."

"How was I supposed to know this is basically a group enemy?" demanded Meteor, dodge rolling to the side and slashing in a spinning arc right into the tendrils, chopping two free. "Oh pick those up will you?"

His moogle sighed. "Shouldn't we be getting back soon?"

"Once this falls. I shant be running from this beast." He ducked a lashing tendril and hit him with another attack. "T'would be easier if I was not fighting the equivalent of an elite mark!"

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"I bought some extra potions just in case." She missed having white mage equipped but she likes time mage as well and having her sword was an odd comfort from home. As her things are strapped to the chocobo she adjusts her cloak and then gets ready to head out.

"Tempest said to call if we needed more."

She had a whistle that Rikku had given her that was able to call the little moogle to her side.

He nodded, making a mental tally of those who he could call upon when things get tough. "Times like this, it makes me wish for the Teleport ability I used to have," he said.

"But at the same time,I also miss linkpearls as well."

"Linkpearls?"

Terra's head cants curiously to the side.

"What are those?"

She knew what teleportation was thanks to her own time mage job, of course that only worked across short distances and usually during battle but she didn't have a frame of reference for Linkpearls.

"Linkpearls are small crystals that we use to communicate over long distances. Each one of them has up to 8 frequencies that we can utilize. Sort of like, I think a radio that the garleans use."

He tapped his ear and out rolled a small pearl. "I keep it here, just in case, but you never know if it works or not."

Terra peeked over at the little pearl. She knew about radio's but this looked like something far more amazing. She then looked up at Meteor with a curious gaze.

"It is magic?"

"In a sense. In my world we have energy that surrounds and binds all living, and non-living things called aether. Every person is born with this power, and that allows us to cast magic, heal, and use spells such as Return and Teleport.

This simple looking device captures the frequency of an aetheric flow, and allows us to communicate from long distances, across hundreds of yalms and even malms. They're several hundred foot-feet away. Often even across the whole of the continent.

A properly attuned Linkpearl can store up to 8 frequencies, and listen to chatter from all sorts of people you meet who share the same chatter, and you can talk to them too."

With that long winded explanation, he let Terra look at it more thoroughly.

Terra was glad that he was willing to explain as well as let her inspect the curious little object. Everything he said felt so foreign to her. It was very difficult to understand though she was trying her best. As she rolled the bead around in her palm she spoke, her voice soft and calm despite the fact that the topic of magic usually makes her uncomfortable.

“My world doesn’t like magic. It’s feared and most people can’t use it unless they undergo test.” Much like Celes did. “Humans can’t naturally use magic at all.” She looked back up at him, bright blue eyes shining as she handed back the small pearl. It was very pretty and it sounded more useful than missives or moogles, honestly it would be really nice to have something like that here though she was sure like most things it would be misused.

“We should get going.” Terra didn’t hate talking about her home but it usually left a bitter taste in her mouth.

She stepped to the side placing one hand on the Chocobo before stepping towards their destination. She hadn’t told Tempest how long she might be away but she assumed that she’d be back tomorrow. She glanced over at Sea, a light smile pulling at her lips.

“Can you tell me more about your home?” There were chances to run into monsters but Terra figured they could talk while they walked.

"Of course." Following alongside, and leading the Chocobo by the reigns, he thought for a moment. "My world is recovering from a Cataclysm, one that rocked the landscape five, almost six years ago. It's a hardy land where the gods once walked along before returning to the heavens. Eorzea, the shining jewel in the center of the world.

To the north is the land of Ishgard, a nation who has fought a war of attrition with dragons for 1000. To the south is the nation of Gridania, a land who abides by the elementals nature, from healing to gathering. Even further are the lands of Ul'dah. For coin and country is their motto. Hard swept people, but harder still with the nature of wallets. And then to the west are the lands of Limsa Lominsa, a nation of reformed pirates who fly under the banner of the Admiral."

"I hail from Limsa, primarily, before taking a job in Gridania that would set me on the path to a more adventurous life. I was born with sea legs so to speak, able to sail along with the best of them and keep my footing. Our world also has many other lands, the lands of Othard, and the Garlean Empire as well."

“It sounds like a very big place.”

It was nice to hear him speak of his home and his world. She hadn’t heard of a place like that before and each new description brought a smile to her lips. A world with so many cultures, a world healing; it sounded like a place that Terra would very much like to visit. She looked over at Sea, her eyes peering around the large yellow bird.

“Sea?” She paused for a moment and then shook her head and continued. “Do you want to go back to your home?”

Terra’s home wasn’t friendly to people like her, at least from what she remembered and she didn’t want to go back. As she waited she carefully pulled a small bag from her pouch and then held it open for Sea. Inside was a batch of sugar cookies that Tempest and Terra had made the night before. She usually ate them with tea but they were good on their own as well.

"I would like to, one day." said Sea with a smile. "There's many things that I had missed coming here, but there is much I am learning here. In a way, this world is like a sister to Eorzea."

"There is another world, one known as the land of Shantotto, where she hails. She cut a portal into our world from her own, and said the boundaries of reality are paper thin between our worlds. Perhaps one day, I will see more of Eorzea here, than I will back home."

"Pray, I miss my world. But it is pleasant company in a world so vibrant such as this one."

"She?"

Terra blinked feeling as if she missed something. She wasn't sure how one could travel so easily between two worlds as Sea suggested. She thought that maybe he meant something else but she wasn't sure.

She blinked a few times before biting into a cookie.

"She. Her name was Shantotto, a brilliant, master mage. I looked into the name after that encounter, and discovered her name was predominant among the ancient civilization of Bel'dah. Which means, she has either pierced the veil between our worlds numerous times, or the fact being that she is none other than an immortal wreathed in taru appearance." said Sea, nodding.

That sounded a little confusing and as much as Terra wanted it to make sense it did. She stared at Sea for a moment longer before looking out at the plains around them. They’ve been walking for a while now and there haven’t been any missteps or monsters.

“Sounds like an amazing person.” She wasn’t sure if crossing between worlds like this was good or bad.

A flash moved out of the corner of her eye but Terra couldn’t say what it was. “Shouldn’t we have run into something by now?”

A Fighting-Soaked Past Time

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