Arrival.

[azumods]

GREETINGS. Several days through the woods seems to have at least been preferable than several days through snow; it's seen several evolutions, as well as new friends joining you along the way. It's been a long trip, but not an altogether unpleasant one, and when the route through the forest finally opens up back onto open road, it's a relatively short walk to Floaroma Town. This place is much smaller than any of the cities you've been to so for; it's a tiny town in the relative middle of nowhere, surrounded by vast fields of flowers and large, open meadows. It's peaceful, for lack of a better word, and likely far more welcoming than it could have been given the recent improvements in the people lately. You'll be getting in sometime late afternoon; given that the town is so small, it seems that the people here are definitely noticing you - there are a fairly large number of you in your group, after all, especially to all be traveling together. Not like that's a bad thing; they certainly don't seem to think it is. But it is noticeable, and as such you're going to have a few people that seem...dully interested in your sudden appearance. Although it's worth noticing that not all of the people noticing your arrival are locals - there's someone here that you might want to meet eventually... [OOC: Welcome to the end of Week 9! As of this log, you'll be gaining a new party member; feel free to come say hello! No NPC response will be given to this post, though you can thread here amongst yourselves if you wish; we'll see you tomorrow at noon with a new log for your further adventures!]

Comments

[gekkaju]

I wonder...why some of us have been separated from the main group, I guess you'd call it. That is kind of strange, isn't it?

[hyruglyphics]

I... suppose. I can think of several possibilities. For example, it could be that some people were already deployed to the places that they were going to be, or that we arrived in this world at different times. [ She'd kind of been assuming the later, but she blinks a little and- ]

Actually, how long have you been here?

[gekkaju]

Me? I've been here for a little over a month now, I think it's been.

[hyruglyphics]

Does that include time before you gained awareness of yourself...? Or, well, spirit?

[gekkaju]

I...

[He tilts his head, not quite understanding.]

I'm not...sure, to be honest. All I remember is waking up in one of those Galactic places, running away, ending up in Floaroma...and then staying there for a month until you guys showed up today.

[hyruglyphics]

[ A month... so that would roughly line up with when they met Keith and Noctis, when they dealt with Azelf? So he was awakened at that time but ended up here? How lonely... he brows knit together, but there's no much more she can theorize based on that, is there. Instead, she softly exhales and, ]

... You were quite skilled at running then, to have manage that alone.

[gekkaju]

I wouldn't give me too much credit...I actually ended up getting lost in the forest for a little while. I probably would still be stuck there if the townsfolk didn't find me and help me out.

[And it's thanks to this group that the people in Floaroma had the will at all to help him.]

[hyruglyphics]

And you should not sell yourself short. Galactic can sometimes seem not all that threatening, but their administrators truly are.

[gekkaju]

I'd believe it, for sure...do you think they're trying to find us right now?

[hyruglyphics]

No, actually. Based on our encounters with them so far, I should think they are aware of our actions, but not actively hunting us.

[gekkaju]

That's a little surprising, actually...maybe they just don't consider us a threat?

[hyruglyphics]

[ Well...

Yeah. She looks at the rest of the group and, ]

In a sense... it's also a little more complicated, but that is a part of it.

[gekkaju]

Guess the strength in numbers thing isn't as much of a threat when your numbers are as high as theirs.

[Atsushi sighs, rubbing the back of his neck.]

[hyruglyphics]

Mmmhm, and a difference in power to begin with. Our journey had been changing things, but things are still... tenuous.