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Azume Mods ([personal profile] azumods) wrote in [community profile] azume2018-08-12 12:17 pm

Week 11.

WEEK 11

The meeting with Mars could have gone infinitely worse. It's difficult to say that it went well, admittedly, but at least it didn't go as poorly as it could have; either way, her departure leaves you free to look around the Valley Windworks, and it shouldn't take you long at all to find something interesting on the floor.

It's bright yellow and glowing, set into the ground like any other normal part of the floor otherwise; stepping on it will cause the world to spin briefly in your field of vision, and when it straightens itself out again, you find yourself standing in the corner of the lobby of a large building you've never seen before.

Welcome to the Jubilife TV station.

The place seems staffed with Galactic grunts, but they leave you alone outside of just watching you in that dead-eyed, vaguely unnerving way they have of watching everything; they'll let you leave without a fuss at any rate, and it's probably for the best that you get yourself situated for the time being. After all, you've got an entire new city to get accustomed to.

The people here seem to be trying to get themselves situated as well, though obviously that's for entirely different reasons. The world continues to change, around them and you both, and overall things do seem to be going in a direction that might be considered favorable. Noticeably, the grunts in the TV station don't seem to be changing at all, regardless of what happens to the other locals; that might be cause for some concern...

CURRENT LOCATION: JUBILIFE CITY
POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES

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[OOC: Welcome to week eleven of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!]


discutio: (you know time crawls on)

[personal profile] discutio 2018-08-12 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It was difficult not to understand his perspective, after we'd dug up the relevant materials shining a bit of light on it. Even so, it doesn't justify or outweigh the burden upon the entire world--or on the few who had to repair the damage done.

[Ignis sighed, adjusting his glasses.]

...They'll have to be talked out of it, if such a situation arises. We've been fortunate that it seems he's no interest in pursuing us yet, and going after him as wildly unprepared as we are will very literally end in worse than death. We can't even stand against Maylene, never mind the commanders. I don't see how any of us expect to handle Cyrus if and when any negotiation breaks down.
bloodspent: (03. you made a vow)

[personal profile] bloodspent 2018-08-12 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The only reason I can think of that we've been left alone so far is that we're not important enough. The Commanders don't seem to think we're worth their time, and Cyrus hasn't...I dunno, smited us yet. I kind of wonder if we're managing anything at all by their standards - we've affected a handful of small cities as far as we know, that might not be worth looking into yet.
discutio: (silver clouds with gray lining)

[personal profile] discutio 2018-08-13 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Now that you mention it, there's something about all this that's bothering me. The rank and file of Galactic were with Mars as well as the facility we arrived in here, weren't they? Correct me if I'm mistaken, but they sounded no different to me as they did when we first awoke in Veilstone; passive, cold, hardly even moving past what was necessary.

...Why isn't anything affecting them, and why does anything changing in this world spare them alone?
bloodspent: (07. they're all the same)

[personal profile] bloodspent 2018-08-13 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
No, you're right about that. I don't know what their problem is, but it doesn't seem to be changing them at all.

[He has no idea why that's happening, but it sure as shit is.]

Maybe they were hit harder by whatever's doing this? I'd say maybe Saturn hit them again with those machines he was talking about, but apparently he's been AWOL for a while now.

[Possibly dead? He doesn't know how likely that is, but possibly dead.]
discutio: (one maniac at a time we'll take it back)

[personal profile] discutio 2018-08-13 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I was starting to suspect their conditioning ran deeper somehow--or possibly that something's sustaining it, though I can't quite articulate a 'what' or 'how' to such a concept.

[in short, 'we don't know shit']

...Saturn disappearing makes sense enough considering our last encounter, but I can't imagine what could have happened to Jupiter. And now I'd not be surprised if Mars followed suit. Do you think Cynthia's actually doing something?
bloodspent: (28. when you were there first)

[personal profile] bloodspent 2018-08-13 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It might be Cynthia, but if that was the case I don't get why Cyrus wouldn't have told Mars that. Sure, it might have set her on the warpath, but if Cyrus told her not to engage I'm gonna believe she wouldn't do anything too dumb.

I don't like the part where he apparently didn't tell her shit.
discutio: (one maniac at a time we'll take it back)

[personal profile] discutio 2018-08-13 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I have to admit I don't entirely believe any of the options I presented Mars with. It's strategically absurd to summon two one's lieutenants and leave a third in the dark, so I don't think they were called back to base. Running afoul of some angry deity is possible, but feels unlikely considering Galactic apparently had no trouble with them before. Cynthia having dispatched them is plausible, but then returns us to the tactical failing of Cyrus not telling Mars that her fellow commanders were incapacitated or captured.

[Ignis paused as if to think over what he'd just said, reexamining it to see if he'd overlooked something. It all felt logically sound to him, but the absence of a real explanation left him deeply unsettled.]

...Something's wrong here, and I don't know what it is.
bloodspent: (07. they're all the same)

[personal profile] bloodspent 2018-08-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's why I keep thinking about it. I don't really care about what's happening to them, because honestly I don't give a fuck about them. But it seems like something we should know about somehow.
discutio: (silver clouds with gray lining)

[personal profile] discutio 2018-08-13 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'll admit to some mild concern over Saturn at least, though I'd not exactly lament if we never saw Jupiter again.

[at least he's honest]

Regardless, it's something liable to cause us serious trouble one way or another if we can't determine what's happened.
bloodspent: (03. you made a vow)

[personal profile] bloodspent 2018-08-13 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's true.

[...]

It looks like everyone in that group seems to want to keep Mars in the dark; she was doing a lot of yelling about how Jupiter and Saturn would never falter in their faith and stuff.

[Meanwhile, Jupiter is out for herself and Saturn is Saturn.]