03. [video] Show off

[mech_and_mutt]

I dunno if you guys have seen it, but...

[The feed starts off to the sight of Red reclining in a cockpit chair, with a drone of engines in the background and a passing of clouds in the windows surrounding him. Someone's more than a little bit proud of his airship finally flying again, it seems.]

There's some big new project goin' up by Curti Center, right? Well, back at the festival, I got talkin' with the guy that's settin' all that up. And I don't think he'd mind if I drummed up a li'l excitement in the meantime.

[His usual toothy grin quickly returns to his face.]

Two words: Monster Arena. Go ahead and think back to the biggest, greatest monsters you've gone up against, here or back home-- and keep those memories fresh, 'cause apparently that's what they're gonna be usin' to make the battles! I didn't know we even had that kinda tech here in Vaikuntha...

Now, I know not everyone here enjoys gettin' their hands dirty, but for those of you who do-- Got any awesome fights or big beasties you wouldn't mind givin' another go? I'm sure some of us might get some useful trainin' and experience out of it.

Oh, and speakin' of...

[He tips the camera over to his face, with a focused stare and a more personal and fond grin.]

Keep an eye out for me in the next Dragons match. They're finally gonna be bringin' me out to the field.

Comments

[littlemhigan]

Barely. Had te rope in a fair pile've help from other Adventurers, an' we had a whole slew've Ishgard's Temple Knights lendin' hands an' supplies alike.

Te be fair, he brought a hoard's worth've backup too, so it was an even fight.

[mech_and_mutt]

Oh, so you needed a whole army to take that thing out? I dunno if we could get a fight that big in a battle arena... [Kind of a shame, too; it almost sounds fun. Or it might were it not for a certain sense of gravity and unease Red's picking up from Castor.]

Would've been nice to get the dragon practice in. I feel like I've already fallen behind!

[littlemhigan]

Not a whole army, jes' a small one. Anyroad, there were other dragons, but of those I care te share, Vishap was most certainly the best of 'em...or would've been if not for the dire circumstances his presence brought, but that's hardly the point.

Besides, if it's jes an arena, what's te keep us from tryin' again until we don't need an army?

[mech_and_mutt]

Impossible odds, eh? I like your attitude. Remind me to bring you along for my next fight.

Then again, I'd be going into it with a mecha. I wonder if that counts as 'cheating', but it's the kind of Arena combat I'm used to.

[littlemhigan]

I'm always willin' te scrap; jes' gimme a call, yeah?

Ah....a Mecha? S' that another word fer Magitek?

[mech_and_mutt]

Yeah-- well, mine is now that I've fixed it up. They're kinda like Magitek Armor, but they weren't... magic. Just big, mobile metal frames with weapons.

[littlemhigan]

I...think I follow. Not too far off from Magitek where I'm from; it was all developed by folks who can't use Aether, so they jes made up the difference with Tech. I've not much a mind for it, but I do wonder at the workin's sometimes.

[mech_and_mutt]

It's not that complicated! It's...

[Beat.]

Ah, think of it like sendin' lightning through metal, and the lightning gives power to...

[Another beat.]

...okay, it does sound kinda weird when you explain it...

[littlemhigan]

Ain't that weird, really. I'm sure it's somethin' I could learn if I sat down te do so, jes never had the opportunity, really.