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[red_planet_blues]

[Today you are all graced with the visage of the Mars marshal, who has finally decided maybe it's time he brings something up here on the network.]

Howdy folks. Name's Sparks Nevada, if we haven't met yet. Before this planet, I was on one called Crystallis. Though before that, I was on Mars, and originally, I'm... from Earth. Thing is, I know a few folks who're from Crystallis that are here, too. It was kind of a similar situation. Y'know, the whole getting dragged outta yer home to be forced to live on another planet with crazy magic and chocobos and all that stuff. The difference there was that we were all considered to be somethin' called "Heroes of Light" and we had to basically save the planet -- the whole multiverse, actually -- from gettin' annihilated. Yer welcome, by the way.

Thing is, there are sure a lotta coincidences on this planet. If the jobs and the races 'a folks and all that ain't enough of a clue, the place names are a dead giveaway. Half of them are named for the Heroes from Crystallis. Even I got one - Sparks Goldsaucia. Pretty cool. Reckon it's all a bit too much to be a coincidence.

Bonnie also brought up the map to me, and... [He looks that over in a separate window.] If ya squint just right, and slide some bits around, sure as heck does look like Crystallis. Durin' that whole apocalypse thing, the planet did get kinda messed up and broken, so I guess we wouldn't have known what the continents looked like after all that. Woulda taken some time to re-map, and I was only there for a month after the whole ordeal was over. Had a planet to get back to marshaling, ya see.

What's my point to all this? Guess my point is that I don't believe in coincidences. The universe is, like, both too big and too small at the same time for that nonsense, if'n that makes any sense at all. It does. I think.

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[conniemaheswaran]

Hey, Sparks. This is Connie. Don't know if you remember me, but could you do me a favor and keep an eye on the name of the Kali Shashidhwaja linkshell today? It will randomly change to instead say Heroes of Light every once in awhile on my end, I want to confirm that it's happening to other people too. Considering that Ira, another Crystallis vet, told me that both names mean Heroes of Light, it's pretty strong evidence that something fishy is going on here.

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[cidsgirl]

( This bubbly weirdo tries to copy his accent ) Well how-dee-do, Sparks! I'm Rikku and this here's Bun. ( She gestures to her moogle and sends a wink Sparks' way. Bun just gives a dainty wave. ) Heehee!

I hear ya though, on the whole ( she's just gonna whip out the poorly done accent one more time here: ) 'not believin' in coincidences' thang.

I've noticed some of that too, mostly with people, like Biggs and Wedge... and Cid. Just names though, but I'd be in some serious denial if I said things weren't a little fishy around here.

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[promiselisting]

[ Between this and the linkshell glitch Futaba is feeling v i n d i c a t e d today. She wants to go find all those Curti Center natives that blew her off and rub this in their faces but actually doing that sounds like effort and probably would get a scolding from Makoto anyway, so she'll... focus on something more productive. ]

Ira Nakagawa and I have been working a bit on the possible connection between Crystallis and Vaikuntha as well. So far we've done some digging on this world's creation myths. Or myth, really.

I can share what we've found so far if you're interested.

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[rivieran]

Greetings, Sparks.

It's brilliant to hear your input. You have essentially confirmed what I have been thinking about since happening across the first bulletin. I was unable to respond since I did not know how to use this slate at the time.

Do you think it is safe to say that those of us that arrived on the airship together may have been brought for purposes similar to your previous ventures as a Hero of Light? If so, then I am happy to know that we may be here for a purpose, and some of our deaths were not for naught. My assumptions may be premature, however. We will just have to wait and see.

- Ena

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[despairing_hope]

So... this world is most likely the future of the other world some of you came from?

It's like we're stuck in a sequel or offshoot spinoff.

If there was a lot of sudden continental shift though... that sounds like a bad end.

Ah... we're in the strange bad end offshoot of something then, aren't we? That sounds so unpleasant.

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[twomeals]

So you're saying this is...the same world, but different?

[daggercubed]

It sounds like this shit just got more complicated.

You think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

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[acceptedlife]

Been a while, Sparks.

[Ira rolls his eyes, but- there's so few of them from Crystallis here. He'll play nice, despite an old grudge.]

Been working on writing down what I remember and comparing those similarities with Futaba, like she said. Maybe we and the others who remember that world can compile what we know.

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[shinra_dog]

Nevada.

[Reno smirked onscreen. He and Sparks had had a tumultuous relationship, to say the least. One of them had ended up dead before, to say more. But Reno had to respect Sparks' moral drive.]

Ira said you were tryna' compare the maps. I think yer right, there's too much similar here.

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[garyoutensei]

Give me a reason why I should believe a word of what you just said? Maybe you're just some hokey rambling madman.

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[whirluendo_of_puns]

[...Huh. So Sparks was in that Crystallis place too. They saw people talking about it on the network before, but until now they had nothing to contribute.

Listening to all of this now, though...]

Say, Mr. Marshal. You mentioned Crystallis had a lot of things in common with Vaikuntha. Does that include Eidolons?