Digging Continues (Open, threadjacking encouraged once again!)

[promiselisting]

[ VIP week at Sparks Golsaucia's still going on, true, but it involves a lot of loud noise and people and Futaba ain't here for that without the rest of her friends. So instead she's been working on something else. Something even the people who didn't join in can hopefully appreciate. ]

So. Got a few things for you all and a few questions in return, especially for the newbies.

First of all, I've got some notes for you all. Some of you might remember the post I made a couple months back. Been doing research since then, so I figured I'd follow up with my findings. The more this info is widely spread the better. Also if you've got anything to add from searches on your own, feel free to talk about it here or lemme know and I can add it. We may even want to have like... some kinda meeting to discuss this stuff?

I'm not organizing it though.

[ Nope. Nope. Not a chance. Putting together notes and tossing them out to the wind? That she can do. Organizing a bunch of people and talking to them and all that kind of thing? Nope. ]

Unfortunately this place doesn't have the internet, so I can't just make a website for these notes. Pretty much all I can do is make my files available for download as of right now, so I'll have to post an updated version periodically. Sucks but there's nothing I can do yet.

Anyway here's the file: file:vaikunthanotes

[ And next... ]

On that note, one of the big questions last time was about a strange little girl with blond hair who called herself Ashelia. She only turned up right after the new arrivals, and only spoke to a few people before disappearing again. Anybody happen to see her this time around? Looking at newbies especially for this one.

Also a Moogle that shouted some kind of doomsday prophecies about a "she," I guess.

[ She'll ask more questions if anybody actually happens to volunteer information. No point typing a lot up front if it turns out she wasn't even here.

And... as for the last thing. And the thing she's especially glad she's using text for. ]

Also... back on Earth, a lot of countries around the world happen to celebrate Father's Day on the third Sunday of June (sixth month). Which is... this one, I guess?

So. Happy Father's Day.

[ Especially to her own dad, even if... he isn't here... ]

Comments

[promiselisting]

... I'll edit your name on the doc.

[ And that'll uh. That'll give her some time to digest all of that. Because what the hell you keep dropping all these huge infobombs, Ira. ]

[acceptedlife]

Thanks. You okay there.

[Casually just does the Aymeric Dance waving these death flags, here.]

[promiselisting]

Are you gonna have to ask me that every time you dump a huge truth bomb on me like this?

[ It's happening a lot okay? ]

[acceptedlife]

Yes. Mostly because my sense of normalcy was gone before I was even made.

Also it's kinda hard to tell over text. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1/2

[promiselisting]

(๑･`▱´･๑)

2/2

[promiselisting]

ヾ(。◣∀◢。)ﾉ

Anyway for anybody reading along yes, I can confirm all that Ira said but don't ask me any more about it because it's not my business to tell.

[ ANYWAY... ]

So it looks like we may really be dealing with different realities, then. We kinda wondered? Because I'm from months before Ren and Makoto and neither of 'em noticed I was gone.

And how would you say the job system here compares to Crystallis?

[ He got what she meant when she asked about the cycle. He'll probably get what she means here too. ]

[acceptedlife]

[Aww he got her to angry emogi spam at him. ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ He'd apologize for being a troll, but he's at least a concerned one?]

It's way more streamlined, that's for sure. We woke up with one or two Jobs already in our Crystal (a red one that took a random shape that held some special meaning for us) and had to rely on a moogle to change between them unless the Job had a skill where you could switch them yourself.

Said crystal would slowly turn blue the longer you remained on Crystallis, but that's another story.

There were a lot more Jobs, too - and something called an Advanced Job that would be available with four more skills depending on what Jobs you had equipped as primary and secondary. It was way complicated.

[promiselisting]

No kidding. Add to list of things to look into: how asterisks are made/developed, I guess.

[ More questions. Always more questions. She doesn't have enough time in the day to do all this, ugh. ]

Do I wanna know why the crystal changed color?

[acceptedlife]

[Pace yourself, Futaba. The coliseum wasn't built in a day.]

Probably not. But then, I wasn't a researcher. So I don't have all the answers on the crystals. I know a group found one of the Archfiend's notes, but... never saw them myself.

[promiselisting]

Wait, whose notes?

[ Because like... otherwise she has no idea why these notes might be important. In the slightest. But it sounds like they should be? ]

[acceptedlife]

Some guy named Ardyn Izunia. Never met him myself, save maybe in the fight with the Guardian? Apparently Kalki convinced him to work with her.

not here (for obvious reasons)

[warpstriking]

[Noctis.EXE has stopped working.]

i need a better troll gif

[promiselisting]

[ whoops ]

yes, yes you do

[warpstriking]

[ rebooting....]
[ rebooting....]
[ rebooting....]

[regisrex]

Wait, Ardyn Izunia did what, where?

I'm sorry, I'm still a recent arrival but the name caught my attention. He is from the world I come from.

Archfiend?

[acceptedlife]

No worries. Welcome, then. Hope your first few days weren't so bad. And yeesh, sorry to hear.

He was a recent arrival to Crystallis, I think, before everything went down at the end. Only saw him the once and immediately disliked him despite him... saying a lot of things that rang true in the heat of battle.

[It's incredibly awkward to admit, honestly. How much truth rang in his words despite being an Obvious Scumbag.]

An Archfiend was a Hero of Light who sided with Kalki's designs for the destruction of the concepts of life and death. I think Ardyn was the one of Fire? Never spoke to him directly, or saw him personally after the battle I mentioned earler. Was a bit busy dealing with the Archfiend of Wind, who... was a friend of mine.

[If a sense of betrayal could be conveyed over text...]

Apparently he was studying the differences in the types of crystals of the world. Kind of kicking myself for not getting a look at his research notes.

since threadjacking is allowed-!

[regalblaze]

[And that's a chill Ignis didn't feel for two months.]

Are you sure the name is Ardyn Izunia?

hi again

[acceptedlife]

Positive as I am that he reeked of darkness.

[Wait he never mentioned that he could-

shit. this is gonna be awkward as heeeeeeell.]

Why?

[sonoftenebrae]

When and where was that bastard last seen?

[acceptedlife]

[Well, good to know his nose never lied with how many are suddenly coming out of the woodwork with some sort of grievance.]

Not here. He was on Crystallis like a few of us currently here were, but I only saw the shit-eating trash bag of an excuse for a human being once.

It'd been five or six years for me. Someone else may have seen him more recently, but who knows how many years it's really been since then and now with how places like thisw distort time outside itself?

[please let his father not see this it's already bad enough he learned swearing in the tower no one needs to know he knows-]

[hashtagdaddy]

You're saying Ardyn Izunia worked with someone? Who's Kalki? What were they working on?

[promiselisting]

Y'know, I put the notes in the OP for a reason.

[ someone save her ]

Not here

[spaceforged]

[Full fucking stop. He knows that name. It's not his place to speak up but he knows who he should go after.]

[promiselisting]

Yikes.

Looks like we stepped on a landmine here.

[ She... might hit him up about this but... later. Definitely later. ]

[acceptedlife]

Yeah. I'll say.

Sorry about that?

[He's getting the feeling it's one of those moments. Like, if-someone-namedropped-Marluxia kind of thing. He might actually feel bad about this (he does).]