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]

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....]

accidental voice;

[warpstriking]

[yeah, he may have dropped his iMog slate in shock. So there's the sound of a brief scuffle of boots on the floor as he kneels down to pick up the device.]

......all the names to see again-

[ > he realizes the audio's on ]
[ > ... ]
[ c l i c k ]

[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.

[regisrex]

Thank you, that is very informative. Also, as you already introduced myself, my name is Regis. My first days here were a bit of a shock for those from my world, since it seems they are all from a lot later than I am, but I think that has settled, somewhat.

Does 'dealing' with your friend mean 'battling,' or were there other options?

In our world, Ardyn Izunia appeared out of nowhere and became an Imperial Chancellor within a very short span of time. He introduced... innovations to their military which made their army very difficult to compete with. Although I wonder if his research was significant - and if a similar one would be relevant to this place.

[ A hearty, profound dislike doesn't mean that Regis can't appreciate that the man must know what he's doing, at some level. ]

[acceptedlife]

No problem. Kind of becoming my thing.

[Waving all the death flags ever like he's some idiot Informing others of the planet he was on before this one.]

Nice to meet you, and I know the feeling. Everyone from at least a version of my worlds mistook me for my brother, Riku. Still think one of them's a bit brain broken at the time differences.

He forced a fight. Pretty sure a mutual friend or two was more beat up about it. He likely lived, if it helps. Don't think he realized that battling your friends is kind of another day that ends with "y" where I'm from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Huh. Wonder if he helped Ales with some of his own creations. Was it mechanical-based?

What do you mean by that? I know the research on the crystals ironically helped save one of ours who wound up possessed by Kalki's soul, but...

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?

[regalblaze]

[The Usurper... how far does his influence stretch?!]

I am not sure how wise it is to make this a public knowledge but, I do have to warn you. He is reeking of darkness for a reason. Stay away from him.

[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-]

[sonoftenebrae]

['Shit-eating trash bag of an excuse for a human being'...so yes, it's definitely the same Ardyn he knows.]

Good. If he is never seen again, it will be too soon.

If any word of him surfaces, I wish to be alerted. Can you do this?

[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 ]

[hashtagdaddy]

[Look, he would only read the reports on Citadel meetings when Iggy forced him to. The only reports he read on his own were the ones involving the Kingsglaive and the Crownsguard.

So why would he go all the way back through a slew of messages in order to see the original notes?]

Look, I saw the name Ardyn and lost it. I'll try going over your notes later. That monster is the worst kind of bad news.

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).]

[promiselisting]

Eh, I'll just enact my dastardly revenge plan later.

[ Seriously though don't worry about it. It's not like you knew or anything. ]