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Digging Continues (Open, threadjacking encouraged once again!)

[ 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... ]

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Eos too, huh? ... you know, like I said to hope, keeping track of every connection between this world and others - or even our worlds and each other - would probably be a pain and not very productive, but it's kind of weird to see which similarities are there.

Anyway, according to what Ira told me, the siphon on Crystallis was completely shut down and the guardian that manned it was killed.

[ In retrospect she's really hoping it was a robot guardian of sometime because otherwise... yowza. ]

Up to everyone what they take from that, though. I'm not dismissing the possibility that there's some new kind of cycle going on here. One that's equally nasty.

Do you mind if speculate something? These are, of course, mere theories, but as a person that has gathered the most information about this place, I am curious about your opinion on them.

I do realize it would be hard to track down every single similarity, but perhaps big ones shouldn't be put to the side.

[But... if this thing destroyed Eos... that means-]

Oh yeah, I figured that much. That's why I have the section on world connections to begin with, though I hadn't planned on adding how new arrivals' worlds connected to each other...

[ Maybe she should though. Hm. ]

Either way, hit me.

If I come across anything significant I will send you a message, if you don't mind, to compare with the information you already have.

As for the theory.

Did the person mention when this Calamity of the skies happened? How recent is it?

As you know, people here use magic through their asterisks and magic is not an unknown thing back on Eos either. Its stability also varies a lot- the intensity and the things it comes in contact with

[He remembers clear as day when Noct fused a blizzara spell with a debased coin. What followed wasn't a pretty sight.]

If the Calamity happened recently, there might be residual, "wild" magic going around.

Think of it this way:
If a fire spell leaves a burn on the ground, what kind of damage would a world imploding leave behind?

[ Man the way he just says that leaves a very very uncomfortable feeling in the pit of her stomach. She could certainly think of a few possibilities. She doesn't like any of them though. ]

... man I don't even wanna think about that. A year ago for me the most earth-shattering thing to worry about was the thought of going to high school.

[ Which admittedly was a lot bigger a deal then than it probably seemed to someone on the outside. Still not as big a deal as a world actually ending.

... ]

None of them said how long it was for them, that I could see. Could try pinging Ira, though. But if I had to guess... not all that long ago.

[ Ira had never said how long he'd been at Crystallis, just that it had been years. And in the memory, the one of that tower place (the one he'd been at before Crystallis), he'd looked around her own age. Now he looked closer to twenty. So... maybe a couple years or so? But probably less. ]

[That complaint about high school- it somehow reminded him of Noctis and Prompto when they were in high school.]

Even if it is just ten years, an entire world, a planet disappearing, leaves an impact on the universe. A singular planet disappearing could create a massive imbalance in space.

Also, I severely doubt that stopping the Crystallis went quietly. After all, it was absorbing the entire worlds and their magic.

We could be caught in the fallout of the Crystallis and the planets that were destroyed.

Ira here, though I go more by Takeshi now. Got tired of natives squinting at me and asking 'like the lake?', but that's beside the point.

Anyway.

The last thing I remember is saying goodbye to my mother who planned on returning home to her own world with her girlfriend. A couple weeks after the battle with Kalki, the "goddess of death" we believe the Vaikunthian legends talk of.

Our worlds were saved. All others that weren't destroyed by a previous cycle were safe. My father being here should be a testament to that. He was still home on his and my mother's home world while everything in Crystallis was going on.

As for the theory: it would make sense, but there's something that's bothered me for a while. There was only one way for there to be a new Job all could have there, and that was for the Hero who created it to die.

One of the Advanced Jobs on Crystallis, Hacker... I would recognize that face anywhere. My... brother. He must have been a Hero in a cycle previous to mine. Yet I know for a fact that another Riku was a roommate of mine in the world I was in before being summoned to Crystallis. Not to mention a fragment of him from my own World survived in that hell the Dream Width conjured back into being from my memory. Futaba can attest to that one.

I think we aren't just dealing with other worlds, but times and realities.

Also: I don't think I told you, Futaba, but I was there a total of seven years. I believe Sparks was there longer. I only really remember two years there; the other five I was in a sort of stasis.

[Ignis' response to all this information is a bit of delayed. An alternate reality? The same world, the same people- but with different lives, decisions and fates. It sounds so unreal and yet- here he is, pondering that maybe- maybe it is. It's not farfetched with what they already went through.

...would that mean that there is another version of himself out there, that has a different life? A life where Crown City didn't fall, where King Regis is still alive and ruling and Noct's fate... not sealed in stone.

Putting his sentimentality aside, this is more worrying than he thought.]

Pleasure to meet you, Takeshi. I would like to confirm something that you just mentioned right now. A Job is created when a person who knows how to perform it dies? Or did I misunderstood you?

The fact that there alternate realities and times mixed into this only makes things sound even more dangerous. Perhaps some worlds were saved, but those that didn't- they would still leave behind damage. The damage that won't be fixed with just stopping the Crystallis from devouring more worlds.

The alternate realities only increase the amount of power that Crystallis had consumed, making things even worse.

[Apparently, all the good things in the world have a price without a measure...]

If I may ask- how long as it been since the Calamity of the Skies? I assume you spent those seven years on Crystallis- 5 in stasis, 2 awake. Between the Calamity and your mother leaving, can you remember how much time has passed?

[Regardless of what alternate realities there may be, at least not all of them involve everyone being fucking dead.]

That is how it worked when one of our own, Zelda, was taken from us. I won't say it's the same here. We can't even make our own Jobs here, and it was her customized job that was suddenly available when she died.

That's what I'm worried about. It happened before in my worlds, though if I say more on that I think a few would take issue with it. Stupid "world order" crap. Even though clearly everyone here knows that there are other worlds and it was tossed out the window like some demon or whatever.

I can't. It's the last thing I remember before waking up on that ship two months ago.

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[That... is frightening information. Ignis could feel a chill run down his back. So someone before had a job of a Ninja he has right now... as well as a black mage, paladin, astrologian...]

Thank you for confirming it with me. I just wanted to make sure I understood it properly.

I don't know much about 'world order'- I didn't know that the possibility of alternate realities existed until now either.

That is alright. Thank you.

[And, how "fortunately" no sense of time in this weird place. This doesn't sit well with Ignis. At all.]

[It is indeed, and he hates being the bearer of bad news.]

If it helps, a lot of the Jobs were things already on Crystallis. A little different, but still. Guessing I'll have to compile a list sometime on that, too.

It's a concept from my worlds that I never even heard of until I was torn from home. "Don't speak about other worlds to the locals" sort of thing. Again, something that really shouldn't exist here. Different realities was a new thing for me, too. Learned the hard way they exist.

Wish I could tell you, though. I already have a bad feeling that something happened if the ending of that battle is a part of this world's creation myths.

Do you mind if I ask just how different these realities are? And- is there a chance that all the worlds can have alternate realities? And how many of them?

Myths don't appear without a base. Something must've happened before the story turned into a myth. That is how things usually work. Perhaps the myth is not completely valid, but the basic premise of it is established on solid facts.

[Most of the times.]

[There is a long pause before he replies. Mostly because this is going to bring up some old wounds again that he would rather not repeat. But, he has to. At least this time, it's of his own volition. Not some Tarutaru woman who figured it'd be a great idea to leave all their files unlocked.]

It depends. We create them every day by the choices we make. A different colored shirt, or speaking instead of fighting. A strike instead of a kick. Or even another force ripping you from home like what happened to me. Each action can cause something different to happen, while another version of yourself could have chosen something else.

I don't know how many people from my worlds I've seen from similar-yet-not slip through the cracks, but the possibilities are as endless as the stars themselves. Each one is a different world in mine, after all.

[There's another pause.]

That's just it though. The version of myth Futaba and I found, it was almost exactly what I remember happening on Crystallis. It's just the last paragraph I can't confirm. No one knows what happened to the four Heroes who stepped forward. Just that they're gone.

[Ignis didn't mean to do that, honestly. But it was something he didn't know about and the guy seemed to know. If it was uncomfortable for him to speak of it, then Ignis would've accepted the no for an answer. However...]

I think I understand. I wasn't aware that such thing exists

[A reality where his King doesn't die... it sounds comforting somehow.]

I suppose we will have to dig deeper to find more information. I know that the locals probably won't be happy about it, but I cannot leave things as they are

[He can't leave his King being stuck like this, despite the fact that it's stopping the Prophecy from progressing.]

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