[voice]

[thenightmarebegins]

I'm less human than before.

...Where is my weapon? Is this... a dream?

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[Voice]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

A collection of shops.

[Voice]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I know where you are. Don't go anywhere, okay?

[Voice]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

Right.

[Action?]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[And after a while Cloud jogs himself over to the shopping district of the little village.]

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[Vincent has been strolling around the shops. He is now keeping an eye out for a familiar face... and sure enough, notices him. Heads toward him now.]

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[S...strolling...

Either way, here's Vincent in all his dark and brooding glory. Cloud feels a little inferior in the face of an angst specialist.]

Vincent.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[However one describes it, he's been taking in the surroundings like one who is resigned to fate putting him in these situations.

Glances to Cloud, expression as stoic as ever.]

Cloud.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Let's get right down to it. [Which is better, a quick summary or detail...hm.]

This place is called Luceti; everyone here is from another Planet, save the people from our own. We've all been pulled here the same way, and apparently to be experiments for some other people trying to find their way home. There's a barrier that keeps us in this general area, and...things really suck.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[Listens with interest. The only sign of change in expression comes with a darkening of his look upon mention of those 'experiments.' He would accept being here himself as a further penance he must serve. But the others don't deserve that, to be unwilling test subjects... Lucrecia least of all...]

I was told they were called the Malnosso. They're... scientists?

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

They're apparently an organization. Think Shinra.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

What use are the experiments to them, if they're trapped here as well...

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud shrugs.] Supposedly they're running them to find their way home. Not sure as to how much truth there is to that, though.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

I doubt they're trustworthy.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Snort.] Don't have to tell me.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

Then we must seek their true purpose.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Good luck. It's like pulling teeth getting information out of the ones who do talk, and even then we don't know if they're trustworthy. And we can't exactly barge in and threaten them if we can't even get to where they are.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

I understand, all too well. Even if we could reach them... an attack might prove futile. We have little information on their true natures.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

At this point I'd take just an opportunity... But one hasn't shown up.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

Then we can only await the time when it does.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Seems like. [Cloud gestures towards the shops, naming them.] There's where you can get clothes, there's where you can sometimes find stuff from home. I found First Tsurugi there, Yuffie found some materia.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

I'll start there. [The weapons shop, naturally.]

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud's going to follow for lack of anything better to do.]

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

[Vincent knows what he's looking for, going immediately to look through the various firearms until he finds his.]

They allow us weapons... they must be confident of their abilities to contain us.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

With good reason. None of our attacks or spells work against the barrier.

[Action]

[chaotic-dirge.livejournal.com]

Yet should that barrier fail...