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dualislogs2019-11-28 12:22 pm
silentnarration) wrote in dualislogs2019-11-28 12:22 pm
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[Closed] The quiet guy tl;dr's
WHO: Squall, Seifer, Nida, Rinoa, Cloud?
WHAT: WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE-- Let's talk about it
WHERE: Squall and Nida's room
WHEN: late Nov
WARNING: Plot sharing. Existential horror. Death mention?
Squall waits a while before he gathers everyone. Mostly because he doesn't want to mess things up by being irrational. It doesn't matter if Seifer is still pissed at him or if Rinoa doesn't want to talk to him yet because of it, he reaches out, whether it's in person or by text. Nida is the first to know, of course, being his roommate. Then Cloud. With Rinoa and Seifer last.
"I ordered pizza for us. It's been a while since we hung out. Come to my room."
"Please. I have something to say."
And he hopes that's enough. Unusual and not-him enough to be weird. He'll try something else if not. Being subtle is not his forte, so he's making a very obvious effort here.
On arrival, there actually is pizza in the room. Open boxes on the table with soda and snacks. And a playlist (randomly-selected dance music if Nida doesn't have any suggestions) playing on his desktop at a decently loud volume. (hopefully not too loud that their neighbors take issue with it.)
Squall is picking at some fried broccoli snack as people trickle in, acknowledging them but not talking till everyone is here, idly fiddling with his Triple Triad cards like he had been about to start a game with Nida (he'd have asked Nida for a game too). His demeanor more than indicative something's up. He finally sets that down and rubs his fingers on his pants, looking at each person in turn.
"I learned something new. It's big." He gestures at the pizza and folds one leg up under him where he sits on the bed. "Act like we're just hanging out. We need Cloud's plan more than ever and we can't call attention to ourselves without a plan." He knows all of them are reckless in their own ways, probably even Cloud though he hasn't seen that side of him to know for sure. "If you need to let it out, act like you're angry with me" That is especially directed at Seifer. It's not far from the truth anyway.
"Those robots we destroyed are the Head's ultimate goal. It wants to replace us with exact replicas, equipped with our memories and personalities. I guess one year is about how long it takes to get them ready. I said before that the Head can bring us back to life if we're killed. Once the robots are ready, we'll be dead for good. A few people in the city were already replaced, including one of the Heart's hackers - Travis, so the Heart is already compromised."
His frown only deepens as he talks and he makes himself eat another piece of the snack before he continues.
"There's a chip somewhere in our head. It's limiting our powers. Hank says it has the power to just switch us off too, like it did the guy in one of the Head's memories. It's what's downloading our memories. Trying to remove it will kill us which will give the Head more room to mess with our heads, so we have to find another way.
"Hank thinks the Head doesn't keep track of everything. He might be right or he'd be in trouble by now. But we shouldn't talk about this openly. We can do more the longer we stay under the radar. He also wanted to know how our powers have been limited for comparison. I don't think my strength was limited. The Head just took my GFs." He looks at Nida and Seifer questioningly. Do they feel the same? Then at Cloud. "Aqua said her cure magic was weaker when we first met. Is it the same for your materia?"
And then... Rinoa. A little more apologetic and quiet. He hasn't done a very good job as a knight. "We'll have to figure out the extent of your magic soon. Find out what your reach is."
He sighs heavily. "We need to get this information out to as many people as possible... Just be careful."
((OOC: Squall is starting with his core group of CR but everyone is encouraged to share this out the best way they see fit. He'll try to spread to others privately as well.))
WHAT: WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE-- Let's talk about it
WHERE: Squall and Nida's room
WHEN: late Nov
WARNING: Plot sharing. Existential horror. Death mention?
Squall waits a while before he gathers everyone. Mostly because he doesn't want to mess things up by being irrational. It doesn't matter if Seifer is still pissed at him or if Rinoa doesn't want to talk to him yet because of it, he reaches out, whether it's in person or by text. Nida is the first to know, of course, being his roommate. Then Cloud. With Rinoa and Seifer last.
"I ordered pizza for us. It's been a while since we hung out. Come to my room."
"Please. I have something to say."
And he hopes that's enough. Unusual and not-him enough to be weird. He'll try something else if not. Being subtle is not his forte, so he's making a very obvious effort here.
On arrival, there actually is pizza in the room. Open boxes on the table with soda and snacks. And a playlist (randomly-selected dance music if Nida doesn't have any suggestions) playing on his desktop at a decently loud volume. (hopefully not too loud that their neighbors take issue with it.)
Squall is picking at some fried broccoli snack as people trickle in, acknowledging them but not talking till everyone is here, idly fiddling with his Triple Triad cards like he had been about to start a game with Nida (he'd have asked Nida for a game too). His demeanor more than indicative something's up. He finally sets that down and rubs his fingers on his pants, looking at each person in turn.
"I learned something new. It's big." He gestures at the pizza and folds one leg up under him where he sits on the bed. "Act like we're just hanging out. We need Cloud's plan more than ever and we can't call attention to ourselves without a plan." He knows all of them are reckless in their own ways, probably even Cloud though he hasn't seen that side of him to know for sure. "If you need to let it out, act like you're angry with me" That is especially directed at Seifer. It's not far from the truth anyway.
"Those robots we destroyed are the Head's ultimate goal. It wants to replace us with exact replicas, equipped with our memories and personalities. I guess one year is about how long it takes to get them ready. I said before that the Head can bring us back to life if we're killed. Once the robots are ready, we'll be dead for good. A few people in the city were already replaced, including one of the Heart's hackers - Travis, so the Heart is already compromised."
His frown only deepens as he talks and he makes himself eat another piece of the snack before he continues.
"There's a chip somewhere in our head. It's limiting our powers. Hank says it has the power to just switch us off too, like it did the guy in one of the Head's memories. It's what's downloading our memories. Trying to remove it will kill us which will give the Head more room to mess with our heads, so we have to find another way.
"Hank thinks the Head doesn't keep track of everything. He might be right or he'd be in trouble by now. But we shouldn't talk about this openly. We can do more the longer we stay under the radar. He also wanted to know how our powers have been limited for comparison. I don't think my strength was limited. The Head just took my GFs." He looks at Nida and Seifer questioningly. Do they feel the same? Then at Cloud. "Aqua said her cure magic was weaker when we first met. Is it the same for your materia?"
And then... Rinoa. A little more apologetic and quiet. He hasn't done a very good job as a knight. "We'll have to figure out the extent of your magic soon. Find out what your reach is."
He sighs heavily. "We need to get this information out to as many people as possible... Just be careful."
((OOC: Squall is starting with his core group of CR but everyone is encouraged to share this out the best way they see fit. He'll try to spread to others privately as well.))
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Instead, he launches into his whole spiel about the city, the Head, what's going on, the intention behind the to-do's from the past. And she has... no idea what to feel. Or rather, she feels so many things at the same time that she has no idea what to focus on first. Or what to focus on at all.
It's a little after the point in which he's talking about his missing GFs that Rinoa's lifted her hands and pulling them through her hair. Chips in their head. Chips in their head. It's so bizarre that it's incredibly hard to believe, but this is also Squall and there's no reason he would ever say something that was meant to scare without there being some truth in it. Nails scrape over skin and scalp alike, but she can't feel anything that... seems out of the ordinary. No scarring. No weird bumps that shouldn't exist.
When he addresses her, she can only meet his gaze for some moments before it drops. Even though she's nodding, it's kind of like being underwater. She barely knows anything about her sorceress powers. How is she supposed to figure out the extent of them here? What is she supposed to do? How is she supposed to handle this?
She has to fake and falsify her strength. Sucking in a sharp breath, she finally nods. "...Right. Of course. Yeah, I'll be discreet. I'll let you know if I find anything else out." About their situation. About herself.
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"I don't think we have to hide our powers as long as we're not caught fighting the city. We can train and prepare for a fight." He directs his gaze at her again, holding a hand out for her. "I'm your knight. I won't let you lose control."
Whether or not he can actually do that is not his call to make in this instance but he's saying it anyway.
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You can't promise that.
There's no way he can. There's no way he even knows. Considering how much is truly unknown about her abilities, neither Rinoa nor Squall can make any kind of promise. As such, she's not convinced, even when she allows him her hand. Suddenly everything else is more important than any stupid fight they might have been in the middle of.
"But will preparation be enough? Is it even possible to prepare? Anything can happen between now and then."
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And... well, he probably shouldn't keep talking about Rinoa being a sorceress and him being her knight in front of Seifer. He resists the urge to pull her close. Instead just squeezes her hand. There aren't any guarantees, so they'll just have to live in the now.
"It'll be enough. We didn't have good odds against Ultimecia either." And it worked out. Somehow. He looks from her to everyone else in the room again, biting back the urge to say they'll all go home. His eyes drift back to her. "It'll be hard but we'll make it through this."
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A GF is one thing. To have the capacity without the GF... Well. She doubts that needs to be spelled out.
Squall is right, though. They didn't stand much of a chance against Ultimecia and they still triumphed. Considering she's more familiar than chips in the head or the brain, or wherever it's at, Rinoa would almost rather face Ultimecia again. Kind of. Kind of not, though, considering what a bizarre happenstance that ended up being.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained," Rinoa begins thoughtfully. "That's the saying, right? I think it'll be okay if we're all together."