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WHO: Tifa and open + two closed sections
WHAT: Tifa explores, meets her roommate, and visits the forge
WHERE: around the city, Dorm room 302, the forge
WHEN: early Sept, before vaccine event things
WARNINGS: will update with any relevant ones

exploration - OPEN

After finding Cloud and Vincent, Tifa takes on a goal of exploration. She'd gotten the idea of the place and a feel of how frustrating trying to get anywhere is. But she hasn't had any real experience outside of her arrival. So she wants to try to find out what she can, learn more about this city and the inhabitants, and hopefully learn her way around the city as much as is possible.

Places of note are the park, where she takes a second time to look around. She'd been so busy trying to find Cloud that she hadn't really looked around all that much. Now, she wants to see it. She also walks into Koenig's Fitness and Recreation, surprised by the gym's looks. Wearing her full gloves and arm guards, she probably looks like someone to be concerned about, but she lifts a hand in greeting and chooses to hang back until she figures out what she can really do here.

If anyone catches her attention, she is willing to talk and get to know people along her way.

room 302 - CLOSED to sharon

Overwhelmed has been the state of Tifa's mind for quite a while now and her introduction to this city hasn't really helped that much. Cloud's presence has been the most stabilizing force since she got here, but finding out that his memories contradict hers yet again keeps tearing at that stability. She hardly knows what to believe as far as Nibelheim; having to hold back so much else is really beginning to take its toll and she hasn't even been here all that long.

She manages to find her dorm room easily enough and after taking a few deep breaths, she presses her hand to the biometric lock system. As the door unlocks to let her in, she pushes it open and takes a step inside. Her eyes take in the layout of the room before the silhouette of someone else inside. Probably her roommate.

"Hi," she says, gently closing the door behind her. "My name's Tifa. I guess I'm your new roommate."

Firecross Metalworks - open to anyone who would be at the forge

The last stop on Tifa's list is the forge Cloud told her about. It takes her a day or so to make her way over there, but eventually, she can be found making her way inside. Glancing through the bowels of the junkyard, she tilts her head, wondering if Cloud really has the right place. It isn't like him to try to play a practical joke on her.

"Cloud?" she calls, making her way further inside.

Eventually, she finds one of the training areas. They look well-maintained, or at least maintained enough, and people seem to be using them. She does her best to stick to the outskirts, but not even that really saves her. She turns at just the wrong moment, just in time to spot someone twirling a weapon in her general direction - whether it's a pole or a sword or a buster sword, she can't tell. She reacts instinctively, shifting her feet to take her weight evenly as she lifts both arms into the shape of 'X' in front of her head, far enough out to keep whatever the weapon is from hitting her. Gritting her teeth, she digs her heels in, not about to let whatever or whoever this is take a chunk out of her.

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At least one of them isn't caught in the middle of a routine. Tifa turns at the sound of the new voice, taking in the look in this man's eyes and the scar across his face. He doesn't look too bad and a healthy suspicion might just keep them all alive.

"That's right," she says, stepping forward to offer him a hand to shake. "Tifa Lockhart. I haven't been here as long as he has."

The one missing out on the fun of challenging everyone else to fights. It's alright though, he's making great progress on... an unnecessary number of weapons he's not offered to anyone. They're just there. In an ever growing pile. Several piles honestly. He has a problem.

He took the offered hand in a firm handshake, offering a nod and something that might almost be a smile if you squint. He doesn't smile much, sorry Tifa.

"He probably should'a warned us you were comin'," He offers with a wry smirk. Yeah he heard the commotion. "Nice to see he's got some friends from home around now. Known him long?"

"I should've been paying more attention to who was around me," she counters, though she appreciates that no one had tried to stab her on purpose when she turned up. She might have interrupted a few training sessions and gotten a sword or two pointed at her, but at least when she explained she was a friend of Cloud's, everyone had been quick to lower their weapons. It probably helped that she'd lowered her fists first.

Her grip is firm and strong in their handshake and she nods in response. "We grew up together," is her quick answer. "So, yes. Before I asked him to join AVALANCHE with me, we hadn't seen each other in a few years. But we've known each other for a long time."

He's not about to disagree with her, getting caught unaware by people training wasn't speaking highly to her awareness. Though she didn't take any blows to the head so that was worth something. Cloud was well liked around the shop, so a friend of his was a friend of theirs.

He lets out a whistle. "Damn, that long?" They really did go back. "He's told me a little about where he comes from and what's going on there. With the reactors and all." That's what AVALANCHE was about, right? He thinks that's what that was about. The life force of the planet and all.

Tifa nods at the mention of reactors. At least that's one thing she won't have to worry about telling him. She doubts anyone knows the truth about Nibelheim, but she'll get there when she has to.

Besides, not dealing with important, confusing things seems to be her forte. Especially where Cloud is concerned.

"That's what started it all. Now we're trying to stop Shinra and Sephiroth from destroying the whole Planet."

Because it wasn't just bad enough with Shinra and the reactors. Now it's also Sephiroth and Meteor. Tifa remembers the way the giant red ball looked when she woke up in Shinra's care.

"It's been... a lot harder than we all thought it would be."

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