caughtinanetwork | 1st Combo

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1st Combo - [video]

[The video comes on in a jolt of motion, which stills to a skewed image of pavement, buildings, and a soaking wet teenage boy clad in red and black lying on the ground. He winces as though he'd just hit the ground. Hard.]

Oww...

[Pushing himself up off the ground, he rubs his head.]

Is everyone all...

[Wait. Something's wrong. He looks around the plaza with clearly growing alarm, but still not at the SFC.]

Guys? Where is everyone?

[And where in the world is he?!]

[OOC: I'm up for action or network replies. Either works for me!]

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_{[oh you must be new here.

Have an awkward bookworm approaching you.]}

Um, are you... alright?

[Lloyd straightens up, still rubbing his head, and turns to look the person who just spoke to him.]

Yeah, I'm okay. Where am I? And... did anyone else just come through here?

...I'm afraid you are the only one. And this place is called Vatheon.

Dammit... Where could they have gone?

[He lets out a frustrated, worried breath, then focuses back on his other problem.]

Vatheon? I've never heard of that.

[Which doesn't necessarily mean anything. He's, uh, doesn't exactly pay the best attention during school.]

What other cities is it near?

Ah, n-no... you see, this is a city in a different world. We.re all trapped here.

_{[He frowns, now looking worried.]}

...I'm sorry.

A different world? You mean, different from Tethe'alla or Sylvarant?

[Surprised - but not disbelieving.]

What do you mean, we're trapped?

_{[He nods.]}

Yes... And I have never heard of those worlds. The world I come from is called Naraka...

_{[oh dear, how he is going to say this.]}

We can't leave this place.

How many worlds are there?

[He can say it, but Lloyd's not going to believe it. The teen shakes his head.]

But if there's a way here, there's gotta be a way back, right? Things can't just go one way.

I don't know how many exactly, but there's definitely a lot of them.

_{[he frowns again.]}

Yes... you're right. There probably is a way out, but nobody found it yet. I've heard people sometimes go back home, though.

Wow, that's amazing! I never realized there were that many worlds.

[The confirmation that people have made it home helps boost Lloyd's optimism.]

Well, there you go. We know there's a way home, so it's only a matter of finding it. Maybe it's something like the Otherworldly Gate, and it only shows up at certain times.

I've never heard about Otherworldly Gate, but... I doubt it's something like that...

_{[you call him pessimistic.]}

Why? Did you get here another way?

I don't remember how exactly I got here. I was aboard the airship...Um, wait. You mean you do remember?

Yeah. My friends and I went through the Otherworldly Gate. We were ambushed and it was the only way to escape. It was supposed to take us to Sylvarant, but...

[He shrugs.]

I don't really know how it works. I guess it messed up when I jumped in. Next thing I knew, I was here.

I see...

_{[he makes a thoughtful look.]}

I've heard that the large coral in the middle of the plaza is what brought us here.

Coral can do that?

[Whoa. Maybe he should have paid attention in class that time when the Professor was teaching them about the sea.

...if only it hadn't been so boring.]

This coral is very special. I've heard that it has many powers and the locals worship it like a deity.

Another thing is... that we have to touch it once per month to power it up. If we don't... we will fall into a coma...

A coma? You're serious? Wait, what if something happens and you can't touch it before you fall into a coma? Could you still wake up if someone got you to it?

I-I'm sorry, but I don't know... um, I've been here only a month...

Oh. No, don't worry, it's not your fault.

But someone else might know, right?

Edited 2012-01-25 20:34 (UTC)

Yeah... I'm sure that someone will know.

You should probably try asking... oh, that's right. There's this starfish-shaped communicator that allows you to talk to other people here.

Wait... You have to ask a starfish before you can talk to people?

Ah, no. It's a device that looks like a starfish.

Really? Huh...

[Can't imagine why someone would make something like that shaped like a starfish, but then he didn't understand a lot of things about technology.]

And you can talk to people with it? That actually sounds kind of neat! Where can I get one of them?

[Nope, hasn't noticed his SFC on the ground.]

Edited 2012-01-26 16:17 (UTC)

Yeah.

_{[it's fine. In Ruca's world they don't have that kind of technology either.]}

...Um, everyone get one when they are brought here.

_{[Ruca notices your SFC lies on the ground and he points at it.]}

...I think that this is yours.

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