⊕ 04 [voice/action]

[erodingearth]

Welcome to the New Feathers. I hope everyone's settling in all right. Things have been peaceful lately, and it's better than landing in Luceti in the middle of an experiment. I'm Terra, and I've been here for half a year now.

[...Stating it aloud like that just makes him feel old. But he sets out making the filter he's been practicing since Frederic showed it to him.]

[Filtered away from Ven and Vanitas / 70% 75% 85% 94% unhackable]

I'd like to ask for some help from Ven's friends. You might also know him as "Ventus." Ven's been here a lot longer than me, and I'm pretty sure he hasn't had a chance to celebrate his birthday at all. There were plans for a surprise party, but things just ... kept happening. [The draft. Aqua's second disappearance. And now Kohan had ran off with little more than a note. There's a noticeable pause in the message before Terra continues.] I'd appreciate any help.

[...] And if someone could help me fix my filter, that would be great, too.


[action]

[If anyone wants to catch him after his post, he can be found shopping in the plaza. Someone's gotta do the grocery shopping.]

Comments

[perplexme]

If you're counting Luceti's time? Let's see...it's been about three years for me and Xion, and about four and a half for me and Axel. Hm? Oh. Return to Castle. It's something they taught me when I was first starting out with the Organization. When we would finish our missions we'd use the dark portals to RTC and rest up for the next day.

[erodingearth]

That's a long time. [Maybe comparable to how long he's known Ven, but not as long as he has known Aqua.] Dark portals to return to the castle... [That sounds awfully like--] The Lanes Between?

[perplexme]

Yeah, definitely. Sora's known his friends a lot longer though. [He pauses, giving Terra a curious look.] I think that's something different. The corridors were something only we could use.

[erodingearth]

It sounds a little like the way we would travel between worlds. But we'd of course have our Gliders.

[perplexme]

...Gliders? [Give him a sec to ponder.] Like that thing Ven was riding on a few drafts back?

[erodingearth]

Yeah. All three of us have Gliders, but they don't all look like Ven's.

[perplexme]

What does yours look like then?

[erodingearth]

[He tries to think of things he's seen, in books or with his own eyes, to compare his Glider to.]

Something like a bike. Doesn't require quite as much balance as Ven's does.

[perplexme]

Yeah probably not. Ven's looks more like my skateboard, even if I didn't get a good look at it. But I'll admit, kind of jealous you guys got those for transportation.

[erodingearth]

Not a lot of good they do us here, with them being sealed away by the barrier. Or... [He shakes his head faintly.] By whatever it is the barrier emits.

[perplexme]

They really only work outside of it? Ven didn't tell me that part.

[erodingearth]

Yeah. I don't really get it, being able to suppress the Keyblade's power like that. But Luceti is strange.

[perplexme]

It could be worse. There was a time when we couldn't summon the weapons away. We had to carry them everywhere. At least things seem to have gotten better.

[erodingearth]

You couldn't summon them away? [He's never heard of that.] Was it another experiment?

[perplexme]

[Headshake.] Well it might have been, I'm not sure. I sort of forgot all about it when things went back to normal.

[erodingearth]

[This is a confused look, Roxas. You just managed to confuse him even more by explaining.]

[perplexme]

...never mind. So what does Aqua's look like then? Her glider, I mean.

[erodingearth]

Hers is... [...How to describe it?] It's more similar to mine than Ven's.

[But he needs to face that confusion.] What do you mean, you forgot all about it?

[perplexme]

Wonder why Ven's is different.

It might have been something I dreamed of. Sometimes my memories and my dreams still get confused...[It's as best an answer as he can give, really.]

[erodingearth]

They all fit our different fighting styles. Ven's all about speed and maneuverability. Aqua could use hers to attack from afar. Mine is built strong enough for me to ram right into Unversed. [He finds himself vaguely thinking about that little blue alien, Experiment 626, and the spaceship he had been imprisoned in.]

Sometimes? Not often, I hope.

[perplexme]

Makes enough sense...it's kind of like how all of us in the Organization have weapons that fit our elements. I think...

...not very often anymore, no. Not as often as it used to be.

[erodingearth]

So all of the people in your Organization specialized in an element? [That's some pretty serious specializing. He wonders how well that had worked out for them.]

[He slowly nods, though he's still not quite sure what to make of it. Experiencing these things in Luceti was one thing. But experiencing them and then forgetting?]

[perplexme]

Uh huh. ...let's see, Xigbar used space, Xaldin used wind, Vexen used ice, Lexaeus used the earth, Zexion used illusions, Saix used the moon, Axel uses fire, Demyx used water, Luxord used time manipulation, Larxene used lightning, Marluxia used flowers and Xion and I use light.

It got kind of complex...but everybody used their elements to fight.

[It happens when your memories and your whole life get manipulated. That can really mess a person up.]

[erodingearth]

[That ... was a lot of elements. And none of the names really sounded familiar. Thirteen members.] It sounds like that group would be very formidable fighting together. [But weaknesses would be pretty glaring fighting alone.]

[perplexme]

[A shrug.] Assuming everybody actually got along, yeah. We were sent on missions together sometimes but a lot of the time only a few of us really worked together. A couple of people used to ditch me in the middle of missions to do other stuff. [You know, like Demyx. Jerk.]

And then the Superior never went on missions. He sent us to do all of his dirty work instead.