Hysteric Kingdom NPCs (
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hysterickingdom2014-03-13 01:13 pm
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Welcome to the Netherworld!
[It is difficult to define what a normal afternoon is by Netherworld standards. In the dark, torch-lit halls of the Overlord's Castle, penguin-suited prinnies totter about pretending to do work, while most other vassals make no effort at all to pretend. No fights have broken out yet, but it is questionable how long that will last with the Overlord being awake. It is just the sort of calm that comes before something unexpected happens, or someone makes it happen out of boredom.
And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.
It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.
Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]
And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.
It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.
Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]
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Yes. He rescued me from...from Kefka. He said to lay low until he came back, that he would take me to see Cosmos when the war was won. But...I never saw him after that.
[Partly because she decided to go fight manikins, but now given the condition of another Warrior of Cosmos, she has to wonder.]
Is he alright?
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...He's no longer in the grip of the war's endless cycles, if that's what you mean.
[Sigh, yes, he's giving a partial-answer to begin with.]
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Cycles? I don't understand....
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[Actually, how odd...]
I'm surprised you don't know this already, considering the side you were on.
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I don't remember much of anything. Kefka...he did something to me, made me a mindless fighting machine. He probably would have done it again, if Vaan hadn't intervened.
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Then I suppose you're truly not an enemy...
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I don't want to be. Kefka was the one who enjoyed destruction, not me. I just...wanted to meet Cosmos.
[And go home. Wherever that is, though she's pretty sure it's not here.]
And as strange as it sounds, I don't think the war even...matters here. No one else seems to know what I was talking about, or heard of Chaos or Cosmos.
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Then it's someone else's war, perhaps... [They need to find out soon, and find out what purpose they've been brought here for. He's also oddly bothered by the fact that he's alive with no real explanation.] Tell me, were you defeated by manikins by any chance?
[Just to see whether or not they're all really dead in the permanent-manikin-sense.]
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I was fighting them just before I came here. Not all at once, but I kept encountering them on my way to find Vaan and Cosmos. There were so many....
[Evidently, she's not very good at hiding like Vaan told her to do.]
I probably was. I grew so tired that everything became a blur after a while. And I did lose consciousness.
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[Why else would they have appeared in this strange other world? If Terra were also taken out of the battle by manikins, unable to return, then... just like him, she'd have gone on to this afterlife. Or whatever it was.]
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If this is an afterlife, it's a strange one. And...what do we do now?
[Without a war to fight, what is their purpose? She barely decided on fighting to protect, but is that even needed now?]
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[He'd have seen his father by now, he's sure of it. There has to be something more that must be done.]
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I guess not. But it seems we're to stay here for a little while, at least. After that...I wonder what's beyond.
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[Kain is always single-minded about completing his goals, so that's no different for this.]
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I suppose it will take us a while to find out what to do. No one else here seems to know.
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[He doesn't like not having a path, a purpose to set himself to. He assumes it'll be the same in this afterlife.]
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[She bites her lip, her tone growing more hesitant as she's not sure how he would react. All she knows is that she doesn't want to fight him, war or not.]
...maybe we could help each other?
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I suppose we could. It's not as if we have much choice for now.
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I know, but still...thank you.
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[Perhaps even an ally, in time. Kain didn't give such chances lightly.]
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I never want to see him again. If it weren't for Vaan...I don't want to think of what would have happened.
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[He wonders if they'll have anyone like that to deal with here...]
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[Sigh. She had hoped with Kain's arrival that there would be a chance of Vaan doing the same, but not so far.]
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[Kain trails off, thinking yet again of the way it had all ended for him, for all six of them, truly.]
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You said he was no longer in the grip of the endless cycles. Then you mean...?
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