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TDM 006
 ⏵ arrival ⏴ Arrival is absolutely not normal this month. Instead of a hospital bed, you wake in a tunnel with a large group of other people. These are the residents. A woman’s voice in an earpiece hurriedly clues you in with an apology. I apologize; I had not planned to introduce you this way, but we are low on time. Please proceed down the hallway. For everyone else, coming in is much the same. The instruction goes out to head to designated areas immediately, where companion bots will escort the residents of Etraya down into the depths, the area beneath where much the same is explained.  ⏵ disrobing ⏴ The tunnel eventually opens directly into the foreroom of an expansive library, painted in marvelous hues and patterns with skylights far above. There are wizards milling about, bearded and holding tomes, quietly chatting amongst themselves. The reception area of the library has tall ceilings with equally tall doors Before you get too caught up in the scenery, a voice directs you forward. A gentleman, hunched and bespeckled craws out. "Make a line! Make a line, everyone! You cannot enter the library dressed as you are... Come forward and give me your name." The receptionist asks your given name and then hands over a box from underneath his counter. You can give him any name you want, he doesn’t seem to mind. It is tied with a tagged ribbon- labeling it accordingly. “The _____ robe of _______.”
As you read what the contents of the box may be, they form inside- Looking and behaving as your character expects them to. After all, magic is all in the wielder’s mind. Don your robes and enter the library.  ⏵ unfamiliar familiars ⏴ For those without a familiar (like one hatched from an egg not too long ago) you may borrow one from the library counter. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but they will all assist in the very important mission. As you roam the library, they will make little indications that you are closer or further from finding a piece of the pearl.
 ⏵ the task at hand ⏴ With robes donned and creature in hand, you must now complete your mission. Find the pieces of the shattered pearl. As you enter the library, you may notice that it’s all very dim. There’s oil lamps around the place that may be moved with you to assist in your journey if your robes do not already emit light. Break off and search the library. There is a directory at the front to point guests to all the different sections.
Each section looks enough like the last, though the books within have immense power. Pick up the wrong book, and you might conjure a dragon or a historical figure! You must persist and avoid making too much noise or breaking too many things. Or else the Librarian, a tall mass of knotted fabric will confiscate your robe and usher you back outside. Your name will be struck from the list, and you must pick a new one to re-enter the library to continue the search. You can try to fight back against him- he may be set alight with the lamp. But should you be starting fires in here? Any thread with 15 comments between you and another may be submitted to find a piece of the pearl. There are 20 pieces altogether, and we will determine if the mission was successful by March 28th. A post will go live on the OOC comm for this! This mission occurs out of time, similar to how the spaceship had. Meaning, those currently in game can experience these events any time between now, and March 14th. Please direct all questions to our mod queries comment! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Which will be interesting given Cloud is acting as his bodyguard as well. Fate or destiny or whatever this is seems to have a real sense of humor and Rufus has to stifle a laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.]
It's alright, Sephiroth. No one has found a way to return to our respective worlds easily yet so we're all just making the most of what we can do here. I'm sure I'm safe in your company for now though.
[He knows that eventually Sephiroth will be able to tell that Rufus is older than expected but for now he's going to focus on their mission of finding shards of pearl hidden for now.]
Let's find the pearl then- have you found any pieces yet?
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Fear of consequences he can't currently predict will keep him compliant for now, as properly obedient as any could hope from a SOLDIER. Rufus was indeed safe in his company. Rebellion is years away, and Rufus' presence was living proof that he'd been right to not listen to the reassurances that he could do what he wanted with his future.]
.. I'll do my best, sir.
[And he would. With extreme, violent prejudice, in the unlikely chances anything attacked in a library.
But he shakes his head slightly; if there's pearl pieces at all and it isn't all a lie, he had no proof.]
Afraid not. The information given didn't grant a sense of scale, if it's a shard of an ordinary pearl then.. they could well be inside any book here, as well as on the shelves or around them, and the ..creatures assigned to assist don't seem particularly useful for this purpose.
[The common brown toad he'd selected is held up where it sits comfortably on his hand. The toad, unfed, is uninterested in helping yet.]
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This will be a chance to try to assess just how much of a danger this Sephiroth is- he had never really gotten to know anything about the SOLDIERS, Sephiroth was always just a weapon and tool of the company and nothing more.
Rufus reaches out to take one of the books on the shelf next to them, turning through the pages though he keeps Sephiroth in sight at the corner of his eyes.]
We better get started then. I look through the books if you want to look along the shelves.
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[There is a certain ... instability to any given Sephiroth that probably makes that caution a very good idea. He seems as reasonably sane and stable as anyone could hope for, but that also went for the other one right up until Nibelheim was burnt to ash.
For now all certainly seems as well as can be hoped for. He hasn't tried for one single murder spree yet! Which may be simply because he didn't have orders to do so, and at this stage in life he is still very much the obedient weapon.
However the directions he's given are doable, but given the height difference between himself and the shelves, it means as soon as he's done with the lower level ones, finding nothing of interest, he's climbing bookshelves to look on higher ones normally probably meant for ladders or stepstools to reach. There aren't any immediately around, and this is more expedient! Apparently he's lost shoes somewhere on the way because this is being done barefoot.
His toad meanwhile is set on a shelf, where it begins working its way towards Rufus. Not Rufus - the book he's got.
There's little tunnels through some of the pages, as one would expect from a neglected library with pests like bookworms. If the toad can get close enough it's going to hop directly onto the book and begin investigating for itself. There might be something tasty!]