Titles are hard

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WHO: Omega, Tony the Mothcat and whoever's in Sh'Ka
WHERE: Sh'Ka
WHAT: Not getting into any trouble, honest!
WHEN: During the Apocalypse in Temba
WARNINGS: N/A
NOTES: Will match pose pref!


i. General Exploration
Omega hadn't meant for her trip to the other city to be as long as it was, but there was nothing to do about the train being inoperational, nor the comms ceasing to send out. She could only hope that Echo wasn't worrying too much about her absence, but she'd been sure to let him know where she was going beforehand at the very least, and she wasn't alone. There had been others aboard the train at the time. Maybe they're still around.

Even knowing that there are others from Temba here in Sh'Ka, it's still an entire city. Things are still quiet, and the young clone tries to remember to be cautious as she goes about her exploring. She fancies herself out patrolling, wandering along the streets, keeping nearer to buildings. At times she comes to a halt by the edge of a wall, holding up a fist the way someone would signal for a halt to their troops. Except the only one with her is a rambunctious little mothcat on a harness who never fails to leap on ahead, oblivious to her intents. And with a sigh and a shake of her head, Omega could only follow after. "Tony, we're definitely going to have to work on some things."


ii. Estate
It was the mothcat who noticed the activity at the estate. Perking, Tony hadn't waited to take off like a little kite gliding along with the girl trailing behind him. He'd started to take to the harness, which at least assured Omega that the flying fuzzball would stay within sight. The last thing she wants is have Jon get mad at her for not looking after the mothcat.

"Whoa... what's going on here?" she marvels, spying the grounds-keeping robots as they buzz about their work. She's never seen any droids like these before. After catching Tony making an attempt at pouncing the busy bots, she decides to keep a hold of him as she enters the estate building itself.

It's not a building she's ventured into during her previous visits, but it's definitely more lively with all the robots at work. It puts her at ease, even if they aren't very talkative. She might wear herself out following them as they go about setting up furniture, so if one doesn't catch her poking about after them, perhaps they'll come upon her napping on a pile of bedding left in one of the rooms with a mothcat curled up beside her.


iii. Target Practice
With danger of falling leaves and so many trees around, it was difficult to find a suitable spot for practicing with her bow. Omega finally settles for using the quarry. She's chalked out some wibbly targets here and there along varying levels where she could find a decent surface that jutted up. To hopefully keep Tony busy, she's found him a box from the estate to play in. Hopefully the robots won't miss it.

The girl extends her energy bow, taking aim at one of the farther targets before pulling back and then releasing a shot of violet energy. She makes a slight face as it clips the edge of the target. She's out of practice and can only imagine what Echo would say.


iv. Wildcard
Choose your own adventure!

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Omega seemed to relax then, nodding at Reeve before looking around. "There are probably lots of places we can do that." She paused, her eyes drifting upwards towards the trees across from them. "Just maybe not under any trees," she suggested. She'd seen what had resulted from falling leaves.

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The trees. Reeve winces at hte memory of the leaf that would have hit him if it hadn't been for the Soldat.

"That is a very good idea. Perhaps inside."

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"Sounds like a plan," Omega nodded. "Guess we won't find many places with actual things to sit on, but it'll still be out the range of trees. After you?"

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Reeve nodded his agreement and started off toward the nearest safe structure. Not that he was certain it was safe or that he would be certain until he got there. But the building, whatever it had been before, still had some roof. And he was happy enough with it.

"Woudl this work?"

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A roof, one that was particularly intact, was definitely promising. Omega let Tony go to sniff around and inspect the space, nodding as she glanced around herself.

"Looks good enough to me," she said.

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Reeve nodded and proceeded to sit right down on the dirty floor despite his nice suit. Then he took a pad out of his bag and even a pencil.

"Hopefully it's sound."

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Omega looked up at the ceiling for any potentially compromising cracks before she wandered over to sit beside Reeve. "Well, it looks solid, and there aren't any pieces of the wall on the floor, at least." She folded her legs, wrapping her arms around them as she watched the man set to work.

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He was already drawing eagerly, starting with the form of a person because you needed to get some reference on this stuff.

"I shall hope it keeps being safe," Reeve answered.

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Watching Reeve sketch things out was interesting. "Did someone teach you how to draw?" she asked. Seeing anyone do anything outside of a computer or datapad is rare enough for her, although she imagines her brothers have some sort of skill unless they got someone else to help customize their armor. She never did find out where Wrecker had gotten his stuffed tooka doll.

"Me too," Omega said, glancing over to make sure Tony wasn't getting into any trouble before she looked for wherever Mini was. She'd pat the spot beside her in invitation for him to join her if he wanted.

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"Huh?"

Reeve actually paused, his hand and pencil stopping over the question. That was not something he had expected.

"I suppose I learned by practice, starting as a child. Though my education required me to get better at it, though mostly in buildings. I designed them. Among other things."

With that he went back to sketching, a young woman's form coming to life under his attention.

Mini, who had been scooped up by Reeve for the walk here, finally squirmed from behind Reeve, turning distrustful eyes on Tony the mothcat. Approaching Omega wasn't as easy to accept when the thing might jump him.

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"You design buildings?" Well that sounded interesting. No wonder he had been studying the structure as he had. Omega glanced back at Mini, pouting a little before she followed his gaze over to wherever Tony was poking about before she gave him a sympathetic smile. She supposed she couldn't blame him after earlier, even if it looked like the mothcat was too busy pouncing at floating dust motes.

Leaving Mini to stay where he pleased, Omega looked back at the drawing as details continued to unfold with each of Reeve's pencil strokes. "Is that the person you said used the...um... What was it called again?"

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"Indeed," Reeve smiled as he finished with the picture and offered it over. finished it looked like a young woman with short shorts and a strange top that was part sweater, part crop top, part tank top. She wore a large gauntlet on one arm, and in her other hand she held a massive shuriken, nearly two feet from tip to tip, perhaps even more than that.

"Shuriken. She could use it for melee fighting and for throwing. Yuffie, she's a ninja and a princess and a very good person. Even if she has sticky fingers."

"She would steal all ya materia," Mini threw in.

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Omega was clearly fascinated as she took the finished picture. Reeve had done it so quickly, it was almost magical itself for how he'd made a few lines form such a comprehensive image.

"Wow... This is amazing!" She smiled as she considered this Yuffie person. The weapon was so huge and yet it sounded like this girl had no trouble using it. She giggled at Mini's addendum. "What's materia?"

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There was no magic in this, but in the delight that she was going through.

"Materia is crystalized knowledge of my world, which enables those who are not descended of the Ancients to use magic."

In fact... He pulled his ice materia from his pocket, holding the glowing green orb in his hand.

"Like this."

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"Crystalized knowledge?"

That sounded like something impossible, or perhaps just abstract, but if it had to do with this magic thing then it was probably more of the former. Omega looked at the glowing orb that Reeve produced, mouth forming an 'o'. She hesitated from reaching out towards it, a glance at Reeve asking if it was okay to do so.

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"By all means," Reeve said, holding the orb out. It would tingle to touch, and to those capable of calling power into them, like frost. But that would take training.

"Where I'm from, life is a cycle of life and death and rebirth. So yes, knowledge can be crystalized as life returns to the origin."

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Omega was careful as she took the orb in hand, eyebrows arching at its tingling sensation. "Wow..." she breathed. "I've never seen anything like it before." She still wasn't sure how it would be used for magic, but it was certainly pretty to look at.

"How does it crystalize?" she asked, holding the orb back out to Reeve.

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"It isn't a thing of this world. Perhaps not of any world but Gaia. A blessing of Minerva one says."

How does it crystalize? Reeve took the orb and began to do some contact juggling with it. On his world if you had access to Materia, you tended to get good at this. Just because you could.

"It crystalizes out of mako fountains when it's natural. But there are processes to force crystalization. We don't use those anymore."

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Not that she'd heard of such a world, nor whoever this Minerva was. She couldn't help but smile a little as Reeve absently toyed with the orb.

"What's mako?" she asked, her accent stretching the sound more into a 'meeko' as she tilted her head. "I guess there's a lot of things to have to understand, just to understand how Materia becomes what it is."

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Mako, oh dear.

"Mako is... it's the lifeblood of the Lifestream. The souls and very life force of my world. All life comes from, and returns to, the lifestream."

And it was a beautiful existence they had. Not that he'd ever done the right things regarding it before this.

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Omega's eyes drifted towards the materia again, lips pursing thoughtfully. "But that's not actually made of souls, right?" she pointed. Just some kind of...byproduct? She hoped it wasn't made of living beings, anyway.

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"No, it's made from knowledge," Reeve answered.

There were no living souls in this. Not... not anymore. Reeve sighed and tucked the materia away.

"That is just how life works out in my world. THough we don't use magic as much these days, the planet is tired."

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They were back to square one with knowledge, but at least it wasn't directly the Lifestream source. Omega tilted her head, looking back at the drawing before passing it back to Reeve.

"Did you use too much magic? Is that why it's tired?" she asked softly.

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"Not exactly, but you are a very sharp young woman. There was an abuse of the Lifestream itself that weakened it. Now we don't use materia because the magical essence of the world is unstable. WE have agreed, more or less, to avoid using it as much as possible to help the planet heal. It will likely be decades or longer before regular use begins again."

Which was fair. But at least there was plenty of materia already in the world. People likely wouldn't need to create more in a deliberate fashion, just level what already existed so it could grow and split.

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One of those better late than never cases, it seemed. Omega nodded, even if only having a very rough concept of how it all worked. It was still a little difficult on the magical, supernatural level to grasp, but she could understand resources and overuse well enough.

"At least it has a chance to do so. I hope your world can be strong again."