001 - New Journey

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WHO: Cloud Strife + You!
WHERE: Anywhere, will be around the hotel more and ship area for a bit
WHAT: Arrival, Intro
WHEN: Current
WARNINGS: Geostigma talks is happening in a thread. There's nothing else really happening so I'll update as needed.



A: Hollow Ships

[ Cloud has only ever seen one rocket before and seen space for a short period of time. After being here for a while, he wanted to go exploring towards the spaceships. Cid would have gotten a kick out of them and probably would want to know everything about it. Cloud's curiosity was mostly to venture out, look at them, maybe learn something. He's quiet as he stays outside of the ships, silently looking over the shape and make of them. ]

Shinra would have a field day with this.

[ It's a small side comment, particularly stated at no one. Cloud could be surprised by anyone willing to listen in to his private side conversations with himself out loud. He goes up to one of the doors and places a gloved hand upon it. However, the door doesn't respond nor does it open. He tilts his head to the side while lifting an eyebrow. Interesting. ]

How do you get in?

B: Network

[ When the feed comes on, Cloud's eyes are downward. He doesn't seem all that happy about recording. It's easier and quicker and harder to not hit send. ]

My name is Cloud Strife. How can someone find spare parts for a motorcycle if they ever need them?

[ A question that may be relevant. He pauses a little as his eyebrows knit towards the center. Cloud has to continue to make connections even here. So, he's going to also offer in the help he's been used to doing back home. ]

Does anyone need or want someone to make deliveries?

C: Wildcard

[ Want to do something not listed? Go for it! He'll be hanging around the hotel. Maybe you can catch him around on his motorcycle since he will be driving slowly with it at first. PM me if you want to hash out or discuss anything. ]

Comments

[plate_builder]

[Of course he's going to worry. They're friends, right? At least Reeve thought so.]

I'll guide the way then. And yes, I would rather be here. What could I do to atone there? Here... well, if nothing else, I'm still continuing hte WRO's work, even if it's not just to make up for my own mistakes.

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[ They are friends. Cloud doesn't want his friends to worry about him. ]

Alright, I'll follow you. I don't know, I wasn't there to see what you had to work with. [ He raises an eyebrow a bit at that. He tilts his head curiously. ]

Are you going to tell me you want to heal the Planet, too?

[ He still doesn't quite believe Rufus Shinra. But if that's what they really wanted to do. He wasn't going to stop them from doing that. Cloud had his own things to do. ]

[plate_builder]

Of course I wish to heal the planet. You forget, Cloud... Mako reactors were as powerful and thus as destructive as they were because of my innovations.

[So he took quite a bit of pain from what happened. Healing the planet mattered to him.]

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Rufus Shinra has told me this too. Mako reactors were destroying the Planet. What more is there to talk about with that? [ He looks at Reeve while folding his arms against his chest loosely. ]

What is Deepground about?

[plate_builder]

[Ah, a complicated question. How to address it?]

Apparently Shinra had dirty secrets Rufus was not even aware of. People made Soldier by other means, and in the process, growing slightly mad. They tried to end the world.

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[ Cloud's mouth opens in surprise at that statement. Rufus had been kept in the dark about something Shinra had been doing. He can only take Reeve's word on the matter. In matter of the world, they all seem to come together when it's needed. ]

Shinra seems nothing but a pile of secrets. How were they trying to end the world?

[plate_builder]

[Shinra was a pile of something. Mostly, a pile of ruins. And Reeve thought it was better that way. Even as he worked with the Shinra.]

Another Weapon. Called Omega. They were tricking it into manifesting by killing people that had no Geostigma, to think the planet into thinking the world was dying.

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I would have thought we taken care of all the weapons. [ He shakes his head at hearing what they were targeting with it. ] Did it start to work? How did you take care of it?

[plate_builder]

This one slumbers, to bring about the end of the Planet at the Planet's will. And yes, it started. I didn't take care of it. The WRO tried. But it was Vincent's battle.

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Hmm. There's not much else to do then do what's needed here. [ Cloud gives a small shrug since the rest of the story will be left alone. ] How far away is the hospital from here?

[plate_builder]

Not too long of a walk, but it is still distant. Is that an issue?

[Because he won't know what to do if it is. It's not like he could carry Cloud.]

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[ He shakes his head. ]

It won't be an issue. What else do I have going on? I'm surprised you're not busy doing other things.

[plate_builder]

Rebuilding cities. That's what I do.

[And he doesn't want to talk about... Well, Tony. That was just a whole mess he didn't know how to solve.]

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[ Reeve does know how to rebuild cities and keep the other side secret himself. Cloud remembered something from earlier though. ]

The data points and being an engineer. What exactly goes into that?

[plate_builder]

You go to the power plant, touch the orb. It uploads knowledge to you. It can teach you the Agrii technology. I haven't taken it myself yet, trying to learn the technology legitimately.

[He starts walking, clearly expecting Cloud to follow.]

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So it's pretty much instant. Are you asking me to learn the technology to do what? Assist you if you need it?

[ He does follow after Reeve. ]

[plate_builder]

That is one option. There are, of course, other points. Medicine. Agriculture. Communications. Piloting of the ships that have been given to us. There are options. You are not bound to one just because I need additional hands.

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[ Reeve did his research to pick probably one of the better options for him. ] I can see why you picked engineering out of that. The other options don't really interest me.

[plate_builder]

[Oh, Reeve hasn't bothered to take one yet, so it's really a moot point. This was just what he thought Cloud might put up with.]

I figured it might make you better able to tend to your bike here, maybe figure out how to change the power supply to something readily available.

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Good thinking ahead, Reeve. If I do take on this technology and be able to try something like. I have never done real modifications on that scale before.

[plate_builder]

You'll have the skills to.

[Maybe not the knowledge, but definitely the skills. And with that said he gets them moving back toward the hospital again. And soon enough he's got them to the door of the hospital. Where Reeve just... stops. Stops and stares at the door with a sigh.]

What you need will be in there.

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[ Cloud goes quiet at Reeve being kind to him. It's been a while since he's talked to Reeve. He knows what he did with keeping Geostigma a secret from them wasn't right. He stops by the door while looking at the other. ]

Are you not coming in then? I guess you are busy doing the rebuilding thing.

[plate_builder]

[It's not that, and the way Reeve looks at the door, clearly nervous, may speak to that.]

I... Don't know that I should go in there. Things became complicated last time.

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[ Cloud raises an eyebrow while crossing his arms loosely against his chest. ]

How did things get complicated in a hospital?

[plate_builder]

It's about the people there.

[He looks forlorn, and then looks back at Cloud, trying to smile.]

I suppose I'm not very good with interpersonal interactions these days.