[dated from 4/16 on] // ja, ich bin viel stärker, als ich je gedacht hab

[fionnuisce]

Characters: Waver and/or anyone; this is meant to cover throughout the week starting from the 16th, and I'll add in prompts if any are needed!
Setting: Hidden floor: one prompt for Waver specifically and another for talking amongst your fellow potential infiltrators.
Format: Any
Summary: Waver has information to share and the populace has tactical espionage action to plan; this is also meant as an overall information-sharing/strategic planning mingle so have at it!
Warnings: Nothing yet.

[A short and simple post was left on the network, the person that wrote it not having stayed long enough to answer any responses:]

I have an important document of sorts to share with anyone interested. For the foreseeable future, I can be found in the one location secure enough to not have anything overheard.

Of only slightly less urgent importance, I also need to speak with anyone else that was involved in recharging this place's energy.

-Waver Velvet

P.S. If your name is Sephiroth, expect to be forcibly thrown out.

[As soon as he'd punctuated the last sentence, Waver left and headed directly to the hidden floor. That was sure to be straightforward enough; he just hoped it wouldn't draw the wrong sort of attention.]

Comments

[slightlyoblivious]

Damn.

[She's not one to curse normally. It's a mild one, to be sure, but the fact that she's cursing at all - and drawing out the curse a bit, at that - is enough to show exactly how shocked she is.]

So we can't trust a word that comes out of his mouth about anything going forward. That's - damn. I thought he was actually half-decent.

[fionnuisce]

I'm afraid not, at least not at face value.

[Waver shook his head.]

I hesitate to leap to the assumption that he's doing something terrible, but even so...we can't overlook that he screwed with us to accomplish whatever he's out to do.

[slightlyoblivious]

[Yukiko nods, frowning.]

...it's a sign I've been here too long when I immediately jump to the worst possible conclusion without even considering other options. We were all in that machine for something, and Riki's gotten himself caught in a lie. I can't help but think we're getting played, and whatever we're getting played for, it's not good.

[fionnuisce]

And it's a sign of the same for me when I don't jump to the worst possibility. I want to immediately assume he's up to nothing good, yet at the same time I realize he could have been hiding whatever plan he has from Ruana as much as from us.

It's a difficult call to make either way. The only thing it's safe to assume is that he's up to something.

[slightlyoblivious]

I hadn't thought of that angle. I can't see him lying to Ruana, but then again, it might have been some kind of necessary evil.

[She shrugs her shoulders.]

Yep. Time to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

[fionnuisce]

It's just as likely he's out to kill us all, so I can't begin to guess one way or another.

[slightlyoblivious]

That's always a possibility. I couldn't guess, either.

[fionnuisce]

It should probably concern me more than it does that genocide is still very much on the table as an option, shouldn't it?

[slightlyoblivious]

...probably. I try not to think about that particular option if I can absolutely help it, though. I've got enough problems with nightmares that I don't want to add more reasons for them to the list.

[fionnuisce]

Believe me, that's a problem I can very much identify with.

[slightlyoblivious]

We're all going to need years of therapy when we get home, aren't we?

[The words are out of her mouth before she can stop them.]

[fionnuisce]

Oh, easily for the rest of our natural lives.

[Not even missing a beat.]

[slightlyoblivious]

[It's enough to make her let out a dry laugh.]

I suppose it's something, when I'm looking that far ahead. Optimism is weird sometimes.

[And besides, it's not like she's going to say exactly what happened, even to a trained professional. 'So I spent the better part of a year jumping in and out of TVs to save people, a girl turned out to be a robot and her subconscious got broken and we fixed it, then I wound up in helltower' sounds crazy at best and downright psychotic at worst.]

[fionnuisce]

Take it where you can find it, I suppose. There's usually a poorly-lit bright side in the worst of circumstances, anyway.

[slightlyoblivious]

What's the cliche, it's always darkest before the light?

[There's another sigh. It feels entirely too cliche.]