Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part Two

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Characters: open
Setting: travelling through dead worlds
Format: any
Summary: The power has gone out, but a portal opens. Maybe all is not lost if you can gather up those who are missing...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

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[stitchedupbodyguard]

[Stumbling out of the portal, Veronica was left in shock at the sight of the destroyed world around her. She'd never seen this place before, she'd never seen this world. There was no way it was hers.

Slowly, she collected herself and started investigating. There had to be someone around here.]

Hello?

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno hesitates, hearing the voice. More people? The voice even sounds familiar.]

Veronica? You got here, too.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

I guess...

[She looked around, spotting and recognizing the voice.]

Uh, Reno, right? You're... you were Rick's friend.

[midgarhorizon]

[That makes him frown.]

Y-yeah... Yeah, I was.

[It's still a topic that hurts, whenever he thinks about it.]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[It hurt her too. It hurt her a lot. Rick had been so important to her... she'd never really moved past it, only accepted that it happened because she had to.

She tried to shake it from her thoughts. It wasn't easy.]

That.... that's not important right now, is it. Where are we? I've never been here before.

[midgarhorizon]

Midgar. Or what's left of it.

[He waves a hand at the empty city around them.]

My home. Kinda depressing, huh?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Oh....

[Her gaze rests on the city around them. Even if she hadn't been here before, she could still feel how empty it was, and how depressing it was.]

Yeah, it's pretty depressing.

[midgarhorizon]

[He laughs humorlessly a bit, and shrugs.]

Ruana's got a lot to pay for. Oh yeah, [he suddenly turns serious,] before you go, ya should probably help yourself to what's in the warehouse. The others already got in and they're grabbing stuff. Thought as long as you guys are walking around in wireframes, you might as well get somethin' to protect yourself.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[Oh... right. Being a wireframe for so long, she'd nearly forgotten about it.]

Yeah, that bitch really does. [The seriousness was mirrored in her own expression.] Warehouse? So there's others here from the tower?

[midgarhorizon]

Yeah. We're still preparing. I stepped out to grab these.

[He holds out a box of cigarettes, stamped with a monster that strangely resembles a giant mouth sitting on a tree trunk, covered in what appeared to be octopus tentacles. It might be recognizable as a monster that sometimes appeared in the Tower.]

So if ya wanna get some real weapons, now's the time.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Hm. [She'd seen it once or twice.]

I'll go and get some. I only had one sword back in the tower, and it was made of film.

[midgarhorizon]

The way that stuff melted when we were down in the machine room, you'd better. I get the feeling we'll need everything we can carry.

[Reno points down the street, littered with debris, to the building at the end of it.]

It's down there.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[She followed his gaze, nodding slowly.]

Ah, alright.

[She looked at him one last time before she started walking towards the building.]

... My world looked just as bad as this one does.

[midgarhorizon]

What?

[Reno is rather surprised.]

With the asteroids and stuff?

[Maybe hers is a living planet, too.]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[Hmm...? Oh. She shook her head.]

I mean, it looked just as dead as this one does.

[She'd ended up in a forest. At least, that was what it was before the world died.]