Endgame: This is the Way the World Ends - MACHINE ROOM

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those staying in the machine room
Setting: machine room
Format: any
Summary: The time has come to make decisions about what will happen after everything is over.
Warnings: psychological horror (eventually)

Comments

[bloodyashes]

[Hi coredhead, guess who's going over your stock of healing items with a critical eye -

Well, they probably don't taste as good as the ones they have back on Auldrant, but they'll have to do. Nobody tell Reno that Asch eats apple gels for breakfast.]

I'm amazed any of these are still good.

[Then again, what the hell is an ether and what does it do. At least he doesn't need to grab from the weapons pile; swords, at least, don't go bad, at least not when they're sitting in the desert for a godawful amount of months. There's one strapped to the belt over the real fabric clothes on over the wireframe, and some light leather padding - nothing that would stop an arrow or a bullet, but better than nothing.

Asch hesitates for a moment before taking just one elixir and tucking it into his tunic. It'll have to do.]

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno would prefer the melange gel, himself...]

I made sure everything was usable.

[Shrug. There was a lot of stuff damaged in the Meteor fall and consequential planetary breakup, and Reno had expected that, but a lot of stuff had survived, too.]

Just try to use one that when ya really need it.

[bloodyashes]

[What the fuck does a melange gel even taste like? nobody knows because nobody uses them.]

You don't need to tell me. I'm used to working on a budget.

[Because he spent all his money hiring circus mercenaries. Long story.]

On the other hand, no point in sitting on it forever, either.

[midgarhorizon]

[It's basically fruit salad.]

Yeah, but Elixirs are pretty powerful. If ya take that one when you've exhausted yourself, you can fight at full power again for a while. Heals most of the wounds you get too.

[Reno shrugs.]

[bloodyashes]

I know how they work, we have similar things in my world.

[They're even called the same thing! JRPG worlds are useful sometimes.]

[midgarhorizon]

Ya do?

[He seems a bit surprised.]

I guess I'm just worried. I know a lot of people from different worlds but... you guys still surprise me.

[bloodyashes]

Not quite the same, but similar enough.

[You drink it. It fixes you. They probably don't actually work the same way, but there's not point now in being worried about the mechanics.

(Just be glad you never asked about the Planet Storm, Reno. Artificial psuedo-Lifestream would blow your mind.)

There's a bit of amusement in Asch's voice, though his expression doesn't change much.]

I would have sworn horses were more universal than elixirs, though.

[midgarhorizon]

Maybe it depends on the planet. [Shrug] From what all I learned here, kinda begs the question how humans got around the universe.