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touchscreens2013-08-06 04:58 pm
soldiernoclass) wrote in touchscreens2013-08-06 04:58 pm
001 ✗ video + action.
Oh, hey - I bet it's working, this time!
[ To the technologically impaired, these terminals are a little daunting - who knew you had to take your gloves off to work a touchscreen? Not to mention the thought of hooking up to some nebulous and well-populated network. He may or may not have spent the last ten to fifteen minutes talking to nobody, slowly realizing he was talking to nobody, and then trying again to figure out how to get to the Help tab.
Anyway, it's definitely broadcasting, now. Maybe. Probably. He's not trying again if it isn't. (He might.) ]
Am I really talking to all the other, uh, visitors out there? I guess that's pretty handy. Though... It feels like I've been doing a lot of talking, lately, and not a whole lot of actually getting to know the people I'm stuck with. [ Which more or less translates out of polite doublespeak to: he's tired himself out trying to figure this place out one way, how about FAQ round #2? ] So I thought, why not just ask? A little old-fashioned, I admit, but... I've got nothing to lose.
[ He shrugs, smiling thinly. ] So tell me about yourselves, okay? Or your 'worlds,' or whatever. And just 'cause it's no fair if I don't start, I'm Zack. I used to wanna travel, when I was a little younger. [ A pause, and a little more genuine humor leaks into that smile. ] I guess I sure got my wish, huh?
[ There's only so much aimlessly (but alertly) wandering around a foreign city a guy can do, so Zack's taking a break from that to ...aimlessly wander around the common floor of building #1 (having significantly more luck with the video games than with the terminals) and along the walkways between buildings (for the view, naturally).
He's not in great shape - it's actually a lot harder to remember to maintain contact with total strangers than he would've expected it to be - but he isn't exactly falling on his face, either (not that he'll be turning down any free hugs, regardless). And, of course, anybody who crosses his path - and doesn't make themselves too busy for him to accost, post haste - will most likely be finding themselves in a conversation. However one-sided. (He's not picky.) ]
[ To the technologically impaired, these terminals are a little daunting - who knew you had to take your gloves off to work a touchscreen? Not to mention the thought of hooking up to some nebulous and well-populated network. He may or may not have spent the last ten to fifteen minutes talking to nobody, slowly realizing he was talking to nobody, and then trying again to figure out how to get to the Help tab.
Anyway, it's definitely broadcasting, now. Maybe. Probably. He's not trying again if it isn't. (He might.) ]
Am I really talking to all the other, uh, visitors out there? I guess that's pretty handy. Though... It feels like I've been doing a lot of talking, lately, and not a whole lot of actually getting to know the people I'm stuck with. [ Which more or less translates out of polite doublespeak to: he's tired himself out trying to figure this place out one way, how about FAQ round #2? ] So I thought, why not just ask? A little old-fashioned, I admit, but... I've got nothing to lose.
[ He shrugs, smiling thinly. ] So tell me about yourselves, okay? Or your 'worlds,' or whatever. And just 'cause it's no fair if I don't start, I'm Zack. I used to wanna travel, when I was a little younger. [ A pause, and a little more genuine humor leaks into that smile. ] I guess I sure got my wish, huh?
[ There's only so much aimlessly (but alertly) wandering around a foreign city a guy can do, so Zack's taking a break from that to ...aimlessly wander around the common floor of building #1 (having significantly more luck with the video games than with the terminals) and along the walkways between buildings (for the view, naturally).
He's not in great shape - it's actually a lot harder to remember to maintain contact with total strangers than he would've expected it to be - but he isn't exactly falling on his face, either (not that he'll be turning down any free hugs, regardless). And, of course, anybody who crosses his path - and doesn't make themselves too busy for him to accost, post haste - will most likely be finding themselves in a conversation. However one-sided. (He's not picky.) ]
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Let me start at the beginning. A thousand years ago, in the aftermath of a great war, came Sin, the monster I was talking about. What everyone knew, or thought they knew, was Sin came because of the war. It crushes down cities that have machina, except for two highly protected areas, and places that look like they're going to become a city. It's gigantic, it can travel over land, sea, and air. There was only one known way to stop it.
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A summoner who can call all the fayth travels to the ruins of one of the cities in that long ago war, the city of Zanarkand, to gain the power of the Final Aeon.
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[ Understatement of the century. ]
It must take a seriously strong person to go through all that. And that Aeon is the only way to beat Sin?
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In the thousand years and more we've lived under Sin, only a handful of the thousands of pilgrimages were ever successful. Even then, Sin was only stopped for months at time. It was said that only when all of Spira repented of its actions from the past would a summoner finally defeat Sin and it would stay dead.
At least that's what I thought when I went on my first pilgrimage.
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That's why. Most pilgrimages quit. Those that don't get killed along the way.
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But there has to be somebody strong enough to make it. Why don't they all just go together?
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The villages and even the two largest cities are all spread out from each other. One of the temples is on an island. Fiends and Sin like to attack by sea.
The more people you add, the more fiends you attract. That's why a summoner goes with just a few Guardians to hopefully make it along the way.
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No - I just meant, why not a group of people, instead of just a couple? The difference between two or three and four or five can't be that much worse, can it?
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Considering most pilgrimages never get close to the end, I guess a lot of people decide why bother?
But you do have a good idea. That's more or less what happened on my second pilgrimage.
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[ He hadn't really thought about it like that. Leaving home - wasn't ever a problem, for Zack. It's easy to forget not everyone would cut ties on a whim and travel all the way across their own world. ]
How'd you guys do, then? You don't strike me as the type of guy who gives up just because what you're doing looks like it might get difficult.
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Well, that does make a better ending to the story. Or part of it, anyway. Come on! Are you going to tell me how it turned out, or not?
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...Me? Nothing too novel. I left home when I was young, because I wanted to be a SOLDIER.
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SOLDIER really used to mean something.
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