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Reservations will open on July 18th at 00:00 GMT and close on July 24th at 23:59 GMT
Applications will open on July 25th at 00:00 GMT and close on July 31st at 23:59 GMT
The game will open on August 3rd.

— Reply with a character you wish to test in the Melodies of Life's setting.
— Feel free to use one of the prompt below or make one of your own!
— Tag around! This is a panfandom RP, so don't hesitate to tag both castmates and non-castmates.
— Most importantly, have fun!

1/ Welcome to the world of Crystallis!
You have seen reality shatter and collapse around you, in the depths of the void you found a Crystal and now you are in the city of Aqures Ixen, surrounded by Moogles and people as lost and confused as you are. On the bright side, everyone thinks you're a hero! On the downside, they expect you to save the world. Maybe their expectations are a bit too much. Thankfully, you're not abandoned to your fate as a Moogle explains to you everything you need to know. Maybe it's time to get to know your companions in misfortune.

2/ Do you like your new life?
No? Well, either way, you better get used to it, to your new powers, to your new house, to the ball of fur that follows your every steps—Who knows, maybe you'll even make some friends here. Besides, even if everyone expects you to save the world, fighting isn't the only way to do so. Maybe you could open a shop to help and properly equip your friends who are actually eager to fight. Maybe you could try and gather people who think diplomacy can stop war, you could even start your own researches on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest in all of Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible.

3/ Ukulele de Chocobo
Upon arrival, your Moogle gave you a map of Crystallis. This world may be a bit big for you to explore, so why not go to the Chocobo Farm and ask for a Chocobo? These big birds can't fly, but they're much more efficient than horses when it comes to travelling. Maybe it's your first time riding a Chocobo; it might be a good idea to have someone with you in case something goes wrong. Or maybe the old man at the farm didn't have any Chocobos left and gave you some Chocobo-Bait© so you can go and capture your own.

4/ A thing called Mognet
Hopefully you weren't used to Internet and cellphones back home. Otherwise, you might be a tiny bit confused when your Moogle returns to you with a stack of letters. Or maybe someone else's Moogle is coming to you with a voice message it learnt by heart and is now going to recite to you with a lot of Kupo. That's how the "network" works here.

5/ I believe I can fly~
You are on an Airship! Airships regularly depart from Aqures Ixen and stop by most major cities in the world, so they're the perfect means of transportation for you to go and explore this world. You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.

6/ Exploration
Enough expository banter. Now is the time to explore. Maybe rather than spending most of your time in Aqures Ixen, you'd rather spend it living in Balicea, or betting on Chocobo Races in Trano Golsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore some ancient ruins that may hold some precious information. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere that isn't under imperial control; unless you have a death wish of course.

7/ Random Encounter
You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Alternatively, maybe this encounter isn't random at all, and you have been sent on a mission to kick some imperial asses in the war confronting the Heran Empire and the Republic of Esdham. Good luck!

8/ Getting Jobs is hard
It all started when you asked Jessie to give you a new Job. What could and should have been a formality, quickly turned into a trial. All you wanted was a Job, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or yet again, maybe she simply asked you to assist her in her researches on the Crystals. Getting new Jobs is not easy. Consider yourself happy though, at least you don't have to do that alone.

9/ The world is subject to unrelenting pain and suffering…
This is why you should play a game. After all, there are things a lot more important than saving the world: Blitzball is one of them. Triple Triad is another. Why don't you take a break and do something different for once; anyone wanting to play Blitzball is given a special potion allowing them to breath underwater, whereas someone who wants to play Triple Triad should have no difficulties finding veterans more than happy to get rid of their low level cards.

10/ Wild Card
Don't like the options offered here? Go crazy and choose what you want to do in this world!

Logs Community ♦ Mognet Community ♦ OOC Community ♦ Crack Community

Game	Players	World	Other
Premise	Applications	Jobs / Requests	Hospital
Rules	Reservations	Legends	Employment
FAQ	Taken Characters	NPCs / Contact	Races
Locations	Hiatus/Drop	Housing	Mod Contact
Mognet	Player Contact	Bestiary	Credits
Aqures Ixen	Player Plots	Eidolons

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random encounter;

A fire spell. The girl had already taken care of slowing them down; impressive work for one her age. If he were to assist, using his native element would not be wise.

The tome in his hand snaps open, its pages flipping rapidly before coming to rest on a particular one. Bolts of lightning flared from within the book, falling like rain on the goblin horde.

One detached itself from the group and leaped at him - he sliced the air with his sword and a blue shockwave materialized, blasting the monster back into the horde.

Concentrating on the battle at hand, Homura had not realized quite when she had gained an ally in battle. When a shower of lightning rained down upon the goblins following her blast of fire, however, she looked up. Her eyes narrowed a little as she took in the book and the sword before she returned her attention to the battle in time to side step a singed goblin stumbling towards her and give it one final stab with her knife. All things considered, she preferred ranged to getting quite so close to enemies, but she would do what she had to.

She looked over at the man again and nodded to him in acknowledgement before casting another fire spell, flinging it to finish off a goblin weakened by his lightning.

The girl weaves in and out of the horde, and he is careful not to accidentally hit her. The goblins fall one by one, and soon only bodies remain.

Takakage only relaxes once he is sure that all the monsters had been slain. He closes his spellbook, and returns his sword to its strap on his belt.

"You fight commendably, miss." Especially for someone of her age.

The fight over, Homura wipes her knife off on the cleanest part of a dead goblin's tunic she can find before sheathing it. Blood is corrosive to metal, after all, and she knows that here she cannot rely on magic to help keep things in optimal condition. Then she looks up at the man again, expression neutral.

"Thank you." She pushes her glasses up her nose (it frustrates her that only some effects of her magic carried over but at least this world seems to have a thorough understanding of lenses). "You as well."

And then she waits, curious of his intentions before she'll lower her guard enough to pick through the bodies for anything useful in addition to proof of their demise.

Edited 2014-07-07 05:35 (UTC)

It is clear that the girl will not speak more. She has interesting clothing, though - without armour, but it seems that she is able to cope with it. As well as the accessory she wears. They are... spectacles? A visual aid. Something that did not exist back in his homeworld.

She is an adventurer, though. That, he can tell, given the Moogle by her side.

"May I ask your name?"

With the restrictions that come with Black Mage and Thief job crystals, she can't really afford to weigh herself down with armor, but then again she never really had before. Why start now?

"Homura Akemi." She runs one hand through her hair, flipping it back over her shoulder. "Yours?"

But of course the sizing up goes both ways. The sword and the lightning - she surmises that he is either a Red Mage or perhaps has dual classed like her, and his own Moogle, too, tells her he is an adventurer. He looks a few years older than her, but looks can be deceiving. His clothing seems archaic to her, but then again much of the clothing of this place does and whether it is his own or something he acquired here, she cannot tell.

"Kobayakawa Takakage, retainer of the Mouri clan. A pleasure to make your acquaintance."

He gives his full name and title in vague hopes that she might know of him. Her name is distinctly Japanese, so there might be a chance, however slim. The statement is accompanied by a slight half-bow, as courtesy dictated.

Homura can use both magic and fighting skills - probably a dual classed adventurer, then. The strategist himself had been given the Black Mage and Scholar classes. The latter is quite an obvious reference to his love for knowledge. While it meant that he sacrificed the potential for more immediate skills, he is content with being a support user.

"Are you perhaps heading somewhere, Homura?"

"Mouri..." She repeats the name more to herself than anything, though there is a note of recognition. History has been of less interest to her than things like mathematics and chemistry, but by no means had she failed to pay attention to the major parts of it. How interesting that this place would pluck people from all over time and space...

But she returns the bow in matching courtesy - it's a habit she has mostly curbed here where customs seem to be different, but there's no reason not to be polite. "And yours."

She pauses a moment, debating whether to tell him or not, but in the end she supposes there is no harm. "Once I have collected what I need, I will be returning to town. And you, Kobayakawa-san?"

She does recognize his name, albeit only a little. Though her way of speech and clothes imply that she was from a world somewhat displaced from his own - though he cannot conclude whether it is through time or space.

"Likewise. I have been given this 'quest' to search for some materials. Though it seems that what I seek is not in this immediate area, perhaps further away."

He had checked the map, but its scale was a little off. There is still some traveling to be done.

"I see."

Having decided that he is not going to be an immediate threat to her, Homura crouches down to begin poking through the goblin corpses, checking their bags. She pulls out a few coins and an unused potion or two but none of them have the item she's looking for on a quest of her own. Still, there are rewards for taking down goblins so she does also collect a few of their blades and give them to her moogle... who puts it in whatever hammerspace moogles have to store things. Still, she does leave some behind for Takakage in recognition of his aid.

"These are not the goblins I was seeking," she states, frowning slightly as she rises. "Have you seen other groups around here?"

If not.... well that means some more traveling to be done for her, as well, though she intends to split ways from him as soon as convenient. And yet... perhaps an ally might prove useful here in case of unforeseen threats.

Takakage doesn't loot their corpses, though. Seeing that Homura did most of the work, it figured for her to take the spoils. Plus, they didn't have what he was looking for.

"I have not sighted anymore goblin hordes, though there are few lupine packs roaming around the area." He flips open his book and consults some notes filed between its pages. "Or... perhaps you are in pursuit of orcs? They have been known to wander to the south, across the river.

Which is, quite incidentally, the direction he is aiming for. His destination is a bit further than that, though.

She is quiet for a moment, tilting her head to the side in speculation. Then she runs a hand through her hair, flipping it behind her shoulders again.

"I am seeking a stolen medallion. I was told it was taken by goblins. I suppose it is possible they may have traded it to other monsters"

"Perhaps." He nods. If that was the case, then the search would become much more difficult. "Do you know of a way to track it down?"

A pause.

"I can assist you with it, if you'd like." But reasonably, of course.

"I have a drawing of its appearance. Beyond that, no. The owner only told me it was robbed by goblins in this general area. ... if we are going the same way, we may as well continue together."

She doesn't entirely like it - she doesn't like working with others if she doesn't have to. (It's not gone well in the past.) But she will if she needs to, and she doesn't know enough about this area to know if everything can be handled itself.

"Likewise." Takakage nods again. "I am heading past the river. If you intend to search around that area, I will be able to accompany you."

He flips open his tome and retrieves a map from between its pages. "Goblins and their kin roam around the riverbank, as well as the nearby forest - which is here."

The strategist doesn't continue, though, instead waiting for Homura's response.

She peers at the map and, after a moment, nods once. She casts a glance over at the goblin corpses.

"Let's go before wolves come to eat the bodies."

~~Light Party Formed~~

~~Party Member Get!~~

Takakage closes his book, replacing the map back between its pages. He follows Homura through the forest, following a path worn into existence by the many adventurers which passed through.

They walked in watchful silence for a while, until the sound of rustling leaves and cracking branches began to sound behind them.

Homura stops, listening for a moment, then she draws her dagger, readjusts her buckler (somewhat unusual in appearance for a buckler - and it doesn't work the way it did before, but she can use it as a channel for magic, now, so it isn't completely useless) and turns around, nodding towards the bushes to the side of the path. She says nothing lest they overly alert whatever is there.

Takakage draws his sword as well, though the majority of his response manifests in his spellbook. It flips open to a particular, nondescript page - though anyone familiar with his combat style would know that this heralded a blast of spells.

There is another rustle from the bushes, and three small rabbits leap out onto the path one by one. They regard the two adventurers with curiosity -

- and start morphing into something four times their size and with as many shape teeth.

He reacts almost instantaneously, and the tome rises into the air, levitating a few inches from his hands. It spins to a vertical orientation and faces the beasts, releasing spears of ice from within its pages.

Although she gives the book a curious look before the rabbits emerge, once they're out and transforming Homura spares Takakage only the most cursory of glances to ascertain his position and if he's going for spells or his sword at any given moment. The way the book levitates is curious and of interest to her but there's no time to investigate it now.

She launches a fireball at the furthest rabbit monster before twisting to the side to avoid a chomp from the nearest one - still charging despite ice to its face. These things are faster than the goblins, but they seem less flexible. A sword can be swung in nearly all directions, but biting only happens in one.

Homura heads for one rabbit monster, blasting fire at another before slashing at the first one. Takakage aims for the third, parrying its leap with a shockwave from his sword. The beast is knocked aside and finished off with a few thunderbolts.

Two of the rabbits are defeated with ease, but the third is still alive. It sneaks up to Takakage from behind, intending to strike his back while his attention is occupied with one of the other rabbits. The strategist notices, almost a second too late - he twists around and blocks with his sword.

The rabbit's jaws close down on the blade with a metallic ting, and doesn't let go.

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Test Drive Meme

you have great muse choice

ah - thank you! She's a new one for me.

are you intending to app in? :'D

I'm certainly thinking about it! Depends a bit on how this month goes irl

i'm going to enter with this guy, so yep :'D hope to see you there, then! good luck with rl

thanks! good luck to you too. c: I really love the premise so... fingers crossed

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also damn it. Making me do research already. :P

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