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[kreissmas]

[ today in heimdall district, one (1) noel kreiss can be found (unsuccessfully) searching for artefacts-- in other words, running around like a headless chicken looking in strange places while questioning the natives who walk past him. his video feed on the network clicks on to the last few seconds of the hunt, with only a facepalm to show for his troubles. ]

Ooookay, talking to these guys isn't really getting me anywhere. I'm guessing it's the same for everyone else-- probably has something to with the whole "grey and emotionless" thing. Just a theory. [ there's something of a scoff attached to that statement. ] So humour me: just what do we know about this place? Has anyone been here for longer than the rest?

[ a pause, and then he continues anyway. no harm in asking. ]

I'm mostly looking for inconsistencies: things that don't seem to belong, even somewhere as weird as this. [ without mog, he has to resort to asking the old fashioned way. ] If you see anything that seems to fit that description, let me know. It'll probably be obvious, so don't strain yourself looking too hard.

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( video. )

[brightens]

Things that don't belong? Wouldn't that be all of us, then?

( video. )

[kreissmas]

[ wow vanille see if he rescues you from crystal anytime soon ]

Well... [ she has a point, but he doesn't exactly want to be carrying people around to toss at gates ] You're right, but that's not exactly what I meant. Things that suddenly appeared without belonging to anyone, or don't match the rest of this place-- I haven't seen enough yet to judge what might be 'normal' around here. [ but he's working on it! ]

( video. )

[brightens]

[ its not like she wants to be rescued!! can't you people just leave well enough alone!! ]

I don't know if I've seen anything like that. Anything I've seen pop up tends to belong to someone, and... Other than that, everything seems to belong here in Asgard. But then again... It's kind of hard to judge what does and doesn't belong, since the stuff that happens here doesn't...

Ah... It doesn't always really seem to make much sense.

[ btw he should throw people at gates because it would be hilarious. just think of them as mog as let 'em fly, noel!! ]

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[exposes]

Isn't that basically all of us? [a brief pause.] I guess in a nutshell, we're here to save the world.

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[kreissmas]

Yeah, I should have thought of that. [ he's too used to being one of the only oddballs, and now everyone else is in the same boat. ] But if saving the world is so important, I shouldn't have been brought here in the first place. Standing around doing nothing isn't going to help anyone.

{action} im sorry knoll so v. sry

[punching]

[Snow's in the middle of something really important when Noel makes his rounds through the dining room. Like making himself lunch or doing push-ups or being a useless hobo.

He's never seen this dude before, so time to make friendly!]

Hey there, new guy! Lookin' for something?

{action} permission to push snow off a cliff

[kreissmas]

[ let's go with being a useless hobo... or making lunch just so noel has less reason to punch him. the voice sounds vaguely familiar at first, but it's only when he glances up from his search that he realizes just how unlucky his day really is. ]

--Wait, you're here too? [ that's not how the gates are supposed to work why are you here... but more importantly-- ] Why are you just standing around doing nothing? Where's Serah?

[ ironically meeting snow means this place makes about 10% more sense than it did five minutes ago, so maybe other, less obnoxious people he knows are here too. ]

[ video ]

[entreats]

This is pretty much a place full of weirdos and weird things. If you're looking for something that doesn't belong, go and try to find anything normal.

[ . . . ] Not that I think you'd ever find anything normal in this place, sorry to say.

[ video ]

[kreissmas]

[ any place with people in it is okay by him... :(



(obviously he's yet to meet some of the real crackpots but shh) ]

It's starting to seem that way. [ he's met snow, this place is doomed by default. ] Giving up so easily doesn't help anyone, though. I'll keep looking until I know for sure.

[video]

[whatagoodgirl]

What would that mean, if we found one of these... inconsistencies? Would it be good or bad?

[video]

[kreissmas]

That depends. It could be almost anything, so I guess the object itself might not be all that safe. [ what if lightning's knife had been stuck in someones face instead of a rock... okay no that's horrible. ] Otherwise, there's nothing bad about it. I need something like that to get back to where I came from.

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[sup]

Biggest inconsistency with this city itself -- It's a hellhole.

[ Geez... what, with all these creatures running amuck, the frequent disappearances and reappearances, and the load of baloney coming from everyone's mouths... yeah, he's gonna have to agree with himself on that one.

The guy asked for obvious, anyway!!!! ]

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[kreissmas]

That might be true, but it's not something I can use. [ he can't pick any of these things up and throw them at gates!!! ... though if he threw the whole city at one something would have to match up right ] All the artefacts I've found before have been small enough to carry.

[video]

[spaceygoggles]

Things that don't belong? Like what kind of things?

[video]

[kreissmas]

Things that shoudn't be here. Artefacts come from another time, so they tend to stand out enough to be noticeable. [ he looks a little sheepish, though, because he realizes that wasn't really helpful. ] It's a little hard to explain.

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[sunders]

[Brb, chuckling at your question there Noel.]

Good luck findin' it, kid. Between us bein' the ones with color, ice fairies attackin' us at random points, and bein' thrown into a war- I'd say just about everythin' is an inconsistency.

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[kreissmas]

Wait, ice fairies? Was anyone hurt? [ though monsters attacking out of nowhere sounds awfully familiar... ] You're right, though. It seems like finding what I want won't be easy this time.

[ not that it ever really was easy noel finding those wild artefacts sucked okay ]

video [old] do you appreciate me contaminating your inbox with stench

[departing]

You might be better off checking some of the broadcasts that were made earlier.

It could help.

Um.

[How does he word this? He needs a moment to collect his thoughts.]

Inconsistencies? What do you mean exactly? Weird things happen sometimes. Not for very long though, I guess.

It's strange, but things go back to 'normal' sometimes. The calm peaceful and grey city here is what it's like here normally.

Sorry. I don't really get what you mean.

begone from my everything

[kreissmas]

I'll try that, too. I thought asking might get me a faster answer. [ and it did, sort of. just not the answer he wanted. ] It's difficult to explain, but those weird things might be related. Can you describe them to me?

[ silly noel always thinking about paradoxes ]

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[selfestheim]

[well, this is going to be fun.]

... That's a pretty broad description. If it's supposed to be "obvious," can't you tell us more than that?

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[kreissmas]

It's kind of hard to describe. I don't want to narrow things down and end up cutting out something important.

[ then he actually stops searching to pay attention and wait

a

minute




or two ]

You're Hope, right? [ he's more than a little surprised, but somehow not as much as he'd thought. maybe it was because nothing in this place made any sense at all-- but logically, it would have always been possible for serah and him to bump into the people they knew years before they ever 'met'. ]

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[darkbreak]

[He's seen Noel running around the district like a headless chicken looking for something. This sort of explains it.]

What do we know? Heh, not enough at this rate. But unless you consider monthly attacks on the place to be inconsistencies, then no.

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[kreissmas]

[ a headless chicken probably would have had more luck tbh ]

I guess I'll just have to look around myself. [ which is what he planned on doing anyway, but for such a weird place there's an awful lack of information. ] Hopefully I can avoid these dragons and ice fairies I've been hearing about.

[zodiacpun]

I assume you haven't found any inconsistencies still.

[kreissmas]

Not the kind I'm looking for. [ he's just had 'people' suggested to him about ten thousand times. ] I'm starting to think my best bet is to just look for myself.