[Video (Filtered from the usual suspects)/Action]

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

[Rydia's frowning into the screen, tense after what she just heard.]

The moogles have told me that the myrrh tree within the Devil's Road is ready to be harvested...and that there's a dragon guarding it. I have the chalice, so I'm going. Anyone willing and able to wade through that area with me is welcome, but they better be ready. I'm not going to wait for long.

[She turns off the sky phone, and begins gathering the essentials. Then it's time to ask Rosa to unseal the Road.]

[Network Post, Text, Filtered from Bad Guys]

[tidesnpcs.livejournal.com]

Greetings, citizens and friends of Gaia.

Good news! We have located the Chaos Shrine, Garland's hiding spot. Turns out that it was hidden right under our noses all along! It's in the middle of the Aerbs Mountains. I've sent airships to scout out the area, but unfortunately the area is so densely forested that it's impossible to land. The Shrine is well-hidden.

But it is accessible. Over the past few months, a few people have spotted Garland riding a flying gold chocobo and now we know why: chocobos are the only means by which the Chaos Shrine can be accessed. So we can't exactly send in an army... Gold chocobos are rare. But we can send a small group of the very best warriors, and that's exactly what I intend to do.

If you can ride a flying chocobo and wield a weapon strong enough to defeat Garland, I want to hear from you! I want a party assembled and ready by the 25th of this month. Chocobo training can be provided. Let's give it our very best shot.

- Cid Fabool IX, Regent of Lindblum


[ooc: This is the IC sign-up post for fighting Garland. For OOC plotting and more information, go here.]

[Voice - Private to Reis]

[lionwarhero.livejournal.com]

[Delita looks at the chalice in his hands.]

Miss Duelar,

We were successful in achieving a Myrrh drop.

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

[This is the Chaos Shrine. The old, derelict Chaos Shrine which looks like it hasn't seen a good cleaning in a couple thousand of years. And in the middle of it is one Lufene, looking bored and sulky. Oddly enough there's a lot of expensive decor in her vicinity. Is some of it various auction goods that mysteriously quit being up for bid? Either way, her cheek is resting in one hand with a pout firmly fixed on her face, the other hand is lazily twirling one of her long curls around her fingers.]


It took you fools long enough to figure it out. For idiots who claimed to want to know the whereabouts, you sure didn't seem to inclined to find out when you had your chance.


[How does she know about Cid's locked-down post? She's got the Treno auctioneer in her pocket of course. She lets him live for the bargain price of first pick of the auctions and any information he thinks she might want.]

043 - Rinoa - Voice [filtered from bad guys]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[Rinoa sounds absolutely exhausted. Almost like she's talking to herself, even, though she's not; she knows the phone is switched on but she's saying whatever comes to mind.]

We're going home.

Home... That's what it is now. I don't know if I ever used that word to describe Gaia, but... it feels right. I wonder if Squall thinks the same. We all chose to stay... Even though Selphie and Irvine aren't here. I talked to a lot of people who had to make choices like that. You never know what to say to them. But you know how it feels.

[She coughs. Rinoa's not in the best of health at the moment.]

So that's it. Matoya, she... That's what I was gonna say. I don't know how many people have already heard, but she's gone. I thought that I was giving it everything... All my power to fuel the portal. We all thought that. But she was doing most of the work and then it was like she just expired; she knew it was the end. She wanted to go.

Y'know, I think she would have told me off if I'd said that I wanted to save her. It's all up to the rest of us now, isn't it? I'll have to catch up, but I'm so tired... Hmm...

[Filtered to Zidane and Garnet]

So... About that invite to Alexandria. Does that still stand?

[ Video; ]

[vulgarascetic.livejournal.com]

[ The feed turns on to show the waist down of a dark skinned female, her hands firmly placed on her hips. She's pacing around a couple of moogles, and the camera finally pans up to show Prishe, face contorted into a very fierce expression of pondering. ]

So lemme get this straight-- I'm on a planet called Gaia? And Garland's here? And there's no way to get home?


[ One of the moogles nods, and the Skyphone is handed to Prishe, though she ignores it for the most part. ] That's right, kupo!

Then I'm just gonna have to kick his ass again, huh! Later, moogles! I gotta go find Garland!


[ Her thumb brushes against the device, and the feed clicks off. ]

[action in Luca]

[holyjudgement.livejournal.com]

[Hope's been putting this off for a while.

Well, okay, that's not strictly true. Things have been coming up, genuine excuses that have been keeping him distracted. But there's also been downtime between the craziness, and he knows he's been avoiding this: the talk he needs to have with Snow. He doesn't want to have to rehash this again, but really? If there are things Snow doesn't remember, it'll come up sooner or later. And the fact Hope couldn't just speak to Snow back home was the reason things turned out as ugly as they did. He doesn't want anything like that to happen again.

So, he'll be looking around the house for him today, checking Serah's room, the kitchen, the garden -- anywhere he's likely to find him.]