[Lufene - Video Message]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

[Have a close-up of Lufene, who is looking very pleased with herself. There's an impish grin on her face.]

Did you miss me?

[Lufene is reclining on a chair, tail curling lazily. Those who have been inside the Lunatic Pandora may recognise the control room.]

I do hope you're all admiring my new toy. Magnificent, isn't it? And I know exactly where to put it. Know where? I'll give you a clue.

[She leans forward, speaking in an exaggerated stage whisper:]

I'm going to wipe out the vermin.

Comments

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

[Her mouth sets in a stubborn line.]

I like this way.

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

...you sure? Cause it doesn't really seem all that great. Kinda messy, you know?

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

You are a little dense, aren't you? Pretty, but dense. The mess it'll make is exactly the point.

I'll be the one to destroy Gaia.

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

Oh! I get it now. Makes sense, makes sense.

Still, why don't you just destroy it a little bit. Take your time, you know? Otherwise you'll have nothing to do later. I wouldn't want you to be bored.

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

A little bit? Where's the fun in that?

[She leans forward, tilting her head as her expression turns sly.]

This toy of mine is enormous so it really wouldn't make sense for it not to have an enormous impact, now, would it?

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

...you have a point there, huh.

[...better approach this from another angle.]

Still, I heard that thing'd send monsters down. You sure that's the kinda way you want to go about things? A bunch of big uglies? Man, it just kinda seems...beneath you, you know? Not your style.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

[SDJHKFKS WHAT IS THIS. Percy does not approve.]

Bartz, what are you doing?

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

[Meep. Is he in trouble?]

Trying to get her to stop that thing. Or at least slow it down a little.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

[For encouraging her to kill them herself? Of course not.]

You are simply telling her to attempt different methods of attack.

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

[...well okay yes when you put it like that this didn't seem like such a good idea.]

I'm not telling her anything she didn't already know. And if she's on that thing anyone who goes up there's gonna have to fight her anyway to stop it. If it's gotta be one or the other, at least if she's down here we're fighting on our terms and not hers.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

She will always do her best to ensure that she is fighting on her terms, instead of ours. She is no less difficult to face in person than facing the Lunatic Pandora would be.

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

Difficulty's not what I was thinkin' of, really. We have no clue where that thing's headed still, right? Fighting her down here means we'd know where we gotta get people out of. Messing up up there's gonna get a lot of people hurt. Messing up down here...

...well, I wouldn't ask anyone to fight with me. And that big ol' tree doesn't seem to be letting anyone go anywhere.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

Of course we would fight with you. Lufene is a threat that must be eliminated. However, even if you manage to get information from her, encouraging her is hardly useful. She is our enemy, above all else. She is not likely to be swayed far from her plans.

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

Sorry, big guy. Still not convinced.

...still, you're right about that last part. She's pretty dead set on using that thing.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

Of what?

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

I don't see the harm in trying to talk to her. Right now? If those people from Squall's place are right about what that thing's gonna do then we've not got a whole lot to lose even if it encourages her. There's not a whole lot that could do more damage than that sad moon thing. It's better than not trying anything.

[Video/Private]

[for-cosmos.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Still...

[He just Does Not Like Lufene.]

[Video/Private]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

[Not many people do. Bartz might be a lot less willing to try the whole 'talking' approach if she wasn't so nice to look at.]

It's not like I'm gonna tell her anything that'll help her. But I'm gonna try to keep her talking. If nothing else? Any time she's having to waste time talking to me, she's not preparing to deal with whoever's headed up there.

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

[She's getting a little tired of this constant prodding.]

My style is whatever I want. Stop contradicting me.

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

My bad, my bad. Sorry. You're really set on using that thing right away, huh?

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

It's been sitting there for months while Kuja fooled around like the pathetic idiot he is. So it's well overdue.

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

'f you say so. Still, sure it couldn't wait for summer? Crying moons always seemed like a summer thing to me.

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

[She says it with a tone of finality.]

No.

[Video]

[warkitoff.livejournal.com]

...any chance you could tell me what lucky place has the honours, at least?

[Video]

[ultimategenome.livejournal.com]

Oh, some horrid, dirty, backwater place. I don't care to recall.