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jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-02-20 01:22 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-02-20 01:22 am
The mystery coworker.
A man called my department Friday evening! He wanted to speak to one of my coworkers! The "big, black, kinda muscular man". See, his wife had been in there the other day and met this nice man, and, while she hadn't caught his name, they wanted to take him out for drinks!
So, uh. The bakery staff? 100% white cis female. (The neighboring departments are not all white or all female, but there is still no one in either who even remotely resembles that description.) And he seemed to think he had the correct store.
I kind of began to wonder if he was speaking in some sort of code as the conversation went on. It was a little surreal.
AND NOW more Kingdom Hearts.
SO NOW IT'S DAY 149
ORGANIZATION IMPOSTER? RIKUUUU. >_> Well, it could be Mickey, I guess. I DOUBT IT IS, THOUGH.
Whoo, Halloween Town! …Man, the puppies they hid here in the first game took me for ever to find.
Roxas is not impressed by your tricks, kids.
Axel RETURNS. Again.
Aww, Xion, what's up? Who said what?
Ah. Riku called – you? Your keyblade? – a sham. Don't take him too seriously. He doesn't know half as much as he thinks he does. (Oh, sure, there's definitely something really weird with you, but I am not sure "sham" is the word I would use. At least not yet? Erm. Also, he may or may not be listening to DiZ at this point, and DiZ is kind of a lunatic.)
(I suddenly am a little self-conscious about the fact that I like to harass characters - some more than others. It is not out of malice or because I dislike them! I actually tend to do it more to characters I like or relate to the most, or ones I'm familiar with - and since this is the fourth game Riku's turned up in that I've played, I'm definitely more familiar with him than Roxas or anyone else in Organization XIII. So he may get more picking. Kind of likeSquall LEON, in that respect, I guess. ... Case in point there, I'm not sure I've ever said or written LEON normally. Have I mentioned this before? I just think it's ridiculous. XD So I say it in a ridiculous manner. BECAUSE, SQUALL, YOU ARE RIDICULOUS. So, yeah, honestly, Riku's pretty awesome, but he made some really bad choices in the first game, and some also perhaps not great ones in the games following. Though I look at how I was at 15, and I'd probably have ended up doing a whole lot of the same damn stupid things in that situation. Especially once the darkness started chewing on me. XD And I'm not sure I wouldn't do the same things he was doing in the sequel/s now, and I no longer have the whole "being a moody teenager" excuse going for me. BRAIN MALFUNCTION COUNTS FOR SOMETHING, RIGHT? But either way, that won't stop me from yelling at him or making fun of him.)
XION IS A MISTAKE THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE MADE. :( That is a mean thing to say, Saïx! And I'm choosing to interpret that as being proof that she's not a normal Nobody, rather than that they ought not to have recruited her. (Been thinking – Castle Oblivion, is she some experiment of Vexen's?)
Anyway, Heartless-hunting in the Beast's Castle. Xaldin looks alarmingly pleased about having such a massive creature to fight. Aaaand we win! Yaaay! (SOMEDAY playing Proud Mode will actually mean something, I am sure…) (Or maybe it would mean more if half of these attacks even hit me. NEVER STAYING ON THE GROUND is, it turns out, a good way to avoid at least 50% of the attacks in this game, and I have always been a big, big fan of aerial combos.) Xaldin says, time to go! Beast says RAAAARUGH. Jecca says TIME TO GO A LITTLE FASTER :D; (Really, Xaldin, that is such an excellent EVIL GRIN you have.) Or we could go figure out a bit more about the rose.
…Xaldin, I know what you're thinking, but all it's going to catch you is an elbow in the solar plexus, courtesy of Belle. Oh, and, uh, also death. It's gonna get you some of that, too. Best just leave it alone.
Still no Xion…
For people with no hearts, they sure emote a lot. Even the ones with no memories of emotions! (… heck, especially them, though Roxas is at least because of the whole Sora thing.) (yeah, yeah, acting based off remembrances. It's still kind of funny and strange. And sad, boo.)
THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT LOSING THINGS LIKE MEMORIES IS FORESHADOWING ISN'T IT. I DON'T LIKE IT.
(Also, I was getting annoyed at my SHOULD I KNOW WHAT THE CHAMBER OF WAKING IS and did a very brief search of it and, no, looks like I shouldn't. Apparently it's got a bit of a role in Birth by Sleep, though?)
How am I supposed to know how many boxes I've opened? Is that tallied somewhere? I just always assume I've met the number and talk to him again, and so far I've always been right in that assumption, but… how am I supposed to know these things?
Xion! Skulking around atop the clock tower! Hiiiii! :D
Yeah, that's right, don't listen to Saïx too much. He's a grump, anyway.
I APPROVE OF TEAMING UP. I get so lonely otherwise. :<
…Oof, emblem collecting? Man, you really did tick him off! (I HATE THESE MISSONS RARARARARGHARHJKLFSJFG)
… So, uh, what about her face? Tell meeeeeee. WELL, RIKU, AT LEAST YOU'RE A LITTLE MORE SELF-AWARE NOW. Small steps. Actually, considering I remember him being kind of a jerk to Roxas (THOUGH AGAIN THAT'S PROBABLY RELATED TO THE WHOLE "SORA'S NOBODY" THING but then shouldn't you be nicer to him except you were being a bully and also listening too much to DiZ RIKU, GET SOME PROPER ROLE MODELS, GOD), it was kind of weird seeing him not be a total ass to Xion (ie, telling her to get while the getting's good).
Xion, how come I am like THE ONLY PERSON who has NO PROPER IDEA of what is up with you? I mean. Maybe you're just upset (GOSH REALLY?) but even you seem to know more about this mess we're in?
These flashes of Sora, they're becoming less static-y…
Oh, hell, that's Wonderland. THE ONE WORLD I DON'T LIKE. And it's mostly because of the music, but uuurgh.
BUT FIRST COLISEUM WHOOO ooh and hey I get to drag Demyx along for the ride. This isn't exactly the right place for people who aren't fond of VIOLENCE, but, uh. Sorry, dude, Saïx doesn't care what you want.
TRAINING??! WORK?! EEEW SWEATING. … yeah, this is definitely the wrong place for you. XD
… Roxas, don't give him that option, he'll take it. XDD Bwaha.
HERCULES TRAINING SESSION, GOOO – Demyx, I thought you were waiting outside. Too sunny for napping?
Ha! So. I totally botched round one of Flinging Barrels Into Loudmouths (seriously, I got I think 41 points? Embarrassingly bad) and Phil was all, omg. Well, I hope you have a steep learning curve. HECK YEAH I DO! Second round I got 261. \o/
WHOO HE'S CLEARING ME TO ENTER THE GAMES
Hey. HEY, Sora was pretty awesome. I would personally rank Sora above Hercules, but I guess you can't really say that. SPEAKING OF SORA, HELLO BOTTOM SCREEN.
AXEL: READER OF MINDS? No, sorry, Roxas. You're just predictable.
ROXAS DOESN'T UNDERSTAAAAAND THIS MADNESS, AXEL.
Yyyyep, still don't like the Wonderland music. HI SORA.
Give up, White Rabbit. You'll never be on time. EVER.
… Huh. So long as I'm in this room, Sora's on the screen. Also, wtf, why is there a Possessor on the screen with him, those weren't in the first game. … Oh, never mind. Opening the treasure chest makes him disappear.
Oh, Roxas, you're so clever, bothering to look at the labels like that. I'm still not sure I approve of DRINKING RANDOM THINGS like that, but, well.
SAPPHIRE ELEGY = TELEPORTING BASTARDS. Fortunately, I have gloriously ridiculously long aerial combos, so they warp and I just swing my way through the air until I connect with them. :3
Also, Roxas doesn't shrink as much as Sora did. Or maybe the room itself has shrunk since we last came through. Either seems entirely possible. XD (I know it's more that the levels themselves are smaller scaled, I've been noticing it on other worlds, too – for example, in Halloween town, you used to be able to go up the stairs and ring the doorbell, but now you're taller than the porch. It just seems more obvious here for some reason.)
Oh, you evil lizard! Go away! ROXAS. Drink the other bottle and just step on it!
Ooh, was that it for this time around? YAAAY, BLISSFULLY SHORT VISIT. RUN AWAY RUN AWAY
Seems they send me out a lot with Xaldin these days. I don't mind. He's a violent lunatic and he thinks I'm an idiot and he's very entertaining because of it all.
Roxas! Are you going to take those three harassing you like that? Chase 'em down! XD
Aaand we skipped over the 160s, I guess?
Poor Roxas and his ice cream-eating loneliness.
Man, we're never going to get used to warping in and having the whole castle shake as the Beast roars and rampages around, are we, Roxas?
… Wow, this game is not working for me right now. This damn Snapper Dog in the ballroom has killed me three times now. I AM NOT SURE HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING.
AND OH GOD THERE'S A BULLY DOG IN THE ENTRANCE HALL. WHY.
Okay, that's all gone poorly. Considering this is going to be a BOSS HEARTLESS mission, you'd think I'd run off and try later, but apparently I am an idiot. So what if I die 500 times trying!
Oh, fantastic! It trounces Beast and so now I have to go get it THIS WILL END WELL. Yeah, Roxas is getting nervous, too! Or he would be if he could feel nervousness. So he probably is, 'cause he's a freak Nobody.
THE WALL, IT COMES. NO. NOT ONE OF THESE THINGS ARGH. SO MANY HIT POINTS THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE POSSIBL – oh okay it backs up YAY NEVER MIND
Saïx! I have a question for you! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SEND ME ALONE TO KILL THE BIG EVIL MONSERS. So mean. So meeeeeeeaaaan.
(Amusingly, after all the drama I went through with the dogs, I didn't die once to the Infernal Engine. So, who the heck knows.)
Hey, you gonna tell Xaldin he was wrong about the rose? … Oh. No, he followed and was watching the entire time. Xaldin, you ass. It wouldn't've killed you to help out.
...Damn, you're bitter and cynical. XD Eyes and brain? Or VOICE OF EXPERIENCE? Roxas is still confused. He will ask Axel later. That's not even a guess. That is a fact.
AXEL, WHAT ARE LOVE?
MAN, ROXAS, WHAT PART OF "REQUIRES A HEART" ARE YOU NOT GETTING, HERE, is probably what he is actually thinking. Because this is kind of a repetitive conversation.
Love = Friendship+? HQ FRIENDSHIP?? DO NOT UNDERSTAND
I was going to tell him to shut up and eat his ice cream, but he didn't bring any today. So. Uh. I guess just keep on having awkward conversations with your not-boyfriend. ("It's like he's dodging the questions." GOSH REALLY?)
… Luxord is speaking to me. I don't think that's happened yet. (My harassing him before departing doesn't really count.) DOES THAT MEAN IT'S PARTY WITH LUXORD DAY?
Oh, it does. Hurray! :3
OH NO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO XION? No, of course I didn't hear, no one tells me anything, ugh.
Noo, another failed mission? WAS IT RIKU AGAIN? I'll go punch him for you. Twice, even! One for last time.
Saïx isn't actually blocking the door. RUN, ROXAS, RUN! Or beat him up or something, he's being a jerk again. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ROXAS HE'S NOT A MUTANT LIKE YOU ARE.
ROLE REVERSAL. Are you going to start bringing her seashells, or you gonna go with something else?
And then he actually sets something down aaaaaand LOOKS LIKE SEASHELLS, haha.
Demyx, in real life I'd probably be annoyed at you for how often you shove things off onto me, but since this is not, and since I've thus far already done it, anyway, I JUST FIND IT ADORABLE AND AMUSING. Now gimme my prize.
… okaaay, being granted a promotion after running out of the room screaming YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME is kind of not the reaction I was expecting, but cool! Now I'm an Agent!
FUCK. WONDERLAND.
Luxord does not immediately outright call us a useless fool. Roxas is not sure how to react to that (yeah, that's right, it has nothing to do with the gambling metaphors).
(It's kind of startling, sometimes, the differences in the general attitudes of the first six Nobodies versus the latterseven eight nine, geez, since Naminé counts, technically. The first six do the NO EMOTIONS part rather well. The others seem a little better at faking them, or something. Maybe something to do with how long they've been Nobodies? NO IDEA.) (OVER THINKING IT YAAAAY)
Roxas, stop pretending you're normal and heart-having. SHUT UP I DON'T CARE THAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS weirdo. Weeeiirddoooo. Axel = BROKEN. He said so himself. Way to fuel the bad angst-fic, Square. I know you do this on purpose.
Yes, obviously Saïx knows something about her, Roxas. Straight answers aren't his specialty? Try "any answers at all"…
What was uncalled for? Did he bite you? BE STRAIGHT WITH MEEEE. …Haha, okay, Saïx, you've got him ther--- DAMNIT STOP SAYING WHAT I'M TYPING.
XION HE'S CALLING YOU AN IT.
Axel, Saïx never said that and you're a liar.
The Dual Blade is a cakewalk if you kick pumpkin bombs into it. That was awesomely easy.
YEEE THE NEW WORLD IS NEVER LAND I'M GONNA GET GLIDE :D
This Sora is really static-y, though, so I guess it's not that they're becoming less so.
… These flying dragon-looking Heartless are loads easier when I don't need to jump up at them and get them to land.
Roxas has finally had enough of these stupid kids! RAAAR KEYBLADE TIME
Skipping the 180s, too.
SORA STABS HIMSELF ON THE LOWER SCREEN and Xion wakes up. Good morning! (… soooo… is she remembering that from Sora or Kairi's perspective…? OR BOTH?)
… Woah, three-man team? We're actually going to get away with this? :3 Awesome.
OKAY REALLY IS THE KINGDOM HEARTS OUT THE WINDOW GETTING LARGER OR AM I JUST LOSING MY MIND?
AND THEN SHIT WAS DESTROYED geez, guys, save something for me!
(That said, I cannot believe they Barrier Master'd the freaking Heat Saber. XD)
Xion passed out! She's overdone it? (Again, is it Sora, Kairi, both?) Saïx gets snapped at, EVERYONE IS BEST FRIENDS, and Naminé is drawing us all together whee IT WON'T LAST *sob*
Man, Luxord, how come you always get stuck with me going to Wonderland? Not that I mind your company (your attacks are awesome, by the way), just, geez, I hate this place('s music), and so assume it annoys everyone else around me, too. BECAUSE OF COURSE THE CHARACTERS HEAR THE BACKGROUND MUSIC AND HAVE TO GRIT THEIR TEETH THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH because turning off the sound would, what, make sense? No, um, playing with the sound off really throws me for some reason. Otherwise, I would on these levels.
IT'S THE WHITE RABBIT. CATCH HIIIIIM!
Couldn't curiosity be seen as an emotion? Where's my lecture on not having a heart. >:|
"Isn't that a little dramatic?" HUSH, YOU. XD
Yeah, see, obviously they can't hear the background music, because if they could Luxord would have known there was a Heartless nearby and not have been nailed in the spine by that Blizzard Plant.
It's a good thing that rabbit only moves when you're looking at him. Otherwise we'd have lost him when we stopped to fight ALL THE HEARTLESS back in the Bizarre Room. (So I guess that makes him the anti-Weeping Angel?)
Roxas, you've done stealth missions before, why does Luxord have to explain this to you again.
I like shortcuts. :3 (Even if my curiosity will be the death of me! Oh, Roxas.)
WHAT
HEY
YOU CAN'T DO THAT, THAT'S EVIL. I want to know what creepy-face Vexen (I miss him and his insulting me ways, alas. He was better at it than the others) wrote about Naminé! And possibly other people. Like Xion, maybe.
You'd think after 100+ days of sea salt ice cream they'd be more sick of it.
Axel, you're too cynical for flight!
They've mistaken us for Heartless, you say? Could they have it any more backwards? (I mean, heartless, sure, I could see that, but, nooo, you mean with the capital H…)
Day 224… STOP JUMPING US AHEAD WE HAVEN'T GOT THAT LONG, NOW.
Ah.
Well, that conversation with Naminé sure put things into a TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE light. Xion, nooooo…! D: D: D:
Haha, hey, hey, Demyx isn't so bad. He entertains me, at least, even if he doesn't do much to help. XD
XDDD DEMYX LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY FOLLOWS NO ONE, ROXAS.
Sooo… Guess who figured out that the best way to do well at the Coliseum was to equip a Keyblade with a short combo? Aaand guess who's currently using one of said Keyblades? This one's particularly useless in midair, since I am so used to smashing barrels around here.
GUESS WHO IS FIGHTING A TAILBUNKER THAT REFUSES TO LAND.
8D;;
(Up next: AXEL, WHAT ARE FAITH?)
XIGBAR WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE. GO AWAY. GET. GET OUT. GO. I AM GOING TO PUT THIS KEYBLADE THROUGH YOUR FACE WHAT THE HELL.
… Thankfully, he doesn’t seem to be taking this very seriously.
ARGH SURPRISE HEARTLESS ATTACK. Yeah, I have totally got the wrong Keyblade, here.
XIGBAAAAAR. >:| WHAT, YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO HELP ME? RAARGH.
Oh, man, Sora, you're really distracting.
You came back? I oughta punch you. XD YOU, TOO, DEMYX, except I expect it from you more Oh, Xigbar was on a mission, all right. A MISSION TO TROLL ME. It appears to have been wildly successful. XDD
No wonder Phil took so long, if Herc insisted on casually strolling the entire way back.
Why are you asking about Castle Oblivion, Xion? :<
AXEL KNOWS AND HE'S NOT TELLING ME. XION ALSO KNOWS SOMETHING. SHE ALSO IS NOT TELLING ME. YOU GUUUYYYS…!
AAA FALLING OFF THE CLOCK TOWER. Didn't – er, won't DAMN YOU FUTURE EVENTS BEING IN MY PAST – Roxas also do that in the KHII prologue? It's contagious!
Awkward silence all around. :\
Noo, not the beach. The beach is a promise that WILL NEVER BE REAL. (Speaking of the KHII prologue, geez…)
YAAAY ANOTHER PROMOTION! Expert! And a limit break power up! …*runs to raid the Moogle again*
Aaand now I've got another set of optional (haha, "optional"… like I could really ever skip any of them…) missions to run and I don't feel like it today.
END ENTRY?
So, we've had a little bit of a thaw. Warm weather is nice. (40 degrees is warm now?) BUT! This means the spiders are crawling out of their creepy spider-holes again. I've pulled a couple out of the bathroom and if I think of it tomorrow, I'm going to just spray the room down with the ANTI-SPIDER CHEMICALS, since that did wonders for my bedroom and the kitchen.
But, uh, I have at least had some revenge on the creepies? My cat apparently will eat them. HA! NOW YOU'RE CAT FOOD. Stay out of my home. >:|
So, uh. The bakery staff? 100% white cis female. (The neighboring departments are not all white or all female, but there is still no one in either who even remotely resembles that description.) And he seemed to think he had the correct store.
I kind of began to wonder if he was speaking in some sort of code as the conversation went on. It was a little surreal.
AND NOW more Kingdom Hearts.
SO NOW IT'S DAY 149
ORGANIZATION IMPOSTER? RIKUUUU. >_> Well, it could be Mickey, I guess. I DOUBT IT IS, THOUGH.
Whoo, Halloween Town! …Man, the puppies they hid here in the first game took me for ever to find.
Roxas is not impressed by your tricks, kids.
Axel RETURNS. Again.
Aww, Xion, what's up? Who said what?
Ah. Riku called – you? Your keyblade? – a sham. Don't take him too seriously. He doesn't know half as much as he thinks he does. (Oh, sure, there's definitely something really weird with you, but I am not sure "sham" is the word I would use. At least not yet? Erm. Also, he may or may not be listening to DiZ at this point, and DiZ is kind of a lunatic.)
(I suddenly am a little self-conscious about the fact that I like to harass characters - some more than others. It is not out of malice or because I dislike them! I actually tend to do it more to characters I like or relate to the most, or ones I'm familiar with - and since this is the fourth game Riku's turned up in that I've played, I'm definitely more familiar with him than Roxas or anyone else in Organization XIII. So he may get more picking. Kind of like
XION IS A MISTAKE THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE MADE. :( That is a mean thing to say, Saïx! And I'm choosing to interpret that as being proof that she's not a normal Nobody, rather than that they ought not to have recruited her. (Been thinking – Castle Oblivion, is she some experiment of Vexen's?)
Anyway, Heartless-hunting in the Beast's Castle. Xaldin looks alarmingly pleased about having such a massive creature to fight. Aaaand we win! Yaaay! (SOMEDAY playing Proud Mode will actually mean something, I am sure…) (Or maybe it would mean more if half of these attacks even hit me. NEVER STAYING ON THE GROUND is, it turns out, a good way to avoid at least 50% of the attacks in this game, and I have always been a big, big fan of aerial combos.) Xaldin says, time to go! Beast says RAAAARUGH. Jecca says TIME TO GO A LITTLE FASTER :D; (Really, Xaldin, that is such an excellent EVIL GRIN you have.) Or we could go figure out a bit more about the rose.
…Xaldin, I know what you're thinking, but all it's going to catch you is an elbow in the solar plexus, courtesy of Belle. Oh, and, uh, also death. It's gonna get you some of that, too. Best just leave it alone.
Still no Xion…
For people with no hearts, they sure emote a lot. Even the ones with no memories of emotions! (… heck, especially them, though Roxas is at least because of the whole Sora thing.) (yeah, yeah, acting based off remembrances. It's still kind of funny and strange. And sad, boo.)
THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT LOSING THINGS LIKE MEMORIES IS FORESHADOWING ISN'T IT. I DON'T LIKE IT.
(Also, I was getting annoyed at my SHOULD I KNOW WHAT THE CHAMBER OF WAKING IS and did a very brief search of it and, no, looks like I shouldn't. Apparently it's got a bit of a role in Birth by Sleep, though?)
How am I supposed to know how many boxes I've opened? Is that tallied somewhere? I just always assume I've met the number and talk to him again, and so far I've always been right in that assumption, but… how am I supposed to know these things?
Xion! Skulking around atop the clock tower! Hiiiii! :D
Yeah, that's right, don't listen to Saïx too much. He's a grump, anyway.
I APPROVE OF TEAMING UP. I get so lonely otherwise. :<
…Oof, emblem collecting? Man, you really did tick him off! (I HATE THESE MISSONS RARARARARGHARHJKLFSJFG)
… So, uh, what about her face? Tell meeeeeee. WELL, RIKU, AT LEAST YOU'RE A LITTLE MORE SELF-AWARE NOW. Small steps. Actually, considering I remember him being kind of a jerk to Roxas (THOUGH AGAIN THAT'S PROBABLY RELATED TO THE WHOLE "SORA'S NOBODY" THING but then shouldn't you be nicer to him except you were being a bully and also listening too much to DiZ RIKU, GET SOME PROPER ROLE MODELS, GOD), it was kind of weird seeing him not be a total ass to Xion (ie, telling her to get while the getting's good).
Xion, how come I am like THE ONLY PERSON who has NO PROPER IDEA of what is up with you? I mean. Maybe you're just upset (GOSH REALLY?) but even you seem to know more about this mess we're in?
These flashes of Sora, they're becoming less static-y…
Oh, hell, that's Wonderland. THE ONE WORLD I DON'T LIKE. And it's mostly because of the music, but uuurgh.
BUT FIRST COLISEUM WHOOO ooh and hey I get to drag Demyx along for the ride. This isn't exactly the right place for people who aren't fond of VIOLENCE, but, uh. Sorry, dude, Saïx doesn't care what you want.
TRAINING??! WORK?! EEEW SWEATING. … yeah, this is definitely the wrong place for you. XD
… Roxas, don't give him that option, he'll take it. XDD Bwaha.
HERCULES TRAINING SESSION, GOOO – Demyx, I thought you were waiting outside. Too sunny for napping?
Ha! So. I totally botched round one of Flinging Barrels Into Loudmouths (seriously, I got I think 41 points? Embarrassingly bad) and Phil was all, omg. Well, I hope you have a steep learning curve. HECK YEAH I DO! Second round I got 261. \o/
WHOO HE'S CLEARING ME TO ENTER THE GAMES
Hey. HEY, Sora was pretty awesome. I would personally rank Sora above Hercules, but I guess you can't really say that. SPEAKING OF SORA, HELLO BOTTOM SCREEN.
AXEL: READER OF MINDS? No, sorry, Roxas. You're just predictable.
ROXAS DOESN'T UNDERSTAAAAAND THIS MADNESS, AXEL.
Yyyyep, still don't like the Wonderland music. HI SORA.
Give up, White Rabbit. You'll never be on time. EVER.
… Huh. So long as I'm in this room, Sora's on the screen. Also, wtf, why is there a Possessor on the screen with him, those weren't in the first game. … Oh, never mind. Opening the treasure chest makes him disappear.
Oh, Roxas, you're so clever, bothering to look at the labels like that. I'm still not sure I approve of DRINKING RANDOM THINGS like that, but, well.
SAPPHIRE ELEGY = TELEPORTING BASTARDS. Fortunately, I have gloriously ridiculously long aerial combos, so they warp and I just swing my way through the air until I connect with them. :3
Also, Roxas doesn't shrink as much as Sora did. Or maybe the room itself has shrunk since we last came through. Either seems entirely possible. XD (I know it's more that the levels themselves are smaller scaled, I've been noticing it on other worlds, too – for example, in Halloween town, you used to be able to go up the stairs and ring the doorbell, but now you're taller than the porch. It just seems more obvious here for some reason.)
Oh, you evil lizard! Go away! ROXAS. Drink the other bottle and just step on it!
Ooh, was that it for this time around? YAAAY, BLISSFULLY SHORT VISIT. RUN AWAY RUN AWAY
Seems they send me out a lot with Xaldin these days. I don't mind. He's a violent lunatic and he thinks I'm an idiot and he's very entertaining because of it all.
Roxas! Are you going to take those three harassing you like that? Chase 'em down! XD
Aaand we skipped over the 160s, I guess?
Poor Roxas and his ice cream-eating loneliness.
Man, we're never going to get used to warping in and having the whole castle shake as the Beast roars and rampages around, are we, Roxas?
… Wow, this game is not working for me right now. This damn Snapper Dog in the ballroom has killed me three times now. I AM NOT SURE HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING.
AND OH GOD THERE'S A BULLY DOG IN THE ENTRANCE HALL. WHY.
Okay, that's all gone poorly. Considering this is going to be a BOSS HEARTLESS mission, you'd think I'd run off and try later, but apparently I am an idiot. So what if I die 500 times trying!
Oh, fantastic! It trounces Beast and so now I have to go get it THIS WILL END WELL. Yeah, Roxas is getting nervous, too! Or he would be if he could feel nervousness. So he probably is, 'cause he's a freak Nobody.
THE WALL, IT COMES. NO. NOT ONE OF THESE THINGS ARGH. SO MANY HIT POINTS THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE POSSIBL – oh okay it backs up YAY NEVER MIND
Saïx! I have a question for you! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SEND ME ALONE TO KILL THE BIG EVIL MONSERS. So mean. So meeeeeeeaaaan.
(Amusingly, after all the drama I went through with the dogs, I didn't die once to the Infernal Engine. So, who the heck knows.)
Hey, you gonna tell Xaldin he was wrong about the rose? … Oh. No, he followed and was watching the entire time. Xaldin, you ass. It wouldn't've killed you to help out.
...Damn, you're bitter and cynical. XD Eyes and brain? Or VOICE OF EXPERIENCE? Roxas is still confused. He will ask Axel later. That's not even a guess. That is a fact.
AXEL, WHAT ARE LOVE?
MAN, ROXAS, WHAT PART OF "REQUIRES A HEART" ARE YOU NOT GETTING, HERE, is probably what he is actually thinking. Because this is kind of a repetitive conversation.
Love = Friendship+? HQ FRIENDSHIP?? DO NOT UNDERSTAND
I was going to tell him to shut up and eat his ice cream, but he didn't bring any today. So. Uh. I guess just keep on having awkward conversations with your not-boyfriend. ("It's like he's dodging the questions." GOSH REALLY?)
… Luxord is speaking to me. I don't think that's happened yet. (My harassing him before departing doesn't really count.) DOES THAT MEAN IT'S PARTY WITH LUXORD DAY?
Oh, it does. Hurray! :3
OH NO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO XION? No, of course I didn't hear, no one tells me anything, ugh.
Noo, another failed mission? WAS IT RIKU AGAIN? I'll go punch him for you. Twice, even! One for last time.
Saïx isn't actually blocking the door. RUN, ROXAS, RUN! Or beat him up or something, he's being a jerk again. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ROXAS HE'S NOT A MUTANT LIKE YOU ARE.
ROLE REVERSAL. Are you going to start bringing her seashells, or you gonna go with something else?
And then he actually sets something down aaaaaand LOOKS LIKE SEASHELLS, haha.
Demyx, in real life I'd probably be annoyed at you for how often you shove things off onto me, but since this is not, and since I've thus far already done it, anyway, I JUST FIND IT ADORABLE AND AMUSING. Now gimme my prize.
… okaaay, being granted a promotion after running out of the room screaming YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME is kind of not the reaction I was expecting, but cool! Now I'm an Agent!
FUCK. WONDERLAND.
Luxord does not immediately outright call us a useless fool. Roxas is not sure how to react to that (yeah, that's right, it has nothing to do with the gambling metaphors).
(It's kind of startling, sometimes, the differences in the general attitudes of the first six Nobodies versus the latter
Roxas, stop pretending you're normal and heart-having. SHUT UP I DON'T CARE THAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS weirdo. Weeeiirddoooo. Axel = BROKEN. He said so himself. Way to fuel the bad angst-fic, Square. I know you do this on purpose.
Yes, obviously Saïx knows something about her, Roxas. Straight answers aren't his specialty? Try "any answers at all"…
What was uncalled for? Did he bite you? BE STRAIGHT WITH MEEEE. …Haha, okay, Saïx, you've got him ther--- DAMNIT STOP SAYING WHAT I'M TYPING.
XION HE'S CALLING YOU AN IT.
Axel, Saïx never said that and you're a liar.
The Dual Blade is a cakewalk if you kick pumpkin bombs into it. That was awesomely easy.
YEEE THE NEW WORLD IS NEVER LAND I'M GONNA GET GLIDE :D
This Sora is really static-y, though, so I guess it's not that they're becoming less so.
… These flying dragon-looking Heartless are loads easier when I don't need to jump up at them and get them to land.
Roxas has finally had enough of these stupid kids! RAAAR KEYBLADE TIME
Skipping the 180s, too.
SORA STABS HIMSELF ON THE LOWER SCREEN and Xion wakes up. Good morning! (… soooo… is she remembering that from Sora or Kairi's perspective…? OR BOTH?)
… Woah, three-man team? We're actually going to get away with this? :3 Awesome.
OKAY REALLY IS THE KINGDOM HEARTS OUT THE WINDOW GETTING LARGER OR AM I JUST LOSING MY MIND?
AND THEN SHIT WAS DESTROYED geez, guys, save something for me!
(That said, I cannot believe they Barrier Master'd the freaking Heat Saber. XD)
Xion passed out! She's overdone it? (Again, is it Sora, Kairi, both?) Saïx gets snapped at, EVERYONE IS BEST FRIENDS, and Naminé is drawing us all together whee IT WON'T LAST *sob*
Man, Luxord, how come you always get stuck with me going to Wonderland? Not that I mind your company (your attacks are awesome, by the way), just, geez, I hate this place('s music), and so assume it annoys everyone else around me, too. BECAUSE OF COURSE THE CHARACTERS HEAR THE BACKGROUND MUSIC AND HAVE TO GRIT THEIR TEETH THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH because turning off the sound would, what, make sense? No, um, playing with the sound off really throws me for some reason. Otherwise, I would on these levels.
IT'S THE WHITE RABBIT. CATCH HIIIIIM!
Couldn't curiosity be seen as an emotion? Where's my lecture on not having a heart. >:|
"Isn't that a little dramatic?" HUSH, YOU. XD
Yeah, see, obviously they can't hear the background music, because if they could Luxord would have known there was a Heartless nearby and not have been nailed in the spine by that Blizzard Plant.
It's a good thing that rabbit only moves when you're looking at him. Otherwise we'd have lost him when we stopped to fight ALL THE HEARTLESS back in the Bizarre Room. (So I guess that makes him the anti-Weeping Angel?)
Roxas, you've done stealth missions before, why does Luxord have to explain this to you again.
I like shortcuts. :3 (Even if my curiosity will be the death of me! Oh, Roxas.)
WHAT
HEY
YOU CAN'T DO THAT, THAT'S EVIL. I want to know what creepy-face Vexen (I miss him and his insulting me ways, alas. He was better at it than the others) wrote about Naminé! And possibly other people. Like Xion, maybe.
You'd think after 100+ days of sea salt ice cream they'd be more sick of it.
Axel, you're too cynical for flight!
They've mistaken us for Heartless, you say? Could they have it any more backwards? (I mean, heartless, sure, I could see that, but, nooo, you mean with the capital H…)
Day 224… STOP JUMPING US AHEAD WE HAVEN'T GOT THAT LONG, NOW.
Ah.
Well, that conversation with Naminé sure put things into a TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE light. Xion, nooooo…! D: D: D:
Haha, hey, hey, Demyx isn't so bad. He entertains me, at least, even if he doesn't do much to help. XD
XDDD DEMYX LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY FOLLOWS NO ONE, ROXAS.
Sooo… Guess who figured out that the best way to do well at the Coliseum was to equip a Keyblade with a short combo? Aaand guess who's currently using one of said Keyblades? This one's particularly useless in midair, since I am so used to smashing barrels around here.
GUESS WHO IS FIGHTING A TAILBUNKER THAT REFUSES TO LAND.
8D;;
(Up next: AXEL, WHAT ARE FAITH?)
XIGBAR WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE. GO AWAY. GET. GET OUT. GO. I AM GOING TO PUT THIS KEYBLADE THROUGH YOUR FACE WHAT THE HELL.
… Thankfully, he doesn’t seem to be taking this very seriously.
ARGH SURPRISE HEARTLESS ATTACK. Yeah, I have totally got the wrong Keyblade, here.
XIGBAAAAAR. >:| WHAT, YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO HELP ME? RAARGH.
Oh, man, Sora, you're really distracting.
You came back? I oughta punch you. XD YOU, TOO, DEMYX, except I expect it from you more Oh, Xigbar was on a mission, all right. A MISSION TO TROLL ME. It appears to have been wildly successful. XDD
No wonder Phil took so long, if Herc insisted on casually strolling the entire way back.
Why are you asking about Castle Oblivion, Xion? :<
AXEL KNOWS AND HE'S NOT TELLING ME. XION ALSO KNOWS SOMETHING. SHE ALSO IS NOT TELLING ME. YOU GUUUYYYS…!
AAA FALLING OFF THE CLOCK TOWER. Didn't – er, won't DAMN YOU FUTURE EVENTS BEING IN MY PAST – Roxas also do that in the KHII prologue? It's contagious!
Awkward silence all around. :\
Noo, not the beach. The beach is a promise that WILL NEVER BE REAL. (Speaking of the KHII prologue, geez…)
YAAAY ANOTHER PROMOTION! Expert! And a limit break power up! …*runs to raid the Moogle again*
Aaand now I've got another set of optional (haha, "optional"… like I could really ever skip any of them…) missions to run and I don't feel like it today.
END ENTRY?
So, we've had a little bit of a thaw. Warm weather is nice. (40 degrees is warm now?) BUT! This means the spiders are crawling out of their creepy spider-holes again. I've pulled a couple out of the bathroom and if I think of it tomorrow, I'm going to just spray the room down with the ANTI-SPIDER CHEMICALS, since that did wonders for my bedroom and the kitchen.
But, uh, I have at least had some revenge on the creepies? My cat apparently will eat them. HA! NOW YOU'RE CAT FOOD. Stay out of my home. >:|