game story summary... yet again

[Aerith Gainsborough]

I'm a madman... woman... something.

The more I think about it, the more I want to actually turn this thing's backstory into a fanfic format. I think it would be interesting to read, especially for you people who are just joining up and for those who haven't joined yet.

I went through some of the plot today while I was at work... what I could remember, and the basic outline for the past four years is a whopping...

...page long. I'm not even kidding. But that's the absolute bare bones plot thread.

Xenos Opening

Aerith in Midgar through exit

Sephy/Masamune

the Cave through the Falcon crash

Zack/Seph in Narshe through exit

Junon arc through Submarine

Mimic battle and Nibelheim burning

The Opera House through kidnapping

Zanarkand/Crater

Bevelle and the Lunar Cry

That's what I have so far. Like I said, it's barebones. Jess, Xenos, and Setzer would know just about all of those scenes, and probably more that I've forgotten.

Anyway, even with this, we've had times where characters vanish, change players, or stop contributing to the plot. There are definately parts that need to be deleted... like finding Ma Dincht in her own oven. Don't ask.

While I'm suggesting that we edit old players' posts for content and continuity, I'm not saying that we change what they were trying to say. There are some early posts that need a little more oumph... mine included. If you'd like, I'd like to get people involved with their character's past. Cloud, you have one other person (of note) before you. when I get to his parts, you could have an active hand in editing. But you couldn't change how they played their character. It would be more like you'd get a say in how it's edited. There are several people like that... Auron and Vincent come to mind.

It's only a suggestion. I think there's quite a few people who'd like to actually read what happened rather than us kinda summarize epic lost threads. Oh, Caves and Junon... how I miss you.

[Cloud Strife]

I completely agree about not changing the way the character was played, but I do want to take a look at it.

I know I wouldn't want all the work I did to be dumped just because some new guy came along.

[odin]

I don’t think I had any predecessors, luckily for me. I don’t know whether it was a major scene, but there was the bit where (Ex) Cid and I found the Falcon before being discovered by Setzer before flying toward the Opera House. And at some point there was that stunt in Junon as well!

I’m really looking forward to how this new part of plot will pan out though. I haven’t a clue where I’m going!

[Xenos]

It'll be fun if you stick around.

Aerith I know you want to do this and it'd be HELLA COOL! Think of how long it would take. Do we really have the time? Hell, you can't even finish Restart.

[Aerith Gainsborough]

>.< Restart IS finished, silly.

[Tiamat]

Yeah, and this is already mostly written, complete with different voices for each character! ~*~Authenticity~*~

[Aerith Gainsborough]

So it's begun! I'm still working on the first scene; but since it's getting late, I'll post what I have. It's a great spot to quit since Vincent1 is about to appear. Once I get that started, I'll fly it past our resident Vince and he'll tell me what he thinks might/should be changed/added.

Original posts

Aerith walked the familiar streets, booted feet crunching on the same gravel she had tread upon for years. Something seemed different, like a chapter of her life had just vanished like a dream after waking. She gripped her staff surely in her hand and stepped into the abandoned playground. Green eyes glanced around the intersection before peering into Sector Seven. A ghostly flash of a chocobo drawn carriage overlayed the gaping maw of a threshold. She shook her head, attempting to clear her mind of the revisiting dream, of Deja Vu, before she regained her grip on her staff.

Her body soon forgot the mind's dilemma as she fell gracefully into her routine. Right Shoulder to Windmill through to Sunrise followed by Sunset. Speedspin and Butterfly merged in the dance. Front Present to Right Slam and Carve into a Single Toss, Catch, and back to Center Order. The outside world faded with the rhythm.
~Aerith Gainsborough

~*~

Walking into the sector, Cait looks around and sighs. "Ah., its been so long since i've set foot back here, maybe i should go and visit Shinra for a technical checkup."

He starts making his way down the slums when he notices a few flowers by the doorway of an abandoned building. The little cat hops off his mog and takes a closer look.
As he quietly heads to the entrance, he finds that the palce was not abandoned after all.
He watches in silence as to not disturb her task.
Hearing shuffling sounds from his mog, he gestures his mog to keep quiet. Cait quietly sits on a small rock and watches, with his mog following. But mog plumps on the floor with a lightly audiable thump.
~Cait Sith

~*~

Aerith freezes in her movement, staff slightly quivering at the ends. She spins around toward the sound and irritably pushes long bangs out of her eyes. Thoughts of petty thugs with minds bent on abduction scatter at the sight of the familiar stuffed cat perched lightly on the rock. The insanely large mog was not far from the cat.

"Cait! I thought I would never find a familiar face!" The smile brightens the shadowy place, her voice filled with relief from pent in fear.
~Aerith

~*~

=n.n= Cait's face lights up as he realises his presence was known.
"Well! So it IS the one and only! Heyas again Aerith!"
He decides to pop back onto the mog again, and makes his way to her.
"...never find a familar face...?" Light concern brushes over his face as he looks around. "Soemthing wrong?" He smiles lightly, his optomistic nature coming by him again.
~Cait Sith

~*~

She places her staff to the side, settling her mussed red vest back in place. Aerith throws her braid back over her shoulder before replying. "When I got back to Midgar, I couldn't find Mom. It was as though she had just stepped out, but.... I tried asking about getting a ride to Kalm, but everyone looked at me as though I was crazy."
~Aerith

~*~

Looking down in thought, Cait lightly scratches his head. "Hmm... Kalm, a small town if i can recall..." He looks up at Aerith. "So how far is it...? I'm just taking a stroll to shinra for a checkup, so if its on the way, i could be your company till you reach Kalm."

Cait looks around, "Hmm... if its farther than the shinra hq.... we might be able to get some private shinra transport or something to get straight to Kalm."

He waves his megaphone a little in the air, "So, what'll it be?"
~Cait Sith

~*~

"It's not that I can't find transportation. It's more like they've never heard of the town. I've checked all the maps, and all I can find are towns I've never heard of. Lindblum? That's not the Planet I remember." Aerith chews her lip nervously. "What's happened to our Planet?"
~Aerith

~*~

Cait laughts in his cheerful nature. and lightly thinks afterwards. "Heh, well..... now that i think about it, i did get some requests to go about and check up on my synthesis shops."
He looks at Aerith in a little question, "and you know what? i did go there, and now i just realised that place was called Luca! i dont really recall a place like that in my memory!"

He jumps in light shock at his realisation of the different world he is in. he gasps, "um.... ok............" There was a long silence before he mysteriously cheers up again.
"well, no use standing around, this place looks the same, and i guess shinra hq will still be here, or unless........ were not in midgar.....?" His stupidity takes over him.
"Oh...my.....go-- were not in midgar! O...M...G!!!!" He stops for a sec and blinks at Aerith, "are we...?"
~Cait Sith

~*~

The girl takes a deep calming breath and looks around at the familiar sights. The moogle slide is in the same place, as is the dirt road connecting the Sectors. Nothing seemed out of place. "No, Cait. I believe we're in Midgar. Whatever's changed here, it's still the same city." She smiles reassuredly at the stuffed cat. "Of that I can assure you."
~Aerith

~*~

Cait grins at the relief. "YAY! then i'm heading to shinra ^^!"

Hoppin on his mog, he and his mog make their way to the exit. As cait turns on his mog to Aerith, he asks "wanna come?"
~Cait Sith

Final Infinity (tentative title)

Aerith walked the familiar streets of the Midgar slums; her booted feet crunched along the same gravel roads she'd tread upon since her childhood. But it felt odd to be there. It was as though she'd lost a chapter of her life. She grasped her staff and stepped into an empty space in the abandoned playground. Her green eyes flashed toward the open doorway to Sector 7. Has she dreamed the plate's fall? No, she remembered it clearly; she remembered the smell of gunpowder and gasoline when Tseng took her back to Hojo's lab. But then, if it wasn't a dream, why was there an open sector rather than a rubble tomb? She shook her head to clear these thoughts from her mind. What she needed was a clear mind, so she began to practice with her staff. The metal glinted in the dim, artificial slumlight; and Aerith lost herself in the rhythm.

"It's been so long since I last set foot back here," Cait Sith said with a sigh. "Maybe I should go and visit Headquarters for a technical checkup." With that, the moogle began to walk through the sector. It wasn't long before he noticed a basket of flowers on the side of the abandoned road. There were bright yellow against the otherwise drab slum and were still covered in dew. He hopped off the moogle and peeked around the corner.

Maybe the slums weren't abandoned after all.

Aerith froze midway through her movement; the staff still quivered at either end. Someone was watching her. She spun around and irritably brushed her long hair out of her face. She imagined all sorts of horrible thugs jumping out of the shadows, but those thoughts vanished as soon as she saw the stuffed cat's familiar face. "Cait!" The name came out in a relieved gasp. "I thought I was alone. I was afraid I'd never find a familiar face." Her smile chased away the remaining shadows.

The spy was found out. Cait returned the easy smile. "Well! So it is the one and only. Hello again, Aerith." The cat remounted his moogle and shuffled over. "'...never find a familiar face..?'" His smile faded. "Is something wrong?"

Aerith set aside her staff and stretched her sore arms. She threw her braid back over her shoulder as she sat down on one of the swings. "When I got back to Midgar-" How did she get back? The last thing she remembered was being halfway across the world at the City of the Ancients, praying... "When I got back, I couldn't find Mom. I wanted to tell her that everything was alright."

Cait scratched his head. "Kalm's not too far..." He looked up from his musing. "I'm just taking a stroll to Headquarters for a checkup. Maybe we can get some private transport or something straight to Kalm." The moogle started towards the exit, but Cait turned over his shoulder and raised his megaphone to his mouth. "So, what'll it be? Wanna come?"

This is only a rough start, but this is kind of what I had in mind. Does anyone have anything to add, or other ideas? I really would like to beef it up a little more, but right now, I'm sticking to the original text as closely as I can. I'll test the waters with liberties after I retcon all of the plotholes (no Kalm?)

[Xenos]

"Let's go to ShinraHQ!"

[Aerith Gainsborough]

In about two lines, Vincent's gonna get all wierd and stuff. I'm not even kidding, yo.

[Tiamat]

I really liked when I kind of shoehorned Samantha in because the original Vincent was so bad, and even though he was STILL IN I made her apply. And Terra was all, "They are equally good." And I am not even biased, Samantha was just so much better. First of all, she knew he had a claw. Secondly, his good/evil? alignment was listed as "Groovil." Third and finally, she is a writer, after all.

Then again, she did quit after some months. She's even more of a quitter than I am.

[Alexander THE GIRL]

Groovil...

...I like it.

[Tiamat]

Actually, come to think of it, it was just Goovil

I must have been thinking of grood. Great and good.

[Alexander THE GIRL]

I like Groovil better.

[Aerith Gainsborough]

does everyone approve of the direction this is taking?

[Tiamat]

I like where it is going, on account of how pretty soon I'll show up. And I love me.


"I'm bein' drawn in- by its groovitational (groovitational) pull."