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❪ test drive: #2 ❫ THE OVERFLOW
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THE PROLOGUE There is urgency in the Orbiters' request. Refugees currently in El Nysa are asked via mass message to please return to Thesa Station virtual reality area immediately. Zasere tells them that the next set of Refugees are scheduled to wake, but there's been an issue. On Thesa, refugees will find that the people in stasis are still apparently trapped in slumber. Most of them are complete strangers, but there's a chance you may recognize a familiar face or two. Normally, these people would wake up from their pods without issue, but due to a malfunction caused by the unforeseen force during The Descent, they have to go through extra measures to make this possible. Those in slumber require extra stimulation, something to keep their minds active. What better than a simulation of an area of El Nysa? Keeping their minds active requires an extremely involved simulation. Those subjected to the VR (prospective characters) will find themselves completely immersed in their new environment, believing themselves to be native Olympians. To wake up from the simulation, characters must work together to accomplish a certain objective(s) in the icy tundra. Characters in-game will be aware that this is a simulation, but this is good practice for properly interacting with El Nysa natives, isn't it? PROMPT: WINTER CAME  The wind in the icy wasteland is bitter and frigid. You are wrapped up in a winter coat, but even still, the cold bites at your skin and leaves you yearning for a warm fire. Perhaps you're a merchant from the city, here to make a delivery, or you're a royal guard, sent to patrol the area. Who are you? The sky is the limit. One thing is certain — you won't snap out of your new identity until you finish a task. 1. Due to the vast diversity of the creatures on El Nysa and the fact that new ones are constantly being discovered, an important objective is to carefully chronicle different species. Unfortunately, to research these new species, they happen to need more than just a visual. More than just fleeting glances in over a snowy hill. Researchers are constantly looking for ways to secure...  3. You are stuck in a dilemma. On one hand, you are set to work for Olympia. One the other, you're not completely sure what is really expected of you, or who the man who gave you this mission truly is.When you come to, you will awaken in Thesa Station. All will be explained to you by Zasere or Sael via telepathic link. Your world is no more. The Storm has consumed it. We offer proof in the Observation Deck if you desire it, but it won't be an easy thing to stomach. We offer you a new life, in our planet of El Nysa. We just ask for your help in maintaining the vitality of El Nysa. What can we offer you in exchange for your help? PROMPT: STASIS UNIT  You have found the massive section of Thesa known as the Stasis Unit. There’s no special access required to access this part of Thesa Station, but refugees are warned that it may not be for the faint of heart. Here, in large pods that nearly cover every square inch of the space, are all of the people the Orbiters have managed to rescue. Your loved ones, your greatest enemy, your next door neighbor— you might find them here. These people are in a state of deep cryosleep. Due to the damaging effects of The Storm, their bodies are not yet ready to be awoken. PROMPT: GET REKT  The Orbiters have noticed that some of the refugees really miss their video games. The technology in El Nysa could be much worse, but it definitely leaves much to be desired. Which is why, after expressing relief that everyone awoke safely, the Orbiters have decided to provide a little fun in the form of video game competitions. Anything from old-timey arcade machines to state-of-the-art computers, consoles, and VR headsets (though you may be a little tired of VR right now...) is available, and yes, they have your favorite games! Enjoy PAC-MAN, Starcraft 2, or perhaps Dance Dance Revolution! Teach a friend how to play. Get unnecessarily angry and competitive. Most importantly, have fun. Keep fourthwalling to a minimum, please. Recommended playing: QWOP PROMPT: OMAGE
Upon receiving your mobile phone, you will be asked to set a username. Voila, you can now access the network! You can choose to send a message to the entire network, specific usernames, or you can try out the Orbiters’ service, Omage, which connects you to a random user. They thought this might be a good way for their new guests to make friends with each other...
Connecting to server... PROMPT: WILDCARD
You are welcome to write any scenarios in Thesa Station! Characters have been granted temporary access to the Observation Room, and are encouraged to study it carefully.
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[Bad humor at that, because really, Riku doesn't think there's anything funny about this at all. He doesn't try for another attack, but keeps holding onto the Soul Eater, more to present it as a threat than because he needs to; summoning doesn't take more than a thought, and he's pretty sure he's got the advantage on this guy anyway… whether he releases the Darkness in his Heart or not.]
Why wouldn't you bother? Removing Sora from the picture is one of the Organization's goals, isn't it… or do you need him, now that neither she nor Roxas are part of your numbers anymore?
[It takes a Keyblade to gather up Hearts after all, doesn't it?]
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[Is that so wrong? There's tension between them, some kind of aggressive energy crackling between them. Demyx doesn't attack, he's only drawn his weapon for defense. When Riku doesn't come forward again, he sets the base of his sitar down and leans on it lazily.
Riku shouldn't underestimate him. It's rude to judge someone on appearance alone.]
Not that I know of. [He tilts his head slightly. She?] Huh? Only girl I know is Larxene and she's been gone awhile. [He's not even privvy on Naminé.]
Technically, I've been told they want to see him. They want Roxas back, not eliminated. I was on a mission to collect him. I really was kidding, I don't even think this would count anyway. Even if the Superior was awake- [And thank the stars he wasn't.] Kid's asleep. World's destroyed.
[He exhales softly.] Roxas always was special.
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[As for underestimating Demyx… rude it may, wrong so even more, but really if there is one thing that Riku has only doubted in his weakest moments, it's his own strength. And even if it turns out not to be enough… well he still has one ultimate fallback that should work on every Nobody save their superior.
…He thinks.
It's not surprising that the Nobody is confused when even Riku is only barely clinging to those memories. It's not a stretch to think that they have already disappeared from the other's mind, the same way they'll soon have disappeared from Riku's too. It doesn't matter anymore either. What does matter…]
You aren't getting him either. Roxas will return to where he belongs… and that's not with the Organization.
[For better or worse, for all that Sora's Nobody might strife towards his own existence, fact is that they need him and the memories he holds to awaken Sora.
His fate, her fate, Naminé's fate… it cannot be changed.]
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[He offers a quirky little smirk at that, because even the other members of the Organization get him.
He can't help but be confused, he wasn't terribly close to her, and Naminé was strong enough to secure those memories, taking them from the others.]
None of us are where we belong you know. We're just trying to get to the end of this...whatever it is. [He waves his hand helplessly.]
I don't know what you need him for. If the storm hadn't happened, I'd be collecting him. [No, he wouldn't, and it's clear he knows that. Sora can defeat him. They'd crossed paths before.]
Man. [He whines a little.] I just want my damn heart back.
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He finally dismisses the Soul Eater though – it can be recalled, and it doesn't look like this going to need to now after all – and crosses his arms in favor for it.]
And you really think that spreading the Heartless only to collect their hearts again is going to do anything for you?
[Riku might not know all of what the Organization is up to, but he's watched them long enough to put some things together… that and he'd have to be blind (hah) not to notice the half-completed Kingdom Hearts in the sky of The World That Never Was. Whatever the Organization needs that for… is it really just to regain their Hearts? (Are they truly 'heartless'... Riku thinks of Naminé who carries the weight of her guilt as heavy as he does that of his, and sometimes he isn't so sure.)]
Roxas is the key to fixing what your lot broke in first place. Beside, you couldn't 'collect' him even if you tried.
[Roxas is strong, strong enough to worry Riku. Could he have defeated him, without the use of that power? He might never know now, thanks to the Storm.]
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[Ugh, he can just remember how boring Xemnas is and how he drones on and on and on. He groans in memory.]
You really have no idea how much he likes to hear himself talk!
[He actually believes this, after all he's been told it for years.]
You...think I don't know that?
[He pouts and glances away.]
He's stronger than me. I know.
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I think, I have some actually.
[If Nobody and Heartless are anything alike… well, then them liking to hear their own talking is the least of their worries.]
But tell me anyway… what else does the Superior say when he is one of those moods?
[Might as well take the opportunity and interrogate this guy while they are here, he seems to be pretty chatty himself. As for the issue with Roxas…]
If you are smart enough to know that, then why accept the suicide mission? There aren't that many left of you that the Organization can afford to throw away their own members.
[At least from Riku's perspective.]
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Nah, you really don't he rambles on and on about everything. It's really boring. Stuff about Kingdom Hearts, and all his plans about bringing balance to the worlds.
[It's way too boring to go over again, and honestly he tries not to listen as much as he can get away with.]
[It's the second question that gives him pause. He scuffs the toe of his boot as he thinks about how to answer it, if he even should answer it.]
You ask that like I really have a choice. We don't exactly get to pick and choose.
[He nods, it's been worrisome that their Organization had dwindled so much.]
Yeah, I've had a lot more work to do that's not...in my specialties lately. [Like chasing down defectors. Axel's just too busy doing whatever it is he's doing to take care of it.]
I don't understand what I did, but the Superior has made the decision. There's nothing I can do.
[It's almost as if he thinks Xemnas should value his life more than he apparently does.]
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[Run that by him again, because so far everything Riku has seen the Organization do seemed more aimed to unbalance the Worlds than anything else.
Riku studies the Nobody as he talks, frowning faintly – he has some insights in the workings of the Organization thanks to her, but those memories are fading and he isn't sure if he'll retain the information gained from those conversations in the castle of Hollow Bastion.
There is so much he wants to ask, but doesn't quite dare to just yet – he is sure the other will just stop talking if he appears to eager and forceful.]
And that's fine with you? Dying a pointless death?
[Because really… that's what it comes to, isn't it?]
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[Whether or not Xemnas is actually doing any of that, that's not what he says he's doing and Demyx can only refer to what he's been told. It isn't like he knows anything else about how these things work.
Depending on the question, Riku might get an answer, if it doesn't fall in to traitorous territory. He's deeply concerned about possible ramifications when Xemnas comes out of stasis. He dreads it.
And his question makes Demyx grimace, because why did he have to put it that way? Riku isn't wrong, but things weren't supposed to be this way. A loss was meant to be an accident, something having gone horribly wrong except that they'd been dropping off for awhile now, and the disaster at Castle Oblivion, Roxas' defection and Axel's own dubious agenda has made things go completely nuts.]
I...no, but he must have a reason. I mean...he has to, uh, I can't- [He clears his throat]
He must think I have the best chance.
[But some part of him thinks that isn't true. Even if he's not as poor a fighter as he pretends to be, he knows from meeting Sora he's outmatched.]
It doesn't matter. Turning my back on his orders will have me die even more pointlessly.
[Riku doesn't think Xemnas is the protective type does he?]
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[It's not entirely false, Riku admits, things are a mess because of the Darkness, and maybe Kingdom Hearts could fix it. But would a Kingdom Hearts under the control of the Organization fix anything at all? Riku certainly thinks not.
To be honest, that question can also be applied to the second statement – he doesn't know much about Demyx, but if his reaction to his earlier assault says anything, it's that he isn't much of a fighter. The Organization has better people than him in that regard, ones that stand much better chances against Roxas.]
I think, it matters more than you want to admit.
[If the Organization is willing to turn its back on its members… even as a Nobody, how can the other be indifferent about that?]
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Yes?
[Why wouldn't he? He's been hearing about it forever, how Xemnas wants to fix everything that's going wrong, everything that put him in this position in the first place.]
And then he's going to give me my heart back.
[He wants that, he wants it badly, but things had been getting dicey and it was looking less likely. That is concerning to him.]
I don't want to die. [He clarifies, because that is true.] But I don't have any choices either. At least before the storm, that's what happened and as long as he is...
[He waves his hand at Sora's sleeping pod, because Xemnas has his own, like Saix and Xigbar and all of them]
Then I don't have to think about it and I can do what I want.
[It isn't that he isn't much of a fighter, although he'd be glad to know Riku thinks so. He likes to give that impression. He just doesn't care for it, and doesn't want to, unless it's necessary.]
I don't come here to bother your friend I just...want to make sure they're still asleep.
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He isn't about to say so, though.
He isn't sure how Sora plays into all of this, why this guy would check on Sora rather than on Roxas, if that's who he was going to be sent to fight, but well. So long as this guy doesn't do anything to try and damage Sora's pod…]
If he wakes, he wakes. Don't come back here again.
[Or else.]
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He wants Xemnas to stay asleep, so he doesn't have to do what he wants. He's enjoying the illusion of freedom he presently has.
The threat confuses him and he frowns.]
Uh, well I'm not gonna promise that. I can come here if I want.
[Riku isn't his boss.]