[voice] // [action]
[One of the settings randomly appearing in Luceti's outskirts is a marsh. Lovely swamp and a mucky mix of long grass and water that's probably soaking through whatever footwear you were wearing. There's a very ungainly-seeming chocobo, about 5'10", that is hopping from one claw to the other on a higher and drier piece of land. It seems skittish, highly agitated, and likely to peck or claw if provoked.
It's also talking with Aerith's voice.] Oh goodness...no, no...which way do I go? Did I get sent back, what's going on? This can't be right, this can't be...
[Being shifted into a setting from home just after being experimented on is disorienting. But eventually she finds the familiar journal--completely waterlogged now--and flips it open with a claw before poking her beaky face into it.]
[Journal entry--voice]
Hey, everyone? The village didn't get relocated, did it? I mean, this place looks familiar, but... as much as I want to go home, I didn't think it would be like this. Or here.
[Her eyes glance both ways as she murmurs:] ...I hope it's not here...
--Zack! Zack, are you still here?
[The marsh is home to a Midgar Zolom, the deeper waters partly concealing its giant body. It will come out of the water to attack, it is obscenely large, and it is faster than a human. A chocobo is fast enough to outrace it, though, and Aerith will snatch up anyone who wants help even if she's panicky about it herself. ...Or she can be awed by anyone strong enough to kill it, since there are definitely people in Luceti tough enough. Who wants to make a snakeskin banner?
Alternatively, if you don't want to do a monster--there is a skittish chocobo on the edge of a marsh too disoriented to find her way out partly because she keeps ending up back in the marsh somehow. Help the chocobo navigate out before the Zolom spawns? Or just harass her.]
It's also talking with Aerith's voice.] Oh goodness...no, no...which way do I go? Did I get sent back, what's going on? This can't be right, this can't be...
[Being shifted into a setting from home just after being experimented on is disorienting. But eventually she finds the familiar journal--completely waterlogged now--and flips it open with a claw before poking her beaky face into it.]
[Journal entry--voice]
Hey, everyone? The village didn't get relocated, did it? I mean, this place looks familiar, but... as much as I want to go home, I didn't think it would be like this. Or here.
[Her eyes glance both ways as she murmurs:] ...I hope it's not here...
--Zack! Zack, are you still here?
[The marsh is home to a Midgar Zolom, the deeper waters partly concealing its giant body. It will come out of the water to attack, it is obscenely large, and it is faster than a human. A chocobo is fast enough to outrace it, though, and Aerith will snatch up anyone who wants help even if she's panicky about it herself. ...Or she can be awed by anyone strong enough to kill it, since there are definitely people in Luceti tough enough. Who wants to make a snakeskin banner?
Alternatively, if you don't want to do a monster--there is a skittish chocobo on the edge of a marsh too disoriented to find her way out partly because she keeps ending up back in the marsh somehow. Help the chocobo navigate out before the Zolom spawns? Or just harass her.]