[1] Hello?

[just_a_proxy]

Is there anyone alive out there? Does anyone need help?

((A message scribbled with the burnt end of a wood stick onto some scattered paper, pinned to a bulletin board located near the lake. It works like a journal. :Dd ))

Comments

[imightbeasquall]

I've met a few others around here. No idea how we ended up here though.

[just_a_proxy]

I don't either. I doubt Gaia felt the urge to yank me into another place.

The people you met, are they hurt?

[imightbeasquall]

Gaia.. sounds familiar. Your world of sorts?

No, not in particular. They arrived by falling into the lake the same way I did. I have a few potions to spare if you know anyone who's injured.

[just_a_proxy]

Yeah. Don't know if that's her name, but it's what we call my planet.

Potions? You must be from my world then. I...also came from falling into the lake.

[imightbeasquall]

Ah. It seems a lot of us have been falling into the lake.

From your world? I'm not familiar with Gaia, but perhaps. What's your name?

[just_a_proxy]

It isn't very dignified. Maybe that's the point.

I'm Cloud. Cloud Strife. I'm a delivery boy in my world. And who are you?

[imightbeasquall]

Most likely. Particularly when it results in most of us stripping within minutes of meeting one another.

Cloud? Thank Hyne. It's Leon. Do you know if Aerith and Yuffie were dropped here too?

[just_a_proxy]

Stripping? Why would you strip?

...Leon? How do you know Aerith and Yuffie?

[imightbeasquall]

Three words. Wet leather chafes.

... Because I lived in the same house as they did. In Hollow Bastion. Where we also happened to work with you. You feeling alright, Cloud?

[keepsreturning]

He's never lived in 'Hollow Bastion'.

[imightbeasquall]

...

Clearly, your memory's faulty. And you'd be?

[keepsreturning]

It's been many things, but never faulty - you'd want Cloud for that.

Sephiroth.

[imightbeasquall]

...

Shouldn't have expected anyone else to be with Cloud. What've you done with him?

[keepsreturning]

I've done nothing. Not even he can remember something that never happened.

[imightbeasquall]

Are you trying to insinuate that I'm making all of this up? How else would I know Cloud?

[keepsreturning]

Not yet, at least. Cloud has lived in Nibelheim, in Midgar, in Edge, but never your Hollow Bastion. There is no city by that name on Gaia.