[Come one, come all. It's time for what Regent Cid expects to be the final council meeting before Garland is defeated. A good thing the airship is so enormous, because there are a lot of people here, all picked up the day before ( Read more... )

[Ring ring, Squall. Your buddy wants to have a surprisingly serious talk with you.]

[He's humming something that might be familiar from the locations merge for a few seconds, followed by an elongated 'um' until he finally remembers what he was going to say.]

So, uh. While we're all discussing Crystals?

I'm kind of the wind crystal. Sorta.

[MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS EARLIER.]

[Ring ring, son! Worried Mom on the line.]

[A blond young man with a scar across his face is leaning in towards the screen, fiddling with it before stepping back and gripping the handle of his gunblade tightly in one hand, with a... fishing rod?... in the other. The phone seems to be propped up on a rock, as he is seen stepping back and the camera captures the seen at a slightly slantwise ( Read more... )

[All the screen will show is a child's hand wrapped around the screen. She'd meant to just bring the phone to one of her foster parents when it rang but pushed a few extra buttons. Eventually she moves her hand enough to show who's the victims of the mishap. Raine and Laguna, who is holding a rather adorable piglet in his hands.]

Laguna, what is ( Read more... )

[As promised to Rydia, Rinoa has piloted the Garden over to Burmecia. They've been picking up refugees along the way - mostly rats, those who fled the city in time, all of them now tragically homeless. It's one of the saddest things she's ever seen ( Read more... )

( Filtered to the Loire family and Ellone )

[The first thing to be seen on the screen is a... tail? That's right, a tail, long and currently waving lazily around with small flicks here and there. What might at first be mistaken for an animal is quickly proved to be sentient when the "mute" is taken off as the moogle starts to zoom up towards the person's head, from behind and to the right.] ( Read more... )

[Vague apology is going to be vague, but that's how Kain does these things. He'll leave it public partially as an act of penance, partially because he's still readjusting to these devices and their filters. He isn't even sure that all of these people are here- he's been gone from Gaia for only a couple weeks, but to him it feels much, much longer. ( Read more... )