Puzzle I [Voice / Video]

[bucherfreund]

[The voice comes first, the words 'sounding' annoyed, though the emotion comes off almost flat sounding]

....This isn't where I intended to exit..[A small bit of static and then there's a quieter murmur, as if the person is thinking aloud]One wonders just how in the hell I managed to get into this place when I never intended to actually leave the

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[vryvryfrigtning]

It's called the Town that Never Was.

[bucherfreund]

I see.

[vryvryfrigtning]

Three guesses about who named it.

[bucherfreund]

Considering who all is apparently here? I would have to say Xemnas.

[Video]

[fragmentedsnd]

Unfortunately no one is able to leave here of their own free will. You are stuck here like everyone else is.

[Video]

[bucherfreund]

That would indeed seem to be the case. [Especially as his last few attempts at leaving had proved to end up rather fruitless, he's had the fact he's trapped here forced home rather pointedly.]

Whom might I be speaking to?

Re: [Video]

[fragmentedsnd]

I am Shelke. Judging by your attire you are from the same organization as Saix and the others?

[Video]

[bucherfreund]

Zexion. That would be correct, yes.

[ video ]

[ixhydromancer]

Heyyyy, Zexion! Welcome to the party.

[ video ]

[bucherfreund]

Demyx. Unfortunately, this would be one party I would have rather not been invited to seeing as how I was in the middle of working on something when I was brought here.

[ video ]

[ixhydromancer]

Yeah, well, I showed up half-dead. So really, it could be worse.

Anyway, this is The Town That Never Was and there are a whole bunch of us here, plus a bunch of random people. I have no idea what job you're supposed to do but Xigbar will probably tell you. If you can get rid of the horrible things he calls shirts, I'll pay you. He runs the hotel, by the way, so you'll probably have to see him at one point or another. Uh, let's see...

Well, you already noticed that we're all stuck here, so that's fun. Um. What's the last thing you remember?

[ After all, the last he'd heard, you were dead. ]

[ video ]

[bucherfreund]

[He took note of the information given in that little speech, refraining from rolling his eyes at the part about Xigbar's sense of fashion, or rather the lack of it. He had to wonder just who's bright idea it had been to give the man charge over a hotel of all things.]

Vexen had just died, struck down I believe by Axel. What happened to you, that you arrived here half-dead?

[video]

[frozen_pride]

[Have some mind-fuck, Zexion.] You have likely heard your current whereabouts from others, so I will not repeat the unnecessary. Just be glad you did not arrive here earlier.

[He's mentally kicking himself over how Light-damned noble he had been acting.]

[video]

[bucherfreund]

[Okay he's just going to stare at you for a moment and actually take a bloody moment to actually pay attention to just what his nose is telling him now instead of ignoring it in favor of over-thinking too much about what Demyx just apparently spilled. Unfortunately for the continued sanity of the bookworm's mind, it confirms what he's seeing isn't a figment of his imagination.]

How is it that you're here...when Axel just killed you not several minutes ago?

[video]

[frozen_pride]

[He actually winces, then does a palm-face and head-shake maneuver.] I recall my own demise rather vividly, Zexion; I do not need a reminder of it.

[As to your question...] I don't know why I am here. To the best of my knowledge, it was the magic of this world that saved me from oblivion.

[Audio]

[memory_etching]

[Oh great. It's another one from the 'I got axed at CO' club.]

...Zexion?

[Audio]

[bucherfreund]

Yes, Namine?

[Audio]

[memory_etching]

[...Wait, is he actually expecting her to have a question or something?]

...N-nothing.