002 [Video]

[pauldrons]

[8:45 AM]
Didn't see you during last night's patrol, man. Everything okay?

[4:20 PM]
General? You still reading me? Not like you to ignore a hail like that.

[7:20 PM]
Hey, Seph...where the heck are you? Just...let me know, okay? I'm getting worried.


[Evening, Animus-folk. Have a rather concerned looking Zack on your network today. He's definitely worried about something, and considering the late hour, that's not surprising. Monsters will be out soon.]

Has anybody seen General Sephiroth around today? I looked all over and I can't find him anywhere...his name's not on his door anymore, either, but that doesn't mean anything, does it? [a glance over his shoulder, probably at that door in question, then he looks back at the screen.]

Just...lemme know if you've seen him around, okay? It's not like him to not check in.

Comments

[Text, some time after Sayaka's thread.]

[thisclinchesit]

"The authority" on going back 'home', eh? Not sure if that's an honor I'd want to have, but I can definitely tell you what it was like.

It... It was like someone had set something off that wiped out life in general. I couldn't find anything else alive in my time there. I stuck around in my home city, so I don't know if the rest of the world as a whole was like this - though I imagine if they were, someone would have come to investigate by that point.

It was a wasteland. A shattered husk of the world I knew.

[Text, some time after Sayaka's thread.]

[pauldrons]

[Zack's reply is a bit delayed, since he'd just now returned to the relative safety of the dorm floors, but as soon as he sees that text, his heart sinks. Is that what Sephiroth is going back to? No...it can't be.]

How...how long were you there before you came back? How did you survive if there was nothing else alive there?

[Text]

[thisclinchesit]

I'm not certain of the specific amount of time, but multiple months for certain. There was a lot of scavenging done, to say the least. If your friend has military training, then he may have a better time of it than I did.

My condolences - it'll definitely be a rough situation, but he won't be dead on arrival.

[Text]

[pauldrons]

Yeah, he...he was a commander in the army back home. He'll be fine with that training, and he may come back.

[Maybe if he says it enough times, it'll be the truth. Because he believes it. He has to believe it or he'll fall apart and he can't do that. Dammit, Sephiroth...why now of all times...]

Thanks. For telling me. It helps, a little. Knowing he's got some options.

[Text]

[thisclinchesit]

Not a problem.

I know that it's rough - I've lost a number friends in my time here, and, well. I came back - I see no reason to not hope they'll come back eventually.

[Text]

[pauldrons]

[Hope, huh? Hopefully that'll be enough; it's going to be a rough night.]

You're right about that. Even if he'd probably blow his top about coming back here and having to wear a collar again.

[because, man, did Sephiroth hate that collar.]

[Text]

[thisclinchesit]

Heh, yeah. Not having to deal with the collar was about the only good thing about being away from here.