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Things have been fairly peaceful for a while now as everyone has settled into their current lives on this new world. But one day towards late summer, that all comes to an end.

One of the portals in the sky suddenly opens again, an odd glowing light surrounding it as it ejects creature after creature. Then it closes, followed by another glowing portal elsewhere in the sky emitting the same creatures. Small and black, mostly, with odd antennae and glowing eyes. Some here will know them. The Heartless, creatures of the darkness who seek hearts. Those they attack, if they give in to the darkness in their hearts, will become Heartless themselves.

Where is a Keybearer when we need one?!

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Heartless can be encountered anywhere! They're pouring into Edge, the Midgar ruins, Kalm, Wutai, and everywhere else. Balamb Garden won't be spared, but if they're able to seal everything off in time and take flight, they may be safe from the majority of the creatures and be a safehouse for anyone desperate to escape them.

Anyone familiar with Heartless is encouraged to try to defeat them (or control them, if they're lucky enough to possess that ability). But they may find something else will push back if they try. Did someone deliberately send the Heartless through the portals? Who, and why? Does someone on the other side of those portals know what's happening here? And why are the portals glowing when they open? Is there any important significance in that?

(And yes, this is a very significant event that will have a deep bearing on the overall plot!)

Before anyone asks, having your character become a Heartless is probably not a good idea, given that it would be very difficult to get them back to their normal selves at this point in the game. But we welcome intense situations of Heartless trying their hardest to claim hearts before they're stopped!

The event is scheduled to run through August 10th, but backdating and backtagging is encouraged for as long as everyone wants! Post toplevels to this post or create new posts!

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3wingedangel

Soon the spell was done and Sephiroth headed for the house.

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4_lumps_of_thread

Daja followed him in. Sandry led him to the cozy eat in kitchen where Briar was making soup on the range. Sandry started putting out place settings. Tris was nowhere to be seen. Daja rested her staff against the wall beside the door then she rolled up her sleeves and started to cut up vegtables that had been hanging over the sink. None of them seemed to be using the fridge.

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3wingedangel

Sephiroth watched for a moment. "Is there something I may do to help prepare the meal?"

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4_lumps_of_thread

"Unless you happen to have some meat on hand, we've pretty much got it," Briar told him with a grin.

"You are our guest," Sandry said with a smile. "You get to just sit and be sociable."

Daja narrowed her eyes and Sandry then sighed. "Fine." She started filling the tea kettle with water. Unlike Sora they figured out the taps at least.

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3wingedangel

Sephiroth nodded. "I don't, unfortunately."

He smiled congenially at Sandry. "Very well." He sat down at the table.

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4_lumps_of_thread

She set a cloth napkin on the plate in front of where he sat. The napkin was folded in an elaborate way into the shape of a blooming rose. There were fine shining threads in the weave of the napkin and the fold made them catch the light. She was setting similar flower napkins on the other plates as well.

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3wingedangel

"This is beautiful," he said in surprise. "I've never seen anything like this before."

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4_lumps_of_thread

Sandry beamed brightly. "Thank you. I had fun weaving them."

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3wingedangel

"How long did that take?" Sephiroth wondered.

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4_lumps_of_thread

"About a half hour each, unless you are counting spinning the thread as well. In which case it is hard to tell because I spin for several projects at once."

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3wingedangel

"You're very talented," he said.

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4_lumps_of_thread

"Thank you," Sandry said, beaming. "If you think this is lovely, you should see some of the lovely things that Daja makes."

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3wingedangel

"I an intrigued," he said. He looked to Daja. "What do you make?"

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4_lumps_of_thread

Daja touched the side of the metal tea kettle lightly, then went to pull out the tea to add to the water, since the pot was steaming. "I'm a smith mage. So very nearly anything made of metal. Honestly I'm just glad that my days of nails and nothing but nails are long over."

"Lucky you," Briar groused. "No matter how far you get as a green mage, Spring and Summer always mean weeding, weeding, and more weeding."

Sandry chuckled. "When he isn't grumbling, Briar raises and trains miniature trees."

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3wingedangel

"You made the teapot? That's excellent craftsmanship."

Then he had to stare at that strange statement. "... How do you train a tree?"

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4_lumps_of_thread

"Actually I bought the tea pot, I just reworked it some, I'm still trying to get my forge set up properly."

"With a lot of patience," Briar said with a chuckle. "Shakkans can be stubborn and they like to try to get away with putting out extra buds. But even without green magic, they can be trained with wire and proper sun and water and nutrition and effort."

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3wingedangel

"I see," Sephiroth said.

He looked to Brian. "Then you don't mean the trees can actually get up and move?"

The question sounded ridiculous, but for someone with magic and who knew of magic that could do such feats, it made sense.

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4_lumps_of_thread

Briar chuckled. "Not without a lot of magic," he said. He shook his head. "It is more about how they grow. You wrap the tree in wire and prune it a certain way to train it to grow into the shape you want it to grow into."

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3wingedangel

"Ah. Yes, I've heard of that type of tree training," Sephiroth said.

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4_lumps_of_thread

"And our Briar grows the best ones in all of Emelan," Sandry said.

"See, this is why you have mates. To do your bragging for you," Briar said with a chuckle.

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3wingedangel

That was a more logical type of interaction, as far as Sephiroth was concerned. And one he knew about.

"Zack is like that with me as well," he said.

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4_lumps_of_thread

"Then we look forward to meeting him," Sandry said pleasantly.

"Dinner's ready."

"Toss you for who has to haul Tris down?" Daja asked.

"Leave her be, I'll bring her up a plate later."

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3wingedangel

"I know he will enjoy meeting all of you," Sephiroth said. "He loves to make new friends."

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4_lumps_of_thread

"As do we," Sandry said, smiling. She winced as if yelled at, but repeated firmly, "As do we." Her slightly forced the second time.

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3wingedangel

Sephiroth quirked an eyebrow at that, but didn't comment. He turned his attention to the food.

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