Take watched the cabin boy begin printing towards the captain's cabin. He knew at this point knew that the kid knew they were intruders and he took a breath and cursed under his breath before he ran as well, in the other direction and said, "Hey hey hey hey! Wait, hear me out a second." when he reached the other side of the door he held his hands out towards the boy and said, "Look, I know you'll find this hard to believe, but we ended up knocked onboard and we have no idea where we are, and we just wanted to talk to the captain to clear things up. We mean no harm. I just, well, didn't want to freak you out but this approach seemed to freak you out more."
SCREEEEEEEEE
Today I am going to initiate a rant about the keyblade inheritance ceremony, and why everything about it is wrong. Or rather, a better way to explain the ceremony and pretend that official explanations as to why people obtained the keyblades are wrong. Today, we are going to mostly talk about Kairi: This little picture here is the official explanation for why Kairi is able to wield the keyblade. But I have a few problems with this being the exact reason why Kairi can in fact wield it. For example, do any of you remember this? This was a little scene where Sora kind of handed off the keyblade to Jack Sparrow. Possibly as a joke, but the fact of the matter is that if anyone who touches the keyblade initiates the ceremony, are we going to end up with Jack Sparrow jumping in from the sky keyblade in hand to save the day? Or perhaps people'll say "well, Kairi had the makings, Jack didn't." but the fact of the matter is... anyone who has the makings through the simple act of the taking can get the keyblade? I think this is a little bit of a problem . Now, if we were talking about this particular moment being where Kairi got the keyblade: THAT would make more sense to me. But even still... I never got the impression Kairi could actively wield the keyblade. She could just temporarily use it. I was never under the impression she could do anything other than hit people with it. Like a magically imbued stick or something. But if we're going to make it so the passing of the keyblade is a thing... shouldn't it be something more formal? I was under the impression Riku accidentally performed the inheritance ceremony. And maybe someone out there is yelling, "But for the inheritance ceremony to work, they have be a keyblade master!" Terra wasn't a keyblade master. And still isn't a keyblade master (no matter what Arch says, he's not a keyblade master) So therefore... this logic doesn't work. So, why would just someone touching the keyblade passing on inheritance be a thing? Does this mean every single heartless that Sora hit, that turned out to be worthy, is going to come back with a keyblade in hand led by Jack Sparrow to save the day in Kingdom Hearts III? This just doesn't make sense to me. And I just don't like the idea that touching a keyblade ever so slightly means that scared little girls can end up keyblade wielders. Ya know...
Kaida wasn't exactly sure what Hikaru wanted to say about the Aux situation, and she had been mostly ignoring this present thing he kept pushing cause that wasn't too big a deal to her. But when she heard Aux's voice and turned around to see... well... his face again. It bothered her. It reminded her of them being thrown into darkness all over again... but this time it was awkwardly casual. Too casual. She knew why... she didn't like it. Even with Aux framing stuff from what he last remembered, it made her feel uneasy. Kaida tried her best to hide her contempt. She knew it wasn't fair. Kaida looked back at Aux, but the friendliness she used to have when looking at him was gone as she replied, "No. I failed it." her voice was cold, she hadn't meant for it to be, but it was too late to go back and change that. Kaida backed away slightly and put her hands in her pocket before she turned to Hikaru and asked quietly, "What were you talking about before?"
Kaida heading to pridelands
Take was a little annoyed by the fact the plan didn't work, and when he noticed Jim backing away towards the cabin, he had a feeling he knew what was going on. Takehiko raised an eyebrow a bit and said, "Yeah, we're part of the night crew. Shifts get worrisome with tired workers...." he looked back over towards Chrono before turning back towards the young man and he began inching towards the cabin as well, "We were below deck for the most part, but we did notice an issue when doing a quick inspection, a problem with one of the lifeboats, well, more specifically the... rmblmblmbl." Take's knowledge on boats was starting to fail him so he hoped him coughing and then mumbling could somehow cover it up. Take was about the same distance from the cabin as the boy, just on the opposite side, "So we've just come to inform the captain."
Takehiko looked around and spoke, "I assume the captain would be wherever the captain's cabin is which is..." Take finally spotted it and sighed, "Riiiight behind the guy mopping...." the boy looked to see if there was another route around but it seemed almost impossible for there to be a way without going past the cabin boy. Takehiko crossed his arms and asked, "Alright guys, we're gonna have to be subtle about this. So try and be casual, and Illiana maybe not do that walk with the umbrell- where is Illiana?" Take realized the girl wasn't with their group anymore and raised an eyebrow, "O...kay... well, I'm not gonna worry about her then. She'll... probably be fine. Um, let's... just walk past the guy and not draw attention to ourselves?" Take asked it as a question and looked to Chrono and Glyde in case there were objections. But he didn't wait too long before he started walking on over towards the cabin. Trying not to draw the attention of the guy mopping. Maybe he'd just think they were other members of the crew or something? He wasn't entirely sure this would work but he kept with it anyway. Though he was doing his best to not walk like a soldier and try to keep a more casual walk. Which looked casual, albeit totally unnatural a walk for those who knew what Take walked like, since he was much more relaxed in posture.
Kaida listened to Hikaru's reply and before she did, she acknowledged Stratos' comment and gave him a nod and a thumbs up before she turned to Hikaru and said, "How exactly would we get these kind of answers from a man who apparently only has memories up 'until he went dark'?" Kaida was silent for a bit before she looked pained and said, "Wait, you think he was thinking about this stuff even before... what even was the point he 'went dark'?" Kaida stood there and pondered it, her fingers stroking her chin as she did before saying, "Cause... iunno. His change seemed... sudden. One day we were getting a long and the next he didn't want anything to do with me... Ugh, I don't like thinking about this stuff, Hikaru. I only just came to terms with the fact Aux was the bad guy.... unless he's not?" Kaida let go of her chin and said, "What if we're the bad guys? No that's stupid. I'm pretty sure we aren't shoving people into dangerous places and killing anyone... er, anyone who didn't at least instigate the conflict first." The blonde paused before her eyes narrowed and she poked Hikaru's chest, "I blame you for making me overthink this." Kaida sighed and looked down at the ground. Her finger still pointed at Hikaru as she admitted, "I don't want to do this... only to be happy we're a trio again... Then have this finish up only for Aux to gain all those memories back and want us dead again.." Kaida's hand fell and she looked up at Hikaru again, "I feel like it'd hurt more. And if anything... I just think it'd make Aux worse..."
Kaida wasn't particularly fond with how the conversation played out. But the names didn't even have to appear for Kaida to know they were going to shove Aux at her. She was a little happy Hikaru was going to be there, but she didn't really show an indicator. She didn't really have a face showing off any emotions until Hikaru asked and Kaida kept looking away from Hikaru as she responded in a defeated sounding voice, "Isn't it great? Just like old times..." she felt her fists tighten a bit as she said, "And if this is working out the way it seems to be, we're all becoming Masters together..." Kaida's fists loosened up as she finally looked over at Hikaru, but she didn't look in his eyes as she said, "It's funny... when I took my last exam and failed it... you had woken up, and had a keyblade... and Aux grew distant." Kaida sighed and closed her eyes for a moment before admitting, "I'm not okay with this. But I'll be fine..." she looked him in the eyes and paused a bit before she smiled a bit and said, "You know you don't have to hide the fact you're happy about it... I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at this scenario..."
Take paused, looking over at the... he assumed cabin boy because of the way he was cleaning the ship and Take looked around and said, "I feel like it'd end badly for us if we didn't let our presence be known to whoever was in charge... maybe we should try to go about this without alerting any of the crew?" Take seemed to be fairly knowledgeable about ships, which might seem odd, but when he was training with Atmos he found himself stopping to read to learn more about other world's military strategies and that's when he learned about boats. He didn't necessarily know everything, hell he dared say he didn't know most things, but that didn't mean he didn't at least feel confident enough to try and get to the Captain and alert them before they were automatically thrown overboard. He looked around for perhaps a captain's cabin or something and looked towards Chrono, "Any ideas?"
Kaida had gotten everything, including the recorder, back in the bag. She didn't know if she was going to listen to it more, she really didn't feel like that was a good idea. And she decided not to really give that offer to anyone else either. She didn't consider herself one who knew Karina well, but it seemed no one was in that condition. She had no idea why Ananta seemed to think that the whole thing was connected to her. She was pretty sure Karina wasn't projecting those hostilities because of her... for lack of a better word... daddy issues. Then Kaida looked over to hear Hikaru talking to AJ and AJ was talking for quite some time. She heard a couple words from her distance from them, what about Aux and the fact he... apparently saw himself as Hikaru? That seemed strange to her but she tried to shake it off. She was trying not to care about Aux, but seeing Hikaru seem to completely ignore how she was feeling about this scenario just to learn more about Aux... it hurt Kaida a lot. She didn't want to deal with Hikaru at that point either. Kaida decided instead to walk on over toward Yue and Megumi with her hands in her pocket. She stopped just short of the two and stood there. Silently. After a moment she finally raised an eyebrow and said, "So, how else are you going to torture us today? Hm? Gonna throw Aux but with only memories of when he was dark next? Oh oh wait. Here's a fantastic one. How about you make it so Aux's memories... are inside Glen. What?! What a twist that would be." Kaida gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know. At this point even if it wasn't in your control. I have doubt either of you are having control over this." Kaida paused a bit and looked at Yue and said, "I know I piss you off, and I'm sorry, but please tell me this isn't some sick twisted revenge towards me. I'm sorry I was a brat... I'm sorry I was-" Kaida cut herself off and asked, "You're not gonna let Aux continue with this are you?"
When the girl was down and out, Melus still had a skeptical nature to her. But she was also just, not doing so hot anyway. She'd managed to do alright when Krista was trying to get the others to attack, the clones of her's doing most of the work for her. But when everything seemed relatively safe, Melus let her harp kind of fall and disappear into the wind before she collapsed. But she didn't let the clones disappear. If anything, they surrounded her even more defensively now while she tried to catch her breath. But she was still hurting, and she didn't know any spells for curing. She wished she hadn't been down and out so easily, she didn't want to look like she was made of glass or anything but she was naturally more build like a mage. She really didn't know how she would have handled anyone in combat on her own, and that was never really her intent. The brunette wasn't strictly speaking afraid, but the clones reacted in a manner based on how worried she was about potential danger. She didn't know if there were lingering effects to the charm she should be worried about. She didn't know if someone was gonna pop up out of nowhere and try to wipe the floor with them. Which is why Melus was now tightly surrounded by her wind clones and not willing to let anyone in unless she was absolutely sure it was safe.
"Agnitio was killed in a mission offworld. My parents told me otherwise but adults don't keep quiet about that stuff.... I think it had something to do with the heartless... but I don't know." Mora let out a deep breath and said, "Old man Ryce... disappeared one day. I... don't know what happened. He just, never came back from his home up at the old castle. And we sent people to make sure he wasn't hurt or... worse... but he was gone. That's... I think that's why they asked LIGHT to come and help us." Mora answered unsure, "I mean, I know it had to deal with the machine but... I feel like if Ryce were here we wouldn't have had to worry as much... n-no offense to you guys. I just.. hm..." Mora felt uncomfortable continuing her sentence, "He was...m...more qualified?"
Hey you. Yes, you readin this. Could you do me a flavor and read a tiny Minecraft thread in the playground? ty if you did, if not take care~
So in February of this year, we opened up the Official KHV Server to everyone on KHV. So long as they let us know what their username was, they were whitelisted and messaged a little code to gain entry (since it wasn't exactly open access at the time) and for a little while there was a huge burst in activity, now it's kind of, well.... Actually, it's still active. Just not a lot of people. There's been a bit of a takeover by a lot of the RPA and some projects have been popping up depending on the will of the creator then. Sometimes there's dead spots, but overall there's generally about 2-3 people on a day with the server. Now, when we first began, there were many more on the server, so this little thread has been created to ask everyone a few questions about it, so we can get a gauge in interest. 1. Were you aware there was in fact a KHV minecraft server? Have you used it? 2. If you used it, do you still actively use it? 3. What were some of your favorite experiences on the server? 4. If you are no longer active, is there a particular reason why you found yourself being deterred? 5. Is there anything you would like to see changed about the Minecraft server? 6. Extra comments you may have that do not fit in the other areas? Overall, I've love to be able to see if we can make it so more people jump on in with all the fun. Currently, a few members have been working on making a HUGE city. And some of the more active members really like running around and showing all of our older projects to returning or new players! Thank you for reading, have a wonderful day~ -cstar
I AIN'T GONNA BE PART OF YOUR SYSTEM
Kaida kind of hesitated for a moment, not sure how she should approach this. On one hand, Aislinn had a bit of a point, it could possibly be something private, but on the other hand, what other time was there to find out was on it? What with everything being so quick. There was also the possibility the GM intentionally placed this in her bag for her to figure out. Kaida took a deep breath and clicked play on the recorder. When the recorder clicked off, Kaida held it up and commented, "O-oh... this... this is Karina's. She must have left it in here when she gave back the cloak..." Kaida bit her lip and looked over at Aislinn, turned out she was right. The blonde shifted her hair awkwardly and said, "Um, maybe uh... maybe if we see Lea again we could tell him to give it back to her cause um... I... feel kind of bad now."
For the ease of other's access (especially if they have questions about it). Character Sheet Feats List "This one guards a caravan. Not exactly one for this "politics" thing. Tttttthat's why this one punches stuff. So what would the squishy one like Purrah to punch?"
Mora turned towards Cerdic and shrugged saying, "I think there has always been a heartless problem here. So, maybe people were chased away by them? I don't actually know... there is, one book I remember... we don't have a lot of written books on our world, but I do remember reading it and it mentioned something about people splitting into two groups, one group leaving and one group staying. They didn't really like how this world turned out and wanted to move to a place that was better than them. I guess something big happened with a guy called The Traveler. He used a keyblade too, actually. Went out of his way to explore the worlds and came back with knowledge that helped shape the world into... maybe not what it is today, but led in this direction. Keyblade wielders aren't uncommon from here, well... they used to be more common. But we haven't had a keyblade wielder since Agnitio. And I was little when he was around." Mora continued walking, ran ahead a little just to make sure before she came back, "Though there was Master Ryce but, he wasn't from here, he moved here but wasn't exactly a keyblade wielder that came from our soil, ya know?" Mora looked back just to check before echoing, "...ya know?"
Kaida listened to Ananta speak, not really wanting to but being forced into it nonetheless. The girl paused and tried to explain herself, trying to say she wasn't going through loud in clear, but Kaida was definitely hearing her loud and clear. When the green haired girl offered up a handkerchief almost as if a symbol of truce (there was obviously a practical element but that didn't matter as much). Kaida pushed her hand away and said, "You're ridiculous. As if we need to think that." Kaida went to walk away and tripped over herself, as she was worked up so much, and fell a bit to her side. Her bag opened up a bit and her cloak slipped out and Kaida grumbled as she got on her knees to reorganize it mumbling, "If you want to take Aux's side here, take it, but keep me out of-" Kaida paused as she felt something in the cloak pocket and pulled it out to hold up a recorder and she closed up her bag and held it up, looking around at it and asking, "...What is this? I've never had one of these. It looks like something DJ would throw together like my watch but... wait." Kaida looked it over and said, "It's... a tape recorder. Why is there a tape recorder in here I don't own a tape recorder... why even..."
