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[identitycrisiscore]

[ When Cloud rolls out of his bed at the inn, he squints at the skyline of Aldrip. Squints at the phone-like device on his table, squints at the incoming light as if somewhat offended at how it's not making dealing with the last month of... whatever that was.

He decides the best course of action is to not get out of bed about it. ]

okay, so, like
let's say i have a friend
and this friend might be a little confused about the city.
and maybe this friend is having a little trouble with like

[ ...He was going to say memory issues, and maybe "hey what the fuck happened for the past three weeks", but you know what — until he's sure he's not the only one experiencing them he's just gonna. Not. Talk about that. ]

let me start over
i'm new here.
did aldrip always look like this?

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[grappler]

nope. i think i was one of the first group of people dragged in for this "cycle", so... probably one of the people with the most experience in aldrip.

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at least i think so? if that's real...

[identitycrisiscore]

[ Oh, jeez. She's... a bit out of it, huh. ]

i'm pretty sure this is reality.
mostly sure, anyway.
i'm ex-SOLDIER, not a deliveryboy, and that sounds right.
what about you? type it back to me.

[grappler]

[ugh... she's trying so hard to sort out her head.]

i'm... from a place called zaun. not aldrip.

silco is my adopted dad.

i think.

[this is still incorrect, but she doesn't know any better!]

[identitycrisiscore]

[ This is not Cloud's field of expertise, not by a longshot, but she seems to be... more confused than he is, so maybe he can pull her forward a bit. ]

i've never heard of zaun, so i think that makes sense.
i'm from nibelheim. it's a sleepy little mountain town.
...tell me about your home. maybe that'll help make things click together.

[grappler]

it's rough. more than rough. we're the dirt underneath Piltover's boots. but it's home... so I don't care.
except for... except for shimmer.
I don't know how it's getting out.
was it Vander... was it--

[oh my God her head's spinning.]

tell me more about nibelheim instead.

[identitycrisiscore]

[ Yowch. Guess some people have their own Midgars. He kind of wished his was a one-off. ]

it was nothing special. ass-end of the continent.
nestled under mt. nibel.
town square was a water tower, the inn, the general store, my house, and a friend's house.
biggest thing to its name was the old manor halfway up the mountain, and the mako reactor at the mountaintop.
first of its kind.
work was scarce for the younger generation, though. most of them had to find work in midgar, halfway across the world.
me included.

[ He doesn't really like getting into these memories, but she's also having trouble. He doesn't know what 'shimmer' is, but it doesn't sound good. ]

[grappler]

i don't know, seeing a mountain seems kind of cool. I know we have 'em in my world, but i've never really seen them until I came here.
the size of the town sounds kind of like Aldrip when we first got here, too.