OOC: Exactly, Cloud. Of course, it's FC's choice...not yours, but she already said "No ultimate summons or spells at the beginning!"

I was just being sarcastic, really.

Yes, Palom gets annoyed easily. He's one of those people with low tolerance for "stupidity"...that, and he thinks everyone is stupid. He isn't being as rude as he was as a little kid, but he's grown a bit more arrogant. Inside, though, he doubts his own power and goodness...his entire usefulness as a member of the group.

IC: "Rails...and it wasn't mentioned before!?" Palom clapped his hands over his face, "Is there anything else?"

Overhearing Rydia's comment, he stuck out his tongue at her departing back, restraining an instinctive urge to hurl insults after it.

"Will anyone still BE in this Wall Market, and can you think of nothing but looting!?" he called after her, "If you find something, try to bring back something more useful than just CLOTHES!"

Shaking his head, he muttered, "Moron..."

"Thanks, Cecil. You did a pretty good job of kicking Zeromus' ass, you and Rydia might even be able to take the Zolom by yourself."

OOC: Well... I meant that he has not been any usefull in this rp and he only has his sword and basic healing, as a dark knight he had awesome powers (FFIV intro scene) He believes he is inferior to the rest, like Cloud who can both wield a sword thats as big as himself and use magic. But I guess we will leave this till later. Sorry if I did not say it clearly.

IC: "I might be able to hold it of until Rydia used her summons but I would not be able to beat it. Not if it is as Cloud described it. Your magic would easily beat me, and I would never have been able to beat Zeromus without Rydia, Kain, Rosa,". ((Dont remember the rest, sorry)). Cecil said to Palom.

OOC: I never meant that Cecil would just *Poff* "Oh! Look, Cecil is evil!" I meant that if something VERY unlikely happened he would turn back to becoming a dark knight to be able to use those powers. ((drain good)) :p

OOC (to Omnishadow): "Are you talking about the Firestorm and the Litbomb attacks used against the monsters on the airship? Those weren't Dark Knight spells. They were items. I know because I actually earned some Litbombs during some leveling on the moon, I think. I'm not sure if I really got them there. It's been years."

"Dark Knight Cecil and Paladin Cecil were actually pretty balanced. With the Black sword, Cecil was capable of KOin' powerful enemies like the Rocs near Mount Ordeals, but was woefully incapable of fighting against zombies. I found Paladin Cecil to be even more useful."

OOC (to Cloud Strife): "I didn't want Aeris to be a god spell. Merely one with a Holy Attribute. If you don't wanna give her to me, then that's cool."

IC: Rydia found the terrain rough going enough as she was traveling between Sectors Five and Six. She had to climb up a destroyed crane and walk along the arm of it to reach a rise in the land she needed to get over. It was certainly dangerous, and this made Rydia melancholy. "His Majesty Edge wouldn't have had any trouble doing this stuff. His physique was made for this." She complained, scrambling up on the plateau. She didn't look too surprised to see a playground amongst the ruins of machinery and rusted heaps of metal throughout this deserted landscape. Already, she could hear the sounds of what she guessed was Wall Market. She didn't think it'd be so close. "If they said Wall Market last, then I should be able to see the base of the scrap heap from there." Then she turned towards the gate to Sector 7. "Nevermind, I can see it from the playground."

It was a monument to an apocalypse. That place must have been hit HARD. And saying hard like that was still quite an understatement. Rydia was so stunned by the look of all that scrap that she didn't notice the visitor. "Come here, often?" The young man said. Rydia thought he sounded like a nice enough guy. "Not really." She said. The young man nodded. "I figured as much. I've never seen you around these parts. Well, I won't ask why, but it looks like you want to climb up and over that heap of metal there."

Rydia wondered if she should trust the man, and decided that she could at least listen to what he said. "I might be. Do you know how I can do it?" She asked. The man looked her up and down. "Well, you sure don't look the type to scramble over the rough stuff, but I know an easy path. Thing is, it's gonna cost you." Rydia frowned. "Cost me for what? So that you will show it to me?"

The man shook his head. "No, for the batteries I got. The batteries will make some of the machines in the heap function, which usually makes your trek over this pile of rusted crap a lot easier. But I can't give them away for free, though. A guy like me has to make a profit of some kind." Rydia brightened up, until the problem arose suddenly. "I don't have any money, though." She said, shrugging helplessly. The man already had an answer to her query. "Well, Wall Market is right this way, ma'am, and opportunities to earn some gil are easy enough to come by. Feel free to choose how you wanna go about this. I'm just leaving some answers to your problems on the table for you, should you wanna take 'em."

And after that short conversation, the man began foraging for scrap. Rydia assumed that this was how he came by his batteries in the first place. So she needed batteries to make the machines function for her. Like an engine makes an airship fly. Rydia understood that easily enough. Deciding that she still had time before the others came here to find her, Rydia hurried to Wall Market. Earning some money of this world's currency would ensure that she'd get over this heap and maybe purchase a good meal. She hadn't eaten anything since early afternoon, yesterday, and all she had since then was water to drink.

OOC: Actually, a sword-only duel between Cloud and Cecil would be fairly even. Remember, we agreed all of the characters were balanced...the more magic Cloud knows, the weaker his other skills are.

Hey, do you think we could have a scene where Palom saves Rydia from getting roughed up?

IC: "Bah...Cecil, by the time I cast a spell, I'd have a sword through one of my vital organs." Palom laughed, seeming genuinely pleased by the compliment, "It's pretty rough out there, it seems...survivor towns tend to be, from what I hear. Rydia's very pretty, and she might get hurt if someone takes her by surprise. She'll be safer with an escort."

A spring in his step, the Black Wizard left the building, following the direction Rydia had taken. He climbed the crane with a bit more ease, scrambling up it like a monkey in red-black-and-green robes.

OOC: Damn... Hoped they were dark knight spells. Lets just forget about that crap for now.

IC: "Heh, I dont know about that." Cecil said to Palom, "Hey! Wait up! We need to stay togheter!" Cecil shouted after Palom and started running after him.

OOC: Did FFIV have any Invisibility-type spells for Black Magic? I'd check a website, but the school blocked all of them.

IC: "Bah, she can go off on her own, but let the unproven mage do anything? Noooooo!" Palom managed to duck into a side alley, avoiding Cloud, Tifa, and Ceccil...surreptitiously continuing his search for Rydia.

OOC: "I think there was a spell that granted invisibility, but it was a White Mage spell. Edge had a self-invisibility spell which was one of his ninja powers."

IC: Rydia searched Wall Market loosely and quickly. A pharmacist house where you can buy digestive medicine, a clothing store like the one Rydia had been to that specialized for cross-dressing men, some kind of wrestling guild, a place decorated with neon lights shaped like the cross between a girl and a bumblebee, a large bar and a small bar (to which Rydia assumed were competitors), and finally, the entrance to a place called Don Denario's mansion. Well, it wasn't all that there was to see, but it was the gist of it. Rydia figured that in some way, each one of these places had the potential to earn her some of the local currency, which someone offensively informed her was called "gil", and if she wanted to make a sizeable bundle, she should try everything. But there wasn't enough time to do everything, exactly. She had to pick the most lucrative business proposition there could be, and when she asked around, Don Denario got far more mentions than any of the other businesses. "He doesn't sound like the kind of guy I would want to meet, but I don't have a choice. Without money, I can't buy the junk merchant's batteries, and without batteries, I can't scale the easiest path possible up the junk heap. Sometimes, you just gotta do what you just gotta do." She said to herself more to build up her courage than anything else. Setting Don Denario's mansion in her sight, she moved.

OOC: Magey hat time!

AB, did you just say that Rydia found another clothing store that specialized in cross-dressing men, LIKE the one she had gone to before? :p

IC: Palom stopped at a market stall after successfully giving Cloud and the others the slip.

He had found a long, dark coat that effectively hid his robes, bought a pair of sunglasses, and was now looking at a traditional item of his profession, one that he had seen only in old books.

At one time, long ago, White and Black mages had worn distinct 'uniforms' to show their allegiance. White Mages had preferred more clerical garb, white robes often trimmed in red, or red-and-yellow. Due to the negative connotations once associated with their destructive profession, Black Mages had chosen heavier robes, with face-concealing hats. It such a hat that Palom was now buying. Wide-brimmed, with a pointy top, it seemed to speak of older, simpler times. His face a dark, featureless shadow, the glasses reflecting only the light, his body shrouded in the dark coat, Palom found he enjoyed looking the part of a mysterious and powerful warlock.

He grinned, spotting a head of emerald hair bobbing eagerly through the crowd, looking at everything with all the wonder and naivete of a newcomer. Even though it was harder to locate Rydia now that she was no longer wearing her revealing, light, gauzy, green clerical robes, her hair still stood out in a crowd. He managed to wonder at the ruins of what had obviously been a once-great marvel of technology too, but surreptitiously.

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