The Start of it All

[Naphtali]

Shi was tempted to be ashamed, but why bother?  It wasn't his style, anyway.  He dropped down into the seat.  Looking around, he noted it was oddly crowded.  'Hm.  I wonder why...'

He waved the bartender over and asked for something cold and wet.  Perhaps with fruit.  He liked fruit.  He gave his cousin a sideways glance.  Tomas seemed cheerful enough.  Perhaps the fun of a new place?  Or was it scaring those two men?  Hmph.

Tilting his head, he listend to the conversations around him.  They seemed mostly to be either sports or religion, as far as he could tell.  Talking about blitz scores (what was blitzball?) and odd discussions about sin that really didn't make sense.

"Hm.  Cousin, does this world seem like one we know?  If we could remember, if might give us an idea on what to do next."

[Tomas]

"Hm.  Cousin, does this world seem like one we know?  If we could remember, if might give us an idea on what to do next."

Tomas turned to look at Shi.  He'd ordered something hard.  He wasn't sure what he got, but if it turned out to be a birck, people were going to die.  Of course, that would probably cheer Shi up a bit.

"I get impressions from things, but I don't think I've been here."  Tomas frowned and turned his gaze to the bartender who was returning with their drinks.  "Hey, 'scuse me, but can you tell me what the name of this place is?  I kind of got lost."

The bartender gave Tomas a look that pretty much proclaimed his stupidity to the world.  "Where are you from?"

Tomas shrugged in response.  "Originally or most recently?

"Recently."

As he smirked Tomas replied, "Asgard."

The bartender blinked.

[Naphtali]

Shi waved to the bartended lazily.  "Nevermind him.  Listen, what do you call.. well, the world?"  He knew it was an odd question, but it needed to be asked.

"We call it Spira.  What else would we call it?"

Shi just waved him off, muttering beneath his breath.  "I dunno... Dirt?"

[Tomas]

"Spira?"  Tomas frowned and his eyes narrowed.  "I know I've heard that name before...but where?  Damnit, Tomas, think here, think!  Where have you heard Spira before?"  

His frown deepened as he thought, totally ignoring his drink.  "And sin?  I know I've heard people talk about sin before.  There's seven of them...right, Shi?  And they're all suppossed to be deadly, right?"

[Naphtali]

"And sin?  I know I've heard people talk about sin before.  There's seven of them...right, Shi?  And they're all suppossed to be deadly, right?"

Shi sat back and thought a little.  He didn't think that was what they meant.  "Yeah... the Seven Deadly Sins... but..."  He listened a bit more to what was going on around him.  "They seem to mean... something more than that.  Something not immaterial."

[Tomas]

"Really?"  Toams thought about it for a few minutes as he drank what he'd been given.  It wasn't really all that hard, unfortunately, but it woulod have to do.

Still, if this thing they called Sin wasn't just some set of ideas, maybe it'd be a fun fight.  naming something after seven deadly ideas had to make it at least sort of impressive.  And if it didn't turn out to be impressive, they could just kill the dumb thing and be on their way.

"Okay, lets try to figure out what we know.  Fact one, there's something called Sin here.  Fact two, the world is called Spira.  Fact three, there's some sport here called blitzball.  Fact four, at least on portion of the population can't speak english."  Tomas looked at Shi and raised an eyebrow.  "So, what do you think?"

[Naphtali]

"So, what do you think?"

Shi raised an eyebrow back.  "I think you know how to state the obvious.  That all sounds correct from what he know.  We also know we're in a port town, and lot's of people meet here."  He frowned.

"Damnit, now I know this is familiar."  Shi was unable to recall anything else, however.  Wait, something was coming to him.  "Wait... summoners... pilgrimage.  Nope, that's it."

[Carthrat]

((Carthrat knows nothing about FF10 except it has Blitzball in it, so expect him to seriously muck something up ^^))

"Bastards!" yelled Carthrat after the fighter jet speeding away from the line.

Just his luck to get caught in the middle of a Dimensionl-Hyperflux grenade...

*Ka-ping?*

***

Carthrat opened his eyes and stood up, staring straight at a rather small man standing in front of him, who began babbling in some weird langauge.

Carthrat sighed, and flipped a little switch under his cloak.

"-hell do you think you're doing in the middle of my farm!"

"...leaving."

"Oh yeah? Well- what?"

Carthrat shook his head. "I'm leaving. Don't bother me."

"But what about my compensation! Pay me compensation-"

*Pow!*

Carthrat holstered his smoking pistol and started walking to the nearest tavern.

Dammit, he needed some beer.

**

So when he arrived, he immediatly took a seat, and demanded in a somewhat loud voice.. "b33r h33r! ph33r th3 b33r!"

Dear god, he forgot the translator sometimes did that.. he began fiddling with it under his cloak.

[Kwokinator]

A man-sized black hole appeared a small distance from the table, out of which a young man emerged.

"Yo bro, what's up?" Kwok waved. "Been looking for you.  Never found any of our other siblings..."

Without turning around, he sent a small ki-blast towards Tomas as a greeting.

[Tomas]

OOC:  Cathrat, they're in the middle of a city.  There arn't any farms around, which means you are no where near anyone else in the story.  ^^;  Oh yeah, and no more l33t talk.

IC:

There was a lady Tomas was acquainted with who's name was Luck.  While she didn't favor him all that often, occasionally she threw something his way.  Today seemed to be such a day.

Tomas was not seated at a table.  He was seated at the bar.  Which, of course, meant that no ki blast was ever sent at him.  The poor sap who Kwok had mistaken for Tomas didn't fare so well, however.  It appeared that Lady Luck didn't favor him today as he was blasted over the table he and his friends had been at and into a wall.

Tomas, for his part, didn't even notice Kwok's arrival.  Instead his concentration was on Shi.  "Wait a sec...summoners....I know that term.  And...umm...uh...uh...something called...uh...Espers!  Yeah, that's what I was thinking of!  Summoners summon Espers!"

[RyderHakubi]

OOC: This is what happens for sleeping... oh well...

IC: Meanwhile, a lost and confused Ryder Angel strolled along in the cramped city streets.  The colors, the sounds, the language all flooded Ryder's sences as he tried to get this sence of deja vu out of his system...

Noticing the condescending looks thrown his way by the denizins, Ryder turned to a female passerby and asked, "Excuse me, could you tell me where I am?"

With a look of pure hatred in her eyes, the woman replied, "Tasuh!  Oui yna hud famlusa rana oui lremt uv Yevon!"

Blinking his eyes to try and make some sence of the language, Ryder replied, "What?  No hablo... whatever the hell you're speaking..."

This garnered no verbal responce from the woman... she looked eye to eye with Ryder, her sky blue eyes filled with scorn and briskly walked away.

Ryder sighed a heavy sigh and walked into the building to his right, which he hoped was a bar...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok growled at his shot completely missing Tomas and stomped away from the bar.

... only to collide with someone on the way out the door.

"The hell?" he accused without even looking at who the other guy was. "Watch where're you're walking into!"

[RyderHakubi]

"Oro?" Ryder said, while standing up and looking at the man he had bumped into.  While there wasn't a name in his memory to place this face to, this guy looked so familiar...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok glared at the man in front of him.  "Oro wha-RYDER!!"

He hopped up to his feet and went for an elbow to Ryder's head.  As a friendly greeting of course.

"What's up, man?" he grinned.

[RyderHakubi]

Ducking the elbow, Ryder rolled backwards and stood up with a look of heavy confusion on his face...

"Do I know you or something?  I swear, you look so familiar..." he said while reaching down to pull out his gun, if push came to shove...