☈ strike #17 (action / video)

[thestormishere]

Action; House 41; morning and onwards of the 22nd.

[ The calendar used in Luceti might be noticeably different than that of Cocoon's, but the way Lightning-- or rather, her friends seem to figure, since her previous birthday was roughly a month before her arrival last November... a Saturday in 'October' seems about as good a time as any to

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[gardenerofgaia]

I need clothes for cold weather. And yooouuuu should get something very pretty. One of the best pick-me-ups there is.

[thestormishere]

'Pretty?'

[ Lightning raises her eyebrows, a smirk tugging at her lips as she leans over to pull on Baldr's ears a moment. There's a slight hint of awkwardness in her too, though, considering Things and... the fact Aerith's disability in sensing temperature makes finding clothing a little more complicated now, doesn't it...? ]

It is getting colder again...

[gardenerofgaia]

To match you, silly.

[ Awkwardness needs to be thrown away. It's a birthday!! ...Well, as they decided. ]

Mm. I remember when I got here, it was so-o-o cold! ...The sundress didn't help. I have a coat from last year, but I never did find a scarf cute enough.

[ Stop insisting that everything be cute, Aerith. She looks down at her boots, rocking on her feet. Strangely enough, she's practical with her footwear at least--and she wears the heck out of them. It's showing a bit. ] Besides, these guys are starting to be squeakers. So we really do have to go!

[thestormishere]

[ Psh! Lightning scoffs quietly as she straightens and her pup shakes his head vigorously, pawing at his face after her tousling. Her hand finds her hip as she considers the problem of insufficient New Feather dress herself and then her own wardrobe left over from last year, but... well, safe to say that even someone like her cycles through clothing pretty quickly, being from somewhere as generally privileged like Cocoon.

At least by now she pretty much has kind of a mental filter for conversations with Aerith, so all the cute this and cute that doesn't really faze her. The boots do get a small, thoughtful frown. ]

Won't do you much good if they don't fit very well any more.

[ Aaaand she steps back towards her room, though the way she keeps looking over her shoulder's probably enough to indicate she's alright with being followed for the moment. ]

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[lunarities]

The moon does look a little bit weird, huh..?

[ Understatement, but either way - Usagi (being Sailor Moon and all) is pretty closely related to the moon, so she's pretty interested in all of this. ]

[ video ]

[thestormishere]

Just a little.

[ Her own understatement has plenty of dryness to mark it- she's not exactly worried about anything yet, but... still. It's difficult to keep her mind from wandering after noticing a change to that of all things. ]

I'm going to hazard a guess that that isn't normal.

[ video ]

[lunarities]

It isn't! At least, I thought the moon here looked more normal before I saw it weird like this today all of a sudden.. The moon back home doesn't look like that either, so it's a little surprising!

[ She doesn't really sound concerned either, more just.. well, surprised, maybe. Or interested. ]

[ video ]

[thestormishere]

[ Well of course, Lightning has no frame of reference for what the thing's supposed to look like aside from her time spent here under this one. As an 'of course' on the other hand, she's also reluctant to get into that, save for what's superficial. ]

Hm... might have to find someone who's been here longer.

action;

[mistyarc]

[ Hubert isn't too far from the fountain, having been passing by, when he catches some of Lightning's words. Stopping a short distance away from her, he crosses his arms and looks up at the faint moon.

The likelihood of something bad happening is high. That's the hunch he also gets. ]

. . . It's possible, given the subtle changes since yesterday evening.

action;

[thestormishere]

[ Oh, it's that guy with the ~secret weapon~ from the other day, isn't it? The memory is enough to cause her pause, following that comment that was pretty off-handed anyway regardless of how accurate the party members tend to be whenever they say something like that in-game. ]

... What do you mean?

action;

[mistyarc]

[ Fixing his spectacles, he turns his gaze to Lightning. She seems like a sharp woman, which should make this easier to reason. ]

There's been a shift in the moon since then. You must have noticed.

action;

[thestormishere]

A little while ago.

[ Frown, and she closes her journal slowly with gloved hands that keep their grip around the edges afterward. Misgivings with this young man or no, she's hardly going to turn down a potential source of information when it walks right up to her. All she's got to work with now is superficial similarities; when it comes to actual moons and how they work, she's pretty much blind aside from the bare basics. ]

You think that's a bad thing?

[Action] | If this is okay? <3

[capuchinja]

[Audubon has not had an easy time of it, in Luceti. Even if he's been told by this point exactly what's going on, it's difficult to push aside the twenty or more years of ninja training, the twenty or more years that say he needs to hide because if anybody sees him he will be killed.

So he's still skulking, albeit somewhat more obviously than he usually would, his five limbs at the ready for any threat.

And then he hears Lightning's voice, from the fountain. It's enough to draw his attention, which in turn might draw hers'. After all, a giant half-monkey-looking-person tends to draw attention, especially when he looks like he expects to be attacked any minute. And he might bear some obvious resemblance to that one Robert Hastings...]

[Action]

[thestormishere]

[ There isn't really anything remarkable about Robert's appearance from Lightning's point of view, so she definitely doesn't recognize him right off. However, she does look in his direction, over the journal laid across her lap, mismatched wings twitching slightly in agitation.

Her gaze and body language seem to speak for themselves- What? ]

[Action]

[capuchinja]

[Audubon still can't read gaze and body language properly - he's better than Robert is, simply because he has to be, but he's not great at it.

So he doesn't approach, yet, just levels his gaze at Lightning. Pink fur...? He can't say he's ever seen that before.]

Another human...? [It's almost to himself. But at this point, seeing all these humans is starting to get less and less alarming. He's letting himself slip...]

[Action]

[thestormishere]

[ Even if Lightning wasn't able to hear him... well, several days spent completely deaf on-board the last draft's cargo ship, coupled with her magic and accompanying abilities being at full power for the duration of it, makes lip reading something... she doesn't even have to concentrate on any more, actually. Her expression sours further. ]

More or less. [ L'Cie and all. Obviously, her mood is rather poor right now, and so even though she knows perfectly well that a statement like that means he's probably new and most likely doesn't know better... ] What are you supposed to be?

[Voice]

[beardpuddle]

It is not our moon, but it certainly is behaving unusually.

[Voice]

[thestormishere]

Yeah. Are you sure it's not just something this moon does?

[ Not that she's seen anything like it in the almost-year she's been around, but... it's starting to ping her concern harder and harder the longer someone doesn't just go and answer in the affirmative to the above question. More than most weird things that happen in Luceti, for unspoken but obvious-to-her reasons. ]

[Voice]

[beardpuddle]

This occurrence is new to all the residents, and I have been told that some have been here for some time. Still, I cannot claim to know all there is about this world.

[Voice]

[thestormishere]

[ ... Damn it. Lightning sighs, shaking her head for a moment; there's one possibility down. ]

That's what I was afraid of. Probably an experiment effect, then.