towerofanimus | [The Arcana Is The Mean By Which All Is Revealed] || [Semi-Open]

Characters: A lot of characters, check the tags!
Setting: Various floors for gathering the seeds; the battles will happen on the Roof of Towerception (Floor 75).
Format: Prose or action, whichever you prefer!

Summary: That's the log for everything related to the Nyx Avatar player plot! The OOC post is here if you want more information about it! You can also use it if you want to plot about how the battles will go. The log is going to be divided into five main threads: a first thread for Ganondorf to gather the "seeds" who will be used to make Ryoji go into his Nyx Avatar mode. Essentially, he's just going to trap them into nifty, colored crystals while they're distracted. The second thread will be about Ryoji reaching the roof of towerception and subsequently being kept there alongside the four seeds till the heroes arrive.

The third thread will be about the 'heroes' arriving to Towerception-- If they took part in the Sephiroth battle, they will have received a seemingly friendly letter asking them to come, otherwise either they will just happen to pass by the tower and feel a strange presence / hear weird noises. Finally, the fourth thread will be about the battle against the seeds with a sub-thread per seed, and the final thread about the battle against Ryoji. As a reminder, the four "seeds of grief" are: Diarmuid, Lancer, Patrick Dawn and Yukiko Amagi.

Because of how the log is divided, you can start the battles without having to wait for the three "lead-in" threads to be completed.

Warning: Evil gloating. Unending lectures about the tarot arcana. Lots of sad all around. Of course, anyone participating in the battle against either the seeds or Nyx takes the non-negligible risk of being killed or grievously wounded.

Seeds of Grief Gathering
Ryoji's Arrival at the Tower
Villain Speech & Nyx's Awakening

Seeds of Grief Battle
Nyx Avatar Battle

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[ This thread is for Ryoji's arrival to towerception, where he will wind out the four seeds of grief and the villains.

To be more specific, the four seeds of grief are kept within crystals at this point, each of them floating above the roof of towerception. They are all be high enough so that Ryoji cannot reach them, but low enough so that he can distinctly see them as soon as he reaches the place. And below them firmly on the ground, three notable douches are waiting for him: Ganondorf, Nesir and Sephiroth. ]

[Ryoji certainly wasn't completely trustworthy of the anonymous letter he received, but when he arrived at the designated meeting place, he wasn't expecting anything like this. Not his friends and family trapped in crystals. Even from a distance, he can see them, and it sets a panic into him that has him climbing the stairs without even pausing to catch his breath; it's almost as if he doesn't need to breathe. He's too busy worrying about everyone. If it was just Diarmuid or maybe just Yukiko, he could worry and then focus on saving them, but with four people there that he cares about, he's just switching between all of them in an incoherent stream of fear for their safeties.

He has a feeling who is behind this before he makes it to the top, but it doesn't make it any easier to see them. He almost runs forward, but it's clear the crystals are out of his reach, so he just glares at the villains from a distance.]

Let them go right now. I don't know what your plan is, but just leave them alone and you can do whatever you want to me.

[Bargaining probably won't work, especially with that group knowing he'd rather die than see any of his friends suffer, but he has to try.]

[ Ganondorf smiled when Ryoji came in-- As expected. It was a good thing too, if the boy hadn't showed up, he would have had to go through the trouble of hunting him throughout the tower, and he was much too weak at the moment to hunt yet another person after having done the four seeds already.

He shook his head at Ryoji's words however, his smile widening. He looked pretty amused, if anything. ]

I thank you for your kind offer boy, but I am afraid their presence here is as necessary as yours. Surely you must have guessed that.

[ He waved at the crystals' direction, but said no word just yet about why they were necessary. ]

[Nesir watched Ryoji, watching his face as he came up the stairs. She didn't look amused, more thoughtful. It was a good lesson, a harsh one, but he had been the one to say that people only became less pathetic when forced, when pushed to know the price of their actions.

Not that she was deluded that this was all about teaching Ryoji, it was revenge. It was showing the so called heroes that they couldn't be bullies and get away with it. That even if they evoked the name of goodness, there were still consequences.

It would spread fear and confusion, chaos. What Nesir had sworn to serve. She doesn't speak though, just watches]

Why? If this is about that attack, it was my fault they went after Sephiroth in the first place. They shouldn't be blamed for it.

[He offers a more frustrated glare at Sephiroth. First he had to go through all that trouble of messing with Ryoji, and when that wasn't enough, he had to hurt Ryoji's friends too?]

Just get them out of those crystals! There isn't any reason to hurt them, and if there is, you can just take it out on me. Change whatever plans you had. I won't let you lay a hand on them.

[He cautiously summons Thanatos' blade. Last time that did nothing against Ganondorf, but he has no other options. He should have brought one of the swords Diarmuid got him...]

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[Ryoji's Capture || Towerception]

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