Room 414, The Arms Hotel, Saturday Evening

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Grad was over! Reno was a free man! More or less!

And there was no better way to celebrate this fact than to make his way to the hotel, hit up Tseng's room, and then instigate a drinking game of booze purchased straight out of the minibar, while watching some terrible movie on pay-per-view.

One of those Keanu Reeves movies, or whatever. Keanu Reeves starring as Keanu Reeves, doing the things that Keanu Reeves does.

"Two shots if somethin' blows up," Reno announced to the Turks assembled. "Three if it's not because of Keanu, zoto."

[For, like, every Final Fantasy character on the island.]

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was going to shoot Rude a dirty look -- some things were obvious, even with shades in the way -- before answering Lulu's question.

"Holy was the only thing that saved our world," she explained. "Sephiroth summoned a huge meteor, one that nearly crushed Midgar. Holy was the only force powerful enough to stop it."

Granted, Holy had been a costly victory -- destroying the Meteor and Midgar in one full swoop -- before the dead Ancient had called out the lifestream itself. Which had, in turn, caused Geostigma.

Wins on Gaia were rarely clean.

[turk_mailman]

Tseng knew better than to trust even the wins that were clean.

"Sephiroth himself has a nasty habit of not staying dead," he added, simply for the sake of getting that fact out there. "Although I can't imagine the black materia that he used to summon Meteor is available to him any longer, Holy isn't exactly available to us, either."

Aerith being dead, and all. Tseng wasn't even going to wince as that thought crossed his mind.

[summoninghope.livejournal.com]

"Would... would it help if it were?" Yuna asked hesitantly.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"If Meteor came again, we would have no way of stopping it," Elena said firmly. "Last time, the entire city of Midgar was destroyed. And that time, it didn't hit."

[politely-terse.livejournal.com]

"Which MEANS," Rude added, "that we'll need to... keep in touch."

[summoninghope.livejournal.com]

"If there's anything I can do," Yuna offered quickly, shooting a quick glance over at Lulu.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was chewing on her lower lip, wondering exactly how one asked what she felt they very much needed to know. Without giving offense, no less.

She brightened slightly, as an angle occurred to her. "If we ... needed you," Elena said, turning the idea over in her mind as she spoke, "and you came, would you ... need anything? Items to assist you in casting, a specific location, a set of conditions? The last person went to a forest to pray for hours; we could offer protection if you need time to prepare."

[turk_mailman]

"And," Tseng added, briskly, "we take our jobs very seriously. You would be safe."

The last person to cast Holy wasn't doing so well, anymore. Being dead and all.

Never again.

[politely-terse.livejournal.com]

"Although you could always... bring your guardians anyway," Rude added.

[summoninghope.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you could keep them away," Yuna smiled fondly.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was going to try, politely, to nudge the conversation back towards Holy itself. They needed information, after all.

Also, discussing Holy meant they would not be discussing Aerith, or watching Tseng mope over the dead girl. Which was never Elena's definition of fun.

"Is it difficult for you to cast?" she asked. "Would you need anything from us, to call it forward?"

[summoninghope.livejournal.com]

"It isn't easy," Yuna admitted, "But it's not the hardest thing I've done. I'd just need time, I guess."