Welcome to part two of "Things to do in Nibelheim when you're a incomplete." The next morning we got ourselves ready to brave Mount Nibel. We put several candy bars in our pockets and quickly found... a guide.
Tifa? You're the guide?
What a coincidence, huh? Well, I just happens to be the number one guide in this town!
How old are you? Where are all the miners? Surely, they would be much, much better suited at leading us up a dangerous mountain?
I dunno.
Oh well, I guess you're hired then.
What? No, I can't allow this! I can't involve you in something like this!
It's my call, boy. If I say we hire this fifteen year old girl to lead us up a dangerous mountain, then I say we hire this fifteen year old girl to lead us up a dangerous mountain! Is that understood?
Yes.
Good. Come on now.
Yay!
We don't have time for that. Cut off that man's head!
It's good PR.
*grumble-mumble-sonoffa...* Oh well! Make it quick. Maybe it'll come in handy in a plot twist from hell much later on.
Tifa led us on a straight and narrow path... To be perfectly honest I didn't really understand why anyone thought we needed a guide. We travelled far and wide over the mountains of Nibel. Everything was fine and dandy, like a good Kenny Loggins song! Until... we tried to cross an old rope bridge!
I thought I was dead for sure but everything turned out just alright. We just landed on the alternate path leading to the reactor! We took out our candy bars and ate them. They tasted just as good as they would have if we hadn't fallen down a mountain. :D
We're missing one of the guards. My new best buddy here is the only one who landed next to us.
Well, it might seem cruel but we don't have time to search for that other guard. Don't worry, though, he'll find his way back to town. He's like a dog. Or a horse. Or something. Come on.
I didn't like turning my back on the guy. Oh well, at least I had my new friend to talk to and practice poses with! How lucky it wasn't him who got separated from us, because I want him to see and hear everything we do! :D
Sephiroth always got kind of mushy when he talked about nature. I even think I saw a book about nature in his infinity pants once. Boy, was he embarrassed or what!!
Materia. When you condense Mako energy, materia is produced. It's very rare to be able to see materia in its natural state.
By the way, why is it that when you use materia you can also use magic too?
You were in SOLDIER and didn't even know that?
MINDFU-yeah, you know.
The knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients is held in the materia. Anyone with this knowledge can freely use the powers of the Land and the Planet. That knowledge interacts between ourselves and the planet calling up magic. Or so they say.
Magic... a mysterious power.
Did I say something funny?
A man once told ME never to use an unscientific term such as mysterious power! It shouldn't even be called 'magic'! I still remember how angry he was.
What was that?
You mean "who"?
Yes. Damn translation. Not even my memory is safe.
Hojo of Shinra, Inc. An inexperienced man assigned to take over the work of a great scientist. He was a walking mass of complexes.
Sounds like everyone I know.
It took a while, but eventually we reached the reactor.
I didn't say that!
Yes you did, shit for brains.
Industrial secrets... monsters in the freezers... you know. :wink:
Haha, you so crazy, Mr. Sephiroth!
Yes. I know... :D Take care of the lady.
Well! I guess you better take extra good care about me then, blue boy.
The interior looked quite different than all the other reactors we've seen so far. Actually, it wasn't much of a reactor. It was just a big room filled with some sort of capsules. Also I saw the word "Jenova" over a big door. I didn't know what it meant back then but... well... maybe it was some kind of boss battle room.
Maybe?
I don't want to spoil it for you. Anyway, Sephiroth quickly repaired the reactor.
Why did it break?
He looked inside one of the capsules.
Now I see, Hojo. But, even doing this, will never put you on the same level as Professor Gast. Cloud, this is a system that condenses and freezes the Mako energy... that is, when it's working correctly. Now, what does Mako energy become when it's further condensed?
QUIZ TIME!
Uh, umm...... Oh yeah! It becomes a Materia.
OOH! BARELY MADE IT!
What awaits behind the glass window? Find out in-sixte-oh well, I guess we might as well continue.
There. It's a monster of some kind. Are you happy now?
Is this some kind of monster?
SOME KINDA MONSTER HELL YEAH METAL!!!!
Exactly.
METALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
And it's Hojo if Shinra that produced these monsters. Mutated living organisms produced by Mako energy. That's what these monsters really are.
AWESOME!
Oh boy, I never should have asked him that! Next thing you know, ol' Sephie's hacking and slashing at the background. It looked kind of silly actually.
AND THAT'S GOTTA BE WHEN YOU REALIZED HE WAS FUCKING INSANE AND EVIL BEYOND EVIL!!!
Oh no. No, no.
Oh well. It makes no difference. I have always known...
Normally, I'd make a pretty obvious joke here but this isn't that kind of LP! Go read Quest for Glory instead, you ridiculously purple twat.
Oh, so you have accepted this already?
Yes, I think I can actually live a normal life with this knowledge.
Really?
No, you idiot!
Leave me alone...
THAT'S when I realized he was evil.
...
...
...
What?
Oh yes.
Because you were being fucking stupid?!
Ah... well... yes.
Oh dear god...
Anyway, we were just about to wrap this up...
But then!
All hell broke lose!
Uh, yeah, whatever, shit for brains.
What, but I just...
Alright, you're not allowed to talk anymore.
In the next update: the mindblowing conclusion of Memories of Mindfuckery!