MEMORY SHARE: 12 OF BEETROOT EVENT (May)

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JEMA'GRETHY MEMORY SHARE

The caves of Jema'grethy will allow for a few different ways for memories to be interacted with. But for most, such as those entering in bonds, it will be seen like a vision in their head, putting them in the position and perspective of whose memory it is.

For people sharing bond memories, and also memories being shared while moving through the Memory Cave, this is the spot to place said memories! It's not necessary if you'd like to write it during the thread, but hopefully convenient for others. Just make a toplevel with your character's name in the header, and remember to include any content warnings thereafter for each memory, as applicable!

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[Negative] Dead people turning into monsters, a home attacked

[blitzcheer]

CW: ffx spoilers forever, dead people

There's the sound of machine fire, of explosions, fiends and all else around you as you run closer to Rikku's home. This isn't supposed to be happening; you were looking for Yuna, hoping she'd be there than lost in this massive desert and its roaming fiends, somewhere at least safer.

But as you get closer, you can already see bodies lifeless on the ground amidst those still standing, fighting a mix of fiends you hadn't seen on the way here. You and the rest of the group come amongst the Al Bhed, people ostracised for not believing in Yevon's teachings, who use machines - machina - despite it being taboo. Wakka demands from one of them to know where Yuna is, while another Al Bhed falls.

Rikku cries out a name and goes by their side, pyreflies already floating around the scene. She asks the dying man what's happening, who's been attacking, and you and the others come close. You spot the other Al Bhed still fighting back fiends, witness as clouds of pyreflies thicken around some bodies, until the body disperses into those orbs too, glowing brighter before taking on the shape of something else.

'Guado...Yevon....' The man speaks in a thick accent, but you know what you hear: the name of a people not human, and the religious group of the world. It distracts you from the fiend to Rikku's friend, who goes limp. She repeats his name - 'Keyakku? Keyakku!' - to no avail, while Lulu voices what confuses you, too.

'A war? Between Yevon and the Al Bhed?'

A man speaks up, a voice in Al Bhed, a language you can't understand well, and not in this chaos - not with Yuna and everything going on around you in your head. An older man walks straight to Rikku and the dead man; checking his pulse, shaking his head, and then lifts the body close to him, holding it briefly before letting it rest.

The pyreflies are swarming. You worry about seeing more of the bodies turn, but you have your attention on this new guy, this gramps, and what Rikku will do, too. Gramps speaks first, commanding them to stop standing around, to find those Guado and to kick them out. He doesn't wait, and the others don't either, and you and Rikku soon follow after you reassure her that they're going to save more than Yuna.

But first you need to find her, rushing inside, running along the steel corridor, surrounded by walls. Rubble and blood scattered around, the pyreflies thick in the air.

You draw your blade, ready to get through anything, ignoring the anger and disgust on your tongue as a crushed body throws back wreckage, shifting into a new skin of purple. Into a monstrous, inhuman form.

But you'll stop this. You'll help the Al Bhed, and you'll save Yuna.