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Save your valediction (she/her)
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I blogged through the first two riddle-like chapters of this plot (as well as my thoughts on them) over at http://mr-ite.livejournal.com/679104.html
Here is the story so far based on the YouTube videos and the comments on here and the blog.
I'll soldier on at some other point. For now, though, thanks!
Edit: now that I've got a grip on what the hell is going on, I blog LP style here.
Here is the story so far based on the YouTube videos and the comments on here and the blog.
There are two planets in close proximity: Pulse and Cocoon. Each world has God-like beings called Fal'Cie, who curse people every once in a while and turn them into l'Cie. When this happens, the Fal'Cie give the new l'Cie orders. If the l'Cie fails, he becomes a Cie'th (shambling undead). If he succeeds, the Fal'Cie reward him by turning him into a crystal statue of himself, to "live eternally."
Pulse and Cocoon went to war a while ago and old grudges are still around. The government of Cocoon, known as Sanctum, is high-tech with robots and stuff. They hate Pulse a lot and will not tolerate anyone who has come into contact with Pulse Fal'Cie. So they set up this exile ritual called The Purge that involves telling everyone they are sending the Pulse l'Cie to Pulse, but really they just kill them.
Serah (Snow's fiance and Lightning's sister) was turned into a l'Cie and given a mission - the details of which we do not know. She was taken from them and put into a Vestige. Lightning presumably retired from the Guardian Corps. of Sanctum at this time, and Snow joined the resistance. Together, Lightning and Snow coordinated an attack on Cocoon that had two objectives. First: Free the doomed people on their way to the Purge. Second: Create a distraction while breaking into the Vestige and rescuing Serah. The operation was successful on both counts, including beefing up their numbers with a bunch of vapid tag-alongs.
We don't know much about the Vestige that Serah was in, except that it was being controlled by a Pulse Fal'Cie. We DO know that Serah's mission was accomplished while talking to Lightning and Snow about saving Cocoon (Lightning and Snow promised to protect Cocoon). We can safely assume that l'Cie are basically pawns in the chess game of the Fal'Cie, and that Serah's mission was not to 'Protect Cocoon' - it was most likely be a catalyst for whatever Lightning and Snow will accomplish.
The party now consists of Lightning, Snow, Vanille, Hope, and a yet unnamed tall sassy black man with hidden paternal instincts who is contemptuous of the protagonist's military history with the evil government - the very same sassy tall black man who, when pushed to challenge his own beliefs, betrays how similar he is to the very organization that he loathes. Since that is a mouthful, and his name has yet to be spoken aloud, I will refer to him as "skinny-Barret" until his name is uttered.
In a fit of rage and panic over the crystallization of Serah, the party attacks the Fal'Cie running the Vestige, who retaliates by turning them all into l'Cie. The Vestige takes heavy fire from Sanctum forces and crashes into the ocean underneath Cocoon city, before turning everything to ice. On its way down, it sends out shockwaves that ravage the city -- looks like protecting Cocoon was not a priority. Either the Fal'Cie are bad prophets, or they aren't thinking ahead. Time will tell.
Pulse and Cocoon went to war a while ago and old grudges are still around. The government of Cocoon, known as Sanctum, is high-tech with robots and stuff. They hate Pulse a lot and will not tolerate anyone who has come into contact with Pulse Fal'Cie. So they set up this exile ritual called The Purge that involves telling everyone they are sending the Pulse l'Cie to Pulse, but really they just kill them.
Serah (Snow's fiance and Lightning's sister) was turned into a l'Cie and given a mission - the details of which we do not know. She was taken from them and put into a Vestige. Lightning presumably retired from the Guardian Corps. of Sanctum at this time, and Snow joined the resistance. Together, Lightning and Snow coordinated an attack on Cocoon that had two objectives. First: Free the doomed people on their way to the Purge. Second: Create a distraction while breaking into the Vestige and rescuing Serah. The operation was successful on both counts, including beefing up their numbers with a bunch of vapid tag-alongs.
We don't know much about the Vestige that Serah was in, except that it was being controlled by a Pulse Fal'Cie. We DO know that Serah's mission was accomplished while talking to Lightning and Snow about saving Cocoon (Lightning and Snow promised to protect Cocoon). We can safely assume that l'Cie are basically pawns in the chess game of the Fal'Cie, and that Serah's mission was not to 'Protect Cocoon' - it was most likely be a catalyst for whatever Lightning and Snow will accomplish.
The party now consists of Lightning, Snow, Vanille, Hope, and a yet unnamed tall sassy black man with hidden paternal instincts who is contemptuous of the protagonist's military history with the evil government - the very same sassy tall black man who, when pushed to challenge his own beliefs, betrays how similar he is to the very organization that he loathes. Since that is a mouthful, and his name has yet to be spoken aloud, I will refer to him as "skinny-Barret" until his name is uttered.
In a fit of rage and panic over the crystallization of Serah, the party attacks the Fal'Cie running the Vestige, who retaliates by turning them all into l'Cie. The Vestige takes heavy fire from Sanctum forces and crashes into the ocean underneath Cocoon city, before turning everything to ice. On its way down, it sends out shockwaves that ravage the city -- looks like protecting Cocoon was not a priority. Either the Fal'Cie are bad prophets, or they aren't thinking ahead. Time will tell.
I'll soldier on at some other point. For now, though, thanks!
Edit: now that I've got a grip on what the hell is going on, I blog LP style here.
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