Thread: ☢Final Fantasy: Edyn's Lament☢ [-Haru|Lila-]

Hojo's experiment had been a success. Of course, ARC knew about SEED and that they were not going to reach their goals unopposed. The genome project had started long ago really, long before Jenova had touched down on Edyn. Militarized use of the magicite, infusing it into the various races, trying to augment strength, speed and agility. Most subjects weren't able to handle the improvements. The results never showed right away, and magicite poisoning was common. However, for those that did survive, the experiments were mostly successful. With a few side effects. One's physical attributes were often highly augmented with the caveat that the subject was no longer truly human. Mutated and twisted into monsters, and sometimes not even recognizable as once human, these failed experiments were reserved for the most dangerous of operations. SEED was their most outspoken adversary, hounding their every step, and Hojo had, in response, set into motion Project Cerberus. Cerberus, the beast of legen that guarded the underworld, and a fitting name for the project meant to safeguard ARC. The first of the subjects proved to be highly unstable, uncontgrollable, and so were put into stasis. The knowledge gleaned from them, despite the failure, was too precious to lose. Soon Hojo had hit upon the balance, able to augment the soldiers of ARC without changing their outward appearance. They appeared as human for all intents and purposes, yet were qute durable and a step above human norms. Incremental increaes in the magicties doees given to the subjects often resulted in drastic changes. Some were able to be controlled and some were not. The unit proved to be successful, though never managed to completely eradicate SEED, the leaders and backbone of the organization surviving several strikes against them. Proof of their own determination and skill. Hojo switched tactics, deciding instead to try and capture whom he could, since killing them was proving rather difficult. Divide and conquer. In time, he'd designed the perfect organism - Fracture . Built with durability in mind, the beast was meant to capture, using immense claws and prodigious strength to snare prey. The trap was set with precision and care, false information leaked about an ARC project that was lightly guarded, with added incentive that they've be moving a shipment of magicite as well. A ripe and low-hanging fruit that SEED wouldn't be able to ignore. Even if they knew it was a trap, or suspected, they had to take the chance. When the convoy was ambushed, Fracture's directives workd all too well, and much to Hojo's delight, both Nabira and Reese Brahm were present. The two viera sisters were as well, but Fracture had been programmed to target certain individuals, and the viera had retreated under orders from Nabira. This left her and her brother susceptible, and the siblings had been taken, prized subjects that Hojo quickly turned against their own. --------------- Stone walked with his sister along the edge of the lake, heading toward the village that they now knew was Haven. A fitting name, considering their own mission. As the sun would set Stone would set up their camp and slip out of his armor, building a fire for them to relax by. The meals provided by ARC were not the best, but they were simple, and adding water and putting them over the fire produced a substantial amount. Do you think that Lune will agree to come with us? I do not relish a fight with her. Stone said. He'd seen how Aeshir had reacted when she thought of being put on Hojo's list of failed experiments, and though he truly didn't care what the twisted scientist thought, he could make their lives even more hellish than they already were. Patting the spot next to him Stone invited his sister to have a seat and he was quick to pull her close if she decided to do so. --------------- Stryker gave Lune a skeptical look. I don't know if that is a good idea. I am sure you have the ability to allow me to hear such things, yet I have a feeling it is quite horrible and a bit traumatic. he said, but reached out to take her hands anyway, wanting to know what it was like to be Far'Abnthi and able to hear the planet. Stryker suddenly felt rather small in the grand scheme of things, yet he needed to know his place and cement his purpose in all of this. He had a feeling that listening to the planet through Lune might help him do that. --------------- So it was decided. Cid and his wife Trissa, Crest, Han and Enkidu... they would all go after the escaped far'Anthi to help enlist her aid. Bree and Syn and Kubrick would stay behind, sending out the call to other SEED members based in other cities to bring them all together. By the time Cid and the others might return then they should have gathered enough of their members to be a true threat to ARC and make a decisive and precise strike. Gathering what they would need to travel, Cid and the others would soon be on their way, traversing the maze of tunnels beneath Shornhelm until they would emerge at the edge of the city and close to the Westersand. Bree and Syn had come with them to see them off, and would exit the discreet entrance into the tunnels below in one of the city's alleyways.