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Earlier this week, a comet landed just outside the small town of Kalm. Shin-Ra officials, immediately arriving on the scene, quickly closed off the area, keeping civilians from seeing what they were doing.
One spokesman had this to say,

Heavy equipment soon arrived, passing through a security checkpoint. As the comet required hours to cool off enough for it to be secured, the team was on site for quite some time.
Local astronomers commented,

Upon obtaining the comet, the Shin-Ra team quickly dispersed, hauling the object back to their main laboratory in the Shin-Ra tower in Midgar, which is still, for the most part, being reconstructed. No further information was given, as they apparently wanted to keep this as confidential as possible, but one word was heard being muttered by some of the Science Department staff returned to their vehicles, giving some possible idea as to what tests await the comet.
Materia.

(Supposed to be a newspaper article. Stupid Gaia won't display it in Document style..)

((please read then post in this thread before role playing. Thanks.))

It's been five years since Azurite has lived in the wilderness and away from civilitation due to the ten years of suffering he had to deal with in Deepground. He first would survive off of scavenging and then from hunting with the help of his Limit Break which can turn him into a wolf.

He then arives in front of Midgar's Edge after a fight with many Guard Hounds that injured Azurite pretty badly but was lucky enough to drag his own weak body along to this place that seem to be somewhat safer to him. He thought to himself can I trust anybody anymore... with out being tortured? and then said to himself "I have to try... and hope nothing bad will happen"

As Azurite staggered towards Edge, past memories from Deepground came back to him. Memories of Fear and Agony that brings nothing but dread in his mind and sorrow in his heart.

((I've read the rules and read three pages in here and I honestly don't know where to start so that other RPer's can interact or how my character can interact but I hope I can post this but if not I can delete it or change it.))

( *ahem* Well, everyone else posts at Serenity Island. I post here, whenever there is an update for the plot concerning my character, as he has not yet entered the world. My posts are simply leading up to that. After all, that someone actually posts in Midgar might draw some slight attention to the goings-on surrounding the approaching entrance of Zaxoth. Actually, I think I'll try to type something and post it later tonight.)

At the edge of the swamp near the Chocobo Farm, a massive platform had been built, an indentation measured to fit the orb having been placed in the center. Along the inner surface of the indentation were set various devices for channeling mako energy, as well as electrical systems to properly apply the needed energies to use mako, only greatly enlarged. A few feet away from the base of the platform, a control station had been constructed, and various Shin-Ra scientists and technical staff were going about their final checklists, while Shin-Ra guards secured not only the platform and control station, but a several-mile pipeline that ran from Midgar City to the platform, as well, said pipeline set to funnel Mako from the Midgar reactors.

Meanwhile, the scientists within the Shin-Ra tower were having some difficulty moving the orb, as they had to be securely gloved and covered in Hazmat-style garb. This was learned after the first few people were unlucky enough to touch the orb with bare skin. In common with materia, the orb contained memories. However, the memories this orb contained were obviously so horrid that it drove whoever touched it beyond the brink of insanity, even to the point where they had to be tied down to avoid gouging out their own eyes and ears in order to stop the horrible visions and sound they were subjected to. This was only found out after the second. The individuals were now in solitary confinement, future subjects themselves.

In any case, the orb was at last set on a transport, securely tied-down, and on its way to the test site.

((Zaxoth, as of this moment, is not in this world, or any world for that matter. He cannot hear anything that is going on. Not only that, the construct near the Marsh is not a new reactor, it simply has a pipeline that feeds mako to it.))

Within a few hours, the caravan had arrived at the test site, and a mobile crane was used to lift the orb onto the platform. Several hazmat-suited personnel were atop the platform to steady the orb as it was lowered into the indentation, and in a matter of moments, all was ready. All personnel atop the tower vacated the area, and stood within a hastily-built bombshelter, from which Shin-Ra technicians, under the careful eye of the scientists, operated the machinery, preparing to feed a large flow of mako into the orb, to see what sort of weaponry could be developed. Unbeknownst to them, or rather ultimately unnoticed by anyone, the moment the orb had been lowered into place, the wind stopped blowing through this area, and all clouds faded away, dipping below the horizon, so that the sky, as far as the eye could see, was perfectly cloudless. No wild animals, no monsters, not even insects made their presence known as Shin-Ra prepared to unleash whatever power the orb held.

-_-

((PM me when the characters get to Midgar))