Shinra Building
-A new tutorial email told me I can eventually use items to help fuse materia, but not yet.
-Aw. Kunsel believes Genesis will return, inspired by Loveless.
-…argh. The guy guarding the Training Room asked me not to enter. I entered, and got the whole Hojo questline, but now the guard is disappointed in me for going in when I wasn’t supposed to. I wonder if I would’ve gotten a different mission line if I hadn’t gone in.
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Sector 8
-The Genesis fan club is crushed about his death, and holding a memorial. Same with Angeal’s. (This whole fan club thing still feels pretty weird.)
-Wait. Zack’s now First Class. Will he get a fan club?
-A kid who was anti-Shinra is now talking to Zack, telling him some legends.
Pshaw. Who’d believe a thing like that?
-Nothing new at the train station.
-Lots of talk about monsters roaming Midgar and Kalm.
-A woman asks us about a “dandy on a black chocobo” who saved her from monsters. I can’t think who he would be, but I’ll bet it’s someone from FFVII.
-A Genesis Girl says that the last act of LOVELESS was missing. Hm.
-The dude with the car says that the secret is in the tires. I now have “Premium Tires” from a prior mission as well as the craftsman manual, so I imagine that’ll eventually be relevant.
-“Civilian” acting shady on LOVELESS Avenue. Hard to say whether he’s scared or hiding something.
-New missions available!
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Mission: Monster Research > Monsters in Midgar > Beginnings (1/6)
-Mission is to investigate the claims of monsters.
-Simple mission in the slums.
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Mission: Monster Research > Monsters in Midgar > Beginnings (2/6)
-LOL – Zack has the mission to investigate Sector 8 monsters not to protect lives, but to protect Shinra’s legal liability. XD
-Grashtikes and those weird floaty eyeballs, but not much else.
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Shinra Building – Director’s Office
(-I actually tried doing the Master Tonberry mission again to get the Magic Pot, but couldn’t find him and gave up. Tired of whittling down those massive HP tonberries.)
-Lazard says that Genesis’s forces must be eliminated, including Genesis and Angeal. But Zack is to be kept out of it. He looks pretty upset about the whole thing.
-Refreshing trope reversal: Lazard says Shinra doesn’t trust Zack to help against Angeal/Genesis because he’s “not objective.” I was expecting him to say, “No, you can count on me.” Instead he’s all, “OF COURSE they’re not objective!”
-Sephiroth will join Zack on the mission. Zack: “To kill them?” Sephiroth smiles. Not sure why.
-AND THEN ALARMS SOUND BECAUSE THE SHINRA BUILDING HAS AN INTRUDER OH SHIT HERE WE GO
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49th Floor
-Took the elevator down to the entrance, but it stopped here. Some anti-intruder machines are going haywire.
An epic facepalm.
-My new favorite thing in this game is Zack getting annoyed at unskilled Shinra employees.
-LOL – a man and woman were attacked in the training room. Alone. TOGETHER.
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Iyl45AK.jpg'.
They asked Zack to not tell anyone that they were there, and gave him 5,000 gil as a “thanks” for keeping the affair hush-hush.
-The music is fantastic.
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Entrance
-HOLY SHIT! This place is WRECKED.
Shinra weapons and tech are going berserk. Genesis must’ve made Skynet self-aware or something.
-Swarms of Genesis copies and mechs.
SEPHIROTH: “Hollander must be behind this.” A Shinra scientist who absconded with some copy technology. Lost the job of top Shinra scientist, now out for revenge.
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Sector 8
-Someone in trouble. Zack runs to help out, but no help is needed.
BECAUSE IT’S RENO
AND RUDE AND TSENG
And a woman with red hair and the weapon that Yuffie always uses?
”Cissnei.
-She and Zack get along famously off the bat, and she’s added to the DMW. The tone of this makes me think she’s being introduced as a love interest, but my knowledge of Zack/Aeris heads that off at the pass.
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Next time: Zack follows Cissnei and tries to retake Sector 8.
