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[ This letter comes in a black envelope. ]

Fellow Heroes of Light.

In the aftermath of our battle with Palitutu, questions have arisen as to how we will face the Emperor. Some amongst us are following what lead we have on the Calamity, others are trying save what can be saved or find what clues those before left for us. However, Garland's defeat will mean nothing if the Calamity is allowed to devour all worlds.

We have been told countless time victory is impossible, yet evidently this hasn't deterred us-- If anything all attempts to discourage us have only served to renforce our convictions, our belief in an eventual victory. And whilst I do share this belief, time is running short.

But nothing is set in stone. Thus my question: what are your plans to deal with the Calamity?

— Parasraya Purana

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Purasraya Purana:

It's because we're not those Heroes. Learning from past mistakes and what has been discovered helps up formulate a plan, no matter how risky. I could have given up on my own world long ago, but I went through with my goals, no matter how much of a failure they were.

As for stopping the Calamity, we need to attack the root of the problem. The First Crystal hidden deep within the planet needs to be addressed; whether through fixing it, providing more energy, or something else. We have a good team of scientists among us.

I believe the Lunar Gate can provide some answers, and I will be investigating it during the upcoming weeks.

Apart from that, we will continue investigating all possible leads as to the true nature of the crystallization. That's only the logical way of doing things.

-Ales Mansay

Dear Ales;

Fixing the First Crystal can only be a solution for this world. The question therefore is: do we want to save Crystallis or focus on all the other worlds? You are one of the few who realizes no ending will be perfect.

I would indeed recommend pursuing the Lunar Gate trail. From what little I know, the Moon hides a lot of secrets, many of which might even have eluded our enemies.

— Parasraya Purana

Purasraya Purana:

To tell the truth, I care more about Crystallis than my own world. I doubt that we can save every single world connected to this one, but if we can search for an alternative energy source, Crystallis can survive without leeching off of others.

Now, the question of how it's possible will have to wait until we reach the Lunar Gate, but I don't want to make hasty conclusions just yet.

- Ales Mansay

Dear Ales;

I have my own ideas on the matter-- And few of them would lead to the perfect ending everyone seems to be dreaming of. I shall share them with you and the others soon. I simply hope you will keep as open of a mind as you have until now.

— Parasraya Purana

Dear P.P.

[And yes, there was cackling after having this written down]

I got some better questions for you: Who the hell are you? When did you show up here because I certainly don't remember ever seeing you? And can you change your name to something that doesn't look like it's solvable on by an idiot on an episode of Wheel of Fortune. Or at least something a lot more simpler because I'm going to keep calling you P.P. if you don't.

I mean, seriously, I think the first two are super important because if you're the woman who just suddenly showed up when we're deciding on Palitutu's state of being, you got a lot of 'splain' to do, Lucy. And I certainly don't think anyone else will right now.

- Deadpool

Dear Deadpool;

This is quite intriguing. I have been here for nearly a year and have sent numerous letters-- Perhaps you have missed my office in Aqures Ixen? I do not believe my name is a matter of curiosity either given the wide arrays of names amongst our group. After all, I would deem 'Deadpool' a curious name long before mine. Nor do I believe you have met all the others, quite likely there are many Heroes of Light besides me you have yet to meet.

Truly, so sudden is your interest in my person.

Too sudden, mayhaps? It is nearly as if a voice whispered to you what you should do and this voice told you to take notice of my existence only to question it. It is quite a shame this voice didn't deem me worthy of a reply before today.

Whatever-your-name-is,

So, my player isn't up to date with who's who and what's what and gets names confused. I wish I could control him - I'd have this whole thing figured out in a jif!

This just means I'll have to focus on the plot more. A lot more.

[Letter comes a day later, he's obviously at work again.]

Ms. Purana,

I might turn the question around on it's head back to you.

Would you have any suggestion to bring to the table given the evident time you have spent researching all that has gone before you arrived here?

Whether it be as a result of the time I'm spent otherwise engaged in that which I find more useful to the general population, rather than spending a lifetime pouring over what has been written before and since to no straight conclusion; I'm hardly informed enough to make a personal opinion when there is so much unknown still.

Black crystals, Soul Dividers, Inter-dimensional Rifts. These are hardly terms for one who is best suited on a battlefield than in a lab.

Needless to say I doubt it will be, by any means, an easy or 'safe' plan in the end.

~Sephiroth

Dear Sephiroth;

There is indeed much we still have to find. However, I do not believe the solution to this all is as complex as everyone seems to think. As despicable as Palitutu was, maybe she was right: the solution doesn't exist on Crystallis.

As a matter of fact, I do have a suggestion, one that might sound somewhat familiar. Now that Palitutu is no more of a threat, the time has come for us to work together toward a solution. Perhaps I should call for a reunion to unveil my suggestion?

October is never a good month for us and I have some business I need to attend to. So November it will be. I hope to pleasantly surprise you then; though I suspect very few if any will take kindly to what I shall reveal.

— Parasraya Purana

[He's choosing to ignore her choice of words.]

Dear Parasraya,

Which leaves the solution only within the Rift itself -with that already issued warning hanging over-, within the Calamity, on our own Worlds or perhaps alternatively within ourselves. Excusing the philosophical undertones, that is.

Speaking from much experience, such organized meetings never do seem to achieve very much good, either.

I also have much work to be getting on with, yet I'd drop it all in a beat should a viable solution be presented.

Would you?

~Sephiroth

Dear Sephiroth;

I do not expect this reunion to achieve much good either. As a matter of fact, I expect what shall happen then to cause a divide amongst our ranks. But certain things cannot be avoided.

If a viable solution was presented to me? I would of course do everything in my power to make it come true. Not just for us, our worlds or Crystallis. But for those before us who suffered and died to give us this chance.

— Parasraya Purana

What does it matter? You're still going to sit in your office and issue more essay questions no matter what we answer. Perhaps you might educate us as to what your plans are to deal with the Calamity, instead of simply relying on the abilities of others to solve all of your problems.

~L

P.S. I like the envelope.

Dear L;

Do not worry for me. I do intend on surprising you before the end of this story and I shall eventually share my ideas with you all. I, however, expect your dislike toward me to grow exponentially then.

— Parasraya Purana

Parasraya,

In that case, perhaps I could save us both some time and kill you now.

[She's kidding. It might be hard to tell, given her elegant handwriting, but Lust doesn't generally go around murdering everyone who annoys her, or there would be a lot more corpses lying around.]

Just don't expect to find answers to your questions unless you're willing to seek them out for yourself.

~L

Doctor,

The plan to divert the broken parts of the Calamity through the Soul Divider of this world is a good one. Essentially, if the Calamity is seeking wholeness, Jade's plan can get it to reabsorb those broken pieces of itself.

I am still planning on finishing the Rift Manipulator, a way in to the Interdimensional Rift. The entity behind the Calamity can be reasoned with, it has become curious about us before, there's the existence of the Avatars.

But. Now there might be more than one thing inside the Rift. Either that, or the nature of the being is something that we are having trouble comprehending. What we encountered after Palitutu is nothing like what we encountered when we were all drawn there through a shared partial psychic transference event last year. Is Shakyamuni the entirety of the Calamity? Does she have more than once face?

Does it matter? I have to try to communicate before I let anyone just destroy it.

If you were looking for where to help, Jade could use it the most, my path is set for the next little while. Or perhaps Sephiroth. In order to get to the Soul Divider, we'll need to get back to the Crystal Life Tree, and the lady who was heading up those trips is no longer with us.

-Jack Harkness

Dear Jack;

Whilst I wish for Jade's plan to come to fruition, it has one fatal flaw. The Calamity has been described to us as a god-like entity made of countless dead worlds. I doubt Crystallis could accommodate such an entity. In simple terms, it would be alike to fitting an elephant into a mousehole.

I do, however, share in your belief the Calamity doesn't have to be destroyed. There has to be an alternative. I simply hope all the others will be open to those alternatives rather than let their primal instincts and misplaced ethics blind them.

— Parasraya Purana

Doctor,

Previously, I would have agreed with you. However, a few Heroes brought back knowledge from my timeline. Knowledge that is specifically designed to be able to handle amounts of energy that should be too much. There's a race from my world, the Time Lords. Scientific geniuses that largely didn't share their contributions with anyone else. Luckily, I know the one exception, kind of the black sheep of the Time Lord family. I'd give the plan better odds now.

The Calamity, it's a life form, unlike anything even I've ever heard of before. But I also worry because spending so much time in isolation might also have driven such a life form mad.

Speaking of finding an alternative, though. I also did want to speak to you about something. What we saw in the portal. "Dr. Sumati." Normally I'd go to Chiaki or Kidd about this, and they were there, too, but

I already know what they'd say.

-Jack

Dear Jack;

I wish I could share in your optimism. Whilst I do not see the possibility of success in your idea, I wish you all the best in accomplishing.

And ah yes, Sumati. She reminded me greatly of someone I once knew. Based on your collective reaction, it is safe to assume she held a special significance to you?

— Parasraya Purana

Doctor,

She did. Or, I thought she did. Did you ever meet the Lady Kalki? One of our adversaries, on the surface of it, but also someone that has given us more reliable information than anyone else. One of the Avatars of the Calamity. Supposedly, she is dead, but I can't believe that.

Dr. Sumati presented a problem. You see, Kalki is a doppelganger, a reincarnation of a former Hero who was brought into this world's Cycle of Souls when they failed to stop the Calamity. Is Dr. Sumati that original Hero? Was that her world that we saw? Does it even matter, though? It has crossed my mind that the Hero, let's suppose it was Dr. Sumati, was one of the Heroes who tried to bargain with the Calamity last cycle, and who led to the creation of the Black Crystals, like we saw Palitutu using. If I were to ask Chiaki, we'd get hung up on that detail, and wonder whether or not her world was supposed to be destroyed? Maybe it doesn't matter at all.

But we created her. We met her, when we were thrown back in time, to Aqures Tosf. It was her, and she was merely a doppelganger, a worker at the lab. Then. She fell into the Crystal of Fire. I have no idea what happened to her between then and when she re-emerged as an Avatar. But it was us.

It was my fault.

I tried too hard to stop the destruction of Aqures Tosf, thought I could solve it like I always did, and it scared her. People try to tell me that it would have always happened that way, the way the Time Vortex works here, there is no affecting the timestream. I can't believe that. I know that time works differently. It was my fault.

And then, she was gone. We returned to the present, and she wasn't here. I couldn't ask why she had sent us to the past in the first place. I couldn't apologize. I saw such despair in her, when we met her. Did I cause that? I know better than to take responsibility for her actions. Those are on her head alone. But for causing her pain? That I wish I could apologize for.

-Jack

Hello,

Others are probably going to say things a lot more eloquently than I can but to me, there's no such thing as impossible.

Regardless, whatever plan is hatched up or we all decide to go with, I'll support it to the very end.

~ Selphie

Dear Selphie;

I hope you'll hold true to this promise, even if the plan ends up being an imperfect one.

— Parasraya Purana

Dear Ms. Purana,

No plan is perfect though. There's always something that could backfire or go wrong.

~ Selphie

Parasraya,

Honestly, I've just been making up everything as I've been going. I know there's a lot of questions about what we need to do, and what can be done about the Calamity and the choices we need to make. I've just been trying to do what feels right. It hasn't always taken me down the right path, but I feel like even in those mistakes I learn something new about myself. And besides, I know I can depend on everyone else if I get stuck myself.

I don't know if saving Palitutu was the right thing to do after all she's done, but the others believe strongly enough and I'll be there to make sure they're safe if something goes wrong.

The one thing I know for sure is I don't plan to use Kalki's song when we encounter Garland. I'm not worried about it coming down to a fight, even a fight to the death, but something about that song just feels wrong.

Cloud

Dear Cloud;

Sometimes doing what feels right is the right thing to do-- So long as you do indeed learn from your past mistakes and learn to differentiate between what feels right and what should be done.

I do however agree with your words. Such a song should never be uttered least all hope has been lost.

— Parasraya Purana

Parasraya,

That's what I've been trying to do. Everyone here has been encouraging me and have been a big help in me finding my own way. Talking to myself when I got to visit my home world last month helped out a lot too.

Cloud

To the worthy Parasraya:

My own plans are simple. The Calamity is in the Rift. It is a threat to my own world. Therefore, I plan on engaging it in battle, by journeying to the Rift. I am not so skilled at plans, so if one presents itself that is better, I would like nothing better to assist.

Yours sincerely,

Tazendra Lavode

Dear Tazendra;

Whilst I like the audacity of your plan, there is question left to answer: Can the calamity even be defeated?

— Parasraya Purana

In my experience, anything can be defeated with enough sorcery. And I would not have my world die without some battle to save it.

Unless you know something that suggests otherwise?

Yours Sincerely,

Tazendra Lavode

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