Aeris was killed by Sephiroth. We then traveled up towards the snowy mountains and came upon a warm little snowy village. It was a nice village all in all but there was a real disturbing murder and abduction that took place in this one scientist's home. That home belonged to Aeris's parents. Aeris's mother was also an Ancient or Cetra, and the scientist that was questioning her must have fell in love at some point during his research. They created a happy home, until Hojo one day found the scientist, Aeris's father, and murdered him. The mother and her child were abducted and imprisoned for scientific experimentation and interrogation I believe
Cloud was given a snowboard by kid who badly injured himself while snowboarding himself, something his pops regretted as he was the one who gave him the board. From here, there was a moronic interaction on Shinra's part, and after that we snowboarded down the mountain. Found an ice cavern to explore, then we scaled the mountain climbing, and climbing. We actually almost froze to death, but an extremely kind fellow mountain climber who lost his partner in a climbing expedition saved us and offered us much at his house. He gave us warm shelter, a place to rest for as long as we needed and pleased. Offered us plenty of information, and advice as well, maybe even items to purchase? But this guy was a savior, one of the greatest allies yet. And with all his advice, we went for it again, this time warming ourselves up to 38 degrees Fahrenheit every stop so that we wouldn't freeze upon our ascent up the snowy mountain. We eventually made our way up and this is where things got fucking crazy
The plot essentially exploded in our faces like a bomb. The Reunion was taking place atop this mountain. It was all so puzzling and shocking. Sephiroth seemed to be offering us the truth, or at least it seemed that way. At first, I thought he was trying to deceive us, but he was actually trying to clue Cloud in on some points he never quite put together himself. I think only Cloud, and Tifa, Sephiroth, and maybe big MAYBE Barret know what is going on
I'll have to come back and reflect on it another time, but so much has happened during the last three sessions of FFVII. Curently, where I'm at now, Cid has assumed leadership under Barret's orders. Leadership has passed down from Cloud Strife (currently has extreme Mako Poisoning) to Tifa, to Barret for a brief moment, to Captain Cid. Tifa's staying by Cloud's side; he's in terrible shape. Nanaki requests that we visit them every now and again when speaking with out new leader Captain Cid
I've been really enjoying the Materia system as of late, and recently I battled at Mt. Condor and had to enter the battlefield myself since our troops and strategy could not hold off the Shinra's forces and monsters. 9,000 gil was left and I added another 5,000 gil to aid the military to defend itself. I'll be back in a reasonable amount of time to do more, I'm thinking about going out to battle a bunch in the fields and explore while Cid is at the helm leading everyone. I have Cid, Barret, and Vincent ready to go; that's who I'll be fighting with
I explored the tropical beach area, Corel, the now shut down Gold Saucer where Dio is at the front contemplating whether or not he should be in business at a time like this. Everyone is worried about Meteor. All the characters are talking about it. Shanghai Town too. Shinra apparently has a plan to destroy Meteor and they're working on it now, we eavesdropped thanks to Cait Sith and found out their plans. Huge Materia is going to be collected at Corel and Mt. Condor so I'll eventually be heading there when I'm ready
Yeah, those latest FFVII gaming sessions were some I'll never forget. I was actually not feeling too well on the night that I played and found out about Cloud's past and the plot involving Meteor, Weapon, the Shinra, Hojo, Cloud being a clone, Sephiroth, the Reunion, Tifa withholding information, all these shocking things at once. I went to bed with a slight fever, and it eventually turned into some kind of migraine and/or horrible sinus headache of some sort, and when I went to bed I was thinking about the story and Sephiorth and basically all that I had learned that night, trying to piece together what I had just witnessed. Trying to figure out what was really going on... But by that time, the headache came upon me, and I lay in bed kind of disoriented and was still thinking about the plot while all this was happening. Well, I was currently thinking about Sephiroth's role at that time, I was even remembering or playing the music (in my own head, that is) while I was thinking about all this, and then I became super paranoid and feared and felt that his ominous presence was near my door, right near the room's door. I was disoriented due to the onset of the migraine so I didn't know which direction I was turning in bed, paranoid while thinking Sephiroth was near me, the music playing in my head, and actual fear crept in even at some point because I didn't know what the fuck was going on. Yeah that was a trip. I've only had three or four migraines in my entire life so for it to happen right after having played a serious stretch of FFVII was interesting I thought. Kind of alarming and traumatic stuff. But on that night it was clear that the story is powerful and can have a huge impact on those playing the game. Definitely a memory I wont soon forget