One Man, Two Lives: The Journal of AJ Marche, reprised

Well, I tried this before, but now I got my own game (Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance) for graduation, and now I have new characters, and am further then I was, so I figured I'd give it another shot. STill, I haven't beaten it, so no spoilers!

Entry One: Cyril, Home of Clan Curare'

Let me be the one to say that my path, my war, my curse, hasn't been easy. With the Ivalice Royal/Judicial Guards/Prisons and every rogue on my path, not to mention moving the clan throughout Ivalice under disguise, and not to mention letting go half of our members since they were slowing us down, and they wouldn't do their work, has been more than stressful. For all of us.
Confused? Let me start from the beginning.
My name is AJ Marche, and my newly divorced mom, my sickly brother Doned, and I moved from the sunny desert town of Devange to the eternally wintry town of St. Ivalice, since, well, my mom grew up there and she says that Doned "needs" the fresh air.
I was miserable, until I met some people, good and bad:
Mewt, who's shy and slightly eccentric, who almost never talks, and carries a small bear that his dead mom gave him. He's one of my friends.
Ritz, who is very outspoken, thus making her not so popular. She has white hair, but she dyes it red. She's my other friends.
Guiness, Lyle, and Colin: the school bullies.
On the last day, we had a snowball fight, which went great, until Colin threw a snowball at Mewt, which had a rock in it, causing him to bleed. We also learned about a certain type of poison, called curare', which is very deadly.
After school that day, Mewt bought a book, which was very old. He read aloud from it, which was in what we think was Latin.
That night, my life changed forever.
When I woke up the next morning, St. Ivalice was gone. I was now in Cyril, Ivalice. Mom, Doned, Mewt, and Ritz were gone, although I found out that Mom ran the shop in Ivalice. She didn't remeber me or Doned though.
After wondering around Cyril Square for a few hours, confused, wondering where I was and what was going on, or if maybe this was all a dream, and I had had a few too many drinks, let's say, though I'd never admit it to the others. Anyways, I accidentally bumped into two people, who were bangaas, which look like lizards, so, since I was a little "drunk", I said really loudly, "Hey, you're a lizard!". Now, that's a huge diss to them, so they wanted to fight me, so I thought that meant killing me, so I was scared!
But then, a moogle, who are a bit like mice with immoble wings, named Montblanc,tried to save me, but they wanted to beat him up too! Oddly enough, I thought he was fairly calm, for the "situation."
Suddenly, this very tall person in a full suit of armor appeared, and then proclaimed that items were outlawed, and darkness was favored.
Well, it was close, but we beat them. (I was a soldier, but am now a hunter, and Montblanc was a black mage, but is now a mog knight.) One of the guy's used an item, and the guy in armor, the judge, sent him to jail! There are two types of jails: maximum, for offenders, and minimum, for people trying to get a pardon. The guy went to maximum.
He took me back to his clan, or group's, pub, The Prancing Chocobo, where he introduced me to the then clan: Ravel, a human girl, who was a soldier, but is now a fighter, Monte, who was a white monk, but is now a templar, Rooster, a nu mou, who was a white monk, but now is a sage, and Harietter, a viera, who are all girls, who are like humans, but have rabbit ears. She was an archer, but is now an assassin.
Ravel is really cool, and is a bit tomboyish. During battle she has been mistaken for a guy. She's the youngest of the original group. She's got a lot of power.
Monte is deeply religious, giving up the path of power for the path of magical might. He is so powerful with magic now. He has the ability to petrify people, and it most often works. He's pretty reserved.
Rooster's really funny. But the ood thing is, when he wants animal souls, can be pretty bloodthirsty. So far he can morph into a flan, bomb, bug, and two types of panther.
Hariette's the mean one. She's mean, rebellious, free spirited, wild, hot, and deadly. All the men of our clan, Clan Curare', have been attracted to her.
She has deadly assassination power, and has mastered sniper skills, which include invisibility, and our clan's signature move, Beso Toxico. (Her sword or arrows are tipped with curare'.)
Well, I have inventory to do, what with the loss of members. Someone's coming. Maybe a new member?
-AJ Marche, Cyril

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No need to post the exact same thread twice. =/

0_o.....

There seems to be something odd sticking out here as a big flashing red light to me. Call it co-incidence, but I find it meaningful that your character has part of my name, and his friend "Mewt", is similar in name to one of my favorite characters "Mewtwo", minus one w and one o. Might be a coincidence, might not be, either way it's an interesting way that you're writing the fic, going Journal style and all. :p

Oh no. The AJ part is actually my initials, so that's why I chose it. And Mewt was a total coincidence.

Entry Two, Sprohm, Home of the Ivalice Prisons

Wow. It's so hot right now. No one can sleep, so the entire clan's awake, though not active. Everyone's restless. Hariette, now an assassin, is threatening to use one of her assassin techniques on a few people: Nightmare, which puts the person to sleep, then are knocked out in three turn phases, or Rockseal, which turns them into stone. Montblanc, now an animist, who recently got out of minimal security Ivalice prison, aka the Pardoning Prison, just used the technique Sheep Count on her, and now she's fast asleep. Soon, everyone else will be asleep.
Not long ago, Clan Curare' was called in by a rich woman, who also helped us and the Clan's HQ disband a poaching clan, to find a ring her boyfriend had given her, but she had dropped it in the Ulei River, and she believes thata lamia, who are like women or mermaids, but are actually half snake.
Anyways, when we got there, there were three lamias, two red and one blue, a goblin, and a fairy there. We beat them, so in the conditions of surrender, they had to give back the ring.
Another time, I was called in to survey the river, because someone thought it was "warping", so I went down there and saw nothing at first, but then I saw a dark hole on the bottom of a shallow part, and as I leaned in to investigate, the ledge crumbled, and I fell in headfirst. I was waiting to strike my head on the bottom, but I never did. I did land on a cold, dark, stone floor. It was cobblestone, and it looked like I was in some sort of tomb. The only light came froma a blue crystal at the edge of the room, and when I stepped closer to look at it, this giant blue thing appeared. It had a white mane, and it's body was covered in white stripes. It said that it's name was Famfrit, and that I had to be expelled. I didn't know what that meant, but I wasn't going to stick around and find out. The judge came, and brought Montblanc, Ravel, Monte, Rooster, and Hariette, and Famfrit summoned five floateyes, which are like giant bats, that have only one giant eye. Well, we defeated Famfrit, and as soon as we did, the crystal shattered. A great wind came, and sucked away the judge, Montblanc, Ravel, Monte, Rooster, Hariette, and the floateyes away. I clung to a column, and out of the crystal's rubble, I saw Mewt! He was dressed in rich robes, and was screaming at something, but I doubt that it was me, or that he could even see me, but then Famfrit saw me and knocked the column off, and I was sucked out.
Well, now it's cooling down, and because of Montblanc, everyone's falling asleep. So am I.

AJ Marche, Sprohm

Entry Three- Cadoan, Home of the AnitLaws

Here we are! On the road to the palace! I wasn't sure if Cadoan would still be here, what with a totema attack, Clan Borznai and the Redwings coming and falling, Ezel Barbier and the antilaws, and the beginning of a town to town search, making us unable to back to Cyril and Sprohm right now.
Once they finish in Sprohm, where they've started, they'll come to Cadoan and Cyril, since Sprohm, Cadoan, and Cyril are in a tri city area. They'll come to Cadoan, but before they do, we'll have to leave, to head to Baguba Port, to stay with Montblanc's little brother, Nono. Clan Curare' goes to the beach!
Let me explain.
When I first set foot in Cadoan, they'd just toughened the law by two, so now there were two laws, making it easier to go to jail! The town, a political hotspot, and the nu mou city, was in an uproar. I also heard of these cards that could alter the law: they came in black and white, white ones creating a law to inconvience your foe, and black ones to null a law for that engagement. I learned about this from an odd nu mou who went nameless at the time.
That night, as I was about to go to sleep, I heard yells in Cadoan Marketplace, so I went out there, with the original Curare'. Well, I saw that a group was attacking the odd nu mou, who turned out to be Ezel Barbier, the maker of anitlaws, who charged 100,000 a card. I figured I should help him, so we did it. THe first chance I got, Montblanc used the totema abitlity to summon Famfrit's power.
The night sky got even darker, and as I cowered in fear, as I had never witnessed a totema attack, all I could hear was screams, destruction, and laser gunfire. Finally, there was one last shot that swept through the place like an atom bomb. Only one man survived, the others lay defeated. He was near defeat, so we defeated him.
After that, the HIgh Judgemaster came, along with four bangaa templars, which is what Monte was (he's currently a dragoon, having mastered the jobs of defender and gladiator.) The Judgemaster issued an order that made it nearly impossible to escape, but he did it, taking me with him. Before we vanished, I recognized the Judgemaster. It was Mewt's dad, Cid!
Back at the pub, Ezel gave us full use of his shop, which was an honor, since we only had to trade cards we obtained, rather then buy them.
For a while, there had been rumor of a clan, Clan Borznai, who were trying to destroy the free market, and bring all the other clans under them, or destroy the ones that would not bow to them. Make an example of them. We were haulted by one of their teams, a clan who had given up themselves, to pressure us into joining. We destroyed them, which lead to a war. Borznai vs. Curare', no undecided. We finally, after months of war, ended up officially disbanding Clan Borznai, destroying the holdouts too, but unfortunantly let their imprisoned leader go, since he disguised himself, and asked us to build him an airship to take him across the sea, where he signaled the coming of the Redwings, foreign political activists who had their evil eye on Ivalice for a long time. They sent over many foreign monsters, and some of their soldiers, finally their entire army, the second in command, the Dark Knight Gukko, who we slew, and their Dark Lord, Lord Dreadlord, who was the king of vampires, who had come to defeat the clan's HQ, who would then control all the clans, who would rebel at the palace, and then Ivalice would fall. After forming the Spiritstone, made up of two chefryils, made up of four sigyls, we went to the fabled, mythical monistary, the Citadel of Light, where mages, sages, and illusionisst used magic to protect Ivalice. The citadel was rediscovered in Nubswood. Rooster ended up killing the Dreadlord with white magic, and since he was a morpher, (now an illusionist), he recieved the Dreadlord's soul as a weapon.
The prince, who is Mewt!, wants me brought before him, and my clan disbanded. The only reason he knows I'm here is because I fought his aid, Babus Swain, after breaking the second crystal, the crystal totema of the nu mou, Ultima. Babus and I at the same time saw Mewt, screaming at me. Babus went back to the palace, and I headed to Cyril, where I learned of the search of every clan for a male human matching my description, and his clan. Well, after getting some of our members out of prison, I headed to Cadoan, and now it's not safe here, so I will head for Koringwood, rest in the Naragai Cave, through Salikawood, and then northwest to Baguba. Sadly, almost half of our members will be fired, so we can get there faster. Whether or not they're arrested is no longer a concernof mine. I must hurry. Naragai, is a popular resting place.

-AJ Marche, Cadoan

Entry Four- Baguba Port, The coastal Moogle City, south of Jagd Dorsa, the City of Destruction.

Well, here we are at Baguba Port, with Nono, Montblanc's brother. Nono was recently flying over Jagd Dorsa on his airship, when he was hit and stranded there for a few days. It was there he learned of the three jadgs, three super-cites so close together, that sometimes, people refer to Jagd Dorsa and the two other jagds as Jagd Dorsa. Each city takes up many, many, many miles, and are connected, making the faster, but more dangereous, Jagd Pass.
Let's see...there's Jagd Dorsa, the southernmost one, destroyed by war, Jadg Ahli, the City of Darkness, which is the central one, destroyed by years of wild, unbalanced, dark magic, and last, but certainly not least, Jadg Helje, the Damned City, where demons destroyed it, since that is where legend has it, is the very hskay gateway to hell.
No one lives there anymore, except for a few rogue clans who use it as a base, like Cyril is our base, and even those clans often leave it to go about and terrorize the other areas.
Jadg means lawless. No judge may enter there. Plus people can die, permanently. In a normal engagement, if the foe is defeated, they are dead, but the judge brings them back to life, using a top secret technique, which I wish Rooster could learn, but he's a master white mage. He knows all the abilities possible for them, which is why he is studying phantasm magic, which is a weaker version of totema power.
Anyways, one of our members was killed in Jadg Helje. His name was Carlos. He was a human theif, hoping to be a ninja one day. We have a marker for him on a small house near where he was killed, and Rooster blessed all of it with white magic, so no demon could enter it without dying a terrible death. I think I may've seen Hariette cry a bit. All of our members were there for the funeral.
Anyways, we got to Baguba, and now me, Motnblanc, and the other four are staying in/helping out with Nono's shop, while the other's are at the pub.
Right now, I'm at a cafe near the beach, and the rest are playing there. I'll go join them in a minute.
This whole world is so beautiful. It kind of kills me to know I'll be the one responsible for this world's destruction. I hope, once everything's back to normal, I'll have a few friends left, and I won't be dead and bitter inside, granted I survive this. As we draw closer to the palace, I grow more and more torn.
I found Guiness, Colin, and Lyle. They were demons in Jagd Helje, though.
I also found Ritz.
Clan Curare' was called in to disband a theiving clan by the Clan's HQ. We were given a notice from them, and the palace/judges for the leader, so there was no way they were going to escape this. I was also informed that we were to have help.
When we got there, help had already been there. It was two members of Clan Ritz(talk about an ego!). They were Ritz, and her viera friend Shara.
Well, we disbanded them, and had to arrest them for resisting the order. After that, I also asked her for help in returning the world to normal, but she refused, and got mad when I asked why.
I tell you, Ritz can be really weird. She'll get all mad, and then act like you're supposed to know what's wrong.
Well, enough of this. It looks like they're setting up a volleyball net, and they need help. I guess I'd better go help.
AJ Marche- Baguba Port