( CURRENT )

Year 5, Quarter 3
Walking the Old, Lonely Road

It has been a few months since Ex-SOLDIER Oren McGinnis appeared in Zephon from the world of Gaia. His arrival followed the very moment he seemed fated to die in a final stand against Shinra while aiding another branch of Avalanche in saving the people of the Sector 7 slums from certain doom. Having something of a troubling epiphany regarding the seeming pointlessness of his life if he could just be teleported to another world without warning, Oren has lived a solitary existence in Zephon as a mercenary for hire... A terrifyingly effective one at that. While still holding firm to his past morals, he has currently not bothered to try and track down anyone he might've known nor dared try making any new friends or allies. Why bother if it'll just hurt him even more should he be proven right about "it"...? He also struggles still with some latent mental issues that have only continued to plague him despite the new scenery. From here, his new story in Zephon truly begins when he could no longer elude fate itself.


Life is But a Dream... (Open Thread w/ G'raha Tia )

Following some recent troubles in finding new mercenary work, Oren decides to take a break at a local café he frequents in Torensten, a city-state in Zephon that currently serves as his "base of operations". He laments and ponders over his current situation when a new arrival to Zephon shakes up the monotony of his new life...

The Dragon and the Lone Soldier (w/ Caius Dragelion )

Oren manages to find a monster bounty after having some trouble finding new mercenary work in recent days. This bounty would pay rather handsomely upon its proven completion on top of that. After finding out the details, Oren travels to the Metaia Marshlands to hunt down a fiendish Malboro in order to secure the safety of its bizarrely popular trade route again. Along the way, a chance meeting with something of a celebrity in Zephon occurs when both desire to hunt down the same monster...

Like Seeing a Ghost (w/ Cloud Strife )

Business has been booming a bit more thankfully and Oren was personally presented with a new job to take on. While once again being tormented by thoughts of his past and his current situation as he walks through Torensten to make his preparations for this job, a ghost from Oren's past walks back into his new life in Zephon... And he is not at all the person Oren remembers him being...

Rampant Fiend (w/ Zenos Galvus )

After some previous fiascos, it was time for Oren to get back to what he unfortunately did best... Killing things. Though, this time, he would be up against a completely unknown enemy... A strange behemoth of a robot appeared somewhere in the Provo area out of nowhere one day and many have lost their lives trying to defeat it in its path of destruction. Oren was thus recruited under the condition that it was a team effort with another powerful mercenary. It was a good excuse to go to Provo and hang around there for a little while too. However, the utter behemoth Oren would be met with as his partner for this mission might prove to have more common ground with him than he'd like to admit... Beyond being another Outlander and a particularly infamous one in his home world...

Weary (w/ Angeal Hewley )

Oren's time in Provo had proven a little less fruitful than he'd like following his battle against the robotic monstrosity alongside a fellow Outlander mercenary. Not even a trip to the Pale Coast to find some extra work amongst the mercenaries that protected it paid off. Not really desiring to travel back to Provo or even Torensten just yet, Oren decided to wander up the northern portion of the Pale Coast into its colder, rockier portion to see the sights and think. Trapped with his cruel thoughts reminiscing about his sordid past and the morbid conclusions he came to about his existence in Zephon, Oren soon has a painful psychological attack. This attack being one of the many problems Oren believes (correctly) to be an unfortunate side-effect of the Mako bath he underwent in the process of being transformed into a SOLDIER. It soon passes, but as if his own mind was playing tricks on him, he bore witness to an angelic figure sitting before him on the rocky cliffside... One who had truly been long dead by the time Oren himself had perished in their home world... It seemed he wasn't the only ghostly Ex-SOLDIER being troubled by his life, old and new alike.

Dance of the Giant (w/ Auron , Hythlodaeus , (Possible Others) )

TBA.

Falling Back to Earth (w/ Kefka Palazzo )

TBA.

The Dragonblades Want You...? (w/ Yuffie Kisaragi )

TBA.

Under the Rose (w/ Aerith Gainsborough )

TBA.

( COMPLETED )

Bask in the Glory (Abandoned) (w/ ... Huh? )

It seems life indeed had no intention of letting Oren remain on a lonely road for long... Reuniting with an old face and meeting some new faces have left him tormented by thoughts of better times, yet he continues to try and bury them beneath his mercenary activities. Following reports of a peculiar incident in the country of Aljana, Oren was presented with a mission to travel there and aid with some peacekeeping to ease the concerns of a populace now on edge. Of course, he has to travel there the hard way and, along the way, he... He... Ẃ̷̗ḧ̶͈́o̴̗̅ ̶̢̚d̷̠̕i̸̼̿d̶̙͝ ̶̼͋ḧ̴̗e̴̯̽ ̸̺͝r̶͇͒u̸̻̒n̵̤̾ ̷̞̋í̷̢n̷̜̓ẗ̷̺́o̷̢̎ ̸̹͗o̴̤̔u̷͚̿t̶̢́ ̴͚̃h̷̬̕ȇ̷͍r̷̡̈́é̵͇ ̴͉͘a̷͎͛g̶̤̔à̶̰i̸̞̕n̶̦̉?̸͖̌ Regardless. He had some unwanted company during his time in Aljana, which went pretty smoothly otherwise.