The Temple & City of the Ancients
	POWER OF EXPOSITION Keystone keystone. Keystone? Keystone! KEYSTONE.
	CLOUD; I'm getting the feeling that I need a keystone. I don't know why, but I just know that I'll find it at the Gold Saucer.
	DIO: Well, of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world . . .
	CLOUD: Give me keystone. Need keystone. For plans. Plans of importance.
	DIO: Well, I just bet you know what you'll have to do in return.
	CLOUD: I . . . I have made myself ready, sir.
	DIO: Fight! Fight in the arena for the glory of the Keystone.
	CLOUD: Oh. I don't mind doing that. It'll be fun.
	CAIT SITH: That sure is a nice Keystone you've got there.
	CLOUD: Thank you, Mr. Moogle-Cat.
	GOLD SAUCER EMPLOYEE: You cannot ride the tram. I know that usually I say that you can, right? Well today you can't. You can't and there's nothing you can do about it! Oh, the power to say "no" is just so freeing. You cannot ride the tram. No tram for you. None. Absolutely no chance that you are going on the tram.
	TIFA: I guess we'll have to find alternate lodgings.
	CID: I knew there was a reason why the Ghost Hotel existed.
	VINCENT: You mean, a reason besides giving people who have chronic reading comprehension problems a reason to think we're doing it up the butt?
	CID: Not that they're necessarily wrong, mind you.
	BARRETT: You two done? Cait Sith's got us hard-working folk some rooms.
	CAIT SITH: Mr. Cloud, won't you tell us a story?
	CLOUD: No.
	CID: C'mon, kid. You can sleep when you're dead.
	BARRETT: Don't forget to give Sephiroth a funny voice.
	CLOUD: I'm too tired to do a flashback. Let me just give you our mission statement. It's simple. Two words: Sephiroth.
	AERIS: Cloud? That's one word. I think you're missing the verb.
	CLOUD: Damnit Aeris, you know that's where negotiations broke down. Those tricky verbs. Well, anyway. Two words: Sephiroth. Sephiroth wants the Promised Land. If he gets it, we all die. Don't ask me how I know, I just do. Anyway, Shin-Ra is looking for the Garden of Eden, but only the promised people can find it, and they don't know that. So really we're just chasing after Sephiroth because I like hate him.
	AERIS: Oh, I feel it. I feel the cosmos.
	BARRETT: Man, this stuff is heavy. I'm confused.
	TIFA: That's because it's contradictory and doesn't make any sense.
	CLOUD: No, no. I think you're confused because it's too deep for you. But it's okay. I understand exactly what's going on.
	RED XIII: Am I a clone of Sephiroth? Oh no, I'm going to go crazy and want to kill people. Why must this evil lurk within me?
	YUFFIE: Don't talk crazy, now.
	VINCENT: Hey Cid, let's go back to our rooms. As in separate locations. I would like to stress that this is not proof of our buttsex.
	CID: Yup, absolutely no buttsex here! None. Okay Vincent, that sounds good. I'm always tired after those massages of your-- you've got nothing on us, copper.
	CLOUD: I'm sleepy, too.
	AERIS: Want to go on a date?
	CLOUD: Not really, no.
	AERIS: C'mon, it'll be fun.
	ACTORS: You are just in time to be in our improv show.
	CLOUD: How incredibly lucky for us. I've always wanted to be a star.
	KING: Rescue the princess.
	CLOUD: What's my motivation?
	AERIS: The princess.
	CLOUD: Who?
	AERIS: Me, you twit.
	CLOUD: Oh, well I guess that's sufficient motivation. I will slay the dragon with the power of love.
	DRAGON: Kiss me, you fool.
	CLOUD: Our love is forbidden by society, Mr. Dragon, making it the best kind of love. Do you want to get married and move to a quaint town far away from those that know us?
	DRAGON: Whoa, I don't think I'm ready for that kind of commitment. Here, take the princess.
	CLOUD: A winner is me.
	ACTORS: Hooray!
	AERIS: Well, that was fun. Let's go on the gondola. I'm buying.
	CLOUD: Sweet. Finally, she lets up on the wallet.
	AERIS: Wow, aren't those fireworks pretty?
	FMV FIREWORKS: We sure are.
	AERIS: All this ephemeral beauty reminds me of how life is fleeting. Wouldn't you say, Cloud?
	CLOUD: ...Pretty
	AERIS: You're not paying attention to me. It's time for me to get cryptic.
	CLOUD: Crap, I barely know what's going on at the best of times. Whoa, it's Cait Sith.
	AERIS: With the Keystone.
	CLOUD: Illegally. Let's chase him throughout Gold Saucer.
	CAIT SITH: Surprise. I'm a spy. Aren't you surprised? I mean, it's just so surprising, isn't it? Well, anyway, let's pretend that this didn't happen and just be friends.
	AERIS: How about not?
	CAIT SITH: How about I'm willing to torture and possibly kill a little girl to remain with your care-free band of world-savers?
	CLOUD: I hate you, Cait Sith.
	CAIT SITH: Yeah, whatever. How about you sleep on it, hm? And then let's hurry on to the Temple of the Ancients.
	AERIS: Oh, I feel it. I feel the Temple. It is very heavy and made of stone. It is full of ancient knowledge.
	TIFA: You will die for that pun. Hey, it's Tseng.
	TSENG: Hey, it's me. And I'm kind of dying. I love you, Aeris.
	AERIS: That's nice, I guess.
	TSENG: Put the Keystone on the altar, Cloud. And leave me to my love of ellipses. And my death.
	CLOUD: Okay, sounds cool.
	AERIS: You may have been a scumbag, but at least you were always impeccably dressed. I shall miss you, Tseng.
	CID: Once you place that "Keystone" on the "altar" you'll be in the "temple's inner sanctum." You know what I mean, son?
	CLOUD: No?
	CID: Just promise me you'll use protection.
	AERIS: Oh, I feel it. I feel the soul. It wants to show us something.
	ELENA: Hey, Tseng. I like you.
	TSENG: How about we go out after this job?
	ELENA: Oh, that would make me so happy. I could just sing for joy.
	SEPHIROTH: Now that she's skipped off, it's time for some irony. Irony by katana.
	TSENG: Ow. Incidentally, these are some nice murals on the wall, aren't they?
	TIFA: If we find the mural room, we find the crazy man. Let's move out.
	CLOUD: Sephiroth, just what do you think you're doing?
	SEPHIROTH: Becoming one with the planet. One life at a time. Well, actually, many lives at a time, once I grasp the might of the destructive mural magic meteor.
	Yuffie: I'm sorry, what? You're going to what? What kind of obtuse bullshit is this?
	SEPHIROTH: The symbolic kind. Also, you'll be sorry. Ta.
	CLOUD: Oh, that's interesting.
	TIFA: Uh, Cloud?
	CLOUD: You are not a bear, I am a bear. Furthermore I find your face to be --
	CLOUD: Oh, I'm alright. Everything's cool. Right. Materia. And not giving it to Sephiroth.
	AERIS: This entire building is a materia.
	BARRETT: So, just by standing in it, any of us can use it?
	AERIS: Not quite. It has to be a shiny round orb that can conveniently fit in weapons and jewelry first. So, someone will have to die in order to extract the materia, slowly and horribly crushed by the ability to summon Meteor.. If I'm making sense.
	YUFFIE: I volunteer Cait Sith.
	CAIT SITH: That's right. Since I'm a puppet, I won't die. So I'll do it.
	YUFFIE: I would have volunteered you even if you weren't.
	CAIT SITH: Oh. Well, that's nice I guess. I'll catch you guys on the flip side.
	BARRETT: I stone cold hate you, Cait Sith.
	CLOUD: When you get back you will give me the black materia. For safe-keeping. Yes. Safe.
	SEPHIROTH: I want you to give me the Black Materia, Cloud.
	CLOUD: Okay
	SEPHIROTH: Thanks. You've really made this whole experience very easy. I'll be sure to leave you a good recommendation, okay?
	CLOUD: Than-- I mean, wait a second. Crap. Why did I do that? Crap. We're all going to die.
	AERIS: Not all of us.
	FORESHADOWING METER: Blip.
	CLOUD: Aeris, have I gone crazy?
	AERIS: Don't be silly. This forest is just the shady pines of tranquility and when you wake up you will feel better.
	CLOUD: Have you gone crazy?
	AERIS: Shut up, Cloud, I'm feeling the cosmos.
	SEPHIROTH: I think I like her, Cloud. And you know what I do to people I like.
	CLOUD: The same thing you do to everyone, Sephiroth.
	SEPHIROTH: Try to take-- I mean, katana. Yeah.
	TIFA: Cloud, wake up. Aeris is gone, you gave the materia to Sephiroth and we're all going to die.
	CLOUD: Aeris went to the City of the Ancients. And we will go there, too. And everything'll be fine. Right, Foreshadowing Meter?
	FORESHADOWING METER: ...
	VINCENT: That's my line.
	BARRETT: Maybe we shouldn't trust the crazy with the Black Materia ever again. That's what I say.
	YUFFIE: You know, that kind of makes sense.
	CLOUD: But in the mean time, let's find the Lunar Harp.
	BONE VILLAGE FOREMAN: Good luck with that.
	CLOUD: When walking through the woods, it is important to investigate glowing floaty red things. Ooh, shiny.
	RED XIII: You know what looks comfortable? This bed. Never mind that it's in this abandoned city that's probably full of ghosts and definitely full of monsters. Never mind that it has been quite a long time, arguably centuries, since anyone has dusted this place. I think we should sleep here.
	CID: Seconded. Need a break to take a smoke.
	CLOUD: The giant fish moves aside for me. Hi, Aeris.
	SEPHIROTH: Hey, baby. Ever been impaled on someone's sword before?
	AERIS: This is my Nancy Kerrigan moment, isn't it?
	SEPHIROTH: Except I didn't aim for youe kneecap.
	CLOUD: I hate you, Sephiroth. That was entirely uncalled for.
	SEPHIROTH: Yeah, it kind of was. But it made you angry. Also, you're my puppet. Dance.
	JENOVA: You heard my son. Dance, boy.
	CLOUD: I'm not really in a dancing mood at this moment.
	YUFFIE: But Cloud, you've gotta dance.
	TIFA: Only your dancing can heal what ails us.
	BARRETT: I don't think we should bother Cloud too much. There's been an incident. Mr. Cloud, won't you sum up this disc for us?
	CLOUD: I met a girl. Her name was Aeris. I also knew this guy. His name was Sephiroth. I went off to find Sephiroth, but Sephiroth said he made me do it because I'm his puppet and now Aeris is dead and I'm just very upset right now. But I know this: if we can get that Black Materia back from Sephiroth, everything will be okay.
	CAIT SITH: Aside from Aeris being dead.
	YUFFIE: Well actually, I hear that if you beat Emerald and Ruby weapons with just Cloud and get a mastered Hi-Holy materia with Breathing materia equipped...
	TIFA: Oh, God. Not that crap again. Aeris is dead. Like, for real. Okay? And it's sad and all, but she's dead now, and it's time for us to move on. Okay? Okay. Now, c'mon Cloud. We're heading north.
END OF DISC ONE

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