-Joined a company that took over my homeland
-Shot my mentor and his daughter to save the department
-Failed to retrieve and save a target
-Killed a great number of people
-Tortured some number of the above
-Didn't spill the company's secrets when tortured in turn
-Haven't yet killed co-workers
-Kidnapped the Ancient
-Helped drop the Sector 7 plate
-Helped orchestrate the 'rebuilding' of Nibelheim
-Generally ignored Prof. Hojo's insanity


I'll let you assign values to these as you see fit.

( private )

Hard to believe here as long as I have. And even after all this time I can't help but wonder what's been going on in my stead. Am I being missed? A question I don't have the answer to.

[The video, like so many others today, clicks on to catch Tseng in a dimly-lit gray cell. He's seen better days, to judge by the wounds he's sporting, but they aren't life-threatening (yet). They are, however, both extensive and varied. Some look to be knife or gun wounds, others are burn wounds... or worse. But he seems to be holding up well enough.]

So this is your game, City? I've seen worse.

((Tseng's punishment? Good old fashioned eye-for-eye. One wound for every wound he's inflicted on people during his time as a Turk. And that number is fairly large.))

[For once, Tseng doesn't sound perfectly calm. There's a faint note of exhaustion there, although he's doing his best to hide it.]

I think I'll be glad when this is over. I can't imagine it being comfortable for anyone. All I can hope is that the lack of sleep doesn't cause too many ill effects.