Sector 5

[Flying Arrow]

From a gameplay perspective, I fought all of about 5 battles before I hit up Airbuster. That would still not really be enough time for that chopper to pick up ol' Pres and drop him off at the reactor all sneaky like

Reading this post made me re-read the initial post and now I realize I completely mis-read it and my own post in this thread is stupid and pointless. I'm not going to bother editing it so that future posters can see how stupid I am.

To actually answer the thread: plot convenience. Or maybe they just flew him over from the top of Shinra tower right to Sector 5 after the whole train alarm thing. President's office in eyeshot of all the reactors anyway (going by that FMV with the plate falling and the president watching from his office).

[Jiro]

It's still pretty quick, but I did forget about the time it would've taken the party to walk through the train tunnels and whatnot. I suppose the alarm sounding would've alerted Shinra as Bolivar said, and then they just guessed they would be there. Damn Jessie, you really boned them on that one.

(SPOILER)CONGRATULATIONS! You found the hidden immunity idol! (just kidding, that's a Ciddie, you think I'd let the real one be searchable for the text 'hidden immunity idol'?)

[Sephex]

I still say Cloud fell because he remembered how lame Barret's KING VERMIN comeback was towards the the President.

[Jiro]

That or he was definitely trying to impress Tifa. That's what I would do.

[VeloZer0]

I always take every dungeon you do in an RPG as somewhat of an approximation scaled down version, much like the world map. So although you can run through a reactor in 5 minutes I imagine that in 'reality' it was probably more like an hour.

[Sephex]

I always take every dungeon you do in an RPG as somewhat of an approximation scaled down version, much like the world map. So although you can run through a reactor in 5 minutes I imagine that in 'reality' it was probably more like an hour.

I do that as well. Kind of like how in EVERY first person shooter type game (be it traditional gameplay or RPG elements) they have your character move very fast. A famous example is Doom Guy from, well, Doom. Even in FPS games where you feel like you are moving slow, you are still generally moving at a speed that would be impossible point blank or impossible to maintain.

[Jiro]

I thought the reactor looked pretty damn big though.

[Jiro]

PS where the hell is Cloud's payment for this mission. Barret clearly promised 2000 gil, and the reactor clearly blew up. So why's he holdin' out?

[VeloZer0]

I always wonder about that.

[Bubba]

To be fair, the next time that Cloud meets Barret after falling into the church is the collapse of the plate that kills Biggs, Wedge and Jessie.

Cloud: "Hey big guy, I know three of your best pals have just been horribly crushed to death by that plate... but I don't suppose you have that 2 grand you owe me?"

I reckon Cloud just let that slide... Also, I reckon this was the point that Cloud stopped being a mercenary and joined the fight against Shinra

[Flying Arrow]

I think even the most unfeeling-badass loving fans would have batted an eye had Cloud demanded payment after the Sector 7 thing.

[Jiro]

Until they suddenly realise that Cloud has been paying for everything since the damn beginning and Barret is holding out on him. No wonder he had to take up being a damn delivery boy afterwards, he went bankrupt from saving the world. I bet he funded the building of Edge too the selfless bastard.

[Sephex]

Until they suddenly realise that Cloud has been paying for everything since the damn beginning and Barret is holding out on him. No wonder he had to take up being a damn delivery boy afterwards, he went bankrupt from saving the world. I bet he funded the building of Edge too the selfless bastard.

I bet he could, especially with the amount of gil the average FFVII player has at the end of the game. This is especially true if the canon version of the story is what a player does to get a perfect file.

[blackmage_nuke]

If you talk to Jessie in the reactor she says it's her fault for making the ID personal. I dont know what happens if you tell her not to make the ID

[Jiro]

She does it anyway, she was trying to pick Cloud up.