The response from the various species of locale were about as best as could be expected under these circumstances: the worst the ragtag group got was a few sneers and muted insults. Sazh was quite welcome to the scenario, where he could walk out into a public area and not immediately be a target for the government law enforcement. The relative disinterest in the party was a bit of a relief, too; Sazh wasn't sure of how prepared he was to fight anything in this world yet.

But then, there was always an exception. And that exception came against the disinterest in the form of some sort of strange red lizardman. He was already spouting out his educated guesses about how the party were the "Challengers", as if this was some sort of destined thing to occur in this world. It returned to Sazh the idea of the The Viewer being an omniscient god, and with that establishing his own world. The creature's near-casual depiction of the consequences of whomever else presumably went into the hotel brought forth the other half of that idea: gods were capable of creating just as well as they were of [i]destroying[/i]. That speaker's volume and dialect didn't really help much, either.

Perhaps it was something along the lines of deja-vu, but the l'Cie just had a bad feeling about this that he couldn't quite pinpoint nor shake off. So the best he could do was roll along with it; and so he did, following up into Saber's response to the red creature, "Challengers? So~... I guess the Viewer has been making a big deal about this, huh?"