Continued
Seph talks some more.
He takes off, and this thing shows up. After getting rid of it you get the Bahamut materia, which as we know from previous games is pretty sweet.
This might be confusing, but the temple itself
is black materia, which Sephiroth wants. In order to make it portable you need to shrink it, from the inside. We got the spy dude to do it, since he was being controlled remotely anyway.
Sephiroth shows up, again, mind controls Cloud
and this is what happens.
Aeris takes off, trying to sort things out on her own.
It turned out to be a dream, but it sort of happened anyway.
The obvious next destination was back to the sleeping forest, where we chatted with some guys who told us that we could probably get a lunar harp if we paid them to do some digging. In case you've forgotten a lunar harp is needed to awaken the forest and get to the town of the ancients. The digging part is sort of annoying because you have to place a bunch of guys around the site, blow up some kind of explosive, then the guys will face in the direction of the harp, and you have to "triangulate the signal".
Tomorrow I'll post what's arguably the scene that most people remember from the game.