Event || Window of Opportunity

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Characters: All Heroes of Light.
Where: Aqures Ixen - Everywhere
When: September 25th - From 12:30 to 22:30.
Summary: Heroes of Light will relive the same ten hours over and over again until they find a solution. This may be a blow to what's left of their sanity, but that's also a window of opportunity! The OOC Post is here for more information! It's not too late to sign-up, anyone can still jump right into the event! However, your vote for the total number of loops will not be taken into account any more.

Speaking of which-- Votes are in and this time displacement madness will be solved after 191 loops. Practically speaking, this means characters going through every single loop will live 2 months, 2 weeks, 3 days and 14 hours in the span of half a day. Hopefully they won't mind the food for the day, the clothes they're wearing or what they were doing when the loop started, because that's what they'll be stuck with until the end. There are some events described below, but there will be no NPC replies. Feel free to partake in these events and of course, make your own!

Warning: Too many time loops may be bad for your mental health.

The Flence Salesman
— All Day Long —
There is a salesman from Flence in the city, and he is going for every person he sees in the streets. Adults, children or elders, humans or tarutarus, it doesn't matter to him so long as he can make money! He will try to sell to the characters specialties from Flence and some crystals at absolutely awful prices, but he's open to negotiations and beyond that, he's extremely persistent. Normally, nobody would care about this, but given the salesman isn't be aware of the loop, he'll keep doing the same things over and over again... Hopefully he won't see your characters, otherwise he might just bother them for every single loop.


Moogle Demonstration for the Future of Mognet
— 12:30 => 16:00 —
For a surprise one-day long strike, the Moogles are demonstrating! There are roughly 800 Moogles together (250 according to the government, 5000 according to the striking Moogles) in the demonstration, all singing slogans and some even holding placards with "More Gil and Less Work" or "Give us Kupo Nuts" signs.

They started at 10:00 and left from the 09th District, but they will go throughout every district and explain what their protest is about. They'll finish at 16:00 and will be back to the 09th District to eat Kupo Nuts and drink Chocobo Milk together.


Biggs' Grand Return
— 14:00 => 22:30 —
After a month spent in the hospital, Biggs is finally back! He leave the Hospital at 14:00 and head straight for the Castle of Aqures Ixen. Noticeably he still has a broken and bandaged arm, but he'll pretend to be totally fine and for that matter, he will be as rude and as unfriendly as ever. He will spend most of the day in the Castle, but will go in Palitutu's Lab by 19:00 to meet with Cid. Among other things, he will side-eye everyone and will accidentally splash Cid's coffee on a Hero of Light working there (or on a Moogle, should the Hero have the good sense to avoid Biggs next loop).


Renovation of the Blitzball Stadium
— 15:30 => 20:00 —
The repairs are going steadily and today, a special dome from Trano Golsaucia is being transported and placed on the Blitzball Stadium, brand new and much more modern than what Aqures Ixen used to have! On the downside however, the airship bringing the dome and the work being done on the stadium are all very, very noisy. So noisy that everyone in a two-district radius will be bothered by it.

Under normal circumstances it would have been only for a short time and easilly bearable, but here it will happen for every single loop.


Have You Heard of the Heroes of Light?
— All Day Long —
Throughout the day, a few people are going to go and knock on every doors in the city, to talk about a most fascinating topic: the Heroes of Light! They will speak about how it is said the Heroes of Light are in Crystallis and how they managed to defeat the empire without difficulties back during the attack! Then they will go on and ask for a contribution (hear: money) to help the Heroes of Light in their cause. Of course, these people are dishonest and the money will go into their own pockets, as they don't believe in the Heroes of Light to begin with.

And of course, they'll go knock on doors during every single loop!


The Accident
— 22:29 => 22:30 —
The one minute that started it all. Who is the imbecile who committed the mistake on Palitutu's computer? Is this a Moogle or a Hero of Light, maybe Cid or Biggs? Whoever it is, after the first time, at 22:29 the program will start again on its own and will activate the loop right at 22:30, sending everything back to 12:30. The characters may try to run more programs to block the computer, cut the energy source or even bomb the building if they so wish...

But these archaic and barbaric solutions won't prevent the next loop from happening. Only hard work and scientific solutions shall prevail!

Comments

[derplander]

1st few loops

Moogle Protests
the Adventurer had been roped into this. When the Moogles found out that he was a certified Moogle Mail Carrier, he had been drafted into holding a sign post and marching around the town. Clearly this was something that needed to be addressed as the first few times he looked apologetic, irritated and then tired.

Beginning of the Loop - several days in
"Have you ever wondered what it would be if we could just... Sea, you're not paying attention."

Sea looked down at his mushy cereal, and started to weep a little at breakfast.

Biggs
"Ow! What was that for?"

Trying to talk to Biggs was like a brick wall. Several times this happened and URGH. He stormed out every time.


Mid Cycle
"Shouldn't you be at the protest?" Asked Moggle Mog as the Adventurer sat in the middle of a cafe, away from all the insanity.

"I'm taking this loop off," said the Adventurer absently, squeezing mustard onto his plate. "Before I go nuts."

"Nuts?"

"Nuts. Crazy. Deranged. Uncontained. Three fries short of a happy meal. GONZO!" And he held up a smiley face drawn with mustard and ketchup.


The Fun Begins - Late Looping
After numerous hours of trial and error, and helping out with the scholars in retaining the information on how to beat this thing, the Adventurer was changing his routine.

It started harmless at first, making pottery, breaking pots, smashing old broken windows, the harmless stuff.

And then things got weird.

He would be approaching other loopers urging them to spend the day playing cards. Or causing a chocobo stampede through the town. Or running naked with Deadpool. Or joining Deadpool in beating up those damned "Evangelist-types". One time, he started to try and breed a fat chocobo.

He might kiss someone, who knows.

Either way, he was taking full advantage of the time looping until he felt de-stressed enough to properly do the loops again.

Mid-Cycle

[they_call_me_sonic]

"Sounds like we all need a vacation after this." Sonic said, walking by wearing his Moogle costume and holding up a sign of protest.

"We need to hurry! If he's on vacation, we need to double time!" Bean replied, waving his arms crazily.

Re: Mid-Cycle

[derplander]

"Ugh, it's just going to reset again," groaned the Adventurer as he looked over at Sonic -- and sputtered in laughter. "Oh Twelve, they got you wearing THAT? I've seen those around back home."

Reaching into his bag, he tossed Sonic a Postmoogle's hat. "Here, put this on your head. At least it'll look official."

"Where'd you get that?" Asked Moggle Mog. "Wait on second though, I don't think I want to know who you stole that from."

[they_call_me_sonic]

"Eh, what can I say, gotta look the part!" Sonic said, shrugging. "Besides, the kids love it!" With that, he takes the hat and plops it on his costume head.

[derplander]

"Well yeah, you have a point. At least you're having fun with it," The Adventurer stretched, yawning. "I've been through too many of these loops as it stands."

Late Looping.

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

[Minako was enjoying her time knowing what occurs each loop and had plans to do something else different each time. Today was no exception. Spotting someone she saw she ran on over.]

Hello... Rock.. Sea... Meteor? You said so many names, I've actually forgotten. But how are you today?

Re: Late Looping.

[derplander]

[Looking up at Minako, Meteor grinned.] You can use the last one.

As for me, well, I was thinking of playing golf. Whatever this game is, it seems fun.

[Meteor held up a club and a ball.] Though I'm not too sure what the point of trying to hit Biggs head from here is.

Re: Late Looping.

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

Golf... Isn't that the boring game and old people enjoy?

[She shrugged slightly, she didn't see the point in it much, but eh, she wanted to do something different today.]

I'm not sure either, but we can see who can hit it the furthest.

Re: Late Looping.

[derplander]

I've never played it, it seems interesting to me. We don't have much in terms of "sports" back home.

[The Derplander had quickly learned so much through his constant looping, it was surprising he had loosened up considerably when he was having fun.]

That would be fun at least. Should we go to a park or...?

Re: Late Looping.

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

I think we could do it here, I mean after all who will remember next time?

[Why the heck shouldn't they just try there? People would forget soon enough.]

Late Looping

[not_most_days]

The barfight was something to see and in her defense she hadn't started it. Kidd hadn't been doing this one every loop, but she'd been doing it often enough to get the pattern of the whole affair down. The pirate smirked and dodged every single fist, bottle and chair swung and thrown at her all without spilling a drop of her ale.

As she watched the other Hero wander in she stopped for a moment. This was new. But then she smirked and took the moment to show off as she weaved herself seamlessly back into the brawl.

Re: Late Looping

[derplander]

Normally the Adventurer didn't get into bar fights.

But today he was actually going to grin and pick up a bottle -- smacking it over the head of a random person who would probably feel it in the morning. That is, if he ever looped.

"Pleasant day isn't it?" chuckled the Adventurer, feeling like this was the Ul'dah Quicksand all over again.

Re: Late Looping

[not_most_days]

"Not my best, but not my worst." A patron tried to charge the seeming young man from behind but she squared down and scooped him up into a headlock before slamming his face into a table.

"And you? A day to remember I expect?"

Re: Late Looping

[derplander]

"I wish," replied the Adventurer, kicking one of them across the bar where they skidded and fell off it into a few patrons.

"This is my... I lost count, go around and I'm mixing it up before I go mad." He grabbed another who was charging him and he flipped the man over his shoulder. "I feel sorry if this is the last loop or whatever, because then I would have a black mark on my record."

Re: Late Looping

[not_most_days]

"Likewise. I kept track at first but I think if I kept on with that then I'd only make it worse. It helps to just take a few and sleep through them as well." She didn't like having to give this advice. She hoped it would be over soon.

"But aye, that would be a bad thing. Still, if this is going on then there's a chance to be reckless if you want to take the gamble."

(ooc: would this loop be before or after the airship theft you think?)

The Fun Begins - Late Looping

[goddessofthesky]

Zelda wasn't aware of the loop and so her day started the same each day without any knowledge of what was happening or how many times the loop has occurred. She spotted Meteor on her way to the old observatory and paused. She rather liked the hero but she wasn't sure what he was doing.

She walked up next to him peeking her head over his side curiously.

"What are you doing?"

Whatever he was up too, he has been caught. Bright blue eyes blink up at him curiously while golden silk spun hair falls over her shoulder. She didn't understand what situation he might be in though she looked open to accept whatever his reasoning and action was

Re: The Fun Begins - Late Looping

[derplander]

Yeah he was caught. Well and throughly. He had thought Zelda was away from his mischief making and well...

Lamely, Meteor rubbed his head. "I uh... trying to get back at Biggs by landing a shot through the window."

A beat.

"With a sporting item."

An ashamed beat.

"By knocking his coffee onto him. In my defense he poured it on me so...!" Meteor hung his head in shame. "Sorry."

The Fun Begins - Late Looping

[goddessofthesky]

Zelda laughed softly at his admission. "He might get mad at you." She really didn't mind if he chose to try and hit Bigg's coffee over. It was a good prank.

Not that she was going to help.

"Did you run into Biggs?"

Meteor was always getting hurt with things and she didn't know if it was an accident or an action with intent.

Re: The Fun Begins - Late Looping

[derplander]

"Far too many times. He poured Cid's coffee on me. So in memory of the Biggs I know, who would approve knocking this one down a peg, I was going to make a crack shot at hitting him from here."

He made a picture frame with his fingers of the window. "I think I've gotten enough practice for real that I can make the shot."

The Fun Begins - Late Looping

[goddessofthesky]

"Can you?"

Zelda's head tilted to the side curiously. She almost wanted to see him shot and hit the coffee cup through the window, though as soon as he did they'd both have to run from the scene of the crime.

Mid-Cycle

[unyieldingspirit]

[…

…

what

K'pandolu squints at it before side-eyeing Sea for a few moments, and then pretends she never did any such thing.]

If you're done here, then, I could use someone to watch my back while I test some other skills out.

Re: Mid-Cycle

[derplander]

I can do that. T'would beat sitting around doing nothing but making smile faces on a plate.

[Getting up despite Moggle Mog's folded arm glare, he grinned at his roomie.] Lead on! Where to?

Mid-Cycle

[unyieldingspirit]

[maybe she'll be concerned by that another loop, but for the time being she ignores that, frowning for a moment.]

There's the Monster Arena, I believe… But I prefer those creatures roaming free. [she's not absolutely sure of what happens to creatures defeated in the Arena, but if it hurts the work Chiaki and others put into it, she wants no part of it.]

Re: Mid-Cycle

[derplander]

All right. [Activating his Warrior Job, he shouldered Bravura.] Lead on. Outside of town should suffice then?

Mid-Cycle

[unyieldingspirit]

[she tilts her head for a moment, watching the axe, and nods.]

South and east should suit our purposes.

[and off she goes, at an easy enough pace.]

Aside from our current situation, how are you finding this world?