melodiesoflife | Event || Window of Opportunity

Event || Window of Opportunity

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!

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Rukia leaned gratefully into his offered support. It wasn't difficult for him to hold her up, given she was only 4'8" and 77 pounds. A child might have been able to do it. She glanced at him with hazy-eyed relief, inclining her head in gratitude as the spell helped her recover more of her health. If only she knew the Antidote spell.

"Ah," she made a faint noise of agreement, head bobbing as she followed along obediently and slowly. She sank onto the cot, the world tilting dizzily as she was eased onto her back. That felt a lot better.

When the loop reset, would she still bear these injuries? She hoped not, but she only had an hour or so before she found out firsthand.

Billy flagged one of the hospital moogles to notify the doctor of a hamster patient. Then he went to Rukia's side and helped her get settled.

"Your name, please," he prompted her as he took one of her wrists to check her pulse. It was a little weak, but not dangerously so.

"Rukia Kuchiki." She could manage her name easily enough. Rukia surrendered her wrist without a protest, trusting in the young doctor's skill. Being savaged as a human didn't hurt any worse or less than being savaged as a shinigami, she'd discovered.

She furrowed her brow, frowning at the ceiling. Her battle had been shameful. To lose to such a tiny creature...

"...It was so cute..." It just wasn't right.

Billy nodded absently, murmuring approval as he checked her eyes for dilation.

"Your name is very cute, Ms. Kuchiki. Can you tell me what day it is?"

He reached for a clipboard to jot down the information he'd collected so far. A senior nurse came in with a vial of antidote, which she poured into a little medicine cup for Rukia to sip.

Rukia blinked, then frowned. "I wasn't--"

She'd meant that the hamster was cute, not her name. It was difficult to speak, but her mind wasn't quite that addled. But there was no point in correcting him, so she exhaled her frustration through her nose and made herself lie still.

When the medicine came, Rukia fought to wrestled her head up, enough that she could take the cup and drink it without choking and embarrassing herself. Immediately, she felt better. Her scant life energy was no longer draining away. She closed her eyes and breathed, laying back down.

"It's still the same day. Friday." She laid her hands on her stomach, rising and falling with her shallow breaths. "The time loop...you are aware of it?"

If not, he was going to think that hamster bit her with more than a little crazy juice.

Billy raised an eyebrow at her. Unfortunately for her, he was not 'in the loop'.

"Please stay still, Ms. Kuchiki. You may have suffered a concussion. I'll get you an ice pack for your head. Rest, and the disorientation will pass."

Rukia regarded him for a silent moment. There was a brief flash of annoyance, before she looked away, her face calming. He wasn't aware, then. By now, others who were swept up in the loop had probably ceased writing daily letters to the populace at large to let them know. It was a tedious and unfruitful project.

"...Yes. Thank you," she said, frowning quietly.

The other nurse had ducked back out, and Billy took the opportunity to cast another healing spell on Rukia.

"The doctor will come by in a moment to check you over, but with that antidote, you should be just fine after you rest."

He backed away from her cot. "For your safety, please avoid hamsters in the future...no matter how cute they look."

"Just a moment."

Her slim fingers caught the sleeve of his uniform as Rukia turned her head to look up at him. She was still pale and slightly feverish, but her eyes were focused intensely on his face. He wouldn't remember this, but she owed him a debt.

"Your name. What is it?"

Billy stilled. "It's Billy. Billy Lee Black. But...don't tell the doctor I cast cure on you, ok? I'm just a nurse, and I'm not technically supposed to without supervision."

Not that Billy thought he needed supervision. He'd been casting white magic spells at home for a couple of years now. But rules were rules, and he did not want to lose his new job.

Rukia chuckled softly and closed her eyes. Breaking the rules for the sake of a patient... He would make an excellent doctor someday, she was sure of it. "You have no need to fear retribution. I'll gratefully keep your secret."

And tomorrow, it wouldn't even matter. She won't be arriving in the hospital a second time, and he won't need to cast Cure at all.

"If you were to receive a token of appreciation from a patient, what would you prefer, Billy?"

Billy shrugged. "I wouldn't need anything from a patient. It's my job to help them."

Not to mention that he suspected Rukia had a concussion and was not in a state of mind to be making rational decisions. It would be wrong to take advantage and suggest she owed him anything.

"Just saying, 'Thanks' is enough."

"Humor me."

She continued to peer at him directly. Her gaze was tired, but lucid. She wasn't about to let him leave without knowing at least one small thing that he favored.

"Once you have done so, then I will thank you."

Billy sighed. He didn't think she was going to take 'no' for an answer, and she really did need to hush up and rest.

"...people at home used to give me bullets." It probably seemed like a weird thing for a healer to ask for, but it was the truth. Ammo was finite, but the need for ammo infinite. Most of the people Billy knew gave him a box of new and interesting bullets during gift-giving occasions.

"Now please lay back and try to keep still. Your body is still recovering from being poisoned."

"Bullets...?" It took Rukia a long moment to absorb what he'd said. Bullets. The sort of thing loaded into a firearm. A healer with a gun...

Rukia smiled, chuckling softly, and closed her eyes. "I see. Bullets, then. You are an interesting young man." She folded her hands on her stomach, taking a small breath to relax herself.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome," he replied. He once again started backing away from the hospital cot.

"You can stay here until the doctor clears you to go home. If you need anything, I'll be just outside, where you found me before."

Billy headed to the door, giving her one last glance to check on her before he exited the room.

He wouldn't remember anything about her in an hour's time. But even so, she owed him a debt. She wasn't eager to test what would happen if she were to die in the time loop, or at all. His skills had kept her alive, and she wouldn't soon forget...even if he would.

And so, after the time loop was broken, a small package would be delivered to the hospital bearing Billy's name. It was a box of finely crafted ammunition, with a small card.

'With thanks, from another time.'

She didn't sign her name, as it would likely confuse him. But later, perhaps, they would meet again.

Billy raised an eyebrow at the package he'd received out of the blue. It was obviously for him. It had his name on it, and who else in his house needed ammo?

But the message made no sense to him. Whoever it was knew him well enough to find a gift he'd appreciate, but he honestly had no clue who it could be. He hadn't done anything extraordinary to earn a reward.

Since he had no way to thank the person who'd given the gift, he decided to work extra hard at the hospital that day. Paying it forward was the best way he could think to return his mysterious benefactor's kindness.

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super late tag to wrap it up