Event || Window of Opportunity

[melodiesmods]

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

Chiaki, looping the loop

[line_piece]

[Once it became apparent to Chiaki that there was some sort of time loop occurring - which honestly didn't take long - instead of trying to fix it, her thoughts immediately turned to how she might take advantage of it. Having played plenty of games with time travel as a central conceit, the ideas come to her almost immediately. Throughout the series of loops, she can be found working on one of three things.]

Streets of Aqures Ixen

[Having recently gained the Dancer Job, and unwilling to get rid of it due to the amount of work she put into the sidequest that unlocked it, Chiaki had already switched back to it and Bard before the loops began. It's a wonderful bit of serendipity on her part, since custom dances take time to devise and practice, and now she has plenty of that on her hands.

So early in the mornings and afternoons during the time loop, Chiaki can be found in and around the less noisy parts of the city practicing a few dances she remembers from a rhythm game she used to play at home. At first her movements are more rigid and precise than emotional and flowing, but as she works, she makes steady progress toward something more natural looking. And with the aid of her Bard Job, she can sing the lyrics while she dances. It's quite a show.]

Seventh District

[The main thing Chiaki is eager to figure out is how to convert crystal energy to electricity. Not for any sort of larger scientific advancement or societal betterment, of course, but because she has a video game system from home that she's been dying to play. So every morning when she's done dancing, she uses the Mognet Central song to switch to Programmer and Engineer to work on her other project.

With the goal of creating a universal power converter in mind, Chiaki makes daily trips to the laboratories of the Seventh District to gather parts and ask questions of the scientists that work there. And once she has everything together, she can be found around the district and sometimes in Palitutu's laboratory itself working on it. To the casual observer, it's a huge mess of spare parts, wires, and crystals, but she's doing some serious science here.]

All right, so if I connect this wire here, and replace this part of the motherboard with a small crystal...

[Many times, she fails and breaks everything, but she's got the benefit of a time loop on her side. The next day, she's right back at it, building on what she'd done before and correcting for her mistakes. Slowly but surely, as the loops continue, she's making some real progress toward a working prototype.]

Anywhere - For Non-Loopers

[On days when she's too tired to dance and feeling stumped on the scientific front, Chiaki spends her time talking to people she knows. But not just any people - she's specifically targeting anyone she's noticed that doesn't seem to be aware of the time loops. Chiaki has never been that good at talking to people, and she's always been terrible at dating sims, so she's looking at this as a chance to get to know more about people she doesn't know very well yet and also as a chance to meet new people. If she learns how to talk to some of them and what to talk to them about while the time loops are still in effect, maybe she can employ those same strategies when the looping is over and forge new and deeper friendships.]

Streets

[nobugs]

[Kija happened to see Chiaki when her dance had already gotten better. It was an interesting kind of dance, different from his village, different from the dance of the princess as well.

Still, it was enjoyable to watch and he applauds when he had the feeling she was finished.]

[line_piece]

Thanks. I've been practicing a lot lately.

[nobugs]

Have you been dancing in your world already?

Streets/also game for Anywhere

[nomorecowbell]

What are you doing?

[Nanami hadn't been aware that there was a loop going on. Not that knowing that would explain why Chiaki was dancing]

[line_piece]

Dancing.

[Ask a silly question...]

[nomorecowbell]

Why here?

Non-Looper

[iknowtheconsequences]

So there's this guy, Chiaki. He's been around, and always seems cordial, but there are so few people that he seems close to, other than very obviously doting on Ib. Except he was very concerned about the moogles after the attack on the city. This concern doesn't seem to have gone away, because the easiest time to catch him is as he leaves the Moogle Protests. He marches with them until the afternoon, and then heads back to his house, always taking the exact same path through the city. Once he gets there, he pauses to make tea inside, but takes it out on his porch.

[line_piece]

[At some point on one of her off days, Chiaki notices the routine and decides to approach Kaji after he's gone home for the day.]

...Hi.

Afternoon/Early Evening - any loop

[shinrasfinest]

[Chiaki might come across Sephiroth as he's in-transit between one place or another during his day.

From Barkeep's Saloon where he's been working, he walks across the City to Terra's flower-shop where he spends his time helping her to close for the day.

Then again later in the late-afternoon as he goes about the usual jogging route through the Districts. He stops for around half an hour to watch the work being done on the Stadium, before looping back around the nearest block and heading back towards the Residential District.]

[line_piece]

[Chiaki manages to run into Sephiroth near the Stadium construction. She loves all sorts of games, after all, and sports definitely count even if she's unable to play them well herself. She's been keeping an eye out for people who haven't broken routine during the loops, and has noticed Sephiroth himself fits the bill, so she decides to strike up a conversation.]

Sephiroth... hey.

Streets

[dragonflame]

[Well this was rather interesting to say the least. She hadn't been expecting to see anyone just dancing. But she figured they got the Dancer Job that was given out recently.]

Practising dance steps, I take it? You look like you are enjoying it.

[line_piece]

Yeah. It's fun to learn a dance from one of your favorite games.

Seventh Disctrict

[umslay]

[Roughly 40 loops after the disaster begins, Ales takes a break from reading through Palitutu's notes and checks on the experiments going on in the other wings. Most won't allow access to non-researchers, but he might as well prepare to sneak a peek in a future loop, right after he checks on the what's here...oh. Chiaki, the girl who spends most of her time playing games instead of being productive. However, from the sounds of it, she seems to be working on something.

Ales walks up behind her, unfortunately too short to see what's on the table, and the lack of nearby chairs provides no high vantage view.]

Modifications to your computer?

[line_piece]

[By this point in time, Chiaki's made some decent progress, but there's still a way to go. The mess of wires and parts is looking somewhat orderly, but still mostly chaotic.]

Actually, I'm working on a crystal to electricity energy conversion.

Seventh District

[not_most_days]

[It took Kidd a little while to figure out Chiaki was one of the loopers. The sheer regularity of what she was doing almost made her seem like she was one of those unaware of what was going on. It was about twenty loops in when Kidd had picked up on the inconsistencies and another five before she finally followed the girl to the lab.

She is at least decent enough to wait until Chaiki isn't working on something sensitive before speaking up.]

What are you working on there?

Re: Seventh District

[line_piece]

I'm trying to convert crystal power into electricity.

[Which might not mean much to Kidd anyway depending on how much else she's learned about technological advancement after her own time, but there it is all the same.]

Non Looping

[neverfirstclass]

[Early in the afternoon, Cloud could be found at the Chocobo ranch. His work there took up his morning so it isn't until the afternoon that he returns to Aqures Ixen and focuses on battle training or helping with the clinics. All told it seems to be a mundane day for him.

There are a few loops where his pattern breaks, but usually at the interference of another Hero.]

Re: Non Looping

[line_piece]

[Chiaki tends to give the chocobo ranch a fairly wide berth, so she doesn't catch up with Cloud until his return to the city. But she does know him at least well enough to strike up a conversation, so at some point she decides to approach.]

Hey Cloud.

One day at home...

[damn_juicebox]

[The very next loop after this one, there's a rapid patter of feet in the hallways. SUDDENLY, the door to Chiaki's room flies open and there stands Rukia, radiating cold fury.]

Do NOT create a tamagotchi with a hamster! They have lost all previous claims to cuteness and do not deserve to be pampered!

[And she closes the door, stomping off furiously.]

[line_piece]

[Chiaki just blinks impassively at Rukia's public service announcement before following her.]

...I guess you probably fought one, huh?

45th loop, streets

[charming_jerk]

[Johnny spots Chiaki, and trots over to like he's been looking for her. But when he sees her dancing, he stops. Hmm, not bad. He'll wait til she's finished, but he's looking impatient.]

Hey. Nice moves. You took up Dancer now?

Re: 45th loop, streets

[line_piece]

Yeah. I got a bonus for it since I helped with the monster capturing quest, and it combines with Bard, so I thought it would be a good idea.

Seventh District

[unyieldingspirit]

[she doesn't entirely understand the laboratories, yet. But there does seem to be something going on… With Chiaki at the heart? Hm.

She spares the parts, wires and crystals enough attention not to step on anything as she makes her way over.]

What are you making?

Re: Seventh District

[line_piece]

I'm trying to figure out how to convert crystal power into electricity.