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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(Yeah, he's caught up in it, the kid who knows ABOUT time fuckery...)

(A) Haley's Anvil
MarKus's initial day is not that impressive... He planned on working all day, and he WILL work all day at his forge. Firstly trying to figure out how this... new Advanced Job is supposed to work.

Turning steel into something more... something totally elementally different is blowing his mind, but... it's probably because he's hung up on the science and not the magic parts... Which is the other problem... how's he supposed to do it anyway... Perhaps willing the metal into shape during smelting will do the trick? Who knows... not him but... it's worth a try to turn an ingot of iron into mithril.

(B) So I hear you like that show "Hikari no Yuusha"

As the evangelists come about preaching the word of the Heroes outside his shop, to his crew no less, MarKus approaches them with his mask on. It seems for all their high praise, they don't know something as basic as where one of them works and operates.

MarKus listens for a while, hearing them soon asking for 'charitable donations'. Money huh? Firstly, if they've been at it, why hasn't he, or anyone else made mention of this 'extra income', but secondly... trying to out-charity the man who makes free weapons for the newbies, steps above the vendor-trash they start with.

The man in the 'iron mask' as it were, steps up and slugs the one that appears to be carrying money, sending gil scattering across the ground. "I get paid for hard work, not just for existing. Don't treat my life like some kind of godlike diety so you can cash in instead of working hard for yourself! Quit being lazy, you fucking trash scumlord!"

It's very early in the loops when Jack stops by Haley's Anvil. He's seen the Smith quite a bit, but he's never needed his services until now ~~THANKS, Luffy~~. Jack has been through enough loops to know what's going on, and he's trying to vary his activities from loop to loop, never get caught in a pattern.

"Hello?" Jack steps into the shop, but is instantly distracted by looking at MarKus' equipment. They're the kinds of things he hasn't paid too much attention to before.

MarKus had all kinds of wild equipment... wildly designed sorts and spears, a few guns, but mostly there were lots of repair bits around; trusses, hinges, support beams, and the like. Someone had to produce them.

"Yo." A generic, yet friendly greeting from the owner himself.

"Ah," Jack peels his eyes away from a very fascinating gun to turn towards MarKus. "Sorry, Jack Harkness. I don't believe we've formally met, but I've definitely seen you around. And seen your work." He nods a little. "Chiaki was really happy with what you built for her."

"I don't need anything quite so complicated. My last sword, ah-" Jack smiles. "Well, a very good friend broke it to stop me from doing something stupid. So, I guess I should spring for a really good one."

He vaguely remembers...

"Oh yeah... that weird PacMan Guitar thing." he says, nodding. "I remember that. We took a while to design it to be practical and aesthetically satisfying."

And that's what he took pride in. Non-generic, custom shit... complicated stuff that challenged him. He was a mecha builder after all, not a real weaponsmith."

"So... you just want... a better sword? Like you don't even care what it looks like? Are you sure?" He raises an eyebrow.

"Well...I've had a design idea or two that kind of stuck with me from home." Once the idea is planted in Jack's head, he can't help but follow it along, if he can get something a little more interesting.

"Primarily, though, it's gotta be strong enough to not be able to be broken by a Monk bare-handed," Jack chuckles. "Also, do you have the stuff to infuse it with an elemental property, or would it be better if I collected that on my own?" Chiaki had mentioned that sounded like 'perfect side-quest material.'

"Well... for that... I'd need something better than this generic-ass steel and damascus. Maybe not gold but... I had some Ohrichalum once. Mithril is something I haven't gotte nto work with. If I had some materials from home... well that'd be a reason to get hype but..." He kind of trails off. If only there was a mystery mineral deposit he could deposit and call 'Gundanium' At best there's Adamantite, maybe Titanium.

"I have some basic elements... Fire, Ice, Lightning." he says. "Though... I've got this Advanced Job thing I haven't had a chance to really test out yet."

And being stuck in the loop, he wouldn't for months of repeats. "If you find something better than the basics, that's cool, but... I've got the basics in surplus."

Jack chuckles low. "Oh, believe me, I think we're all missing some things from home right about now." Mithril? Like, that stuff from the Tolkien books? That's real here? File that away as an 'Ask Chiaki Later.'

"Where would you get a line on something stronger? There's got to be a trade in it somewhere, and I can't be the only person wondering about this."

There's a very long pause as Jack mulls something over. "Also, we were getting some things from home. Before. Not sure how Jessie-" whoops, "er, how Palitulu was doing it. But what would you need? Tech-wise, I might be able to help."

"I hear there's mines up north I just, yanno... can't get away yet. I've gotta train this newbie before I can take off. Sometimes some comes in by chance but... not enough for my tastes."

He hums a bit.

"But word is that this... job combination I took I can fix myself up with good stuff... When I figure out how. Shit comes with time... sadly..." he rolls his eyes. Stupid non-magically imparting information.

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The number of her flyers had started to go down and she was a tiny bit relieved for that after the amount of times she had an accident today. However when she saw an act of violent she didn't care for the others she had left and had started to rush on over, hoping to stop it.

"What are you doing?!"

Oh, Kotabto again. Hmmm... this might go over her head, but the first punch has been thrown... it's probably the fact that the other smiths MarKus employs that a total brawl didn't break out. Or that a Hero threw the first punch.

"These guys seem to think it's okay to take money from people saying that WE need the money. They're basically stealing and lying that we asked for the money." he kept it short and simple... but was his wording even good enough?

Well that wasn't very nice, that was bad of them, but she still didn't condone the violence even for reasons like that. Puffing up her cheeks slightly she places her hands on her hips, trying her best to look displeased.

"Mister people, we do not need that money. if you haven't noticed there are many more people who are without homes, that money could go to them. We are just fine." Now her focus is back on the other, she still isn't happy. "But violence is never the answer to deal with things, has anything that has happened proven that yet?"

MarKus could go into long-winded dialog, a story really, in which not only violence was the problem, but the answer to the same problem. When all your super-unique giant robot power source are all on one time and a cosmic entity says 'Yer too big for yer britches, die now', you kinda have to fight back.

But really... "Yeah, not really no. Not here anyway." Giving in to a young girl's pleas was TONS easier, and socially more acceptable than arguing. And MarKus also knows how hot-headed he is anyway.

"I have a better idea than that. You, give her the money. Kobato, I trust you to give the money to the right people who need it. They could lie to you and walk away. I'll feel better, and apologize, if that happens."

Ooooh... what say you, wild NPC-man!

Kobato was surprised, giving her the money to give to those who needed it. Were people really trusting her to be able to do it? It felt like a little bit of pressure in her mind. "I-I would give it to those who are rebuilding... So that they can use it to buy the things they need to build things faster.. Especially peoples homes." She played with her hands slightly, that was her idea anyway, the other would have been to give them to moogles, but they seem to be fine with just the kupo nuts each time she brought them.

The other guy on the other hand didn't seem to full agree, after all he wanted the money for himself, not so he could actually give it to those in need, but he had already been punched once and as he nervously looked at MarKus, before handing it over, feeling a little defeated before quickly running off before he did anything else.

"Well.. that was easy."

"That's the way I prefer it. Easy rather than having to think hard. But yeah, now it's on you. It's better soeone like you have the money to hand out. There are people who need it more than I do to buy fancier materials. I can wait on that. People need homes."

He nods.

"Speaking of which, I need to get back to work."

"Do you need help at work or are you okay?" She thought she might as well ask since she seems to have a lot of free time while not working since requests aren't coming in an awful lot recently, but she understood the reasons.

"Well, unless you wanna work in a hot forge and sweep and dust? Not really. I don't have any flyers to pa--"

It's about then he notices the pile a bit away, a few of them blowing off in the wind. He hurries over to stop them from getting too far away from the main mess.

"Yeah, no flyers for me to put out."

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Eventually drawn to the sound of the forge, K'pandolu looks for a place from which she can safely watch for a while, potential dangers in the back of her mind.

"May I ask what this will be?" she asks, at a point when she judges it safe.

"Eh? Well..." Suddenly girls watching him. Perhaps was just so enthralled in his work and thoughts he didn't notice the girl approach.

"Well... I want it to be a different metal but... I'm not sure HOW to pull that off yet. Word is..." he says pointing at the lounging Moogle off in the corner. "That this Alchemist thing can do that. And I'm determined to make something from home knowing this stuff.

Perhaps she's actually managed stealth this time.

"A… different metal? I'd no idea that was even possible." She frowns, tilting her head to one side. "Through alchemy, you said?" She hadn't known any to have use for ores in Eorzea- sands for inks, yes, but not ore. "Oh? What manner of thing might that be?"

Not everyone knew what 'mecha' was so, he often had to break it down.

"A giant walking armor." he says. It explained much... and he didn't like the comparison he'd have to draw for Magi-tek armor. It wasn't really the same... more of a power loader-style thing than a mech.

"I used to make them at home, but I had more tools and room, and materials, from the moon."

"Giant… Like a colossus? Or something else?" Those magitek creations had been bipedal, and K'pandolu didn't consider the magitek reapers as giant- though perhaps that had simply come after riding her own.

She nods, and blinks, lifting her head. "The moon? What kind of materials would you find there?" Eorzea's moons had been largely out of reach of its populace- and the lesser moon's descent had done the land no favours.

"Yeah, like that. Bigger, smaller. I'll probably have to start smaller, of course." he explains.

"And at least on my moon, there's special metals, stronger than steel. And after you work them and process them, they even ignore bullets. Of course, these are bullets that are easily as big as my head."

Can she even fathom such a thing. Not canon shells... bullets... but there's a parallel to be drawn there. "But... it's something I've wanted to do since I got here, I just lack a lot of resources."

She nods at that- it stands to reason, of course. Starting with a smaller version should limit the things that can go wrong with it- or at least make any problems that arise smaller as well.

"Indeed?" Her eyebrows rise. She knows of cobalt and darksteel, but she wouldn't describe either of those as having those properties. Perhaps the Garleans have something… but that would require asking them. "As big as that… That's an incredible thought." Frightening, too- but they'd been able to use the magitek missiles in Castrum Meridianum to great effect. If they could keep control of such creations…

"I see. But with this Job, you believe you can acquire them?"

"Well, combination of jobs, but yes." he responds. What he wasn't told was that he wasn't quite... skilled enough yet.

"But yeah, I worked on a ship full of those things so... imagine a flying boat biggerthan the city."

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Event || Window of Opportunity

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