melodiesoflife | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

There is the smallest relaxation, a sound of relief, when Johnny kisses back, and Jack feels more confident that he's not about to start a brawl with Johnny (although that sounds like a lot of fun, too). He pulls back, and sits down, staring at Johnny searchingly, until he reacts.

A small 'heh' at Johnny's question, as if Jack's wondering exactly the same thing. "I figured- it was worth a shot." The corner of his mouth quirks up, "And me? I'm always serious." Uh-hunh, sure, Jack.

Jack still has that look in his eye as he watches Johnny, slowly picks his drink back up. "Had been...considering it- for a while. And, you looked like you needed some cheering up."

Probably on another night, while not in the time loop, a brawl would definitely be possible. But due to all the stress and the drinks, Johnny's not in his usual head space. Jack happened to catch him at a vulnerable moment.

Johnny's face has turned bright right in the meanwhile. There's not even a chance of hiding it, but he tries. It also dawns on him that the entire bar saw that - not that they'll remember later anyway. He laughs quietly at the remark about cheering up.

"Been a rough, uh, while. Lost track of how long it's been. You... know what's going on. It's been happening to you, too."

Obviously, since this hasn't happened before. Johnny had been too wrapped up in his own worries, that he feels guilty for not trying to catch up with more people. Especially if they were aware of the effect.

"Thirty-five," Jack says absently. Then he startles and frowns at himself. "I mean. Okay, yeah, time's looping." He sighs and scratches the back of his head. "I keep telling myself to quit that shit, and here I am still counting." He drops his hand back to the table. "Because it's not all of us, this time. Val's doing the same thing every morning, says the same things each time. I'd bet money Chiaki's aware, but I haven't caught her yet."

That sheepish look turns quickly back into a sly smirk, though. "Well, damn, and here I figured I only had a 50% shot of you remembering that anyway. Some guys'd get insulted, forgetting a kiss like that. But I thought it would give me the chance to keep trying again until I got it right." Smirk. "Looks like I only needed one."

"I haven't met a lot who are. Most ain't. And they're as clueless as me." But most weren't nearly as worried, if at all, and that bothered him. After seeing Exsilium shudder apart, he was terrified the same would happen to Crystallis. There were no Initiative scientists on this planet to stabilize it.

"Figures you'd be able to keep track, though. You don't seem super concerned either. Guess you've made it through this kinda routine before?" Or so he hopes. Johnny's hoping for good news, since he's come up with nothing so far. Jack's the one person he could expect to have some idea about this.

Jack's only further embarrassing him though, and absently hides his face behind his beer glass. Jack has managed to at least get a grin out of him, shy as it is.

"Yeah, well... What if I say it's cuz I been drinkin' a lot and you caught me off-guard?"

"Mmm, I have." Jack nods. "Maybe it means I should get on the ball about investigating, though. Time's so- weird here. Maybe I'm less concerned because I don't know if it's us. All of us went into Crystal at Aqures Tosf. Like Time was keeping us from interfering. This might just be a locking off of a section of time. Keeping us from interfering from something going on elsewhere." Jack groans and holds up his drink. "I'll get on it, I know I have to. If there's any way to break this from the inside, I'l be able to find it."

"Just, might've found something more interesting to occupy my attention," and back to another smile and flirt with Johnny. "Drinking or not, I'd be glad to remind you of that again tomorrow. If you need it."

Joohnny sighs quietly, feeling like once again there's nothing he can do to help. "I figured that's the reason this is happening. Get shot back in time, and now we're feelin' the effects. I don't know how to even come close to figurin' it out, so I hope you or someone can. I don't wanna see this place end up like Exsilium." And that's what's had him tearing his hair out. He doesn't want people to disappear and everything else to fall apart, when they still have to deal with things like the Calamity.

What he should do, though, is relax. He's been so damn tense since the whole thing started, which was now over two week's worth of time. He sets his glass down, and gives Jack a stronger grin. "Yeah, I think I could do with another reminder. Just in case."

Re-eally? One eyebrow slowly and interestedly raises in Johnny's direction. As fun as it is to embarrass the man, it's much more fascinating to see him rising to Jack's challenge. The tone of his voice has dropped again, trying to tease Johnny in closer. "Well. There's no telling how much of this we'll remember when this is all over, now, is there?" His eyes flicker over Johnny's face, checking how serious his gaze is, pointedly hesitating when he looks at Johnny's lips again, gives an extra breath out.

Jack's grin matches Johnny's own as he leans in a second time, more private this time when they're both sitting down. But he pauses, an inch away, eyes still open in a challenge, teasing, testing, waiting for Johnny to take that last claim for himself.

Johnny's answer isn't much louder than a whisper. "That'd be a shame, huh."

Jack can see that he's nervous - with this many drinks in him, there's no way he's hiding any emotion no matter how hard he tries. He matches Jack's gaze, though, and he huffs a little when Jack stops short. How dare you, man. He won't leave Jack hanging for long, moving in slowly to meet his lips at first, before kicking it up a notch, leaning into him. Problems with time and the world around them were going to get quickly forgotten at this rate, which is what Johnny really needed at this moment anyway.

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