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Melodies of Life Moderators ([personal profile] melodiesmods) wrote in [community profile] melodiesoflife2015-09-25 04:00 pm

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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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-09-29 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Only when I played dance games. Doing it like this is a lot different.

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-01 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Dance games? I have not heard of that kind of game yet.
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-01 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I can show you if you want. But not until...

[She's getting a little tripped up on what to say here, not knowing whether the other person is also looping.]
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[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-03 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Not until?

[He tilts his head. He was indeed a looper, but really, right now he had no idea what she wanted to say.]
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-03 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Until at least 12:30.

[In other words, the beginning of the next loop.]
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[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-04 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see. Then shall we meet again then?
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-05 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Next time around.
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[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-06 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright, I will be looking forward to it.
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-08 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[And once the next loop rolls around, Chiaki waits in the same location, this time with her Programmer and Engineer Jobs equipped.]
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[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-10 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Kija reappears as well, waving a little at her from the distance.]

Hello! Would you show me now?
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-11 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Sure.

[Chiaki gives a smile and a nod as she takes out her computer, starting it up and immediately summoning four extra holographic screens with arrows on them, which she places on the ground in front of her. Soon enough, the main screen starts playing music.]

This is the game. The notes scroll by on the screen and you have to step on the arrows at the same time.

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-11 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds kind of difficult.

[Excuse him while he still stares in awe. There was nothing, LITERALLY NOTHING, like this back home.]

Could you show me how you are doing it?
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Hang on.

[Chiaki turns back to the main screen, activating the program via touchscreen. After a few seconds, a song begins to play.]

Here. It goes like this.

[And then she proceeds to play through what is essentially a DDR song - arrows flying past on the screen in front of her as her feet hit the arrows on the ground.]

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-15 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[That was really amazing, seeing something like that and watching her move to it. While initially, he couldn't really focus because of that, with time he connected the dots on how this was working.]

This is really interesting. I really have not seen anything like this before.
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-15 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want to try it?

[She steps aside, gesturing toward the screen.]

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-15 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I would like to.

[He looks at the screen, the feeling of bewilderment shortly winning once again before he starts following what is shown - except too slow and admittedly really awkward as well.]
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-16 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chiaki starts clapping to the rhythm of the song to try to help.]

It's good for a first try.

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-17 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He turns his face slowly towards her.]

Really? I only seem to miss. [According to what that screen said. He goes back to focus on it, though, and the clapping definitely is helping and he does hit a few ones right now.]
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-18 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
All you need is some practice. I put it on no-fail mode, so you'll at least be able to play through the entire song and get a feel for the rhythm.

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-10-20 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very kind of you. [A feel for the song might help, he had no idea which direction the music was heading to, after all.

He gets ready again, and does his best to do it right.]
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[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-21 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
See, you're improving already.