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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[She understands missing him once and she’d have written to him but Rudder had this ridiculous notion of joining the moogle strike which means that she’s without him. She can deliver the letter to Mognet herself but she has to deliver the rest of the maps so she plans to just stop by again. When the third time rolls around Umiko is obviously annoyed.

She eye’s Spencer feeling more than a little aggravated.] Yes, I have. Is Sephiroth in?

[She assumes no because Spencer came up behind her and she has already knocked on the door once. At this point she just wants to give him the map and be off.]

If not, where is he? [Umiko is trying not to take out her annoyance on Spencer but this day has just sucked.]

[Spencer, it seems, is much too dutiful a mog to be participating in the strike. After all, who else would be able to spot the route for Sephiroth on his jog. Especially since a lot of the locations he used to jog by tended to be avoided due to the repair work going on. It's important to keep his Hero as far from any memories of the Battle as possible, during what is supposed to be his 'un-winding' time.]

He's not. You must have just missed us earlier, Kupo. Though-

[The moogle pauses as he spots movement off to the side and beyond Umiko a little. He hovers upwards a little and, sure enough, Sephiroth comes shuffle-jogging around the corner. All light-grey jogging suit along with its jacket as well, given as it's gotten a little colder now that the sun is passing closer towards setting. The majority of his long silver hair is braided back and swings from side to side down his back as he comes to the front garden and then makes his way, steadily and understandably out of breath, towards where Umiko and Spencer have congregated.

He takes two, longer breaths in to force his heart rate to slow down before attempting to speak. In the meantime Spencer produces a small key and lets himself into the front door of their home; flitting over the threshold without much further ado.]

Just- couldn't- [Then he seems to really notice Umiko for the first time. Swallowing back another breath and wiping the back of his wrist across his forehead while he brings himself to standing up straight.]

Oh. [He's not seen her before and it's not terribly obvious why she's here.] Can I help you?

[Umiko stares at the hero as he jogs towards his home, she idly inspects his features, the long hair swinging back and forth and she silently prays that he’s as normal as he seemed in his letters. She has only met a handful of heroes and to say she isn’t impressed is an understatement. The heroes she has met were all strange at varying degrees.]

Umiko and you’re Sephiroth?

[She confirms that it’s him and then gestures to the scrolls of paper under her arm.]

I have the map you requested… [She looks him over one more time.] I can set it inside, it’s probably wise that you don’t touch this until you are dry.

[Umiko will not have her maps ruined!]

[He only needs to nod to confirm really, so that's all that Umiko gets. As she suggests about coming inside and putting them down, he's not immediately sure that he knows what she means but as always sharp intellect is never too far behind.]

Sounds like a good idea. [Gesturing for her to enter the house before him.]

I must say I didn't expect for them to be so...[Sephiroth looks again over the scrolls under her arm; confirming to himself that they did seem rather old-fashioned in the way they'd been done.]

...well, I certainly wasn't expecting parchment and ink. No wonder they take you so long, being hand crafted.

[She's still not happy for having to wait but at least he's willing to let her set down the map. She steps inside, her gaze noting the books as she walks into the main room.]

I take great care in my work.

[Umiko looks back at him with a smile.]

There's really no better way to do it.

[Which is an opinion she'd fight tooth and nail for.]

Nice to see you read. Where should I put this?

[There are a handful of books, atop a desk that don't look like they've been moved in several weeks. But at least it appears someone has been dusting around them so it's not that morbid of a display. The main living room of this house is cluttered with all sorts of books though, and even though Sephiroth tries to keep his own notes in one place they do end up traveling around the room at times.

Flowers is the other thing, and it's obvious he's certainly not the type to look after those himself.

He spends a moment in the wake of Umiko's question, looking over the desk that they'd kept undisturbed. Almost as if he hadn't heard her comment about him reading. Considering if he should break a rule of some sort and move the clutter some so that the map could rest there. Though-]

Perhaps in the kitchen would be the better idea.

[Then leads her out of the main room and into the kitchen, where there is bound to be more room on the table in there. If the main room were cluttered, the kitchen is spotless.]

[Umiko doesn’t argue. She admits that the house has a homey feel to it, it looks as if it’s been lived in for a long time and she’s sure there were bound to be stories this house could tell; if walls could talk. Her thoughts on the matter remain to herself; there is no reason to babble to a perfect stranger about romantic notions of memories.

The navigator paused at the doorway, her eyes scanning over the kitchen. Books, flowers, no dust and a messy sort of clean, it really is amazing how much a house can say about a person.]

I get the feeling you don’t live alone. [She walks over to the table and places one of the maps down. She’ll carefully roll it out to give the hero a glance before situating it perfectly on the table.] Tell your roommates to be careful too.

[Umiko smiles then, the first after being annoyed by his lateness. Really she should have just asked his schedule.]

Take care of it.

I will.

[Though the impression is that Sephiroth is all for the intricately drawn out map that's unrolled in front of him. Keen eyes easily picking out the main streets that he knew so well, having been a resident in the City for over a year yet spending longer than Umiko gave him to look glancing over the streets were which still under renovation, or in that north-east corner where he hadn't the heart to tread very often.

As it's rolled up and put back down he caught Umiko's smile and offered a short nod in return, having mostly caught his breath he collects a glass from in one of the cupboards and goes to the tap to fill it with water-]

Could I get you a drink, or anything, for the trouble? I presume you've other stops to make still today.

[Having noticed, of course, the other scrolls she has with her.]

[Umiko looks down at the papers in her arms and then sighs.]

Nope, you are my last stop. Believe it or not this is the third time I've been by, who knew you were so popular. Anyway, these are current unclaimed. I might drop them off at the castle for relief efforts.

[Which mean's yelling at a guard who will try and take them from her and most likely damage them. She hates going to the castle and she usually tries to avoid it. She can't imagine those who live in castles to be very down to earth about things.]

Oh, no. Nothing to drink. I'll get out of your hair.

[All how ever many feet of it.]

I'm not.

[Popular, he meant, but he'll leave it completely open for Umiko to interpret that however which way she wanted. She'll probably learn that much on her own given a few more weeks in Aqures. Sephiroth is most of the time a stone-wall to a great many people.]

Well then, don't let me keep you.

[After a quick sip of water, Sephiroth gestures towards the door back into the hallway which will lead her back to the front door. He's at least gentlemanly enough to see a visitor out, after all.]

[Umiko nods and turns towards the door without much lingering. She can't help but linger a little but with a smile she turned to leave. It's an interesting set up and he's at least a no nonsense hero. It's certainly a change from what she's seen.]

See you around.

[She walks away without looking back and without closing the front door behind her.]

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Event || Window of Opportunity

Re: Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!

Maps, non-looper too but CR!