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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"Take it easy?" Her brow angled downwards at the redhead's comments. If there was anyone that would never understand Sayaka or her motivations, she was never more convinced than now that it was Kyoko.

"There are people here living in fear of something called a Calamity... there's a crazy scientist on the loose with a weapon the size of a skyscraper, and people laying down their lives to try and protect this world... So you'll have to forgive me if I don't really consider taking it easy to be an option." Of course, Kyoko was talented in battle, a natural at fighting, gifted even but most of all... selfish.

Casting her arm off to the side, above all else, she hated hearing the other girl talk about Kyousuke and spat out the next bit. "I was stupid to think talking to you about any of it would be worthwhile!"

Her ire flares at the dismissing words. She really had been trying, damnit! Once again, trying with Sayaka had only blown up in her face. To top it off, grinding in the calamity and people dying, as if to point out how heartless Kyoko was for not wanting them to fight another world's battles. It really pisses her off.

FINE.

She could do heartless.

"So what! Not our problem, we fight witches not calamities. Not mad anime scientist or any other crap. There was plenty of shit going on in our world besides witches too. Did you try to change everything wrong with the world? No, because that would be insane! You can't fight every battle!"

If Sayaka didn't change her philosophy...

Leaning down and forwards aggressively to glare at eye level with her counterpart, she invades Sayaka's space with her body language as much as her taunting words. "You cry when you read the newspaper too? Stop being such a bleeding heart. They always wind up dead."

This time instead of pushing her further, Kyoko's words gave her pause. She'd heard that exact statement from the girl before -- cry when you read the newspaper... Suddenly, the memory of where she had been with the redhead before this came flooding back. The revelation of what had happened with her family, the sort of person that her father was...

It had been a tragic end to an even sadder story. But even still, even knowing what had happened... "Mami-san... would do the same. She would be working for the sake of the other people here, whether they had grief seeds or there were witches or not. Regardless of what kind of place this is or how we got here... it's because of that that I can't just turn a blind eye to what they're doing."

Her anger was forgotten again, her fist lowering to her side, the hand that had clenched it relaxing its grip. That's right, she'd follow Mami's example. The ideal magical girl... even if she had lost her powers, that's who Sayaka would strive to be.

"I'll fight every battle I have to, no matter how many times it takes to make a difference..." turning on her heel, she began to walk away. Leaving the words between them as she left, suggesting Kyoko -- "Just forget I said anything."

Kyoko draws back, almost suddenly. Struck completely off guard -- expecting a strong response from the easily flustered girl, and instead getting her senpai's name calmly uttered inches from her face.

Teeth clenching, she looks away just long enough to school her expression. Hearing that same rhetoric that killed her mentor makes it easy, anger is great at hiding many things. Turning back, red eyes burn into the girl at the fountain.

That thinking killed Mami, it would take Sayaka away too. Why wouldn't she just listen?! They weren't bound by their contract here without witches. It was like she had a death wish, this world should have freed the girl to a normal life. Fine, she would just, have to keep an eye on the idiot. Be there...like she hadn't been...

Staring after the girl she wanted to keep safe, Kyoko wanted to explain things better...but, what would be the point. Sayaka had already said she disapproved of her. That she would do things on her own and didn't want an ally. No, as much as Kyoko may wish it, Sayaka...clearly did not want to find common ground.

"Mami-san's dead." The same anger that was in her stare cuts as sharp as the veteran's spear in those words, "A weak magical girl like you can't replace her. You won't survive even half as long."

With that she turns heel, walking away opposite the blue haired girl's path.

It had been easy to avoid Kyoko, way too easy in fact. Sayaka was quite sure that the redhead hadn't even bothered to come home. For her part, the blue-haired girl had been keeping to herself since their confrontation as well, well... for the last twenty hours at least. Figuring that had been enough time to cool off, she had set out for the city square again, troubled to find that things were exactly as they were the last time she had been here.

Everything... including Kyoko's, complete with the ramen she chowed down on. That feeling that certainly wasn't worry subsided somewhere within the girl as she approached. Embracing her inner puffer fish she made her way over towards the other girl, her tone slightly accustaory. "I thought you said you wouldn't be coming back here again. The people not irritating you today or something?"

She crossed her arms over her chest, trying to look disinterested.

Edited 2015-10-10 00:57 (UTC)

The confused "Heuh?" in response to the first part of the statement is half garbled by the noodles Kyoko had been actively slurping. Raising her head until the last of the strands have been swallowed down, she tilts her glance slightly over. Surprised Sayaka sought her out for once, though not about to show it.

Chopsticks click the empty air soundlessly, the hand that holds them motioning to indicate towards her companion. Pointing with eating utensils, if nothing else one could always rely on her for terrible manners. "You're more annoying than anyone." The words were spoken in the idle, everyday way the redhead tries to get under the the sword wielder's skin. The venom from their fight entirely absent.

"So you're just gonna... stand there a pretend that you didn't say any of that?" How heartless and cruel she'd been, less than twenty-four hours ago, even! How could she just say it so nonchalantly, that Mami-san was dead?! And that Sayaka would never... ever be able to live up to her expectations...

The girl's gaze lowered, biting down into her lip hard to stop if from quivering. "I don't care how annoying you might think I am..." she'd decided, after having that time to think about it, that she wouldn't allow some selfish girl to talk like that about Mami-san! "I don't care at all! But I'll never let you get away with talking about Mami-san like that!"

As she whipped her head back up, her right arm shot off to the side, the sword from her Paladin job materializing in her grip, and her brow furrowing downwards. It seemed -- she was quite serious.

The look of sheer confusion Sayaka is receiving shifts to surprise when the sword is drawn. An echo of what might be hurt shimmers in red eyes, before they grow hard. The initial reactions easily forgotten as the girl behind them begins acting nonplussed.

"Yo, have you gone completely off the rails?"

What...the hell was this frazzled blue headed spaz going off about? Suddenly getting mad about the everyday jesting? ...bringing Mami-san up out of nowhere like that. Acting like Kyoko had been bad mouthing her?!

Come to think of it...Homura had asked her if she'd teamed up with Mami-san. As if she'd already known, and the girl had an awful lot of strange knowledge about shit. That had to be it, it was the only thing that made sense. For what ever rhyme or reason that girl must have had her own agenda. The stoic magical girl likely spread shit, as if Kyoko would have bad mouthed her own Senpai! It would cause tension between her and Sayaka though, the latter being so fiercely loyal. Then the purple bitch could team up with Sayaka to run her out of town once the two of them defeated Walpurgisnacht. And then probably just off Sayaka herself and keep the territory.

Fuck! This is why she worked alone.

Stabbing the ramen with her chopsticks, she begins punishing the noodles -- scarfing them down as if they wronged her. Leaving the paladin simply idling with her weapon out, as though there was nothing to fear from the deadly blade. Even less so the girl wielding it.

"Am I supposed to be afraid?" Soon emptied, the bowl gets placed on the wall, the chopsticks crisscross atop it. "You couldn't hit the side of a house with your skills. You still mad about our little fight? Man, you just don't know how to let stupid shit go do ya." Alright...she'd let Sayaka get some of that anger out -- it would be good anyway, to help the rookie start to hone some of those skills. If she was going to keep insisting on fighting, Kyoko would make sure she got good at it. With that stubbornness and bravery Kyoko knew the hero would make a kick ass magical girl -- heh, even if she was clumsy as fuck.

After they'd cooled off she would explain things.

Knowing the girl she'd hoped would one day see her had just believed she'd been awful, seeing that blade drawn from the one person in the world the redhead felt she could have her guard down next to...that stung. Even if she could understand why anyone in their right mind would believe the worst in her.

Moving to her feet, Kyoko summons her spear, locking eyes with a look devoid of emotion. "Come at me then. Don't be a little bitch about it."

Kyoko's nonchalance about it all did nothing to quell the storm below Sayaka's surface. Her hands began to tremble with rage, rattling the blade that she held as her teeth ground against one another. There was just no way she could let the red-clad girl get away with all of that stuff that she'd said... and then act like it was nothing at all!

"Just shut up!" she shouted, she really couldn't listen to any more of this crap! Lunging forward with her sword, she aimed for Kyoko's weapon, trying to push it off to the side with sheer force alone.

Bracing herself, the weapons cry in discord as lance meets sword. Boots dig into gravel as the added stability of the two handed weapon allows Kyoko to meet the blow without giving ground. Although the sharp pain that shoots down her elbow serves as a reminder that simply standing there in the face of a lunge had been stupid. If it had been anyone other than Sayaka, she would not have.

Fire alights her eyes when anger starts leaking through the calm warrior's facade, as the red clad girl starts pressing back against where the blades met each other -- thrusting furious strength in a sudden tidal wave. Trying to gain the advantage.

Goddamnit, it didn't even occur to her to try asking about shit first!

The force was enough to push Sayaka back just slightly, though she leaned in further, trying to meet the increase in strength. She couldn't give Kyoko the advantage of reach with that spear...

As though suddenly realizing the skills at her disposal, she had a moment of enlightenment, as Protect encased itself around her. "Ahhh... yaaah!" she cried putting all of her strength in a downward motion to try and deflect the spear, trying her best to follow up with an upwards spin of her blade.

Teeth gritting, Kyoko losses some ground herself at the redoubled effort. As much as they are more evenly matched in Chrystallis, there are some things you can't take away from a Veteran fighter. She can at least give the impression the task is easy, even though her arms are screaming. Other than that bit of anger, her facade is calm and determined.

This tug of war, this was stupid, they were getting nowhere. How would she teach Sayaka anything if she insisted on being just as stubborn as the girl and let her own emotions get the best of her? There would always be someone much stronger on the battle field, especially the one the magical girls would share.

Moving a step back with the intention to disengage their bullheaded entanglement and regroup, the sudden upward thrust catches the lancer offguard. Leaving her defense temporarily open as the lethal weapon sways pointed side away like a pendulum.

Sayaka takes the opening, intending to slice with her blade just enough to leave a mark on the other girl, then hopped back, her shoulders heaving with breath. Re-gripping her hands on her blade she searched for the next girl's move, sure that the redhead wouldn't just let her land a blow like that without retaliating.

Shifting her feet, the paladin studied her opponent closely, hoping that she would be able to act, or even react -- in time.

Toe to the ground, she prepared herself to move again. "I'm going to finish this once and for all!"

As the blade bites into her, the seasoned warrior lilts back -- weapon in tow. A quick motion, practiced a thousand times quickly rights the spear back to safety. The slash blossoming red at her midsection is paid no heed.

Sloppy, how did she let that happen? All that time turning ruthless to re-learn to fight, and she was slashed by a rookie.

Figures.

"Heh, you got lucky. Don't think you're gonna get used to that." Sayaka guesses right, eager to gain the upperhand in battle and set the blue haired girl on her guard Kyoko takes a running leap, baring down at the girl in a mighty downwards arc of her lance with a Jump attack. Unlike her opponent however, she has no actual wish to cause any injury. Kyoko will make sure the paladin has ample time to parry and respond.

Sayaka didn't even notice the gift of time Kyoko had given her, and jumped back just far enough to miss the attack. She was feeling more confident than ever, getting used to her abilities here in this world was getting easier. She just needed... a little more power!

Opening the palm of her hand in Kyoko's direction, it pulsed with dark energy, activating Drain if the magic managed to take hold of its prey.

The spell latches on, sinking into her chest like an invisible hook. Eyes widen in alarm when some of her lifeforce gets stolen, whooshing out with a surprised breath.

For all the strength it must have taken away, the casting does nothing to slow Kyoko down. Things were getting interesting, and by the sly smirk it seemed despite the damage she'd taken she was enjoying herself.

Heh. Not bad. Heavily slamming the tail end of her weapon down into the ground, a frilless blind spell casting explodes out to try and shroud Sayaka in darkness.

When the energy lashes back at her, Sayaka's resolve steeled, sword positioned in front of her as the darkness forced its way towards her. Although she guarded, when she opened her eyes again her vision was definitely obscured.

Gritting her teeth together, her sword charged with the power of light. She ran towards the reddish blur of hair -- "Stock break!"

When the elemental attack slams into Kyoko with the addition of stolen strength, she flies back with the force. The seasoned warrior manages to prevent the razor sharp blade from striking her face in the blind attack by a hair's breath. As a repercussion, the body of the halberd whips back and the girl in red ends up taking damage from her own weapon.

Pulling back, she leans the the bottom the spear to the ground for some support and regains her bearings. Grimacing a moment against cracked ribs and a dislocated shoulder. Seems her idea to let Sayaka take her aggression out against her isn't going to work when she doesn't even have her proper weapon to only be fighting on the defensive.

Heh...always been shit with words, nothing like her father. They would just have to do. Truth be told, Kyoko's happy someone is defending Mami so wholeheartedly, even if it was just over a misunderstanding.

First though, the stubborn girl really didn't want the Paladin to know any real harm was done, "Man, you really have your panties tied up in a knot."

If there was one thing that had been hammered home about Kyoko, it was that she was insufferably cocky. Maybe it was more about just Mami now, maybe those memories of their first encounter in the alley were swirling up inside of her -- bursting to get out and extract their revenge. The other girl had shown her no mercy back then... why should she do anything like that now, when she finally had the upper hand?

She had sustained next to no injuries, and that Brain skill had helped her feel better than ever. She grasped her sword firmly in her grip, her hands no longer shaking as she approached, her heels sounding in what seemed like an empty world around them.

It was only the two of them now. No one else.

"I told you..." although she wasn't all that much taller, something about her presence seemed towering in that moment, her bangs obscuring her eyes in forgiving shadow, "to just shut up!" she lunged forward once more, blade first.

The altered demeanor of the blue haired girl in front of her, that hateful glare. It was all wrong. It might fit someone like her...but not, "Sayaka?!"

Wait.

The word never had a chance to escape her lips. At the lunge Kyoko did her best to pull her spear around in front for defense, one armed. She did not made it in time.

Blood fountains out with the sword where it exits her back. For the briefest moment granting crimson wings, before falling to stain the ground.

It wasn't until blade met flesh that the severity of her actions even started to skin in. She had let go of the sword's hilt, as it stayed there, stuck in the girl in front of her. There was a half step back, then another, as her hands began to shake. Her eyes were wide and visible now, alive with fear and realization.

What... what had she done?!

A shattered breath forced it's way past her lips, a low, guttural sound the only thing she could choke out... before she turned and ran.

It was the longest eight hours of her life. What if the clock didn't reset this time? How could she possibly live with what she had done? What... had possessed her in those moments?

Alone in her room, Sayaka had cried all of the tears she could muster, and up until the last hour ran down, she had been staring at her hands, unbelieving. Had she really let Kyoko get so under her skin that she had been able to... to kill her?!

Back home, there had been no chance of it, even in their battle to the death she knew that she was at a disadvantage, but now here, in this world... she hadn't even realized just how even the playing field had become. When the time finally came, as much as she wanted to just bury her face in her pillow, she had to face the music.

Her steps were slow, but focused. She headed to the city's square, head bowed the whole way until she stopped near the fountain, relief and guilt hitting her like a tidal wave.

"Kyo... ko."

This time the hellion hears her name. Maybe. Almost hard to believe over the sound of that water, yet she turns her head towards Sayaka.

On catching sight, that bratty smile curves at her lips. The guilt ridden, slowed pace found the ramen as it met its demise, she had just finished sipping the last drops of the broth. After tossing the bowl and spitting the chopsticks she held like oversized toothpicks near her fang out Kyoko ambles over.

"Yo, blockhead."

There had been no way to anticipate how she felt in that moment. She'd pined for hours to be able to right her wrong, and now, in this hellish time loop, she had her chance. But, bowing her head, she had no idea how to progress from here.

With her hands balled into fists at her sides, they began to shake with all the feelings that started to well up inside of her. How could she face the other girl now, when just hours ago she'd plunged a sword through her torso?

"I..." she choked, and the tears started to fall. Turning on her heel, she did her best to try and conceal her shame, but her shoulders shook as well with the effort it took to contain it. "I..." what did you even say to someone you just killed?

"I'm sorry!" she finally burst out, and ran off, wiping at her eyes, her teeth clenched together to quiet her own cries.

The obnoxious grin quickly melts away into a rare expression of concern as the normally upbeat girl suddenly seems to fall to pieces.

"Huh?...Hey."

What could possibly have the girl so upset? Had someone hurt her fellow magical girl? If they did, Kyoko would cut them down.

The apology leaves a pair of red eyes blinking after a flurry of blue in confusion, for about half a second before she's taking off in chase, ponytail whipping angrily in the wind.

It's not a quiet pursuit, either, "What the hell, Sayaka?!"

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