Event || Window of Opportunity

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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!

Comments

[forcegalactic]

Sure, that won't make it a rewrite, more of a whole new version, but there's not rule sayin' we can't have a bit of fun with brainstormin'.

[Whoops good luck getting this idea out of his head this loop, Manami.]

Trick of the trade: when you can't come up with somethin' just yet, find a gimmick and play around with it. [He gets to writing notes on this brilliant idea.]

[vindr]

[Wow, he didn't think he'd have to work so hard for stew and cookies. He wonders if his instinct about there being some secret about this is off... It could just be the fact that Manami is the only one he's told about the project.

Oh, well! There will still be food! He can smell it warming on the stove. He settles further back into the couch as Barkeep gets writing.]

A gimmick? Like... The bad guy is really a good guy or everything you were fighting for turns out to be wrong? [He's played enough video games to have come across those kinds of things a few times.]

[forcegalactic]

[The smell of beef wafts through the air, right into the living room. The Barkeep excuses himself as he disappears into the kitchen to fill up a bowl with the stew and place it in front of Manami along with a napkin and a fork.]

That's a good twist, but we'll have to see if I can work that into my rewrite. [He's played plenty of video games back in his youth, and he's aware of several tropes. Some of them are pretty good to use!]

Now, are you thinkin' of havin' the Ancients be the good guys, because I don't see why takin' over the planet's anythin' other than trouble.

[vindr]

[Manami claps his hands together with a quick 'thank you for the food' before digging in to the stew.]

Mmmm~! 'S goot-! [It's so good, he didn't even wait to swallow that mouthful before complimenting it. But it's hot!
He swallows quickly and takes up a second spoonful, more carefully blowing on it this time.]

I'll have to come back again~ [He means some other loop, but after this looping thing gets broken would be good too. ...If it ever stops.
As he's chewing the second spoonful he realizes that maybe he'd been asked a question?]

Did you ask me something, Barkeep-san?

[forcegalactic]

[Apart from Manami's manners, the Barkeep ignores his eating to focus on the notes he's written. Well, it looks like he's accidentally let a teenager come over to his house regularly, but at least it's not someone like Sephiroth. It's like inviting one of Harriet's coworkers to his house for dinner.]

Hm? Right, askin' about your idea of havin' the heroes turn out to be the villains. IT could work, but that'd mean we'd have to change the motives of the Ancients, and I'm not rewritin' it too much. [For now.]

[vindr]

[Manami makes a displeased sound around another mouthful of stew and shakes his head. He'll actually swallow before elaborating,]

Heroes are heroes. Even if they're kinda mean people or get nick-names like demon-something-or-other, they're still the heroes, right?

[forcegalactic]

It's not the name that's botherin' me, is that the Ancients are tryin' to destroy the world. How does that make 'em heroes?

[To him, it's not a manner of good vs. evil, but troublemakers vs. those that aren't troublemakers. And the Ancients are firmly part of the former.]

We can add more personality to the main characters so that they're not perfect, if that's what you'd like.

[vindr]

It doesn't... [There's a slight lilt on the end of that, as if he's adding 'why are you asking me how that makes them heroes? They aren't, are they?' (Never mind that Manami was the one to bring up that trope in the first place.)]

Personality is good though! ...Didn't they have personality already? Mmm, that's too bad. No wonder it was so hard to stay awake~

[forcegalactic]

They do have personality, but it ain't enough to create drama. Flaws are what make someone likeable, without 'em, they get borin'. Now, we can have a Hero more perfect than the others, that's fine, but like you said, it's borin' if they ain't got any bad sides to 'em.

For example: Warrior. If he's so good at beatin' up monsters, why would he be great at romancin'? Folks I know [meaning Sparks] have a hard time translatin' them fightin' skills to social skills.

White Mage: let me tell you, bein' in charge of patchin' up bruises while everyone keeps on gettin' hurt gets tirin'. It's dangerous if you got no way to defend yourself in the middle of a fight. Why not have White Mage be sort of a leader or be really tired after most adventures?

[He holds out a hand toward Manami. Your turn to think of ideas.]

[vindr]

[Manami nods along - he sees what Barkeep means! - until the hand gets held out towards him. And he looks down blankly at it.]

Eh? Um... Mm. .... ....

I'll think of something good after I have a nap~!

[And he plops down on his side on the couch. Ah, comfy. And he's sleepy after all that nice warm food...]

[forcegalactic]

[Oh. Well, then. Hopefully Ramza doesn't return home early to find a teenager asleep in their living room. The Barkeep returns to writing notes on the opera for now.

...Until he gets hungry. He picks up Manami's bowl and brings it to the kitchen to wash before getting a bowl for himself and sitting down at the kitchen table, because that's where you're supposed to eat food if you don't have a dining room.

He hopes Manami wakes up before evening not that he has worry about that this loop.]

[vindr]

[Manami lies there for a time, not asleep yet, and is a bit surprised that Barkeep is just letting him be.
That's pretty nice of him! Maybe he really will just sleep here then.

It's been very strange (and oddly stressful) not having proper days and nights for so long already, so maybe it's time to catch eight-ish hours.

And if he wakes up then, it'll be good timing to eat some cookies just before the next loop starts!
... So long as Barkeep-san doesn't forget to make the promised fresh-baked cookies.
He won't, will he?]

[forcegalactic]

[Yes, there are cookies, just like the Barkeep promised. And if Manami doesn't wake up in time for those, Ramza can always have them with his evening glass of milk. That child.

If Manami wants to bug this old man the next loop, he is free to do so!]