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

[Yuna smiles before kicking the ball towards the ground in front of her. It spun back and then she kicked it again, then a second time. As it came back towards her she jumped up and kicked the ball with all her might sending off into the sunset.

They are now minus one ball.

She lands on her feet with a smile looking over at where the ball was headed. Luckily it is towards the plans so no one will get hurt.]

Think you can do it?

[Wow! Ven doesn't hide how impressed he is, and the question gets a confident grin as he moves into place. He does the same thing at first, kicking the ball against the ground to build up its speed -- but he always likes to add his own touch to just about everything.

So when it comes back to him and he's ready to really kick it, Ven doesn't mirror Yuna's move entirely; instead, he quickly drops to the side and throws himself on his hands, twisting swiftly in place and coming out of the spin to throw all of his weight into the kick. As the ball goes sailing into the horizon, Ven continues through with the smooth motion to right himself on his feet again.

...A bit showy, yeah, but he was mostly just curious if he could pull it off. His smile says he's satisfied with the result.]

Close enough, yeah?

[Yuna laughs, her hand covering her lips as the light sound echoed between them. She’s impressed and while it was showy it also looks like it was fun. Her own movements weren’t so elegant, they were precise and fluid but not fancy.]

Yes. It was perfect.

[Her claps her palms together, her smile wide.]

I loved it.

[Minus one more Blitzball.]

[Yuna walks over to their stash and begins to blow up another, her cheeks puffing as she exhaled into the white and blue colored ball.]

[The praise makes him smile wider, and then he also goes to help prep more blitzballs -- but soon pauses to speak again.]

So when you're playing on a team, do you try and plan everything out beforehand? Or do you make it up as you go?

[He's seen plenty of matches by now, sure, but the players usually move really well together without noticeable communication, so he's wondered.]

[The question makes Yuna smile.]

We have formations we practice and the midfielder can signal a change in formation but other than that it’s going with the flow. You can’t predict everything that happens and it’s better to have cover.

[At least that’s how Yuna sees it and more often than not when she moves out of formation there is a good reason to do so.]

There are a lot of implied movements in Blitzball. Obviously if the person with the ball comes close you are going to focus on them but then those further out need to cover their respective players.

Oh. [It sounds pretty strategic -- something Ven doesn't have a whole lot of knowledge in, but he's been working on it ever since arriving in Crystallis.] Kinda like working together in a battle, then. [Sort of.

He blows into the blitzball a couple more times, seals it, and beams over at Yuna again.]

Hey -- do you think any of your teammates would wanna practice sometime? I'd like to see what it's like playing in a full team.

[Not that practicing one-on-one with her isn't fun, but still!]

[Yuna smiles tucking the Blitzball under her arm. Her head tilts to the side as she regards Ven seriously.]

Why don't you join the team?

[Then he'd be able to play with them and she knew he'd be good at it.]

I know I'd like to have you play beside me.

[Ven does a double-take, looking surprised before his expression turns a bit serious as well.]

Really? [He's heard that Heroes can join -- Yuna's part of it, after all, and he's seen others play since he first arrived here -- but somehow it never really crossed his mind. He's not lacking in appreciation of his skill or anything like that; he simply never thought about doing anything with it.

He breaks into a grin.]

You really think I can?

Of course.

[She tosses the ball in her hands at him with a smile and with the intention to make him drop what he's currently holding to catch her ball.]

You've been trained by me right? I might not be the best but I'm pretty good.

[Yuna is being modest because she's an amazing player.]

[With his hands full, Ven's reflex is to use the ball he's holding to intercept that toss, knocking Yuna's ball upward just long enough to toss his aside and catch hers instead with a smile.

He's well aware of how good she is -- he doesn't need to be a pro himself to recognize that -- so her vote of confidence means a lot, and he's certain she wouldn't suggest it if she didn't mean it.

So he nods once, confidently.]

Okay! I'll go for it -- just... after this time thing's cleared up.

[HOPEFULLY SOON....]

[Yuna laughs while walking over to the ball that Ven's tossed to the ground.]

If you back down I'll know where to find you.

[She's kidding but she really does hope that he tries out for the team. He'd do a really good job.]

So back to practicing?

[He laughs.] Don't worry, it's a promise.

[He's playing it cool now, but he really hopes he makes it, too. Yuna's fun to be around, easily one of his favorite people here, and more time with her is never a bad thing. Just like with Terra and Aqua, there's that eager drive to make her proud of him -- although it's not quite the same, not really.

Anyway -- more practice it is! And now with a goal in mind.]

Yeah! Let's go!

Event || Window of Opportunity

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