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

Perhaps the saddest fact was that Sephiroth, the pillar of strength that he forever held himself up to being, had at his core a trust that had been shattered right the way through the middle. It was the reason for the walls he put up, the reason why he preferred to isolate himself when things were proving difficult, the reason why he quite often made a habit of surrounding himself with other things; his work, his volunteering, even the responsibility he'd taken upon himself in looking out for Terra as a bodyguard.

"That's right." He answered as she spoke of Genesis' obsession. In Crystallis, his once-comrade hadn't quite been as swallowed up by the story as he had when Sephiroth last recalled seeing him on Gaia, but still the sharp arrowhead of betrayal were still lodged in him. He'd let that color his judgment, flavor his reactions, contribute way too much to his lacking temper with the other SOLDIER.

"Genesis wasn't in his right mind, I don't think. He wasn't well, at all, when we were back home. He'd always apply verses from LOVELESS to any and all situations which he found himself in...it really got quite tiresome, in the end."

Sephiroth lightly squeezed at Terra's hand when she tightened her grip a little and raised his head up and back; taking a deeper breath in now that the tears had stopped welling up. There was something about him that seemed to indicate that they could easily be brought back though; a weakness of character almost foreign in what most people were lead to believe of him. Inside, he fought with thoughts that now dragged his consciousness towards that last fateful scene in the reactor, which he remembered now as being before his time in Crystallis.

"I'm sorry, this probably doesn't make any sense to you."

Terra shook her head while that confident smile stayed fixed across her lips. It was true that not all of it made sense but then it didn't really have to. She knew enough to form a picture and understand. She didn't think she'd ever understand his situation fully but that was because she wasn't him. She had lived through her own trials which had shaped a different perspective.

She lightly tugged at his hand hoping to guide him towards the couch and away from the front door. She couldn't claim what was going on in Genesis's head when he was first in Crystallis but Terra never thought that he was trying to do something bad. Perhaps he wanted his friend back as much as Sephiroth did though she wasn't sure if Sephiroth would believe that.

"It's alright."

Terra had little words of comfort for the strong hero. She was only happy that he might feel less of a weight on his shoulders. There wasn't to much she could do now but she'd remain at his side.

"Can I get you anything?" She wasn't sure if he was thirsty or hungry or if he'd rather just have time alone to think.

The next thought that crossed Sephiroth's mind was warm, prickly and settled somewhere between his gut and the center of his chest. If he had a way, to somehow open his mind to Terra and simply let her know all of it without him having to express it, to somehow will her to understand, he'd do it right there and then without a moments hesitation. Yet at the same time, the fact that she were still stood there and had not simply left him to sort it out on his own was completely new ground to the elite SOLDIER. It had always been the way for him, in growing up, after all.

At first it didn't seem that the light tug to his hand would do anything but move his arm in her direction, in fact Sephiroth curiously looked over Terra's face again as if to silently ask what she were trying to get him to do. A chill, most likely a draft from the fact they were still stood in the hallway, seemed to make itself more prevalent to him just then though and after that moments hesitation Terra found it easy to lead him into the main room and to the couch.

He did seem to feel less of a weight on his shoulders, but it was as if the lifting of that weight had dug something out of him that was important as well. Sephiroth had always been proud, confident and seemingly sure of himself when faced with adversity; that had been broken a little now, defeated. At Terra's intention, Sephiroth slipped himself down onto one side of the couch and drew his hands back from her to rest on the top of his knees. He was sat forwards some, residual tension preventing him from relaxing enough to sit back into it.

As when she had first tried to get him to move, it was equally delayed when she asked if she could get him anything. Thoughts clouded his awareness, pounded like thunder on the inside of his consciousness and as a result he felt strangely detached from himself. Hollow in a way.

Then he remembered.

"You should get on with the soup you had planned. I know you were looking forward to cooking tonight."

Terra didn't realize the significance of her roll today but it would come with time. She knew what it was like to have deep wounds expand into gashes across the heart. It took more than a day for them to heal and yet at Sephiroth's words she smiled, her expression soft but bright as if to rival the glow of the sun.

"Yes, Tempest assured me that you'd like it."

It was a healthy soup and she liked making things that Sephiroth might enjoy in the future as well. It was a small pleasure and she was sure that Tempest had already started while they spoke in the doorway.

"I'll start."

Terra slowly rose from the couch and then disappeared into the kitchen. She'd make something to drink for Sephiroth too, maybe something warm.

Event || Window of Opportunity

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