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

Right, like the Continent of Ruin, huh...

That's right. No one has ever been there.

[At least not that Umiko is aware of.]

I'd love to go and see it.

I bet if you stick around here long enough, someone will figure out how to get there.

Well I have no plans to leave.

[Of course unlike the heroes of light Umiko can die.]

Good. I'm glad. The Heroes can definitely use a few more people with level heads like you.

[Umiko doesn’t doubt that. The heroes she’s met where questionable as far as she’s concerned and she isn’t sure what to think of them besides the notion that they were crazy.]

I’ve noticed though you seem to be doing well, and I’ve stopped by the hero’s observatory.

[Which is what the locals have started calling it.]

I guess we're doing okay. I mean, the city's still standing.

[Levy laughs a little nervously.]

Oh? I've never been there. What is it like?

[Umiko laughs.]

An observatory but it looks like its getting fixed up. There is a weird picture in the main area.

[She doesn't understand 8-bit as art but it was interesting.]

You should stop by. You are a hero aren't you?

Yeah, but I've got a guild of my own. I'd feel a little weird going into someone else' guild hall.

[Umiko hums softly.]

Is that how it is?

[It sounds strange but she isn't one to argue.]

Kind of. That guild has hired mine a few times, but that's all.

[Umiko nods, it sounds like relationship between the heroes might be a little stressed. She doesn't consider that a good sign.]

It's good that you are able to work together but.. um, why do you guys pay each other?

[It can't be to stimulate Crystallis's economy since it's just technically taking money out of it.]

It's only natural to pay someone for doing a job for you, isn't it?

Well, yes but what do you have to buy here if everything is provided?

[She really doesn't know.]

Plus when you leave all your money will stay here.

It's not everything. The city provides us with a place to live and the basic equipment to use our Jobs, but we still have to support ourselves. Food, clothing, better equipment, and any money we want to spend on personal hobbies like buying books or entertainment, we all have to pay for on our own. Just because we won't be here forever doesn't mean it's not worth having a job while we are.

[She remembers Cid saying they provided the heroes with food though he might be wrong. It's not like he can handle all of this himself.]

I suppose that's true, as long as you are spending money.

[Economies only work if they continue to spend money.]

[Just basic supplies, really. Anything fancier than that, they're on their own.]

I don't think that's going to be a problem for most of us.

[Umiko hums lightly.]

Man, I wish I got paid as much as you guys did.

[Her salary comes from Cid and it’s not very much after subtracting housing, food, and other amenities. Not to mention taxes now that she lives in the city.]

Maybe you should ask Cid for a raise. It's not like you aren't working hard too.

[Umiko crosses her arms.]

Do you know why the moogle's strike? It's impossible to get a raise from the city.

I always thought they just wanted more Kupo Nuts. Is that what they use for currency?

[Umiko laughs.]

No but they spend A LOT of money on kupo nuts.

You'd think someone would plant some of those and grow a grove of kupo nut trees or bushes or whatever they grow on. They'd probably make a fortune.

That might not be a bad idea for the heroes to do.

[Of course their mognet isn't always affected.]

I'm afraid that everyone else is restoring the city and trade goods that aren't for that effort have been down.

That's true... this isn't really the time to think about doing something like that.

Maps

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