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Melodies of Life Moderators ([personal profile] melodiesmods) wrote in [community profile] melodiesoflife2015-09-25 04:00 pm

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!
charming_jerk: (neutral)

45th loop, streets

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-02 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Johnny spots Chiaki, and trots over to like he's been looking for her. But when he sees her dancing, he stops. Hmm, not bad. He'll wait til she's finished, but he's looking impatient.]

Hey. Nice moves. You took up Dancer now?
line_piece: (smile)

Re: 45th loop, streets

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-03 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I got a bonus for it since I helped with the monster capturing quest, and it combines with Bard, so I thought it would be a good idea.
charming_jerk: (Default)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-05 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty cool. Sounds like a good combo. So, uh, does that mean you're not a Programmer anymore? And follow-up question: have you noticed anythin' weird going on around here?
line_piece: (explain)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-05 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I was gonna switch back after I figured out my first few dances. But now we're stuck in this time loop, so I guess I have all the time I need to practice. And I know the Mognet Central song, so I can actually switch Jobs partway through the day to work on my other projects with Programmer and Engineer before everything resets again.

[In other words, yes, she's noticed.]
charming_jerk: (thinking)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, wow. Leave it to Chiaki to be so industrious. He nods, impressed.]

Jeez, all I did was take up some time to practice. But, um, I guess I can't really keep focused with this goin' on. I was wondering - me 'n another Hero were lookin' over Jessie's old lab, wondering if something she had coulda started this. But all that stuff is way beyond us. Thought maybe we need to get a Programmer in there, and I thoughta you.
line_piece: (puffycheeks)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-06 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Programmer won't work in there. Palitutu set up some kind of magical firewall. We'll need to figure out a way to bring that down before the Job will function inside the lab. It's really inconvenient.
charming_jerk: (blue)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-07 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, shit. Guess that idea's out. I guess I shoulda expected somethin' like that though, huh. She would've been good at covering her tracks, I'm sure.

[He rubs the bridge of his nose, wincing. He's got one hell of a headache.]

I ain't got any other ideas. I haven't even come close to figurin' out what caused this or how to stop it.
line_piece: (huh?)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-08 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll figure it out eventually.

[Her basis for this? Blind faith.]

In the meantime, isn't there anything you can think of that you'd like to learn how to do or do better if you had all the time in the world?
charming_jerk: (thinking)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-09 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Sooner than later, I hope. Just tryin' to ride this out is driving me crazy.

[Of course there's things he'd like to do better. But he feels like that isn't as important as figuring this out, so he struggles for a moment with the answer and shrugs.]

Sure, of course. I spent a few loops off playin' more guitar, practicing my Jobs, stuff like that. But I'm havin' a hard time sitting still and thinking straight, y'know? Hard to relax when I think of how this could get worse.
line_piece: (Default)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-09 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It might. But it'll get better too, probably.

[Chiaki isn't great at speaking with conviction most of the time. Sorry, Johnny.]
charming_jerk: (blue)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-09 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, neither is he.]

Maybe, but I'd rather know for sure, if I can. Wouldn't you? I feel like outta all the people I met goin' through this, I'm the only one pulling his hair out over it.
line_piece: (hmmmm)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-11 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
There are people working on it. I go to Palitutu's lab almost every day. They'll figure something out, probably.
charming_jerk: (annoyed)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-12 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably"... [Johnny's far too exhausted and stressed to even be properly angry anymore. He's trying not to look as hopeless as he feels, but he can't help it.]

I wish there was somethin' I could do to help, but I know I'm no good in that lab. I guess I just need to find somethin' to keep my mind occupied some more.
line_piece: (smile)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-12 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, probably.

[A RINGING ENDORSEMENT]

We can work on our songs together if you want. It's how I spend most mornings.
charming_jerk: (dotdotdot...)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2015-10-13 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[He lets out a long sigh, trying to relax.]

Yeah. That sounds good. I was tryin' it by myself, but it wasn't helping. Maybe if I stick with people, it'll be better. I just... wasn't sure how many people were and weren't in the loop. I explained it to like a dozen people I know who all thought I was crazy, or wanted to know what was goin' on and I couldn't prove it. So I just stopped talkin' to everyone for awhile.
line_piece: (explain)

[personal profile] line_piece 2015-10-13 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been watching people to see if they do the same things every day to figure out who is and isn't in the loop.