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

It's… [gestures with her hands. how does she explain this…] You- pull, I suppose- the aether from the crystals and push the energy into what you're doing.

Can you do it here? I think it would be easier to understand if I could see it.

I'm not sure… I can try. With one of these, perhaps…

[she takes up a hammer, reaching in to prise one of the crystals out. As an afterthought, she takes some of the spare wires- that should help to make some sort of component, right?

And ideally those would be combined into a stronger set of wires, but… Either it's not going to work with these parts, she's got something wrong, or… it won't quite work here. She slumps a little, regardless.]

Maybe not… I'm sorry.

It's okay. Even when something doesn't work, we still learn something.

[she nods, still looking dismayed.]

I wish I could do more. [but she pushes herself up after a moment, looking at Chiaki.] But then, in that case… what would you say you learned from this?

Mmm...

[She hums for a moment, thinking.]

...I think we learned one more way not to make a power converter.

[It's meant to be encouraging, but it probably isn't.]

[not particularly. K'pandolu droops, tail curling under her chair.]

What of a way to make one, though?

[she sighs, folding her arms.]

I wish I'd had more training in these matters.

We'll figure it out. We just have to keep trying things. This is really my first time doing this kind of thing on this scale, too.

I suppose so…

[she shifts to peer up at Chiaki with one eye.]

Really? All right, so… What do you think we ought to try next?

We could hard-wire the game system into the crystal and see what happens. It'll explode, probably, but we'll learn something again.

Ex… explode? Are you sure? Not that we couldn't learn something, but if we're too close…

[well, she's sitting up again, at least?]

The explosion won't be big enough to kill us.

Probably.

That still doesn't sound good.

[…but it'll resolve itself on the next loop, won't it? She frowns, fiddling with her hands for a moment, and nods slowly.]

I suppose we can at least see…

It's the best chance we've got to do this kind of thing. We can take risks that would be too dangerous to try before.

That's true. So…

[she nods, firmly, and taps the computer.]

I'll trust you, then. Do you want me to do anything with it?

Just like I said before. Let's hard-wire the two together and see what happens. Here.

[Chiaki picks up her game system's charger, connecting one end to the system itself.]

Let's just plug this into the crystal power source of the computer and see what happens.

All right.

[K'pandolu takes the other end, then, rather gingerly, and connects it to the power source, pulling back her hands as fast as she can, ears up in alarm as she awaits the results of their actions.]

[And just as expected, the reaction isn't good, though it isn't the flaming hellstorm it could have been. There is, however, a loud pop, a fizzling noise, and some smoke that rises up out of the circuitry of the game system. The crystal, notably, flashes for a moment just before this occurs.]

[well. that's good news, more or less?

K'pandolu jerks back, eyes wide, and then leans in to investigate the crystal for a moment.]

It shone… [she frowns, looking over at the game system.] So- it seems as though the power came through, at least.

Well, at least we know it can work in theory. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to be able to do any more, though. The circuitry is fried.

[she nods, moving to peer a little more closely at the game system.]

I suppose we'll have to. So, if it fried… that means the power it received from the crystal was too much, right?

Right. It couldn't handle the output. We'll have to find a way to step it down next time.

[nodding, and hmming to herself]

So what can we use to do that… Some way that would restrict the flow?

[Cid would know, but she's not asking this world's and hers isn't here. She stares at the wires, head tilted, as though that'll provide the answer.]

Yeah. Like a transistor or a converter.

What do they look like?

[she can go around and ask, too. maybe someone has something useful. Or maybe the library?]

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