▶ DOWN TIME / NETWORK MINGLE #2

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▷ DOWN TIME / NETWORK MINGLE #2

▶ DOWN TIME.

As Outsiders make themselves comfortable back on MAIN BASE, they will be informed of a reward for their great efforts. A pizza party will be held sometime after the kaiju fight and before a Valentine's party. All it really contains is pizza being served in the cafeteria along with the following streamers with balloons:

GOOD JOB:
TOP KNOT (K.O)
HAT GUY (294)
SNOWMOON (292)

Those who do you attend the party will still get this message as a marquee text along their ocular device. Characters CAN take this message off, but it's a bit complex. Try under General > Settings > Notifications > Messages > Texts > Alerts > Appearance > End Battle Notifications > OFF. Hopefully you won't miss something exciting by doing this. The marquee will disappear a week after the kaiju fight.

▶ CHOCOLATES.


On the day of February 14th, every Outsider will find that there is a box (or several) of chocolate. As soon as their eyes fall on them, their oculars will automatically generate a message, almost as if it were a mission debrief:

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Hand out all chocolate before end of day.
✖ Failure to comply will be grounds for disciplinary action.

It's unknown who the order has come from, but those who don't hand out chocolates by the end of the day, will find that the very next morning, they are confined to their room for a full 24 hours.

During the duration of the holiday, Outsiders will see a tiny number in the corner of their oculars, which notates how many chocolates they have left to give. This number may also not move unless the chocolates are delivered with enough good will. Maybe add in a word of gratitude, a flirty comment or two, or even a fake confession if you're bold enough.

HOW TO PLAY: Feel free to use this post to play around with these prompts, or start your own logs (both are completely okay)!

NOTE: Everyone is free to decide how many chocolate boxes they were given and how stubborn SYNTHIA is in moving their count down. It can also be assumed that SYNTHIA will be encouraging and guiding Outsiders to complete this mini-mission.



▶ SYNDER.

Although ocular & brain implants are the means of communication nowadays, a messenger service still exists in this world. Mostly everyone uses LINE nowadays even if the need for cellular phones is null. Characters may have already recognized the interface to be somewhat familiar with the similar shade of green and same old slogan.

This time, a new extension appears on the LINE interface. It's something called SYNDER? Outsiders who are curious may investigate this program will see that it has already filled out a dating profile for them. This profile is only visible to Outsiders and not the LILITH crew or any civilians. Outsiders MUST change their dating profile to what they would like or delete it... those who are too slow to change or delete their profile may get an embarrassing profile already filled out for them. Once someone responds to their bio, there's no changing it for the rest of the month! So make sure you check out and see what the system programmed for you.

"The system is updating …

...

The system is updating … Wait.. SEOK DANG, what the █ █ █ did you do?"

Not long after that, another message runs across the screen.

"Hahaha, it was such a shame we had to fight that big whale bitch around this time of year! Love is in the air, so get loving! It might be the last time you get to do it, who knows! Okay, gang, don't tell the Commander or Captain about this. They're kinda serious biz but I really think we all could use some stress relief, right? Fill out this profile below and get minglin'! Or don't. It'll probably do it for you if you don't put SOMETHING though."

Welcome to our second Network Mingle! This is a Tinder mingle; a new application that SEOK DANG has installed into everyone's implants. It's taken a lot of tweaking and hacking behind the rest of the LILITH crew's backs. Seems like the only person on staff who is interested in seeing Outsiders get some is SD himself. These messages are encrypted from the LILITH crew ... besides SD because he's a nosy bastard. Sounds fun.

HOW TO PLAY:
1. In observation of Valentine's Day, this month's text meme is a dating profile! Pick the textarea that is under your TEAM NAME and fill out the spaces.
2. You can write the bio in character or as if Synder programmed their bio for them.
3. Body count can be confusing... even the automatic system doesn't know what that means! Does it mean how many people you have fucked or how many people you have killed? Or both?
4. PROFIT!
5. Special shout out to Roc for giving us this event suggestion!

Participation in this mingle isn’t obligatory, of course. If you don’t want your character to participate, you can simply assume the glitch did not affect them.

We also have a code below for fun, but please don't feel pressured to use it. As always, a regular text thread works out just fine! Most importantly, have fun! All tags on this mingle will count for 2 points each.

(Please remember to put warnings for NSFW/triggering content in the subject header.)

EVERLIGHT
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REVELATION
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BRIMSTONE
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REDEMPTION
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✖ / PASS!	❤ / MATCH!
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Comments

[thundercrashes]

I'm free right now, and we'll need somewhere with a table for the cards, so we could meet in the cafeteria, or one of the coffee shops that has a decent sized one as well as if you want to get drinks or anything during this demonstration.

[gundemn]

You've yet to convince me what you bring to the table.

[frostfist]

Cafeteria sounds fine. I can swing by someplace and grab drinks for us. Any requests?

[frostfist]

Money does make the world go round a lot of the time.

But that sounds like a good enough plan for now. Guess we'll have to keep doing a good job so we can earn Kryptos and also Seok Dang's good favor at the same time.

[yormama]

I have! Everyone's been so very helpful.

Mr. Nanami, Miss Makima, Kiritsugu, Toji...everyone, really.

[yormama]

Maybe so. But being overly cautious can be tiring, sometimes.

[blastedass]

Thanks for stating the obvious, Uni Hair.

[Or they can find a spot on the mountain and spar there. It's an option.]

I get off at 6pm.

[axethrows]

It's fine. I'm used to doing work that I didn't want to do, but when you need a paycheck or it's impossible to avoid, you gotta do it.

[She did a lot of work in the past where she didn't like it or it's against what she believes in, but when you are poor, you gotta do what you have to in order to get by. Sometimes life sucks yet you do what you need to do to keep going.

If Wrio could see her right now, her eyes do lit up on that last sentence.]

Really? I would really like that, you know.
How do you feel about casinos, Ley? We can also go out and try something new to eat.
I do like trying out new stuff too if you got ideas and want to surprise me.

private;

[axethrows]

[She kind of stares at the first question for a good amount of time and good thing she is locked in her room right now so nobody can see her.]

Most of time, I did.

[Let's keep it at that.]

Mmmm I guess it's easiest way to explain it is that it's like a contract type of deal. Don't ask me how it's works, our company is super secret on the big important stuff and this person lost their memories so there isn't a lot they can say on their abilities.

[Though being here does make her accidentally walk on the edge with the company's NDA, but some stuff is okay as long as it's not super detailed.]

[frostfist]

Already ready to gamble away our hard-earned funds?

[ Damn, homegirl works fast. ]

But sure, if that's what you enjoy. We can grab a meal and some drinks afterwards, assuming we haven't lost all our money by then.

[wheft]

Does that mean you and your allies don't have any?

[axethrows]

You know it!

[Gotta keep balling 24/7.]

No worries, I will make sure we leave with earnings. I won't force you to play along if you don't want to gamble your money away. You can be my lucky charm at the tables ☆

[frostfist]

Stand there and act as eye candy, huh?

[ There are worse roles, he supposes. ]

Though if anyone here's the eye candy, surely it must be you.

1/3

[saudadist]

[ Amazingly, Nyuu seems to shrink even smaller the more he talks, the more menacing his narration becomes. She can already envision the exact kind of scenario he's describing, complete with spooky noises and shadows moving at the corner of the frame, and the plucky heroes just can't seem to catch a break even in a group! ]

2/3

[saudadist]

[ The touch comes out of nowhere since she's screwed her eyes shut in an attempt not to imagine anymore. Not that it works. Closing her eyes just made the image more vivid.

So, of course, she jumps clear out of her skin. ]

NyuuUUUuuuUU!!

3/3

[saudadist]

[ She shakes her head and almost looks like she'll cry at any second. Her hands instantly go to cover her eyes, and she even stamps her foot like a child. ]

No way! No scary movies! I can't do it!

[skirm]

( he bouta swing his hand across your face fuckboy )

not if it's lilith's ai anyways. or however that works.
what, don't tell me you have some hidden form that lilith can see through?

( haha lol )

[collator]

I see.

… Was his life as colorful as stories would have us believe?

[ the high elder’s sordid life as documented in luofu’s rpf community… ]

[collator]

[ with his delicate little hands?? ]

... Not at all.

[ haha... unless? ]

[axethrows]

That's a given, but you are a sight for sore eyes too, you know?

[It's true, it could always be worse.]

Some folks might even be more fixated on you than me and I might get a little jealous.

[skirm]

( delicate little hands covered in blood yes )

am i supposed to believe that?

( bro is bad at lying through text????? )

[collator]

[ no he's not!!! ]

Do you have any reason to believe otherwise?

[skirm]

do i have any reason to believe otherwise?
i don't care either way. it doesn't matter to me. whether lilith hates all its test subjects or it picks favorites couldn't be less important to me either way.
it says a lot what they think of us when they keep doing this.

[wheft]

[ if that's ammo, ishmael's not going to take her up on it. that's understandable; the only reason why she was able to experience an amusement park was because she's from a Nest. kids like her would've had a normal if terribly boring childhood growing up there.

but hold on, what was that? ]

Wait, abandoned? In the middle of nowhere?

[ is this a kidnapping attempt ]

[eepy]

[ also in the fanfic community ... ]

Stories often give us a rose-colored glimpse of life, exaggerated like an immersion but relatable still.
Dan Feng, as much as the others would beg to differ, is just like everyone else: someone who smiled, frowned and strongly felt a variety of emotions. Perhaps that in itself makes his life colorful to one's perspective.