▶ 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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sooyoung han ⯀ omniscient reader's viewpoint ⯀ revelation

[plagiarists]

SOOYOUNG HAN
29 / FEMALE / REVELATION #008
HEIGHT: 158 CM
BODY COUNT: 1,000,000,000,000+
IDEAL DATE: Getting coffee in a quaint cafe and talking about books

Are you ready to embark on a journey of love and drama? This author will change the genre of your life to romance and the rating of your story to R-18! This chapter of your book will be filled with plot twists, romance tropes, and a lot of excitement! Will you reach your happily ever after with Sooyoung? To be continued...

This profile has been auto-generated.

■ chocolates

[ First it was compliments, and now it's chocolates—Sooyoung's takeaway from both missions is that SYNTHIA sure does love butting into their business. If disciplinary action this time is somewhat similar, it shouldn't be too bad either, so she goes ahead and eats the box of chocolates all by herself... only to find another one on her bed after going out for a while.

Sooyoung could ignore that or just get rid of the chocolates one way or another. ]

You can have them. [ It looks like she might really just give a whole box to someone... and then, Sooyoung steps away. ] Not for free, though.

[saudadist]

❤

I'm impressed they found a good picture of you after all
unless it's doctored

[plagiarists]

aww girl, don't be jealous
it's an ugly look on you

[saudadist]

you'd know huh?
I'll take your advice senpai
if it ever happens

[plagiarists]

it's okay to be in denial
i won't even be mad if you end up saving that picture of me

[saudadist]

if I wanted a picture of you, I would pick an real one and not something from photoshop

makes the curse work better

[plagiarists]

wow didn't take u for someone who knows photoshop
is it because you're using it everyday?
also didn't know that this bitch (you) is also a witch
hit me with your worst curse, i don't mind

[saudadist]

I wash my face with soap and water
what would I need photoshop for

my next spell will be to toss you into the ocean
again

[plagiarists]

do you want an alphabetical list or...?

and be my guest 🫰

[domitrix]

❤

( damn what a body count. now that's her kinda woman, )
What does happily ever after look like for you?

[plagiarists]

[ She has no idea why the number is so high but it's okay, Sooyoung can roll with it. ]

living in a big house and doing whatever i want
happily ever afters don't happen too often, though

[ Where are the people in this? It is a mystery. ]

[frostfist]

[ sorry girl ]

✖

Is body count the number of yous you can make?

[plagiarists]

yep
don't be like this
i know you want to see them all

[ She has no idea where this count came from but why would she admit that in the first place? ]

[frostfist]

I've seen enough, thanks. But I'm sure there's someone else in this base dying to see your form in all its multiplicative glory.

[ Sorry to whoever he's throwing under the bus for this but he does have a sense of self-preservation. ]

[plagiarists]

i bet it's a ""friend"" of yours or something
you don't have to be thinking of me all the time, you know

[ What is she smoking ]

[frostfist]

[ What is she smoking ]

I wasn't thinking about you at all until you responded to this, in fact. But I'm glad there's someone out there who does have you on their mind at all times.

That someone is yourself, by the way.

[plagiarists]

oh no
i got called a selfish bitch on Valentine's Day
what am i going to do 😭

[frostfist]

I can only assume find someone else to torment to make yourself feel better.

Doesn't it get tiring, constantly pushing people away?

chocolates.

[yuwon]

[ at first when she offers him the box of chocolates, he's already feeling acutely ... suspicious. had it been anyone else, he may have just presumed it was a method for them to simply play along with the system. so he crosses his arms over his chest, before staring at the box. he then gives a small sigh. ]

Don't need it. [ with that, he takes a step closer. ] Unless, you want to do something else for me.

[ both of them... wanting to use each other, i guess. ]

[plagiarists]

[ What is this equivalent of gay chicken but instead they're trying to take advantage of the other person... ]

Do something for you? And what would that be?

[ Sooyoung watches him with a raised eyebrow which only goes a little higher when he takes a step closer. This is very suspicious, obviously. ]

[yuwon]

Are you always so suspicious of people? [ he says this as if he wasn't just ominously approaching her, asking for unspecified favors. but, he wasn't interested in any self-reflection presently. instead, he looks at her for a few seconds, and just before it meanders into being awkward, he looks down, digging a chocolate out of his own pocket.

he holds it out towards her. ] Take this first. [ there's a beat, before he speaks before she can even respond. ] It's not poisoned. I'm not you. [ why is he assuming she'd poison his food? who knows.

maybe revenge for the eggs or the diapers? ]

[plagiarists]

[ If he expected Sooyoung to laugh it off... that doesn't happen. Instead she watches Yuwon with her eyes narrowed before her gaze shifts to the chocolate. Well, if he takes her for a person who would poison someone... that's not too bad, right?

Right... ]

And now what? [ Sooyoung snatches it off his palm and looks away. ] You want to watch me eat?

[yuwon]

[ is that how it works...

at her inquiry, he seems to give a slight shrug. honestly, he isn't sure how she is choosing to interpret him giving her the chocolates, but he also was of the belief that it didn't exactly matter either. he didn't necessarily like overthinking variables that were clearly out of his control...

(though, that was han sooyoung in a nutshell— at least what he knew of her).

though, the idea of this almost makes him smile in a sardonic touch of humor. ] Is that what you think I want? You either think I'm out of my mind, or you... [ he looks directly at her. ] I guess it doesn't really matter. If you don't like it, just give it back.

[plagiarists]

You're giving it to me to take it away? That's cruel.

[ Just in case Yuwon decides to retrieve that chocolate by force, she shoves it into her mouth right away. If she's a variable out of control, the same goes for how Sooyoung perceives him. For all she knows, he might pull out an egg out of his pocket and crack it on top of her head. ]

What now? You got that weird countdown too, right?

[ If it went down, then it means she helped... blugh. ]

[yuwon]

[ the way she just scarfs it down...

makes him stare at her. he's clearly wondering why he gave it to her in the first place, but he also wasn't one to waste his time on regrets, either. so he decides to move past it with a clear exhale of nothing short of judgment. ] I wasn't going to take it away.

[ but, since it's gone. he really can't now. ]

It did. [ it actually may have not yet, but he figures it might be a different issue.

with that, he holds his hand out. ] Now give me yours.