▶ 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

[plagiarists]

believe it or not but i'm with you on this one
dating apps suck
mixers too

[wheft]

Wow, I'm actually with you there. I'm not a hermit, but I can't say I'm a people person either. I'm getting tired of being forced into participating into these mixers...

Not to mention the stupid holiday around it too. Valentine's Day isn't a thing where I'm from.

[plagiarists]

agreeing with you feels weird
if you're sick of valentine's day stuff and all the pink hearts everywhere we can go on a trip somewhere outside the city
but we have to fight at least once
otherwise i'm not taking you

[wheft]

We already fight without prompting it, you
know. You don't have to say anything.

[ ... ]

Fine. Your treat.

[plagiarists]

agreeing with you twice feels even weirder
maybe even thrice
my treat
tbh we can go even now

[wheft]

Wow you're that eager to go out with me, huh...

[plagiarists]

i was planning to go today anyway, you know
if you're too busy now, we can go some other time

[wheft]

I actually don't have anything planned today, so... Sure. Why not. I am getting sick of all the pink anyway.

[plagiarists]

meet me outside of the base
if you don't show up after 30 minutes starting now, i'm going alone

[ Maybe this is just a bluff. ]

[wheft]

Fine. Don't make me wait too long.

[ she does show up btw. any minute now... ]

[plagiarists]

[ Sooyoung is standing next to a two-seater motorcycle painted pastel purple and decorated with Kuromi decals all over. When Ishmael comes closer, she tosses a helmet her way. ]

To quote someone I know... wow, you're that eager to go out with me, huh...

[ Using Ishy's words against her just hits different. ]

[wheft]

Says the person who's been waiting for me.

[ she smirks, neatly catching the helmet and strapping that onto her hair before hopping behind hsy on the bike. ]

Just take us away from here already.

[plagiarists]

If you didn't show up—nevermind.

[ Would she really leave? As long as Ishmael thinks she would, the rest doesn't matter. They leave shortly since her companion seems so impatient. The streets of Neo Tokyo are fairly busy, but thankfully they don't have to worry much about traffic the closer they get to the outer parts. ]

Hold on tight now.

[ The road is empty, so there's no reason not to hit the gas. ]

Have you ever been to an amusement park?

[wheft]

[ she holds onto the back of the bike because they aren't on that level in their vague ass relationship yet. she watches the neon view go by them as they zip past traffic, her eyes lit up with various signages of neo tokyo and its lights. ]

Er, not since I was little. It's been a pretty long time.

[ she's raised in a meh household with meh parents who want her to get into a Wing as soon as she graduates from school, so there wasn't really enough opportunities to have fun out there as a kid. but hey, at least she wasn't surviving in the backstreets? ]

[plagiarists]

[ Shy Ishy... well, as long as she holds onto something, it's fine. Not to mention that Sooyoung has one less thing to tease her about. ]

I'm surprised you know what an amusement park is in the first place. [ On the other hand, she might never run out of jabs. ] I was already an adult when I went for the first time.

[ Sooyoung is more or less aware that she's giving Ishmael ammo here, but it doesn't matter all that much. ]

There are just too many people around for my liking. But there's an abandoned amusement park outside of the city.

[ And this is where they're heading now, apparently. ]

[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 ]

[plagiarists]

Yeah...?

[ It hasn't clicked yet that it looks like a kidnapping... ]

There are plenty of places like that around, you just have to step outside of the city. Is it your first time?

[wheft]

Yes?

[ ??????? ]

I thought we're going to an amusement park that's still functional. Is this because you can't afford the real thing?

[plagiarists]

Who said that this one isn't functional?

[ It just requires a few solid kicks to the machinery here and there from what she's seen. ]

If you want to go back and see pink hearts everywhere, be my guest. Just make up your mind.

[ Maybe she just misunderstood what Ishmael wanted or something. Happens to the best of us. ]

[wheft]

[ she clicks her tongue. ugh, why is this woman so irritating?! ]

If I say no, you're just going to drop me off at the side of the right. [ SIGH ] Fine, but you better win me something from there to make up for all this.

[plagiarists]

[ Sooyoung groans in response. ]

Yeah, I'd drop you off and drive off into the sunset. [ It's not even that late. ] You can choose. I thought you'd like a more secluded place.

[ Sus? ]

[wheft]

You can't get any more suspicious if you tried, Han Sooyoung.

[ why'd she have to make this vday date weird... ]

Just shut up and drive. I'll complain when I get there.

[plagiarists]

Don't hold yourself back, you're doing a great job complaining right now.

[ It's funny how her attempts at being thoughtful backfire more often than not to the point of Sooyoung not being able to hold back a laugh. There's no need to explain her true intentions now, especially after being called suspicious. ]

Why do you think Valentine's Day is stupid anyway?

[ Ish mentioned that it's not even a thing back in her world, so she's curious about the reasons. ]

[wheft]

[ hmm, hold on she's actually going to give this some thought. ]

Well, this is a holiday for couples, right? I don't really see the point of it existing where I'm from when even getting together is already a huge risk.

[plagiarists]

Is Kim Dokja running your world—

[ Less yapping, more listening. But it sounds dangerously close to a no-dating policy he came up with for the company. ]

A huge risk? A risk of what?