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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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remember my body is special, right? can't get drunk so what's the point

Too bad. Sounds like you missed out on a lot.

[ she likes alcohol so she's like :/ ]

Another thing. You never mentioned you have a son till now.

Edited 2024-02-16 02:48 (UTC)

ohhhhh yeah guess i do

i have a daughter too i think step daughter or something

_{[ fuck is he technically still married, he doesn’t know… the wedding band came off when he didn’t see Tsumiki’s mom for months… ]}

[ just standing here like 🧍‍♂️ ]

...You sure get around, huh.

Let me guess. One of them is here.

_{[ avoiding that first statement, oops.. ]}

my son is here he’s 14

_{[ help ]}

16

[ silence means yes, so... ]

Please tell me that's a typo and not just you forgetting his freaking age...

i didn’t raise him we just got reunited here give me a break, ok

_{[ he’s doing his Best… sorta. ]}

[ that's usually a sign that she should drop it, so she will. for now. she won't forget this, tho. ]

One more thing. You mentioned being widowed, and then having a stepdaughter. Does that mean you remarried?

you’re asking a lot of nosy questions i never mentioned any of this the system decided to make a bio for me

Edited 2024-02-16 03:48 (UTC)

Then why didn't it mention anywhere in the system...

But if it is really the system's fault, then that's my bad. At least you're above putting your dick size on these things.

[ the bar is on the ground................ ]

_{[ It takes him awhile to respond, and then he sends her a message off of this dating app thing and back on the messenger. ]}

she left us without explanation i don’t know where she’s at nowadays we never loved each other anyway

_{[ Now, Megumi’s mother.. that’s another story. ]}

Ah.

[ okay, yeah. they're treading very personal territory now, and ishmael is at a loss on how to navigate through this. she and her nosy ass... ]

So you loved her, then. The first one.

_{[ It feels.. so very weird to talk about her. Toji is almost certain he’s not talked about her with anyone. In fact, he tried not to even think about her, because losing her and then unable to keep the word he made with her makes him feel.. really gross. A let down. Just like his family thought of him for not having cursed energy or some rare, sought after technique. He couldn’t even look after his own kid like he said he would for her because.. maybe he was afraid to.

Look after Megumi, okay? And he didn’t. He can’t even get his age right.

His response is short. ]}

in a way i didn’t think i was capable of

[ oh.

well, it doesn't take her long to put two and two together. he doesn't want to fall for anyone anymore because he hasn't gotten over it. she's of the same sentiment too, but at least she's working on it. queequeg would've wanted her to move on, too.

still, ugh. what are the odds that there are more guys like heathcliff here? it's so annoying. ]

...I see.

Well, if you want to drop that topic, it's fine. I don't mean to pry too much.

people die all the time it doesn’t matter

_{[ What he means by that, he doesn’t clarify. ]}

True. But they don't always come back, do they? They'll continue to haunt you, for better or for worse.

And that's the problem.

[ she would know. ]

i just forget about it it's fine

_{[ papaguro ... you need therapy ...

But maybe that's why he doesn't talk about his wife much.. or forgets Megumi's name. Those are all happy memories attached to a lot of hurt that he doesn't know how to heal from because he's never experienced being loved before only to have it taken from him. ]}

[ wow. even through text she can tell he's pretty beat up with all that. it's kind of weird to see this side of him after all the horny chatter he keeps bringing her into.

she's tempted to leave him on read. there's just no way to gracefully get out of this topic. but even he doesn't deserve that. she knows how that felt like, too. ]

If you say so. Just don't dwell too hard on it. I'm not used to seeing this side of you at all.

Though, it's not necessarily a bad thing. But you get what I mean.

[ does he? ]

_{[ It's weird because he's unstable, Ishmael. He acts like a different person when he finally figures how to make himself happy out, so.. Yeah, he's not a great conversationalist when it comes to stuff like this so.. well. He doesn't even reply, but it's probably for the best. ]}

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