▶ 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

[gundemn]

you won't have to try too hard. look around base! no one here is normal

[saudadist]

that's the part that throws me

from a handful having powers to everyone I meet here having them...
it's still weird to me

[gundemn]

tell me about it

[ Superpowers don't even exist where he comes from. Everyone here is weird. ]

so what's your story?

[saudadist]

[ Her story? That...she doesn't know how to answer that. She doesn't necessarily want to, either, or else this small moment of cordiality might just vanish like a wisp of smoke before a fan. ]

I don't exactly have a cliff notes version to give you

[gundemn]

that's fine. you can start from what your life was like

[ Like she said, nosy... ]

[saudadist]

[ Well, when he puts it like that... ]

it sucked

[ Understatement of the year, really. ]

[gundemn]

because?

[saudadist]

[ She sighs to herself. She'll say just enough, she figures. Just enough to get across how abysmal her lot's been and how little it needs to be spoken of for it. ]

unwanted children typically don't have an easy time of it

[gundemn]

it has to be worse than that from everything you've said

[saudadist]

of course it's worse than that

but going into it in detail would feel too much like whining
I don't want that

[ She's not convinced anyone would want to listen anyway. If they did, they'd probably just downplay it, or...worse. They'd look at her like that.

Pitying her. ]

[gundemn]

it's not whining to air a grievance or two

[ But he can respect that kind of attitude towards one's circumstances. ]

what about nyuu?

[saudadist]

she didn't have to worry about anything before this

[ If only it could've stayed that way. ]

[gundemn]

[ Yeah. She seems...innocent. ]

why you and not her?

[saudadist]

she's not that old, technically

I don't think it's even been a year since I made her

[gundemn]

you what

[saudadist]

I made her

unconsciously, but still
she's another person in my body

[gundemn]

[ For a moment he just puts his head in his hands to process what he's been told. This whole time he'd thought they were two different people. ]

you could have said something sooner
does that mean you
remember everything

[saudadist]

it's easier for both of us if others don't realize...
she's free of my sins

I try not to look at her memories
they're hers, not mine
so unless you WANT me to remember something, I don't plan on looking

[gundemn]

[ Nevermind then, it's not important! ]

is it really fine to let her run around not knowing anything?

[ That just makes him even more curious about her past. He'd thought about trying to get her story from Nyuu, but it sounds unlikely she would know anything... ]

[saudadist]

if there's a problem, I'll wake up again
that's how it's always been

[gundemn]

so you protect her
or maybe it's the other way around

[saudadist]

[ She tenses. One of many moments she's grateful for them not talking face-to-face, or else her expression would be ghastly. ]

I don't want to talk about this anymore

[gundemn]

that's a yes then
don't worry, it's not like i'm going to tell everyone

[saudadist]

I suppose
blabbing about it wouldn't really get you anywhere anyway


...just don't tell HER about it

[gundemn]

hey i said i'd keep your little secret!
so one more question

[ Has he used up all her goodwill yet. ]