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𝚂𝚢𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚡 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚜 ([personal profile] synfluxmods) wrote in [community profile] synflux2024-07-12 11:07 pm

DOWNTIME MINGLE #3

DOWNTIME MINGLE #3


CONTENT WARNINGS: natural disaster, forced scenarios.

▶ 001. A JOB WELL DONE.

As Outsiders head back from Okinawa (or, perhaps they are already back, characters were able to leave Okinawa through the dataportal whenever) with plenty of coconut crab and mutated fish, Outsiders can expect to have the cafeteria filled with crab and fish food for the next.. well, undetermined amount of time. The power outages have been restored on the LILITH base, and while Outsiders have been enjoying their change of pace in Okinawa, there has been some celebratory news across the Outsider's ocular implants. It looks like it is a message from the big guy himself! Whoever that is. Wasn't his name.. Eiji something? Elijah?


"I'm not going to waste my time with introductions, because we have more important matters to discuss. First of all, good work. Second, while we have been met with several successes, don't let it get to your head. Third, continue following the lead of Yamakawa. ... This is why I don't do celebratory speeches. CODENAMES MONEYBAGS, DUELWIELD, BUSTERMOVE, CHAINSAW MAN and CURSE... great work. You'll see the rewards of your hard work momentarily. Report to me for a payout."

The announcement won't leave an Outsider's implant until it has been read, but just as the voice said, Outsiders will find a Sampo themed pachinko machine installed by the cafeteria near the vending machines. It looks like it's ready to be played! Why not give it a go? Because who wouldn't want to see this charm willingly.

A lot of toy companies are also wanting their skin in this game and have introduced the set of several actions figures based off Yzak and Dearka's gundams, which can be seen distributed on base. The caveat, however, is that you will need to build them piece-by-piece. Alongside this, there will also be Denji-themed plushies, even if it looks like a cross between a dog and human.

Thanks to Choso, hair care on the base has also gotten a lot better. Due to sponsorships, Outsiders are readily able to access more shampoo and conditioner options. Though, maybe thanks to the pictures on the bottle— buns are now trending.

Maybe give the pachinko machine a spin? Or try Choso's brand of shampoo your team's wing communal shower?


▶ 002. TRADITIONAL TANABATA.

The sun is hot but summer is traditionally festival season in Neo Tokyo; these old traditions have managed to hold up in this gritty society in attempts to keep a positive morale, so some citizens and organizers try to keep the tradition going and lift spirits by celebrating local festivals. Many districts and neighborhoods have their own festivals as well. One day, you might stumble onto a shopping district’s wind chime festival and the next day, you might find flyers for a neighborhood’s morning glory festival.

The largest festival of the month is the Tanabata festival. Since the holiday falls in an odd weekday this year, the main celebration is held the next weekend. Civilians and Outsiders can find various shrines, shopping centers, and community buildings with bamboo branches on display with holographic slips of paper that alternate colors. Characters that pass by may submit their wishes on their implants; a new way to keep the old tradition.

On the weekend, some stalls have been set up for people to celebrate. Attendance is low because of the heat and due to a food shortage, the options are lacking. However, there are plenty of games such as a toy shooting range with laser guns and kaiju targets. There are also goldfish catching games where people can catch a cheap goldfish drone that can “swim” in the air and water and shoot bubbles. As a bonus, LILITH will provide Outsiders with an outfit upgrade to help lift spirits. The outfit consists of a traditional summer yukata or jinbei.

Fireworks have gone out of style due to attracting kaiju attention. However, at the festival’s end, there is a drone light show. Hundreds of customized hummingbird drones take to the sky and create elaborate illuminations and shapes in the sky while music plays.


▶ 003. DR. RATIO'S RENOVATIONS.

Festival season means LILITH also has to get in on the action, and while a certain Outsider named Dr. Ratio has raised concerns over the stated of the LILITH base Library, LILITH has actually listened to his desperate plea to renovate the library. What a perfect opportunity for LILITH to use the festival as a way of raising funds so they don't have to dip into their kaiju payout funds (and pizza party fund.) It's time for LILITH's annual SUMMER FESTA. Every year, LILITH comes together with local organizations like fire stations, police stations, clinics, and nonprofits to promote public safety and awareness. It's a one day festival where people can get information about what to do to stay safe not only during kaiju attacks but in their daily lives. The funds raised at the festival will go to training, supplies, research, and maintaining services.

As usual, LILITH is raising money for disaster relief supplies and renovation projects across Neo Tokyo. Per request, LILITH has agreed to set aside some funds to help renovate the facilities on base, including the library. However, they will task the Outsiders with raising the money.

It's a festival so how they raise the money is both up up to them or they may take the suggestions according to their team placement below. Either way, Outsiders are required to work with other people on their same team but they're encouraged to make it fun. Set up game stalls, sell food, do performances, and ask for donations to raise as much money as possible for their projects. The team that raises the most money is promised a prize while the losers will be punished. Here are the team suggestions below and some of them may have some new, modern twists:

Everlight: Kingyo-sukui, which is goldfish catching with a paper scoop. Managing the takoyaki stands.
Revelation: Yoyo-tsuri, fishing for water-filled balloons with a “fishing pole” with a paper string. Managing the mask stands.
Brimstone: Shateki, shooting at targets for prizes. Managing the sparklers stands.. sparklers shouldn't catch kaiju attention, right?
Redemption: Wanage, ring toss. Managing the onigiri stands.

Outsiders will be given a week to prepare for the festival and they only have a single day to raise funds. In the evening, the winning team is announced: Revelation. All team members will receive can badges and a pizza party. A special donation will also be made to the library on their behalf: A stack full of self help books, yes, REAL books and not holograms or digital books, such as "Overcoming Your Depression for Dummies" and "How to Make Friends 101." Thank you for your effort, Team Revelation!

As for the losers, they will be given options: Sign up or the final fundraising event of the night or help clean up at the end of the festival. The final fundraiser is a punishment game where volunteers from each organization are dunked in tubs of water or pied in the face. It seems like a certain person (Seok Dang) was supposed to be LILITH’s tribute but he is nowhere to be found… maybe one of the other losers will step up and take his place to be dunked in water or pied in the face? Characters may also sign up a loser character without their consent. Come on, be a good sport!

▶ 004. MONSOON SEASON.

Despite the celebrations and attempts to raise morale, the heatwave persists in Neo Tokyo and with it, the problems from the beginning of the month. Food continues to go bad quickly and while fundraising attempts have provided some relief, the city is huge and shelf stable supplies begin to run low again. The energy crisis improves slightly with blackouts occurring less frequently as emergency personnel attempt to intervene. Though the weather is dreary, the renovations must press on! Fortunately, most of the things to do around the Library consist of staying inside. Dr. Ratio has given the following orders which Outsiders may help with in the Library:
- Install better lighting.
- Organize and add more books.
- Set up and secure tables and chairs.
- Add couches to once section of the library to convert it into a lounging area.

Characters may work together to help, or maybe they prefer to laze around and give the newly renovated Library a test run!

After a few days, finally, the rain meteorologists have promised arrives. The skies darken and heavy rain falls on the city which brings much cooler temperatures. People stay inside more often as it becomes too inconvenient to go out when the rain and wind are so strong. The rainstorms grow stronger and eventually become fully fledged storms. The ground shakes from thunder and lightning strikes light up the sky.

Everyone’s ocular implants will frequently give warnings about the weather. LILITH will task Outsiders with assisting across the city. Help evacuate citizens to higher ground during flash floods. After the storms subside, help clear the streets of debris and trees. Some neighborhoods will lose power because of lightning strikes and need their generators restored. However, every time they finish their tasks, a new storm will occur a few days later and they’ll have to repeat.

At first, it seems like the typical summer storm season but meteorologists become concerned when more storms begin to happen without following clear weather patterns and even the locals remark the season seems very active this year… could it be another kaiju? The last time Neo Tokyo had floods, it was sea water, but this is caused by heavy rain. Like clockwork, LILITH's investigating team is on the lookout for energy from a rift or any leads to what could be causing all of the heavy rain. Outsiders are instructed to keep an eye out for any emergency messages.

▶ 005. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our third downtime mingle! While we would typically have a texting prompt, we instead have player plots for this event! Thank you Abbel and Eski for the Tanabata and festival player prompt and Sky for the Library renovations plot! We appreciate Eski for spending 500 bonus points to provide everyone with something to wear for Tanabata. For the character-run stalls as part of the renovation prompt, players are not limited to the suggestions given by the mods and are free to come up with their own stall ideas. Additionally, for characters signing up other characters for the dunk tank, please make sure you get OOC permission from their players first.

Please note also we have added new rewards: the Poison Dagger, Cat Ear Visor, and the Elemental Swords now come in the models Ice and Lightning. Please see the REWARDS page for more information.

All tags on this log are worth 2 points.


EVENT BREAKDOWN (CLICK TO EXPAND)
1. A JOB WELL DONE: The kaiju heavy hitters get recognition with.. a pachinko machine and shampoo sponsorship? Outsiders can react to their fellow colleagues about this development, or maybe even talk to the winners themselves around the base.

2. TRADITIONAL TANABATA: It's Tanabata season, even in a post-apocalyptic world! Put on some old, traditional attire with your friends and enjoy a drone show.

3. DR. RATIO'S RENOVATIONS: LILITH has teamed up with the local safety personnel to get in on the festival season. Characters are encouraged to fundraise for renovations at the LILITH base Library. Teams may also visit other teams events and stands to donate, partake in, and.. maybe deliver some competitive harassment.

4. MONSOON SEASON: With the weather being hot and renovations needing done, LILITH works together to improve the Library. A few days later, the weather gets suspiciously intense and Outsiders are instructed to help civilians with power outages, flash flooding, debris from heavy wind and rain.
30storieshigh: (camo; 100% normal human greeting)

[personal profile] 30storieshigh 2024-07-22 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's almost the right path but there's still something a little bit off with Yuji's mentality here! Godzilla tries one of those "tsks" he's heard other people use, raising a finger as he pronounces his correction. ]

No, there is no trying. Do or do not, to approach things otherwise is to leave the possibility of failure. So do and succeed, that is the only path to victory.

[ he's like a bad fortune cookie someone stop him. ]
30storieshigh: (lizard.exe is loading)

[personal profile] 30storieshigh 2024-07-22 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Godzilla doesn't really seem to notice or care about Denji's invasion of his personal space, he's too caught up in examining the little plush idol. Those lizardy eyes are still narrowed in concentration as he considers it. ]

It is visually pleasant, yes. I do not think offense was the intent.

[ There's a moment's pause where the wheel can almost be seen spinning in Godzilla's head. He really feels like he's missing something here, finally he has to just ask. ]

This "dog" you speak of, is that yet another form of this "slang" that others are so fond of using?

[ Yeah don't worry Denji the lizard might be able to outsmart you in some things but he is completely utterly clueless in a lot of ways himself. ]
30storieshigh: (camo; fully normal human acknowledgment)

[personal profile] 30storieshigh 2024-07-22 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ It is a fine possibly Shinto??? name, thank you very much.

But if she wasn't sure he wasn't human to begin with though the overly toothy smile and exaggerated thumbs up he gives her is a dead give away]


Ah, clever! You are quicker at discerning this than others have been. I am afflicted with form-change technology when not in our lair. It is vexing but necessary, I would not wish to cause panic in the humans we are meant to be protecting.
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[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Can't imagine a world that quiet. Even I was distracted visiting the shrines here the first time.

[ the nests also had their hustle and bustle but it's more... clinical. ]
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[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like you Librarians were truly out of your depth. Did those books you collected not teach you guys anything?

[ genuine question, since she's always assumed that a book would contain every aspect of a person's life. ]

And ugh, don't talk to me about that prince guy. He gives me the creeps and then some.
wheft: (pic#17035692)

[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
I do. I plan to talk to them later. For now...

[ she takes a towel from the nearby rack. ]

You're here for one thing, right? I guess the Redemption bathrooms are crowded today.
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[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's only for one day. If the desert hasn't killed you yet, you can get through this one.

[ and he will get his frozen treats in due time, trust. they arrive at one of those mask stalls, and ishmael watches a kid walking away with glee, a generic tokusatsu mask wrapped around their little head. ]

You could get one of those ones. The rest are just... iconic mascots from this world, it seems.

[ very slim pickings here. ]
gorb: (xix.)

[personal profile] gorb 2024-07-22 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't, unfortunately.

( Not that he makes much effort to try and get to know people. Mostly Geto has made acquaintances by accident. Gebru included. )
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[personal profile] gorb 2024-07-22 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I won't put it. They'd only tease me for being sentimental.

( He doesn't mind telling people about the girls either way, but he also doesn't want anything to be solidly traced back to either him or them. Geto does not trust LILITH. He does not trust many people. So instead he just offers Makima a placcid smile, easy-going. )

You know what teenagers are like, anything from the heart is to be scorned.
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[personal profile] eyescar 2024-07-22 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Too late, he is perceiving, because he has his own and he gets it! ]

Yeah.

[ Other than the cult stuff. And the murder. You know. ]

Okay. I'll take the challenge and I'll win you the prize. [ He steps up and makes his donation, getting passed one of the little guns with a wide grin. ] I've got this!
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[personal profile] eyescar 2024-07-22 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm saying...

[ Yuji shakes his head, scratching a little more, before his arms wind around Choso awkwardly, and he puts his chin on his brother's. ]

You're so dumb sometimes.
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[personal profile] eyescar 2024-07-22 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
That sucks.

[ Yuji really can't imagine not eating, or not needing it.

Pulling the ingredients closer, he smiles at Kadaj. ]


I'm not picky about food, honestly, so I'll eat whatever there is. Why don't you try a little of each and see which one you like?
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[personal profile] eyescar 2024-07-22 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yuji blinks up at him, eyes widening for a moment. Why does he keep adopting all these senseis, huh... ]

Right! Then - I'm going to do it and I'll win! Right?
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Idiot.

[ Aki shoves his head away now, cheeks a little pink. As if...

(There's no point getting engaged when he's going to die -) ]


I just think it would be nice, and Tsuru wants to spend more time with you, too.

[ Because, Denji, you're important to Aki, and if you're important to Aki then Tsurumaru wants to learn more about you. That's the kind of vibe that the guy has, and Aki appreciates it. ]

He'll probably bring you sweets.
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
We're family.

[ It makes him feel warm, even now, saying it - that he and Denji are family, because they are. They share a name, don't they? Denji took it, so...

Smiling, a little fond, he nods. ]


I hope he wasn't too much trouble.
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aki takes a long drink of his sake, cheeks a little pink. ]

I've never been lucky, Ishmael-san, there's no reason to start now.

[ He rubs his face gently with his metal hand. ]

What kind of gifts do you get someone like that?
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[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I've never dated a sword.

[ a little snort. hold on, she's going to order another cup. ]
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[personal profile] gorb 2024-07-22 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
( If we do not look at the cult or the murder than it doesn't exist.

But Geto watches him carefully, almost amused, absolutely a little fond. The gun is not so bad to look at when it is in Itadori's hands, he can see then that it's more toy-like than the thing that haunts his nightmares, made of cheap mass-produced material rather than dark metal. It helps a little, Geto keeping an eye even though it's a game.
)

Relax your shoulders, Itadori-kun.

( The unfulfilled sensei potential, it ever lurks. )
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a first for me, too.

[ Both the dating part and the sword part. ]

He is still a person.
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Look, it worked once and then never worked again. Aki may or may not be a little bit sour about it, but at least he still manages to get some good hits in on the kaiju sometimes - and where he fails, others make up for him. That's how a team works. ] I don't want to do that.

[ Obviously.

Stop looking at him like that, Yuwon. He looks away, scowling. ]


Of Denji? Of course. He's grown a lot here already, I'm glad to see that.
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[personal profile] wheft 2024-07-22 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
...I think he'd be happy with anything that reminds you of him. If he's not too picky, that is.

[ another shot goes down. ]

I'm only speaking from experience, though.
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[personal profile] eyescar 2024-07-22 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah.

[ Yuji shifts, getting into position. It's obvious that he's not exactly practised at using a weapon like this, but the thing about Yuji Itadori is that he's a naturally quick learner, and it's never taken him that long to get good at something he puts his mind at.

Lifting his arms, he aims, and the first shot misses the centre by just a little. ]


Aw...
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-07-22 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Look, Aki literally has a keyring of Tsurumaru's sword that's attached to his phone. Don't look at him like that. ]

... I wonder if they have dog prizes here.
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[personal profile] transmit 2024-07-22 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Just this one.

[ There's no light to hold it up to, but he extends the charm above his head nonetheless, as if inspecting it from a lower angle. His smile might be the slightest bit melancholic, but for the most part, it's just what comes with the territory of nostalgia. ]

There's someone's happiness that I've personally been rooting for. If we weren't assured that life was going on as usual back where we came from, I'd probably be less at ease.

[ Then——he's closing it in his fist, holding it next to his chest. With a sidelong glance, his attention's back on Siffrin. ]

Any reasons behind your choices?
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[personal profile] photosympathies 2024-07-22 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh!

( Vash softens a little at that, the same way he does any time someone mentions family. He immediately understands the smile, and it warms him up to Aki instantly, taking another step closer so he can lean against the nearest wall and not lurk like a weirdo. )

No! He was great, real fun guy to talk to, actually. A lot of people here are. Also he promised not to arrest me even after I told a whole bunch of people I was a prostitute, so.

( A beat, and then panicked. )

I'm not! It was a misunderstanding.