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DOWNTIME MINGLE #6 (now with team building!)

DOWNTIME MINGLE #6 + TEAM BUILDING

CONTENT WARNINGS: violence, flashing imagery

▶ 001. STATE OF THE BASE.

It's been a suspiciously sleepy past few months back on LILITH's base. The onslaught of Transylvania has left some Outsiders with both physical and mental wounds that still may need tending to. Some may still be participating in LILITH's on base therapy services or rehabilitation services for those who needed a prosthetic, teaching Outsiders how to accommodate to their prothetics efficiently.

The Imugi eggs from last year have hatched! Two new Imugis have been taken care of in a RESTRICTED area for observation, one male and one female. The rest of the Imugi, unfortunately, did not make it. Outsiders may visit these Imugi from behind glass if they wish; this is part of the RESTRICTED area on base. Any Outsiders who might have been cleared to help with this project will see that the Imugi sleep a lot. They are mostly active at dawn and dusk, but especially for the cold season, they are sluggish and want to rest during this brumation period. Their diet are small crustaceans, snails, small fish. As of now, they harness no powers or strength. LILITH wants to keep them away from exposures, so most Outsiders will have to observe them in a nursery behind glass. Any Outsider involved in this project must be full body sterilized upon entering and exiting the nursery. This means stripped down and pressure washed with pre-made sterilization. It's not recommended to see the Imugi in person unless necessary. Their names are Noodle and RAGING MURDER TERROR TEMPEST DRAKESTORM or "Tempest" for short. These are results per the contest that was held a few months ago.

The orphanage side-project has been a success, and children misplaced from the Transylvania wreckage are properly cared for, both with Outsiders, civilian caretakers and AI robots. There is still some building and construction work to be completed, but the orphanage is livable for the children now.

On base, however, LILITH's crew, have detected some very heavy rift energy nearby, but the oddest thing is.. they can't detect where it is at exactly. They send out their researchers to try and find the source to different areas of Japan, but despite all the searching, there doesn't seem to be a rift anywhere. Could it be a glitch? Or something else? Maybe it's something harnesses rift energy? Something that moves fast and something that can disappear or camouflage. Stay tuned... and be on alert.

▶ 002. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: PLAYGROUND

"Aww, I missed seeing you guys have so much fun with each other! Breathe it in, the SIMULATION ARENA air! So crisp, so artificial. C'mon, let's PAR-TAY, bitches! Remember, if your teammates aren't driving you crazy, you're not doing it right!"

With Outsiders needing to be ready for whatever mission they will be tasked for yet, Seok Dang has an idea on how to build some healthy competition and get to know your teammates, especially the new ones, with some classic playground games from his homeland. Every Outsider will be asked to participate in the SIMULATION ARENA, though it has gotten a bit of make over to look like a children's playground thanks to hologram technology. Outsiders may group with whoever they like as they play these games, under one condition: the person you are playing with cannot be apart of your team! Everlight can't be against Everlight, etc.

Here are the list of games to play with one another:

Ssireium: Ssireum is similar to Japanese sumo wrestling, with two opponents wrestling each other in a sandy ring. The player who throws his opponent to the ground scores a point. Traditionally practiced as combat and self-defense, ssireum was also part of rituals conducted in the ancient tribal states. The goal is to score 5 points.

Neolttwigi: It's close enough to Korean New Year for this game, and in the year 2279, anyone can play this game, not just women. Neolttwigi is similar to seesaw, except that participants stand on each end of the neol (board) and jump, propelling the person opposite into the air. When performed as a spectacle, acrobatic tricks such as flips or skipping rope while in the air are often included. Try not to hurt yourself, but show off the most impressive stunt you can! Medics will be nearby.. just in case.

Dalgona: A Korean street food candy game where players try to carefully carve out a pre-stamped shape from a thin, honeycomb-like sugar candy without breaking it, often gaining a free candy if they succeed. The shapes Outsiders will find are modeled after the kaiju they have defeated: Shachimon, Imugi, Pricolici and Yamadenki. Shachimon is the easiest shape and Pricolici is the hardest shape. Outsiders can use any method to remove this shape from the honeycomb but will be given a needle by default.

▶ 003. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: SQUID

In this game, the offense must move outside the squid and around to the defensive house's bottom "gate". Once inside the squid, the offense must pass through the defensive house. To win, the offense must tap the closed-off space on the squid's head with their foot. Characters are encouraged to use any method to win against one another, which can sometimes turn violent. Use abilities or powers, it's all fair game here. There will be a buzzer at the squid's head and the offensive player must step on it.

Submit a thread or toplevel that has this prompt as part of it to be entered in an RNG elimination round. We will announce the Squid Winner overall on January 25th! Please submit your thread by January 23rd. Don't worry. Nobody dies for losing any of these games, but players are welcome to allow LILITH deduct some of their next pay out if they lose too many of these games. Some stakes are on the line!

▶ 004. IT'S SYNDER TIME!

It's late, one night, when a pop-up will appear on everyone's oculars. IT'S SYNDER TIME, BABES! Welcome to our Network Mingle! This is a Tinder mingle; an application that SEOK DANG has installed into everyone's implants last year and it's making a comeback. 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. 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!

Participation in this mingle isn’t obligatory, of course. If you don’t want your character to participate, you can simply say they X'd out of the pop up.

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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		<b style="font-size:22px;color:#de8e02;">NAME</b><br>
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<b>HEIGHT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>BODY COUNT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>IDEAL DATE:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
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REVELATION

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<b>HEIGHT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>BODY COUNT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>IDEAL DATE:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
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BRIMSTONE

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<b>HEIGHT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>BODY COUNT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>IDEAL DATE:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
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REDEMPTION

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		<b style="font-size:22px;color:#b402ed;">NAME</b><br>
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<b>HEIGHT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>BODY COUNT:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
<b>IDEAL DATE:</b> !!! TEXT HERE !!!<br>
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✖ / FIGHT!	❤ / FLIRT!	⏺ / FRIEND!
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▶ 005. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our sixth downtime mingle! All tags on this log are worth 2 points and will count towards January AC.

For the Seok Dang Games, please comment below the proper header to see if your character wins the SQUID GAME. Follow the instructions and form in the comment.

For the SYNDER app, characters are welcome to customize their app with different themes, as well as download sticker packs. Anything that you would typically expect to be present in a messaging app can be found!

EVENT BREAKDOWN/RECAP (CLICK TO EXPAND)

1. STATE OF THE BASE: The past few months on the LILITH base has been suspiciously quiet and Outsiders have enjoyed a break where they can focus on rebuilding what they may have lost in October, tend to the cultist children, and the cats in Neo Tokyo who have been suffering from rift poisoning. Unbeknownst to the Outsiders, LILITH's crew has detected some very heavy rift energy from Neo Tokyo, but are having a hard time locating where it could be coming from. LILITH instructs Outsiders to be prepared.

2. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: GAME 1: Seok Dang is growing bored and puts the Outsiders through some character building activities. He brings all of the Outsiders to the SIMULATION ARENA and provides them with four mini games to play to build character participation and interaction.

3. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: GAME 2 Seok Dang is growing bored and puts the Outsiders through some character building activities. The second game is SQUID. Submit a thread for participation!

4. SYNDER: To encourage character relationships, SYNDER has appear back online on all of the oculars and Outsiders are encouraged to fill out a profile.. or AI will do it for them.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Reading that is both hilarious and horrifying. At least other people's profiles didn't directly suggest fucking. And who the hell is the stand in for Godzilla's face? Couldn't they put his normal mug up there?]

I don't even wanna think about you crossbreeding...

[Winged fuzzy lizards.]

[ That's his new mug, Bakugo, get used to it! /hair flip, bishounen sparkle. ]
I would likewise rather this not be thought on 🫤. Even if such a thing were possible, the acitivities of myself and my mate are not a thing I wish spoken of in public 😑.

[ He's not a prude, mind you, he just doesn't think this is the kind of thing you share with literally everyone. ]

[Problem is, saying that obviously means he IS or HAS been thought about it. Maybe he should focus more on the idea of Godzilla with a crazy pink hairdo...

Somehow that's even worse. Scaly kaiju shouldn't sparkle.]

The AI did a fucking number on your profile then, huh.

[Look, he agrees, but damn, Goji. So much reference up there!]

[ Okay listen. When you've spent most of your life asleep besides short periods to knock other giant monsters back into line, only to end up living... damn, seven months now? Going through each day, talking to people, learning things.

Godzilla's single here, Bakugo! And possibly ready to mingle even if he's not willing to admit it. ]

"A number"? A moment.

[ A beat. Another beat.

Five minutes later he's back, and locked this conversation. ]

42,028,640 total, roughly, from what the machine has provided.
😒
You are my Friend, I shall not attempt to push the smoking upon your hind quarters, as they say. This number seems low. I suspect the actuality to be higher 😣.

[ That's what you meant, right buddy? ]

Edited (I am SO good at html ) 2025-01-16 07:18 (UTC)

[What is this, sensory overload or a weird ass version of midlife crisis? No, couldn't be something simple like the big guy playing around with his technological glamor field. If he has to be human, no one said he can't glam it up.

Yeah, he's aware of that. And aware Godzilla's got a wife back home. Buzz buzz.

Wait, what the fuck is he doing? "A number"? ... WAIT-]

I DIDN'T NEED TO KNOW THAT!!

Dammit, "doing a number" on someone means they screwed it up or damaged it badly!

[Why does he keep using colloquialisms on this guy?!]

[ Actually, honestly, kind of a weird midlife crisis...? But is it more of a quarterlife crisis when you've spent 90% of your life sleeping like a lump? More research is needed.

And yes the original Godzilla sure does have a wife back home. Good for them, but this Goji's trying to live his life too!!! ]

Ah. Indeed 🤔?

Apologies, Friend Bakugo. I have been boozed with the bams once again, as they say 😑. [Bamboozled...?]
A confession, however, I see little directly insulting with this entry. Whilst it is vexing to be put forth as seeking to engage in courtship when I am not, it is not overtly harmful in existing 🤷.

[Guess he can see that happening, what with the fallout of Seoul and Romania causing the Outsiders to fraction in ways. To say nothing of humanity's response. From considering the Outsiders as abandoning their needs to the murderous fanatics of a cult, Godzilla's seen some weird people. And somehow he's supposed to protect these people.

Hey, he's not gonna get in your way of reptile trysts.]

Don't apologize for that crap. You're learning.

[Even if Bakugo gives him weird looks or yells at him for mistaking that shit or giving his own weird broken-apart colloquialisms. But don't apologize. Sheesh. He'll give you whiplash if you're not careful.]

Che! If you don't care, then leave it. Just don't get confused if someone asks you out on a date.

[And wants to get lucky.]

[ trysts sounds so lurid come on now! Goji's just figuring stuff out, be nice. ]

Very well. My apologies for... apologizing.

[ Really people need to give Bakugo more credit. Holding conversations with Godzilla requires the patience of a saint sometimes. ]

🤔
💭
😶

It is an unlike thing that any I would hold interest in would ask such a thing. There is little need to be concerned with this 🤷.

[Did you just tell Bakugo to be nice? Hahaha! Granted he's usually nice to Godzilla.]

You got selective reading or something?

[What'd he just say?! Ugh... this guy. Honestly Godzilla's fame as, well, Godzilla does a lot in generating Bakugo's patience around him.]

Who knows. Some people might want to spend alone time with you.

[Without the grumpy or brooding prerequisite.]

[ Goji's an acceptable outlier. He's too genuine to be mean to! ]

Indeed. I have selected a great deal for reading 📖. Friend Yato provided the gifting of the "Urban Dictionary", it has been a help in understanding go arounds of speech 👍.

[ Turns of phrase...]

They would🤨? I often spend moments alone with Young Raidou and Friend Gigan, others as well. It would not be unwelcome to share such moments with, more one supposes 🤷‍♂️.

[ He's not entirely sure how they got from courtship to one on one time but hey, he won't complain! That sounds pretty chill. ]

[Exception being roaring at 3am and earning a barbell to the skull. THAT was deliberately mean!]

Half that crap is made up or sarcastic. Don't take everything in there literally.

[Not to mention it includes a lot of crude and mean things Godzilla might insult people with if he's not careful.]

Whoever you feel comfortable with.

[Since there has been some shakeup in the Outsiders recently with certain... argumentative topics. Enough of this crappy relationship talk. Moving onto something more mundane.]

Have you gotten any better with that motorcycle of yours?

Bah.

[ Wow, really Goji? ]

Bah.

[ Yeah okay, really, apparently. ]

The two wheeled transport 🏍️?
I have indeed improved. My gratitude for your festive gift 🎁🧥. It has made the experience far less abrasive 👍.

Meaning you keep crashing?

🤷

On occasion. On the days the experience proves too vexing I make usage of the teleportation augmentation.

I believe that with time I shall fully grasp the usage of both methods 👍.

Can you teleport with the motorcycle?

😓

No. I have been forced to let it be in the park, as they say, when the frustration sets in 😮‍💨

[ He has to leave it parked somewhere. ]

[So much for blinking around on his bike.]

Don't let it kick your ass.

[ It's fine! He can still blink around in the middle of a fight, it'll make dealing with flying kaiju so much easier for the big guy. As long as they dont fly too far away... ]

My tail section has been quite fine, I assure you 👍. It has no legs of its own with which to kick.

[Wow, a ten-foot talk teleporting kaiju lizard. Bakugo's going to make such a face the first time he sees that. How one can be cool and stupid at the same time...]

If it drops over a fucking guardrail again, your ass got kicked.

[ If Bakugo thinks that's cool just wait, there's an entire year of ill-advised cybernetic upgrades in the lizard's future. ]

Guard rail 🛡️? A ridiculous name, the barrier provides more chance to harm than protect 😐.

[ Just changing the subject don't mind him. ]

[HE WILL PUNCH HIM IN HIS FUCKING SCALY HEAD FOR SHOVING THAT SHIT IN HIMSELF!!

Then force him to watch the Mechagodzilla movies.]

You're SUPPOSED to avoid it, Goji!

[ You can't punch what keeps teleporting around, Spiked Fur!!

but that still sounds like a good time. He's watched the Gigan movie, he has QUESTIONS for Gigan. Please say a prayer for the robot chicken. ]

There would be no need for avoidance if they were not placed in the beginning ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ Oh no. His emoji use is evolving. ]

[You keep thinking that, Goji. Until he's got you pinned with his hand around your snoot.

RIP Gigan at those questions. Bakugo knew what he was doing when he got Godzilla that gift.]

They're designed to keep people ON THE FUCKING ROAD!!

[People don't drive offroad in their basic vehicles!]

[ Good luck reaching all the way up there, little buddy.

Damn it Bakugo, Gigan doesn't deserve that smoke... ]

I was under the believe that the colored lines upon the road served the purpose of guiding its users to stay upon it 🤨.

[ It's impossible to tell if he's being intentionally obstinate. Gotta love Godzilla, right? ]

[HE CAN JUMP, YOU KNOW!!

He's welcome to watch the movie along with Godzilla and question himself too.]

They are. Guardrails are for added protection. Like railings on the stairs.

[Impossible to tell, so he's gonna start treating him like a HATCHLING!!]

▶ 001. STATE OF THE BASE.

▶ 002. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: PLAYGROUND

▶ 003. THE SEOK DANG GAMES: SQUID

▶ 004. IT'S SYNDER TIME!

▶ 005. AFTERWORD.

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