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DOWNTIME MINGLE #10
DOWNTIME MINGLE #10
▶ 001. WINNER'S CIRCLE.
The return to Neo Tokyo is a quieter affair than usual, but that doesn’t mean that LILITH isn’t proud of her angels. After dispatching them to deal with smuggling rings and bringing in their latest set of Outsiders, there’s a little celebration in the cafeteria; sushi, yakiniku, tempura and other various seasonal foods are on offer, just… Don’t ask where the meat comes from.
The celebrations of the victories in Mexico are not to be ignored, however, and the traditional celebrations of the winning outsiders is business as usual:
GOOD JOB:
SOBA & R.A.P.H (K.O.)
JUSTISH (600) & GODDESS OF DEATH (600)
And, as might be becoming familiar to the Outsiders, the celebration of the victors comes with its own impact on the cityscape of Neo Tokyo.
The more fashionable of folk might notice a new trend flooding the market, especially popular with teenage girls who lean towards the more lolita fashion. The trend is a simple gothic one, nicknamed zen lolita, with black on black, thick earrings and zori shoes with sharp designs that all seem to call back to traditional Buddhist monk style. The sparks of colour in this style come from white and silver accessories - finger and nose rings, dangling chains with small, animal charms. While much of the style can be found in thrift stores and downloaded through the style chips, a significant amount of it can only be bought in high end, expensive boutiques.
Meanwhile, in the arcades of Neo Tokyo, a new game has become popular. Players enter a virtual simulation room and can use dual virtual swords to slash at incoming targets while listening to music. Targets can take on the shape of alien spaceships, asteroids, and even space robots. To win, you have to fight to the beat with certain songs having greater difficulty. Hardcore players can also purchase upgrades for their virtual swords to trigger special effects. The upgrades are all named after famous swords with some of the most impressive ones being Excalibur and Arondite.
Another emerging hit teen trend is a brand-new pizza from one of the bigger chains in Neo Tokyo. Painting their windows with reds and greens, little cartoon turtles and party balloons and celebrations, with mascots that are being sold as keyrings and plushies alongside the food. The main attraction is the new dish on offer: a Mutant Turtle Pizza! It’s a fairly simple dish, designed as a calzone (you can customise some of your fillings!) with a turtle shell crust, wrapped in paper matching their cute mascot design. If you come in cosplay, you get 10% off!
Those in Redemption might notice something… Odd going on outside room 006. In the weeks after the return from Mexico, deliveries have been made almost around the clock, the weary drivers dropping off box after box and bouquet after bouquet. It seems as if word of a certain someone’s hard work in fighting the kaiju has been heard, and they want to show their affection. Various bouquets of sunflowers, roses, tulips, daises and orchids can be found littering the floor, in various shades of blues, purples, yellows and white. At least it smells wonderful.
The celebrations of the victories in Mexico are not to be ignored, however, and the traditional celebrations of the winning outsiders is business as usual:
GOOD JOB:
SOBA & R.A.P.H (K.O.)
JUSTISH (600) & GODDESS OF DEATH (600)
And, as might be becoming familiar to the Outsiders, the celebration of the victors comes with its own impact on the cityscape of Neo Tokyo.
The more fashionable of folk might notice a new trend flooding the market, especially popular with teenage girls who lean towards the more lolita fashion. The trend is a simple gothic one, nicknamed zen lolita, with black on black, thick earrings and zori shoes with sharp designs that all seem to call back to traditional Buddhist monk style. The sparks of colour in this style come from white and silver accessories - finger and nose rings, dangling chains with small, animal charms. While much of the style can be found in thrift stores and downloaded through the style chips, a significant amount of it can only be bought in high end, expensive boutiques.
Meanwhile, in the arcades of Neo Tokyo, a new game has become popular. Players enter a virtual simulation room and can use dual virtual swords to slash at incoming targets while listening to music. Targets can take on the shape of alien spaceships, asteroids, and even space robots. To win, you have to fight to the beat with certain songs having greater difficulty. Hardcore players can also purchase upgrades for their virtual swords to trigger special effects. The upgrades are all named after famous swords with some of the most impressive ones being Excalibur and Arondite.
Another emerging hit teen trend is a brand-new pizza from one of the bigger chains in Neo Tokyo. Painting their windows with reds and greens, little cartoon turtles and party balloons and celebrations, with mascots that are being sold as keyrings and plushies alongside the food. The main attraction is the new dish on offer: a Mutant Turtle Pizza! It’s a fairly simple dish, designed as a calzone (you can customise some of your fillings!) with a turtle shell crust, wrapped in paper matching their cute mascot design. If you come in cosplay, you get 10% off!
Those in Redemption might notice something… Odd going on outside room 006. In the weeks after the return from Mexico, deliveries have been made almost around the clock, the weary drivers dropping off box after box and bouquet after bouquet. It seems as if word of a certain someone’s hard work in fighting the kaiju has been heard, and they want to show their affection. Various bouquets of sunflowers, roses, tulips, daises and orchids can be found littering the floor, in various shades of blues, purples, yellows and white. At least it smells wonderful.
▶ 002. LOST IN TRANSLATION (TEXT MINGLE.)
Auto-translation software allows everyone in the world to communicate with each other, regardless of where they are from or what language they might speak. Everyone has it automatically installed and for the most part, this allows for seamless and instant translation no matter who they are talking to.
One day, everyone will receive a system message that consists of broken characters, code, and gibberish. After that, they will find that they have some trouble communicating with others. For some people, it might just be a few words not translating correctly, but for others, the miscommunication is more extreme.
The translation software might completely fail, resulting in Outsiders not being able to understand each other at all. They will have to rely on vintage translation services or body language Synthia will issue an explanation:
For the next few days, everyone will have to make do with broken or incorrect translations when speaking to each other. Even characters from the same world and country might find themselves suddenly speaking a completely different language. This might result in people saying the opposite of what they mean or the things they say might end up translated through multiple languages before the final result. They might even accidentally confess a secret that they did not mean to say. Eventually, a patch will be issued and things will resume as usual. This effects both text messaging and normal speaking.
One day, everyone will receive a system message that consists of broken characters, code, and gibberish. After that, they will find that they have some trouble communicating with others. For some people, it might just be a few words not translating correctly, but for others, the miscommunication is more extreme.
The translation software might completely fail, resulting in Outsiders not being able to understand each other at all. They will have to rely on vintage translation services or body language Synthia will issue an explanation:
"We all know the results of modern projects. We are now solving the problem. Thank you very much."
"It seems instead of translating to multiple languages, she translated through multiple languages. Sorry. There is currently a problem with the translation software. We contacted support and they're working on it."
For the next few days, everyone will have to make do with broken or incorrect translations when speaking to each other. Even characters from the same world and country might find themselves suddenly speaking a completely different language. This might result in people saying the opposite of what they mean or the things they say might end up translated through multiple languages before the final result. They might even accidentally confess a secret that they did not mean to say. Eventually, a patch will be issued and things will resume as usual. This effects both text messaging and normal speaking.
▶ 003. CAULDRONS & KAIJU.
It seems as though September is for fun, and with it comes a rush of people in Neo Tokyo taking part in an exciting craze that seems to ebb and flow in popularity throughout the year: a class-based, live action role-playing game that is all the more exciting thanks to technology permitting light shows, downloadable costumes and guild systems. LILITH is quick to encourage the Outsiders to take part, in the interest of team-building and developing connections across the four groups on base.
The game itself is simple: organise yourself into a ‘party’, download your costumes and class features (such as light shows for magic users, custom weapons for your melee and ranged) and various upgrades to transform your features into different ‘races’ - your bunny and cat people, lizardfolk, and so forth. Once your party is together, you travel through a scavenger-hunt style series of games, puzzles, PvP and PvE fights to get to the final ‘dungeon’ - raid a dragon lair and get some gold and various other prizes. Try to create a balanced team of tank, magic user, support and damage dealer!
LILITH is more than happy to help set up the Outsiders with what gear they need, and makes the following recommendations for the ‘style’ of play for each team - and they recommend a mixture of all four for the best “party-comp”:
At the end of the trail is the dragon’s lair, where they’ll face various lair-based obstacles: smoke and fog, 'toxic' fumes and clouds, dragon breath (of various elemental flavours), terrain difficult to walk through, etc. All of this is created via a holographic simulation, of course, but it feels very real! Winning parties will win a treasure chest of “gold”... It’s chocolate, and therefore fake, but you get a really cool certificate and a place on the leaderboard for how fast you beat the dragon!
The game itself is simple: organise yourself into a ‘party’, download your costumes and class features (such as light shows for magic users, custom weapons for your melee and ranged) and various upgrades to transform your features into different ‘races’ - your bunny and cat people, lizardfolk, and so forth. Once your party is together, you travel through a scavenger-hunt style series of games, puzzles, PvP and PvE fights to get to the final ‘dungeon’ - raid a dragon lair and get some gold and various other prizes. Try to create a balanced team of tank, magic user, support and damage dealer!
LILITH is more than happy to help set up the Outsiders with what gear they need, and makes the following recommendations for the ‘style’ of play for each team - and they recommend a mixture of all four for the best “party-comp”:
BRIMSTONE are the tanks. Ranging from dedicated, focused Paladin-style warriors using various different weaponry to Barbarians who use their rage for offensive purposes, they’re encouraged to don armour, get their HP buffed and lead their party into their quest. They can take more damage than the rest of their party and have special abilities to get monsters to focus on them.The actual ‘roleplay’ part of the event takes place with a series of different ventures for Outsiders to get themselves busy with across Neo Tokyo:
EVERLIGHT find themselves as physical based damage dealers. This could be archery, swords, knives or their bare fists to hit for as much power as they can muster. They’re encouraged to do what they can to bash their enemies to pieces, and are more adept at 1:1 combat than groups. Their skills focus more on high damage ceilings for those who get to grips quickly and critical hits.
REDEMPTION are the support. This can range from straight-up HP healing skills or using buffs and debuffs to make it easier for the tanks (and those unruly DPS!) to survive whatever fight comes up ahead. Regen or shields, they could also be the Healer-DPS and heal by killing the enemy before it kills their party - with a little bit of poison and strength sapping magic, they’re nothing to scoff at.
REVELATION get to enjoy the fascinating and wonderful world of magic users. This could be using a wand, a book, or sheer natural talent to cast a variety of spells to get rid of the enemy as swiftly as possible. Elemental magic (your fire, ice, earth, lightning, etc) mixes with staggering areas of effect skills to try and make quick work of any threat that might lie ahead. Mages are far more useful for groups of enemies than single target, but are still devastating.
There are various fun elements uploaded onto their implants to make the game more engaging as well, as if they were playing in the simulation room: a HP tracker, item lists, spells and mana, party group chats and various other features. This will help when one of your party gets poisoned and loses -1HP per step they take… Uh oh! Feel free to have fun with whatever your imagination can come up with.Various puzzles and riddles to crack between different markers on their maps. Traps to trip players up and make them question everything. Mysteries that need to be solved before they can move on to the next location. Nature itself fighting back against the questing parties.
At the end of the trail is the dragon’s lair, where they’ll face various lair-based obstacles: smoke and fog, 'toxic' fumes and clouds, dragon breath (of various elemental flavours), terrain difficult to walk through, etc. All of this is created via a holographic simulation, of course, but it feels very real! Winning parties will win a treasure chest of “gold”... It’s chocolate, and therefore fake, but you get a really cool certificate and a place on the leaderboard for how fast you beat the dragon!
▶ 004. AFTERWORD.
This is Downtime Mingle / Team Building #10. All comments in this event count for 2 points towards September AC. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask them below.
EVENT BREAKDOWN/RECAP (CLICK TO EXPAND)
1. WINNER'S CIRCLE: The winners of the Mexico mission influence Neo Tokyo with lolita fashion, simulation videogames, flowers in the Redemption wing and a new pizza to try!
2. LOST IN TRANSLATION: LILITH's auto translation gets a bug and Outsiders must communicate by other means until it is fixed. Some effects will cause people to speak in a language they don't know or even confess a secret they did not mean to say.
3. CAULDRONS & KAIJU: A dungeon & dragons style simulation game! Outsiders must build a team and work together through various puzzles to reach the dragon's lair, slay it and steal the (chocolate) gold.
@kon, text.
I think something is false and the version of the meaning.
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Forget, I am inside to your cavity.
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The cavity. THE TERRITORY.
[ buddha on big stick— ]
Domain.
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o m w
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What’s wrong?
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Come over, please?
[ he doesn't know how to feel, or where to begin. with gojo? with geto? with fushiguro toji? it's one big family drama after another and he can't seem to figure out if he wants to feel nothing or to feel everything all at once and be done with it. ]
I'm not feeling so good.
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[ It’s far too easy to move close, to offer up his arms for his friend without pause nor hesitation. Megumi remains too important to him, after all, and he wants nothing more than for him to be alright. ]
It’s okay. I’m here.
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yuji is always good, always on the right side of things. even if megumi didn't understand the differences between right and wrong, he can trust yuji to keep him pointed north. ]
Sorry. You must've had some other stuff to take care of.
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[ It’s not as if there’s that much in the world that could be classed as more important than Megumi is to him, after all. Even if he had been busy for whatever reason, he’d probably have dropped it all to come here and be with his friend either way.
Slowly, he leans close and just holds him, only pausing for a moment. ]
We can talk when you’re ready.
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[ he huddles as close as he can to yuji, drawing his knees tight. he lets himself soak up in yuji's warmth before he pushes the emotional ball forward. ]
I fought with Gojo-sensei. And Fushiguro-san. I think they're both angry at me now, but that's okay. I'm mad at both of them too.
I can't keep pretending I'm okay and letting them think everything's fine when it's not. That's not— it's not the right way to do things. I have feelings too.
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They’re happy like this.
Nodding, he hums softly. ]
I understand. It’s similar to what happened with me and Nanamin, maybe? All this weird stuff before they’re gone and we’re here, and we have to deal with that. It’s hard to move on when they’re here and we want that… More.
[ He’s not sure it makes that much sense, but…
He’s trying. ]
Do you wanna say what you argued about?
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[ no, he wants to talk about it. he just knows he's going to upset himself if he has to face it again. ]
Gojo-sensei's putting some distance between us. We've never been close, but he's— he's never been this dismissive with me. It's like he's given up on trying to reach out. I know he has his own issues to deal with because he died, and I'm trying to meet him halfway, but I don't know what to do when he's trying to make me feel like I'm better off without him. I'm here now. I can try the way he always wanted me to try, and now he's the one who won't.
And Fushiguro-san is an asshole. Every time I try to talk to him or get to know him, it's like he's doing everything to push me away. He won't even give me a chance because he thinks he's bad for me — I'm bad for me. Sukuna was bad for me, and I survived. You helped me survive. He doesn't have to worry about me anymore, so why—
[ it really is like with nanami-san, megumi thinks. wanting to keep trying, even if it means more pain down the road when they have to part ways again. what's so wrong about wanting more than this? what's so bad about making the most out of a second chance they wouldn't have gotten elsewhere? ]
They got mad at me for calling them out about it. And then I got mad. And now I'm upset because I don't want to be mad, but I know I should be. What happened to them isn't my fault. It isn't. He doesn't get to say it wasn't my fault then treat me like it was—
Adults suck.
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[ Yuji sighs softly.
It feels like he wants to be a teacher but also wants to not, since he died and this is another life. He’s got Geto here, and Nanami, and some kind of future, so it’s something new, but Yuji is aware they still need him. Just like Yuji is desperately still clinging to Nanami, Megumi is clinging to the adult he had in his life, too. It makes sense, in that way. They’re just kids still, even older from their time in this place.
It’s hard. Yuji still doesn’t really know how to deal with it. ]
He’s not talking to me right now and I know why. I know he’s mad about what happened with Geto-san, since he wanted it to be kept a secret, but it’s not like me or Geto-san aren’t okay with each other now. I know it was the right thing to do, but… I wish…
[ Yuji goes quiet. ]
I wish that if it was like that, that sensei wants us to grow up and whatever, that he wants the distance, he’d just say it. I know how hard things are and I know it’s tough coming back from the dead, but this isn’t fair to you. After everything you went through, why is this okay? It’s not right.
[ Yuji has had his own share of trauma and he’s still not good at dealing with it or processing it, but what he’s learned is that right now he can’t go to Gojo when he’s struggling or sad. He’s learned that’ll be a problem, so he finds other avenues - Megumi, Nanami, Raidou. Even Geto.
Gently, he squeezes his friend. ]
As for your dad, he’s kind of a jerk. I can show you some of our old texts if you want.
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I'd like that, actually. I saw your last post on the network, about Sukuna—— hey, don't eat all of him, by the way. If he ever finds his way back here, don't eat him. I'll crush him flat with Mahoraga or something, leave it to me.
[ this is not the time for it, but megumi snorts in good humor. ]
You forgot the belly mouth in the sketch, too. You know, the—- [ he gestures to his stomach where a long, jagged scar bisects his belly. sometimes the scar hurts at night. ] That one.
[ megumi brushes his hand against yuji's when he draws it back up closer to his face, and there— there, the missing fingers, the place where they used to be now no more than half-knuckles healed over. scar tissue gone smooth, the broken bone and muscle and sinew knitted together like they've refused to be made whole again.
in theory, yuji could just grow them back. he already knows reversed curse technique, it wouldn't take him long to regrow digit to limb under the tutelage of a good teacher. a selfish, covetous part of megumi is glad he hasn't, though; glad that there's proof of the sacrifices yuji had made for all to see. it's not because it makes him feel cared for, or at least not only that, but the world had been so quick to write yuji off as a danger to the world at large before he ever had a chance to defend himself, and where's the fairness in that?
the world was a danger to yuji, too. he paid for their future at the cost of two fingers and several scars all over his body. megumi doesn't think about it when he pulls yuji's hand to his mouth, kissing over what remains of the fingers, over the scarred knuckles, holds it over his own scarred eye that sukuna nearly took with him in his death.
here, he is safe. ]
As long as you believe in me, I think I'll be okay. Please keep believing in me.
[ i don't know where i'd be if you stopped. ]
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Would Gojo-sensei have been able to do that?
He doesn't know. ]
I'll eat him.
[ Sorry, bro.
He pauses only when the hand touches his own, the soft, gentle sweetness to his missing limbs, and his eyes widen. Sometimes, he forgets that he's aware of Megumi's feelings towards him, tries to be careful with them, but in moments like this... He breathes out softly, laughing an awkward, happy little sound, unable to resist it at all.
Slowly, he sinks back. ]
I'm never going to stop believing in you, Megumi. That's one thing I'm definitely sure about.
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[ logically, megumi knows he won't stop yuji from doing as he believes is right. they have that understanding between each other, that deep river of trust, and megumi has every bit of faith placed in yuji's hands when it comes to determining what's right and what isn't.
perhaps it's more hope that drives megumi to say it. to say the normal things, the simple expected things; don't eat fingers, don't go running into burning houses, don't keep risking yourself for everyone else.
someone has to look out for yuji. megumi wants to do it for him all his life, if he could get away with it. he doesn't need or want anything more than that. ]
You know that means a lot to me, right? You saying that. That you believe in me.
I haven't felt like a good person in a long time.