TEAM BUILDING EVENT #1

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TEAM BUILDING EVENT #1

CONTENT WARNINGS: forced scenarios, violence & action scenarios, thalassophobia, mass death & injury from natural disaster.

▶ 001. GET ALONG PROMPT

LILITH is highly invested in the physical and mental well-being of its employees. A happy and connected workforce is a strong workforce, after all. However, SYNTHIA has picked up on many instances of discontent between Outsiders - people being blocked by each other on LINE, or teetering on the edge of having a fight (you know who you are and so does SYNTHIA, surprise!) That just won't do. Outsiders who cannot get along will fail miserably when it's time for teamwork. That is why this month's team-building exercise aims to spread positivity amongst the Outsiders. We all gotta get along in the middle of a crisis.

Whether you are looking someone in the face, texting them, or staring at their profile on the network, you receive a prompt from SYNTHIA, followed by an image (exactly as pictured, Shutterstock watermark and all):

"LILITH promotes a positive working environment. Why don't you pay this Outsider a compliment or do something nice for them? Or else :) Noncompliance will result in disciplinary action."

True enough, ignoring the prompt a total of 5 times will result in characters being transported to their rooms and put under house arrest - ahem, time out for a total of 2 days. It doesn't hurt to play along, right? As a note, the prompts become especially persistent when you're faced with someone you dislike. Should Outsiders try to leave their room during this time, they will find the automatic doors do not open the typical way (retina scan and thumb print.) They are trapped! Perhaps asking SYNTHIA for some mercy with positive compliments directed her way will do the trick (it won't, bu you can try!) Remember, Outsiders can speak to SYNTHIA anytime. She's everywhere all the time. Consider her your prettier Alexa. In fact, she might be flattered by that compliment.

▶ 002. TEAM ACTIVITIES.

You've had your fun back at the MAIN BASE. Now it's time to work. Outsiders will be sent back out towards Tokyo Bay while LILITH's research crew continues to try and detect the source of the strong waves. The city is in disarray after the tsunami, with the less secured buildings torn down and many lives lost. Morale within Neo Tokyo is at an all time low even with civilians comforting one another. Each Outsider will receive a small mission brief marked in the colours of their respective team as they are once again flown via helicopter to the designated area.

REDEMPTION:
Outsiders within REDEMPTION are tasked to spread joy in the streets and at the hospital. Be creative in how you wish to do this, whether it's putting on a performance, a skit, or spreading kindness with gifts and sweet gestures. Those with a Style Upgrade are encouraged to use their chip to don funny and eye catching costumes to entertain the civilians. Those with a healing upgrade are highly encouraged to help medical staff.

REVELATION:
Outsiders within REVELATION are tasked with babysitting duties. Many parents are still recovering in the hospital and there's no one to watch their children while they recover. A lot of pets need looking after too! Make sure the children and furbabies are fed, clothed and getting enough sleep. This can even include filling in for classrooms that have recently lost their teacher. Outsiders in REVELATION are encouraged to keep a tally of the census and go looking for lost children if someone seems to be missing.

EVERLIGHT:
Outsiders within EVERLIGHT will be tasked with keeping the people fed and the local businesses running. This can mean organising a soup kitchen, preparing homecooked meals for the civilians and delivering hot meals door to door. It can also mean helping local businesses with repairs to their shops, bringing them supplies and filling in for the staff they might have lost. The city might have just been hit with a tsunami, but that doesn't mean it needs to shut down!

BRIMSTONE:
Outsiders within BRIMSTONE are the luckiest of the lot - they get to be clean up crew. They will be mandated to wear hazmat suits in outrageous colours along with breathing gear. Why? Because they will be scrubbing the whole place of rubble, dirt, debris and corpses. Yes, corpses. Outsiders within BRIMSTONE will be given a census and tasked with identifying any dead body they find. They will then need to transport the corpse to the nearest LILITH disposal truck on a stretcher, where LILITH will cremate it properly. Note that they will be some survivors in the mix, so be prepared to administer first aid and conduct rescue operations accordingly.

Within certain parts of the city (the sewers, in particular, which have flooded with water), the natural flora seems to have been poisoned by a mysterious element. Toxic, monstrous plants are coming alive and attacking anything they see! They bind and strangle Outsiders with their vines and sting them with their nettles. These plants need to be dealt with before they overgrow. Fire & ice works well on them.

"Good afternoon, Angels of LILITH. Please pay close attention to the brief sent to you. We have specific duties for each team. Once you have done enough work, you will be prompted to help another team with their tasks if you desire. Our research crew is searching for the source of the kaiju and we have received information it is in the ocean. Please be ready in case it makes an appearance again before we can find it. You will be staying in Moonlight Inn & 11 Hours hostel once again as we should remain close by. Thank you for the cooperation."

Outsiders will need to finish their team missions. However, if they have time afterward and want to do some overtime, they are more than welcome to help the other teams on their missions.

▶ 003. IT ISN'T OVER YET.

Those who remember the mission brief two weeks ago will know that the first shockwaves are usually the sign of an impending kaiju. LILITH is conducting their own investigations, but with a fresh and energetic workforce it only makes sense to ultilize it. All Outsiders will be given orders to collect samples and bring it back for ongoing testing. By samples, they mean contaminated fish or ocean life remains, or samples of the toxic plants appearing in the sewers.

For Outsiders braving the sewers, they will need to don the silly hazmat suits issued to BRIMSTONE for their own protection and fight off the monstrous plants to clip some samples. It's encouraged to get leaves, stems, seeds, flowers or the whole plant if you can manage it. (Note that collecting the whole plant in a sample container will result in said plant hissing and striking you through the glass.)

For Outsiders who feel like taking a swim, they will be given diving suits and ordered to take a dive in Tokyo Bay. Once in the waters, they are to hunt down and capture any contaminated fish or marine life they can find. This means tuna fish with three eyes or octopi with two heads and 16 legs. It's encouraged to capture them live, but LILITH will also accept remains or waste samples. (Note that the available oxygen in the tank is limited and attempting to swim too far from Neo Tokyo will likely result in an Outsider drowning. )

▶ 004. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our first CR Building event! All prompts are highly encouraged but OOCly optional. Characters are encouraged to participate in their team-specific missions but can help out the other teams if they have time. Feel free to ask any event-related questions below!

As always, you are free to check out our main base and locations page and make up your own prompts!

Please note that all tags in this log will count for 2 reward points each. Have fun! The next log will feature the kaiju fight and will be posted on FEBRUARY 1st in lieu of a TDM.

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sooyoung han | omniscient reader's viewpoint

[plagiarists]

■ 001. Compliment gacha

[ It shouldn't be a surprise that Sooyoung has already experienced the 2-day long time out. Did she use that time to reflect? No. She did something better—Sooyoung prepared a list of various compliments. Some of them are outright bad (Normal), some pretty generic (Rare), while the others are actually nice (Ultra Rare).

As soon as Sooyoung is allowed to go out and sees another message prompting her to compliment someone, she's going to make a simple request. ]

Pick a number from one to one thousand.

[ Yes, that's the number of unique compliments that made it to the list. ]

■ 002. babysitting

[ While she's not enthusiastic about taking care of kids, it looks like today she's got fairly lucky—Sooyoung avoided being assigned to literal babies and the kids she's looking after can actually talk instead of just cooing. That opens new possibilities, like... ]

Today, your cool aunt Jae-in will teach you how to say fu—

[ Please stop her, she's about to say fuck. ]

■ 003. marine life

[ Her ocean samples retrieval mission can be considered a big success. Sooyoung, still wearing the wetsuit, is sitting on the beach, two quite... magnificent specimens lying next to her in makeshift tanks. One of them is an Akshually Squid while the other is a Handsome Bara Sunfish. She's tired after all that work—while her magic powers are strong, her stamina isn't all that impressive. Panting softly, she peeks at the tanks and sighs softly. ]

Maybe I should let you guys go.

[ It would be counterproductive after the struggle to retrieve them alive, but... can she really submit these two to LILITH? ]

■ 004. wildcard

[ If you want to do something else with hsy, go ahead! Feel free to hit me up on plurk @ biyoo or PM this journal for plotting. ]

001

[likemybooks]

Uh...

[Taryon doesn't like how sudden this all is. Something terrible but amusing to Sooyoung is going to happen if he chooses the wrong number.]

What's this for? [He has a number in mind, but he's not sharing it for no reason.]

[plagiarists]

[ Honestly, no one should blame Taryon for being concerned about this. ]

Compliment gacha.

[ There, she said it. If Sooyoung has to be the one to spread the knowledge about unfair rates and banners, then so be it. ]

Just pick a number and I'll tell you something.

[likemybooks]

[What does that even mean...oh well, if those are compliments, then it should be fine.]

Alright. [He crosses his arms.] Ninety-nine.

[plagiarists]

Nice ass.

[ That does count as a generic compliment, right. Not that she's checked Taryon out yet. You could say it's a half-assed compliment... and she's been trying so hard with the list. ]

[likemybooks]

What?

[Right, that was a randomly selected compliment. He almost forgot. But still weird to hear directed at him.]

...Did that work?

[plagiarists]

It...

[ She was about to say that it did but it looks like there was some kind of a delay because another window has just popped up. ]

Didn't. Does that mean SYNTHIA doesn't think you have a nice ass?

[ No, it means that Sooyoung is in denial and this plan wasn't as good as she thought it to be. ]

[likemybooks]

It knew you didn't mean it! It thought you were being sarcastic! [And his ass is pretty great, SYNTHIA wouldn't dock points for telling the truth.] Just pick something you genuinely looks great on me. There's a lot of options.

[He's clearly a handsome man, it can't take more than a second to think.]

2

[balestre]

[ -and then Quanxi slams her hand over the big mouth of "cool aunt", hard enough to make it hurt. ]

Phonetics. We're learning the alphabet.

[ "But I know the al-phah-bet." A precocious child raising their hand eagerly responds, demanding their babysitters be wowed by his six year old knowledge. ]

Then we'll refresh your memory. Right, aunt Jae-In?

[ Say yes or be killed on sight. ]

[plagiarists]

[ Not her beautiful mouth that was about to say fuck. ]

Y-Yes. [ Sooyoung likes her life too much to lose it here. ] The alphabet.

[ Despite being a bit dejected she's trying to find a way to give it a fun spin since she's the cool AND fun aunt. ]

For every letter, you have to say a word you know starting with it, little smart—

[ That was supposed to be smartass but her self-preservation skills won. ]

001

[axethrows]

Seven hundred and seventy-seven.

[Hey girl, what's up- Rodya has no problems with the compliment game, but the number choice is new. Could be good or she could get stabbed 777 times. Surprise her, she's ready to gamble.]

What I get, what I get-

[plagiarists]

Triple seven... I sense a fondness for gambling.

[ To be fair, Sooyoung isn't into it that much, unless she's winning, obviously. It doesn't mean that she's inherently against it, however. Maybe it shouldn't come off as surprising that 777 is an Ultra Rare compliment. ]

Do you carry another weapon with you besides your eyes?

[ What is a pick-up line doing here. ]

001

[kubricks]

[Not something she expected to be presented with, and that's a lot of numbers to choose from. But Makima's not going to take too much time to decide here.]

One.

[May as well start at the beginning.]

[plagiarists]

Pick another number...

[ Leave it to Sooyoung to bend the rules she's made. One is an Ultra Rare compliment, apparently. In the meantime, another pop-up window will appear, urging Sooyoung to just tell Makima a compliment. ]

[kubricks]

But one is a number from one to one thousand.

[She'll pick another number eventually? But she can't help but feel telling her to pick again isn't exactly fair. Not that she any room to talk about being fair.]

[plagiarists]

But... [ There's no way she's revealing her reasoning. ] It's been used already.

[ That's a lie. And why would Makima even care about that, huh. ]

[kubricks]

Was it?

[Forgive her for seeming skeptical about that. She has no reason to be, but something about this just makes her wonder...]

Who used it?

[plagiarists]

You don't know them.

[ Legit. ]

Are you picking a different number or not?

[ Don't mind Sooyoung getting blinded by the warning messages from SYNTHIA. If this keeps up, she'll be forced to say it anyway. Sure, she could always lie and say something else, but then the list wouldn't make sense. That's some twisted logic of a writer. ]

[kubricks]

I'm not sure about that.

[She knows a lot of people, okay?]

But I'm trying to think of one, there's just so many. Now that my first choice is out, I'm not sure which one to pick.

[There's 999 choices after all.]

Are any others already used?

001. looks at the timestamp on this tag-in and grimaces

[frostfist]

[ Ah, if it isn't his favorite girlboss author. If he looks like he doesn't believe that she's up to no good, it's because he doesn't. Without missing a beat he picks his number. ]

Two thousand.

[ He doesn't trust you, girl. ]

covers your eyes... time is fake

[plagiarists]

Two thousand, huh...

[ Just a few moments ago she thought that a prison warden would stick to the rules. It's not a bad outcome, though.

Shortly, another Sooyoung appears out of thin air. And another one. When the Sooyoung count is five, (real) Sooyoung asks with a sweet voice (which is a parody in itself): ]

Still sticking to that number?

[frostfist]

[ He only follows the rules when they make sense. ♥

But also hey, what the fuck. Why are there suddenly so many Han Sooyoungs surrounding him? Wriothesley blinks his eyes, once and thn twice, just to make sure he isn't seeing these. He looks notably thrown off, but to his credit tries to play along. ]

Are you going to keep multiplying [ is that what's happening here???? ] until you reach two thousand?

[ Actually, that sounds pretty hellish by itself. ]

[plagiarists]

Yes.

[ Technically she could do that... but it would become more and more difficult to find insignificant memories. Not that Wriothesley has to know that it's more or less a bluff. ]

I can tell you're excited to see more of me.

[ Literally... ]

[frostfist]

[ HmmmmMMMMmmmmm..................................





You know what, he's going to try and call her bluff. The idea of being surrounded by two thousand Sooyoungs sends a chill down his spine, but at the same time it'll be nice to get a sense of where her limits are for the future.

Some of the mild alarm disappears off his face, replaced by a grim smile. ]

In that case, why don't you show me what you've got?

[ Even if it means...literally.....seeing more of her.... ]

[plagiarists]

[ He was supposed to a) leave right away, or b) beg her on his knees to stop, or even c) blush...

And now this happens. Obviously, Sooyoung didn't take this outcome into account. ]

It might be too much hotness at once for you.

[ The avatars still keep popping up, currently surrounding Wriothesley and grinning at him while (real) Sooyoung is going through it because he didn't fall for her bluff. ]