The third April 8th, and every April 8th thereafter [text]

[tiredcharmer]

Invitation to linkshell "troll groundhog day." Accept? Y/N


pissing on the wwwwildfire [text]

alright people, wwwwe've got a lot of wwwwork to do

if you see a big problemmmm (or sommmmething that just mmmmakes you feel shitty), post it here wwwwith the time/place and put a group together to solve it. once you've figured it out, be a pal and tell us howwww you took care of it

i'mmmm gonna put this up at the start of every loop, adding everything wwwwe've discovered to the mmmmain post so wwwwe can keep shit organized

let's get mmmmoving

Comments

DISCUSSION

[tiredcharmer]

idle chat, questions about this mmmmemmmmo, etc.

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[neverbeamemory]

[Not that there's any way to tell which loop Sephiroth exactly joined this Linkshell in, but eventually he ends up here. It does make sense.]

Good plan. Will do.

Feel free to text me back directly, here.

[plagueofshadows]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, HEE! I didn't know what to expect, but the ability to keep trying until we get it right... Dante was it? Dante if you join this Linkshell, let's talk about Items.

Everyone else, let me know if there's a situation you require a chemist for. I have a feeling I'm going to need to get very, very efficient at brewing Potions.

Re: DISCUSSION

[defenestraighttomyheart]

Every time a loop happens, it resets right as I'm airborne heading home. If you get a request from somebody in Sparks Golsaucia by Billabong and Fleetwood Avenue wondering about a broken window, that's not a burglar. I just forgot to brace up and stop myself on the fire escape and landed flat on their admittedly handsome painting of a man o' war jellyfish sitting in a one legged Victorian high-back chair reading poetry to a group of stalagmites which represents the ongoing struggle between parent and child as described in chapter twelve of Her Majesties Decree To The Inhabitants Of The Inner Sanctum Of The Eternal Valetudinarians by Charles B. Rothchester, Esq.

Yes, I got a mouthful the first two times. Anyone else wind up in an annoying situation on resetting?

[Voice; Megatron wants to know exactly who is speaking and to whom]

[peace_through_empathy]

Starscream we are going to have words.

PROBLEMMMMS

[tiredcharmer]

report anything you think's immmmportant here, then group up and solve it. post solutions once you're done

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[bladeofconquest]

Okay so I've been examining the news cycles the last loop or two (this is still so strange to me, but I'm doing my best to keep going) and there are a few items I want to focus on personally.

The biggest one is stopping the Bahamut cult from massacring the people of Nakagawa. I think I can probably infiltrate the cult; a LOT of them show up after the MogNet post goes out and I'm pretty sure I can lose myself in the crowd of new arrivals, and if called upon, give a fairly good performance as a cultist if need be to better fit in. I've done that sort of thing before, after all.

Stopping the cult I think means getting to the leader. Or leaders, I think there might be more than one. Obviously they try to keep their identities as obfuscated as possible, which is why I'll need to infiltrate them. If I can figure out who they are, I'll report back with their identities. But I want...I want to try talking to them first. I know what they do is horrible, but...they're scared and desperate and hoping for any possible way to save themselves. Most of the cultists I fought the first time trying to escape the city didn't appear to actually want to be hurting other people, but...fear and desperation can make people do awful things if they're pushed far enough.

Which is why I want to talk to the cult leaders personally before I-or we-go in swords drawn. I think I need to be able to offer them hope; hope that this isn't the end, that Bahamut will be stopped and Vaikuntha saved. Maybe if I can address the cult at large during a meeting-maybe even the one where they decide on the massacre-I might be able to stop it from happening.

That said, if the cult leaders themselves are truly set on this goal, I'll do what I have to. But it would still pay to have a contingency plan in place in case I can't convince them to stand down. If we have an evacuation plan ready to go, when the cult attacks we'll be able to get more people out of the city. Or maybe we can try to organize some kind of defense so that when the assault happens they won't find it so easy. Most of the cultists didn't appear to be that well trained, but they had numbers and the element of surprise on their side. The loops take away the latter advantage, and from there, depriving them of the former should be relatively easy to accomplish.

That said, if anyone with an airship could be standing by at the port in case we need to get a lot of people onboard and evacuate the city in a hurry, I'd feel a lot better about this.

Also, this is admittedly not as big a priority to me as stopping the cult but one item of news keeps popping up that I find...curious. A foreign woman in Arito tending flowers near the Summoners Guildhall even as the rest of the city falls into chaos. I don't know why, but something about that...I don't know if it's important or not but I want to investigate. Something about it stands out to me.

So there's where I'm going to be focusing, at least for the time being. Any help people are willing to give me with either of those two events are welcome! The cult alone is going to require help and careful planning.

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[tiredcharmer]

rosey industrial alwwwways gets hit super hard by calammmmity mmmmonsters. too mmmmany people wwwwork there to leave that place undefended

anybody else up for killing those fuckers? bards are especially wwwwelcommmme, wwwwe'll need that aria of narayana thing

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[tiredcharmer]

riots in arito cause wwwway too mmmmuch bad shit for us to ignore

any other cops wwwwilling to help mmmme figure out howwww to stop them? wwwwe go for peaceful dispersal first--inspirational speeches and all that bullshit--but if that doesn't wwwwork out, wwwwe rally the local lawwww enforcemmmment to contain the riots, arrest the crimmmminals, and take out violent instigators

vimes, conwwwway, i'mmmm looking at you twwwwo

Re: PROBLEMMMMS

[timecrash]

Gilgamesh shows up and robs Hisan's armory. There's nothing left, it's... Cripes, it's brutal. We're caught totally unprepared. I only found out because I ran to check on Mom loop one.

I've got a kind of stupid plan, though. Gilgamesh is weird, but he's almost got a fetish for honor and a real hardon for rare treasures. I think maybe I could entice him with something one-of-a-kind.

Maybe I could actually beat him in a one-on-one if I know his moves well enough.

Text; Fourth Loop and onward

[immortalmarshal]

The council at Yun'Ashelia is full of fuckin' idiots that won't stop arguing with each other. Ignis and I both tried to talk to them. You can imagine how that went when they're to the point of throwing chairs and fists at each other. That's going to be a problem when National Panic Day starts, because people really are going to panic due to lack of leadership, and not be able to defend themselves from any potential monster attacks - not to mention, any potential civilian casualties and general chaos.

Supposedly, though, the Mayor suggested finding some undeniable proof of hope to make them stop arguing. Something pure and rare, something that both sides cannot dispute or mock one bit. Unless it's a Gold Chocobo or that damn Carbuncle, I'm somewhat doubting that there's anything like that out there right now. If anyone has any ideas I might actually consider them.

Oh, and the Curti Center Staff need to be talked out of drinking themselves into quitting. I was only able to convince a few the first two times around by myself. If anyone has that silver-tongue and beaming heart of hope, I'll gladly accept your help.

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[wind_in_my_ears]

Everyone, this is really important. Three loops ago, everything went wrong. That was the loop I sent a message to Ramaa. As soon as she knew someone knew it was her, everything we tried to do stopped working. But the last two went off fine.

We're the only ones who know we're looping. She doesn't seem to know.

[Text] April 11th

[whirluendo_of_puns]

So... Something weird happened to me last night.

I tried to talk the workers at the Mad'ni Shrine into staying and looking after the temple. It didn't work out, but... When I went to get some shut-eye afterwards, I had a dream about Phoenix coming to protect the world. It was so vivid, I almost thought it was real when I woke up.

I know this sounds flimsy, but I can't help but feel it means something. I'm going to try talk to them again in the next loop. Anyone want to come along?

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[einspine]

THE NAH NAMI NATURE RESERVE IS TRYING TO RESEARCH THE ODD TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANIMALS INTO CALAMITY MONSTERS. I TRIED TO ASSIST THEM ON THE FIRST LOOP, BUT MY EFFORTS WEREN'T ENOUGH. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE SCIENTIFICALLY MINDED WHO COULD ASSIST IN THIS ENDEAVOR?

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[wind_in_my_ears]

Okay so... weird question here, but is anyone up for forming a strike team and isn't afraid of being eaten?

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[wind_in_my_ears]

Excuse me, is Richard Conway here?

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[sassafrisk]

so

i need to buy out all of parasraya's catnip and a very large airship (kuja i'm looking at you)

anybody have some gil i can borrow? i can pay you back i promise

Video; someone please teach Terra to type one of these loops

[wheretheresawill]

[Terra is only distantly in frame; the camera is pointed at a little table with a steadily improving series of carved wooden flowers resting on it. He's sitting on the floor against the wall next to it, looking...well, like they all feel, probably.]

It's small by comparison, but I can't stop thinking about it. There are these two kids in Lavode who disappeared - disappear - this evening. Apparently they went looking for a fairy to save the world.

I don't know if they found anything, or would have found anything. Will find anything? Anyway. I just - think they shouldn't be alone. They should be with their families, even if we can't - [He chokes up, and there's a long pause.]

They shouldn't be alone.

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[neverbeamemory]

The forest in Lavode is a problem.

Losing the children seems an inevitability, just as eventually you become lost yourself.

There are stones with some of that Eidolon language written, might be useful for a Summoner to look.

I'm not wasting any more loops on this.

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[bleating_heart]

Me and Chara went after them, they went into the forest near lavode. This isn't just "a forest", Sephiroth is right. If you go in you just get lost no matter what you do and you can't even retrace your steps to get out again.

by the way if any of you were wondering why the trees were exploded in the last loop that would be why.

[A hand-drawn picture of lettering in eidolon script from one of the stones inside the forest]

These things are all over the place inside, no idea what it means. Anyone got any clue? Sephiroth says summoners?

One April the 10th, mid-afternoon

[acapriciousreaper]

Dinner with Ramaa

Wish me luck

[neverbeamemory]

Do let us know how that goes.

The same April the 10th, late evening

[acapriciousreaper]

son of a whore

Reno, Selphie, I need to talk to you. In person. Tomorrow morning if at all possible, the evening after if that's not an option.

[defenestraighttomyheart]

Alright, so, I'm following up on the case of the suicidal researcher. He's been stopped, but he's also been very hesitant to be all that talkative about what got him to that point, so the job's not done.

He asked for me to find out the name of his late pet and to find his old study partner. Something about how we would know them, since they hang around the Curti Center.

This has been proven to be more of a pain in the ass than I previously would have thought.

He's a resident at the University of Arito. Trying to get veterinary records is a dead end- on Vaikuntha, apparently, you just have a white mage throw down a spell and the problem is usually fixed.

Let me just say that I hate that I live in a world without preventative medicine for one thing.

Anyway, my next move is to ask around the university. Try to get some of his records to see what classes he might have taken, before asking around those areas to see if they recognize the man and who he might have been associated with.

[whirluendo_of_puns]

His old study partner is someone we know from Curti Center?

If it's not Jessie, then you might want to try Mogaruru. I was talking to her the other day and she mentioned she used to be a science student at a university when she was young.

Finding her records could be tricky, though. Given her Moogle obsession, I wouldn't be surprised if she changed her name at some point.

April 09th, loop# ???, OTA Moogles

[acapriciousreaper]

How many of you know what's going on? Boss told me... some stuff, last night. And as crazy as it is to think about, I believe him. He's not the most honest person around, but he's not the prankster type, you know?

...

If what he's saying is true and the world's gonna end, I think we gotta do somethin' about it. There's something only we can do, right? According to him, a lotta shit goes bad because Mognet's not working up to snuff. I think maybe this is something we can help out with. We need to help out at Mognet. There's some bad people spreadin' lies about the offworlders, too- maybe we can put a stop to that. Vaikuntha's our home, and I'm not gonna just sit back and watch it all go to hell. Who's with me?

[sassafrisk]

NGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

My little punk has grown up so much over this past year! Hell, they won't even let me noogie 'em anymore, they're that fast! And they've been trying so fucking hard to help everybody during all this Calamity bullshit!

I'm no good with computers but I can sure as hell motivate everybody else to get off their asses and start working!