Un: Zodiac | Mid-Month Update

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: April 15th
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[We've reached the middle of April. By now, the folks who were trapped in their own personal dungeons have been rescued, and the peach has been recovered from Zodiac and destroyed. Undertown has gone back to normal, while Zodiac's been very quiet. The post begins like the previous one had, with notifications of peoples coming and goings]



Dante, Vergil, Nicholas, and Kara have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Suzume and Diluc have left the app.

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello. Thank you for using the Libra App.

It's me again. Could you stop telling people I'm dead? I was just visiting my family out of state and I forgot to turn off the auto-post function, for crying out loud. Have none of you people ever heard of taking a vacation?

Anyway, I'm not sure what happened, but there's something going on with head honchos. They cancelled their big announcement and took the rest of the month off, citing that "they deeply regret their greed-filled actions and wish to take time to reflect". I was skeptical at first, but then they offered to increase everyone's pay and give us a better benefits package. There's even been talk of donating to charity, and not just for tax purposes. It's like all of board members had a change of heart.

Well, the surviving ones. Two of the board members died all of sudden. It was a pretty grisly way to go, black fluid started coming out of their eyes and then they keeled over. No one knows what happened, but it's got a lot of people freaked out. There's been sanitation crews and exorcisms all over the place.

Crap, I rambled. Anyway, Zodiac's going through some restructuring so if you don't hear from us for a bit that's why. And seriously you weirdos, stop saying I'm dead.


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[Well that was weird.

Anyway, Users will have the option to choose their own display names and user pics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Like always, there'll be no responses from Zodiac.

Note: Even if the event is over ICly, please feel free to continue backtagging the event logs for the month!]

Comments

[drewthetower]

[If Vergil had tried, August would have sniped back with "service animals" and then what would he have done, huh?]

Yeah, no, turns out Ryouta Ibuki can turn into a swan. A trumpeter swan.

[THAT IS NOT MUCH CONTEXT AUGUST]

[kowase]

Arguably the most annoying kind.

[ he would have asked you your birds could service your needs from outside, but
turns out he's a little more lenient than he looks. his sharp, cat-eyed gaze almost unblinking as august spews... nonsense over him. ]

I will keep the name in mind if it ever becomes relevant. I have not met this 'Ryota' individual.

And I am not sure how someone turning into a swan would help in combating evil capitalist demonspawn.

[drewthetower]

[NOPE deal with it Vergil.]

I mean, one's a feathered demonspawn, the other is capitalist demonspawn...but no, it's a stress reaction or something. Turned to be for the best, since--wait, I forget, did you know why we were all going in there?

[kowase]

[ you're his least favorite relative ]

I suppose they are comparable. There is a reason I live in cities and not out in the feral wilds. [ nature is not his favorite. ]

I have a vague idea thanks to reading some things on Libra. Demon spawn wanting to use some miraculous item in order to become immortal.
The lot of the Libra users not wanting that, though, for some reason, strikes me as confusing.
There are people in this city who can get wounded fatally and not die.

[ not that he knows from first hand or anything. ]

[drewthetower]

Okay, first of all--

[And August will explain the whole Peachgate fiasco. There is a lot of swearing and gesturing.]

--and then Varian told us they were making it into a juice to drink, so that's what started all of that. The reason none of us wanted that to happen should be obvious? They're asshole capitalist demons, and there's a difference in "it takes a lot to actually kill you" and "is fucking immortal and can't be killed".

[kowase]

[ august should be so lucky that vittore is SUCH a patient man that he sits and listens to the whole ordeal as August gestures, swears, and flails his arms--pacing and giving him the whole run-down.
it's a lot, and it sounds like some wild book-written tale, but...

none of it is outside his newly written realm of possibility. he can't bring himself to doubt any part of it. ]

Most capitalists are types of demon anyway, but I suppose I do understand the worry.

So in the end, did you get the peach away from them? Was it made into the juice they were working on?

[drewthetower]

It was already juiced when we got there, but Ryouta and some others managed to get the juice out. I had to, uh, leave. You saw the thing about Moxxie, yeah?

[kowase]

Good. I do hope they'll be getting rid of said juice.

Moxxie. The young man who died, yes?

[ ...unfortunate, but, more importantly, due to the things he's learned since he's last saw august... ]

The gun that killed him.
Where is it.

[drewthetower]

Gone. Some others got it away from the board members and then it just sort of vanished.

[kowase]

I do not like it. Something like that existing.

It ought be destroyed.

[ his eyes sure have gone sharp. ]

[drewthetower]

Yeah, no, that's what I mean. It's gone. It doesn't exist anymore.

[kowase]

[ ...well, the relief is palpable in his face. Even if he tries to subtly shift it, as if he didn't just cage down an extreme reaction. ]

Good.

If it is gone for good, it is for the better.
Noone should have access to an item that can reduce a being into molecules within a single pull of the trigger.

[drewthetower]

[Yeah, you ain't subtle. August saw that.]

Agreed. Can we stop talking about it, though? I saw it happen.

[kowase]

...Ah.

[ that, he didn't realise. He looks... somewhat remorseful. somewhat. ]

Were there other casualties.

[ gonna smoothly change the subject. ]

[drewthetower]

[It's fine, Vergil's only half on the app.]

None of ours. I think Amal got the shit kicked out of him, but that's it for the ones who went to Zodiac.

[kowase]

[ social media isn't his strong suit, even reading texts give him a headache after a while. ]

And you.

You do not seem worse for wear, but.
For all I know you have one of those regenerative abilities.

[drewthetower]

Oh, I do. Comes with the whole "being half-demon" thing, but I'm a backline fighter or healer type anyway.

[kowase]

[ he's quiet for a long moment. Playing with something on his desk, almost absent-mindedly as he thinks about that. ]

Apparently, I used to be one, as well.

[drewthetower]

[August debates saying "yeah already knew that" but decides against it for now. Vergil can call him out for it later.]

Welcome to the club, good news is we don't seem to have an allergy to holy shit and can eventually handle getting run through no problem.

[kowase]

Not quite.
While I have learned that I was a half-demon, in another life, I am afraid I have none of the abilities.

I do not have the ridiculous strength or speed that Dante does.

Nor your nonsense healing.

[ he actually does, he just isn't aware of it. ]

But I digress. It is not as if I wish to test being 'run through' anytime soon.

[ a pause ]

I stabbed Dante in my kitchen.

[drewthetower]

That'll come with--

[It takes a second but when it registers what Vergil just said August about falls out of the chair laughing.]

Why?!

[kowase]

[ DON'T LAUGH, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU. Vittore looks so VEXED. His hands coming up onto the desk, covering his face as he just.

Tries to keep himself from groaning in exasperation. ]

The idiot came up behind me when I was cooking. I had my music on quite loudly, so I did not hear him enter the room.

When the... fool hugged me from behind, I had a ... vivid memory of being attacked, and I ...

...

Ended up using one of my favorite kitchen knives to counterattack a damn memory.

[drewthetower]

Shit, I'm sorry, this is just--just stabbing Dante is fucking hilarious. You okay?

[kowase]

It isn't funny, I stabbed a man in my kitchen.

[ he's so stressed. ]

I nearly called 911 before Dante admitted what sort of ridiculous creature he--we are.

I'm fine. [ he's using contractions. ] It was just a very new experience for me.

[drewthetower]

Sorry, sorry, it's funny to me because I knew what Dante was from the get-go. [Also like. It's kinda funny.] How's the knife?