UN: Zodiac | Midmonth Post

[kaisoumods]

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

[We've reached the middle of June. Barbieland is still around, as characters continue to help them through their existential crisis. Not only that, but Pride is still going strong. The post begins like the previous one had, with notifications of peoples coming and goings]



Noah, Ratio, and March has joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Lucy and Xiao have left the app.

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello. Thank you for using the Libra App.

It's Friday and pride month, so I'm going to keep this short because it's homophobic to make me work overtime on a nice day.

Thanks for helping out the Barbies, you're saving me a headache. Also the Black Order has been quiet. Like the kind of quiet that parents talk about being concerning. Not that I have kids.

Also I think some of my coworkers are letting overtime get to them. Keep mentioning new memories. Sounds like to me they really need to actually take PTO.

Which is exactly what I plan to do. Right now. Bye.




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[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. And as always, feel free to keep backtagging the event logs! ]

Comments

text: un: TheDuke

[loupmorque]

Remember: it's unhealthy to work more than 35 hours without taking some time off.
The fact that 40 hours a week in this country is 'full time' is crazy to me, but what do I know.

In my Fortress, you worked 3 days at most, before being required a day off, or you got hounded by my head nurse, haha...

Always take your paid time off. Never take extra work without adjustments to your schedule or pay. Don't take on extra responsibility unless you're offered equal compensation.

...

I'm bored. I miss my office.

text | un: chaosraccoon

[actnormal]

If you start a company or something can I come work for you

[loupmorque]

My fortress was used as a jail, and I was its Warden. But we did have people down there both for work inside the factory in the basement, as well as guards. I... doubt I'll have another to watch over, here, but.

To kill this boredom I might just have to figure out something to do one day--which will require employees.
If that happens, you can definitely come work for me.

[actnormal]

╰(*°▽°*)╯╰(*°▽°*)╯╰(*°▽°*)╯

Sounds WAY better than gig work or other work here!

[loupmorque]

I totally get it. I've thought about getting a job here myself, but. While the App users here offer pretty nice jobs, none of them play to what few skills I have.

And then getting a job in the city sounds ... awful.
It feels bad to leech off my roommate, but he assures me he'd rather me not work than to work something unpleasant.

text | un: laluna

[crisantemo]

okay but some of the stuff from poundland is really weird

like

why does it have eyes

UN: hikari-vi | Text

[whiteshroud]

...

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about my stolen childhood.

[JUN]

[crisantemo]

[ JUN ]

at least you managed to avoid weird bubble machine cars with googly eyes

and whatever this is

un: silverrose

[fionnuisce]

i assure you

we don't know either

text; un: photocutie

[trailblazingspirit]

Hi everyone!

Hah, now that’s out of the way, I got this nice new camera from the Goodwill, but I think it might be broken? When I took a picture with it, it didn’t show the statue I was posing in front of.

[Attached is a scan of a Polaroid picture of March looking cute at the camera. It would be unremarkable if the background wasn’t that of the giant Clockie statue in Penacony.]

This was supposed to be the harbor statue. Maybe this camera’s possessed?

[whiteshroud]

Why does it have human teeth?

text: un: thedancer

[dancedwithplenty]

Hello to you too :)

Oooooh spooky

That's how it goes with Goodwill, I guess. Either you get a steal or something possessed by the ghosts of cartoons past.

I like ur hair tho! What color do you use?

text; un: ginkgo

[lapislazily]

Watching one's children leave the nest is... bittersweet. Though my son hasn't gone far, he has forgotten much of what has transpired in the past year.

[But at least he might be safer this way. This time, Zhongli can watch over him.]

I would like to thank everyone who showed Xiao kindness while he was on the app.

[actnormal]

Yeah regular work sucks .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. It's why I've stuck to gig work pretty much since I graduated high school.

Which also sucks, but at least I get some freedom in my hours. Sort of.

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[prunedworlds]

I dunno about possessed but it could be some kinda magic yeah.

Try taking some other pictures with it and see what happens I guess?

[trailblazingspirit]

It's magic? Wow, this camera's such a steal, then!

[A minute or so later, other pictures have now been attached. The ones without March are all of Kaisou landmarks, but the ones with March in them show other locations: the Everwinter Monument, the tree in the Xianzhou Luofu's Medicine Bureau, the reception desk of the Reverie Hotel.]

It's weird magic. It only works if I'm in the picture, otherwise it shows what was in front of me at the time.

[trailblazingspirit]

It wouldn't be the first time my camera's been possessed by something that makes the pictures turn out all weird. It's okay, though, I think it's a steal.

I don't use any color! This is my hair. It's just naturally this cute.

text | un: laluna

[crisantemo]

and i'm glad i was able to get to know xiao

[ Lapis pauses, considering for a moment before asking; ]

will you be alright?

[prunedworlds]

What happens if you take a picture of someone else? Or is it just you?

[lapislazily]

He was quite enamored with your cooking. I had trouble finding something he truly enjoyed that was not dessert, but he never minded when it was yours.

[Aww...]

There is no need to worry. He may have forgotten the app, but I am still in his life. [Thank you, photo that they had taken fucking ages ago.] I can reintroduce you sometime, though more than likely you'll find him on the roof, as is his habit.

[crisantemo]

so it's just

always been like this?

[crisantemo]

i don't know

for easier

pulling

i guess????

that still sounds terrible

[fionnuisce]

spawned out of a strange circle of hell sometime in the early '90s and it's never been normal.

[crisantemo]

im glad he enjoyed my cooking so much. it took some practice but im proud that i was eventually able to make his favourites too

[ And okay phew she was worried about that! ]

thats good!! and i would really like that, if you don't mind, but you're right i could probably find him on the roofs a bit more easily \(￣︶￣*\))

but im glad you're still in his life, i was a little worried

[whiteshroud]

[.....]

Mm, yep. I got nothing. Children's toys are beyond me if this is what they're into.

[trailblazingspirit]

Hmm, I haven't tried taking it with anybody else yet! I'll ask my friend.

[dancedwithplenty]

Oof, that's some kinda luck

But if it still takes decent selfies, you're prob right! So long as the clock cartoon sticks to the camera instead of haunting ya, that's a built in filter for free

No way, really??? Are you part fae or something?

[prunedworlds]

Yeah, maybe it'll be different! Only way to find out is to try it, right?

[trailblazingspirit]

[A few minutes later:]

I took some pictures of him and the same thing happened to them! So I think it works on any isekai or any reincarnates. I took a picture of someone who passed me by and nothing happened.

[trailblazingspirit]

It actually used to haunt my friend, but I don't know if it still does. [Did Clockie haunt Caelus back in the Dreamscape? Honestly, March isn't sure, she never saw a cartoon clock hanging around him before.]

Nope! At least as far as I know. I don't remember anything about my past, so I could be part-fae for all I know. But I'm definitely stealing that for a new backstory now.

[prunedworlds]

So it really is some kind of magic camera!

[dancedwithplenty]

Whoooa, maybe someone trapped it in the camera instead! Best be careful with that!

...Or you could show your friend, maybe they'll recognize it. [Dani's hardly one to dissuade a bad idea.]

Go ahead! My ramblings come ݁₊⊹.✧ free of charge ✧˖݁⊹₊

I'm soooo jelly tho, it's hard to get that soft pink color

text; un: rosafloribunda

[roseandsilver]

[Is that...? He thinks he'd know that pink hair pretty well, even in this lifetime.]

Lady March, is that you?

[Argenti would ask more but March wasn't someone he was expecting!!]

[trailblazingspirit]

Argenti?? Hi! I didn’t know you were here too. Did you reincarnate like Caleb and Dan Heng or did you come here from our universe like me and Kafka?

[Jeez, there’s a lot of them.]

I’m staying at Caleb’s btw.

[trailblazingspirit]

Yeah! The guy at Goodwill didn’t say it was magic, he just said “it is written in the stars that this is yours” and now I have a magic camera.

It was a little weird but it’s a free camera.

[prunedworlds]

Well now that you know it's magic you can make better use of it right?

[trailblazingspirit]

Oh no, do you think my camera’s going to have Clockie hidden in every photo now? I like Clockie but not that much!

I will.

Aww, I’m sorry, I wish I could give you tips how to get this color! But I woke up with this hair color and as far as I can tell it’s just been like that. I guess you could experiment with mixing hair dyes together? Maybe?

[dancedwithplenty]

There's only one way to find out. :3c

Nw, that's pretty cool you got bubblegum hair naturally! I've done some experimental hair dying b4, but with much different results. Maybe I'll try for pink next time I give it a whirl.

[trailblazingspirit]

Oh, I will!! I'm already thinking up some ideas.

Do you want to take a picture with me? I wanna see what happens if two people from different worlds are in the same picture.

[trailblazingspirit]

You're right, I have to take more pictures with this camera.

I like my hair right now, but if I ever decide I wanna get it dyed or maybe even streaked, can I call you so we can figure out the best color?

[prunedworlds]

oh that's a great idea, sure!!

[dancedwithplenty]

That's right! You could make it a photoshoot!

Or, idk, I guess you could pick some tests to try all science-like, but where's the fun in that?

Of course! I'd find a you GREAT complementing shade, don't worry. I have loads of experience! Man, I miss fun colors

[Her sitting in bleach blonde jail rn, thanks to the woes of capitalism]