UN: Zodiac | Midmonth Post

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: March 14th
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[We've reached the second half of March. While the wind gusts are still blustering, the weather has now finally warmed up where once could safely describe it as spring. In fact, some green is even starting to sprout in areas. Long gone is the snow and ice, even if the nights are still chilly. And even better, the black hole on the edge of town has cleared up! Great!

Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their messsage and comment to it.]



Fidelio, Basilio, Mollymauk, Luke, Hunter, Asch, Viktor, and MaoMao have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Ardyn has left the app.

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello. Thank you for using the Libra App.

Why are there so many newbies this time? This gives me a bad feeling about the amount of overtime I'm going to need to do. Great.

Anyway, thanks for dealing with the Black Hole at the edge of town. Those weird gates are still around and the seers are getting increasingly frantic about the Fae coming- but at least ONE fire is out.

Speaking of the weird gates - we got information on those. Apparently the monsters in those are called Greed and they usually show up in places with a lot of bad stuff happens, but I guess the city and everyone's problems in this city has made that qualifier less important. Anyway, they like to show up when they sense a lot of strong negative emotions, so if you're going to break up with someone don't do it outside the barrier this month. I mean, unless you WANT them to get eaten by Greed...

EDIT: Because Janet can't identify a joke she's making me revise this- for legal reasons, Zodiac is not advising you have Greed eat your exes. Or coworkers. Happy?

But if you don't mind fighting monster and want to earn some quick cash, Zodiac will be happy to pay for any useful resources you find in the realm. Especially eggs, we'll pay top dollar for any eggs provided it won't hatch into a demon spawn. Not planning anything sinister, unless you count deviled eggs as such.

Bye.

[This is in fact the first time anyone has even heard that Jarry has someone in his life, including the Zodiac workers]


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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!

The mid-month event log will be posted tomorrow! ]

Comments

voice; un: captainkenway

[jackdawvision]

Huh, there's a lot more of you lot than usual. Welcome to the app, it's, uh. Relatively peaceful right now, really.

[A pause.]

Though that's not going to last long, considering we'll be dealing with the Fair Folk. Again. I wonder what insurmountably petty problems they wish us to solve for them this time.

un: silverrose

[fionnuisce]

Fucking fae are like clockwork by now. One of these day I'll figure out how to negotiate 'leave us the hell alone I'm royalty by marriage'.

voice | UN: FlameLord420

[replicannot]

I dunno if I’d call it peaceful.

This app showed up on my phone a week ago and I’ve already found two secret families.

UN: hikari-vi | Text

[whiteshroud]

[...]

Why did they post the redhead twice?

[Nevermind he knows Luke's name. Why are there two. Why are there two.]

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

I need to tell you about this magical thing.

It's this magical thing where sometimes, two people are born at the same time from the same parents through a weird quirk of biology. Sometimes, these people look identical.

We call these magical beings... twins.

...I mean, that or one of them is a changeling. It IS fae month.

voice; X_GoldenSword_X

[orchidingold]

First a therapy train, now monsters attracted by negative emotions? Just how bad do you guys have it usually if this keeps happening?

voice | un: paintedfox

[stripartist]

Rude. Have you considered perhaps not being so callous here?

[He's seen this kid's sass on the network and Yusuke is cranky.]

voice, un: the dancer

[dancedwithplenty]

Well, it's not bad aaaaaall the time...

But we did have shadow monsters attack the city last year. Twice!

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

Janet could just be bitter that she has more exes than a cross stitch pattern, for all we know.

On a more important note, I believe I have settled on a suitable design for an elevator into the University. I will need to coordinate tasks and scheduling with those of you willing to help with assembly both of materials and the structure itself.

Also, hello. My name is Viktor, and I originally come from a world called Runeterra. Apparently the fact that I am here and very aware of the supernatural has been some world-shattering paradigm shift.

text | un: chaosraccoon

[actnormal]

WE DIDN'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW .･ﾟﾟ･(／ω＼)･ﾟﾟ･. .･ﾟﾟ･(／ω＼)･ﾟﾟ･.

voice; un: ragna

[centralfiction]

[well would you look at who's up and awake again?]

Still fucking alive, by the way. Don't blame me for the fire, I didn't ask for my right arm to be a nuke. [He can still be grumpy too, good for him?]

voice | un: silhouetto

[threebetrayals]

What Tsuki means is thank you, everyone, for coming to help him.

[He is pinching his cousin off screen yep]

1/2

[life_ethereal]

[Harumasa has been having a nice time. Mostly. He's had to have some heavy conversations, a highly stressful mission to rescue Ragna and the fallout from that, and finally Luke, but he also has the rest of the month off from work! And he went to Europe for a little bit!

But then he has to look at the new post from Zodiac.

He stares at it for a moment. So many pieces fall into place that he's in complete shock for a moment.]

2/2 Text | UN: HelplesslyWeak

[life_ethereal]

HE HAS A TWIN BROTHER?!?!

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

Ugh. What do you MEAN Hunter's back? When did that happen?

text; un: BirdspottingFan1

[clonizo]

RUde.?

I. Have no idea., who you ARe but for your information,, I Just moved here.

- Hunter.

[Yes, this took him at least ten minutes to type.]

text | UN: Thorn

[poisontippedcure]

The therapy train already took me for my birthday and Valentine’s Day.

If the Fae try to take me for March, we’re going to have words.

video: un: bar_cat75

[wiseoldbartender]

[Husk is banging his hand on the table, pointing at the screen! ]

See?!!! I fuckin' told you. FUCKIN' EGGS!!!! I keep telling you what I see and you bastards think I'm talking bullshit, but there's the eggs!!!!

action because she's sitting right there

[crisantemo]

[ Lapis, meanwhile, just in the frame of the video is just planting her head on said table. ]

Okay. Okay. You were right, Dad. That still doesn't explain the string thing you saw before, we still have no idea what that was about. [ None of them are possessed by greek gods, so they will live in ignorance. ]

At least it's not chocolate eggs this time...

video: un: hotgoss

[bebest]

[The video opens to screaming. High pitched screaming. Somewhere, a glass breaks. There's some fumbling with the screen before a moogle with what looks like zebra stripes appears on the screen. You may have never seen a moogle look angry before, but this one is absolutely livid! ]

OH MY GOOSE LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO ME!!

[Oh hey, the moogle sounds like Zulius. He waves a little moogle hand in the air. ]

OKAY, okay OHkay!!! So I'm like, just wORKing in my theatre, YOU KNOW, my lifeblood my baby, beating heart of the city! And then these FAE come in? And they're watching the show and I'm like, y'know what fine! Even the worst people can like, enjoy the arts! BUT THEN! BUT THEN, they start asking WEIRD questions and taking notes? And they're asking how I run a theatre and how they can IMPROVE it???? Which like? LOL??? NO??? I've been doing this, like my whole life, get outta here!!!! So I told them, that- P-O-L-I-T-E-L-Y and then- then-

[He takes a few dramatic breaths.]

Then they go super pissy and then they TURNED ME INTO THIS!!! - AKA the WORST thing in the WHOLE universe. I'm dying. I am LITerally dying!!! This is the worst thing to happen to me in FORever!!! Why, why out EVERYTHING they turned me into a FLUNKING MOOGLE????!!

video

[prunedworlds]

Ritsuka was used to a lot of weirdness. Even before she wound up here in Kaisou. But even then, there were still certain constants that she just started to take for granted, like a zebrataur being, well, a zebrataur.

"Z-Zulius???"

video; un: photocutie

[trailblazingspirit]

Hey, guys? Why's there the same redhead twice? I think somebody must've made a mistake in the post.

voice | private | un: kissmyash

[switchaxe]

Twins, Pinkie. They're twins.

[And he sounds so tired.]

text | un: anarchy

[nefilim]

[ After reading through the post and the twin freakouts and honestly after the whole mess this month has been, Ana has only one thing to say; ]

you know what

i think i'm gonna just be a hermit for the rest of the month

text: un:kore

[aslowburn]

You are?

[ :) ]

Truly, such a shame to hear. I was going to ask if you wished to spend some time in my new realm. However, if you wish to be alone...

[:) :) ]

text; un: Felix Kinsley

[fidelkitty]

Alright, so first offs, its a damn breach of privacy to announce me on an app I've been actively *ignorin'* for weeks now.
Second off, makin' it howl at me like a damn banshee until I respond should also be an illegal term of service.

We didn't want the bloody thing in the first place. Spyin' on us, it is. Using my dead name, too? Shameful, it is.
Eunice warned us this place was a bloody nightmare when it wanted to be, but she didn't warn us about this. I'm gonna blow her damn texts up.

voice | un: kissmyash

[switchaxe]

Oh, you two know Eunie, unless there's another Eunice formerly-Kinsley in the world.

[Said like that explains everything. And to Ash, it kinda does.]

Press the little microphone for voice messages, and the little pencil lookin' thing next to your names to change 'em. Name's Ash, Eunie's brother-by-adoption.

text; un: Basil Kinsley

[basilmiao]

Well! Bit rude putting a fella's particulars out there all without permission and what have you.

[ he's acting calmer about this than he's feeling. Fidelio is attempting to climb a wall for them both. ]

Poor Del's gonna peel the paint off the ceiling if things keep up at this rate, and that's more of a feat than you realize given he's knee high.

text: un: Del

[fidelkitty]

Keep that kind'a talk up and you'll be that high when I rid you of a few inches of leg from the knee down.

voice, un: mallemok

[mauks]

Oh, would you look at that? They have a little announcement and everything, is that cute. I had no idea that there were so many other new arrivals aside myself.

[ and the cat boys, but he isn't gonna put them on blast like Zodiac did. ]

voice | UN: Thorn

[poisontippedcure]

If it helps, usually there aren’t this many.

And it is cute, but be careful. This city can be rather dangerous, regardless of how mundane the questions seem.

text; un: kni

[ornamentals]

How much is "Top Dollar"?

[attached is a picture of a small pile of solar eggs resting inside a basket. how did he get these...?]

I could find more, depending on how much they're worth.

text | UN: Thorn

[poisontippedcure]

Kni, if you go into those realms, be careful, okay?

And if you get hurt, come find me.

voice; un: BirdspottingFan1

[clonizo]

Hello? Does that little light mean its-- Ah- hello!

[At the very least, the app users get to avoid Hunter's abysmal typing skills.]

Don't worry, Libra App Users-- because of my arrival here, you can rest assured that all the happenings in and around the gates will be taken care of in the most proper and professional manner.

If you just - you know - avoid the outskirts of the city, things should be fine. If you don't, well. You've been warned multiple times now, so either get really okay with being eaten by whatever monsters pop out or prepare to get a citation.

Someone should really be writing citations.

UN: Shroud | Voice

[whiteshroud]

[....Oh yeah, he forgot Hunter was a total narc. He didn't mind much back when he was a teenager but now here is a version of him, telling him not to fight Greed of all creatures...]

Good luck stopping me.

text; un: Phaethon

[greatlydares]

If you're planning to visit one of the more dangerous gates to gather items, I can guide you around them. All I ask for is a 10% cut of the resulting profit from selling those items, and a fee up-front to be discussed.

I've also already made maps for some of the gates. One is complete, thanks Kinich, but the rest are works in progress.

text; un: captamerica

[mstitel]

I can help map things out with you, if you’re looking for help. 10% won’t be a problem for me.

[James, after all, is more curious than he is greedy. He’ll collect what’s pointed out, but he doesn’t really have much use for the materials or the money, himself!]

voice | un: Firelight

[depressionrug]

There... are a lot of words here that I don't understand, and part of me is too afraid to find out. Was it a black hole because that's what it looked like, or because it was like the space object? I also don't think the gate mentioned here is like the 'gate' I am thinking of.

And then I have other questions? What is considered a negative emotion? What about a feeling that doesn't count as either? Although, I guess having a preference is why it's a greed and not gluttony.

[ The questions continue, even as they trail off into silence for a moment, as if he walked away from the phone and then wandered back. ]

-- I do agree that feeding your ex to a monster is a terrible thing to do, but dead exes happen all the time.

un: midnightfishing

[illucesco]

It just looked like a black hole, it wasn't actually the space object. We'd have been in...a lot more trouble, if that was the case. [Insert flashbacks to the Event Horizon here. God.]