[NETWORK POST] Update!

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: February 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[Wherever you are, your phone will start to ring and vibrate. It doesn’t matter if your phone was off or on mute - it will ring anyway. Checking the phone, you'll see the Libra app has opened itself and will not close until you read and response to a new post from Zodiac]

Hello everyone! Happy Lunar New Year and we at Zodiac hope you've been well!

We've seen your engagement on the app this past month and we're impressed! Thanks to everyone who got involved in sorting out the situation in the Helheim gate. You all did some incredible work and we look forward to working with you in the future!

Now we understand you have a lot of questions. While there's many things we can't disclose at this time, we can clarify one thing. Everyone on this app has been flagged for abnormal spirit energy readings. We're still looking into what it means and the potential effects of it. All we really know right now is they're similar to the energy readings coming from our otherworldly guests.

We'll try to keep you updated as we learn more! In the meantime, let's end on anothe question to lighten the mood!


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[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics 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 last time, there'll be no responses from Zodiac]

Comments

un: riftdancer

[thavnairian]

wow, they really just dumped that on everyone and fled, huh?

maybe my ideal date is magically finding a way home so i can fulfill a promise i made. now what

UN: ZW🌹

[wilder]

Sounds like a lame date.

Anyway, is there really a talking horse here?

un: riftdancer

[thavnairian]

please, i was just trying to needle them a little.

my ideal date is a little too much for the people here, and we have children on the network now, so...

[It's totally not. He's just bluffing.]

yep, there's a talking horse. i'm actually kind of surprised i haven't met one of those at home yet, but i know a bunch of other talking animals. cats, dogs, turtles, ferrets, raccoons, a couple birds, you name it.

[wilder]

Eh, it's fine. If what Mirabel said mean anything, the kids can't see the more "adult" stuff.

[Thank god]

Huh! Can't say I've met any talking horses either, but some people I knew met a unicorn before. So why not?

[thavnairian]

that's the best news i've heard since a friend told me they served curry here

wow, someone you know met a unicorn? those are super rare!!! last i heard they were all gone, but i wouldn't be surprised if they were all in hiding

[wilder]

You really like curry huh.

Yeah, they did. They even had a horn to prove it. They said that the unicorn gave it to them willingly to help heal someone, but....

[Well on one hand, the group seemed mostly good people who wouldn't lie. On the other hand, it was the group that killed him so]

Well, not like I can do anything to verify that claim, so let's just take it at their word!

[thavnairian]

the food in eorzea is so bland, zelos. these people have half the world to themselves and they never heard of a goddamn chili pepper. so yes i was very excited to see that foods can travel worlds too! i have been suffering for so long................

sometimes the truth is stranger, and all of that. so it seems plausible enough to me. do you think Horse would know any unicorns? i should ask

[wilder]

A whole half-world and no spice? Man that DOES sound boring. What do they eat all day? Just plain white rice?

I dunno, maybe. She's a talking horse, so she probably knows some magical creatures.

[thavnairian]

boiled potatoes... rosemary... maybe salt. that's good once in a while but it's not bursting with flavor like the food i grew up with

i think i will, then. hopefully she doesn't think it's too rude of an assumption

[wilder]

Ugh! Talk about blaaaaaand! No wonder you didn't like it.

Eh, I'm sure it will be fine! [Says the guy who thought it was a good idea to explain furries to the horse]

un: rschwarzer

[motiv8]

That's actually a pretty sweet thought, I think. I hope you can find a way home and keep that promise soon.

And... yeah, looks like they really just did that. It was absolutely useless, Zodiac, thanks.

[thavnairian]

thanks, i hope so too. he was really looking forward to a new adventure after everything he's been through, and i can't blame him. he's seeing the world with new eyes, of course he wants to go out and travel to places he's never been.

the alternative is that i simply wait here until he tears open the rift between space and time again to summon me back, but i'm not really the wait around and see type.

it was almost kind of insulting to you guys. they practically said "you're just as freaky as the people from other worlds teehee" and ran off!

[motiv8]

Ah... yeah, even without knowing all the details, I can make sense of that. I'd want to do something exciting, too, if I had a new lease on life.

...And, uh, yeah. With everything already so weird, I think it's probably for the best for everyone that he not do that again. I shudder to think of what might become of all of us if that happened.

As far as Zodiac goes... I mean, sure, I can see how you'd see it that way. But you can also look at it like "hey, there's something magical and mysterious about you!" I think that's way cooler sounding, haha.

[thavnairian]

if he did anything to hurt someone by accident i think he might guilt himself out of existence, so yeah, i think it's best if he doesn't do that. as much as i want to see him and everything.

hm... you do have a point. bet you could swing that into something to get a date if you wanted

[motiv8]

Haha... maybe, with the date thing?

I'm not really looking for anything like that right now, though. Even if I were, though, I think it's probably better if someone like you uses that kind of line. No way I have the charisma to pull it off.

un: noxxed

[sassery]

It's one of the weirdest things I've read lately, and that's saying a lot.

[Considering, you know, he works with TEENS.]

Not even the kids do something this elaborate.

[thavnairian]

congratulations, they just called you as weird as i am

any weird things happening to you lately? hair color changes, random items showing up in your house, that sort of thing?

[sassery]

Oh wow, so should I consider that a compliment?

[HE'S KIDDING.]

Not that I know of? Nothing weird in my apartment, and no hair color change or whatever. [Yet.] I'm pretty sure I'd notice it by now.

[If he only knew..........]

[thavnairian]

maybe, or you could take it as the ultimate insult and use it to fuel your revenge

that's... good, i think? there's been a few people waking up with a different hair color than the one they went to sleep with. and while i don't think that's too big of a deal personally, i doubt it'll stop there.

last night as i was closing up i found my old sword and shield in the back room at my new job. i didn't know that stuff from home could follow me here, either that or someone was having a lot of fun with... chivalry

[sassery]

Revenge for what, exactly? I'm not in a movie trying to go after a six-fingered villain, here.

I mean, I'll be on the lookout, but so far so good? I guess? No idea what it means.

...A sword and shield.

Amal, you pick locks when you forget keys, how the heck did you manage to hold a SWORD and a SHIELD?????

[thavnairian]

your wounded pride? scratch that. you're too nice to be painting "ZODIAC SUCKS" on the side of their building

i'm not sure either. maybe this place has been magical and weird the whole time and no one was aware of it until people like me started moving in.

[a pause]

look, a sword is just a big knife! i'm good with knives!

[sassery]

Do you WANT me to set a bad example for the kids? 😩

That makes no sense though, why have everything suddenly happen now if it's always been like this?

["A sword is just a big knife!" Nox will remember that.]

I don't know anything about swords, but I'm pretty sure they're nothing like a big knife.

[thavnairian]

nope! that's my job

i don't know. we obviously don't have the whole picture, but you have to admit you didn't notice i had big pointy ears when we first met. practically no one did unless they were in my situation so i just pretended i was from out of town

[It's not... entirely untrue, he's just from really far!]

i was actually getting training from a friend of mine who uses a gunblade. too bad i couldn't get his sword instead

[sassery]

Remind me to make sure the kids don't pick up habits from your home.

...Yeah, true. There's a lot we don't know, and it's just pretty much a big question mark at this point.

A gunwhat? Is that literally what that sounds like??????

[thavnairian]

my town is fine, it's just me that's the problem~

hope we find out something more soon

it is exactly what it sounds like. a big sword with a gun on it that shoots magic bullets. mostly shields, some healing, uh... big explosions too.