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FEBRUARY EVENT LOG

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FOUNDER'S DAY
It's finally here. This is the day the city has been waiting for. It's a day like no other when every resident of Recollé can be found buzzing with energy and excitement. Shops open early. The Recollé High School and University marching bands begin to play, and over in Tribunal Terrace Mayor Mayer strides up to the microphone atop his beloved giant chicken, Seabiscuit.

--wait, giant chicken? You're sure the Mayor has something important to say, but all you can do is focus on the fact that Seabiscuit didn't have bright red feathers the day before. The rest of the Mayor's speech may not get through to you, but it's his last sentence that makes everything official.

"Welcome to Founder's Day! Let's do our part and celebrate the city that we love."

I.
All of the hard work from the days prior has paid off. The weather is slightly brisk with no chance of snowfall until well into the evening and businesses are booming. Shopkeepers and employees working today will have their hands full taking orders from customers and keeping up with demands. Maybe that 50% off deal on wool-knit scarves wasn't such a great idea. On the other hand, residents that aren't working today will find the streets pleasantly busy. Chata has plenty of sidewalk sales to peruse. Music and the scent of cinnamon-sweet coffee will surely lure some people to the businesses in Tisse. School is closed for the day but an open campus tour runs a few times a day at the university, and the Founder's Day play is performed once in the morning and once in the evening at the Atrium.

Are you enjoying a day with your friends? Or are you stuck behind a register wishing you were? Wherever you may be, the spirit of Founder's Day is all around you.

II.
At noon sharp, the bands strikes up again as crowds gather around Tribunal Terrace. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the main attraction! That's right, it's time for the annual Founder's Day Parade featuring the city's newly elected royalty: King Kurt Wagner, Queen Maya Aimoto, Prince Ryoji Mochizuki, Princess Rose Strider, Duke Viktor Nikiforov, and Duchess Arlene Sinclair. The marching bands play with gusto as they stride through the streets, the Recollé High and Recollé University cheerleaders right behind them. Beautiful floats follow in their wake, all decorated with flowers and depicting the historical events of the city. One thing that's different this year, however, is the addition of beads from the King and Queen's float at the end of the parade. The Recollé Royalty's float-helpers sit on the edge of the float tossing colored strands of beads and candy to the audience below. Most residents may not notice, but the beads seem to be shaped like a new logo some residents are quickly becoming familiar with.

Residents will find that wearing the beads will produce some interesting results though. Are you on a romantic date? Your beads might slowly turn red with passion. Are you nervous about one of those floats suddenly veering off and rolling down the hill? Your beads might turn pitch black. No matter what district you're in after the parade these beads will respond to your current mood, and even if you take them off they seem to mysteriously turn back up in your pocket. If you take them off and try to get rid of them often enough, they might just appear around your neck, and you won't be able to remove them for the rest of the day. Then again, this doesn't seem to be a rule so much as a pattern. Perhaps you'll be lucky enough to ditch the beads to your pocket instead of having them prominently displayed no matter how many times you do away with them. Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve. What's up with that?

The beads may not be everyone's first priority. After all, once the parade's said and done someone has to be on clean-up duty. Will you volunteer?

III.
Later, back at Tribunal Terrace, residents who passed by a large metal truck earlier in the week will quickly see what all of the fuss was about as Mayor Mayer walks Seabiscuit down the street, monitoring over a small, gated pen for Chocobo-back rides. You know the Mayor used to own a horse. Seabiscuit has always been a beautiful Palamino with a shimmering coat. Asking most of the other residents, however, will earn you a concerned look. Recollé has always been home to Chocobos. What's a horse?

Nearby there's a petting zoo that has been set up by the same company. Thankfully, those animals look familiar. Goats, sheep, bunnies and other small animals reside in the petting zoo. Are you the type to feed them? Or are you stuck on pooper-scooper duty? Gross.

The Chocobos themselves seem friendly enough, though the little ones are prone to nipping at hair and fingers. Are you brave enough to get closer to take a better look at these mysterious creatures? Do try to be careful...especially since some of them are prone to running away and relocating themselves in other parts of the city. Seems like even the Chocobos want the Founder's Day special from Expressive.

IV.
Mayor Mayer, as good and true as he is, isn't one of the most careful people in the city of Recollé. It would make sense to keep Seabiscuit away from the city's pride and joy, the world's largest ball of red string. If you've been in Recollé for any length of time, you'll immediately recognize the ball. Large enough to see from any district, the ball has been wound and displayed near City Hall for years.

Too bad Seabiscuit isn't one for tradition and this creature does startle easily. It's hard to say what caused the poor thing to become so scared that it kicked the ball right off of its pedestal, but once it starts rolling there's no stopping it. The red ball of string picks up pace, rolling down the streets and unraveling to tangle up anyone in its path.

The string winds its way around the city and all districts, seemingly pulling people in and tying them up with at least one other person. It seems that the only way to undo this mayhem is to find your other half and work together to unravel yourselves.

BONUS.
You don't remember that building in Tisse being there. Was it there before? Perhaps it was empty in the days prior to Founder's Day, but today a small neon sign illuminates the front of the building with the name of its current business.

Retrospec. Huh. Isn't that the name of that app that installed itself on your mobile device? As you've noticed by now, all aspects of the app are available to use. But there's still something ominous about that building. If you're brave enough to go inside, you'll find…

…nothing. The building appears to be empty save for a few chairs in a waiting room-type area and a large fake potted plant in the corner. There appears to be several doors and even an elevator, but it seems no matter how hard you try you can't access any of those. What a waste of time. (And why isn't there a staircase?) There's really no point in staying here when the festival's outside waiting for you. When you try to open the front door to exit though it appears to have locked behind you. Are you alone? Hopefully you aren't alone, that would be quite dreadful.

Of course, you can try a few things to break out. You can try ramming down the door for example. That won't work, but you may certainly try. Though the city is full of creative people with undoubtedly interesting methods of breaking free, residents locked inside Retrospec will find that the only way to open the door is by using the Retrospec app to post a status update, comment to someone else's status, or post a picture from their Founder's Day adventures. Is there a right or wrong way to do this? That's for you to find out. Time to get creative and maybe make a few new friends!

Welcome to

recolle's February event! As a reminder, all characters will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. As with our TDM, you may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available and be as creative as you'd like.

As a note, the effects from the beads in the second prompt can last throughout the month if you would like, but will fade as soon as February is over. Additionally, you may post Retrospec updates in your top-levels on this log for the bonus prompt if you wish to keep everything in one place.

As another note, by participating in this log in a thread with five or more comments from you, you are eligible for one free memory regain! This means you can claim a memory without a trigger required. Please see our monthly plotting post for more details.

Any questions you have regarding this event may be directed to the mod comment here.

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I don't know. It looks like that's what it is, but maybe they just haven't moved in yet? Besides, it's Founder's Day, so it's not really a workday.

[ He'd be more frustrated if Yuuri wasn't here, truth be told. ]

So you're saying we should drop by again some other time?

We don't have a choice, do we? There's no one here.

Not really.

[ His aura of frustration gets stronger, despite him doing his best to keep it down. It should be normal for this place to be closed on a holiday, as Viktor pointed out, but Yuuri is already too paranoid and wary about this whole business to not take it as something else. ]

Let's go, then. If anything, I guess this shows whoever is behind the app doesn't plan on hiding themselves.

[ Well, he's not sure that's what it means, at all! But he's not going to say it if Yuuri's aura is as described... and we believe in small font. So, no. Let's just calmly make our way back to the door and change the subject. ]

What should we do after this?

Edited 2017-02-07 07:26 (UTC)

I'm not sure... I didn't really have anything planned.

[ And that's when Yuuri pushes the door and... it doesn't budge. Frowns and tries again, with more force, but it doesn't work.

The other one??

Nope. ]

Um.

. . . Did they get stuck?

[ That's some bad timing. ]

I think so?

[ I hope so. I hope they're just stuck and not actively locking us in. ]

[ He takes a step forward, allow him to check. Yuuri should be able to check too, after months of training, but this isn't really the time for him to be playing teacher... ]

Hmm.

[ He doesn't mean to be ominous, but it totally sounds that way. ]

Edited 2017-02-07 08:15 (UTC)

[ He's not going to point out how ominous that sounds, not when they're both fully aware of what's going on right now. ]

It's locked.

It is.

[ What a good day for him not to carry anything he can lockpick with... He turns around, quickly scanning for cameras. Maybe not carrying anything like that wasn't such a bad thing after all. ]

Ah, we're being watched too.

[ He waves at the camera. Hello! ]

[ Straightens up at that last remark, turning around to face one of the cameras as well. ]

Hah...

[ He grimaces, quickly changing his expression into a less strained smile. ]

The people here are so rude, the least they could do is come down and help us get out.

Right? But it wouldn't surprise me if they chose to ignore us, even if they're watching.

[ Either way, he's not giving a potential voyeur the satisfaction of seeing him lose his composure. He turns to look at Yuuri. ]

Want to sit and regroup? [ There has to be a decently secluded corner here somewhere... He just hasn't found it yet. ]

[ His eyes scan the room, also looking for some kind of blind spot, but it doesn't seem like they'll have much luck.

Well... they can at least hope there's no audio in whatever footage the cameras are capturing. ]

Sure... I don't really feel like trying to break a door or a window right now.

[ OK, he's just going to casually tap the glass doors at that. ]

Good, because that might be a little hard to do.

[ You don't mind his arm around your shoulders, do you, Yuuri? Let's get away from the doors since it's pointless to be standing anyway. ]

Edited 2017-02-13 06:37 (UTC)

[ He's pretty used to this kind of treatment from Viktor so no, of course he doesn't mind or think anything about it. ]

Maybe someone else will come in and we can run for the door then.

[ You say that as if you don't like it! :( ]

Exactly. Or maybe we can annoy them some other way and have them unlock it, since they must have locked it remotely.

I don't mind being trapped in here with you, of course, but I was looking forward to the celebrations. I wanted to go drinking later, too... Ah, what a mess.

[ He just knows better than to get the wrong impression, geez. ]

Do you think they trapped us here specifically? Or could it be just an automatic thing?

[ but ]

I'm not sure. [ He leads Yuuri where the chairs are, then lets go of him to sit on one, legs crossed. ] I wonder if it has something to do with the app itself. Maybe that's how it's triggered.

[ He takes his phone out to check. ]

The app?

[ Under normal circumstances Yuuri would think that's a ridiculous idea, but after everything that's happened during the past few days...

He sits across him, also pulling out his phone. ]

[ All of this is ridiculous, suspension of disbelief is a must here. Here comes more flawed logic, and he's aware of it. The worst part is that it's not easy to disprove. ]

Yeah. It works even without an internet connection and installs itself, so why wouldn't they be able to use the app itself for things other than giving us access to social media? It could let them know when we walk in here, for example. It probably gives them access to our location. And this is the Retrospec building, so...

[ Viktor hasn't even finished speaking but Yuuri is already turning off his phone, please don't mind him. He'd assumed the app was unsafe the moment it installed itself on his phone and somehow knew his full name but what if it had been stealing more information on his everyday life all this while? ]

. . .

[ He catches on to that quickly. ]

Yuuri, you can't be considering becoming a monk in the woods...

Of course not.

I'm not moving to the woods.

[ OK, OK. He's not going to argue this time. He motions at him to come closer instead, looking at his phone again. They can just use his. ]

There's a lot here about horses... You remember them too, right?

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