Laguna Loire, longstanding President of Esthar and vocal supporter of off-worlders, has suffered cardiac arrest, and his replacement has declared war on Balamb Garden...
As well as bringing back characters, Time Compression is affecting the environment and people around the Gardens...
Environmental changes may range from very localized weather conditions to items or locations reverting to earlier states or moving around.
Characters may also have their memories and/or abilities altered, within the limits of your character's canon (and any applicable power nerfing).
All of these changes are temporary and shouldn't last more than a few hours at most.
General
Balamb Garden is back on Balamb soil, and both Galbadia Garden and Trabia Garden are nearby. Feel free to use the other two Gardens as settings for your posts! G-Garden is deserted; T-Garden still has staff and students onboard, as well as helping out around Garden. (We have no link for T-Garden because its only appearance in canon is in pieces, but assume similar facilities to the other two Gardens.)
Following some idiot releasing all the monsters to fight Sol Invictus, Balamb Garden's training center is empty.
Any cadet or SeeD who brings at least two of a monster species back to the training center alive will be rewarded with the supplies needed to upgrade their weapon one level (but no higher than its third level).
This is an open mission intended as a prompt rather than a mission with closing signups; mods will not be NPCing monsters.
There is a plotting thread for the last two backdated weeks of injury recovery, cleanup and repair work, and the first week of term. You may also backdate posts to this period, though reclaimed characters may not post to anything dated earlier than February 1st.
School
Having handwavedly started term last week, classes are in Week 2 of the trimester. LAN 101 is studying Old Shumi (Japanese equivalent) this term. The master schedule is up for CR and plotting purposes.
With an understaffed Garden faculty struggling to keep Garden running amid administrative chaos and Time Compressed disarray, attendance-taking and disciplinary action in most classes this trimester has been unusually lax, with the exception of the more combat and medically oriented classes.
Weather
Monday: Low of 52F/11C, high of 64F/18C, cloudy
Tuesday: Low of 50F/10C, high of 64F/18C, rain
Wednesday: Low of 54F/12C, high of 66F/19C, cloudy