OKCINDR POST #2

[expi]

Ever wanted to have CR with a character and wasn't sure how to get them to cross paths? Wanted a dating app so you can hook up with hot people? Wanted to just find friends because you're a lonely bastard?

With the update of the tablets and the apps, we now have a dating / friendship app called OKCINDR! Players can use it as they please for the two months that it's up -- just imagine that they're profiles to swipe right on and everything. The idea is to encourage CR that may be difficult to get with characters who may or may not be interested in events / posts / logs / other network posts.

So, on July 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #2
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of their choice of questions to answer:

- what is your favorite color, and why?
- describe your ideal date
- what's your favorite food, and are you able to cook it yourself?
- tell us about your very favorite hobby
- do you fear death?
- do you wake in the morning staring into the abyss, wondering if it stares back?
- what constitutes "life"? are you "alive?" how do you know if you are "living?"
- if you could be any animal, what would it be, and why?
- tell your favorite joke

Players, of course, are able to ignore this message. However, if a character wouldn't fill it out but a player would like to participate... the profile mysteriously resets itself. There may even be responses sent from Character A to Character B without Character A actually doing anything, if you'd like! This is a completely opt-in scenario! But for players who would like to participate fill out the post:

network profile

Character_Name

@username

ABOUT_ME

CODING

<lj-raw><div style="width:280px;margin:0 auto;background:#fff;box-shadow:1px 1px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border-bottom:4px solid #587AC0;border-radius:4px;overflow:hidden;line-height:1.7;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;"> <!--HEADER--> <div style="text-align:center;background:#587AC0;padding:5px 0 5px 10px;display:flex;align-items:center;color:#fff;font-size:25px;font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:italic;letter-spacing:-1px;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/wmn8wYK.png" style="filter:invert(1);margin:0 5px 0 0;">network profile</div> <!--PFP--> <div style="height:220px;overflow:hidden;"> <img src="URL HERE" style="width:100%;height:auto;"> </div> <!--USER INFO--> <div style="border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);padding:10px 5px;margin:0 10px;font-size:13px;line-height:1.2;"> <b style="color:#587AC0;">Character_Name</b> <div style="color:#999;">@username</div> </div> <!--BLURB--> <div style="padding:15px;max-height:160px;overflow:auto;box-sizing:border-box;color:#222;"> ABOUT_ME </div> </div><div style="margin:3px auto 0 auto;width:280px;font-size:8px;letter-spacing:1px;text-align:right;"><a href="https://tessisamess.insanejournal.com/155095.html" style="color:#999;text-decoration:none;">CODING</a></div></lj-raw>

If you'd like to for shits and giggles, here's some notifications that may be used:

Name (@username) followed you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zhQOLFl.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;position:relative;"> Name (@username) followed you </div></lj-raw>

Name (@username) unfollowed you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/4FkVwag.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;"> Name (@username) unfollowed you </div></lj-raw>

Name (@username) blocked you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Qu752sX.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;"> Name (@username) blocked you </div></lj-raw>

Have fun! Code credit.

Comments

[coolerjunpei]

i used to like detective stuff more before i got a job as a PI, now it's like, "no way is that how any of it works" this and "did you even do research" that...

what's the best so bad it's good horror movie?

[incorrigibles]

shite you're the same as my best mate, then, he was always like that back when i used to try and get him to watch the detective flicks. we're detectives too you know. and yeah maybe the movies aren't realistic but they're good fun

oh got to be sleepwalkers! came out a few years after i died, but it's still got the top spot

[coolerjunpei]

sounds like it's 2 against 1 for your detective movies being unwatchable, if you ask me. i kinda like detective tv shows though? that little french guy's pretty funny.

[Poirot Is Not French but why would junpei do his research on ancient television programs. pshaw.]

how does a ghost rent a movie...?

[incorrigibles]

sure, sure, i know when i'm beat! i haven't watched too many shows actually, catching it on the telly's hard when you don't pay for cable. seen some of that holmes one, though, even edwin liked that.

oh you just jump into a store, pick something, watch it and return it before the store opens again. or you sneak into the theater and take a vacant seat. not like anyone can see me anyway

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, i guess i don't pay for cable anymore, but my parents did when i lived back home... been a while. edwin's your friend with better taste in movies?

uh oh, a detective who does crimes. i won't tell anyone.

hey so uh this word puzzle guy wants to see a movie for the first time ever, apparently? so i'm thinking.....movie night. you want to come?

[incorrigibles]

yeah, edwin payne. i met him when i was dying. been sticking together ever since.

nah mate, we solve cases for ghosts, never said i wouldn't do crime in the living world.

sounds brills! just let me know when

[coolerjunpei]

cool name.

and cmon i don't really care. i'm a dropout who did shady unlicensed PI work, not a cop. we did plenty of breaking and entering.

but uh what's a ghost crime, comparatively?

i'll keep you posted.

[incorrigibles]

[ cool name? COOL NAME?? that's all you have to say? wait no charles calm down it's not this guy's fault if he can't understand how good of a person edwin is when they don't know him — ]

hey, good for you

oh uh well it's less crime and more stuff like, demonic possession or solving who murdered a particular ghost or seeing why a place is haunted, you know, stuff that's got to do with their deaths, things they need to know in order to move on

[coolerjunpei]

pretty sure murder is a crime... but i guess if you can't send living people to jail, i get it.

you get a lot of cases?

[incorrigibles]

wish we could. at least we can help the dead so there's at least us who care enough to solve their cases

yeah, actually. a ton, really, i guess we've built up a rep over the last thirty years and there's more and more people now, which means more and more people dying and more and more ghosts that don't get sent to their final destination

[coolerjunpei]

technically you could haunt people, right? might get pretty depressing to hang around assholes all the time though.

makes sense. if i ever die for real i'll look you up.

[incorrigibles]

oh yeah we totally can, do it sometimes during investigations to scare the shit out of people. nothing like seeing scissors move on the desk by themselves towards you

i'll save a spot for you on our case board. we're in london but you can mail us from wherever

[coolerjunpei]

can i hire you to haunt somebody without being dead? you know, if we ever get out of here and i get on a plane to london sometime?

[incorrigibles]

mate

absolutely

now you got to spill, though, who is it and why

[coolerjunpei]

this dickhead who locked a bunch of people in an experiment and then pulled this bullshit "ooohhhhh but i didn't really dooooo anything" defense for why he couldn't go to jail about it, after everything went to shit.

it's more complicated than that, but that's the gist.

[incorrigibles]

sounds fucked up. sorry you were involved in that.

probably not much of a help now but he's going to hell when he dies

assholes like that always do

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, well. thanks. as long as this place doesn't try to kill us all, it'll be an improvement.

anyway he's old, so... any day now. yippee.

[incorrigibles]

let's hope it won't. i'd like to go one week when there's no crazy witch after us or hell to break into or murderous world war one ghost to run from

well, good riddance

[coolerjunpei]

wait, you had to break into hell? isn't that kind of backwards?

[incorrigibles]

oh

uh that's actually a pretty long story. the short version is i went in to get someone out.

[coolerjunpei]

[🤝 doing absolutely nutty things to get people out of Situations]

oh, okay. well if shit gets weird around here, at least we're, yknow.....prepared.

[yaaaaay]

[incorrigibles]

[ what a beautiful thing to have in common! ]

it's something, innit

though i don't got my back of tricks, here. got to get a cricket bat elsewhere, now

[coolerjunpei]

to.....hit people with? is that automatically anti-evil-ghost, or what?

[incorrigibles]

yeah, exactly! and no, took me a few years to figure out the right spell to make it so that it can actually hit everything that's supernatural

like ghosts can't actually be hurt, normally, except by some real specific things

anyway, reckon i don't need the spell here, since everything seems more or less corporeal, so a regular cricket bat will do just fine

[coolerjunpei]

that makes sense. i don't know anything about uh, ghost magic or whatever.

i'll keep an eye out for various bats.