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]

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.

[incorrigibles]

thanks, mate, appreciate it! but nah, neither do i, really, edwin's the one who knows magic, i never bothered to learn

i mean, sure, i know some spells and what they do and shite but they're all latin or ancient aramaic or something so if i need something enchanted i just ask edwin

[coolerjunpei]

so you're saying he's a ghost wizard? damn, i think he's probably the cool friend. no offense.

[incorrigibles]

no offense taken

he's the best person i know, course he's the cool friend

[coolerjunpei]

ha, all my friends are cooler than me too. let's try not to die and/or double die before any of them get here, yeah?

[incorrigibles]

sounds like a plan

just promise me you introduce me if they show up? i want to meet these cool friends of yours. though no worries, you'll always have a special place in my spectral heart ♡

[coolerjunpei]

yeah yeah. we're bonded eternally, i get it.

[Not pictured: Junpei being genuinely endeared by this. Ugh. Embarrassing.]

anyway, they'll be hard to miss... brace yourself for way too many ghost questions. uh, more than mine.

[incorrigibles]

[ he can see through the sarcasm there!! he's totally gotten to you, hasn't he. it's okay, everyone likes him eventually ]

hey, that's fine, i don't mind

would be a pretty poor thing to do, mind that when i had a hundred and a half questions about being a ghost, too, before becoming one and right after that too

[coolerjunpei]

[Stoppp it's so embarrassing!!]

cool. i'd say you can ask my friends about whatever weird shit that pops into your head at any given moment, but uh, maybe you shouldn't. unless you have a lot of time to spare.

[incorrigibles]

[ sooooo what he's hearing is: time to be even more embarrassing ]

nah, mate, if i want to know stuff about your world, i'll just ask you

[coolerjunpei]

[noooooo]

sure, that's probably for the best. i'll answer whatever i can.

[incorrigibles]

actually, you know what? would rather know more about you than your world

so you mentioned you're a pi? how'd you end up doing that?

[coolerjunpei]

no pressure or anything....

anyway uh, about a year ago i got into some weird shit, and after it some people involved ran off and disappeared. met a guy who used to be a cop, and i wanted to find them, so i joined up with his private thing.

[incorrigibles]

oi, it's not supposed to be! just find you more interesting than the minutiae of what your world's like, don't i? [ everyone say thank you edwin payne for words like "minutiae" making themselves into charles' vocabulary. ]

huh, makes sense. do i wanna know what that weird shit includes? or is it part of that whole asshole-who-should-be-in-hell thing?

[coolerjunpei]

aww cmon, i was gonna tell you all kinds of great stuff about how much self-checkout machines still kind of suck.

but uh kinda, yeah. sort of. one variant of weird shit leads to another, soooo... yeah. hell-asshole is firmly from weird shit #2 though.

[incorrigibles]

you know, i've never actually used those. weren't really a proper thing before i died, and haven't had much reason to try after, there's no supermarkets for ghosts

it's like that, innit, weird shit always leads to more weird shit... but if you wanna talk about either weird shit #1 or #2, though, i'm here, you know that, yeah?

[coolerjunpei]

oh. well, they suck. still.

and sure, yeah, thanks. maybe some other time. preferably with a beer or i'm just going to start yelling.

[*crying]

[incorrigibles]

[ yeaaaaah he can sort of. guess. he doesn't have a great track record talking about his shit trauma without crying either ]

got it. no weird shit talk without beer

you're gonna have to drink enough for me too, though

[coolerjunpei]

oh yeah. i mean, not a problem, but...

okay stay with me here. is it possible to kill a beer and get ghost beer??

[incorrigibles]

[ how it is that a joking suggestion can be, at the same time, the most bloody considerate thing anyone's said to him, so far, in this place?

junpei can't see it, obviously, but charles is beaming at his stupid tablet thing. ]

mate, i wish!

if it was i'd kill a bowl of spaghetti, like, yesterday

[coolerjunpei]

[that's how he gets ya]

you never know, maybe it's possible to kill a spaghetti dinner. metaphorically? a really filling metaphor.

[incorrigibles]

[ 😔 ]

well, tell me if you manage it, yeah? but until then - that's real sweet of you to even think about it

wriggling back late to put a bow on this thread

[coolerjunpei]

[help he's going to dissolve, how do you make friends and act normal at them--]

well uh that's me, local super sweet guy. i'll see you around.