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

[conflictresolution]

You can have any number of hobbies you like. No one is stopping you but yourself.

I assume it is the same. They have to do something ridiculous and only slightly helpful to the community.

[rebellions]

who said I don't have more hobbies?

so what do they sentence you to huh?
wealth redistribution?

[conflictresolution]

Your defensiveness says as much. Though for the benefit of the doubt, what are your other hobbies?

Something like that.

[rebellions]

[ The question gives him a pause, not because he doesn't have hobbies, but because admitting as much feels like a vulnerability. On the other hand, now that the conversation has got to this point, backing out of it is absolutely something he cannot do, so... eh, fuck it. What's the harm? ]

cooking

[ That's it, that's his response. It shouldn't even be that big of a deal, anyway. ]

I wasn't serious
but I guess neither is the council

[ Ba dum tsh. ]

[conflictresolution]

I see. What kind of cruisine are you adventuring through creating?

[He absolutely wasn't certain that was the hobby he would see Ragna doing, and yet, it was a solitary exercise so it did fit what he knew of the man.]

Not yet anyway. Who knows, maybe they will actually challenge us to be respectable people someday.

[rebellions]

whatever I feel like at the moment

[ It may not be a direct answer, but it's the truth. He enjoys the activity itself, but you won't catch him studying cuisine like some kind of food scholar. ]

they could work on the carrot thing
no one's gonna act like a good person without there being something in it for them

[ As always, his faith in humanity is unwavering. ]

[conflictresolution]

As it should be.

[He had to relearn how to cook consistently since coming here, so it was a valuable skill. Also a way to pass time.]

They are letting us live and providing for our needs. Is there more carrot necessary? We can do whatever we wish within the confines of our prison.

[rebellions]

you can say the same shit about lab rats
we get to stay alive for however long we're needed, and run in circles to the amusement of those watching us
we don't even get to die unless they give us their blessing
call it whatever you want, but that sure as hell ain't living

[conflictresolution]

Unfortunately the lab rats I've been exposed to don't live very long, so in that regard, we are very different.

Living yes, thriving no.

[rebellions]

and how long that's gonna last?

I'd rather be dead than dancing in the palm of our captors

[conflictresolution]

You likely won't have a choice in your death. Rebellion is the better choice.

[rebellions]

I don't need you to tell me that

[conflictresolution]

Then let us rebel, boy. A concerted and combined effort.

[rebellions]

[ Normally he would simply dismiss this suggestion, telling the man to piss off since he's not interested in teamwork in the slightest. What gives him a pause is, of course, their respective connection to Jinx ─ he'd agreed to be her "partner in crime" (whatever the fuck that entails), and she's the man's daughter (and as far as he can tell, they're very close). In a sense, they already are cooperating, what with his promise to try and keep the guy alive. He doesn't trust Silco, of course, but it's nothing personal and he can't deny there are times when having someone (especially people smarter than him) in your corner can prove beneficial.

... ]

I don't take kindly to being ordered around
keep that in mind and we're good

[ That's the most he can offer at the moment, and even that feels like he's being fored to step out of his boundaries... but it's something. ]

[conflictresolution]

And how would you prefer to be directed and informed when it comes to a rebellion then?

[He understood that Ragna was a prickly person, so he was acknowledging that there had to be a way to work together that he wouldn't blow the hair up on the back of the man's neck. It took all kinds to make change.]

[rebellions]

fuck if I know man
you've got my number
figure it out

[ Pigs will fly before Ragna can be helpful, even when discussing what is ultimately Silco going out of his way to work with him. That's already more teamwork than he's comfortable with! ]

[conflictresolution]

[This guy....]

Very well. Don't complain if I get it wrong the first few times.

[Whatever, he'd nudge Ragna in a particular direction and let the guy break stuff. Sounds appropriate.]

[rebellions]

ok
I'll be sure to let you know

[ Loudly. Repeatedly. In a very offended manner. ]