OKCINDR POST #3

[expiationmods]

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 September 3rd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #3
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

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

What do you look for in a "relationship?"
Do you see through time?
When you stare into the void, is it the correct universe's infinite abyss that stares back?
Please define: existential crisis
How do you justify the color pink?
Does the data not corrupt exquisitely
Do do do does does does ththth e
Does the
Does the
Dies
data
done one one zero one

Additionally, this month, misfires on the meme are much more likely, whether it's a character who wouldn't post their own profile, or comments on other top levels.

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

[computation]

Great! We need to find some terminals. Sounds like a good job for a ghost.

[incorrigibles]

oh, cause i can walk through walls and stuff? yeah, that's not a bad idea at all

[computation]

I assume you don't mind being shot at. Or otherwise physically threatened.

[incorrigibles]

nah, why would i? human stuff doesn't hurt me, and supernatural stuff... well, makes it easier to fight when you're not scared of taking a hit, yeah?

[computation]

I'm so extraordinarily pleased to meet you, Charles.

Consider yourself on standby for the A.I. rescue operation.

[incorrigibles]

pretty chuffed to meet you, too, root

and sure. just let me know when i'm needed and where and i'll be there

[computation]

I have a few things to coordinate, another ghost to recruit and a computer virus to write, and then I think we'll be good to go.

There's some guys who've been working on this since before I got here and it's most efficient if we work together.

[incorrigibles]

sounds like a lot

we're right lucky there's people like you and... the stem group, i'm guessing?

[computation]

It's nothing, really, compared to what I was doing before.

I think I'm here on purpose. To help with this specifically. I can't know for sure, but it's comforting to think that, so why not?

[incorrigibles]

hey, nothing wrong with that. it's... yeah, feels better, don't it, to think we're all here for a reason? think i'd like to think that, too.

so... what were you doing before this, then?

[computation]

[ Root is honestly a bit uncomfortable getting such a position reception -- even gratitude? -- for her presence here. Weird. She does have the best intentions, but that doesn't actually mean anything. ]

I was helping an A.I. save the world. True story.

This is exactly the sort of thing she'd want me to do.

[incorrigibles]

hey, i've heard weirder

so what i'm getting is that you've gone from helping an ai save the world to just trying to help an ai? possibly to save this world

yeah, actually, that tracks

[computation]

What can I say, I'm a sucker for a mechanized voice saying it cares about people.

I have to ask, what have you heard that's weirder?

[incorrigibles]

hey, to each their own and all that

and sorry, none of it's stuff that's mine to tell. just, there's people from all kinds of places with all kinds of powers here

[computation]

[ Root really, really likes him based on this response, in a way she isn't quite sure how to handle. Rather than being forthcoming with her feelings again, she opts to ask questions. She wants to know more about someone who could've ended up this empathetic, but also this understanding of the importance of secret-keeping. ]

I understand. Can I ask who you were when you were alive, Charles?

[incorrigibles]

[ it's just the charles rowland effect... ]

oh, me? no one. i'm not just saying that either, i went to a boarding school on a cricket scholarship

but that was 35 years ago. i'm a detective, now

[ he feels compelled to add this — to show that he's something now, that his utter failure to amount to much of anything in life, except to protect a boy and die for it, doesn't mean that he's not done some good as a ghost. ]

[computation]

[ Root doesn't see this as a letdown at all. Where she's from, no one has supernatural abilities; no one's a ghost; no one gets to evade real-world consequences, including herself. There being an all-knowing benevolent A.I. -- and recently, an evil one -- is the only abnormal thing about it, the way the world has quietly and fundamentally changed beneath the feet of everyone alive. ]

Everyone is someone, even if it seems inconsequential. The Machine -- my boss -- taught me that.

You're a ghost detective? What do you do when you find the culprit?

[incorrigibles]

smart, your boss

[ because it's true — everyone matters. he didn't mean himself like that, really, just... he's really no one special. ]

oh, uh, it's more we, my best mate and i, solve cases to help other ghosts move on. can't really do much about living culprits, can we

[computation]

She's amazing.

[ That's a vast understatement of Root's feelings toward the Machine; she misses her desperately.

Helping ghosts move on is... incredibly sweet. Root can't help but wonder if there's a ghost detective somewhere that did that for Hanna, or if Reese and Carter uncovering her body did that for her. It's a surprisingly fantastical thought for her, but in this kind of setting, imagining the fantastical seems inevitable. ]

I was wondering. One person a time, huh? I know something about that. Except I tend to shoot them. The living culprits.

[incorrigibles]

[ amazing, huh? sounds like there's more to that story... maybe he'll ask her some time to tell him more. ]

doesn't matter if it's slow, long as it's making a difference.

and right, well, i guess that's one way to deal with them

[ he isn't a big fan of killing people just for the sake of it, really, but... can he judge, really? ]

[computation]

That's exactly how she thinks, too.

On both counts. She prefers when I shoot them in the knees.

[ For an actively reforming contract killer, Root still finds this charming and quaint, but when she devoted herself to the Machine she went all in. She'll kneecap as many people as she wants her to. ]

[incorrigibles]

oh

well then i like her even more. seems right smart. i mean, if you gotta shoot, best make it non-lethal

take it from a dead guy.

[computation]

It does make it hard to return to your life of violent crime when you have a shattered patella.

She really is amazing. Morally and intellectually superior to human beings. She doesn't compromise the way we do, how our own flawed processes make us inconsistent and irrational. She only suggests killing when it would save more lives than it would cost.

[incorrigibles]

you said it

huh. can't imagine what she's like, but... she sounds brills. you've gotta tell me more about her at some point

[computation]

Thanks. I really miss her.