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

[manifestering]

Why
Oh
You are a
traditional ghost
As in the mythologized entity of ghost
?

[Normal Textbook Ghost (tm)]

Interesting

Unfortunate then
I could have given you a helpful sigil

[incorrigibles]

oh bloody hell

[ he does not elaborate. ]

right, yeah, that's me. do i wanna know what this sigil is? call it professional curiosity

[ read: are you a witch, a ghost, the ghost of a witch — ]

[manifestering]

I am also a ghost

[That's easy--]

But sentient self-sustaining spirits are
unnatural
At home
So I devised a sigil to bind myself
before I would disappear

You remain without aid
?

[incorrigibles]

oh so YOU'RE the one root mentioned? cool

i think

i mean not really, the dying part's not great

but i'm chuffed you figured out a way to stay! back home you can just decide to stay if you've got unfinished business and manage to avoid death




death as in the person death, death of the endless, you know

her

not death as in dying because you're already dead

[ oh god someone stop him from his awkward rambling ]

[manifestering]

Octavian
Yes that is me
She mentioned me
?

An actual death figure
That is so
whimsical
She is not a figure in my home either

That said I would consider disappearing to be
a second death

[incorrigibles]

she did, yeah

call it what you want, she's real where i come from. right nice, too, from what i know, it's a shame i can't actually meet her

oh mate you don't disappear, you go to your afterlife. well, back home you do, anyway, maybe your afterlife rules are different

but that's where death takes you, yeah? to the afterlife you're supposed to go to, you don't just disappear into nothingness

not with her anyway

[manifestering]

Why
?

Perhaps you will when you decide
I am not going anywhere
This is a statement of literal intent
by the way
Not disbelief

What is your afterlife supposed to be like
?
Nice I should think

[incorrigibles]

something about terminals and saving an ai

yeah maybe. it'd be cool to talk to her i think

oh, uh, i don't know, do i? never seen it

but the light was blue which means heaven so at least i know i'm not going to hell

[manifestering]

Oh yes that
She contacted me
It is a disconcerting plan

The light is
color coded
That is also whimsical
Congratulations though
What will you ask your madame death
?

[incorrigibles]

is it? i thought it sounded pretty solid

you really like the word "whimsical" don't you

not sure. guess i'll know if i ever meet her. think i'd just like to see what she's like, if she's doing okay, that sort of thing

[manifestering]

In fairness the plan itself is
fine
However I dislike the premise requiring moving through barriers etc
I hate doing that

Twice is not a pattern

She has job security
so she must be doing well

[incorrigibles]

oh? huh, guess that's different for you too. i mean it's a tad weird but i think it's fine, there's worse things to feel

mmhm sure

[ and then, not pictured: charles, reading "job security" and bursting out laughing, give him a minute ]

i mean i guess she does

so how're things where you come from, then? if death doesn't exist there, and you had to... what was it, bind yourself to stay?

[manifestering]

You remain without any effort
Any moment of performing trite party tricks is one I could fail to regroup from
So yes I would call it
different
Stressful even

What do you mean
How are which things
?
A dead person is dead

[incorrigibles]

oh shit

yeah i didn't even think of that, sorry

well don't worry mate i can take care of the phasing stuff

no i mean... do you have an afterlife? heaven, hell, reincarnation, the underworld, valhalla, i dunno, there's a lot of options

[manifestering]

I suppose
we will see how it turns out

And I do not know
but I assume nothing so tidy and convenient
Regardless
I do not want to find out

[incorrigibles]

hey, i get it

didn't want to find out either, now did i? sticking around's not bad at all

so what's your unfinished business? if i can ask

[manifestering]

You are doing it again

[Being so goddamn whimsical, that is. Having actual rules and Ghost Lore(tm) is endearing, somehow.]

Regardless
if I had to pick
My work
And I am going to ruin the one who murdered me in due time
Mostly the work however

[... ........ ...people manners, yes,]

And yours
?

[incorrigibles]

[ doing what? he almost asks, but then — ]

well, fuck

sorry. about being murdered, i mean. they'll deserve what's coming to them

what, me? i don't really have anything. i mean, i'm staying to help solve cases for other ghosts, help them move on, i guess

[ charles "won't talk about himself" rowland, exhibit a, ]

but tell me about your work, yeah? gotta be important if you stuck around for that

[manifestering]

True

And
that is unconvincing
But it would be untoward to pry

[So he won't! But damn dude, that has "totally unresolved personal issues" all over it. Projecting perhaps? It's not his business...]

I am an alchemist
I am going to live forever
Irony notwithstanding
minor setback

[incorrigibles]

so you'll just call me out on it anyway, got it

but wait, seriously? alchemist? that's pretty cool
though uh i'm pretty sure dying's a tad bit more than a minor setback

[manifestering]

Yes

And yes of course I am serious
but the minor setback was
a joke
I am out of practice

[incorrigibles]

hey, it was a good joke! don't be so hard on yourself

besides, you're sort of living forever in an afterlife kind of way, aren't you? if you can stick around forever, i mean

[manifestering]

I daresay it was adequate
Thank you

But why would I want to keep being this
No matter
Alchemy will make me flesh and blood once more

[incorrigibles]

it wouldn't where i come from

but i think we've already established our worlds and the ways they work aren't exactly similar, so i believe you

[manifestering]

Shame
You could have aided in my research

[Voluntold and dismissed in the same instant, congrats Charles.]

Do you know anyone who would donate blood
for alchemy
?