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

[followyourstar]

To be fair, I think it's difficult for everyone. One of those things that seems easy on the surface, but gets harder when you start putting in the actual work.

[manifestering]

I suppose
Charisma was never my strong suit
in the first place

Frankly it is somewhat tiring

[followyourstar]

It just takes time.

Hm. Why not start with doing a few things for other people? You don't have to do it for free, but it'll get your name out there as someone who'll get the job done.

[That's what they're trying to do, after all.]

[manifestering]

I prefer to work behind the scenes
The spotlight is
not for me

[Leaving aside that he's dead and all of that, limited functionality and so on - interacting?? Publicly??? Enh...]

Perhaps if someone were to help me

[followyourstar]

[...]

[They see where this is going.]

I can help with some things, but I do still need to get a job... We both should.

[Can ghosts get jobs?]

[manifestering]

[Please don't make him do customer service. But yeah it's absolutely going where it seems like it's going, tee hee. To wit:]

Perhaps if someone were to help me get a job

[followyourstar]

[They shouldn't.]

[They really shouldn't.]

[They have their own problems.]

[...]

Okay, so... What did you normally do with your alchemy? What kind of things can you make aside from golems?

[Maybe this will help them get a job too. They tell themself.]

[manifestering]

[ :))) ]

Concoctions
Decoctions
I was an inventor before diverting to alchemy
Mechanics and so on

[followyourstar]

Not sure what to do with those first two, but if they involve something around the lines of medicine you could sell those. Something to help with aches, pains, concentration, fights, that kind of thing.

Fixing machinery sounds like it would be helpful too. Something's got to break for someone sometime.

[manifestering]

As in an apothecary
Or a pharmacist
?
I did not study medicine

Machinery however I am adept at

What do you do
?

[followyourstar]

Oh. Well, there are other things that can be made, but it sounds like machinery might be the safer bet.

Back home? I'm Executive Manager in a company that deals with something in our world called "The Distortion Phenomenon." There's a lot involved, but the simplest way to put it is that I help our team prepare for and finish the missions we get as smoothly as possible.]

[Smooth as gravel.]

[manifestering]

I will consider the best approach to mechanical services
And or products

Management
How dreadful
I am sorry

[followyourstar]

Is it really that bad?

[manifestering]

Terrible yes I would hate to have that responsibility
I have an awful public presence

[followyourstar]

That makes two of us.

The responsibility is... rough, I won't lie. But I feel like I've been able to help some of the people I work with a little, so it's not all bad.

[manifestering]

Kind of you
I would not know what to do with myself
Charisma has never been something I have kept stock of and it is somewhat required for management

Perhaps you could manage a work for hire establishment here if you are keen on the helping others aspect

[followyourstar]

[If charisma is something necessary for management, maybe they've been getting by on pure luck.]

That's... actually a good idea.

[Better than they had, anyway. one-man doordash/clockdash probably wouldn't last too long.]

Maybe once things calm down, I'll see if anyone's interested.

[manifestering]

A professional middle man would likely have a less grueling time than a manager

[Goal: do as little crummy public work as possible, get to the good part. He's unbiased about this of course.]

The way this world is anachronistic to itself I am sure many people are confused about what work to pursue

[followyourstar]

I noticed that too. It's like someone took a whole bunch of districts from back home and mixed them together.

Then again, we're all pulled from different worlds ourselves, so a mixed-up place like this makes a little sense.

[If you squint]

[manifestering]

Does it
I am not sure
It seems all rather haphazard
For example nothing here is a one to one match to what I would expect in my home city
But I am somewhat anachronistic myself

Regardless I do not think it was on purpose

[followyourstar]

Probably not. Even in a city as small as this, I'd expect thing to be more... organized(?) if it was on purpose.

I'll pick it up as I go. That's how these things usually work out in my experience.

[manifestering]

That would make more sense yes
I imagine the AI entity is unaware of how to
design
I suppose you could call it

[followyourstar]

So it's like a kid putting things wherever there's room?

[manifestering]

In a sense yes it is that level of apparently random
If there is a deeper meaning to it then it is alien to me