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

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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]

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.

[incorrigibles]

hey, i get it. what it's like to miss those from home

but... what you're doing here, helping this ai, well. bet that'd make her real proud of you.

[computation]

Thanks, Charles.

It would. She's sappy like that. It's just a lot easier when her voice is in my ear.

[incorrigibles]

i know how it feels, trust me. being here's a real adjustment

but, for what it's worth, if you need help with adjusting... well, you know where to find me

[computation]

[ She should say she appreciates that, that the sentiment is returned, because it is. But Root still feels cautious and uncertain about genuine friendship, no matter how socially confident she appears on the surface. It's been such a long time -- she hasn't even looked for it since Hanna, not really, and that's over twenty years ago. Automatically, her lack of knowledge about Charles feels like an itch she needs to scratch, like somehow making the sharing even will help the feeling settle. She knows it won't. But she might as well. ]

What are you adjusting to? Who are you missing?

[incorrigibles]

[ luckily, charles doesn't mind at all. ]

my best mate. we met when i was dying, been sticking together ever since. and i'm not saying it's bad, here, and there's plenty of people i'm grateful to have met... but it took me weeks to get used to being on my own. not sure i still have.

[computation]

This opens up so many questions. Did you die together? Was he already dead?

The A.I. thinks we can go back eventually. I'm hoping to find out if that's true when I look at its code.

[incorrigibles]

oh, no, he died in 1916. which... shit, i don't know if you're even from an earth, do the years mean anything to you?

... does it? i mean, good, i don't think anyone means to be stuck here forever. just, i don't mind if we do stay for a tick. it's not that bad, here.

[computation]

I'm from Earth. 2013. So he became your ghost buddy?

[ Whether or not it's true is a whole other question from what it actually means. Root is always a pragmatist and she isn't about to hide her doubts from Charles. ]

Whatever 'going back' means. It could mean a lot of things, and the A.I. might not know itself. Who we are here might only exist here.

[incorrigibles]

for real? that's aces. i'm from london, 2024. and yeah. we formed the dead boy detective agency together.

yeah. that's a lot of stuff that's out of my wheelhouse, but... for what it's worth, i think we should just do the best we can here, as long as we're here. whatever version of us we are, right now... well. long as we're here we're real, aren't we?

[computation]

Cute. I know a couple people who basically did that, except they're legally dead instead of literally dead. Haven't run into any ghosts yet at home that I know of.

I don't really see what's so different about that state of affairs from the normal.

[incorrigibles]

hey, they might be out there. just cause you haven't met any doesn't mean they don't exist

nothing, i guess.

[computation]

I feel like I'd have one haunting me by now if they did, but maybe they're all busy being detectives.

Whatever version of us we are, right now... that's all we ever really get, right? If we're noise in the machine we may as well make it a symphony.

[incorrigibles]

... yeah. you're right. that's all we get

and damn, that's bloody poetic

[computation]

[ Root's not used to getting compliments like that, at least not on her somewhat deranged and fatalistic beliefs. Mostly she gets some odd stares if not direct pushback. ]

Not everyone thinks that. You're really one of a kind, Charles.

🎀

[incorrigibles]

right.

[ don't mind him not being able to take compliments and also really not believing what she's saying at all, ]

well, uh, it was nice talking to you, root. let me know when you need me and where, yeah? and... good luck. with everything here. we're lucky to have you.

[computation]

[ Don't worry, Root is extremely free with the compliments. More where that came from! ]

Aw shucks, you really know how to make a girl feel special. Thanks for joining the team 😘 I'll be in touch!