expiationnet | OKCINDR POST #3

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

Name (@username) unfollowed you

Name (@username) blocked you

Have fun! Code credit.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You may be onto something. In Howard McNear's first appearance as Floyd, they call him Floyd Colby. Later they tell us his surname is Lawson. Early in the series, Floyd has a son and a wife, but in at least one episode, he says he’s a widower. Then in season 7 he just leaves Mayberry without a trace.

[ Pike likes Jim, too. It probably helps that Jim’s a pretty charming guy, and it certainly helps that Spock seems to trust him. Given that Spock and Sam got on about as well as two wet cats in a burlap sack, that trust was likely hard-won.

Pike, of course, has no idea that Jim thinks of his as the “prime” timeline and Jim’s own as the “darkest” timeline. Though, given sufficient knowledge of the details, he’s not sure he’d be well-equipped to argue with it. Except to say that the timeline where Pike starts an endless war with the Romulan Star Empire might give it a run for its money. ]

I did know a guy who lost a bet and ended up doing his JAG student ID photo in a barrister’s wig. So it seemed like a possibility.

I’m a little surprised you ever found your way out of those pants. They look sprayed on.

[ Granted, that was probably the only motivation needed to get someone to assist. ]

Yeah. 35’s a ways off for me, too.

[ Rub it in, why don’t you. Teach Pike to ask personal questions. ]

Certainly none that I’m both aware of and biologically related to. I’ve got four horses and a couple hundred crewmen to worry about, that seems like enough to be getting on with for the time being. I’m really don’t understand how some people manage to balance that with a family.

It's haunting me how fast you had that in the chamber.

[ Jim has no idea what, if any, kind of relationship the Jim and Spock in Pike's universe might have. It's been made clear to him that Jim and Pike had a professional relationship that hasn't had a chance to extend much beyond the bounds of that (well, until now; but a shared living space tends to move mountains on that front pretty quickly) - and of course, Pike and Spock served together. Jim had never spoken much with his Spock on the subject - maybe generally, prior to Pike's passing. Afterwards, he was another subject that ended up off the table for the both of them. The list of things Jim doesn't talk about grew larger by the day, and it wasn't until Aldrip that he's been forced to take stock of it. ]

God, that sounds hilarious. I wish; we didn't get a choice, they took them right off the shuttle. Walked around with a split lip in mine for three years.

They're more comfortable than they look.

[ And yes, often required assistance to remove. But the number of nights Jim had to peel them off on his own isn't a large enough statistic to quote (what? the pants were good at their job.) ]

Wait, how old are you?

[ The joke does not come across via text, and Jim's ability to gauge people's ages has been horribly skewed by circumstance. Practically everyone he knows in the fleet is in their twenties (because everyone else, you know) or they're grizzled Admirals being assholes over subspace calls. Then you've got Spock, an actual 37 year old, and a decade seems like both so much time and none at all, really. He's just as ridiculous as Jim, yet when he first got here, he was still under the impression age brought wisdom.

Besides, Pike's always been grey, including now, as a young(er) man who still does his hair in the morning. Maybe he's been grey since he was 16. Jim would believe it. ]

Abraxas was always my favorite, if you have that one. Don't tell the others.
Me either. Fleet brats are a relic of the past and I can't blame people for it. A starship is no place for a kid.

[ Well, not in his universe. Not with how often them end up scattered in pieces. ]

Semper paratus. Always prepared.

[ Spock and Pike have been through some wild shit together, and given that most of it is heavily classified, Pike would not be surprised to learn that Jim wasn't aware of most of it. Spock was the one who requested Top Secret classification, too. Made a certain sense that he'd go out of his way to make talking about his feelings illegal. ]

That split lip have anything to do with your recruitment story?
They couldn’t possibly be less comfortable than they look. But I’ll have to take your word for it.

[ Pike would like it known that he is not old. He was actually a remarkably young Captain when he took command in his late 30s. Jim is just from an insane, upside-down, Spy Kids version of Starfleet. ]

I’m 50 this year, so 35 might be about twice as far from me as it is from you. Albeit in the other direction.

[ Pike has been going grey since he was about 26, though he wasn’t visibly grey until about 35. ]

I’ll make sure he keeps it to himself. Don’t want Whiskey, Tango and Foxtrot to get jealous.
Maybe one day it will be. Don’t think I’ll be around to see it, but maybe one day.

[ Granted, it could happen pretty soon, and Pike wouldn’t be around to see it. ]

Aye, Cap'n. Boskerck, wasn't it?

[ To fight to save or fight and die. Small wonder Jim remembers the biography with interest.

Spock's also cagey as fuck, about all the things he needs to be cagey about and the stuff he doesn't, just for kicks. If it weren't for the paperwork and the we're-probably-all-about-to-die, Jim has no doubt Spock's relationship with Uhura wouldn't have hit the airwaves until after they'd been broken up a decade. ]

Maybe a little.
What can I say, your cadets needed to blow off some steam.
It was hardly a fair fight, I was already drunk.

[ This...is probably a fair assessment, hell, Jim can't exactly argue it. His world is a chaotic nightmare at the best of times. Life expectancy in Jim's version of Starfleet just...isn't very high. ]

I'm not sure that math works out, sir, but I'd never dream of checking you on it.
I would have guessed 38-42, for the record.

I distribute the carrots evenly among them!
Oh, I don't know. If ever there was a universe out there where that happens, yours is prime to rise to the occasion.
And you're at the top of your game!
50 is the new 30, or so I'm told.

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