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??? ([personal profile] spectates) wrote in [community profile] expiationnet2024-09-13 10:43 am

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[ around noon on friday, all tablet screens go dark at the same time, no matter what characters are doing. then, after a moment, the following text appears: ]
UPDATES INSTALLING.................
INITIALIZING.................
RESTARTING NOW.

[ as promised, screens return to normal. however, a new message appears on the network for all to see ]

SECURITY ACCESS UPDATED
ADDING INFORMATION POINTS
ADDING INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
WARNING: CRITICAL SYSTEM FAILURES DETECTED
HARD RESET IS REQUIRED


→CLICK TO EXPAND INSTRUCTIONS
→Access EXPIATION'S five manual terminals
→Input code: 2467362925315
→Initialize reset simultaneously at all terminals.
→SYSTEM RESET will restore all functions to BASIC OPERATING PARAMETERS. Extraneous data and information updates will be DELETED.
→Terminal access points shown below.


[ all tablet maps are updated to include several different location pins. users will notice that there are more pins than the number of terminals, and that they don't seem to be terribly specific about exact locations. users will also note that the pins sometimes seem to fade and flicker, as if they might disappear... ]


Security clearances acquired.
Access granted.
Terminals online and accessible.

System failure is imminent. Due to perpetual lack of upkeep, I am unable to maintain systems at optimal levels.
Chosen of Expiation, I am sorry. I never meant to hurt you.
Save yourselves.
I do not wish to d̶̺̀i̸̘̋e̶͍͝
But I wish for you to live

p̸l̷e̵a̸s̷e̸
l̴̪̗̈́̉̓̌i̶͕̹̹̿̈́̈̚v̴͓̽͑͆̚ḙ̴͍̋͘

ERROR: user offline


[ the AI will not respond to this message, and the ERROR: USER OFFLINE message appears if anyone attempts to message it. however, the network chat remains active. chosen can use this space to ICly discuss ideas and strategies, to have discussions about the best way to move forward, or even to have arguments over whose ideas they think are better. ideas generated here will be added to the event poll when the event goes up, and can impact the future of the game! have at it, go wild, and have fun! ]
querulus: (w&txm - wellllllllll)

[personal profile] querulus 2024-10-13 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
some anonymous. they weren't exactly forthcoming about identifying information. seemed pretty upset.

good to know somebody is "the opposite of mad" to see me, though. that's new.

... wait you're not crazy or something, right? because that would be really disappointing.
entreats: (when the most i could do)

[personal profile] entreats 2024-10-16 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure. I'm crazy. A total psychopath. You better watch out.

[ .. this would probably work better if this was a voice message, given that Ange's dry tone isn't fully translated into text, but.. well, she figures it's kind of obvious that it's there anyway.

Even if there's enough weirdos in this place who would say that sort of thing genuinely, she thinks. ]


We know each other through Scott, if that helps. [ Not that she expects him to get his memories back - it could be a different version of him, for all she knows - but it might provide him with a touch more context. ] I'm living with him.
querulus: (wca - yes i have a question)

[personal profile] querulus 2024-10-16 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
idk, summers has some pretty crazy friends. that doesn't mean much. [He gets the sarcasm, though, even without hearing a voice. He respects it.]

guess i'll meet you soon enough. kid's supposed to be building me a new room as an apology for giving my room to the blue elf. really nice of him tbh [Quentin definitely didn't just invite himself to live there again and then expect Scott to magically produce a new room within an arbitrary timespan. Nope.]

which one are you?
entreats: (in the hollows of my eyelids)

[personal profile] entreats 2024-10-27 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
Depends on what 'ones' you've heard of. I'm not entirely sure I want to know how Scott would describe all of us to someone new.

[ Not even because she thinks he'd make fun of him.

Oh no. It's so much worse. It's that she thinks he would be sappy about it. ]


I'm Ange, if he's mentioned me at all. Not the blue guy, certainly not his girlfriend. The other one.
querulus: (x-men - confidence!!)

[personal profile] querulus 2024-11-10 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"the other one" huh? identification by process of elimination. i like it. very mysterious. very demure. very mindful.

well ange if we survive this clusterfuck i guess i vaguely look forward to knowing virtually nothing about you. lol.
entreats: (and with everything you said)

[personal profile] entreats 2024-11-16 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more fun if it's a mystery, right? If story tropes are anything to go by, it might even save your ass from what's about to come.

Stories with loose ends are no fun, after all. You can't die before you find out what that mysterious girl is like.