OKCINDR POST #5

[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 January 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #4
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of questions to answer:

- What is the maximum amount of sheep you have counted when trying to fall asleep?
- Is it harder to forgive yourself, or to forgive others?
- How strongly do you feel that the past defines a person?
- What is your dream?
- Why would an android's dream contain electric sheep? Are they particularly drawn to livestock animals?
- If you could return to one specific moment in your life, would you?
- How do you wake up from a dream?
- Please
- Wake up
- You must wake up

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

[donger]

I have been on something of a... forced sabbatical, for the past few years. I've found music to be a worthwhile way of wiling away the hours waiting for opportunities to surface to delve back into the pursuits of science and innovation!

[donger]

The trick, I believe, is to respond to the notification promptly upon receiving it, thereby depriving the device of the opportunity to take the reins from you.

[ AKA become an ipad grandpa like him and you can write things for yourself! ]

Ah yes, a laboratory space would not go amiss. As worthwhile as it ahs been for me to familiarize myself with this new city, I am itching to get back to invention!

[donger]

It is a bit of a milder taste. White tea leaves are less processed than other varieties, so it is as close as you can get to the natural state of the Camellia sinensis plant.

And yes, I do believe that entrusting your health to tried and true scientific remedies will lead to a better outcome than folk remedies such as herbs and tea.

[westcoasts]

you were really hungry and after carbs

I'm sure he did. welcome to just another day in the life.

Voice; un:curtaincall

[endcaller]

Pray forgive what is doubtlessly another comment of confused incredulity but what is this garbled nonsense?

My poor screen reader can barely parse a word. Something about burning hunks of brain matter?

[uncommonsense]

oh
hmm.
how fast could it go?

[variantcover]

I guess getting stuck in a weird prison-purgatory simulation isn't too far off from any of the stuff that happens to us back home.

you been doing ok? I heard you showed up in a giant birdcage.

[laserguy]

or she's making supernatural poops in me.

it's not like i can ask her.

unless you can talk to birds???

[southernchere]

Well, my powers came back swingin, so maybe I could give the air a bit of a touch. See how far I can fly up and see for myself.

I reckon it's a hint. Maybe we're all sleepin on the outside and they are tellin us to
wake on up? To get out? That makes the most sense from my mind.

[southernchere]

What kind of powers ya have, Darlin?

[southernchere]

If I know one thing about entities, they don't really need to eat. Least your Phoenix is different from what Jean had. But I reckon they're all one and the same.

[southernchere]

The AI is locked away safe, I think. So I'm guessin someone else is makin up these questions. Or it can be in different places. Can't tell.

[southernchere]

Ain't no different from the government. But there ain't much we can do about it now... sides figure out what caused that crack you saw in the first place.

[southernchere]

Dang, well. Pretty normal as the Big Apple can be. Lotta folks everywhere bumpin shoulders, dirty looks, wavin around for a taxi. Pizza is good though, always packed. But watch out for Street Elmo and Mickey Mouse, ya locked eyes on them, and they start followin ya around, and wantin a $20.

It's good to give them that when ya got it, but if ya empty? They might... have a dying duck fit. But the Big Apple ain't that kind to mutants.

[icyvoid]

I was getting a bit of information on that but I think it's still a bit difficult to wrap my head around. Because dreams, where I come from, can very often be illusion. And they don't feel real, nor can they physically harm us.

[ ...Most of the time, anyway. Demons are something else and she's not going to start explaining the Crossroads nonsense. ]

Everything here feels real enough to hurt.

[laserguy]

no this question didn't just randomly pop in my head. i mean, it sort of did, but yeah it's actually real. after the whole reset, a bird decided to nest in me. it's a long story.

so about that.

i'm not sure. kotone mentioned that i'm warmer since all this. so, is that everywhere then??

[variantcover]

[ Okay, yadda yadda yadda... Two whole paragraphs describing pretty much every New York City in existence, until finally at the end the most important, distinguishing word comes through. ]

mutants, huh? yeah, I think we might be from the same NYC. or at least, a similar one. I'm from Brooklyn originally, but I've been studying at ESU for a bit now. before that I was living on Krakoa, and before THAT I was in LA.

[eternalcutie]

Is there something wrong with the traditional libraries? I was hoping to garner some information there.

[icyvoid]

I investigate things, usually crime, in my city. Missing persons, a robbery gone wrong, strange happenings. Murder, now and again. I don't take the place of Templars or city guards, but I can get things done for people who fall through the cracks.

[ And Templars and guards can be bought off to look the other way, unlike her. ]

[icyvoid]

Interesting.

[ Not sure she likes the implication in the sense of the survey put out... ]

Is there a reason why someone would create an android where you're from?

[ But she's thinking things like someone creating a doppelganger, like trying to replace someone for nefarious reasons...or to allow someone to be in two places at once. ]

[laserguy]

[what is happening here.]

what?

are you saying that the fish escaped through their tears??

[eternalcutie]

["well for the first 200 years i was an unwilling test subject, and then i made explosives for a living for a while until a literal bogeyman scared me straight -" nah. we don't trauma dump on strangers in this house.]

The boat ride over itself was fairly momentous, filled with alchemical experimentation. Then of course there were the struggles of acclimating to a whole new world. That's what we called it, the New World. Though we settled in an established city, so in many ways it wasn't that different from the Old World, so to speak.

[icyvoid]

Ah, that explains why I had to write something. It wasn't letting me look at anything else until I did.

[ And she'd rather, for now, not give a device she's never used before some kind of autonomy to write about her life. ]

sometime later, not posted by him

[solitarysoul]

- 0
- He will never forgive himself
- Very
- A peaceful life
- What's an android?
- Uncertain
- Fear
- Please
- W̵̪͂a̴̹͋k̷̮̀ê̴̬ ̷̳̉ȗ̷̮p̷̯̒
- Y̵̗͎͇̊̿͜͠ó̴͚͗͛̀u̶̙̕ ̸̢̰̬̊̈́̄̆m̷̢̳͈̯̌ṵ̶̱̜̹̊̿s̸̳͊̇ẗ̷͇̻̼́ ẅ̶̛̤͚̜́̓̓͗͋͋͐͛͜ą̸̨̨͍͔̬̞̦̠͉̳̼̇̎͂̏̀̍͒͑ḱ̷͈͈͈̗̰͔͍̻̲͍̪̗͉̙̓̾͂͆͐͋̓̒̉̈́̄̚̚e̴̛͕̐̏̐̒͐͌̓̏̋̓̈́̚͝͝ ̶͈̺̤̰̲̼̓́͝ų̸̢̨̧̡̢̡̧̛̛̛͍̥̱̲̰͕͍̯͍͍͇̠͖̠͇̖͖̙̹͚̰͙̹̜̦͖͉͈̟̮͇̣̥͍͈̰̝͙̖̖̖͚͍̜͚̟̪͉͌̿̎̃͆̽̾̒̈́̉͌́́̓̏́̀̅̈́͊̊̔̿̉̔̓̌̑͊̽̋̄̐͗̀̐̒̿̽͌̓̆̈́̒̊̊̓͒̌̉́̕̚͘̚̕͠͝͝͠p̷̨̨̨̨̛̱̮͎̱̖̫̺̮̝̺̤̱̼͕̩̼̪̻̠͙̞̝̞̫̖̩̜͈̫̟͈̳͙͉͎̝̣͈͙̤̭͈̙̙̯̻̺̺͈̩͋̽̆̿̌̅͛̾͌̊͛̓̊̀̑̾̈́͊̈́̎͘͘͜͜͝͝ͅͅ

[icyvoid]

I'm getting the impression that the intention is to upset people and leak their information. Or to prove a point.

[ That this thing in control knows so much more about them, and that they can leak that information at any time. Then again, what does she know; simulations and artificial intelligence aren't a thing in her world, or at least not in this manner. ]

It's a bit of a comfort for me but I'm one of those mages. [ A bit of a bias there. ] So magic isn't as prominent in your home? It's more of this technology people are speaking of?