expiationnet | OKCINDR POST #5

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

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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.

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Very 90s style murder mystery, I love it. Whoever delivers the paper. Who gets just Monday and Thursday newspapers? The milkman might be in on it, though. I could give you a Taser. Or a gun and a Taser. That's how I usually roll. That way I have options!

that's right, but i'm gonna need an extra explanation for the milkman assertion. why?

both is fine, i guess. i'm really starting from 0 here, so... teacher's choice.

Who delivers a second milk bottle and doesn't question why the first one hasn't been brought in? Or am I supposed to think a single old man living alone drinks that much milk? Gun, in that case. You can nonlethally shoot someone or just threaten them to back off. Tasers take a little finesse to use effectively.

i dunno, i thought those old milk bottles were kind of small, weren't they? that stuff's before my time. fair hit though, milkman collusion tracks.

okay. gun. uh, this place probably doesn't have a normal shooting range, so how do you want to do this...?

I'd at least take a look at the milk bottles and check him out, is all I'm saying. And look into the dead guy's financials. We don't need a shooting range -- shooting bottles in the countryside is a southern tradition. You ever shot a gun before?

the dead guy conspiracy extended riddle universe, yeah. there's something there.

and nope. ran away from a few, if that's anything.

Thing is, back home, there really is a conspiracy, so I'm used to looking for them. Makes it a little awkward with the paranormal types. It shows good instincts! Okay, let me rustle up a gun for you. I'm thinking small for concealed carry. You need to keep it on you if it's going to do any good, got it? We'll go over concealed carry, too.

well, there's conspiracies everywhere.

oh uh okay. you're the boss. charles says you know your stuff, so... sounds good.

You run into a lot of them? I'm not a gun nut like my dear darling firecracker, but I know my way around some weapons. You want something "just in case," right? Mostly self-defense?

i used to be a private investigator. and i got kidnapped twice, so, you know. it happens.

but yeah that sounds good.

Definitely concealed carry for you if you're getting kidnapped. Do you guys have detective dates????

oh yeah this is technically number 3...

what, like go out and pretend to solve crimes? not really. we've swapped a couple stories, though.

There must be real crimes around here. If not, I can make one for you. Stage it, that is. The NPCs are endearing, I won't hurt them.

that's a creative gesture, i guess? but no thanks, i quit because it sucked real bad. i could just read a mystery novel if i wanted to hate everything again.

Bad experiences? Why'd you become a PI in the first place if you didn't like it?

i had to find somebody. and it was that or go back to night shifts at the grocery store.

That's fair. Did you find them?

yep.

anyway it doesn't matter now, since i'm here.

It matters. But hey, mission accomplished, means you can do whatever you want here.

not to everyone. now i make sandwiches. living the dream.

Guess I need to stop in and get a sandwich.

yeah, whenever. i'm usually the only one here, so it gets pretty boring.

Actually, I have a very special sandwich request if you're up for it...

i'm contractually obligated to hear you out, i think? so, what is it?

My darling has a favorite sandwich. Pastrami, extra mustard (spicy yellow), a truly horrifying amount of pepperoncinis, absolutely no mayo. Think you can manage it? I'll pay for delivery.

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