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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Did you run away too?

no.
I was assigned on a mission with my squad. lost everyone. I survived because of them.
I wasn't supposed to.

YoRHa came for me. at first I tried to explain to the others what happened. no one listened. no one believed me. I was a deserter. a traitor. so I fought them.
been fighting since then.

Edited 2025-01-05 23:56 (UTC)

Couldn't they verify the incident with your memory bank? That's completely unfair.

they did.
my data was repurposed to be used for the executioners they sent.
I wasn't supposed to survive.
stress testing.

[ her texts comes in at a delay this time, her heart heavy. ]

That's cruel. I'm so sorry.

It probably doesn't mean much, but I'm glad you survived. No one should have to die for something like that.

[ it's impossible for her not to empathize with an AI like this, even if A2 potentially could have been rebooted like new in a new casing. to be treated as disposable, thrown in with the intent to die...how cruel. ]

[This sympathy feels wrong to receive. A2 has spent the entirety of her short life reliving every single mistake she made during her first, and final mission. She sees the ghosts of her comrades in the rare moments she allows herself to sleep, and she has failed in every attempt she made to save anyone.

This is why she and 2B were the same. Cycling, repeating. Only knowing how to destroy things, letting them crumble into dust in their hands. Never remembering their moments of kindness.

Only the worst parts.]

glad?
why?

Because no one should be sent to their death just for a test. You may be an AI, but you think and feel, don't you?

[ it seems obvious, knowing of Gaia. Deadpan she may have been, but A2 clearly had her own personality, her own individuality. ]

[This compassion perplexes her. Because, even alive where others had died, what was an android without purpose? Even a worthless one, as the war had been. And all the emotion she'd been cursed with had caused her nothing but pain.]

but there's nothing left.

Edited 2025-01-10 02:51 (UTC)

[ she has no idea how to comfort people, of what words could actually make this better or easier for A2.

all she can do is think of Varl, and his kindness. what would he say? ]

Suddenly being all alone with no purpose is scary. But when there's nothing left, then...I think there's nothing except you stopping you from doing what you want either. To make something new for yourself.

[Truthfully, A2 had never thought she'd meet humanity. Not even in the brightest and most optimistic moments of her existence, she had spent the majority of her time raging against them. Resenting the thought of them — somewhere tucked away safely, judging and watching all the moments of her suffering and somehow still deeming her insufficient. To be greeted with them now makes her confused: this impossibility showing itself to her, when she had given herself up to her body collapsing within the ruins of the Tower, hoping she would be granted peace. And now so many humans were telling her that there was something left being alive for.]

i don't know what to do with myself. or what something new is
i've never
so many people here make it sound like it's easy

[A few minutes later:]

it kind of pisses me off
but... i'm trying to understand
i've only ever fought before. never had to do anything else.

They do. It's not, it's really hard.

[ Without anyone to push her, she's bordered on agoraphobic, kept her interactions with people to a minimum. The wide world she'd wanted so badly to inhabit was suddenly terrifyingly huge. ]

But I think figuring it out is supposed to be fun. What if we figure it out together?

yeah. it is.

[So accustomed to isolation, A2 is unprepared for this overture. She feels a twinge of anxious panic, paranoia — what if something happened? What if she failed, like she had every time before?

But Pod comes to float right beside her shoulder, and she knows what they're going to say before they say it. If she screwed up, Pod would be support.]

hm
alright.

have you ever heard of "hot chocolate?"

It doesn't sound fmailiar. What is it?

it's a beverage that humans have in cold weather. i asked the "barista" what it was made of. chocolate, sugar, milk. there are other adaptions, but that's the simplest way.
it's sweet.

Do you want to try it?

i've tried it before. it's good.

but you should try it. i can take you to the "cafe."

Really? We can go together? I've only seen cafes in my holos!

yeah. sure
why not?
i'll take you there.

I hope I won't be too much of a bother. I'm not very used to going places yet. People are intimidating.

[a slight delay. then:]

there's not many people in the late morning. we can go then.
pod's coming too.

[and, after another lull:]

you'll be fine. i'll stay aware of anything hostile.

Hostile...Do you think we'll be attacked?

no. haven't seen the toads in a while. should be fine.

We probably won't see those again for a little while, at least. Stuff sort of just happens here.

just happens, huh.
the machine isn't doing these things on purpose?

I'm not sure how much is on purpose at the moment. The program it is running has glitched before, so either is a possibility.

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abandonware - 2025-01-29 17:24 (UTC) - Expand