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

un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

You can always ignore the questions if you want.

They've been pretty weird lately. Even though we supposedly fixed the AI. Who knows why the questions still like that now.

un: unitA2

[abandonware]

it's gathering intel.
how long has it been communicating with the people here?

[entreats]

The first time it started directly communicating with us was about half a year ago. It was more direct then, talking to us without asking questions. But ever since that first time, the questions on this dumb dating profile thing got all strange.

It definitely did want to learn from us though. It told us as much.

[abandonware]

hm.

you said you "fixed" it. how?

[entreats]

Basically, this city started falling apart. It was like reality was breaking at the seams. Stuff randomly disappeared or changed, to a point where it was dangerous for us to even live here.

The AI told us we had to reset it. That it would fix all those strange things. And it did. Everything went back to whatever passes for normal in this place.

[abandonware]

that's weird. it needed help to function? what kind of machine that could create something like this needs help with it? it should be able to make other machines to do that.

[A self-aware artificial intelligence that couldn't maintain its own functions without the assistance of others doesn't seem like the best thing to be in control of a simulation.]

do you know if it's working alone?

[entreats]

[ Huh.

Ange blinks for a moment at the first half of the message. It sounds like this sure is someone who knows what they're talking about. But then again, the profile did say android, right? Maybe A2 just knows this much because it's very personally related to her. ]

It's not. I've heard that there was someone else who was supposed to take care of all those strange errors, but that person either was gone or not doing their job anymore.

I don't know of the extent of the organisation behind the AI, though. It could be one person, or a small group of people, or maybe even a large organisation for all I know.

[abandonware]

a missing administrator... huh.
is there more info on this somewhere?

[entreats]

Not on this specifically.

At least, not as far as I know. We've gotten in touch with the AI before, but not with anyone else behind all this. They're a total mystery, unfortunately.

[ Because if they weren't, Ange figures it might be a whole lot easier to try and figure out what to do about them.. ]

[abandonware]

so no leads. damn
thanks for the intel.

[entreats]

No problem.

If you want, I can keep you updated in case I find anything else. As long as you'd do the same in return for me, I'd hope. I want all of us to find out what's actually going on in this place as soon as possible.

[abandonware]

yeah. that would be helpful.
and hm. alright. i'll keep you updated.