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Expiation Mods ([personal profile] expiationmods) wrote in [community profile] expiationnet2025-01-02 03:50 pm

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




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.
icyvoid: <lj user=mintesque> (pic#17606229)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-04 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. ]

You were conscripted, then.
Were you or anyone else ever able to leave? Or to choose a different occupation?


[ She can guess the answer. ]
icyvoid: <lj user=sonea> (pic#17605488)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-06 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's what she was afraid of hearing. There's no right way to say 'no one should be created to be cannon fodder' to someone who was created for just that reason. It's all just...not right. ]

I'm sorry.
No one should be used like that.
And no one here can make you fight if you don't want to.
abandonware: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/43909626 ([ 108. ])

sorry to hit you w/a novel in this freakin text thread

[personal profile] abandonware 2025-01-07 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Used. Had she been used? Her programming makes these human terms difficult to grasp. Could you be used if all you were was a purpose, a function? A product.

An oath.

She doesn't know.

Human beings are kind. More than any of them had been able to imagine, so mired in their struggle that they hated their god. But they're confusing too, because she still hates them. Even drifting further and further away from Earth, from the end of her mission. Even experiencing this warmth.

She's ashamed of herself for hating them. And she's ashamed to love them too, still.]



you don't have to be sorry.
it's over now.
i'm here
and i don't deserve your sympathy.


[She didn't deserve to be here, either.]
icyvoid: <lj user=sonea> (pic#17605497)

no it's great I love novels

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-09 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Deserved or not, you have it. Because it feels like you've gone from the frying pan and into the fire.
And not just you.
So if there's something that needs fighting here, know you needn't do it alone.
Edited 2025-01-09 01:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] abandonware 2025-01-12 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
you shouldn't make promises like that.
what if something happens to you?
icyvoid: <lj user=sonea> (pic#17605480)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-17 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
What if it does? It's likely to happen considering where we are and what people say about this place.
But I'm surely not the only one you have something in common with.
We're all trapped here. People might not like to hear it, but banding together can solve a lot of problems.


[ Ugh, she sounds like Rana or Rook. Gross. ]

I doubt I'll be the only person who feels that way.
abandonware: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/26518008 ([ 93. ])

[personal profile] abandonware 2025-01-19 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
you're talking about a squad.

[A considerable delay in the next response.]

i don't know.
i'll think about it.
icyvoid: <lj user=sonea> (pic#17605457)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-23 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that what you'd call it?

[ Someone just needs friends, tbh. ]

That's understandable.
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't get your name.
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[personal profile] abandonware 2025-01-25 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah.

[She wonders if there's another word for it. It sounds like a squad to her, but maybe humans were different?

She definitely needs friends.]


my name is A2.
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[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-01-30 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ You know what, fair. It's not like Neve can talk when the Veilguard basically is a squad... ]

It's good to meet you.
And now we know how to contact each other.
That's how this profile works, right?


[ No, it's not, but close enough. ]
abandonware: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/26518008 ([ 93. ])

[personal profile] abandonware 2025-01-30 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
kind of.
pod says humanity used to use applications like this to find romantic partners.
this looks as if its purpose is more general.
icyvoid: <lj user=mintesque> (pic#17606226)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-02-02 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ Welp, awkward. ]

People really use these things to find romance?
I suppose you learn something new every day.


[ Why not just go out and meet people? This application just feels invasive to her. ]
abandonware: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/53758504 ([ 106. ])

[personal profile] abandonware 2025-02-03 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah.
in my world, humans once lived all over the place. most were situated in large cities. heavily populated. it was difficult to meet others who met their romantic preferences. they relied on applications like this. guess it was important to them.
Edited (used the same icon twice... unforgiveable) 2025-02-03 17:33 (UTC)
icyvoid: <lj user=sonea> (pic#17605489)

[personal profile] icyvoid 2025-02-06 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Heavily populated but not able to meet people?

[ Well, if they were all over... She's seen some things in Tevinter that could help people communicate over large distances, but that had always been reserved for more powerful mages, people with money and power. ]

To feel like you needed to create something to help reconnect you to others makes it sound very lonely and isolating, even if they were around so many.
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[personal profile] abandonware 2025-02-06 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
wouldn't know if it was lonely or not. but it would explain why androids are the same.