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

[thenicerone]

...Why a hug?

[despitethenora]

We probably shouldn't read into that too much.
I think it just gave a lot of the same details as my sister's.

[thenicerone]

Are you sure?

If you want one, I wouldn't mind giving you one.

[Granted, it'll be awkward for her but she'll try her best!!]

[despitethenora]

[Fair's fair, Aloy would also be so awkward.]

I don't even know how someone's supposed to be sure about that sort of thing.
Not really my subject.

[thenicerone]

Oh then...do you want to talk about something else?

[despitethenora]

[Aloy needs to think about that one because while being curious about others is easier she is, for better or worse, also someone who would yeet herself off a cliff to escape a party.]

What
Do you like to do here?

[thenicerone]

A little bit! I get to make new friends and I love being able to learn so many things about others. However, I wish that it wasn't as bad as it was here!

[despitethenora]

Fair.
It could do with less AI charging people with crimes.
That's one thing most other places don't have.

[thenicerone]

You don't have it in your world?

May I ask what it is like there?

[despitethenora]

There's an AI where I'm from, but it runs a terraforming system.
There's at least one other out there.
Runs a facility that prevents a natural disaster.

Earth is beautiful. There's plants and animals everywhere. Herds of machines.
Vines growing over ancient ruins.
But it's also in trouble.
Blights, worsening storms.

[thenicerone]

Is the Earth in your world truly that terrible?

I know that I live on Earth in a country called Japan. But the storms are never enough to be bad. Or at least, not enough from what you're telling me.

[despitethenora]

It's a beautiful world, it's just in trouble.
It's

Also Earth?
I just have to fix the weather. It'll get better.

[Like it's as easy as that.]

[thenicerone]

How so?

Isn't the weather a difficult thing to fix?

[despitethenora]

As I know Earth, the biosphere collapsed.
My mother built a system that can restore and maintain it, but since it's been

damaged

Conditions started to get bad.

As long as we restore the terraforming system, that will take care of the weather for us.

[Yes, Aloy is prone to pinning everything on the plan in front of her. No, Aloy cannot define biosphere in a useful way.]

[thenicerone]

May I ask how it got damaged?

I'm not familiar with how things work in your world but it sounds like it must have been something really bad if it managed to get destroyed.

[despitethenora]

It's a long story, but
The main facility had to self-destruct to stop an extinction signal.
I'm the only

Well

My sister and I are the only ones who can access the things we need to fix it.

[thenicerone]

I see.

That sounds like a lot of pressure for the both of you. Especially when it seems like no one else can do it.

[despitethenora]

Well
We all have to bear up to some pressure at some point.
I'm sure you've had your fair share, too.

[thenicerone]

Yes but not to the extent you and your sister had gone through.

[despitethenora]

I'm getting too good at competitions. I didn't even mean to win that one.

[thenicerone]

Oh no! It's fine, I just...was saying that you are strong for doing all of this.

[despitethenora]

Thank you. I think.
You know. You haven't seen me actually do anything yet.

[thenicerone]

But based on what you said to me, it seems like you do a lot already!

I wonder what else you can do!

[despitethenora]

Who knows? I pick things up pretty quickly.
If you think of something, maybe I'll try it.

[thenicerone]

Hmmm...

Sword fighting? Can you do that?