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

[donger]

Yes, indeed! They are quite extensive. I'm sure she would let you have a look if you asked her.

[ After all, it's to all of their benefit for everyone to be as prepared as possible, isn't it? He can't imagine why Caitlyn would want to keep any of that information away from anyone who asked for it. ]

What's this about a previous stay? This is the first I'm hearing of it.

[howyouseit]

I'll have to stop by Vi and Cait's place to give them a read over and pay a visit.

Apparently this is not my first inception within Aldrip but have been here multiple times now yet unfortunately my memories has been erased of those occurrences.

[donger]

Fascinating... I wonder what is the cause?

[ And of course, because he is now wondering, he's going to spitball some theories. ]

Perhaps we are but reflections of our true selves here... Copies created by the artificial intelligence running the simulation. And the copy of yourself that is here now is either from an earlier point in time, prior to creating the memories of any previous time here, or it is corrupted somehow, and the data of those memories has been lost.

[howyouseit]

Guess that is the norm when someone leaves only to return to this world. One's memories are wiped clean but some have them return gradually over time.

I don't want to imagine such a frightening prospect of us being merely sentient beings who are fragments of our true selves, Heimerdinger. We are the 'Chosen' after all. I'd believe we are real life entities taken from various points within our timeline and brought to this place.

[donger]

That then begs the question— by what means or method does this AI 'choose' us to begin with? And why does it seem to waver on some choices. If you have escaped the AI's grasp before, could you not find a way to do so again?

[howyouseit]

Maybe they base their decision process on those who have been brought here already and decided to pull others from their specific universes if they find the data inconclusive to their desire.

[A beat as Ekko takes a minute before firing off another text in quick succession as he earnestly expresses his feelings on leaving this place given the fact everyone he cared for deeply was here alive and well.]

I'm not sure if I want to go home this time around, Heimerdinger.

[donger]

[ Ah. Now there's the heart of the matter. ]

One cannot remain in a simulation forever, Ekko.
No matter how pleasing the company of the simulation may be.

[howyouseit]

And why not? Everyone I care about is trapped in this simulation along with me, some of which have been trapped here for years like Jinx and Vi.

Even if I did wish to return back to our rightful home there's no way of possibly knowing if or when that is possible.

[donger]

You're right. We do not seem to have any control over our comings or goings here. And it does appear that we may be in it for the 'long haul' as it were.

[ It just pains him to see Ekko trapped, even if he is a willing participant in said trap. But, he won't belabor the point further, because he knows it will only upset the lad. ]