OKCINDR POST #6

[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 March 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #6
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?
- what is the real you?
- will you still love someone if they're no longer themselves?
- what is a wish
- what are you prepared to do to have your wish fulfilled? would you die for it? kill for it?
- what kind of world do you wish for?
- are all wishes equal?
- does everyone deserve to have their wish come true?
- do you think your wish is more important than the wishes of others?
- will your wish coming true make you truly happy?

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

<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

cw: suicidal ideation

[endcaller]

network profile

Fandaniel

@curtaincall

Goodness GRACIOUS, what a peculiar line of questioning this moon!

My only wish is to die. No luck so far, alas.

Never mind that. This star has granted me the rest of my grand laboratorium. The Aetherochemical Research Facility welcomes any who share my desire to study the resident AI.

Kisses!
-F

CODING

text; un: grimreaper666

[rebellions]

want some help with that?
dying I mean

[ He's quite confident it's something he can do. And that next part definitely makes Ragna want to try it. ]

what exactly do you intend to do to "study" her?

voice; un:curtaincall

[endcaller]

Aw! How dear of you to offer! But my death should be nothing short of a grand spectacle.

[There is shuffling, then he coos]

"Her?"

Well, if you must ask. The AI exists all around us as the simulation we find ourselves woefully trapped in. There are many ways to study it.

The behaviors of resident wildlife.

Ore samples.

Star charting.

Anything of that nature should suffice to start.

[rebellions]

ok mr fancypants
fireworks and bbq it is

not sure if you're gonna learn much about her that way
pretty sure she's basing most of that off our own data
and whoever's been here before

[endcaller]

Could be!

But even that tells us something, yes? What if the soil is composed of elements only native to one of our worlds? Could be fascinating, that. And it will help us understand how it retrieves its data.

Are you offering to set me aflame?

[rebellions]

[ Something about the way he describes it rubs him the wrong way. Or maybe it's his general dislike of scientists shining through. ]

faaaaaaaaaaaaascinating

ew no
what kinda psycho do you take me for
I'd kill you first and have a party later

[ That... makes it better? ]

text; un: principal

[nuraridouman]

Can't you just stop possessing that body if you wish to disappear? Or is it not easy like that?

voice; un:curtaincall

[endcaller]

ALAS! ALACK! OH CRUEL FATE!

[Then, more quietly....]

'Tis not so simple, I'm afraid.

[His aether seems to be stuck to this body and has been ever since he arrived.]

switching to voice as well

[nuraridouman]

[Fandaniel's theatrics are rewarded with a deep sigh. Douman knows that he should know better, but he'll ask anyway.]

Why is that? Each spirit can either choose or be forced to 'move on'.

[endcaller]

Aye, under normal circumstances. But you may recall that much about Expiation violates the natural order of things.

[nuraridouman]

That sounds like something that you ought to be familiar with. But seriously, have you tried to 'die' here before? Even if it doesn't work for good, it might still give you some important hint.

[depressionnap]

how do you propose to study the AI?

what have you done?

[endcaller]

Very little as of yet.

[Just murder.]

But mercy me, I sense a lack of trust.

[depressionnap]

there is very little you have accomplished to earn trust

where do you have it?

[endcaller]

Tut tut!

I was instrumental in resetting the AI, in case you do not recall.

[He and others.]

You are most welcome for the roads not turning into giant serpents or the sky being aflame or whatever other nonsense you may have witnessed.

[depressionnap]

you are not the sole person i would thank in that regard. others worked to achieve that as well. others i would trust significantly more by comparison.

un: altius; text

[chimericalclaw]

If you're looking for phenomena to study regarding the nature of this world, it appears you have a new and particularly ominous candidate.

[endcaller]

'Tis fortunate for me that I often have new and ominous phenomena to study. Such is the nature of this mockery of a star.

Were you interested in assisting me?

[chimericalclaw]

[Debating... debating...]

I suppose I could carry equipment or take notes for you if you need, but I hope you'd understand if I prefer to keep some distance from the points of interest themselves.

[endcaller]

Aw! Distance?

Dare to be daring!

[chimericalclaw]

I don't share your distaste for living, I'm afraid.

[a complete and utter lie.]

That said, I'm willing to approach to some extent. We won't learn anything by cowering every time something arises.

cw: suicidal ideation un: sheepsongs

[gravity_flares]

It's pretty weird that you not only look like him, but with a wish like that you sound like him, too.

What's with the shitty wish, anyway?

cw: suicidal ideation

[endcaller]

You see... I have no desire to be alive anymore. 'Tis all.

[A beat, then...]

Who do I look like, now?

Re: cw: suicidal ideation

[gravity_flares]

'Tis all, he says! Yet you're trying to play at research and live from the looks of it. Tch, you're just a walkin' paradoxー just like that guy.

[Oh, he doesn't mind if he does!]

That damn Dazai! I'm surprised this isn't a set up by him, now that I think about it. You act the same!

[endcaller]

Dazai?

Can't say I am familiar with that name.

But would you believe this is not the first time I've reminded someone of somebody else? Happens quite a lot, in fact.

I must have a certain sort of face.