OKCINDR POST #7

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

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #7
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of questions to answer:

- Do you like long walks on the beach?
- What's your favorite hobby?
- What's the best kind of crime?
- Are you a criminal or a judge?
- Are snakes friends?
- Will they be mad I changed them?
- What would you do to protect someone?
- What if I lost them forever?
- Have you ever thought of gardening?
- How do you know when someone is lying?
- Where do you think those who disappear end up? Or do you think they never truly left?

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

un: altius; text

[chimericalclaw]

If you find the answer to that I'm sure we'd all love to hear it.

[unsunder]

How charming. I do so love being forced to socialize.

[chimericalclaw]

You'll certainly enjoy your time here, then. Forcing us to do things is the usual routine.

Have you found the clothing you wanted yet?

[unsunder]

Not yet.

[ He's picky and he can't just snap himself up something, unfortunately. ]

Though admittedly, it is rather low on my list of priorities. I am still trying to get the lay of the land, as it were.

[chimericalclaw]

[Most people, including Emet-Selch, didn't arrive covered in blood, so Altius can certainly understand why others would find seeking out new garments a much less vital aspect of their arrival than he did...]

Understandable. Can I direct you to anything in particular for the moment?

Ah, but I should warn you that the questions given here are usually some sort of indication as to whatever nonsense we're going to be dealing with in a week or two.

[unsunder]

Not at the moment.

Ah, but that is interesting. Let me see... I can but assume we are in for some sort of nonsense involving snakes, and likely a handful of other, more personal things.

Hooray.

[chimericalclaw]

It's as good a guess as any. Since I've been here I've seen doppelgangers exposing secrets, unwanted sharing of dreams and memories, and transformation into destructive monsters. It's all been personal in some way or another, so I expect that aspect to continue.

Are you truly a sorcerer?

[unsunder]

[ Oh, he hates all of that. This place sucks. ]

I am. For what little good that does me when it comes to getting out of here.

[chimericalclaw]

[Sure does, buddy!]

You'll nevertheless be at an advantage with a way to defend yourself. Do you have a particular specialty, if you don't mind my asking?

[unsunder]

I have many talents, combat among them. Why?

[chimericalclaw]

Information is one of the few things I have access to, so I like to know what to expect.

[Perhaps a pragmatic-seeming man like this will appreciate that?]

But I won't harass you for details. I can be content enough knowing you can handle a threat or two.

[unsunder]

The details are irrelevant. Just know I am quite capable.

[ Explaining his abilities just sounds tiresome. ]

[chimericalclaw]

Understood.

[It's a bit blunt to be called a hint, but consider it taken. Still, there's no harm if he leaves with a little sly remark...]

I'll leave you to it. If you find yourself capable of escaping, I do hope you'll be kind enough to let one or two of us know before you go.

[unsunder]

Ha. Would that it were so simple. I have tried, short of trying to smash my way out. I somehow don't think that will work much either.

[chimericalclaw]

Oh, smashing things has been tried a number of times, so you can confidently take that one off the list of possibilities. One building was destroyed so thoroughly our captors felt the need to put an illusion in its place.

[unsunder]

Which begs the question why they are bothering with the illusion at all. Just leave the rubble if it isn't worth it to rebuild.

[chimericalclaw]

[He'd had the same question! Still does, honestly.]

Given that building is now the courthouse, I wonder if it's about the symbolism of it all. Reminding us of the supposed purpose of this place or something like that.

[unsunder]

[ His list of questions is just getting longer tbh. ]

Do they seriously hold legal proceedings inside an illusory building?

[chimericalclaw]

[Welcome to Zekarion's life.]

Well, we're now apparently being sentenced within our dreams in what looks like a courtroom, so in a manner of speaking. I'm sure you can imagine it's more of a mockery of a system than anything.

[unsunder]

Oh, of course they can get into our heads. Why stop at kidnapping and raising the dead?

[chimericalclaw]

Already heard of that aspect, have you?

All in the name of "rehabilitation," I'm sure.

[unsunder]

I have heard of no such thing. I myself am proof enough of their ability to pluck the dead from their well-deserved rest.

[ And he's MAD ABOUT IT. ]

[chimericalclaw]

[Yeah he would be too.]

You have my sympathies for your disturbed sleep. You're not the first I've met. Death meaning little here is another running theme.

[unsunder]

Of course it is.

[ He makes a face to himself. Realistically, he should have some sort of Obligation to set things right, but gods, is he so, so tired of obligation. ]

I take that to mean we are unable to die so long as we are here?

[chimericalclaw]

Those who die simply reappear after a week or so has passed, to my knowledge.