welp; 5/14

[torching]

[ so uh

it's one day after getting the app, and mako did what he said he would: he took his phone over to an IT guy to get it checked, only to be met with a strange look.

"I don't know what app you're talking about."

needless to say, mako is frustrated as hell. (yoshio and minako may notice him pacing the floor angrily at home.) but he said he'd keep everyone posted, so...here it is. a psa utilizing some of the fancy features the app has to offer. ]

VASSAGO vassago@applenet.net
Shared the following message below:

hey guys.

so...i took my phone to an IT guy as i told some of you yesterday to see if he could remove the app.
he told me he didn't know what i was talking about? to him, my phone looked completely fine.
so i tried to pull up the app but it shut down and disappeared. completely.

yeah. don't ask me how that happened because i have no idea either.

they weren't lying when they said that this app was private.

Comments

⚔ Camio

[lovelledup]

There's no way this is just a prank, then...

[torching]

it can't be.
people who don't have the app don't know it exists.

[lovelledup]

How, though? There isn't even a way to program something like that, is there?

[torching]

security, possibly. surveillance. if they hacked into our cameras, they can see when we're around someone else and then disable the app.

[lovelledup]

That's even creepier.

Do you think that would still happen if the other people also had the app?

[torching]

good question.
it's not as if i've tried showing it to anyone with the app or anything

do you know anyone with it?

[lovelledup]

[It takes him a little while to respond this time.]

I guess you're right about it shutting down around other people. I didn't even try to show it to anyone, someone just walked by and looked at me and it went away.

[What even... But to get back to the question.

I don't know. If anyone I know has it, they haven't said anything.

[Of course, it's not like he has, either.]

[torching]

so they definitely know when we're in public, when we're in range of someone who might catch a glimpse of it.
that's really tight surveillance.

i'd like to know what they're hiding.

[lovelledup]

Me too. It's creeping me out.
Do you think talking a lot on here is a bad idea?

[torching]

it depends on how much you disclose about yourself, i guess

[lovelledup]

Anything specific gets blocked out, though.
But I guess that means whoever's running this still might see it, huh...

[torching]

probably.
with surveillance this tight, who knows what else they know about us?

[lovelledup]

Kind of makes me want to stop using my phone at all...

[torching]

cutting out communication with everyone else might be dangerous, though

[lovelledup]

I guess that's true, too.
I'm going to get off for now, anyway.

[Because he really wants to just stuff his phone somewhere and forget about it for the rest of the day, but he'll be back at some point.]

[torching]

that's fine. just...be careful.

[lovelledup]

Yeah. You too.