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Entry tags:
- !event; countdown; day 21,
- alucard,
- chikusa kakimoto,
- featherine augustus aurora,
- jaune arc,
- jirou sakuma,
- koujirou genda,
- lenka utsugi,
- louis,
- mako,
- makoto fukami,
- minako arisato,
- mitsuru kirijo,
- miu matsuoka,
- nakigitsune,
- nobunaga oda,
- okuyasu nijimura,
- pharos,
- raidou kuzunoha xiv,
- sakuya kira,
- sion astal,
- tatsuya suou,
- yuuri katsuki,
- yuuto kidou
COUNTDOWN : MORTALITY
Many had thought it over, but a few days ago it happened again. Bodies slashed and mutilated beyond recognition so that that only dental records could be used to ID the victims. Pieces of bodies strung along power lines and roofs.. The same horrifying events as nearly a year ago...
Back then, the response from the Eddan city council and its police force, however draconian it seemed at the time, was necessary. As death after death of normal citizens began to pile up and a pattern emerged, a lockdown was ordered after sunset. Companies shifted their hours around and before long, the city had adjusted to a daytime only work and school schedule. Many businesses opened dormitories to house those employees stuck working late. Only police, hospital and firemen units operated at night for emergencies.
The city seemed to return to normal. Horrific deaths were few, and blame was usually placed on the victims having for breaking curfew. Despite extensive research and cameras stationed around the city, no culprit for the murders was found. The murder(or murderers) simply were nicknamed Shadow(s) by the media.
Before this new string of murders, many had pondered if the curfew could be lifted soon, that the culprit was a serial killer from another country that left the city after the police came too close to narrowing them down. But now the murders are starting again.
And that's about when you come in.
You could all say it started with a strange icon that popped up on your phone that day. May 13th, 2017.
Did you press it right away out of curiosity? Did you press it accidentally trying to dismiss it? Or did you wait long enough for it to cover your entire screen, forcing you to interact with it? Either way, congratulations! You've got...a Terms of Service popping up in front of you?
Terms and Conditions ("Terms")
Last updated: May 13th, 2017
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You quickly notice there is no contact number or address. Uhh---
Yes | Hell Yes
It really seems like you don't have much choice. After pressing one of the two buttons, a new screen greets you.
21 DAYS REMAIN BEFORE AWAKENING
Welcome, stray lambs! We'll be your friends for a tiny bit. I'm sure the others are looking forward to meeting you in the future, but for now, we are asking you to answer these questions as truthfully as you can. Don't worry if the answer sounds 'bad'. After all, you're already hired!
Are they... acting like they’ve just hired you for a new job?
The first (and only) question for today is:
You find yourself in a neighboring city where the police have captured an individual who has stolen bread from a grocery store to stay alive. For the sake of this morality lesson, let us say that the penalty in this city is death, and a very painful one. This individual is a childhood friend. Knowing all of this, what do you do? Please pick one of the following:
1) I stand up for them and propose to be their lawyer so that they get a fair trial.
2) I stand up for them and propose to be their lawyer so that they get a fair trial. I have no idea what being a lawyer could even be, but that way I can figure out a way to save them and give myself more time.
3) I stand up for them and propose to hire a lawyer so that they get a fair trial.
4) I let the city decide, as the law rules above everything else.
5) They shouldn't have let themselves be caught. It's their own fault and I just let it happen.
6) They bullied you as a kid despite being a friend and you're just happen to see them getting their just desserts. It's pretty great actually.
7) Society is unfair. I'm are already preparing to bust my friend out of the jail so they can escape.
8) I visit jail that night and give them items so that they can escape but no one can pin it on me. The rest is up to them.
9) I show up that night in jail to kill them to save them from the future suffering from the death penalty.
10) I use my vast amounts of fortune / skills to put the blame on an innocent so that they can get out. Hey that other guy is a stranger, so it’s not my problem!
11) What do you mean I showed up in that city? I can barely find my way around this one.
12) I propose to exchange my life for theirs, then I try to bust myself out. Take that, corrupted justice system!
13) I go back home and watch the trial on the local network with a fresh bowl of popcorn. This shit's gonna be good.
As you go to pick out an option...or try to exit out of it, you witness an all-too brief memory of a life you think isn't yours. A flash that makes you think you were hallucinating. Your head hurts, your heartbeat increases dramatically, and you can barely see anything ahead of you...
Wait, did you already pick something? You don't remember touching the screen, but something's already been highlighted and pressed for you. Staring at the 'saving' prompt, you would later find out it was a deeper memory from your heart. It might terrify you, what you've picked.
After that, the program displays nothing else for a few seconds before a chatroom (appleNET chat v.301.01) boots up, with a username already attached to your account and a little icon, either a sword or a ship steering wheel, next to it. More worryingly, your answer is the first thing posted from your name. Not even a hi or hello.
Well good thing no one has any idea who you are....right?
[OOC: The memory should only last for a few seconds, but it would be something significant that would surprise them. It could even related to this question!
All mentions of their own name, profession or other clues that might reveal who they are would be changed to [INFORMATION LOCKED]. The only name they can refer to themselves by is their username, which is the name of the demon you chose for their Persona. 'Family members might be able to find each other via their writing habits, but for now that's the limit.
Welcome to the game, and have fun!]
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oh. [he feels a bit bad for asking, but] i can see why it would be twisted. there were other answers like that.
[And there were people who'd sent them. It's kind of a clumsy attempt to make her feel better about it, maybe.]
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I don't think myself as such a person, but I can see how my attitude can be twisted to such disturbing ends. A few others received the same treatment. So I assumed all answers were being dragged out to get a reaction from the original user.
However, if your answer was honest, that would mean mine was.
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so what you're saying is your answer is a potential answer. i'm not sure how that would be different from an honest one.
[Because the hypothetical situation was so removed from context and the daily Eddan life he knows, he has to consider his own answer a potential one as well. A bad question. And now he's being a little more blunt with it, given that she seems open to straight-up speculating without beating around the bush.]
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Your answer is slightly rebellious, mostly safe, and generally free from suspicion. Others are also similarly 'average' in that regard, but mine is too much of a risk for any sane person to take.
Thus we're back at square one: where did the answers come from? I'm a bit stumped now.
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[He considers his phone, with all its dings and wear, even as he settles back; at home now, safely, somehow. There's still a chill down his back when he thinks about the poisonous glow on his phone and the deserted subway station.]
but it's an app in a phone. i don't think it would be taken seriously. [he thinks he's taking it about as seriously as it could warrant, and that's on the malware end rather than the philosophical one] there are a lot of people, and not a lot of answers. i still think it could be automated. like spam.
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Disappointing. ]
I do not think anything that gives people hallucinations should be written off so easily. I've received spam before but nothing has reached quite this level. But I suppose it could be written off as that by fools.
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i didn't [want to think that the hallucination was related to the app, maybe just the product of a long day and too much time inhaling dirt] know how widespread any hallucinations were. it's not foolish to consider that the answers don't have as much meaning as they appear.
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Then let's have a pop quiz. What's the point of asking a question that has no meaning? Your answer must be at least three hundred characters or I'm docking fifty points.
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does this app let you write 300 characters at once? [you're not his real teacher!! thus, a bit of cheekiness] i didn't say that there wasn't a meaning. the answers can still be useful if they're automatic, like for generating usernames.
[Which is also a flawed theory, but what's another one on top of the pile.]
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Text does not get my tone across well, but I am joking.
Also, counterargument. I have met another Dantalion and they did not share my forced answer.
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[Or more likely put them into a word counter, but still, effort! Why so much effort for what amounts to a bad joke, he doesn't understand some people.]
i met another eligor with my answer.
[And now they're stuck at a bit of an impasse, which is kind of silly.]
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[ Tmw they actually counted for a bad joke. Better or worse? ]
Maybe you have an evil twin that's out to steal your place in reality? That would be very cute. Please go fight to the death to see who is better Eligor.
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[The deadpan is impossible to get across in text, but it's there. Why is it so funny that she sat there and counted the letters, but at least some kind of joke happened.]
they didn't seem very evil. more confused. if we fight to the death over the app, we'd lose.
[Is he serious? Mostly not. Mostly.]