applenet | COUNTDOWN: THE SMALL VOICE THAT RINGS OUT

Seven days remain. Or so it would seem. Somehow you might not still be convinced. This is all just a strange coincidence, but to go as far as to claim that you have other memories... can it?

But things have already been set alight inside the hearts of those chosen few who have received the app on their phones. For some, it's just the first bite of the apple. For others, it's been like shaking down an entire tree. Things are beginning to look... strange. Surely there are more burning questions on their minds by now.

The warning bells of the Nightly Curfew ring across the city. There's a faint hum from the phone this time before the icon appears. This time it displays a time: 1:00AM

The rest of the night is normal. Perhaps you've cuddled up with family, or you've gone to bed early to wait, but sure enough, time tick by right until 1 in the morning when...

You're back into that application again. A single question before you're even permitted to type anything else. And while it seems to be overwritten by something inside of you, it feels a lot more natural than before. Which is, truthfully... troubling.

WELCOME TO THE FINAL QUIZ!
Answer from the heart, the part of you that has been denied for far too long.

Do you want to remember?
Yes | Hell Yes| Definitely | Of course I do!

And yet, a tiny little font at the bottom. A bit hard to miss but if you hover your finger over it will answer for you...

No. Not yet...
Once you are done, you are tossed once more into the main chatroom. Now your user names are the names that you wrote down in the last survey, but with all those questions it's... hard not to think of them as your own. Maybe you'll be cursing at this device, but it looks like you're already deep down the rabbit hole by now.

[OOC: This is the final network post before Awakening. Users will now be able to speak of who they are in their AU life without the information being blocked by the application.

As a note! Characters who select "no" will not need to Awaken next week and will be able to delay to later. Instead, the character will be able to proceed with logs as a Pre-Awakened, be aware of certain issues happening in the city, however their memories will not be complete and they will be unable to fight back (apart from their own weapons). Note that they will be unable to use a Persona until they fully Awaken. There will be more details to follow, if you pick this option.

As always, while they will not get any new on their own, speaking with Luci might grant the Awakened more memories... be careful that they don't get more than they bargained for.]

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You eat it. Your mouth is big enough that it should fit.

but you make way better gagging noises than i ever could

You won't know if you don't try.

id rather see the tutorial again just to be sure

Hmm...I think I'd be embarrassed if I were that obtuse.

isnt just existing humiliating enough for you

Of course not. I have a lot of fun. You should try it sometime instead of being so surly.

[yeah, he's sure puking in front of an authority figure was just a fucking blast for him.]

but thats not fun

[Well, that just means they were both giving it their all, right? If he looks at it that way, he can't really be upset about what happened.

...excepting the detention he inevitably got afterwards, of course.

That was decidedly not fun.]

Well, what IS fun to you?

why
you gonna throw a party for me

Why would I do that? You're not the party type, I can tell.

But the two of us can do something you find fun.

[You're a jerk, Vincent, but this won't be the first time Fubuki has tried to get along with someone he doesn't like for the sake of teamwork.]

didnt seem like you were having such a good time last time

[yes, he found all of that ridiculously fun. it is very likely someone dropped him on his head at some point as a child.]

Most people don't find throwing up very fun. But I wasn't talking about that.

What else do you like to do?

[Besides be an asshole, he means.]

not much you could keep up with

[so, mostly being an asshole.]

Oh? Try me.

[...he can't NOT rise to the challenge of speed.]

drug binges

[did someone say speed?

...this is a sort of misleading answer anyway, but Vincent's not above throwing some of those out there. while he occasionally dabbled in the softer recreational drugs, what he was talking about here was watching his friends blow their brains out from a sober perspective while he laughed and decided if it was worth looking after them.]

No...that sounds depressing.

[While the Aliea meteorite wasn't exactly a drug, the effects it seemed to have on people weren't much different. He didn't want any part of anything that made him less himself, and he certainly didn't want to watch anyone else do that to themselves, either. It was harmful, often in irreversible ways. It wasn't worth it. There were better ways to achieve 'highs' than that.]

How about something not so self-destructive?

its only self-destructive if you dont make it to the hospital in time

[and so far no one he's known and halfway cared about have failed that test. maybe...just a bit because his eyes were so sharp and his fingers so swift.]

But you can't really enjoy yourself if you don't have a clear head.

losing your heads the enjoyable part

I don't know. That doesn't really make any sense to me. How can you enjoy something if you're not really all there?

Let's do something else. This time pick something that isn't dumb.

its just like this bullshit
the appeals being something youre not and running away from your bullshit
only in this case you get to go back after

anyway
thats not possible if i have to drag you along

Are you that unhappy with who you are?

not at all
but everyone else seems to be

Oh...but you said the appeal of drug binges was being something you're not. So either you're not happy, or you don't really do that sort of thing. Which is it?

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