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

[probablynoteren]

protecting me from what? at the moment this app seems the only threatening thing.

[The only immediately threatening thing to his person, anyway. He doesn't immediately notice anything unusual about this reply, considering how active the app has been -- but there's something nagging at him regardless.]

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Just like you always have, right?

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Threatening is too strong a word maybe.

Luci: Perhaps mocking would be better.

[torching]

...do you think luci might be an admin?

[torching]

then you're asking the wrong person

[forsteri]

11: Not that I don't believe you. Just... weird. I can't not believe it after the stuff I've already seen this thing do.

[torching]

well...all of us can see it, at least. i guess i can test it on the people i know have it for sure

figuring out anything about the app seems pretty impossible, unless we get a someone with a background in computer science on it too. i'll keep trying to look for information.

[kokuyoyo]

Look at that symbol by their name. It's not either of the two anyone else had had yet, right?

[torching]

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

[torching]

[ he's going to make note of that little star next to luci's username. ]

wouldn't you like to know?

[torching]

well, it's safe to assume that outside help isn't really an option anymore.

[torching]

i noticed that, too.
the way they're talking is pretty suspicious

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Ha ha ha ha...kid, I already do.

[torching]

i knew it.
you're behind all of this, aren't you?

[kokuyoyo]

It's one thing to be confident or glib over this sort of thing happening. They're definitely not the first.

But... it's definitely different. Until proven otherwise, I think we can safely assume they're an admin.

[probablynoteren]

i mean that i don't know if we can see each other's.

[Though he can't think of any reason for the app to hide itself from people with the same app, unless the app -- he's starting to feel like he's giving it a personality at this point, which is ridiculous -- doesn't want them to identify themselves. For some reason.]

i don't know anyone personally that specialized... unless the app gives us more information, we're in the dark.

[probablynoteren]

i think it's both. i think most of the people here would agree with me.

[Annnnd... ding.]

you're the first i've seen with a star.

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Of course not!

Luci: I'm not standing behind anything.

[torching]

i think i got them

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: I like the star.

[anovelidea]

The offer is always open. I have enough disposable income to justify bankrolling a few experiments to the cause.

My current vote is government conspiracy. It's definitely wrong, but it's such a hilarious trope.

[torching]

oh.
yeah, still gonna test it on the people i've confirmed have the app.

[ he knows his family's got it, at least. lil bro, exchange sis. ]

for now. but i'm not giving up. there's gotta be a way to find out at least something
more than just...this.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm not sure what we could even do with it confirmed... but good luck.

[torching]

yeah, okay.

[torching]

well...i'm not gonna say no to money, i guess.

are you that same person who was yelling capitalism earlier