applenet | 5/15- What I think and what I know

SHAX shax@applenet.net
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Nineteen days left, if I’m not mistaken. The chat has been active enough I haven’t read over everything, but in the interest of information, I’ll list out what I know. Please tell me if your experience differs from anything on the following list - these are not facts, just observations.

1. The Terms of Service are vague, nonsensical, and gave no way out. They read like something that exists because it has to, not because anyone cares that it exists. They reference night shifts and death.
2. The app cannot be deleted, erased, or removed, nor can it be found on your phone company’s app store. No mention is made of it anywhere online.
3. The app will follow you to any device. Computers, tablets, new phones, and so on; they all display it. I’ve picked up several burner phones, all of which had it. I also found it on my graphing calculator today.
4. The app knows your personal information, somehow, even on burner phones where you’ve left no personal information. It also doesn’t operate on a list of buzzwords. For example, I can say my name is Blinky or my name is Bob, but if I try to say my name is [INFORMATION LOCKED], it does...well. That.
5. The app refuses to be seen by anyone else. Trying to show it to others makes it disappear completely.
6. Trying to tell someone about the app via email brings up the same information lock, and then the app itself opens up to yell at you.
7. The app refuses to be ignored. Trying only causes it to force your attention. In my case, the app grew on the homescreen to twice the size an app should take. I don’t doubt it would have kept growing, had I not accidentally tapped it when I did.
8. The app does not register on the data management screen, despite its obvious network use.
9. No user downloaded the app of their own volition. It simply appeared out of nowhere, already on each affected phone.
10. No user picked their own username. Several of them are repeated, and all have either swords or a ship’s wheel attached. The wheel is much rarer. All usernames appear to be demons. There is no indication what meaning the swords and wheels have yet.
11. All users suffered an intense headache upon first using the app. This was accompanied by a few seconds of blanking out and experiencing some hallucination or daydream.
12. No user selected their own answer to the morality question. The answers chosen were not what the user would have chosen.
13. All users live somewhere with a strict curfew, where nighttime is dangerous. This suggests all users live in a small geographic vicinity. Specifically, Eddan.

Again, these are not necessarily facts, just what I’ve gathered. If you have anything to add, please do so.

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As for the rest.

There's a certain phrasing I've heard in psychology classes... that in a rational world, if one's reason cannot be applied to a situation, it is not the world itself at fault, but the person's mind. Some angle that hasn't been considered yet, or has been blocked via a shared psychological stress. If we're in the same area, that could be likely.

[...Or. There's the other option. That it isn't a flaw in perception, but a flaw in the mind itself. But she hesitates in typing that. Tries to and deletes it several times. There's no way she can type and send, without wondering if that means her own mind is being affected.]

I don't want to claim anything more than that theory. But... at the same time, I'm running out of options on how to classify this. And it makes more sense than dismissing reality itself.

And I'm sorry; I had a notion on how to meet in physical space, but it's escaped me at the moment.

I have few remaining ideas, outside of the ridiculous, but right now the most likely thing...also hinges on the idea that everyone is in Eddan. I can't discern a purpose, but it connects more of the pieces than anything else I've considered.

I'm still putting the theory together, though. I don't want to call it solid until there's a little more weight to the patterns I noted.

Keep thinking. There has to be a way around it somehow.

I can certainly promise you I'll continue to consider this. I don't think I could force it from my mind at this point.

And since it remains unfinished and unsolved business, I'm not entirely certain I'd WANT to leave it alone if I had the choice.

I may wish to hear that theory at some point.

[But perhaps only once she's exhausted all her current options. Even if she can't figure out a tactful way to type that.]

I'll leave you to it, then. I'd like to know what you come up with.

Let me know if you need anything. I assume there's a way to ping someone specific on here somewhere.

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