applenet | COUNTDOWN: FUTURE & PAST

It's been a week since the first network post. Upon waking up early Saturday morning, you notice that the app is not responding. Is it finally over, as strangely as it began?

Which makes explaining what happened impossible. Others have already tried to figure out more about it, but nothing has been working. Bringing it to a repair shop to get it looked at? No programs found. Even getting the phone completely wiped did nothing, as the icon just showed up a few minutes after they walked out of the store. Showed it to a family member? The minute you blinked or turned it around to show them, it simply wasn't there.

It's taunting you. Whoever programmed this is really good. Frighteningly so.

Saturday night rolls and still nothing from the application. The news this Saturday is nothing special. There's been another fire at night that was put out by the firemen and an instance of someone being outside. According to both departments, neither of the incidents are connected. It's just a case of someone who wasn't back home in time and unfortunate damage to a building that occurred with some of the habitats still sleeping inside. It is a tragedy, but no city can survive without any loss of life. It's simply mathematically impossible. It's notable enough that it gets second page billing and a blurb in the morning news, but nothing too huge.

At least you had assumed.

The warning bells of the Nightly Curfew ring across the city as a few people finish locking their doors for the night. As the last bits of light fade from the city, the night lights take over. Civilians are settling in for a late supper and preparations for school or work tomorrow.

Not you, however. There's been a damn headache building for the past hour and by now your ears are ringing. Food doesn't look appetizing and you feel an urge to go to bed early. Maybe you caught the flu or maybe it's just pre-Monday blues a day early, which makes it all the more frustrating. The flower festival is tomorrow!

Either way, a little shut-eye would be welcome at this point. You don't even think too hard about it, and the headache fades into blissful sleep.

...I am thou...thou art I...your chains will soon break away....
2AM and you snap awake. The strange foreboding voice of...something echos in your head. It's the only thing you can hear, with your headache gone, and the quietness of the city is fast asleep. You're not sure why, but the voice makes you get up and grab your phone.

It's humming softly. The icon is glowing again. Before you do, you take a look around and suddenly notice...nothing's moving. Nothing but you. Almost as if time was frozen.

Is that even possible?

You can't back down now. Pressing the button reveals another terms of agreement, but it looks quite different. It's almost...gentle?

It may take a while or near instantly, but you eventually take your finger and trace your name over the signature area to continue. You've gotten this far in any case and this one isn't trying to kill you...at least you think. Yet as your hand moves to write your name, it gets replaced into other letters. Another name that tells you nothing. Somehow you feel like you should, but it's...it's...

It stays there for a few more seconds, leaving you with your thoughts before the contract disappears.

You're back into that chatroom again. Questions pop up in rapid succession before you're even permitted to type anything else. Once more, it seems that you find yourself typing things that aren't matching up with what you really want to say.

At least...you think...

What is your name?
Write it here.

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
Yes | No

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
Yes | No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes | No | Yes, but (insert your reason here)

Did you enjoy it?
Yes | No | It's complicated (but yes) | It's complicated (but no) | It's just complicated

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! It's like team bonding, we promise!
Write it down here.

With questions like that and nothing around you moving, you feel like it's going to be a very, very, very long night.

[OOC: Starting from now on, the network posts will allow users to post their names, but they will show up as their CANON ones. The user's persona can be added at the end, or not show up at all. Additionally, the occupations will still be censored.

MEMORY REGAIN: Right before their answers are posted, they will also get a longer flash of someone calling them by this name. The memory HAS to be someone calling them by their name. It could be both a good or a bad memory, that is up to you.]

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how should i know? what if i have a different last name?

It...doesn't look like you even have a last name.

... mako.

i can't even type my actual last name

I'm honestly starting to think they're stealing our identities.

i seriously want to delete this asap but
you know, they make it a little too easy to do that right

Yeah...

So what do you make of these answers. The first one I could write off cause there was a limited selection...but these we ended up actually typing out for the most part.

it seriously beats me. i don't ever remember working for a criminal organization, nor do i remember killing anyone. why would i do something like that...?

unless it was out of self-defense, but i'm pretty sure i'd remember if i actually killed someone.

Yeah...I also apparently answered "Yes" to the killing question...

Like...I'm not a fighter. I don't even stand up for myself. How could I...

[John stops and then switches gears]

...but I guess the answer I supposedly gave said they didn't have souls. So like...what were they then?

Something... dark, perhaps? Almost a void of black? Something that lacks light or life.

Forgive me for adding to this. But... for some reason, that image comes to mind. Some hold-over from the waking dream I had this evening, I think.

((ooc: and sorry couldn't resist a thread tangent/add on; tell me if it's out of line, though!))

I don't know...I haven't really seen them. But...it's weird cause that kinda sounds right? Like when I typed the answers I think that's what I was thinking of maybe. I just...can't remember what they are for sure? It's weird. It's even more obscure than the stupid visions have been.

None of my visions or 'waking dreams' have shown that though. It's mostly been these girls...although now that I think back on it, I was wearing armor in the dreams and one of the girls looked ready for combat too...and I was worried about her.

((ooc: NO PLEASE DO! It's fun to think that they might think they're having related memories for awhile.))

I only caught the vaguest impression of something similar, in my own memories. More like it was a dream within a dream, than anything else. But... there was a certain feeling of danger surrounding it. And of malevolence.

...Perhaps we both saw the same movie at some point or another, and the memory of that viewing is manifesting in our subconscious?

[Someone is becoming increasingly desperate.]

((OOC: Excellent! And other people, feel free to jump in too?))

Maybe...but it doesn't feel like that...

And why would the app be making us mix up movies like that

I'm not sure why; I can only guess at the methods of madmen who write their TOS the way they do.

[No, still not letting that go.]

And I just... prefer to avoid going with gut feelings at the moment. I'm trying to think this through rationally. Or as rationally as I can, for it being this early in the morning.

To be honest, the fact we have some strange common memory is... unnerving, to put it simply. But for all that, I can't get it out of my head right now.

Heh, yeah, it's hard to think logically when you're behind in sleep. I dunno though...my gut is usually pretty reliable.

Have you...met anyone else with similar memories before?

No, but then again I've been more busy with my own studies and extracurricular activities, more often than not. The subject never came up, before now.

Yeah, I guess this isn't exactly something you would just bring up...

it's alright. we're working on it.

who knows? do you remember anything from those weird memories we've been having?

Just some girls that I was apparently friends with...I think?

The very first one I had I was worried about her...she looked like she was going to go fight someone or something that's for sure. Come to think of it, I think I remember wearing armor on a regular basis too...

huh...that's weird

doesn't sound like something that happened here, that's for sure.

That's for sure...

HEY! WAIT A MINUTE!

Edited 2017-05-31 01:03 (UTC)

heh
sorry couldn't help myself

but on a serious note? armor?

Yeah, right. >:p

But, yeah, armor. Like a chest plate and arm guards and stuff...not like a full knight thing, but it kinda reminded me of that. I think I had a sword and shield too though which might be why I was thinking of a knight.

:)

and that's also what i meant by those visions not really being possible in a world like this.
nobody walks around wearing armor and holding a sword and a shield

True. I mean, unless it's like a costume party.

...

But I don't think this was a costume party I was "seeing" or whatever. What about you? What have your...visions or whatever been like?

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