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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] applenet2017-05-20 07:31 pm

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.]
extremelycute: (12: Oh I’m so embarrassed~)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-22 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. You have a wheel.

This isn't a dream, right? I'd pinch myself, but I don't hold back so I might hurt myself. So you pinch yourself instead.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

I tried something like that, but someone important to me made me stop. But I can feel him.
extremelycute: (5: Matsuoka Miu-chan!)

1/2

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What were you doing with someone else so late at night, huh?
extremelycute: (13: Eh? What?)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-22 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I see. Never mind, forget I asked.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-23 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm 70% sure you're thinking of the wrong thing.
extremelycute: (4: The ever so lovely...)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-23 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
That feels kind of low. I was being pretty direct.

But I just said I'd stop joking about it, but here I am. I guess it makes me kind of nervous when I have to be all serious and stuff.
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-24 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have someone who makes you feel better?
extremelycute: (15: #%@&…)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-24 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be pretty sad if I didn't, huh? But I guess I do. He's sort of my partner. I'd say more, but it'd probably end up all censored like I'm trying to talk dirty to you.
kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-25 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
This app makes it really easy for us all to sound really perverted. It'd be funny if it wasn't confusing.
extremelycute: (11: Right?)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-30 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't seem like the purpose of this app is to make us all sound like we're making dirty jokes, unfortunately. That's a missed punchline for sure.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-31 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
A shame the app makers didn't put in an contact information page, or else we could file complaints.
extremelycute: (10: ...gotta be the most popular.)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-05-31 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
If this weren't so creepy, I'd spam messages over and over until someone replied. But I'm worried this app will make my phone explode or something at this point, and I've got too many good characters in my idol game.
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-01 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there no way to save what's on your account beyond keeping it on your phone?
extremelycute: (3: Is everyone's idol)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-02 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Not for all of them. And if you had the rare event Rukimi in a swimsuit while eating watermelon card, you'd want to keep it, too.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-05 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Confession: I've never gotten into those games
extremelycute: (13: Eh? What?)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-05 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
So, you only think there's a 70% chance I'm making dirty jokes, and you don't like fanservice?

...There's time for cellphone games when you're older. Don't worry.


[What a pure child.]
kokuyoyo: (Woke up with a squirrel in my bed.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not saying I don't *like* fanservice, I just haven't really gotten into the games.

Don't they require money a lot of times anyway?
extremelycute: (Default)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-06 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of them are free to start, you know. If you download lots of them at once, there's always something to do in each one.

So you do like fanservice, huh? Who's your favorite? You have to have a favorite, right?
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

this whole thread is a gift i just want you to know

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-07 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
When I'm not on the verge of dying from doing a lot of work, I'll see, then, I guess.

What, from this game or something else? And are we going on gender or overall favorite?
extremelycute: (8: Good kid~)

i'm glad you like it! sorry for the late tag, it's been rough irl

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-19 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You sound like a real macho person. I bet you're a construction worker.

Oh, so it depends on the gender? That's very progressive of you, but I'm progressive, too. Okay, tell me both.
kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)

np hope rl gets better for you

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-21 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I mean. You can think that if you want.

For guys, it's Xane Daimon types with no question about it. So I guess villains with a heart of gold?

Girls are tougher. In your game, is there a girl that's quiet, but determined and blunt?
extremelycute: (3: Is everyone's idol)

thank you

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-21 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
I will, thank you. I'll probably never see you any other way.

Oh, so you like a bad boy, huh? But not too bad. The tsundere type. That's really popular these days.

As for girls, have you ever heard of Thelma Minkly? You should look her up.


[He will be met with results for this world's equivalent of a certain determined, smart, quiet woman.]
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-22 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Tsundere.... I guess so. Is the "shelters a kitten in the rain" scene still popular?

....You know, I hadn't made that connection, but you're absolutely right. I guess I just learned something about myself.
extremelycute: (8: Good kid~)

[personal profile] extremelycute 2017-06-22 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
That type is always popular, but recently lewd heroes are becoming popular, too. I like the classics most, I think.

You're a Thelma fan, huh? She's really great. Out of the five of them, I'm probably more like the villain at the end of the episode type.
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-23 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Lewd" heroes?

So does that mean you're into costumes and dramatics?

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