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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.]
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-22 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Not this much.

[He'll indulge her in distractions- he wants them too, after all.]
1in_perfection: (Default)

Mitsuru Kirijo ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] 1in_perfection 2017-05-22 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I thought as much. There seems to be something... off in my head. Making me type a very slight touch different from before.

Maybe it's just the late hour. It could be that.
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-23 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's this app.
1in_perfection: (Stormy)

[personal profile] 1in_perfection 2017-05-23 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
But outside of subliminal messages... I'm unsure how an app could trigger any of what happened.

...Though I did take the precaution of throwing away my headache medicine. I wouldn't mind shifting some of the blame of what happened onto taking something past its expiration, earlier tonight.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-24 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard to tell with the level of censorship that this app engages what is similar enough between all of us to have us experience similar things.... besides the app itself.
1in_perfection: (Billow)

[personal profile] 1in_perfection 2017-05-26 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you don't mind if I ask a question or two, in the hopes that we can find some sort of common factor?

You didn't happen to have any headaches earlier today, did you? Maybe due to stress, or fatigue?

I ask because something like that happened to me.
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-28 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
....I did have a headache, yes. It was building up for around an hour, I think, before I decided there was no helping it and just went to bed.

The first time this app showed up, along with the vision, I thought it was due to a certain kind of medication I'm on.... but I've stopped taking it. So I can't blame this occurrence on it.
1in_perfection: (Ready)

[personal profile] 1in_perfection 2017-05-31 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Interesting. And the first vision I had, I blamed on basic headache medicine. But if we've both been off of it for the subsequent visions... that rules out that as a factor.

I apologize for prying further but: are you certain you'll be well, if it's a prescribed medication?
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-01 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I'm not, actually, but thank you for asking.

[He should probably start taking that again...]