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Entry tags:
- !event; countdown; day 14,
- !open post,
- alucard,
- chikusa kakimoto,
- elizabeth bathory,
- featherine augustus aurora,
- gladion,
- jaune arc,
- jirou sakuma,
- koujirou genda,
- lenka utsugi,
- louis,
- mako,
- makoto fukami,
- mitsuru kirijo,
- nakigitsune,
- nobunaga oda,
- okuyasu nijimura,
- pharos,
- raidou kuzunoha xiv,
- yuuri katsuki
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.
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.]
Mitsuru Kirijo ⚔ Naberius
[She's forcing a sense of calm into her typing. She won't help herself or anyone else by losing her cool... tempting as that proposition is right now.]
The program is growing more complicated, as are the effects. I can't even begin to guess at why the messages were typed the way they were... short of some form of subliminal messaging.
Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor
but I don't know of any school called Beacon and I don't know of any girl I might have blamed myself for something over...I think that worries me most. Did I do something to someone?
Mitsuru Kirijo ⚔ Naberius
And my memories insisted on using that username... I know that subliminal messages are a far flung idea, but given how tired I was when writing out the answers, it's the only thing I can think of. And I can't seem to change this display name, even though my name isn't Mitsuru. It's Mitsuru.
...Again?
Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor
[He doesn't know how to feel about any of this. These memories or hallucinations or whatever are getting more intense and harder to ignore. The difficult thing is...they feel too real to actually completely dismiss.]
Yeah. That happens to me every time I try to type Jaune instead of the username. Apparently it's a little like when it censors personal information.
Mitsuru Kirijo ⚔ Naberius
...I don't have a high opinion of this. But I am also at a loss on what to do. Beyond trying to continue to study where I can. I don't want my exam scores and grades to suffer because of these occurrences.
[...If this interferes with her test scores then so help her-
Michelle pauses at the keyboard, over that unexpected flare of irritation. Truly, this program has a talent for worming under her skin and bringing out the strange and mostly hidden sides to her personality.]
Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor
And this isn't really helping...
Mitsuru Kirijo ⚔ Naberius
This said, I understand the feeling of pressure, and needing to figure out what your plans for the future are. I suppose that might be why I feel so determined to pass with high marks; those will help one way or another, whatever other decision is made for me.
Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor
So, are we sure it's just going to fade away after the deadline passes? Seems a little too easy...