7 DAYS REMAIN

[cordibus]

Seven days remain. As the last day of the festival draws to a close, the only thing of interest to note for the week is how great everything has gone. Not a single attack has been reported...

But things have already been set alight inside the hearts of those chosen few who have received the app on their phones. For some, it's just the first bite of the apple. For others, it's been like shaking down an entire tree. Things are beginning to look...strange. Surely there are more burning questions on their minds by now.

The warning bells of the Nightly Curfew ring across the city. There's a faint hum from the phone this time before the icon appears. This time it displays a time: 1:00AM

The rest of the night is normal. Perhaps you've cuddled up with family, or you've gone to bed early to wait, but sure enough, time tick by right until 1 in the morning when....

You're back into that application again. A single question before you're even permitted to type anything else. And while it seems to be overwritten by something inside of you, it feels a lot more natural than before. Which is, truthfully...troubling.

WELCOME TO THE FINAL QUIZ!
Answer from the heart, the part of you that has been denied for far too long.

Is your life here a lie?
Yes | Definitely | Sure | I've had my doubts before, but yes | Hell Yes | There is no other conclusion | I wish I could deny it and live here peacefully but it's true.

Thank you...that will be all. Let us see what your heart blooms into...

Once you are done, you are tossed once more into the main chatroom. Now your user names are the names that you wrote down in the last survey, but with all those questions it's....hard not to think of them as your own. Maybe you'll be cursing at this device, but it looks like you're already deep down the rabbit hole by now.

[OOC: This is the final network post before Awakening. Users will now be able to speak of who they are in their AU life without the information being blocked by the application.

Additionally, while they will not get any new on their own, speaking with Luci might grant the Awakened more memories...be careful that they don't get more than they bargained for.]

Comments

[catchthishand]

or what a app that opens up past lives?
whats more bullshit that this is all fake or that its all REAL and some of the people here are murderers?

[catchthishand]

i mean
do you know anyone whos on here??
if you do
then maybe you can stick to them??

[kouteipenguin]

Sort of

[catchthishand]

[ Rommy listens closely, ignoring his own memories for the moment ]

Shit, that's-

[ All incredibly fucked up ]

A jetpack? Robots? And whoever made this app expects you to believe this crap?

[ It's hypocritical, considering how real his own memories of monsters and death felt- feel, but he's willing to be hypocritical, if it convinces his twin.

Besides, there was just something so natural about the creature standing at his back, that is missing from Lonan's words about men in sunglasses with rocketpacks ]

Besides, it isn't even keeping straight what your name there's supposed to be.

[catchthishand]

then you can try that!
or like
dont go out after curfew
and stay in groups and shit
like the cops have been saying

[kouteipenguin]

I've never broken curfew. we keep hearing about people who did...

[probablynoteren]

i thought of that, but time stopped last week. apparently. [that still feels weird to type, he's still not even sure if that wasn't them misunderstanding something -- en masse] no running water.

[At least, not during the hallucination before last.]

Miu Matsuoka ⚔ Beall

[extremelycute]

It's not really true, is it? I don't like it. It's too confusing.

[probablynoteren]

chikusa...

[It's debatable whether he's addressing him by screen name or addressing the fact of the screen name itself (or not-so-screen name), and isn't that the thing? He's still not sure what to make of 'Lenka', besides a name on a screen and a call in his ear sometimes when the visions seep into his dreams.]

it's hard to deny. but does that mean the question is right?

[It's a leap to go from possible memories to denying, in turn, the life he's lived. Just a bit of a leap, he thinks.]

[onlythankyou]

[He turns to give the phone a quick examination. It's the red one, so...]

I think that's the one from the other shop. It was a prepaid, but I think you can just put your old sim card in and not worry about any service hiccups.

[He...thinks that's how it works? Who knows. They'll figure it out if it comes up.]

Elizabeth Bathory ⚔ Baal

[umbral_idol]

I don't remember leaving the city, but let's be realistic here: My father's job basically demands business trips outside the city, so if he doesn't leave the city, there's something weird going on.

It's true that I can't actually recall a time we left the city together, though.

[onlythankyou]

It felt real enough at the time. I think not knowing who I was was part of the point, though - it was an identity crisis. Stuck in the middle, between the creepy voice and the other people.

[He shrugs. That's all he's got. It had messed with him so badly, even if it sounds like something out of a bad movie in hindsight.]

And it was utter mood whiplash with the other one from last week.

[Yeah. There was another.]

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

[onlythankyou]

Back to my theories about government plots and mass hypnosis, then. I don't really know what to think anymore.

I get it. I'm pretty worked up, too.

[onlythankyou]

Robots, jetpacks, clones, crystal skulls, and I think I was a clown.

Talking motorcycle is pretty weird, though. Could you drive yourself?

[That's totally what we should be focusing on, here.]

[onlythankyou]

Right, the third... It was utterly different from the others I've had.

Yeah. We're twins. I don't know if it would be more or less comforting if he weren't part of this.

[On the one hand, Rommy wouldn't be involved in whatever this mess is, and Lonán knows he'd still be there for him. On the other, it would be so alien and bizarre to have something he couldn't share with his brother.]

[onlythankyou]

Brainwashing has come up. I'm not surprised, but it looks bad.

Hang in there, alright? Give in and the app wins.

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

[onlythankyou]

With everything we've seen, felt, and done in regard to this app, it's the only thing that makes the pieces fit together well. We don't get a choice to stop using it, either.

It's bullshit.

[catchthishand]

yeah exactly
just dont do anything that would let a serial killer get to you
like go into alleys by yourself
or visit a haunted house

[catchthishand]

[ He's nodding- he gets that, he really does. The overwhelming reality of the memories is hard to ignore-

Wait.

What? ]

Other memory? Lonny, how many of those did you get?

[catchthishand]

Huh, alright.

It connected to the WiFi alright, so I think it's good for now.

[ He's typing quickly, now, and he's scowling as he sends out message after message, seemingly getting pissed at the app again. ]

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[kouteipenguin]

Yeah.

What's your theory about this awakening?

Okuyasu Nijimura ⚔ Marchosias

[catchthishand]

yeah
we all do
its fucking bullshit though
nothing its showing is real

[onlythankyou]

Just the three. [Did Rommy not get a third? One of the Eligors brought it up, he'd assumed it was another group deal. If not...why would some people get it and not others?] Did you not get a third...?

...It was strange. Not upsetting, and bizarrely mundane, especially in comparison to the first two. And I wasn't even looking at my phone at the time.

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

[onlythankyou]

I don't think it's that much of a theory that we'll be given some task to complete, at this point. We can probably expect more hallucinations, too. Did you get a third last week? It doesn't seem like everyone did.

I really hope it doesn't mean anything awful. I have family using this.

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Ha ha ha! Trying to steer this conversation towards you so you can have a semblance of control? Tsk tsk...

Luci: But I will humor you. I'm helping because it is amusing.