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

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Most of you are still here in one piece? Good.

Luci: Only a week remains! I bet you're getting kinda excited about the entire thing, right?

Luci: I know I am!

Luci: I think you're mind can take a little more abuse now.

Luci: Let's have some fun.

Luci: Baby questions are over now.

Luci: Answer me this, little lambs...

Luci: Have you ever left this city?

Luci: Have you ever seen anyone leave this city that you know personally?

Luci: ^_-

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

Of course I've left the city. I was adopted from a bit away.

[... Wasn't he?]

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Are you really? When's the last time you remember leaving?

Okuyasu Nijimura ⚔ Marchosias

[catchthishand]

im from the suburbs
the hell is this crap
what are you pulling this shit for?

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Right now my own amusement.

Luci: Besides if I told you everything and didn't let you discover it, what fun would that be?

Luci: Also your brains might explode.

Luci: That makes you a lot less useful.

Erika Furudo ⚔ Baalberith

[withoutred]

.... Ah. It's you again, the one with the even stranger symbol.

I wasn't _born_ here, so of course I've left. I just haven't had a reason to go back since.

[ Even if she's... kind of struggling to remember her home's name, now. Oops. ]

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: So where was your first home?

Koujirou Genda ⚔ Marchosias

[beastfang]

Many never leave their place of birth, but what you are saying is that such 'common knowledge' is perhaps false regarding this city?

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Why think about it unless someone points it out?

Luci: After all, ignorance is bliss.

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[probablynoteren]

of course i've left. i came from outside this city.

[His mind is racing, though, going through all of his various friends, acquaintances, not-so-friends, and anyone he knows. Everyone talks about vacation eventually, the various clubs dream of national events, people must come from abroad still to attend all of Eddan's festivals. Why, just last weekend they all...

So what is it that Luci is asking?]

what are you up to? luci.

✪ Luci

[lightmischief]

Luci: Just playing my part.

Luci: This is the interesting bit, after all.

Luci: Have you left since you have this app?

Jirou Sakuma ⚔ Dantalion

[forsteri]

[Luci, with a symbol no one else on this network has. He's seen that name here before, but never replied to it until now.]

I can't remember, but I must have, or at least, my family did. My parents immigrated here.

[... Didn't they? Why is he doubting it? Yoshio knows almost nothing about his parents, and yet he'd been certain of that. That had been a constant truth. He and his brother had grown up speaking both Japanese and the language in Eddan. But...]

You know something about why I'm doubting this. Don't you?

Kiriya Kujo ⚔ Baalberith

[truthkills]

okay so this week left thing

you gotta have a release date and can't just get it over with?

if this really turns out to be some kind of movie ad after all I'm gonna be disappointed

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[kokuyoyo]

[Ciro ends up staring at the screen for a long while before answering at all.]

I'm dreading it, actually. We haven't gotten any answers at all.

Although speaking of which- that last contract promised services, didn't it? If I answer yours, will you answer two of my own questions?

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

[onlythankyou]

I haven't, personally, not unless you count the suburbs, but I know several people from outside.

You're implying that we don't know what we know.

[He's smart enough to figure out the real point of that question. It lines up a little too nicely with his experiences so far, that's... Not the point. Luci's about, time to try and get some information.]

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[kouteipenguin]

Heard of, yes. But... no, I haven't seen it happen. Is that weird? No one I know would be able to.

It is weird, isn't it? You wouldn't ask if it wasn't.

Ankh ☸ Andrealphus

[connivingbird]

What a stupid question; of course I had just not too recently.

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[foxhands]

i haven't left
but lots of people don't

[He can guess what Luci's getting at, but.]

Guts ⚔ GLASYA-LABOLAS

[blackdogdown]

Is that a challenge.

He's lying in the back of his car right now, keys in hand. He could go right? Nothing could stop him from driving right out of this city.

I've never had a reason to leave this place, yeah, and I've never cared to. Are you saying theres something stopping us?

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

Hello, Morningstar. Interesting that you've chosen that name to give us information.

Pharos ☸ Ronove

[seasonsofdeath]

I haven't left. But I think my mom's not from here.

Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor

[sociallyarcward]

Uh, yeah, I lived in the country for like the first seven years of my life before moving here...

Featherine Augustus Aurora ⚔ Dantalion

[anovelidea]

[ When Shax first mentioned the Star, her first assumption was moderator. Making a note to pick on him later into atting more abilities to the program. Why can't she can't change her icon? This name is too long. Needs more :shib: emotes!

Get away from her daughter.

Calm down, don't shoot the monitor, it wouldn't actually do anything except ruin her writing career. Reacting with anger is fine, but remember what you wanted. Remember the questions. The questions themselves have no purpose. It's the result. The hallucinations, the reactions, the people involved - doesn't work at all if the goal is to cause strife. Suffering makes people huddle together, social species, pathetic. ]

Let's play twenty questions. I'll answer if you do. You said you wanted some fun, right?

You asked first, so I'll start. No, I have never left since I arrived here in my youth. However - I have seen someone leave that I knew personally. My husband left with my child many years ago. I had to drive him to the airport so he could get out of my life. While I have not seen him since he entered the building, my child has come back to live with me. That indicates there is a world outside of here and it -is- possible to get back and forth from it, even if difficult.

You'll need to do better than that.

My turn. I'm sure I'm the only one who got to this assumption, so I may as well be the only one who asks it. Why are you helping us?

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV ⚔ Paimon

[capital_asset]

I haven't had any reason to try yet.

[Where would he even go, anyway? It's not like he can go home at this point...]

But now you'll probably have a bunch of people trying it.

I take it you're VRR HR?

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.