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

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

Is your life here a lie?
Yes

[He hadn't meant to type anything. He's tired, he has to start thinking about school now that the festival is over, and he's fed up with the bullshit from this app.]

[He's tired, but this time his fingers fly over the keys, more from his own mind than... whatever had caused him to type that.]

If it's a lie, then what's the truth? It only makes sense there'd be truth.

But there's no reason for it to be a lie.

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[kokuyoyo]

There's no reason for us to be getting these headaches and visions either especially away from the app but here we are.

[And a second later-]

Sorry.

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

None of this makes sense.

And you don't have to apologize. ... My place or yours?

[If they're going to worry, might as well sit together.]

[kokuyoyo]

Do you think it will help? Last time...

[Well, Gen knows what happened the last time they tried to talk about this with each other.]

[transient_specter]

Does it matter? I want to keep you safe.

[kokuyoyo]

[Another long pause.]

I'll come.

[transient_specter]

I'll start the tea.

[kokuyoyo]

[And, soon enough, there's a small knock on the door before Ciro shuffles inside. His night shirt for the day is quite apt: everything does happen so much. In fact, with the festival coming to an end along with all of this... It's happening far, far too much.]

[At least he looks a little more.... 'there', this time, instead of how out of it he was the last time a post on the app happened.]

Gen?

[transient_specter]

[Gen shuffles things around to get out some mugs. Unlike Ciro, his mugs are just plain white and blue, nothing fancy. His shirt isn't quite as appropriate for now, but whatever.]

[He opens the door when Ciro knocks, ushering him in before closing it behind him.]

Tea's almost done. Are you holding up okay?

[kokuyoyo]

...Better than last time.

[Despite the fact that he's been in it dozens of times before, Ciro lingers for a moment awkwardly, unsure, before finding a seat at the couch. Just a week or two ago, he was sleeping on it, worried about his brother.... and, he thinks, not really realizing how far this whole mess would go.]

...What about you?

[transient_specter]

Fine. At least there was no hallucination going on with it.

[He pours the tea out for Ciro and himself, heading over and handling the mug to his brother carefully. Then he sits down, pulling one leg to his chest while he sips the tea.]

... I don't trust this 'Luci'.

[kokuyoyo]

[Just as carefully, Ciro accepts it, and glances down at the mug. Focusing on the feel of it- low heat sinking into his palms, nearly enough to hurt but not there yet- helps keep him from panicking.]

[No more repeats like last time.]

[At Gen's statement, however, he glances up with brows furrowed.]

Careful....

[An echo of the words that had been on his screen just a few moments ago.]

[transient_specter]

I am being careful. That's why I don't trust them.

[He closes his eyes and sighs.]

It said only a week left. So that means next Saturday night. ... Why don't you come over next Saturday evening? Just in case.

[... And it'll help him feel a little better, too.]

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

I am beginning to wonder about that. It's been such a confusing set of weeks lately. Especially with a program that lets others call themselves wolves and I cannot.

[He's so used to having that word be specifically blocked that it takes him a moment to realize it's not.]

Wait. Can you read that word?

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

Yeah, I can.

Did they stop with the filter?

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

I wonder. Try writing some personal information.

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

[He's... hesitant to, but...]

I teach martial arts.


... Huh. It wouldn't let me type that before.

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

So it's gone from blocking everything to blocking nothing? Well. I take martial arts. I've started to, at any rate.

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

I've got a Krav Maga background.

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

Wait. I might actually know who you are.

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

Do you?

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

You have a younger brother who tired himself out with all his work in the garden club during the flower festival. That is you, is it not?

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

That's right. Then I know who you are, too.

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

What is happening to all of us?

Makoto Fukami ⚔ Marchosias

[transient_specter]

I don't know. This is all confusing...