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

Erika Furudo ⚔ Baalberith

[withoutred]

[ This time, she hadn't slept through it. She'd been awake since before midnight, eyes glued to the screen, waiting for what she guessed (-hoped, knew-) would come. Another headache, and another piece to the puzzle.

Only... no odd vision, this time. Only a single question. And for once, she doesn't hate her answer. ]

Is your life here a lie?
There is no other conclusion.

The hallucinations can't be coincidence. I thought at first, perhaps it was just stress, but... I can't pretend it's so simple. Why would all of us, from these different walks of life, all be magically ill at the same time? All of us getting these odd headaches, the phone app, these stupid _names_ that feel like something important-

What's _happening_ to us? How can we stop it?

... Can we, before it's too late?

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[kokuyoyo]

Before.... I would have said it might be possible to stop whatever this is. It wouldn't have been easy, getting rid of all the technology in our lives, but it could be possible.

But... the last vision I got wasn't while I was doing anything with the app at all. I was, right then at least, technology free.

Maybe we're too far gone, for whatever this is.

Erika Furudo ⚔ Baalberith

[withoutred]

You got one at the Flower Festival, too, I'm assuming? This just keeps getting worse.

... Ah, I can mention that now? Why _now_?

I can't accept that it's too late. I won't. There has to be _something_ we can do to reverse this.

[kokuyoyo]

....Maybe there's no reason for them to hide where we are, in the broadest terms, at least anymore. But I already suspected that- everything from that first contact, the warnings in its "TOS", made me think of the recent murders. It's not something that's really a problem anywhere else in the world.

....Have you tried talking to "Luci"?

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

[onlythankyou]

There has to be a way, doesn't there? Nothing starts that can't be stopped. All things end eventually.

[A little morbid, for him, but the app hasn't been very forthcoming for him, as far as things that aren't morbid go.]

It is strange that this is limited to only us, and so detailed and specific. Could we have all done something specific sometime before this began, and that's how we first got involved?

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[probablynoteren]

baalberith. [the loud one...] no one's said no, so far.

[In the midst of his misgivings about his own answer, he's looked around at others to try to find some kind of bearings. It's something he's gradually noticed. Among those he's talked to, he doesn't think all of them would have accepted this kind of outcome, if they'd thought of it at all. It feels like the rug has been pulled out from underneath their feet again, but this time a vision wasn't needed at all.]

7 days. i don't know if we can stop something, when we don't know what it is.

Kiriya Kujo ⚔ Baalberith

[truthkills]

I am pretty sure that all we can do now is buckle up for whatever big reveal they got planned in a week

and then maybe get some answers

or some drinks

hell, why not both