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

[truthkills]

okay but if it takes a while to build up, you wouldn't need to be in contact with it at that time

slow acting drugging

[probablynoteren]

wouldn't it be more obvious, then? water contamination usually targets a local area.

[It seems harder to contaminate the entire city's water supply, really. Why is he thinking about this so hard. Because he's him.]

has anyone seen a doctor?

[truthkills]

i've got about a year of med school under my belt

I have seen myself

results were inconclusive yet attractive

[transient_specter]

Think you need to look at the results again. First part's right, second part isn't.

[truthkills]

doesn't matter what you think, you're not my type

[probablynoteren]

huh... a med student who eats expired food.

[Which is probably depressingly more common than one would think, but he still feels the need to point that out. Maybe the self-diagnosis needs to go further than skin-deep??]

i don't think looking in a mirror's going to fix it.

[Fix what? One of many things.]

[truthkills]

ex med student, actually

washed out a few years back

and I'm not set up to take a blood sample or anything here, i'd need a lab of some sort

[probablynoteren]

oh.

[He's not quite sure what to say to that, so he goes ahead and ignores any reflexively uncharitable thoughts for the moment. Medical credentials aren't entirely the point. Was there a point to this...? That feels like a constant with this particular individual.]

could you talk to your old classmates?

[He's aware it's probably a dead end, but might as well... pursue it to the end. What else can he do?]

[truthkills]

could try

but would they talk to me is another very important question that I don't have the answer for

[probablynoteren]

wouldn't you get the answer by asking anyway?

[Possibly he's a bit too straightforward about this.]

i just think it would help if it's actually a hallucination. or a medical thing.

[truthkills]

have you ever heard of a rhetorical question

and we'd need to measure electrical activity in the brain too

but would need someone who wasn't affected to compare

and basically let me put out some feelers and see if anyone's looking to pawn an MRI machine or something

[probablynoteren]

it's hard to get rhetorical in text.

[Maybe a bit petulant, definitely complaining. He's not that great at reading tone in the first place, why would you do this to him.]

but thanks. let us know, if you find anything.

[He's not expecting too much, but Baalberith is affected by this, same as them, no matter how he acts. There's a non-zero chance that he'd get off his ass to do something about it.]

[truthkills]

and here I am doing it anyway

and yeah I'll let you know if I can get my mitts on anything. I'd need a bigger sample than just me regardless