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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] applenet2017-06-24 10:11 pm

COUNTDOWN: FACES OF FUTURE & PAST 2.0

It's been 7 days since the first network post, and predictably for those who where here the first time, a second one makes it's appearance a week afterwards.

Some have tried to best the program, others have already tried to figure out more about it, but nothing has been working. Others might have warned the Unawakened, but ow they're finding out for themselves. Bringing the phone to a repair shop to get it looked at? No programs found. Even getting the phone completely wiped did nothing, as the icon just showed up a few minutes after they walked out of the store. Showing it to a family member? The minute you blinked or turned it around to show them, it simply wasn't there.

It's taunting you. Whoever programmed this is really good. Frighteningly so. Also possibly an asshole, from the way Luci has been taunting and abusing his posting privileges.

Saturday night rolls around and still nothing from the application. The news this Saturday is nothing special. The festival of the longest day went off without a hitch, although the population had trouble getting into nightly shelters due to too much partying. A higher amount of robberies during daylight hours than last year, but nothing to raise cause for alarm. The peace continues at night.

The warning bells of the nightly curfew ring across the city as a few people finish locking their doors for the night. Civilians are settling in for a late supper and preparing for work tomorrow.

Not you, however. The Unawakened have been victim to a damn headache building for the past hour and by now their ears are ringing. Food doesn't look appetizing and they feel an urge to go to bed early. Didn't the other people in the channel warn them it might happen?

Either way, a little shut-eye would be welcome at this point. You don't even think too hard about it, and the headache fades into blissful sleep.

...I am thou...thou art I...your chains will soon break away....

2AM and you snap awake. The strange foreboding voice of...something echos in your head. It's the only thing you can hear now that your headache is gone andthe city is fast asleep. You're not sure why, but the voice makes you get up and grab your phone.

It's humming softly. The icon is glowing again. Before you do, you take a look around and suddenly notice...nothing's moving. Nothing but you. Almost as if time was frozen.

Is that even possible?

You can't back down now. Pressing the button reveals another terms of agreement, but it looks quite different. It's almost...gentle?


It may take a while or it may happen in an instant, but you eventually take your finger and trace your name over the signature area to continue. You've gotten this far in any case and this one isn't trying to kill you...at least you think it isn't. Yet as your hand moves to write your name, it gets replaced with other letters. Another name that tells you nothing. Somehow you feel like you should know it, but it's...it's...

It stays there for a few more seconds, leaving you with your thoughts before the contract disappears.

You're back into that chatroom again. Questions pop up in rapid succession before you're even permitted to type anything else. Once more, it seems that you find yourself typing things that aren't matching up with what you really want to say.

At least...you think...

What is your name?
Write it here.

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
Yes | No

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
Yes | No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes | No | Yes, but (insert your reason here)

Did you enjoy it?
Yes | No | It's complicated (but yes) | It's complicated (but no) | It's just complicated

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! Two makes it more fun!
Write it down here.

With questions like that and nothing around you moving, you feel like it's going to be a very, very, very long night.

[OOC: The network posts will now allow users to post their names, but they will show up as their CANON ones. The user's persona can be added at the end, or not show up at all. Additionally, the occupations will still be censored.

MEMORY REGAIN: Right before their answers are posted, they will also get a longer flash of someone calling them by this name. The memory HAS to be someone calling them by their name. It could be both a good or a bad memory, that is up to you.

FOR THE AWAKENED: Awakened will be able to answer the questions again if they want. They'll also find themselves in their fancy new outfits and will able to summon their weapons during this time. Sweet indeed.
]
osakanpride: (Serious; clue found)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-27 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: It only seems to target the new users.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: Were yours this gradual as well?
osakanpride: (Conversing; for answeres)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-27 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: The questions, thus far, occur after these flash memories.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: If that implies they're intermingled.
osakanpride: (Conversing; with Kudo)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-27 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: Mine did.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: If that's the pattern. It might be easier if one subject is focused on. There's a lot going on, with all of this. So I'll just ask if the memories are related or not. Perhaps you can ask the latter.
probablynoteren: (why does he look 12 here)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-27 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Welcome to their lives, Faustino, this is their second go-around with these shenanigans. Lenka's doing his best to avoid the frustrating red censor notices, but he can only do so much. He's a little too straightforward in the first place...]

01: i guess there's always better powers, but...

[He hadn't really thought about alternatives. It's an unexpected question and he has to pause to reorient. What would he want...?]

01: for me?
01: i guess, something like the power to find anything.
01: or the power to cure anything.
01: maybe those are too general.


[But they're all he can think of right off the bat...]
megacurious: (Serious)

Augustine Sycamore ⚔ Foras

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-27 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea.

Besides, I just want to get some more answers before this "Awakening". This is getting weirder by the minute.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-27 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think this app cares about legalities?
kokuyoyo: (Apparently I kept telling people I was)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-27 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If that's what you heard, how could it be the name this app assigned to you?
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-27 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You can take that away from this if you want.

[It's true, as far as Chikusa is concerned.]
hachitaro: (ahahah!)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-27 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
do you think i do

at least as far as it concerns things that are not 'could get me in trouble'
probablynoteren: (protag skill: never not looking confused)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-27 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[His visions were rather different, but not all particularly pleasant. The second week, at least, had been something of a break.]

01: to what's happening in this city.
01: i guess I can say that much.
01: i was told that the app protects us from what happens here.


[He still has his doubts, but he's also seen that what happens in Eddan isn't as simple as it seems on the surface. In fact, it seems like something he would have been better off not getting into. That describes most of his life, though, so.]
megacurious: (WTF/Confused)

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-27 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay...

[It might be best if he can ask this at the later date.]

So until then, I just have to stick with this new username, right?
Edited 2017-06-27 21:34 (UTC)
rooftopempress: (15)

Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius

[personal profile] rooftopempress 2017-06-28 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: wish it werent. ow.

Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: so i'd have to deal with the same assholes over and over again?
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: kthnxno P A S S
rooftopempress: (06)

[personal profile] rooftopempress 2017-06-28 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: might
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: depends on if anyone will foot my aspirin bill
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: using so goddamn many of them lil bastards


[She types as she pops another aspirin into her mouth. Dammit she just wanted to sleep and now she's awake and ugh she's never getting back to bed tonight. Still as she planned out the next response for her reply, she shut her eyes, trying to remember more about that...flash? memory? The mind thingy that she had just seen. Minutes later, the reply is sent]

Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: why would anyone want to wear a mask?
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: pro hint, dude was PACKING some major heat
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-28 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting theory.

[With how this app is, he won't say much beyond vague positiveness.]
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-28 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
It's a little late for that.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-28 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. For however long it decides to keep it that way.
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: sastrugi)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-06-28 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[In silence that could rival the quiet that's befallen the world at this hour, Kouyuki listens to his brother retreat down the hall. He barely breathes a sound until he hears Michi close his bedroom door, and then it's all he can do not to let his own weight carry him heavily to his knees.

Inching away from the door, he sinks slowly, softly, to the carpeted floor next to his phone. But he doesn't touch it. Not for a long time. It continues to flash at his side, an eye in the dark of his room watching, commanding, and earnestly ignored behind Kouyuki's drawn up knees and arms folded over his face.

Guilt rattles around his thoughts and in his heart. Sending Michi away like that isn't something he's ever done and, while he knows Michi will forgive him, he isn't certain he can forgive himself. There'd been no word from his brother as he'd gone. Just that soft noise and the sound of his footsteps as he got farther and farther away from the door. It had to hurt. And Kouyuki isn't sure how he can make up for that without explaining what's really going on...

The light from his phone will never go out that night. He'll remain awake. And at some point a message is sent in return to 10.]


I liked 9 better.
Were you...


[There were only a few Eligors, and 01 had revealed himself already. The other was nothing like the first he'd spoken to, and then there was the matter of those symbols. This one was...]

10?
hachitaro: (huh?)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
okay yeah probably the campus police probably has connections to the city police
mirrors_wish: (Worried)

Yui Kanzaki ☸ Amon

[personal profile] mirrors_wish 2017-06-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Wait for what, though? Is this something I really want to find out about?
moonlitknight: (A skim of fingers)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-28 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
........

[ That wasn't anything close to what he'd seen. ]

They're showing us different things.

[ But, why? ]
moonlitknight: (Hunter Symbol)

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-28 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't even bother answering that and closes the window. ]
moonlitknight: (Hunter Leader  †  Explain Yourself)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-28 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ .... Protects them. His lips thin into a grim line. ]

Protects us from what?
draculabackwards: (oh really?)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-28 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
That is correct.

[He doesn't say to which one since they're both right.]
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-28 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, we were given about the same time to adjust to this application and answer the questions as you appear to be doing now.
spoilsfun: (Default)

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[personal profile] spoilsfun 2017-06-28 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: Faded out? What do you mean by that?

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