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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.
]
possedere: (down)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-28 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[In all honesty, Faustino was more pissed at Luci than at Chikusa Kakimoto, and perhaps if he was truthful, a little frightened. It had seemed very real, and his amusement at the others who had been handling their 'memories' very poorly felt cruel. If they had similar terrible memories implanted into them...

He shut his eyes, still feeling the phantom pain of what he'd seen, one hand clamped against his right eye.
]

I asked.

[After composing himself for a bit:]

Why the sheep puns?
failedhandjob: (see an open window)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-28 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
i haven't really had the chance to try too many, but i think they're pretty neat! it's amazing how real they feel even when you know they're fake from the start.
failedhandjob: (Default)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-28 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
maybe you can, but i don't want to be involved any more than i already am. there aren't many 'buts' that could change my mind.
probablynoteren: (#desaturated as fuck or smth)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-28 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
01: using too many is bad for your liver.

[Yeah, he's that kind of weird internet stranger, don't mind him. Despite being on the Internet, though, the majority of him is really bad at memes and colloquialisms. It takes him a minute.]

01: ... he was some kind of assassin or thief?
01: or something.
probablynoteren: (why does he look 12 here)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-28 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
01: that would end badly.

[SO SERIOUS. The most serious response.

Honestly he winces trying to imagine using leashes on the battlefield, but it's kind of funny, too. Because it almost happened at one point.]
probablynoteren: (protag skill: never not looking confused)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-28 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
01: that's not what the but is for.
01: a lot of us would like to make that choice.


[A choice would be nice. A choice would be really nice, even if he would have made the same choices had he been aware of what was happening. Trying to parse the dissatisfaction in all of this just gives him an entirely unrelated headache, so... he sticks with wishing.]
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-28 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He had asked, but he didn't deserve it. Whatever others might have thought- the majority- Chikusa truly believes that.]

I didn't do them on purpose.
megacurious: (Tired)

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-28 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

But what do these strange memories have to do with this app? Why us?
megacurious: (Tired)

Augustine Sycamore ⚔ Foras

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-28 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I see...

I guess I should start getting used to this pattern from now on...
pouringrain: (☂ Could have gone better.)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas (Understandable because I also forgot before reviewing KHR. > >;

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-28 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
80: I don't know why that's...
80: I wouldn't.

[He doesn't believe he would, but there's that part of him saying nothing he typed was a lie again. Something that made him uncomfortable, though he didn't think he understood the whole picture either. Not that this app was giving him any clear indicaton on what that might be at the moment.]

80: Is this always going to happen?
pouringrain: (☁ Don't take it all so far.)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-28 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas: It is.
Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas: I'm worried about everyone, if this gets worse.
Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas: The people that's used to this app says this is normal, but.
Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas: I feel like that doesn't make it okay.
pouringrain: (✧ What do you mean no baseball?)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-28 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
It is!!
And of course I didn't!
I'm not the type of person who could kill someone.
Is that really so weird?
pouringrain: (☂ This can't be good.)

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-28 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, bff!! You do you.]

So they do go away?

[Then another lengthy pause towards the question. Rubbing at his forehead with the palm of his hand while he tried to remember whatever that flash was about.]

I don't know who.
He was super angry and there was something about dynamite?
That's all I can recall before my head starts to hurt.
foxhands: (was that too forward)

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-28 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
not at first

[In hindsight, mostly.]

you?
foxhands: (but hold me against you)

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-28 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
no
most people probably don't kill



what if it's your job
lovelledup: (pic#11333310)

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-28 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe not, but I don't think there's much of a choice.
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-28 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Until the pattern changes for reasons unknown. Hopefully that will not be the case but we will see.
megacurious: (Tired)

Augustine Sycamore ⚔ Foras

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-28 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright, thank you for clarifying that.
failedhandjob: (Default)

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-28 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
then maybe you should try? i can't believe that there's nothing we can do.
spoilsfun: (pic#11066858)

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[personal profile] spoilsfun 2017-06-28 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
What other memories?

[Not that he was convinced that these were memories. The last time he'd remembered being older. How was that even possible? Plus if that memory was true, then he suspected that he'd been dying. ]
lovelledup: (pic#11333309)

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You've been seeing weird visions, right?
mirrors_wish: (Tears)

Yui Kanzaki ☸ Amon

[personal profile] mirrors_wish 2017-06-29 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
How can that even be true? I'm alive. I'm breathing right now!
mirrors_wish: (Worried)

Yui Kanzaki ☸ Amon

[personal profile] mirrors_wish 2017-06-29 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Why is this happening?
truthkills: (lean)

[personal profile] truthkills 2017-06-29 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
freestyle happy dance
lovelledup: (pic#11333310)

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
The real question is why don't you know what those things you answered are about?

[He didn't either at the time, but now...]

I don't know the answer, either way.

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