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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.
]
moonlitknight: (Pissed)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-25 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Why would you even-- ]

I haven't ate anything!
spoilsfun: (Silver Blaze)

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[personal profile] spoilsfun 2017-06-25 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
All of it. That isn't my name and I don't have any secrets like that.
spoilsfun: (Default)

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[personal profile] spoilsfun 2017-06-25 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: But what would anyone even get out of this.
Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: And I'm not convinced these are memories.
pouringrain: (☂ Mm..)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-25 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[This situation wasn't good. He had to turn it around somehow and he knew it, but with this type of predicament...

Frustrating, really. A feeling that seemed to match with the one who stood besides him, white hair - eyes fierce and angry. Waiting for the right opening to blow the two holding the girl hostage to smithereens, but doing what he could to hold himself back. Like a literal ticking time bomb, he thought - and Yamamoto would have found it amusing if he wasn't ignoring the current conversation to formulate a plan.

"No choice, then..." He wasn't sure if this was going to work, but it didn't hurt to try, right? Make it sound convincing, like they'd given up. Fool them all, like one big joke only he was in on. His friend's protests disregarded, brushed aside because he knew what he was doing - or so he hoped.

"But we're not accepting such a one-sided deal. First, cure the girl's poison in exchange for the rain and cloud rings. Once you've done that, we will trust you and exchange the remaining rings for the girl."

Step one, and the most important - otherwise everything afterwards wouldn't work if they didn't agree. Even if the two members on the enemy's team had the upper hand, they were the ones with the rings. The least they could do was see the fairness in that offer.

"Damn you, Yamamoto! Do you have any idea what you're saying?!" The yell in his ear was loud, but his arm stayed firmly up in the air, blocking the dynamite guardian from doing anything too rash. A silent, but very clear intent that he didn't want the other to interfere.

He had this.
]

What is your name?
Takeshi Yamamoto

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
No

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
No

Did you enjoy it?
No

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! Two makes it more fun!
I almost jumped off a roof, once. I thought I didn't have much of a future if I couldn't do the only thing in life I was really good at.
I will do whatever I can to make sure my friends and family are safe, even if that means I have to put myself in harm's way to do so.


[There's no response afterwards for a good minute, until finally.]

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas: This seems a bit much...
osakanpride: (Determined; not over yet)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: I wonder how relative or disproportionate memories are for the other users.

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: There doesn't appear to be any other method besides waiting.
[ Unfortunately. ]
osakanpride: (Annoyed; at you)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-25 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: How should I know? I'm experiencing this the same as you.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: The only users that seem to have any idea are the previous cycle, and they're not exactly forthcoming.


[ Not that they could be blamed for that. ]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-25 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[....Oh. Now there's a familiar name he wasn't expecting. There's not the emotional impact of seeing Mukuro's name, but that only means Chikusa has less of an idea of what to do with it.]

[...Or that secret, for that matter.]


The app can't be blamed for that, Yamamoto Takeshi.
osakanpride: (Conversing; for answeres)

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[personal profile] osakanpride 2017-06-25 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: Whatever they are, they're a product of the application

[ Since he had no such symptoms before this. Speaking of... ]

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: Both times I faded out before the post submitted.

[ Harley's not quite sure how to describe it. ]
megacurious: (Serious)

Augustine Sycamore ⚔ Foras

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-25 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, judging by the number of posts, I'm guessing that the memories' information seems to be unaffected from the blocks.

So we might try to ask them for ourselves.
lovelledup: (pic#11333319)

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-25 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It will. Just wait.
moonlitknight: (Shoulder)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-25 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's silence on the other end for a full minute before he sends a response. ]

.... have you been getting visions too?
possedere: (angry | fifth hell)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-25 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[This poor sweet summer child.]

Illusion and invisibility aren't necessarily the same thing.

Though I would hope whoever this individual was that they would know better than to be tricked like that.


[Especially since this individual seems to be connected to him somehow. Allegedly.]
possedere: (Default)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-25 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[What an odd response.]

What for? That there's a murderer among you?
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-25 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a rare response.

[All he can really say, for now.]
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-25 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that right. And what do you think about what you've seen? Does it feel fake at all?
rooftopempress: (09)

Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius

[personal profile] rooftopempress 2017-06-26 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[The smell of murky river water and putrefied wood and metal stink the air surrounding the small boat as two men navigate precariously down the river. She looks up to the closet one, the man in the skull mask who makes her feel safe and the friendly boat driver, giving her a smile whenever he catches her looking at him. The boat driver turns to the skull-masked man with a harried look in his eyes.
'So you did the business did you +_%^#? I'm not one to speak against my betters, mind you, but if anyone deserved their fate, it was those Pendletons.' She knows what he is talking about; the time spent at the brothel the masked man rescued her from taught her such things but she had to be sure.
'What business are you talking about?' He at least has the propreity to look ashamed before blustering his way out of the conversation. The boat pulls into the occluded dock and comes to a stop. Two maids and a concierge approach but she only has eyes for the warm-hearted man in the mask. He extends her hand and she takes it as she comes ashore. The maid, her maid she comes to realize, speaks to her.
'Young lady Emily Kaldwin, I'm Callista. I'll be caring for you and schooling you while you're with us' Her face was earnest, trustworthy. Warmth blooms in her heart. Maybe things were finally starting to look up after so much darkness...
]




What is your name?
Emily Kaldwin

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
No

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes

Did you enjoy it?
It's complicated (but yes)

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! Two makes it more fun!
I never wanted to be Empress
Some days I just want to call all the nobles of the Isles to one place just so I can kill them all off.

Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: okay so ill address the whole thatness after i get this cleared up
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: whyyyyy does all this shit make my head feel like my eyeballs are going to pop out of my skull
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: and is this gonna happen every time?!?!
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: also yeah thats all bullshit and w/e fucking dammit
Emily Kaldwin ⚔ Andromalius: that mask guy has a sick ass mask tho
Edited 2017-06-26 00:07 (UTC)
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-26 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
It could very well be. Try typing your actual name and it reverts to what this application wants to call you.
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-26 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
So you feel that someone forced your type that answer and it's not true?
draculabackwards: (Default)

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] draculabackwards 2017-06-26 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Think of it as a bit of preparation.
foxhands: (forget it)

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-26 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
a good guardian
modulating_phase: (14)

Zack Fair ⚔ Beleth

[personal profile] modulating_phase 2017-06-26 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Good night. Zack.

Those words seemed normal, but it felt him with dread. It was cold. Pain was fading, but so was all feeling. Before he knew it, things went dark, and the answers were already filled out.]

What is your name?
Zack Fair

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
Yes

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
Yes

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes

Did you enjoy it?
No

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group!
- I don't write to my parents very often.
- I wish I could have granted her 23 wishes.

[Blink. None of this made sense.]
foxhands: (i don't see anything...)

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-26 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
which part?
hachitaro: (oof!)

Taro Watanabe ☸ Dantalion

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-26 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
OF COURSE ITS NOT TRUE
spoilsfun: (Scandal in Bohemia)

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[personal profile] spoilsfun 2017-06-26 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wait for what?
probablynoteren: (logic comes after e7 tbh)

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[And so, it looks like the pattern will continue to hold so far. The second week... he still doesn't know what to do about it. It must be the same for everyone else, and the new ones as well.]

01: shirou fubuki...
01: is it anything like your real name?
01: it doesn't sound like 'bear-killer'.


[When in doubt, go with something completely sideways from the deeper topics.]
Edited (annnd I immediately fuck up name mechanics w2g) 2017-06-26 01:38 (UTC)

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