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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.
]
probablynoteren: (why do only the profiles look good)

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
01: the app isn't that creative.

[Something lighter and more distracted, as he stares at the blades next to him. Their weight is comforting, but what he remembers most is the shadow following him. He keeps jumping at every movement now. Tonight is going to go great.]

01: there's an upgrade...
01: but something's missing.


[They sure do end up talking in code a lot, huh.]
foxhands: (but it's mine)

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-26 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
sorry
should i ask about being dead
probablynoteren: (protag skill: never not looking confused)

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Mukuro Rokudo. Certainly an odd name, not that he can talk, particularly.

More importantly, he wonders about the significance of the killing question now. Obviously it's relevant, but the line between civilian and non-civilian is ever more blurred in this world. Why ask it? What kind of preparation can it give them? A poor one, as far as he can tell.]

01: illusionary clothing seems dangerous too.

[Someone's immediately thinking in terms of armor. Not that he can talk, at all, but them's the breaks of form over function. He can't help his canon, okay.]
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: fjord)

Shirou Fubuki ⚔ Marchosias

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-06-26 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Whether it's the words or the reminder of their numbers that tethers Kouyuki and brings him back to his senses, he doesn't truly know. It could be either, or it could be both. There's a flicker of calm he hasn't felt since much, much earlier that day, and for a few moments as he sits on the floor of his bedroom leaning up against the wall, he tries to remember who Eligor 01 is...

And then it hits him. While he never saw the question, they admitted to answering something very similar, and their answer had been 7 just the same as him. Without catapults.

He smiles a little in the faint glow from his phone. Just a little. It doesn't last, because after a few moments more of reading that brief message he's struggling with not sniffling too loudly and giving his family cause for concern. He's relieved, though. That someone out there called him real and didn't sound too impressed by that title.

A part of him wishes he knew how to say thank you without admitting any of it bothered him in the first place. Though...maybe that's obvious by now after having sent some other replies?

He'll try not to think too hard about that as he types his response...and includes his number. There's an odd comfort in it now.]


9: A little, I guess...
9: Snow is a common theme between them.
hachitaro: (suspicious.)

Taro Watanabe ☸ Dantalion

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-26 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
NO I MEAN WHO THE FUCK EVEN EATS SOULS THATS FIRST OF ALL NOT A THING AND SECOND OF ALL NOT SOMETHING I WOULD EVEN DO IF IT WERE
probablynoteren: (keeping blood in body: lv. -10 > lv. -7)

Lenka Utsugi ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. He remembers this one, the one who absolutely refused to listen. This is probably why.

Still, the phrasing sends a chill through him that he tries to ignore. It must be worse for the person on the other side. There's very little he can say, except...]

01: many of us were called killers too, when we answered.
01: that's all i can tell you.
singlefaith: (keep it out)

Ran Mouri ⚔ Zepar

[personal profile] singlefaith 2017-06-26 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
When she sees the little boy's face she knows the truth immediately . . . even before he says anything at all. But she asks the question anyway -- maybe it's just pure, bare hope: "Where's Shinichi?"

The boy does his best to keep it light. He's just the messenger as usual. "Mm . . . he got a call on his cell phone. He's having trouble with his case, and he had to leave."

She knew that would be the answer, and still it hurts, rippling through her frame like the sudden strike of a mallet. "Oh." Her lips seem to move of their own volition.

The boy reads the shift in her immediately and pulls his tone higher in anxiety, scoffing as though it will help: "Shinichi-niichan is stupid! To leave Ran-neechan behind."

It isn't the first time. He's always going, always slipping away -- like a wraith or a phantom that can't be held, he slides away through her fingers, always with a tossed off, enigmatic excuse that says nothing about how or why, and certainly not sorry.

Maybe he isn't.

Maybe she's stupid. He asked her out to this place, out to this fancy restaurant that overlooks the city that two teenagers should never be able to afford . . . Maybe she thought it meant something.

She can't help it. Maybe it's self-pity, maybe it's anger, maybe it's grief -- for a moment it surges over her, all-consuming, and she can't look at the little boy beside her.

"H-Hey." He's still watching her, still trying. "Shinichi-niichan said --"

"Stop it." The words snap out before she can hold them back. She claps her hands over her ears like a child, pulling inward on herself, eyes pressing shut. She can feel tears burn in her lashes. "I don't want to hear it. I don't want any more excuses."


Her eyes are still burning as she yanks back into the present. As before, she gasps again softly as her head stabs with sudden pain, the withheld tears spilling down her cheeks. Her hands are shaking a little.

Looking down at her phone, she finds she's once again made selections in spite of herself:

What is your name?
Ran Mouri

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!
Sometimes I'm sure he's lying. I want to trust him and believe he wouldn't. But sometimes . . . I'm sure he is, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to forgive him.
truthkills: (lean)

[personal profile] truthkills 2017-06-26 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
see I've been thinking this was some kinda afterlife thing but then other people claim to be not dead so that makes this complicated

nothing about this is logical, get used to it

I mean you're talking to a motorcycle
possedere: (wtf | condescending)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-26 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
How comforting. Then is that the true nature of this app? To bring would be murderers together?
possedere: (angry | fifth hell)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-26 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[That word rankles him, for some reason he can't rightly explain.]

In what way?
hachitaro: (tch.)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-26 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
bullshit
possedere: (kufufufu no)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-26 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[The comment seems so innocuous that for some reason, Faustino can't help but laugh a little at it. This feels disconnected to him, so it seems like a joke.]

Perhaps that's how these murders were performed. Illusionairy ties or socks to suffocate and choke. Or someone tripping over an illusionary shoe and tripping down a flight of stairs.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-26 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
That was a consideration, but some people don't fall into that category. Some of the answers here show that. So it's hard to say.

I'm sorry for not being able to give you a better answer.
moonlitknight: (Pissed)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-26 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Without his memories, without his corrupted background by the Pureblood Kuran, Zero had no reason to have fallen so far off his path. His motivations for killing were gone making it impossible to justify what he'd just seen in the flashback. The blood.... There was so much blood and the body. Why.... why did it look like him?! ]

I'm not a killer!
Edited 2017-06-26 02:56 (UTC)
truthkills: (Default)

[personal profile] truthkills 2017-06-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
look at this point in my life I'm just glad I have thumbs
hachitaro: (Default)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-26 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
congratulations on your thumb acquisition
sociallyarcward: (Usually Oh Nevermind)

Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] sociallyarcward 2017-06-26 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Uh...good question. I didn't say I had one, just that their might be one.
probablynoteren: (smth's rotten in the state of crapsack)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[His own memories, or flashes of memories, had been so wildly removed from his own experiences with this life, this entire world -- that Haruka had had trouble even beginning to wrap his mind around them, and had run away, in a way. It sounds like Zero is having the opposite problem: he's trying too hard to understand the memories when he can't.

Not yet.]

01: i didn't say you were.
01: just that it's not rare for the answer to that question to be yes.


[He could tell him that it's not what it seems, like last time. Give him a little solace, however small. That seems somehow irresponsible, though, so he leaves it at that.]
sociallyarcward: (Usually Lost)

Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] sociallyarcward 2017-06-26 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Was that the one with [INFORMATION LOCKED]?

...

Why did I even bother trying?

I just hope we can help them once the countdown is up...
Edited 2017-06-26 03:23 (UTC)
sociallyarcward: (Default)

Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] sociallyarcward 2017-06-26 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I can really argue. Why give us the upgrade if we weren't about to use it?
probablynoteren: (why does he look 12 here)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately, he's perfectly serious about it...]

01: oh. that's not what i meant, but...

[He can't tell him what he meant. Of course.]

01: that seems like a weird use of illusion powers.
01: but it's up to you.


[A little less serious, because trying to picture all of this is like trying to picture Luci's quiz answers from last week...]
sociallyarcward: (Usually Studying)

Jaune Arc ⚔ Eligor

[personal profile] sociallyarcward 2017-06-26 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well...because I've done it before.

[They weren't EXACTLY bears, Ursa were only bear-like Grimm, but he isn't about to try explaining Grimm over the App when this person has clearly not fully awakened and would necessarily understand what he means.]

The first time I didn't know what I was doing...but I was protecting someone and I managed to take it down. The next time was a little easier...
hachitaro: (huh?)

Taro Watanabe ☸ Dantalion

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-06-26 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
i dont know i dont knwo what th fuck is goin on shit shit shit
pouringrain: (☁ You've got the choice.)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-26 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[For once, he's not smiling, but luckily that's not something that carries over texts.]

Haha... no. I guess not?
It's just an app, right?
But still...


[No response for a second, mostly because he's shaking his head to clear his thoughts.]

Oh! But that's not my name!
Sorry, I don't know why it says that.


[Typing that felt wrong, though, like a small part of himself was disagreeing. Fighting against that thought, and it caused a faint reminder of the headache from previously. This was all kind of disorienting still, making it harder to find the humor in all of this.]
kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-26 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what you heard?

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