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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.
]
foxhands: (foxes.)

Nakigitsune ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-26 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
at least you didn't kill anyone
kouteipenguin: (Tsun)

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-06-26 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Kidou's mouth opens briefly, but the words that he wants to follow die in his throat, unsaid. His free hand raises a bit, almost touching the door... then he pulls it away, lets it drop. His eyes trail to the doorknob, then back forward again as he straightens.

He stays there for a while longer. He can't even tell how long. Long enough to wonder if Kouyuki being up means that he's unfrozen, if everyone else in the world is like before. Long enough that he doesn't want to think about it anymore, but can't escape the question. Finally, he lets a soft acknowledging sound stand in for a reply, and forces himself to turn away. Given how he looks right now, and what he has, he has no alternative at all. He cannot force this.

His foosteps are a lot softer as he pads reluctantly away. He closes his own door softly enough that the latch barely clicks in place, then gently sinks back onto his bed. ... where the phone is still on, refusing to automatically shut off, and unanswered comments lie waiting for his return.]


Something like that.

[What he won't remark on is the 'real thing' comment. This person he's talking to can't possibly know the irony there, considering Awakening... this is all levels of a mess. It's hard to find what else he wants to say, too, but he has to find something if he wants to seem collected.

.. but there's nothing. Maybe in a minute. Just... give him a minute. He can be selfish enough to take that much.]
kokuyoyo: (Can't believe I ate straight coffee)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-26 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

I'm sorry. I can't say. Just please accept it. If there's anything else I can do,
I'll try to do it.
moonlitknight: (Pissed)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-26 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ He flinches at that response. The core of him hadn't changed. He was still driven to protect the people he loved but the visions were so far removed from his current experiences that he had little idea how to react to all that blood on his hands let alone being labeled a murderer, so he took to anger as he so easily did before he learned to control himself. ]

There is no list!
possedere: (working | battle)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-26 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Very odd, and quite frankly Faustino isn't sure what to make of this.]

I'll keep that in mind. Though what's the use of making promises you can't keep?

[Considering this was all anonymous.]
possedere: (no fucks given)

Mukuro Rokudo | ☸ Andras

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-26 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
You do protest much. If it isn't real, why are you getting so upset?
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-06-26 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'll find a way.

[Anything for him. From shattered and bloodied limbs that could barely carry his wreck of a body, to slicing his palm for a pact surrendering that entire body....]

[Anything.]

[All he has to do is ask.]
megacurious: (Serious)

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-26 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
'Other self'? You make it sound like that my real name is fake.
probablynoteren: (why does he look 12 here)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Gosh, Jaune, you're the one who started this. Lenka is also kind of bad at this, what are they even doing.]

01: the other thing that appeared.
01: related to our numbers.


[#anattemptwasmade]
moonlitknight: (Throw Down the Chain)

Zero Kiryuu ⚔ Naberius

[personal profile] moonlitknight 2017-06-26 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Upset was far too tame for what he was feeling. He hadn't seen what he saw. Smelled what he did. And that sound! He never imagined the fading of a heartbeat could be so loud! ]

What do you know about them.
The visions.


[ Because he couldn't put it out of his mind. Whatever it was, it had felt worse than the news of his parents death that left him an orphan. ]
Edited 2017-06-26 05:41 (UTC)
megacurious: (Surprised)

Augustine Sycamore ⚔ Foras

[personal profile] megacurious 2017-06-26 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Huh? Would typing his name would just block it as usual?]

Alright. My name is Augustine Sycamore and I'm a [INFORMATION LOCKED].

[Okay, that was unexpected...]

B-But... How?
lovelledup: (pic#11333310)

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[personal profile] lovelledup 2017-06-26 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
The rest of the memories.
probablynoteren: (why do only the profiles look good)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[And Lenka wishes he could tell him, but at the same time he's seeing more than ever how it might do more harm than good. It's almost a blessing that it's out of his hands. He's not proud of himself for thinking that way.

What is there that he can tell him? Maybe he should start there.]

01: i can't tell you where it will go for you.
01: because no matter what i try, telling you [INFORMATION LOCKED] won't work.
01: but what the app wants is related to this city. eddan.
failedhandjob: (what has happened to her)

Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-26 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[the man is standing behind her now, but even with her gaze fixed steadfastly ahead Reimi would know him anywhere. his face is strange but familiar, correct and wrong all at once. she's never seen him before this moment - and yet she's waited fifteen years for no one else.

the air is electric between them, charged so much that even in the silence she expects sparks to leap into existence. the shift of her feet on the cement, the rustle of her dress' fabric pulled down to reveal the entirety of her back, each one feels like a tiny explosion. she's waited so long, but now that the moment has come it's taking everything she has to keep from screaming in fear.

"That's right...you're...Reimi Sugimoto." his words come slowly, but they are no less weighty for their tardiness. his tone is odd despite its level nature, caught somewhere between dread and...fondness, almost.

the facade of calm doesn't last, as she expected. "What have you been doing here for fifteen years!?"

if there had ever been any doubts in Reimi's mind as to his identity, the harsh grip she suddenly finds herself in erases it. even in a thousand years, she'd know the feeling of those cruel hands in an instant. he makes to pull her around violently, force those answers out of her, when - suddenly, he pauses.

"This wouldn't happen to be...the place where you musn't turn around, would it?"

she's been caught. terror floods her system - and Emily is finally freed.]


What is your name?
Reimi Sugimoto

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
Yes

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes, but he was already dead.

Did you enjoy it?
It's just complicated

Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! Two makes it more fun!
I understand why, but it still hurt to know that Little Rohan forgot me.
...I wish I could have stayed.


[her breath is short, tears welling up in her eyes as the transplanted fear keeps her chest heaving long after the memory has relinquished its hold.

this was what she was afraid of. even if they were only playing little games...stepping too far into this world had terrible consequences.]


Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias: reimi, huh? kind of sounds like how some of my relatives back in japan try and pronounce my name.

[this is so much here that's more relevant, but she can't focus on it. won't, not unless it's pulled forcefully from her.]
Edited 2017-06-26 06:10 (UTC)
probablynoteren: (logic comes after e7 tbh)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-26 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Most backstories are. The fact that Lenka has to take all of these answers mostly seriously really makes him wonder about his life, even without the AU factored in.]

01: [INFORMATION LOCKED]
01: ... hmm.


[The fact that he's typing this while dressed in some kind of JRPG outfit and carrying swords is kind of funny even to him.]

01: if you had illusion powers.
01: it would be up to you. but i don't think illusions are useless.
kouteipenguin: (jacket - hm?)

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-06-26 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[From not killing someone but eating a soul to killing a dead person, this whole group has so many raised questions that Kidou has to wait to ask. He'll run with this topic and see just how far he can push it before [INFORMATION LOCKED] ruins his attempts.]

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor: Relatives back in Japan, huh?

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor: I've always found it interesting what the filter does and doesn't allow. Although that's a shared trait with others here, so it might not be that surprising.

failedhandjob: (she has built a transparent tower)

Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-26 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
i guess it's because i've never actually met them in person? i don't think most of them would be able to pick me out of a crowd without help.

[they were awfully old, after all. her little comment isn't something she'd given much thought to, desperate to get out something to distract from that man, but now she's doubly grateful for it.

talking about the censor was familiar at this point. safe. she was more than happy to focus on that.]


or maybe the censor just doesn't care as much if it can't actually reach anyone here in eddan.
pouringrain: (☁ Don't make it that much harder.)

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-26 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's why we always get headaches, right?
Because it makes us see things?


Is it... ? [That can't be right.]
That's the first time anyone's ever called me that.
Wouldn't I know if it was mine?


[He is so confused right now, and honestly kind of wants to go back to curling up in bed at this point.]
failedhandjob: (with a paintbrush)

Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-26 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
illusionary clothes? that's awfully specific.
pouringrain: (☣ WTF w/Gokudera)

Takeshi Yamamoto ⚔ Glasya-Labolas

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-06-26 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! Why would I kill anyone!?
That's bad!
Like really, really bad!
kouteipenguin: (More analysis)

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-06-26 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. That's a workable theory.

Through research I've tried to determine its rules. But it doesn't seem consistent on enough of them that it's either too complex to understand, or it doesn't actually have any. Either way, it changes over time.
failedhandjob: (and inside it all the angels fly)

Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-26 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
couldn't it just be adapting? to the people here, i mean.
kouteipenguin: (Talking)

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-06-26 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
That seems to be part of it. When I was first here, we couldn't mention where we were. Yet now it's common knowledge.
failedhandjob: (with a paintbrush)

Reimi Sugimoto ☸ Orias

[personal profile] failedhandjob 2017-06-26 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
you mean, not even the city's name?

[which, come to think of it...]

is there anyone here who doesn't live in eddan?
kouteipenguin: (Hmm)

Yuuto Kidou ☸ Eligor

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-06-26 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
That depends.

Where does Luci live?


[So, as far as he knows, no. Everyone's very likely to be in Eddan.]

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