COUNTDOWN: FACES OF FUTURE & PAST 2.0

[cordibus]

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. ]

Comments

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

[He was seven years old and walking down a street at night, ignoring the girl his age who was following just behind him. She quickens her steps to catch up with him as she looks around with worry.

"Wait up Shinichi! I don't think we should be going to school this late!"

He turns around and looks at her with annoyance. "That's why I told you to go home! You'll get in trouble for sneaking out this late. I'll expose the monster by myself."

"But if you go by yourself you'll get eaten!"

He makes a derisive sound. "Stupid! There's no such thing as a monster!" ]


What is your name?
Shinichi Kudo

Do you think the future is unavoidable?
No

Do you consider yourself a bad person?
No

Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes. A detective who corners a suspect with reason, and then fails to prevent that suspect from committing suicide is no different than a murderer himself.

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'm lying to my best friend. She keeps asking when I can see her again, and I tell her I'm busy. But the truth is that I'm always by her side.

[Conan stares at the answer with complete confusion. Shinichi? That wasn't his name. But why did it feel so familiar? And why did something about that name make him feel sad? And that girl in the memory.... Why was something about her so familiar?]

This doesn't make any sense!

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[osakanpride]

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: It's mind numbing trying to process it all.

[ And why did that dark secret somehow resonate with his memory so strongly? He feels his headache coming back. ]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: I'm not even [INFORMATION LOCKED] to be a detective. And what best friend? None of this makes any sense.

[He was also getting a headache.]

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[osakanpride]

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: The first happening elicited a memory, and it had questions, though less serious.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: This one also has an elicited memory with more personal questions.
Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago: It might be trying to hint at something.

[ It was still confusing though. ]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: But what would anyone even get out of this.
Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: And I'm not convinced these are memories.

Heiji Hattori ☸ Vassago

[osakanpride]

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. ]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius: Faded out? What do you mean by that?

Chikusa Kakimoto ☸ Astaroth

[kokuyoyo]

What part of it doesn't?

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

All of it. That isn't my name and I don't have any secrets like that.

[kokuyoyo]

What did you see?

[spoilsfun]

Some weird girl following me.

[kokuyoyo]

Did she say anything to you?

[spoilsfun]

She called me Shinichi and said I'd get eaten by monsters if I went by myself.

Monsters aren't real.

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[lovelledup]

It will. Just wait.

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Wait for what?

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[lovelledup]

The rest of the memories.

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

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. ]

Gladion ⚔ Camio

[lovelledup]

You've been seeing weird visions, right?

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Maybe a few.

Ran Mouri ⚔ Zepar

[singlefaith]

[Head still aching, Ran had been glancing through the ensuing conversations without paying much attention when she comes to this one.]

[If it had just been the name, that would be one thing. Or just the secret, another. But the two together . . . given those images that set off the headache in the first place, she can't quite ignore it.]

[Isn't this that guy from before, though . . . ? The one who acted like a kid? It doesn't exactly make her eager to respond, and she frowns a little, hesitating on what to say.]

Did you think of anything before you wrote that?

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

What do you mean by thinking of anything?

Ran Mouri ⚔ Zepar

[singlefaith]

[She tries to think of the right words. She's not sure she's okay yet with calling it a memory as some of the others seem to be, so that word is out, but there aren't many good ones to replace it.]

Like . . . a vision? Like a scene in your mind of something that maybe felt familiar.

[And weird. And confusing.]

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

Yeah, I had something like that. There was some weird girl following me around and calling me Shinichi.

She was acting like we were friends, but I don't know anyone like that.

Ran Mouri ⚔ Zepar

[singlefaith]

["Weird girl?" That doesn't sound like anything that's in line with what she saw, but.]

Did it tell you her name?

Shinichi Kudo ☸ Andromalius

[spoilsfun]

No, she was just complaining that I'd get eaten by monsters if I didn't go home.