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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: (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.
possedere: (bored | uninterested)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[It would really be nice if he could see what everyone was trying to say. The big bright letters telling him that potentially critical information was being blocked from him was starting to grate.]

There are powers I'd far prefer. Manipulating time, transfiguration... Though then tell me what power you'd pick.
probablynoteren: (why does he look 12 here)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-27 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Welcome to their lives, Faustino, this is their second go-around with these shenanigans. Lenka's doing his best to avoid the frustrating red censor notices, but he can only do so much. He's a little too straightforward in the first place...]

01: i guess there's always better powers, but...

[He hadn't really thought about alternatives. It's an unexpected question and he has to pause to reorient. What would he want...?]

01: for me?
01: i guess, something like the power to find anything.
01: or the power to cure anything.
01: maybe those are too general.


[But they're all he can think of right off the bat...]
possedere: (amused | smirk)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-28 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[If Faustino knew how much effort was going into avoiding those censors, he might appreciate it. But what he got out of all of that was:]

Do you often lose things?
probablynoteren: (logic comes after e7 tbh)

[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-06-28 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[There are a few ways he could take the question. He chooses the easier way.]

01: my teammates like to run off.

[That's true whether here or at home.

Not getting into the fact that he himself is someone who sometimes jets off on impulse. He's trying to kick that habit.]
possedere: (kufufufu no)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-28 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Have you considered investing in leashes?
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.]
possedere: (working | battle)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-06-29 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[The most serious response for the most serious conversation.]

Too many to keep leashed all at once? Or are they that stubborn