EMBER 3.1 - A Social App for Lost Souls! [Sept. Substory OVERFLOW]

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The EMBER Application icon flashes alive on the homescreen of all the Lost Soul devices across Jigoku-cho.

An Update has just been installed, welcome to EMBER 3.1!

BUGFIXES & UPDATES
-Increased stability and quicker performance.
-Improved accuracy of [various] data tracking.
-EMBER Go! increase in spawn points throughout the city.
-WARNING added; "If USERS trespass upon any part of the city they are not allowed in order to collect characters, do be quick about it.
(EMBER is not liable for injury nor legal troubles which may be incurred.)"

-Helper NPC: YDRIS, added to help users within EMBER, Go!
-YDRIS can be set to automatically feed and pamper collected "Little Lost Souls™".
(This feature costs Dragon Coins at an hourly rate.)

-CAPTCHA Temporarily disabled.

Please see the ORIGINAL EMBER 3.0 post for full information.
Thank you.

-EMBER Support Team

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-This is an OVERFLOW for EMBER posting!
-Please post fresh profiles and link back to previous threads/start new threads on THIS post.
-EMBER is intended to last through to NOVEMBER before another full update to 4.0. SO, do not be shy about reposting here to dodge CAPTCHA! If I need to keep making these, I guess I will...

PER MODERATION: "As the ember post reaches captcha, we will still accept threads for rewards that get the rest of their comments off-post, even if it's an inbox. so long as they start on the ember post, it's fine"

Comments

[koutsuanzen]

[Damn. This guy went hard.]

shit. well today i learned.

that's kind of cruel to the animals though, damn. but can't argue with that. who doesn't like meat?

you less of a fighter more of a... strategist then?

[divisors]

So you have.

It's an animal eat animal world. Even insects can't help but get in on the action. And yes, I would say that's true. My mind stands above all.

[koutsuanzen]

some animals eat plants. takes all types.

you super smart then? why's yours say you're a butterfly of "evil"?

only idiots become villains.

[He'd know.]

[divisors]

Because that is what I am. I'm an arbiter of evil. I consume all evil as evil.

[THIS MEANS NOTHING]

And why do you think so? Do you think heroes are smart, then?

[koutsuanzen]

[...wat.]

you... bite evil?

[Maybe butterflies feasted on the open sores of evil: what did he know. Not a whole lot about fucking butterflies, if today was teaching him anything.

And certainly not the word 'arbiter'.]

yeah, i think heroes are smart enough to know that if everyone was just a shit all the time no one would have any good days.

how does one 'consume evil' btw??

[Because he's currently imagining this guy reading bad comics and eating deep-fried foods.]

[divisors]

No. What? I don't literally bite evil.

Sometimes it takes a villain to take down a villain. Heroes don't think the way they do.

With me, its my power. Malevolence can be removed.

[don't call him out as a nerd (please do)]

[koutsuanzen]

...how does that make any sense at all? if you take down villains, you're the hero. if you think using your brain, you're the same as anyone-- hero, bad guy, sandwich guy, bus driver, w/e.

You literally... like, swipe left on people's evil urges?

[SIDE-EYEING SO HARD (he will lmao.)]

[divisors]

You have heard of anti-villains in fiction, haven't you? And just because someone takes down a villain doesn't label them as a good person. A sniper might take out someone who would build a bomb to kill hundreds but then go on to kill hundreds himself. One good deed doesn't erase the essence of what he is.

Swipe left? This isn't some kind of dating app. I remove them, and prevent people from acting on said urges.

[koutsuanzen]

Doesn't anti just mean 'not'? Isn't not-a-villain just a person then?

You can be good or bad moment to moment. One murder doesn't define someone their whole life any more than one save does, yeah. One bad deed doesn't erase all the good either, does it?

...but, wait. you can really stop people? from having the urge to...?

[It comes across in his typing. He's interested now-- enough to really focus on his responses, to try.]

[divisors]

No. It usually means "to work opposite from, or against". An antivirus is a substance that works against a virus, for example.

Are you sure about that? Most people would disagree with a murder not defining their whole life. One could go to jail for a long time for such a deed. And even if they're not caught, does it not rest on the soul? But I will say, it's a complicated talk. In my opinion, though, everyone has the capability of doing evil. Even the ones who loudly proclaim they're good.

And to your question: yes. It wouldn't last long. It isn't permanent. But it is in my capability to do so.

[koutsuanzen]

[There's a stutter of a pause in the texting...

a murder not defining their whole life....]

...what if it's an accident? the murder.

but after it, it bends the person. so they decide to try to be bad to cope, but they're not actually bad. deep down. they don't wanna be.

...could you take something like that from them? the urge to be violent, or get revenge, say?

[divisors]

[........]

[It bends the person, so they decide to try to be bad to cope.]

[Ha. Ha ha ha. Not exactly his case, but...]

Asking for a friend, are you?

I will tell you that I do not have that power currently. But if it returns, I could take that away for a short time. No violence, no bloodlust, no revenge. No will to fight.

[koutsuanzen]

...I'm Baji. Nice to meet you.

If it comes back-- and you'd be willing--

...I'll owe you. Whatever you need, any time.

I'm in your debt already, 'kay? So reach out to me any time.

[divisors]

["In your debt"...?]

[Ah. Well. What an odd sort of feeling. To be fair, he is a criminal consultant, he tells himself, but...]

Baji. A pleasure. Though I do not see what I have done to already get such a response.

If you wish to meet in person to express more of what troubles you, I suppose I will listen.

[koutsuanzen]

...cause if even the idea exists, that that's something that could be done...

It would mean a lot to me.

[It would mean everything, actually. That kind of a power would have never occurred to him even left to his wildest imagination. But if it could give Kazutora even a moment of peace for himself, it would be worth it.

To show him what he could work towards, if he let his revenge fantasy go.]

You wouldn't mind?

I ain't much of a talker, but this is important to me. I could buy you coffee or something?

[He didn't know what this guy drank other than the blood of his enemies.]

[divisors]

[What is this? Someone putting hopes in him for simply...being what he is? With this sort of power? How strange. How very strange.]

[But maybe...he doesn't mind...]

I see.

And no, I wouldn't mind. I am curious to know such a person as yourself. I would prefer tea, but coffee is fine.