jigokucho | EMBER - A Social App for Lost Souls! [May Substory]

EMBER - A Social App for Lost Souls! [May Substory]

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A new Application icon has appeared on the home screen of your character's device! It pops open on it's own, welcoming the user and telling them that all Lost Souls need to join!

It doesn't specify by whose order, or if it actually is mandatory, but why think too hard about it? A lengthy and extremely technically worded Terms of Service appears, but why scroll up to read all that? There's a large ACCEPT button front and center! (There doesn't seem to be a Decline button. Closing out of the App is the only way to not agree... Might want to just delete the App to be safe)

Accepting moves users forward to App Permissions! A Helpful Window says "Accept All and your profile will be auto-generated for you! Great for speeding set up along! (Recommended)". If that doesn't sway, then each Permission question can be prompted individually. The subsequent windows ask for a variety of totally standard and absolutely above board access prompts. Location Data, Photo/Video Access, etc etc etc- Yes or No! REMINDER: The app will function better if all access is granted!

It doesn't seem to matter what is pressed- all, some, or nothing- the App moves forward for users regardless.
Have fun connecting with your fellow Lost Souls!
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WELCOME to EMBER
A Social Network for Lost Souls!
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EXAMPLE PROFILE

YDRIS (Immortal)
SUTOKU ALLIANCE

✓ ✕
FUCK | FIGHT

SWIPE

Swipe Left or Right, accepting the green or red... proposals? Is that what they are? The App immediately starts a Live Chat between the two parties, complete with recommendations for either highly rated Love Hotels or... discreet alleyways with nearby emergency clinics. (These might get presented to the wrong matches from time to time, coding is hard).

ALGORITHM
Stalling on the profile for more than a few seconds results in a loading graphic of a little dancing fire. **Calculating!** it says;

Ding! The In App Algorithm has decided for you! How convenient. The person whose profile was being looked at automatically gets sent a FUCK ✓ or FIGHT ✕, complete with that same live chat initiation mentioned above.

Rarely, there's a third option, essentially an algorithm fail state called CHILL, which still initiates the live chat. That means the system didn't find either of the other two options appropriate. Bummer. It generates completely random suggestions on where to meet, doesn't the DMV sounds like a great place to hang?

PROFILE QUESTIONS - MAY
While exploring the App, it will randomly prompt for answers to Profile Questions! Users can choose to chat about these instead of using the Swipe or Algorithm features. Answering questions gains little tokens. Wondering what those can be used for? Good question, because it's not an implemented feature just yet. Who doesn't like to see numbers go up, though? Collect them dragon-coins, maybe they'll be worth something one day.

WOULD YOU RATHER-?

-Be sober your entire life OR be drunk at every important meeting?

-Relive your most embarrassing memories every night OR do something embarrassing everyday, then immediately forget it forever?

-Leave your assigned faction or take over your current faction as leader?

PROFILE HTML
(Use squared Image for best profile template fit!)

QUESTIONS HTML

FUCK ✓ / FIGHT ✕ / CHILL O HTML
✓ ✕ O

-EMBER is a separate app on a character's phone which functions using the main network.
-This is fully canon to the game! Threads on this post or using the prompts above for Log Posts of your own both count as a SUBSTORY thread. Per mods, these can be used for rewards!
-Post a profile below, include IC answers to the Profile Questions, and/or tag around to other characters using the SWIPE and ALGORITHM prompts! Blame as much as you like on Ydris' at times shoddy programing! Have fun!
-Feel free to repost the Profile HTML provided for IC inboxes if you like, but please do not take these out of this post and make individual EMBER profiles on the Network, as that would clutter up the main network very fast.
-Check out Ydris' OPT-IN if you want them to have access to your character's information through this app. This is NOT required to play around with this. The ToS basically just applies normal network rules to this post, messages are public unless explicitly marked [private] in the header. (Ydris will not have access to Private Messages unless the player Opts-In!)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

we simply refers to ourselves as mankind
or humanity i suppose

we tend to be a little more specific depending on where a person is from
i for example would be considered an amaurotine as i hail from amaurot

So humans, huh?

[Well, that made sense. With the majority of who he had asked, humans seemed to be the most common species between worlds. But to think the humanity where she's from created everything else in a way. How interesting.]

Know a lot about humans. Don't know a lot about any place called Amaurot though. What's it like?

i suppose so
though those that call themselves human here are different

its a gleaming city with spires that rise into the sky
describing it alone wouldnt do the city justice
just know that is the capital city of etheirys

Ahah, hate to say it but don't got a Etheirys on my world either so can't really say all too much about that.

But different?
What do you mean by that?
Is it like, they're called the same as most humans here but don't look or behave the same in some way?

etheirys is the name of the star
or world if thats the term youre more accustomed to

well for one they dont have glowing eyes
for two they lack the ability of creation magic
though ive noticed some have other forms of magic

I see. So it's a totally different star system and not just a different universe per se.
And all humans got the magic to create things where you're from?
If it's so common place and easy access I'd imagine after a while it would make things pretty boring, no?

so it would seem

there are regulations on creation magic of course
one can go around creating creature concepts without going through the proper channels
thatd be pretty dangerous after all

every day items are another story
and i wouldnt say it gets boring

Eh? You don't think? But don't things feel too predictable when everyone can get near anything they want all the time?

just because one can doesn't mean it'll turn out as expected
creation is like any art form it requires practice and a bit of skill
and enough aether to do so

for example i can create an apple but it wont taste right

for that reason we have farms and chefs and breweries

So you don't just poof everything into existence when you want it then?
Interesting.
I take it that applies to buildings and supplies and goods too then?
Like you still have a functioning economy despite such power?

some can but most rely on others to provide those things for them

of course
just as other people would pursue jobs that suit their skills we do the same

it functions as it functions

[ Side quests say there are coins in existence though they don't seem to actually have any economical use so who even knows with the Ancients. ]

Okay. So it's pretty much intigrated to work along side normal life then. Or, like, a functioning economy at least.

Now here's my question.
What if people start using stuff like that for like petty disputes and the like?
Or using it to create substances that may have effects on people?
Wouldn't abuse or escalated tension form between people?
After all, not everyone gets along with everyone, and I can't imagine if someone isn't petty or angry enough they wouldn't use such power to do something dumb.

But maybe just not dumb enough to get too much notice?
Or perhaps just do enough to try and get away with it.

im now sure where this line of questioning is going
people do what they can for the betterment of the star
squabbles and the likes happen but by and large people are more concerned with bigger issues

Ah. Do you now?

[Oh boy, why did this suddenly feel like a challenge.]

You can really say that every person on your star thinks like that unquestionably?
What bigger issues could possibly deter from a persons natural need to take care of their own self interests?

given the lengths of our lives
how we can return to the star whenever we feel its time
itd be silly to focus on petty as opposed to bettering the lives of all

[The length of their lives, huh? How long did they live for???]

All right.
So what if something that would better all came at the sudden cost of a few and their livelihood?
How would the people of your world deal with that?

Or are you saying nothing like that has ever happened in the history of your world that it wouldn't even be worth consideration?

[What? Were you all a hive mind or something? No thoughts and differing opinions of your own?]

[ A very long time.

Oh, well that question prods at a still-healing wound. One she doesn't really want to talk much about right now. She'll answer the question without getting into that if she can. ]

they would agree its a necessary price to pay
the few would even voluntarily give up their lives

I see.

And no one ever didn't want to? No one feared the end of their life or desperately had the urge to cling on despite everyone else wanting them to sacrifice for the greater good?

[Boy, oh boy! What a discussion to have on a hook-up app!]

returning to the star has ever been a choice
one all take gladly when their time has come or duty dictates

outside of uncontrollable circumstances such as natural disasters or accident of course

Dang you're evasive.
Respect how well you're taking it with how heavy the conversation has gotten though.
Gotta give you props for putting up with my stubborn curiosity. ♥

[He would have hung up on someone already if they were that persistently invasive to him.]

im not being evasive
simply stating the truth
that is how my people think

[ Maybe being a tiny bit evasive in that she won't give an exact example, but it doesn't make things any less true. ]

Is that so.
You certainly seem to be pretty aware of how 'everyone' thinks though, yeah?
Ain't it a bit presumptuous to assume that how you feel is exactly how everyone else feels?
It' like saying that no one in your world has any disagreements or differing opinions with anyone ever.

im not saying there arent disagreements or differeing opinions
but when it comes to the duty of the star people will do what they need to do

[ And she didn't agree with what needed to be done which is why she's here. ]

You believe that?
That everyone would be compliant and not question a single thing as long as someone thinks it's for the star?
I don't know. I feel like even if I were asked to sacrifice myself for the sake of the entire world, I'd hesitate.
But maybe that's because I don't live so long that I would eventually be willing to drop something so important to me.

i do
because its a choice
they wouldn't ask someone unwilling to give up their life to do so

that could be part of it
when you live for thousands of years you eventually reach a point in which youre ready to move on

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