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!)
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QUESTIONS HTML
<U>WOULD YOU RATHER?</u> <small>[-Be sober your entire life OR be drunk at every important meeting?]</small> <span style="font-family:courier new;">ANSWER</span> <small>[-Relive your most embarrassing memories every night OR do something embarrassing everyday, then immediately forget it forever?]</small> <span style="font-family:courier new;">ANSWER</span> <small>[-Leave your assigned faction or take over your current faction as leader?]</small> <span style="font-family:courier new;">ANSWER</span>
FUCK ✓ / FIGHT ✕ / CHILL O HTML
✓ <span style="font-family: times; font-size:40px; color:#2EB82E;">✓</span> ✕ <span style="font-family: times; font-size:40px; color:#CC0000;">✕</span> O <span style="font-family: times; font-size:40px; color:#0000FF;">O</span>

-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!)

Comments

[starshepard]

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

[pervy_kappa]

[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?]

[starshepard]

[ 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

[pervy_kappa]

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!]

[starshepard]

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

[pervy_kappa]

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.]

[starshepard]

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. ]

[pervy_kappa]

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.

[starshepard]

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. ]

[pervy_kappa]

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.

[starshepard]

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

[pervy_kappa]

Thousands of years, huh?
Damn that's a long time.
Guess I must look like a fucking baby from the perspective of anyone from your world.

All right, here's another question then.
If you're living in a forever peaceful utopia with not much going on in it how do you manage to go on even that long without feeling bored?

[starshepard]

you are all rather like children at times

there are plenty to things to do and see
as i said the betterment of the star is a never ending job
as for myself i travel the star

and personal connections exists so there are always the people in our lives to live for

[pervy_kappa]

Yeah but, where's the excitement? The unpredictability? The tough life lessons that round ya out as a person, you know?

It just sounds all so steril.

And to live in that sort of atmosphere for so long... I don't know. The place I came from is pretty much the polar opposite of everything you described. And I can't imagine living too long a life cause of it, but at least there's always something happening?

A life without conflict, blood or tears, you really mean to say you've never been bored?

[starshepard]

ah
i think youre getting the wrong impression
i said we strive for perfection i never said the world was perfect

there is excitement and unpredictable events
we have our own trials to go through to get to where we wish to be
and living with my mentor was never a dull day
though i suppose my experience was a bit out of the ordinary for most people
after all i was groomed to take the seat of the traveler
to take the seat that would be responsible for seeing the world and dealing with all of its peoples and unexpected surprises

if only others were here for you to talk to so you could get other views of our star

[pervy_kappa]

Well
I suppose if I'm going to be talking to anyone from your world, perhaps I should be talking to someone who's seen the most of it, yeah?
But really, traveling ain't a normal thing where you're from? There's only one person assigned to do it?

[Now that is something strange to him.]

[starshepard]

anyone can travel if they want
i guess just most people are comfortable where they are

as for being assigned, it's my job as a member of the convocation of fourteen
each of us oversee a different aspect of life on the star
mine just happens to be among the common folk

[pervy_kappa]

The common folk huh?

Take it you grew up in a pretty nice way of living, huh?

[starshepard]

im not sure what give you that idea
the common folk is simpy those that arent members of the convocation

[pervy_kappa]

Saying that doesn't dissuade what I said.
"Common" pretty much separates you to make you think you're "uncommon" compared to everyone else.
Usually comes with some sort of special privileges that most people don't usually get too.
Sort of subconsciously puts anyone in that position a bit of a pedestal. Doesn't matter what type of person they are.

For example, where I come from I ain't a common type of person by any means. But I'd never call the people around me "commoners".

[starshepard]

i suppose when you put it that way it does sound bad
but i am of the convocation of fourteen
we serve the people and the people look to us for guidance
it does put us in a different position from everyone else

[pervy_kappa]

Then wouldn't it be better to show them some respect as someone who's supposed to be serving them?
The people, the majority, words like that put a little less of a separation bias and puts you more in a position to say that you're serving them, rather than the other way around.
Dunno, just think it sounds a little more respectful overall I think.

You're a part of something special, but that shouldn't mean your life and place in it would make you any better or more important than anyone else to the point that you should group anyone as beneath ya.

[starshepard]

i suppose the word doesnt hold the same connotation back home
at least no one has ever made a fuss over it
and ive especially never thought of anyone as below me

[pervy_kappa]

Is that so?
So if someone that was able to do something you weren't called you a commoner then you wouldn't be opposed to it?

[starshepard]

i suppose i wouldnt have been before this conversation
i suppose now it would depend on their tone