un: volatill; video. 1.

[meteoricfall]

WHO: Till and you!
WHERE: Libra
WHEN: Mid-August
WHAT: Your newest performer would like to say hello.
WARNINGS: Language, probably.


[Some people have likely noticed an uptick in graffiti lately, and those who have been in music circles likely recognize the face that's greeting the camera right now. This singer-songwriter and guitarist has been in about a dozen different failed bands, and if anyone goes to any open mics, they've seen him shilling in the last couple of years, and probably have caught him in a bar fight or two.

[But if you're not one of those people, a scrawny punk with silver hair and teal eyes is hanging out on a couch with a white guitar, plucking at the strings quietly before he looks at the camera directly.]

So there's a whole brand of spyware for haunted freaks now? What's the point of an app like this?

Comments

voice | un: silhouetto

[threebetrayals]

Can we get someone to make something that pops up with a "this is not spyware, this is Zodiac being assholes"? Since apparently no one is creative anymore.

voice

[meteoricfall]

Who the hell is "Zodiac"? Like the serial killer?

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

[Deep, long-suffering sigh.]

I'll see what I can do. Do not expect results, and if any come regardless, do not expect them soon.

un: steadyflame; video

[reignitions]

Short version is some local capitalists don't seem to grasp the concept of "people generally want to be left the hell alone". Still dunno why the hell they even made the app, but there's no gettin' rid of it now that you've got it, unfortunately.

video; un: shadeshift

[sunforging]

...Ain't you the little guy I saw chucked outta that bar last week?

video

[meteoricfall]

I noticed it wouldn't uninstall. Am I gonna have to get a new phone to get rid of this?

un: belleoftheboulevard

[greatlydares]

Till! What're you doing here?

video

[meteoricfall]

... maybe. Depends on the bar--wait, little? I was winning that fight, you know!

Re: video

[sunforging]

Th' winners don't oft get tossed out on their arse, mate.

[meteoricfall]

... Belle? You're here?

[small world! till softens a lot in his genuine surprise, blinking at his phone.]

The app just... kinda showed up today. [guess this means he has friends with this... "affliction".]

[reignitions]

You're not gonna get rid of it even if you get a new phone. It'll just follow you to the new one because magic bullshit's gonna be bullshit. I think it'll follow you to other devices if you ditch phones in general, too.

So, unfortunately, you're stuck with the app and everyone on it.

un: yiling

[conseqweinces]

[Hey, Till. You remember this absolutely infuriating fucking voice you heard at an open mic once many years ago who brought a flute to a rock fight?]

You're posting on it, so you've gotta know the point. It's to talk to other people on it!

un: midnightfishing

[illucesco]

Not technically spyware, just a very persistent magic app. Hang on, I'm going to DM you something. [Just dropping a link to Gemini into Till's DMs with a note of "don't mention this on Libra".]

Anyway, hi. Welcome to Libra. You came at a good time, things have been calm recently.

[meteoricfall]

They do when the loser's getting taken out on a stretcher. [That was not the case with this fight. Till was not winning.]

[threebetrayals]

More than I expected from you guys.

[sunforging]

Uh-huh. Ain't seen none of them about far's I remember. Ain't no shame in gettin' tossed out, y'know--done it myself plenty'f times.

[meteoricfall]

[Oh he sure does.]

... Aren't you the flute guy?

[threebetrayals]

What, can't google? Or look outside at the asshole capitalists?

[greatlydares]

Yeah, since last year, me and my brother both.

[She waves a hello at her phone. She's in her video store like always, but behind her is a little rabbit robot behind the cashier, ringing up rents.]

But it does that, yeah. That's how it ended up on my phone too. As far as I can tell, besides that, it's about as much spyware as, say, any other social media app.

Did the band take off like you thought it would?

[conseqweinces]

[There's a long pause.

Then Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" played to perfection on a very old looking black flute with a red tassel.

so take a guess.]

video, un: mallemok

[mauks]

[ Molly's definitely see that face before in at least one of the last bars he's spent his nights in. pretty sure he watched the scrawny punk with silver hair start a bar fight that Mollymauk definitely did not engage in (that's a lie, he was the first person to get up and join in the fight). ]

Looks like your eye is healing nicely.

[meteoricfall]

[Yeah, he's taking that DM seriously; going underground isn't an issue for him, no worries.]

Calm? What's it like when it isn't for this... "magic" app?

[illucesco]

Things get set on fire, beset with monsters, or, most recently, dragged into a cursed board game that tries to kill you.

I wish I was kidding.

[meteoricfall]

[Look, sometimes a guy who's twice till's size says something heinous and till is incapable of keeping his hands to himself (violent). Either way, he sees that video and is very immediately losing a bit of the fronter's tension.]

Oh, hey, you're here. So it is an app for freaks. [Is that a smile?]

[meteoricfall]

Not really my circle. Got more important shit to pay attention to, or... at least I did, I guess. Also not a fan of being put on a registry of weirdos. Not exactly safe to get rounded up together when you're the minority.