[GAME START] Welcome to Libra!

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Network
WHEN: January 7th
WHAT: Welcome to Libra!
WARNINGS: None

[Wherever you are, your phone will start to ring and vibrate. It doesn’t matter if your phone was off or on mute - it will ring anyway. If you didn’t have a phone? You’ll have found one that has been delivered to your current location with a sticky note attached with your name on it.

The ringing will continue until you check your phone. The entire screen has been locked to a new app that downloaded: Libra. It looks like a social media app, even though you’ve never heard of it before. Worst yet, there seems to be no closing this app until you read and respond to the message displayed]

Welcome to Libra! Libra is an innovative app developed by the good folks at Zodiac™ to connect people with similarities that set them apart from the average crowd!

There’s a lot to talk about, but we don’t want to pile too much on you! Instead, let's start things off with a little icebreaker! It’s a little late, but we hope it's still relevant!


This post is sponsored by the 2021 Kaisou Winter Carnival! Get out and enjoy the cold!

[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone.

Mod Note: The game has officially begun! The first event log will take place on January 9th, but players are free to make their own logs and posts! There will be no NPC response in this network post, so feel free to interact with each other!]

Comments

[the_redventurer]

[The 'owo' reminds him of a cat face. Maybe this place has cat people that talk like this? Anything seems possible when you've shared consciousnesses with a dinosaur.]

Hewwo, then! My name is Adol. What's yours?

[higanbana]

[Well... he got one thing partially correct.

For Ris' part, she's losing her shit over here. Also, like hell she's giving her real name to some rando on some random impossible-to-uninstall creepy app, so:]

Awice!

It's nice to meet yew, Adow! owo

[the_redventurer]

[He's doing his best, and wants to be polite, but... well, he doesn't think he can mimic this speech pattern. Adol, just because you accidentally text to speech doesn't mean that's the default setting...]

Nice to meet you too.

So. This might be a weird question, but where are we exactly? And who are these Zodiac people?

[higanbana]

uwu

ummmm

i can't say fo SUWE whewe yew awe because this could be ANYWHEWE!! but i am in kaisou

[Ris is not aware they're all in the same city yet. Also, no way this idiot's going to figure out where she is in the city, so...]

which is in teh united states!! on eawff.

[...She is just fucking with him with this answer.]

[the_redventurer]

[If this idiot finds out where anyone is, it'll be purely by accident.

More importantly though-]

These devices have that big of a range? Amazing!

[higanbana]

uh

yeah?

[Wait, shit, she's breaking character—]

phones can go all over teh world if they want to!! owo its just that most sewvice pwovidews westwict yew phone sewvice to yew countwy.

[the_redventurer]

Service providers...? How do they provide service?

[This is fascinating, but this is also starting to seem like it might be a lot of information that he might want to write down, and here he is without a journal to write it all down in-]

[higanbana]

cewwuwar sewvice!! teh magic in teh sky that makes teh voice n teh text twavel fwom fone 2 fone~~ uwu

[the_redventurer]

Oh, I see. That makes sense. Thank you for your help, Arvis.

Argus.

Albus.

Alice. ...I don't think this phone thing understands what I'm saying sometimes.

[tfw text-to-speech collides with autocorrect and a complete lack of experience with modern tech]

[higanbana]

[Oh god he's using text-to-speech. Ris is actually laughing out loud right now.]

wowwie zowwie those suwe awe a wot of wong names!! oAo maybe yew showd wearn 2 type??? xD but yew wewcome!!!!