[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

UN: Hikari-vi

[whiteshroud]

I can never decide on a good resolution....try something new, I guess?

Has anyone heard of Zodiac before? I've only heard the name mention on urban legend sites before.

un: riftdancer

[thavnairian]

zodiac is... how do i explain. what's that one list where people post ads for weird stuff? it's like that but more professional

zodiac might put out something like, we need exactly ten bear asses

and if you turn in ten bear asses you can pay for your rent

typical adventurer's guild stuff if you've got one of those here

[whiteshroud]

[Adventurer's guild? The fuck does that mean? But more important--]

Why would someone need ten bear asses?

[thavnairian]

alchemy, leatherworking, who knows! it's not my problem and certainly not my place to ask

[whiteshroud]

Alchemy? I thought that was just a fictional thing...

[drewthetower]

like. vaguely??? they're real obvs but

I don't fuckin have anything to do with em

[whiteshroud]

Is that so? Can you prove they're real?

[drewthetower]

you mean other than the app we're using?

[whiteshroud]

Yeah, I mean that could just use the name as part of hoax. Urban legend stuff gets faked all the time.

un: MASTEMA

[overlies]

Would babysitting be on the table, dear?

[whiteshroud]

Makima? You're on here too?

[WHO LET ADULTS ON THIS????!?!?!?]

[overlies]

You sound surprised that I was invited to something strange and foreboding.

[ this theme is her life!! ]

[whiteshroud]

Well, when you put it that way....

[Yeah suddenly it makes sense she is intimidating like that]

UN: sugarcoated

[inutilis]

JUN

[ this text might have been punctuated by a distant "JUN" shouted from the other room,

gleefully. WOW, haha, he found you!! ]

[whiteshroud]

[!!!!!!!!!]

DAD?!

[inutilis]

Small world, isn't it?
I'd say that they only invited the coolest of cool people onto this thing, but
Ana is here so that theory's out
Did you download this? Is this some viral marketing thing?

[whiteshroud]

[ 💧

Yeah he's not touching the cool people thing.]

No, I didn't download it. I'm not sure how it got on our phones.
I can take them to the repair shop tomorrow to see if they can uninstall it.

un: spiderlily

[higanbana]

not in terms of a company, no

i only know "zodiac" as that thing about your birthday some people are obsessed with and also that one serial killer which does NOT make this any less sus

[whiteshroud]

Didn't the Zodiac Killer turn out to be some dead guy named Greg? We can probably rule him out...

The name Libra does fit in with the horoscopes theme though.

[higanbana]

yeah... i think there's like 6 different dead white guys it can be. or that one politician, at least for the memes

...so yeah it's more likely horoscope-based. which is less sus but also more lame

[whiteshroud]

Haha, I agree. I've never really been into horoscopes myself, so I don't get the appeal.

[motiv8]

I think that's a pretty good resolution! Nice and achievable.

I can't say that I have, no. I mean, maybe vaguely as some conspiracy theory or something? But I try not to listen too closely to stuff like that.

[whiteshroud]

Thanks! I like trying new things, so it should be easy enough to achieve.

[And that is what truly matters!!!]

So we're both on the same page there. Maybe the programmer knew about those conspiracies?

[motiv8]

Maybe. But... realistically, I think they're probably way more into horoscopes. What with the whole "Libra" thing.

Maybe whoever wrote up the OP is in on it, though, since they seem to be going out of their way to be vague. I guess you have to get your fun in somewhere if you work in a job like that.

[whiteshroud]

Yeah, people do get really into those things...

No kidding. But what is the point of it. "similarities that set them apart from the average crowd"? What's that supposed to mean?