[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: hierophantcherry

[kokaiwanai]

[... You know what, he's just putting in his usual internet handle and his Usual userpic.]

I don't have one

[That's a lie, but who cares?]

Does anyone else find this incredibly suspicious?

un: hikari-vi

[whiteshroud]

I do. I don't even remember downloading this app.

[kokaiwanai]

Part of me feels like I should be relieved that it's not just me, but I think that actually just makes this worse...

[whiteshroud]

Yeah. Maybe it's some kind of virus?

[kokaiwanai]

It's possible

We should probably be on the lookout for any nasty surprises in the next few days

un: blackbirdtarot

[drewthetower]

super fuckin sketch

[kokaiwanai]

This feels vaguely like the start of some kind of horror movie and I really hope that's just my imagination running wild at this point

[drewthetower]

not of enough weird threatening messages yet

or doxxing

[kokaiwanai]

"Yet" is the key word

It could be lulling us into a false sense of security

UN: edelweiss

[shootingstars]

No... you think?





Of course it is. Or is downloading random apps to meet strangers "normal" for you?

[kokaiwanai]

Hardly

This almost feels like the start of some kind of horror movie, frankly

[AND BOY IS HE NOT THRILLED WITH THIS PROSPECT]

un: spiderlily

[higanbana]

i mean dating apps are like, A Thing, just saying

but if that's what this is it's really bad at it because i want to swipe left on a couple people already and it's not letting me

un: esoterica

[courtpainter]

I'm sure I didn't download it myself. At first I thought perhaps it might be someone's art project, but the other responses don't seem to be restricted to the creative community. I wonder how we were targeted.

[kokaiwanai]

I didn't download it myself, either...

Honestly, I'm concerned that I already got myself on some sort of list after just getting here

[courtpainter]

Ah, you're new in town? Welcome to Kaisou, then, though it's hardly the welcome I'd prefer to offer newcomers.

It is unsettling, but it needn't be any sign that we're being personally tracked from just this much: it could be as simple as a scanner picking up phone information from an area that we all happened to pass through. Send a flattering message to the phones targeted that way, and a certain percentage are more likely to buy whatever product they inevitably start advertising after the first burst. ...I certainly don't see any other reason why I'd be caught up in such a thing.

[ Okay, so he's not exactly an ordinary person either, but for an idle creative type he's not really that unusual. ]

[kokaiwanai]

Maybe not, but I appreciate it nonetheless. Thank you

That sounds irritating, but it's considerably more reassuring than the places my mind was going

[thavnairian]

yup. super suspicious

we might all die, but eh.

[kokaiwanai]

Hm. Ominous

The horror movie vibes are real

[thavnairian]

if it helps i'm pretty good at remembering where the pointy end is

it'd be easier to protect everyone with a sword and shield, but it's been harder to find those here for some reason

and they're kind of expensive when i do

un: spiderlily

[higanbana]

oh, it is sus af

could have at LEAST waited for an ios update if they didn't want us all to immediately be on high alert

[kokaiwanai]

They could've and yet here we are

[higanbana]

sus alarm be like 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

UN: rschwarzer

[motiv8]

It is pretty weird, yeah. I don't remember installing this.

It seems pretty harmless right now, though. Don't know what half of it's talking about, but there's nothing really sketchy about a New Year's Resolution, I don't think.

[kokaiwanai]

Seeming harmless isn't the same thing as being harmless

I just hope this doesn't do anything to my phone though, I just got this one...

[motiv8]

True enough.

I haven't noticed anything weird with my phone, though. Aside from this existing and refusing to let me uninstall, it's running perfectly normally. So whatever this is, it's not eating up any background processes.

I guess if anything, we should worry about our personal info. If they're hoping to get anything out of me other than student loan debt, though, they can keep dreaming.