[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

[whiteshroud]

[ / / / ]

Dad, that's a little embarrassing.

[inutilis]

Wait can other people read this right now?

[whiteshroud]

Y e s.

[inutilis]

PERFECT!!

[ and attached one after the other instead of, say, in one singular message comes a flurry of cute pictures of Jun (and sometimes Abel), most of which were taken out and about town or over a meal or something. ]

i'M REALLY EXCITED TO SAY I HAVE PURCHASED A NEW CAMERA SINCE THESE WERE TAKEN, AND PLEASE HIT ME UP ON INSTAGRAM IF YOU'D LIKE MORE✨✨
wHY AM I STUCK WITH BIG LETTERS, BY THE WAY?

[whiteshroud]

[OH MY GOD

Jun is flustered, taking a moment to type]

DAD STOP!!!! Stop sharing my pictures to strangers!!

[drewthetower]

wait

Jun

this guy is your DAD?

[whiteshroud]

[Oh boy]

Yeah, he is.

[drewthetower]

oh my gods

he tried to trade me beanie babies for a tarot reading

[whiteshroud]

[ !! ]

I hope you said no, because those guys are mine!

[drewthetower]

of course I said no, they're worthless!!

[whiteshroud]

They're not worthless, they're cute. You just can't put a price on that.

[drewthetower]

okay fair

still not nearly enough to cover my reading fee

[whiteshroud]

That's fine. Dad's probably better off not getting a tarot reading.

[inutilis]

What?? Everyone deserves to have their day brightened by seeing your happy face!! You don't like it? 😟😞😥🥺

[whiteshroud]

Peoples' days are brightened by pictures of kittens and puppies. Not a random teenager.

[inutilis]

You are FAR cuter than any puppy or kitten!!!

[whiteshroud]

No I'm not.

Also don't try to trade off the beanie babies.

[inutilis]

Look, I was trying to make an offer and feel someone out, okay?
And I would never give away Baltic the Husky.


Probably.

[whiteshroud]

...

Give Baltic away, and I'm going with him.

1/2

[inutilis]

I'm

being framed

[inutilis]

By the way, are you telling tarot readers not to tarot read me? That's not very nice, Jun.

[whiteshroud]

Yes, I did. It's for your own good.

[Well, at least he's honest]

[inutilis]

...Are you dooming me to be a lonely spinster with 5,000 dogs, too, Jun? Say it isn't so... I can't take much more of this, today.

[whiteshroud]

[...]

I don't know where you came to that conclusion, but no.

Tarot reading can reveal personal things about a person's past and present. And August isn't known for keeping his lips sealed...

[In other words, he's trying to prevent August from telling all of China that you're possessed]

[inutilis]

Oh.
Oh, I see what you're saying, now.

[ this is questionable, ]

You're afraid if he were to do his tarot thing, he might understand the true value of the Beanie Babies and try to make a go for them anyway, right?
Ah. Jun, you're really so impossibly smart, you know that?! I didn't even THINK about how that might go...

[ his lil boy, always looking out for him. single tear... ]