Although ocular & brain implants are the means of communication nowadays, a messenger service still exists in this world. Mostly everyone uses LINE nowadays even if the need for cellular phones is null. Characters may have already recognized the interface to be somewhat familiar with the similar shade of green and same old slogan.
It happens the first time, and several times throughout the week as your character goes about their new routine. The sound of machine-like whirring, deep within their cranium, like a computer that’s in the midst of processing some new information. Then, there’s the familiar ping of a new public message, and whatever you were thinking about at that point of time will be plastered on the network, for all to read and react to. Daydreaming about ponies at work? Having a fun night out at a club? Regretting said night out at the club? Falling into a deep depression about how your life has turned out so far? It doesn’t matter when or where, because the system doesn’t discriminate. You’ll soon find the thoughts you were having during those moments posted on the network and it won’t be possible to delete.
"The system is updating … ... The system is updating … "
That’s the only explanation SYNTHIA will give when prodded or asked to take down a post. She’s not too helpful at this moment.
"Yeah, sorry. She gets temperamental like that sometimes. I can’t really do anything about your business being out there. But it’s pretty funny, right? Looks like you got hella wrecked last night. Good for you."
Welcome to our first Network Mingle! This is a TFLN-inspired mingle that’s been tweaked to make it completely canon to the game. Due to a glitch in the system, random thoughts that characters might be having throughout the week will be registered as network posts and posted in public for all to see and respond to. This can happen at any time as they wander around the main base or different Neo Tokyo locations!
HOW TO PLAY: 1. Write out prompts (example below) for others to respond to. These can be thoughts they’re having in bed, at work, while intoxicated or what-have-you. You can look up shower thoughts or TFLN as inspiration, but remember that this will be game canon so it has to be written in your character’s voice. 2. Go around and respond to others! 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!
Participation in this mingle isn’t obligatory, of course. If you don’t want your character to participate, you can simply assume the glitch did not affect them.
We also have a code below for fun, but please don't feel pressured to use it. As always, a regular text thread works out just fine! Most importantly, have fun!
(Please remember to put warnings for NSFW/triggering content in the subject header.)
Please, do not test it yourself. If that is what LILITH told you, we have no reason to believe it's inaccurate.
Even what I've seen you capable of here far surpasses regenerative capabilities I've observed in others up until this point. Do you believe you will be able to alter your manner of fighting to adjust for this?
( how he had defended them in the simulation makes a lot more sense now. the doctor can't help but be concerned how deeply ingrained that impulse was. )
Testing it myself isn't ideal, I understand. But I'd rather know before the real fighting begins.
... That said, there's someone back home who would also prefer I altered the way I fight regardless of my body's capabilities. I'm trying, but it's difficult to relearn what I've been taught.
The simulation didn't provide an adequate enough test?
...I'm glad.
( at least someone he knows from home seems to care...! )
I would neither ask nor expect you to change immediately. Just keep in mind that your capacity and capabilities have changed... I'm sure, with time, you will adjust. ...You were taught to fight in this way?
( there is a difference between what one has learned to do for themself, on their own volition, and what another has specifically instructed them to do. )
[ It pushes at the hollow of his chest to hear someone express gratitude for his recent shift in priority, from weapon to combatant. For all intents and purposes, they are a stranger, and yet — ]
No. If possible, I'd like to experience the actual threats we're up against. Though...it has served its purpose, in a way.
( they are strangers to one another, yes. but every individual that comes to rhodes island and becomes an operator is a stranger to the doctor at one time or another—it is their job, their duty, their obligation to learn about them so that they can best keep them safe in the future. from the navigators on the bridge to the custodial staff in the kitchens to the boiler workers that work to keep the landship fueled, the doctor cares for each of them fiercely, even if they can rarely find ways to express it—they are, each and every one of them, gears and cogs of a single machine, the cells of a single organism working in concert.
no, LILITH is not rhodes island, but they still feel similarly. )
You will soon enough. It's why we're here.
( as much as the doctor is wary of the fights upon their horizon... they can understand shou's eagerness, in a way. if one doesn't regularly use their tools, after all, they will go to rust—they will need to apply themself to something sooner or later, or else they might get a little stircrazy. )
Let me put it this way... I have worked with some operators who, though certainly not to your own extent, have similar abilities to regenerate from their wounds. From my personal experience... I find this approach to be reckless to the point of potential wastefulness. If I were to set aside being concerned for you as a person, I would be concerned for you as an asset. Everyone has a limit, after all.
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Please, do not test it yourself. If that is what LILITH told you, we have no reason to believe it's inaccurate.
Even what I've seen you capable of here far surpasses regenerative capabilities I've observed in others up until this point.
Do you believe you will be able to alter your manner of fighting to adjust for this?
( how he had defended them in the simulation makes a lot more sense now. the doctor can't help but be concerned how deeply ingrained that impulse was. )
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...
That said, there's someone back home who would also prefer I altered the way I fight regardless of my body's capabilities. I'm trying, but it's difficult to relearn what I've been taught.
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...I'm glad.
( at least someone he knows from home seems to care...! )
I would neither ask nor expect you to change immediately. Just keep in mind that your capacity and capabilities have changed... I'm sure, with time, you will adjust.
...You were taught to fight in this way?
( there is a difference between what one has learned to do for themself, on their own volition, and what another has specifically instructed them to do. )
no subject
No. If possible, I'd like to experience the actual threats we're up against. Though...it has served its purpose, in a way.
I was. Is that surprising?
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no, LILITH is not rhodes island, but they still feel similarly. )
You will soon enough.
It's why we're here.
( as much as the doctor is wary of the fights upon their horizon... they can understand shou's eagerness, in a way. if one doesn't regularly use their tools, after all, they will go to rust—they will need to apply themself to something sooner or later, or else they might get a little stircrazy. )
Let me put it this way...
I have worked with some operators who, though certainly not to your own extent, have similar abilities to regenerate from their wounds.
From my personal experience... I find this approach to be reckless to the point of potential wastefulness. If I were to set aside being concerned for you as a person, I would be concerned for you as an asset.
Everyone has a limit, after all.