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.)
[ the net might send over emoji of sparkles 'cause pavia also likes being told he's cool and badass ]
sure, sure!!! i'll do it for you for free
hmmm i've heard of robots and automatons tho they are thought to be science and little magic in them well that's a good a reason as any to get into the arcane arts did you become your favorite character??
Not exactly. I can't entirely become someone else. Even in a roleplay exercise, I'm Taryon Darrington.
But I got to be a hero in my own way, with the help of my friends. And many expensive tools. I say I'm a brand new main character of a fine adventure novel.
I haven't watched many films, so I don't have too much to say on them. But books work best when their themes come full circle. The ones that leave you lying on the floor and thinking are the best.
I'm thinking: "How to be a hero." or "How friendship changes men for the better." or "Being yourself" or "Dreams become reality" "Real life is different from fiction" "The meaning of bravery" "Faking it until you're making it"
well no good film or book or anything is its best version in the first draft what matters is how the audience sees it and you want them to see the best, right?
yeah welllllllllllllllllllllll worst qualities and decisions are one thing frustrating is close to being annoying i can forgive bad people i can't forgive annoying people
but even i want to i can't you can't beat people up unless they try to kill you first and you can't kill them even if they try to kill you learning things is terrible
i've taught you something but if you want to forget it - forget it!
Um I'm glad you're learning that. Terrifying people and possibly traumatizing them when they haven't actually hurt you is a bad idea. I am speaking from experience, just talk to annoying people.
well i had to go to school for it to teach me to get along with humans i learned well and graduated
BUT! i worked as a mercenary for a lot of years you see! what's normal there isn't normal anywhere else which doesn't seem right when you think about it i was interacting properly with humans if someone bugged you enough, you could fill them full of holes humans did that to each other but then they say that isn't how to act at all
so had to get a full education again on how to be about humans and even saying that i was about humans they say those weren't the right humans humans are so strange to one another, too
talking to annoying people is irritating! because they just get more annoying but they won't be killed so
I think your point was that you're used to killing annoying people, but you learned not to even though everyone does it all the time.
But are you saying that it's super common in your world to murder people over nothing? Not that death is rare on Exandria, but that seems like a hellish place to live in.
humans murder themselves over anything if you ask me doing the work i did before joining the foundation, it seemed they were just looking for any reason to off one another and there's a time that humans just wanted to kill arcanists because they were arcanists i'd say that'd be over nothing
but hey my bosses liked me enough for my work that i got a tattoo la cosa nuova mafia does your world have a mafia??? organized group for crime and the like, sometimes protection, usually a big family that runs the whole thing that sort of business
Uh, yeah?? What place doesn't have criminal organizations? They're completely different people. They murder and steal like it's nothing. Nearly made my entire family destitute, but that's more of my father's fault. Since he made way too many deals with them.
But anyway, were you with the mafia? Is that what you were doing before you learned not to kill randos?
ah good!!! i dunno probably some place??? the way the foundation talked about it made it sound like it was unnatural and not right well your father sounds a bit like an idiot. i'm glad you're not so much of an idiot.
[ having a nice enough time that he decides to compliment in the pavia-way. ]
i wasn't officially allowed in their group more like someone they asked to do work from time to time only the time to time was a lot ha ha ha tho it wasn't all roses one of my bosses tried to kill me once i don't recall even doing anything worth it but they were mad and decided i should die
i kept his tie clip as a souvenir and we all called it even or i called it even why do more than take out the head that wants you dead
but hmmmmmmmmmmmm i think my teaching tells me this is bad but it's the past so i say that it's good
but why was your father such a fool? why work with such dangerous people? normal people shouldn't be part of that world 'cause it isn't normal and full of madness.
you're not crazy, are you? you don't seem crazy or an idiot you didn't inherit any stupidity did you???
Hopefully the new place has people that don't want to kill you. I sure don't want to. Normal people don't resort to violence whenever they encounter a problem. Life's more fun that way.
Oh. That's something I can't explain entirely. Just that he made some deals with them to keep our land and holdings when I was a baby, and over the years, the debt compounded. Apparently, everything he did since then was to pay them back. Making himself the most hated man in town just because he didn't want a rival encroaching onto his territory. I guess I can see why he hid that from his family all these years, but that doesn't excuse how he treated all of us my entire life. Or what he did to me or planned to do with me. But that's all in the past. He doesn't own anything anymore. It's all mine now. So he's no longer a danger. What's he going to do, run back to the Myriad? Ask one of his rich friends for help when they'll laugh at his loss of status? But I'm not going to follow his footsteps or repeat his mistakes.
and i hope not i grumble it again even if a person tries to kill you, i can't kill them back. even if all roads are treaded upon. even if all options are used up.
i sometimes wonder what is really normal. but there is madness in that sort of peace, and i can accept THAT
[ hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ]
glad it is in better hands good you didn't grow up to be a fool fools that can't hold onto anything aren't worth much of anything i don't think he even has a souvenior worth keeping that's as best an insult i can give your father even that boss of mine had a tie clip i held onto but for that man he has nothing i'd keep a tribute to you!!
I don't think people are like books. Lives are real and you can't rewrite your past. Real people were hurt by him. I guess something good came of me taking over the family funds, but it would have been better if my father tried to be a decent person the first time around.
But, thanks. It's encouraging to think of it that way. I don't know what the future holds, but it has to be better.
So what did you do with that tie clip? Is it a trophy you wear everywhere?
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sure, sure!!!
i'll do it for you for free
hmmm
i've heard of robots and automatons
tho they are thought to be science and little magic in them
well
that's a good a reason as any to get into the arcane arts
did you become your favorite character??
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Even in a roleplay exercise, I'm Taryon Darrington.
But I got to be a hero in my own way, with the help of my friends.
And many expensive tools.
I say I'm a brand new main character of a fine adventure novel.
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i'm pavia
congratulations?
do you like the story, then??
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I think it's been given a satisfying ending while being open to a sequel. It would make for a great book.
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good idea
i like films more than books
but i like films that leave something open
not just for sequels but an ending you can think about
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But books work best when their themes come full circle. The ones that leave you lying on the floor and thinking are the best.
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what theme did you decide on for yourself?
is it still circling??
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"How to be a hero."
or
"How friendship changes men for the better."
or
"Being yourself"
or
"Dreams become reality"
"Real life is different from fiction"
"The meaning of bravery"
"Faking it until you're making it"
Which sounds most interesting?
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"real life is different from fiction"
that sounds like fun
it sounds like it has something there
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no good film or book or anything is its best version in the first draft
what matters is how the audience sees it
and you want them to see the best, right?
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welllllllllllllllllllllll
worst qualities and decisions are one thing
frustrating is close to being annoying
i can forgive bad people
i can't forgive annoying people
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Like you want to take them to an empty field outside the city and beat them up?
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but even i want to i can't
you can't beat people up unless they try to kill you first
and you can't kill them even if they try to kill you
learning things is terrible
i've taught you something but if you want to forget it - forget it!
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I'm glad you're learning that.
Terrifying people and possibly traumatizing them when they haven't actually hurt you is a bad idea.
I am speaking from experience, just talk to annoying people.
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i had to go to school for it
to teach me to get along with humans
i learned well and graduated
BUT! i worked as a mercenary for a lot of years you see!
what's normal there isn't normal anywhere else
which doesn't seem right when you think about it
i was interacting properly with humans
if someone bugged you enough, you could fill them full of holes
humans did that to each other
but then they say that isn't how to act at all
so had to get a full education again on how to be about humans
and even saying that i was about humans
they say those weren't the right humans
humans are so strange to one another, too
talking to annoying people is irritating!
because they just get more annoying
but they won't be killed so
what was my point???
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But are you saying that it's super common in your world to murder people over nothing? Not that death is rare on Exandria, but that seems like a hellish place to live in.
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humans murder themselves over anything if you ask me
doing the work i did before joining the foundation, it seemed they were just looking for any reason to off one another
and there's a time that humans just wanted to kill arcanists because they were arcanists
i'd say that'd be over nothing
but hey
my bosses liked me enough for my work that i got a tattoo
la cosa nuova
mafia
does your world have a mafia???
organized group for crime and the like, sometimes protection, usually a big family that runs the whole thing that sort of business
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What place doesn't have criminal organizations?
They're completely different people. They murder and steal like it's nothing.
Nearly made my entire family destitute, but that's more of my father's fault. Since he made way too many deals with them.
But anyway, were you with the mafia? Is that what you were doing before you learned not to kill randos?
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i dunno
probably some place???
the way the foundation talked about it
made it sound like it was unnatural and not right
well
your father sounds a bit like an idiot. i'm glad you're not so much of an idiot.
[ having a nice enough time that he decides to compliment in the pavia-way. ]
i wasn't officially allowed in their group
more like someone they asked to do work from time to time
only the time to time was a lot ha ha ha
tho it wasn't all roses
one of my bosses tried to kill me once
i don't recall even doing anything worth it
but they were mad and decided i should die
i kept his tie clip as a souvenir and we all called it even
or i called it even
why do more than take out the head that wants you dead
but hmmmmmmmmmmmm
i think my teaching tells me this is bad
but it's the past so i say that it's good
that's how that can work, right?
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you're not crazy, are you? you don't seem crazy or an idiot
you didn't inherit any stupidity did you???
[ so he says again ]
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[Always feels nice to dunk on shitty dads.]
Hopefully the new place has people that don't want to kill you. I sure don't want to. Normal people don't resort to violence whenever they encounter a problem. Life's more fun that way.
Oh.
That's something I can't explain entirely.
Just that he made some deals with them to keep our land and holdings when I was a baby, and over the years, the debt compounded. Apparently, everything he did since then was to pay them back.
Making himself the most hated man in town just because he didn't want a rival encroaching onto his territory.
I guess I can see why he hid that from his family all these years, but that doesn't excuse how he treated all of us my entire life. Or what he did to me or planned to do with me.
But that's all in the past.
He doesn't own anything anymore. It's all mine now.
So he's no longer a danger. What's he going to do, run back to the Myriad? Ask one of his rich friends for help when they'll laugh at his loss of status?
But I'm not going to follow his footsteps or repeat his mistakes.
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and i hope not
i grumble it again
even if a person tries to kill you, i can't kill them back.
even if all roads are treaded upon.
even if all options are used up.
i sometimes wonder what is really normal. but there is madness in that sort of peace, and i can accept THAT
[ hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ]
glad it is in better hands
good you didn't grow up to be a fool
fools that can't hold onto anything aren't worth much of anything
i don't think he even has a souvenior worth keeping
that's as best an insult i can give your father
even that boss of mine had a tie clip i held onto
but for that man
he has nothing i'd keep
a tribute to you!!
ha ha ha ha
good on you good on you
see!!
the second draft is always better than the first
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Lives are real and you can't rewrite your past.
Real people were hurt by him.
I guess something good came of me taking over the family funds, but it would have been better if my father tried to be a decent person the first time around.
But, thanks.
It's encouraging to think of it that way.
I don't know what the future holds, but it has to be better.
So what did you do with that tie clip? Is it a trophy you wear everywhere?
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