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[nysan]

Bzzt. Your phone is buzzing, but it doesn't seem to be due to receiving any calls or texts. Upon opening your device, the vibration will stop — however, there will be a faint sound of static as you navigate through it, as though it's been tampered with. Anyone tech-savvy would discover fairly quickly that it's nothing of major concern — nothing's going to explode, thankfully — but it won't take an expert to realize that there's something very different about the network.

All names on your contact page have been erased, leaving only unidentifiable numbers and letters behind. They will constantly change, making it impossible to attach these codes to one person.

Some recent posts on the network may also experience this interference: names will be missing, voice recordings erased, and videos so heavily filtered that you would not be able to see the poster's face. Those old messages in your inbox remain mostly untouched, but any incoming messages will certainly be affected by this strange phenomenon.

Not too long into the morning, however, a new voice will appear on the network. The speaker is unaffected by the phenomenon — has she come with answers?

Well, this is unfortunate. As infallible as the Natha claim to be, it would seem that their technology is not backwards-compatible with our networks after all. You may experience some interference with your communications while we work this out, but do not be alarmed. I assure you, this is only temporary.

— Perhaps not. The woman doesn't even identify herself before disconnecting altogether. Well, there are worse things that could be happening, but one thing is for sure: this won't be the last time you'll hear from her.

In the meantime, all network activity may be anonymous, at the player's discretion. You may use this post as an pseudo-anonymous post as well as branch out to misfires in personal inboxes or other network posts. If you opt to have your character post (accidentally) anonymously, please indicate so in the subject line. There will be no usernames displayed. For voice and video, the audio may be distorted and faces altered with strange filters. Feel free to be as creative as you please!

Please direct all questions to the questions thread below.

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questions

[nysan]

voice; un: 3V3N23N5jk, OTA

[summertimeblues]

[Trying to reach a pal here but this is...something else. Can't any of this stupid future machinery just work? His kingdom for a rotary. For the time being his voice comes out the other end garbled by static, utterly unrecognizable.]

—Hello?


((Normal wrong number shenanigans are welcome! But if given opportunity Richie is going to abuse the hell out of his power to do exact impressions: both of celebrities/characters from 1985 and earlier, and people he's met in the game (with permission ofc!). If you ever wanted to hash out Orbiter politics with Cheech and Chong or start a lurid love affair with your oblivious refugee neighbor, now is your time. Contact me via pm if you have specific requests!

Audibly his voice will be indistinguishable from the person he's impersonating! But their motivations might be OOC....sorry 2 butcher your babies in the name of comedy. you can absolutely slap him after this.))

finally my time has come

[sakabroto]

Huh? Who is this?

text | OTA

[icingonthecake]

[[Who wants a shitty pun? Once he realizes everything is anonymous, he'll be sending bad jokes and terrible puns unchecked into the ether, just to any old random username in the directory. If you want one to land in your inbox, just drop a reply. You get a shitty pun and you get a shitty pun we all get shitty puns, come at me!]]

yes hello i am here for puns

[idealisme]

We have no bread. Nor milk either. You should go to the market.

video; ota

[hellzone]

[ The video isn't focusing on a person, but is instead focusing on a pseudo-occult set-up. There's a black sheet of cloth on the ground, with a ritual circle drawn on it with what looks like paint pen or fingernail polish. A set of tarot cards sits in the middle of the ritual circle. Two adorable candles (one shaped like a cat, one shaped like a dog) sit in the top left and right corners of bootleg witchcraft. ]

The cursed unluckiness of my phone being broken has turned into a blessing in disguise! [ poor Yoshiko thinks that it's just her who's having funky network issues. ] The denizens of the depths have heard Yohane and gifted her with her sacred tools! And...a few adorable candles as well. [ these candles are real cute, y'all ]

As such, I have decided to bestow my gifts upon the fellow refugees and survivors of the storm. Simply ask a question and Yohane shall work her magic and consult with the dark arts to best answer thee. Since I cannot know who you are, feel free to ask any question, no matter how embarrassing.

[ tl;dr, ask a question and Yoshiko will use her ""fortune telling powers"" to answer it. Feel free to troll the hell out of her as she inevitably misinterprets cards and gets a few things wrong. ]

[mollymocked]

[Normally, Molly is 100% against having people read him as he can dish things out and not precisely take them- also it runs the risk of someone with legitimate ability figuring out his Level Four Backstory.

But... Yohane is, to some degree, pretty harmless. And everything she does delights him.]

Oh, mysterious and graceful Yohane, bestow your wisdom to me.

[Gee I wonder who that awful Irish accent belongs to.]

voice; ota

[mollymocked]

[Molly doesn't even fucking know how this shit works anyway, so he's just being wanky about it, and carrying on any misfired conversation as if it was meant for him, because why not? Good way to see who has a sense of humor in these parts.]

misfire voice | un: ???????

[quintessent]

[The voice on the other side is slightly warped, though not entirely unrecognizable if Mollymauk has a good memory. Not many people have an accent like Allura's.]

I wanted to apologize for our practice session the other day. I have been told I can be a little... overzealous at times.

video; ota

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket is available for all of your shenanigans and also done with this, but first. FIRST... He has something to address to the network at large.]

Is anyone gonna tell us who the hell that broad was?

[Troll him, debate the identify of Lady Fucks With the Network, or misfire at him. Go wild.]

[sweetwater]

I'm sure they'll tell us any minute now. They love filling us in on all the details.

[ the video's a little scrambled, so it might be hard to see her eye roll. but don't worry, it's pretty easy to hear in the tone of her voice. ]

video; ota

[givingback]

[ Just when the girl from the 60s gets the hang of modern technology: this. She's mostly messing around with her device, but if she gets a misfire, she'll gladly hang around and chat because honestly? What else is there to do? ]

i do what i want

[nineteenfortyfive]

I could use a favor.

any; ota

[flask]

[How do you turn off this crazy thing!? While Nott struggles to understand technology, she's available for misfires!]

Text

[summertimeblues]

So if your dog's a robot does it shit nuts and bolts?

voice or text; ota

[godslay]

[ Misfiring shenanigans, ho! Gamora indulges people to a point, but because of how much the comm is messed up, she'll answer anything that comes through to try and figure out who's where. ]

misfire voice

[conqueredhearts]

[Well, he means this for someone who knows him. But apparently Gamora is going to get to talk to someone she's never met before instead through a garbled voice conversation. Sounds good, yeah?]

Ah. Do you think I should be sleeping on the floor? I am very large and it may bring more comfort unless there are large beds.

Text OTA un; ANONYMOUS

[smithandwesson]

Isn't this the second time now over the past few months that the network got fucked over? Don't tell me the Orbiters tech is that damned easy to fuck up.

[Actually... Considering how often everything else on their ship had broken down at some point or another, he could believe it.]

[gravemistake]

what happened last time?

Text; MISFIRE

[smithandwesson]

Holy fucking hell kid! How many times do I have to tell you to stop taking the last of the Kewpie Mayo!?! Do you have any idea what I have to go through to even get that stuff on this planet!?!?!?!?!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫😠

[pebblestone]

[ Okay he doesn't know what 'Kewpie Mayo' is but more importantly: ]

Are those guns? Are you threatening me, good fellow?

[ How DARE you, quite honestly. ]

MISFIRE text | OTA

[sakabroto]

[He was in the middle of sending a message when the address fritzed on him so who knows where this message went. Good luck to whomever picks it up.]

how come I had no game back home and here almost all my friends are girls? am I just luckier once the world ended or something?

[atwo]

Maybe back home you would scare the girls away and here, you don’t scare a lot of them because they’ve faced worse.

[ Best girl. ]

any; ota

[stuns]

[ apparently no one here has ever heard of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” thanks, he hates it. feel free to misfire and get some real terrible shenanigans on. half the time juno doesn’t even know what to do with this tech despite being from such a stupid advanced future. ]

[thedarkbond]

so how do you feel about getting hit with swords

[legitimate poll question for legitimate reasons, though misfire void is perhaps not the best time Ren could have sent it...]

ota

[illuminating]

[ it's time-consuming and difficult for ammy to text, but she can do it. that said, she doesn't text out all that often, but if she receives misfires or intended messages she'll reply. she defaults to text, obvs., but any type of message is welcome. ]

[nanamari]

[ She's testing the waters she has no idea who this is sending to. ]

zZz
(︶⌓︶✽)

voice or text; ota

[triplerose]

[ Loras doesn't deal much with the network, so it may take him some time to notice something is amiss. Fortunately, he's kind enough to humour all misfires. ]

text; un: T2E0N8

[ininhuman]

This is annoyingly mild inconvenience.

[ Read: Maximus is about to snap. ]

un: R2E1T3

[stargatemedic]

Mild inconvenience, perhaps, but it could lead to major problems down the line.

[Meet Lieutenant Obvious.]

voice (or text); un: 780403yyc

[claudel]

[ Typing is understandably difficult for Fergus. He prefers voice or video, and in an effort to contact one of his relatives about something he has noticed things aren't working. Maybe. Being from the eighteenth century, he has no idea how these things work.

But he's pretty sure this is wrong.

So he moves ahead cautiously, hoping to have found the right contact. Otherwise you'll be hearing a distinctly French and unknown voice.]

Uh ... Hello?

voice it is

[pluspetitpoete]

[He's busy attempting to write something, so at first all he registers is the French accent, which is normal enough for him.]

Oh hello! Now that you have your communicator back, you decide to contact me instead if your sparring partner? I'm honoured.

How are you?

(mostly) voice; ota

[reek]

[ He doesn’t deal with the network much these days, but he’ll begrudgingly deal with any and all misfires. He won't show his face and he has a hard time with text, but he'll respond to whatever--just in voice. ]

is it because of the lack of fingers? anyway, voice

[antleredcrown]

I still think you should just let me keep it. I feel like I would be much warmer if we forwent shaving for a while.

Though I suspect resistance will be met with you pinning me down and attacking me with a razorblade.

voice; un: 8H384HD9482

[winecasks]

[ He’s just here to complain and be negative, tbh, but consider this an OTA for all your wrong number nonsense. ]

Do the Natha still claim to be infallible? Perhaps they should stop. I tire of this modern technology. I have never known a pen to be incompatible with a hand, nor a letter to be incompatible with the eyes and lips which read it. This is only temporary, they claim, but it has happened once before. How many more times will it happen?

voice

[dancerefresher]

I...I have no idea. Though it seems to me? Anything that is being called infallible...t-that's asking to be proven wrong.

Wh-when did this happen before? And why?

If you don't mind me asking...

misfire; ota

[pebblestone]

I hope this isn't too presumptuous, but given the temperatures here I took it upon myself to knit you a pair of mittens and a scarf. I apologize for the color; I only had grey yarn left.

[ Now they don't match your eyes. :( ]

[flask]

I can't wear mittens

voice or text, ota

[thedarkbond]

[Well, isn't this interesting...?

Open to misfires; who knows how Ren's going to take the opportunity to respond when he doesn't have to worry about keeping up appearances?]

voice / log link.

[evite]

( she doesn't send many messages, if only because #encryption isn't something she fully believes in on natha servers... but daisy is trying to get to the bottom of things if she can.

feel free to also bother her with a misfire, though, or reply to her unintentional complaint below: )

'Do not be alarmed', my ass.

voice | UN: HYjbaOnvXH

[icingonthecake]

[Oh, honey, you've walked right into this one.]

That's good, talk it down.

Though, what exactly would happen, if your ass was alarmed?

[Asking for a friend.]

Any, OTA

[thetaintedsorrow]

[Chuuya will answer any misfires because why not? Now is the time to mess with him (or he’ll finally get to mess with someone else). He’ll also send out a misfired text message...]

If I find out who stole my hat I’m gonna throw their ass off a cliff.

Text;

[cassus]

Or... How about an alternative ending to this story?

[ Does he have the hat or is he just toying with it's owner? Stay tuned! ]

Hear me out. Say someone happened to find such an item lying around.

What would you do to get it back?

[ This is now a hostage situation. ]

Any; ota

[stargatemedic]

[TJ will answer anything that comes her way because:

1) she is a medic and would never leave someone hanging on the line &
2) she's new in town and just getting to know people so who knows who's messaging her for what?

PS: feel free to receive her message below:]

This place just gets better and better.

voice;

[stuns]

Doesn't it just? March our asses through a snow storm, screw with the comms.

I'd say this is a pretty great vacation.

Video; OTA

[conqueredhearts]

[Well there is just one solution that he has for this situation. Just one. He has no idea where this is going, doesn't care either. He's going to do this.]

Good day, my friends! To aid in this confusion I shall tell you my identity! It is I! Iskandar, King of Conquerors!

[The image on the screen laughs merrily before continuing.]

There. That should fix matters, yes?

video

[icingonthecake]

[The image is slightly garbled, but nobody else is gonna look like a red hedgehog no matter how fuzzy the picture, so this is pretty obvious anyway. And Axel is just laughing his ass off.]