The Tether

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The Tether App

During the night, everyone's phone or other network device has been updated with a new app - The Tether - intended for helping new arrivals find Tethers.

Unfortunately for those who don't want to participate, the prompt for the application will keep popping up on their screen until they fill out the mandatory fields and post their profile. If you don't want to participate, it might be best to fill in the blanks with prank answers!

Once posted, the app creates a profile that looks like this:

	The Witch
«		»
	Age: ageless Gender: female Interests: three interests About: 30 words or less
	base code by photosynthesis
	Tian
	« ✘ ✔ »

It is a simple swiping type app like many dating apps, swipe left to ignore a profile, swipe right to initiate an instant messenger conversation with the person in question on the app's proprietary chat program, complete with emojis!

NOTE: This meme is game canon.

The Code

<br><center><table style="width:300px;"><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #102651;"><td></td> <td style="padding:20px; padding-bottom:0; width:300px; font:38px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; text-transform:uppercase; color:#102651; text-align:center; letter-spacing:2px; background-color:#ffffff; border-top-right-radius:50px; border-top-left-radius:50px;"><b>***CHARACTER NAME***</b></td> <td></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; padding:0; color:#102651;">«</td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff; padding:20px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:0; width:308px;"><img src="IMAGE - 300 PX OR LESS" style="border-radius:20px;"><br> </td> <td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; padding:0; color:#102651;">»</td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff; font:12px arial; text-align:left; padding:10px;"><span style="color:#102651;"><b>Age:</b> character age</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>Gender:</b> character gender</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>Interests:</b> three interests</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>About:</b> 30 words or less</span> </td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="text-align:right; font-size:10px; background-color:#ffffff;"><font color="#102651">base code by</font> <a href="http://photosynthesis.dreamwidth.org/" style="color:#102651;">photosynthesis</td></tr> <raw-code><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #102651;"><td></td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;font:24px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; color:#102651; text-align:center;">PLANETARY ALIGNMENT</td> <td><td></tr><tr><td></td> <td style="border-bottom-right-radius:50px; border-bottom-left-radius:50px; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:center;"><table style="width:100%; font:30px Verdana;"><tr><td style="text-align:left;"> <span style="text-decoration:none; color:#102651;">« ✘</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:none; color:#102651;">✔ »</span></td></tr> </table></td> <td></td></table></raw-code></center>

NAVIGATION

Comments

[noisecomplaint]

After having fought by your side on two occasions, I do believe we are compatible.

[tech_nically]

Agreed. Being tested for compatibility out on the field as it were seems more reliable than mere words.

[noisecomplaint]

And you do not take issue with my... weaknesses in regards to this realm?

[tech_nically]

Unfamiliarity is not a weakness. Things can be learned, so long as one is willing to adapt. And we all are, just at different levels.

[noisecomplaint]

You cannot deny I require more adaptation than most.

Of everyone, I may be the most troublesome person to tether with. My apologies.

[tech_nically]

This is true, but it is not specifically anyone's fault. For all we know, we could have ended up somewhere more similar to the world and lifestyle as you know it, and then our positions would be reversed.

Rokuro, you are far from troublesome. That has been established from the day we escaped the Sylphid.

[noisecomplaint]

Yes, we could have, but we did not. We are here. Where everything runs on electricity and is at once both absurdly simple and impossibly complex.

Thank you for your patience and all you have taught me. I am in your debt.

[tech_nically]

That is an apt way to put it. I'm sure things will be just as much so in the more magically-oriented district.

You're quite welcome. I don't think I would have been able to overlook this necessity, although I'm sure if I haven't tried to explain things, that someone else would.

[noisecomplaint]

Likely. I have yet to visit. To do so alone is... intimidating. I am unaccustomed to being by myself.

People are not as friendly as you may imagine. Especially if you are very different from them. Those who do not know what is considered 'common knowledge' are written off as foolish and inconsequential.

[tech_nically]

As am I. It's been strange to be anywhere without the others of my squad, and for this long. Perhaps we can go together.

Unfortunately that does seem to be the case more often than not. I also imagine that most of those who have been here and might be more welcoming than others are also quite busy with matters here. And other than that, it's very much an every-man-for-themself situation, once the circumstances have been laid down and basic needs provided for.

[noisecomplaint]

I would appreciate that very much.

That is true. One must save themselves from drowning before they can save another. I do not blame others for doing what they must to survive, I simply expect nothing from them.

[tech_nically]

Although considering the nature of this world, it seems that no one can really survive completely on their own. We have no choice but to rely on each other in some form or another.

[noisecomplaint]

It seems so. Now more than ever we must rely on one another.

Otherwise, the odds are not in our favour.

[tech_nically]

Indeed.