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

[grindset]

More like ingredients than athletes.
I would not recommend asking that particular vendor if his business is or contains a circus.

[nutbuckets]

aw too bad, I'd love to see trained cockroaches or something like that
don't you think that'd be cool?

why not? circuses are the BEST

[grindset]

Good luck convincing him of that.
And, while a roach trained in acrobatics might be "cool" it is very unlikely such a roach exists.
Maybe the roaches are different here -
A mechanical insect would be superior regardless.

[nutbuckets]

here you are dashing all my dreams of trained roaches
so rude :(

(that was a joke)

mechanical insect? oh man that'd be useful if someone made them
I'd keep one as a pet

[grindset]

[All right—the parenthetical comment gets him. He doesn't smile, but feels a little bit like doing it and that's as good as.]

There must be a resident artisan who makes them - I would be very surprised were that not the case.
As builds go they are not especially complicated.

[nutbuckets]

well, that's on my to-do list
gonna go to the shops and try to find a mechanical insect
do you want one?
or need anything from the shops?

[grindset]

No.

[After a pause,]

Thank you. I am OK.

i'm so sorry

[nutbuckets]

okay!
but like I said, if you need something you just send me a message and I'll run errands for you or whatever
you seem like the type of guy who likes to stay inside

💀

[grindset]

How do I seem that way?
I just referenced two vendors - do you think I was exploring the market with a telescope?

and they were getting along so well

[nutbuckets]

I dunno, you just looked like an indoors guy!
the type who likes doing research and stuff
you don't do that in fields of flowers typically

she's not wrong and that is terrible

[grindset]

Well excuse me for not having a tan.

poor v

[nutbuckets]

hey! I didn't mean it as an insult!

[grindset]

I am perfectly capable of running my own errands.
And if there were any fields of flowers here I might even go and see them.

[Wait. No. That's— can you un-send messages—]

[nutbuckets]

[Too late!]

capable sure, but do you really want to?

omg! I'm gonna find a field of flowers now, just so we can go look together
I'm sure they got a garden or somethin around here

[grindset]

Yes, I want to.

[Surely if he ignores the rest it will just go away.]

[nutbuckets]

whatever you say, v

you know I'm looking up gardens as we speak right?

[grindset]

Please do not.

[nutbuckets]

you said you wanted to see them!

[grindset]

So what

[slick rebuttal, absolutely nailed it]

[nutbuckets]

soooooo

we're gonna go see them silly

because you wanted to!

[grindset]

I'm busy

[nutbuckets]

doing what?

[grindset]

Stuff.

[nutbuckets]

that's such an obvious lie!

[grindset]

It is none of your business.
OK too busy now, bye