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

[bladebabysitter]

[Yeah, that first one will probably come back to bite them later...]

Don't be too impressed. My body here is composed of nanites, which means creating objects like that is entirely convenient.

Still, we did work well together. It's difficult for me to simply accept this tether thing, but since it appears to be necessary, I have no reason to object and many to agree.

[maskedtyrant]

You want me to not be impressed by the fact that your body is made of tiny robots?
Yeah, sold, totally. I'm down to at least try it as an experiment, right? Help you see what the process is like and stuff?

[bladebabysitter]

I should warn you that tethering to me could be... interesting. I don't know how much you'll get from it, but you might receive sensations and memories that are... well-beyond normal human experience. I assume there's some sort of way to end the tether if it starts straining the limits of your ability to handle it.

That's not a judgment call on your abilities, by the way. It's just the reality of the situation.

[maskedtyrant]

Oh no, I get it! You don't need to worry about me handling brain stuff. Prior training.

[bladebabysitter]

Interesting. How did that come about? I wouldn't exactly call it a standard skill set among the humankind I'm familiar with.

[maskedtyrant]

It's not! My head of medical also handles telepathic communications and mental conditioning. I was planning on making it part of onboarding for all employees once we hired more specialists like him.

[bladebabysitter]

Those are common things where you come from? Interesting. It's not the case for us.

[maskedtyrant]

I wouldn't exactly call it common - otherwise we would've filled the job requisition by now. My company just happens to cater to the superhuman crowd.

[bladebabysitter]

If it's common enough that you need someone to handle it, it's infinitely more common than I'm familiar with. I don't know of any species, human or xeno, that possesses capabilities like that. The Definians can manipulate perception on a visual, physical level, but that's not exactly the same.

[maskedtyrant]

Perception manipulation? That's cool. We've got a few employees that can do that, too.

[An exaggeration - there's just one. But Codi considers the mechanics of her husband's abilities a trade secret (and also, a little too complicated for her to feel competent articulating without getting something wrong).]

I guess you could say that I came from an environment that's uniquely suited for this Tethering stuff. Pretty lucky, eh?

[bladebabysitter]

An environment suited to it, and a person as well.
Very convenient... I can see why the Sylphid would have wanted to assimilate you.

[maskedtyrant]

Forget the Sylphid - it's very convenient for you to have found such a good candidate!

What do you say? Willing to give it a shot?

[bladebabysitter]

It won't be the most comfortable thing, but since it seems to be necessary for our survival, yeah, I'll give it a shot.

[maskedtyrant]

[pause for victory fist-pump]

I'm sure we'll find a way to make it work.

I know one of my magic instructors that does Tether binding for ceremonies. I can get him to officiate without all the extra pomp, if you'd like?

[bladebabysitter]

That sounds wonderful. I'm not quite ready to faux-marry you yet.