Network | Late afternoon 06/13

[hippocarnival]

Hey did anyone else's AVA app gitch just now? My phone was stuck for hours and all I saw was this.

[There are three image attachments of screenshots following this section of code.]

Comments

[whiteshroud]

No.
Is that code...?

[hippocarnival]

It looks like it right?

[whiteshroud]

Yeah.
Did you catch a virus?

[hippocarnival]

Are we counting the app as a virus?

It did that same thing getting cold, and I saw AVA a few times in there.

[whiteshroud]

I guess it does, since it's not like any of us choose to download it and it bricks our phone.

Huh.

Maybe you should find someone who can read code.

[hippocarnival]

I'll try taking it to a computer store and see what they say.

[whiteshroud]

Good idea.

Though if it does have to do with the app, don't be surprised if they don't notice anything.

[hippocarnival]

Not notice anything?

[whiteshroud]

Yeah. Have you noticed how most people don't notice the barrier around the city? It's similar to that.

[hippocarnival]

[Hm. Yeah, it does seem like the kind of thing other people would be talking about. Especially if it zaps people.]

They can't be all in on it right? But it doesn't make any sense.

[whiteshroud]

"In on it"...?

[hippocarnival]

This app thing. It's it's just us, the rest of the city is too many people to be pretending not to notice for whatever weird experiment this is.

[whiteshroud]

[....Oh no. He's in the denial stage.]

None of them are pretending to not notice, Yuya. It's more they're unable to perceive it.

[hippocarnival]

Yeah but that doesn't make any sense. How would it even work?

[It's not so much denial as it is completely inconceivable. That's just not an explainable thing in the world that Vitae is--or was.]

[whiteshroud]

You ever heard of the concept of the "sixth sense"?

Having a sixth sense allows one to perceive things most people would view as "supernatural". Most humans either lack a sixth sense, or it's too weak to really matter.

In other words, asking most people to see the barrier would be like asking a blind man to notice a rainbow.

[hippocarnival]

So you think all of this is because of spirits or something?

[whiteshroud]

Potentially, yes.
Or something that uses the same form of power.

[hippocarnival]

And then we were picked because we can see them and everyone else can't.

I wish I knew what it was for.

[whiteshroud]

Potentially. Or you were selected for another reason and the app is temporarily amplifying your sixth sense.

Mm. I wish I knew too.