swipes: a friendr meme

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swipes: a friendr meme

Any new arrival to the city has seen the ad for a free app popping up on their devices, and anyone who's been around for a while probably has a profile and has used it a bit. It's almost universal in the city - Friendr, a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app. The default color scheme can be seen below, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.

	Friendr
«		»
	» Age: your character's age » Seeking: friendship/romantic/anything » Preferences: sexual preference or n/a » Interests: three interests » Bio: 30 words or less
	base code by photosynthesis
	Character Name
	« ✘ ✔ »

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below.

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Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.

● Post up a top-level for your character with their Friendr profile and then go around and swipe left or right on everyone else's!
● This meme is for characters already accepted into the game to window shop other characters' Friendrs while they're all gathered conveniently into one place.
● This meme is GAME CANON, so any threads played out in this meme can be carried through into the actual canon of the game.
● Since this meme is game canon, open, and only for characters in the game, threads here can be used for either Activity Points or the monthly Activity Check.

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[11calls]

That is an impressive list. What kind of research do you do?

[tevinteraltus]

Speculative magic, mostly, though I've been working on a project that would facilitate both a magical and mundane power source.

[11calls]

Wow really? You can mix the two like that?

[tevinteraltus]

You can.
In fact, we're communicating through such a device as we speak.

[11calls]

Oh right! I guess I hadn't thought of it that way. Energy and magic are just such seperate things in my world.

Well, we actually don't have real magic in my world so it's probably why.

[tevinteraltus]

How in the Maker's name could magic and energy be separate? Magic is energy.

Yes, of course. Lack of evidence proves non-existence. New discoveries are never made.

[11calls]

Hey, you're actually talking to the believer from my world! I mean, I'm just getting used to the whole sacred geometry and magic and demons thing!

[She's a little offended to get lumped in with Strand here. But just a little bit.]

I'm still learning! There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To quote Mr. Shakespeare.

[tevinteraltus]

One should never stop. Our lives are too short to assume we've seen or learned everything. It's admirable you've recognized that.

Many are content to mill about in their daily drivel and never seek to expand their understanding. It's tragic, really.

[11calls]

If you don't keep learning, you might as well be dead, as my dad says.

[tevinteraltus]

I believe I like your father. The death of intellect is the clarion call of apocalypse.

Dramatic, but it does pave the way for oppression and sterility.

[11calls]

Well, given where I'm from, I probably can't argue with that!

[Especially because Alex may be causing an apocalypse. Or half-causing it, depending on how right people are.]

Seriously, the political climate back home is such a mess and a big part of it is people not thinking critically about their choices and voting against their own self interests.

[tevinteraltus]

Ah, averting apocalypse, are we? Good luck, then, I suppose. Hopefully your efforts prove as fruitful as my own.
Not to take undo credit. I merely helped.

That seems precisely the opposite of a useful democratic institution.

[11calls]

Trying to anyway, I guess I'll see what happens when I get home, but I've definitely been working on it for a year now.

[Just trying to stop whatever the hell she might have caused by playing the Axis Mundae on her show, and whatever the hell 'primer' Simon was talking about. Right now, all Alex had was threads, and it wasn't very encouraging.]

But yeah, it's a cluster. If nothing else, it makes me wonder if someone other than be screwed up and did something dumb.

[Which really wasn't her being fair to herself, but there it was. She's the one who played the Unsound, among other things.]

[tevinteraltus]

Other than you...?

[Now she has him curious.]

And what is it, precisely, you've done?

[11calls]

Okay, with the caveat of knowing that it makes me sound insane...

There's a lot of weird stuff going on in my world, and my show investigates it. And then it turns out that both sides of the battle that I didn't know about were sort of using it to draw one another out.

The crazy demonic cults believe that if they played a specific sympathy called the Mysterium at a specific point called the Axis Mundae then it would start the apocalypse.

What we didn't know was that these things that sure didn't sound like music were the Mysterium and my show was the Axis Mundae.

Yes, I know how insane it sounds.

[tevinteraltus]

It doesn't sound mad at all. Demons and other rather powerful entities often use mortals as tools. It's a common enough theme in theology, history, and literature to have at least a basis in fact.

Being made a tool for powers beyond your comprehension does not make you responsible for their actions. You do realize that, don't you?

[11calls]

A friend of mine would probably argue that's just human archetypes. But yeah, I agree with you.

[She can't help being Mulder.]

Yeah, I know. But I make enough mistakes on my own that I shouldn't have done with it that it all counts.

[tevinteraltus]

They're welcome to argue an ignorant point all they please. The point being ignorant simply because it assumes they know enough about spirits and demons to conject.

That's rather the point of being a tool. You don't know you're being used.

[11calls]

[Alex has had almost a year of people telling her that she didn't cause anything, but she still can't help thinking that she does.

Hell, she's had people telling her that nothing was happening, but here she was with a sleep debt the size of Elon Musk's fortune and guilt that wouldn't go away there.]

I guess. But I'm still working on solving it and fixing it.

[tevinteraltus]

From here? That's quite the feat.

[11calls]

Well, I definitely have all sorts of advantages here that I don't have at home. Like people who can do magic and are more familiar with portals and demons and sacred geometry and stopping the end of the world.

Like yourself.

[tevinteraltus]

Demon and sacred geometry...if you're referring to the drawing of sigils, yes. Portals? No one on Thedas has ever devised a means of magical travel save putting one foot in front of the other.

Well, the ancient elves seem to have, but while the Eluvians are indeed a wonder, they area also a mystery. Perhaps in time we'll puzzle out how they work.

[11calls]

I guess they could be sigils, but Richard's expert... [Who may have been his not!dead!wife.] Called them 'sacred geometry. People have been using them for bilocation.

At least, I'm pretty sure they are.

[tevinteraltus]

Bilocation? That's a physical impossibility.

[He's going to need proof of that.]

More likely, they are using them to open a doorway through a realm in which physical location is drastically altered.

[11calls]

[Alex is just going to be over here cracking up that he wants proof. Because wow.]

Well, we know that at least in one instance he was recorded as being in his room on video when a witness said that the person in question attacked him. Locked rooms on the opposite sides of complex. The only thing in common were the same symbols drawn on the wall that seem to act as the portal.