Mini Event: Network Misfires... 2!

[seasonshelpers]

It starts with a network post from a generic "researchcentre" account. The video feed shows what appears to be an empty cubicle, and a few employees gossiping in the background.

"Can't believe he brought the cat to work again."

"Who, Gary? Yeah, I heard Helene felt bad for him."

The cat in question creeps into the video, curiously nosing and pawing at the screen, as the conversation continues.

"I don't blame her. I saw his dream a couple weeks back, and Buttercup looked so sad alone at home!"

"Oh, that dream cloud thing? What a disaster. Can't believe Bartholomew holds down a job."

"At least it's been a couple years since the cat caused an incident..."

As if on cue, Buttercup gets bored and starts walking on the keyboard. The feed cuts off.

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Welcome to a Mini Event! Much like last time around, the network server's having cat-related difficulty, so all network messages have a chance of going to the wrong recipient. It doesn't need to happen, but there's a high chance of misfires happening for the duration of the mini event.

This post can be used for sending out messages that can end up for anyone and everyone completely without meaning to. Feel free to also just send a blank message with your character and receive messages from others! Whatever works best for you and is most fun.

This event will happen for the whole weekend, starting from now and ending on late Sunday night (so March 6-9) once they finally manage to fix the mistake. As always, backtagging is encouraged.

Remember to put warnings up if you want to post anything NSFW-ish and especially link pictures; however, if anything gets explicit (e.g. sexting), remember to move it to inboxes or another post.

Comments

[ghostfromthemachine]

Rinku-chan
you can't just say something like that and then say don't ask?!

[roundandaround]

I kind of read some really bad ones!

[ghostfromthemachine]

no KIDDING?!
with all respect
I'm going to change my mind and say you should not take any of that category of idea from a romance novel
ever

[roundandaround]

A bunch of other stuff is probably normal!

[ghostfromthemachine]

as someone with admittedly little experience myself
I would personally rather not risk not being able to tell what was and what wasn't!
there are alternate safer methods of education! you even mentioned one!

[roundandaround]

That's true but I'm not asking my sister!!!!

...The last time I told her that she got a mutual friend to answer all my questions and that was Also embarrassing but

POTENTIALLY NSFW? NSFW DISCUSSION? marking just in case

[ghostfromthemachine]

oh goodness. okay. that is fair
the friend might be an option but

there are also other books? including
um
largely graphical ones (focused on education!!!)
if that is easier on you

[roundandaround]

Wait like textbooks??? I'm bad at studying, I didn't really do well in school. But it's easier if it's fun, so maybe?

[ghostfromthemachine]

there are some like that
but there are a few more like comic books actually?
which is why I thought it might work better for you

[roundandaround]

Huh, maybe I should look at those... It's probably easier. I didn't know people made that kinda thing.

[ghostfromthemachine]

I think it's good to make that kind of information easy to read
so anyone old enough can learn

anyway if you do want to and can't find them on your own just lmk and I'll help
I am capable of being discreet on occasion www

[roundandaround]

Thanks, Kaiko-chan! I knew you were a book expert. You must know all kinds of things.

[ghostfromthemachine]

yw!
it comes with the library assistant thing 📖
do it long enough and eventually you learn what and where almost everything is

[ especially when one of your workplace's spirits adopts you and you end up learning their entire catalogue almost at their knee. ]

[roundandaround]

Even in a library that huge? Oh, have you ever seen the underground section? It's like a whole second library! Some of the books are magic though.

[ghostfromthemachine]

I haven't gone underground much yet
I'm still

[ how does she put this ]

I'm making friends with it
I guess you could say
it might not be alive like a person
but it's aware
and I'm technically property of another library so I'd like to be very polite!

[roundandaround]

...Eh? Like the books? Do libraries stamp gods with "property of whatever" too?

[ghostfromthemachine]

not ordinarily www
but the spirit of the library I worked at is my mentor
and I've sort of taken on a role as their attendant?
so: property of Takami, return if borrowed www

[roundandaround]

Oh! I think that makes sense. Wait, does that make you a... what's that thing? Inter-library loan!

[ghostfromthemachine]

wwww I think it does
excellent

[roundandaround]

That makes sense! And if places have spirits, that fits too. I hope the library's happy, then, lots of people love it.

[ghostfromthemachine]

upstairs doesn't seem as awake as Takami-sama is
or if it is, it's even less interested in interacting with people than they are www
but I think it'd let us know very emphatically if it were unhappy

[roundandaround]

Eh? Like the doors wouldn't open or something?

[ghostfromthemachine]

the doors might not open, or might take effort to open
the fairies would probably hide
people would get lost immediately and be surrounded by the genres they hate the most
nobody would be able to take any books out
etc.

[roundandaround]

Whoa... Does that mean on the other hand, good things happen and everything's easier when the building is happy?

[ghostfromthemachine]

that's more or less how it usually goes with things like that
after all, life is usually easier when you're happy
isn't it?