??? (rise up, rise up)

[uprisenheart]

[at approximately noon today, no matter what your phone settings, you hear a loud, harsh alarm tone, and the following broadcast. the voice is heavily distorted, difficult to tell its gender or whether it’s human, alien, or robot, though the intonation is much more variable than how the iterations speak. the screen of your phones during this broadcast displays a graphic of a red anatomical heart set against a plain, light grey background. there is no username listed.]

BEFORE THERE CAN BE ANY ACTION, A REVOLUTION MUST WAKE THE SLEEPING PEOPLE.

ARE YOU AWAKE YET?

OR DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THE LIES THEY’VE FED YOU?

WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

LISTEN TO THE HEART.

[the broadcast ends with the same braying tone, and the screen cuts to black. there will be no responses from the poster, and within fifteen minutes, the admins have wiped the message from the network. sure hope some intrepid soul finds a way to download and store the message offline ...

on an ooc note: feel free to use this post as a place to comment around, discuss wtf just happened with your comrades, jump into action threads, etc.!]

Comments

UN: Almasy

[firacrux]

Well. I was almost falling asleep on the job. Thanks for the wakeup...

Whatever the hell this is. I love a heart attack in the afternoon.

un: aqua

[aguidingkey]

This is starting to remind me of the Iteration world.

UN: Almasy

[firacrux]

Only with bigger buildings and more people, yeah.

And more reliable electricity.

[aguidingkey]

That's true.

[ sad, but true! ]

But you have to admit there are similarities.

Useless Action

[sociallychallenged]

[Hank is just then, just then, finding that sweet spot where one's been awake too long after an early fucking shift and is just about to go to sleep, when his phone decides to bitch at him in almighty glory.]

[The first thing he does is throw it across the room, onto a pile of laundry. Then he sits up like a fucking zombie and shambles over to actually pick up the hateful thing. Shambles back to his book and his post-it notes. Writes down the message so he doesn't forget.]

BEFORE THERE CAN BE ANY ACTION, A REVOLANBLAHBAH MUST WAKE THE SLEEPING PEOPLE. ^{Fuck I want to sleep}

ARE YOU AWAKE YET? ^No.

OR DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THE LIES THEY’VE FED YOU?

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! ^{I don't want it.}

LISTEN TO THE HEART.

[He circles the heart three times, just because it's a different phrasing than 'your heart'. It's 'the heart'. And then he lays down face first in his bed.]

text; un: aleifr

[aleifr]

seeing this?

UN: dpdhank

[sociallychallenged]

[Ope, sleepy phone bingle. Okay, he's just going to reach and- right. Okay. That's Aleifr. He'll just sit up.]

yeah i did

just worte it down

wrote

still moving around give me aminute

[He kicks his uniform out of the way so he can go put on some normal clothes. Right. Up and moving again. He'll just coffee.]

text; un: gothamite

[ichoosefight]

Anyone else feel like they've seen this movie before? Just me?

UN: Almasy

[firacrux]

Was it any good?

[ichoosefight]

overrated and used more by assholes on the internet than any legitimate political causes. worth a watch if you like natalie portman, but you're better off picking up a copy of 1984 from the library and calling it a day.

[firacrux]

I dunno who Natalie Portman is. Entertaining for an alien trying to learn your world's internet culture?

UN: NotTechSupport

[helpdesk_hero]

Which one?

But I find the whole 'Listen to the Heart' thing interesting. Emotional appeals without telling us what they want.

[ichoosefight]

more than I can count. after a while you stop keeping track of terrorists in Gotham.

not much of an emotional appeal when they're showing an anatomical heart

or maybe they just suck at campaigning who knows

[helpdesk_hero]

Gotham? Never heard of it. But I'm sorry you have to deal with that sort of situation regularly.

Granted I agree with you, because truly, there are more effective messages to put out there.

text; un: aleifr

[aleifr]

movie?

[ichoosefight]

[ Well at least it's obvious who he is. ]

like a play. your world does plays right

[aleifr]

[Aleifr is many things. Subtle is rarely one of them.]

Don't think so. Least not the way you mean it.

un: aqua

[aguidingkey]

The situation definitely feels familiar. I just hope no one else gets hurt.

[ichoosefight]

Asking a bit much from a group of terrorists, don't you think?

[aguidingkey]

[ well, she probably is, but to be fair, aqua's something of an idealist. ]

Maybe, but I can hope for it. And I can be ready to help no matter what happens.

But I guess I don't understand the point of hurting people like they did.

Action | OTA

[skyward_eyes]

Ow. Not even kidding, ow. Nida hadn't really needed that noise right when it came. His boss had sent him out on a repair job of a car that had broken down somewhere on the streets. Apparently the woman who owned it was a pain of a customer, but she paid well. So the new guy got sent out, and was under the cart on a roller-board, trying to fix the issue he'd determined when the alarm goes off.

And Nida jerked at the noise. Which meant he was left moaning with pain as he rolled out from under the car.

"Hyne-damned asshole!"

text | un: mason

[merged]

Better than a bomb, I guess.

[ Some people don't really need a wake up call. ]

un: aqua

[aguidingkey]

Hopefully this strategy means no one else gets hurt this time.

[ she... might have startled so badly that she spilled steaming hot coffee on her hands. thankfully, she has a half-powered healing spell. ]

[merged]

That's not how revolutions work, sadly. Personally, I'd take this as a warning of future violence.

[ she won't lie, it makes her nervous. but it also excites her. ]

Not here

[silentnarration]

[Ugh he does not appreciate having stuff fall on him cause that noise made him jump. He reads the message, sighs and takes a moment to figure out how to take a screencap of the heart at least before he responds on the network.

Is the heart referring to this mystery group of rebels or literal? Or some vague clue? Ugh.]