Magisteria Text Mingle #1

[magisteriamods]

Please note: This meme is OTA and is essentially an extension of the TDM!

You are welcome to voice test or just have fun here!

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TEXT MINGLE #1: CYBERCHARM 💞

One way or another, if you find yourself opening your aXess Link device, you may notice a curious pre-installed application. It's called CyberCharm! Otherworlders skeptical or curious alike, and feel compelled to investigate this program, will notice that the interface's AI has been hit with a glitch, causing users to discover a pre-generated dating profile has already been filled out for them. If any users wish to change or delete their profile, they must do so before anyone else responds, otherwise they could be saddled with an embarrassing pre-generated profile! Once responded to, users are locked out of changing it for the next month! So please make certain you are satisfied with your profile before it's too late!

NOTES

CyberCharm Profie:
<center><lj-raw><div style="width:350px;margin:0 auto 5px auto;background:#fff;border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);box-shadow:2px 2px 4px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);font-family:courier;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4;color:#111;"> <!---IMAGES---> <div style="height:300px;background:#ddd;font-size:20px;text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5);"> <div style="height:300px;background:url(!!!YOUR IMAGE HERE!!!)center;background-size:cover;display:flex;align-items:flex-end;justify-content:center;"> <div style="padding:0 0 250px 0;"></div> </div> <div style="padding:0 0 10px 0;"></div> </div> <!---PROFILE INFO---> <div style="padding:15px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);" align="left"> <b style="font-size:22px;color:#4e3188;">CHARACTER NAME</b><br> <i>AGE / PRONOUNS / SEXUALITY</i><br> <b>HEIGHT:</b> HEIGHT<br> <b>BODY COUNT:</b> BODY COUNT<br> <b>IDEAL DATE:</b> DESCRIPTION HERE<br> </div> <!---PROFILE BLURB---> <div style="padding:20px;max-height:300px;overflow:auto;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.6;" align="left"> !!!ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER HERE!!! </div> </div></lj-raw></center>

Guidelines:
1. Please fill out the provided code below! You may write it in the IC style of your character, or as the CyberCharm app would have provided for them. You may modify the code to your heart's content!
2. The app's system is a little confused, and isn't quite sure what body count means. Could it be how many people you've slept with, or does it mean how many people you've killed? Feel free to respond to this however you see fit.
3. Respond to other profiles with the ✖ / PASS! or 💖 / MATCH!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
(Inspiration for this event has been taken from synflux)

✖ / PASS! / 💖 / MATCH!
<div style="text-align: center; width: 70px; height: 70px; border-radius: 100px; padding: 10px; background: #fff; color: #e53f3f;font-size: 48px; border: #e4e4e4 5px solid;">✖</div><span style="font-family: courier new;">PASS! Please tell them how they can improve themselves! [NOTE: This can be left blank, or just used as a general text thread comment.</span> <div style="width: 70px; height: 70px; padding: 10px; border-radius: 100px; text-align: center; background: #fff; color: #ffb8d8; font-size: 48px; border: #e4e4e4 5px solid;">❤</div><span style="font-family: courier new;">It's a match! Talk to them! [NOTE: This can be left blank, or used as a general text thread.]</span>

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Comments

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[emet_sulk]

That is a terrible way to create life.

When my people introduced new concepts to the star, they always created several pairs and scattered them throughout their intended habitat.

[ Crowley, your Almighty sucks. ]

[thindarkduke]

Not as terrible as making a whole universe full of stars and nebulae and wonders, and then declaring that you're going to destroy the whole thing after only six thousand years, before it's even gotten a chance to spin up properly.

[He's not arguing with that.]

[emet_sulk]

Only six thousand years? What a waste. Even mine has existed for far, far longer than that.

[thindarkduke]

How old're you, then? Approximately. Since it seems to have had as much trouble with you there as it did me.

And yes, terrible waste. Part of why I Fell was for questioning that choice. All my beautiful nebulae barely given a chance to shine. Baby stars never getting to grow up.

[emet_sulk]

[ Bit of a pause while he...tries to calculate. Approximately. ]

I did not bother to keep track after a certain point, but I recall that mankind's modern history began some twelve thousand years ago. I was granted my title some centuries or millennia before that, when I was already well into adulthood.

I suppose I must be some fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years old.

[ Give or take a millennia. Maybe?? He genuinely doesn't remember now. ]

[thindarkduke]

Much older than most of this lot seem to be, then. I haven’t exactly counted, but… there were definitely thousands if not millions of years before the Fall, and like I said Earth was around six thousand years before its scheduled (averted) demolition, and I was there for all of it. Things when I was an angel are a bit fuzzy, though. Hard to make much of a judgment.

What is your title, then?

[emet_sulk]

[ He didn't think he would meet an entity older than himself or Lahabrea. This one should be afforded his respect. ]

Emet-Selch, as you doubtless saw. This...thing confused my title with my name.

[ In fact with a bit of squinting, Crowley may realise what 'emet selch' means. ]

Hades is my true name.

[thindarkduke]

אמת… You big on truth? Or are you a guardian?

Hades is a name with interesting implications, where I’m from. The Greeks revered a god of the underworld, of the dead, by that name.

[emet_sulk]

I'm not sure what you're asking. The seat of Emet-Selch has always gone to one with the keenest soulsight as they preside over all matters pertaining to the aetherial realm. It should have gone to an old friend of mine but he declined and nominated me instead.

I am no god either but I do possess an affinity for the Underworld. I can call upon its power and guide souls to their rest.

[thindarkduke]

Just commenting on linguistic similarities, I suppose. אמת, which gets written in English as 'emet', means truth. And there are stories of it being inscribed on the foreheads of clay statues to bring them to life to protect people.

No god, but your people create life, and you have some charge of the dead?

[emet_sulk]

[ Maybe if things hadn't turned out the way they did, that is who he would have become. ]

Yes, well, the concept of 'god' is relative to the ones who created it, is it not?

I can sit here and insist I am not a god but that would not matter to the mortal man whose scope of knowledge and existence is contained within mortal boundaries. I am immortal if I'm not struck down by sickness or fatal injury; I had a hand in the creation of concepts still seen in the present day; by their terms, I would be a god.

Meanwhile MY people did create a god, but can a god truly be a god if they were sculpted by hand and all their flaws and limitations known? 'Tis hubris, I think, to think oneself a god. Mortal men have done so more times than I can count and always fallen for it. My own people were so blinded by complacency that they were almost entirely consumed by their own despair.

So, as interesting as it is that I share a name with a god worshipped on your star, I think I shall continue to see myself as any other man, because I would think fourteen gods would not need to sacrifice half their people to avert their star's end.

[thindarkduke]

Fair enough.

...Was that the genocide, then? Sacrifice to avert the end?

[emet_sulk]

No.

I wish that was all we did.

[thindarkduke]

[This probably calls for... a topic change. Crowley isn't necessarily tactful, but even he can recognize when something is real uncomfortable for everyone.]

So did you have cell phones on your star, or is this new for you?

[Look, no one said he was good at changing topics.]

[emet_sulk]

[ He appreciates the effort, abrupt though it is. ]

I don't know what those are. Are you talking about this method of communication?

[thindarkduke]

Sort of, I guess? I mean these look like cell phones, and they seem to basically work like them, except that they're apparently part magic and they're called an axxxess link or whatever.

[emet_sulk]

There are various forms of communication used on my star.

The three continents of Eorzea favour linkshells, which are small, pearl-like objects that sit in the ear and operate by attuning to aether.

Garlemald has devices which utilise radiating frequences or 'radiowaves' as they have come to be called.

However, in ages past, the Allagan Empire made use of a hybrid of magic and technology - magitech - to produce a device similar to the one used here.

In other words, I suppose this is not new to me.

[thindarkduke]

Lots of variety. Magitech is interesting... I'm not used to mortals having anything like. Where I'm from, the humans only have technology, no magic. And angels and demons have stuff that runs on miracles.

[emet_sulk]

Are miracles not magic?

[thindarkduke]

Not as such? I mean, in fiction about magic, it's usually pretty distinct from miracles. Magic can source from all kinds of things. Miracles come only from the divine (or the profane, as the case may be).

[emet_sulk]

I fail to see the difference when even 'divine' beings in my world are subject to the star's natural laws.

Miracles are simply feats which are not yet fully understood. How do YOU define them?

[thindarkduke]

My miracles aren’t subject to natural laws. My miracles once laid out natural laws, put them into effect where they had not been, when I was an angel. The Almighty created the universe and everything in it, angels and demons included. Every miracle is a sliver of Her power, something that would never happen without it.

Let there be mass, let there be gravity, let there be light.

oops I used the wrong face back there

[emet_sulk]

[ Thinking about it, that does sound like what his people did. Although many of them would argue they did not create sentience.

(And probably just as many would argue that they did.) ]

I see. I suppose then from your perspective I and my people are 'angels'.

What were those letters you used before for my title?

[thindarkduke]

Do you have a full understanding of your feats, then?

You mean אמת? 's Hebrew. Language the Almighty's scriptures were first written in. Of course they've been translated into pretty much everything by this point, but I always liked Hebrew, and translation inherently introduces change. Including in pronunciation--the way the names get transliterated is weird.

[emet_sulk]

I visualise a concept, gather the requisite aether, and then bring the concept into being. We did not make the stars as you did, perhaps, but we had a hand in the creation of new forms of life.

I do wonder if your Hebrew is anything similar to the original language of my people. I should like to hear it sometime.