| Mere moments after lockdown on night 91, all of the tablets in Norfinbury become consumed with fizzling static. Their screens display only this unhelpful gray static, and no amount of tinkering or tampering with the tablet will remedy the issue. This continues for an hour, during which time all of the tablets are useless except as a light source. In this time, insomnia also begins to set in, so any characters who might take the opportunity to go to bed will find themselves tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Eventually, the tablet screens flicker and resume their normal appearance, with all of the characters' applications and customizations intact. Scrolling back through posts made before the malfunction reveals nothing out of the ordinary, but as posts start to flow in following the strange static, it's clear that something is amiss. All posts made during the night are of a rather gruesome nature. The words of the characters become twisted. Sad, violent, and downright cruel messages appear over text and voice, and over video, characters are snuck up on and attacked--sometimes by monsters, but sometimes by figures who are much more familiar. This behavior is uncharacteristic for some, but there's always a certain quality to the messages that makes it uncertain as to if the person might have really said it, maybe a familiar verbal tic or typing style... However, none of these messages are what is actually being sent by the characters, they are just how the messages will appear on the network. Messages will appear normal to the sender, but everyone else will see a different version. We ask that players come up with what their characters' messages will appear to be, and use different text formatting in your tags to indicate OOCly what the message has transformed into! A different text color for the corrupted message is a good example. This will continue throughout the night and into the morning of day 92. At noon on day 92, the tablet screens briefly flash with static again, and the characters are relieved of their insomnia. Scrolling back through posts made during the chaos will show that they have reverted to their normal state, with no evidence of the gruesome messages that appeared before. For ease of finding everything, there is a catch-all post for event threads here! |