Telechain

The Witscord Telechain is an experimental SMS-based form of communication operated by nine different Witscorders.

History and Function

The official Telechain infographic, created by sus.

The structure of the Telechain is reminiscent of various telephone games, in which a message is unreliably communicated from one individual to the next until its meaning is corrupted. add more here obv

The early concept of the Telechain was pitched by sus on July 15th, 2024, as "pass[ing] messages to each other through a big network of one on one conversations". The idea was solidified into its current form with input from Jony, who proposed "a random chain of contacts ... so each of us only has one other user's number, but they form a chain". Additionally, Fullest voiced support for the chain to be explicitly monodirectional, and non lobbied for copy and pasting to be disallowed.

Following further discussion of the system by various members, sus assumed the role of the Telechain's semiofficial coordinator and began drafting a recruitment post, which was posted in #server-meta later that night.

also mention proper form and email mishap and dates of startup/functionality

Participants

Member	Portrait	In	Out
Jony		📞	📞
Septa		📞	📞
Lav		📞	📞
Machka		📞	📞
Fullest		📞	✉️
Gui		✉️	✉️
Non	Lore "yours was fifth drawn and completed later. this was the one i was referring to in machka's, because the original idea was to have it be two phones feeding into each other or maybe even duct taped together. i couldnt really get that to work, but when i scrapped it i still had two great phone sprites. i used his (flipped) as yours and saved the other one (rotated) for later, hence why i think his was actually seventh despite being in my sixth slot. the conceit for yours after that was always just to have a pair of glasses, partially because of your general air of "cool" and "mysterious" and "doesnt have a persona" persona and partially because my witscord weekly representation of you could not possibly end up looking like anything other than either cgp grey or a countryball. thus, i stuck with ominous glasses lurking in the dark, with some pupils added later and a couple different revisions of the parts that go over your ears; i debated either switching them to the other angle or making it ambiguous, but although a low-angle interpretation looks sick and dynamic, it again just makes the circle look like a countryball. oh, and then yeah, when i came up with the idea to use that one for machka's i flipped them around and did some rotations of some kind, i dont remember. i think the horizontality adds to the mysterium."	✉️	📞
Sus		📞	📞
Octa		📞	📞