ITEM FILE #7511
ITEM: "Screye"
ITEM HISTORY: Screye, developed by Esoteritech, is a mobile app that debuted in 2009. The app sought to emulate the functions of the centuries-old magical technology of scrying, or using a reflective surface to view and hear remote events, future happenings, or conversational partners. Though similar feats had been attempted and moderately successful in the 1980s using cathode ray televisions (known as "analog augury"), Screye was the first mass-market scrying program to achieve widespread success. Using the magical programming language Wand+, Screye automates the sometimes-laborious procedures of "dialing in" a scrying connection.
In order to comply with normality-compliance secrecy regulations, Screye is not available on standard app delivery mechanisms. In order to use Screye, users must perform an operation on commercial smartphone devices colloquially known as a "magebreak," modifying the device's operating system to accept a new app delivery mechanism known as Wizapp. Though controversial at the time, magebreaking commercial smartphones is now fairly standard practice among extranormal users, and is the only way to access common extranormal programs such as Screye, the dating app ASMO, and moon-tracking app PhaseTracker.
Screye is extremely widely used in many professional and casual circles, being considered almost ubiquitous. It allows any user with an account on the service to contact any other user with the app, as well as some functionality to contact more traditional scrying tools such as mirrors, crystal balls, and the aforementioned cathode ray tube televisions. To comply with chronological integrity guidelines, it has no divination functionality - though there are reports of Screye "glitching" and showing users glimpses of potential future events.
