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[recollecters]

What's up, users! We've mostly fixed the technical problems we were having earlier (unless Danny missed something again) but you might want to wear green. Also, I'm supposed to make a vague and mysterious informational post here but that sounded boring so I made a video presentation instead! Watch on YouTube Cheers! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As of this post all apples, oranges, lemons, and limes have been replaced in-universe as the silly dancing fruits shown above. This means that as with Chocobos all NPCs will insist this is how things have always been and history/movies/etc will back them up. In honor of St. Patrick's Day characters will find a request from Retrospec to upload a picture of themselves to the network in which they are wearing something green. They will find themselves shocked lightly by their device if they try to use it without complying. Rude? A non-triggered memory regain can be earned through participation in this post in honor of Lucy's birthday the holiday with proof of a single thread with at least five comments from your character. If you plan to redeem this, please submit it to our regains page with the explanation of "March freebie". This must be submitted before April to be valid! Regardless of whether or not a character earns the freebie, all characters will find a gold coin with the Retrospec logo on one side and a Chocobo on the other. On the outside edge of the coin they will find "Jim, put a meaningful quote here. - Janet" engraved in a beautiful font. The Chocobo will morph into a horse should your character obtain the memory regain from the event; it will stay a Chocobo if your character does not obtain the memory regain. Please see our OOC information post HERE for some information and reminders - you can direct any questions about this post there! Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

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[megabond]

[In a photo he uploaded, you can see he's wearing a blue shirt with a green ribbon pin on his collar. If it wasn't enough, he also wears a green jacket just for the holiday.

As for the video and the aftermath of the events in his apartment...]

I don't know what to say now...

To be honest, this is just downright impossible...

[notyourutopian]

I think we're going to have to start stretching our definition of impossible.

[megabond]

[She may have a point. Horses being replaced by Chocobos, videos that revealed their dark secrets, he can't even tell which is real anymore.]

Yeah, I can't even believe the Retrospec representives even made that strange video.

[notyourutopian]

I've heard of worse marriage proposals.

Wish they'd leave us out of it though.

[megabond]

[He has seen many bad marriage proposals, but he feels that it's too strange to be one.]

I don't know if it really is a marriage proposal.

Regardless, I doubt anyone would believe us saying that these fruits don't have any faces and unable to dance.

[notyourutopian]

It does rather scream that, though.

Well, they do have faces.
It's just...that everyone else thinks it's normal.

My little sister ate an apple earlier face-first.
It was uh...
Disorienting.

[megabond]

[He just froze in horror when he read about her sister eating the apple. That's one mental image he doesn't want to see.]

I think I should stick with desserts as my snacks until then...

Even seeing that video didn't help my appetite...

[notyourutopian]

It's not weird to her though.

And you'll have to get over it if you want to eat fruit.

[megabond]

Are you sure? I might look like a cannibal if do so.

[Besides, he is scared of eating anything that seems alive to him.]

[notyourutopian]

It's an apple.

Not a head.

[megabond]

[Yeah, that still doesn't help him.]

Point taken...

Will the fruits mind about us eating most of their body?

[notyourutopian]

They aren't alive!
It's just...a trick.

Like a jumping bean.

[megabond]

Okay...

[Despite his answer, he is unsure if they are like jumping beans.]

I don't know why is this happening, but whoever is doing this really has the same twisted humor as Retrospec.

[notyourutopian]

I have been assuming it's all one big group.

[megabond]

My friend and I thought so as well...

Which makes me wonder if this is really a beta test for this app...

[notyourutopian]

Oh god.

Imagine what that means when they roll it out for real.

[megabond]

More importantly, what will happen if this rolls out worldwide as well?

[notyourutopian]

Well, the changes already have?
I mean, the chocobos can't be localized.
Not with the way history has changed.

Fruit either.

[megabond]

The real question is how in a world did it change? Changing fruits and horses into what we saw right now seems impossible, but changing the course of history to replace them with these?

I feel that this is beyond impossible.

[notyourutopian]

Everything about this is impossible.
I can't even come up with a single thing they've done that isn't, from first glance, impossible.
But they keep doing it.

[megabond]

It's not only that history is somehow changing. It's the visions I keep having and these strange packages I recently got from Retrospec.

[notyourutopian]

What did you get?

[megabond]

An ordinary brown watch, except it has a mounting for some sort of a stone I found in the park. As for my visions, I recently have a vision of giving a girl one of the strange creatures as well petting a shark and dragon hybrid.

What about you?

[notyourutopian]

You received a watch mounted on a stone?
That's almost the weirdest one I've heard yet.

I haven't been sent anything.
Just weird hallucinomemories that don't make any sense.

[megabond]

I agree with these visions (or hallucinomemories as you called it) doesn't make any sense.

I mean, why am I seeing non-existent creatures in the first place?