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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting! You guys might like this wikihow. Later! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated 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. Characters who have been in game for more than one month will find they can change their profile pictures; newcomers are locked into their first choice. At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

Comments

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara wait what do you mean "surveillance"? I am emphatically not ok with that!
and also I'm 99% sure it's flagrantly illegal >:(

[and later...]

Ami Aihara ok this is seriously not funny anymore!
somebody keeps sending me pictures of myself, but I can't see anybody following me
should I call the police??? because ngl I am getting pretty freaked out right now O_O

Later

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard Oh, hello again.
Chloe Bouchard Look on this network for a man by the name of Togusa.
Chloe Bouchard He is a police officer, and you should send him the information, though I imagine he knows the problem we're all dealing with.
Chloe Bouchard But for the moment calm down, breathe carefully and don't let them scare you.
Chloe Bouchard This is like with the reporters I hope.

[In truth? She was flicking her knife out and spinning it in her hands, watching and waiting for someone to try something where she could see them. She wasn't sure it would do any good, but it felt safer.]

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara okay. I'll do that. and I'm in a public place at least. lots of witnesses! so I should be okay for now, hopefully

by the way what reporters are you referring to?

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard It was a little while ago, when groups of reporters were chasing us with stupid questions, many of them about very private secrets.
Chloe Bouchard They invaded our lives, but they didn't actually do anything to us really, other than scare us and annoy us.
Chloe Bouchard Do you need someone to come to you, for protection?

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara well that's fun. in that case I hope fear and annoyance is all that comes of this, too :\
or alternatively that nothing comes of this and it stops in the next 5 minutes, but I'm not sure that is a reasonable expectation

maybe? but I think Officer Togusa is offering to escort me home, so another person coming along might be overkill...

[frisyr]

Can't we just sue at this point?

I've definitely seen lawsuits for stupider things.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara true, but I would rather not pursue litigation until I can be certain I'm not being pursued home.
this is not exactly making me feel very safe :(

[frisyr]

You're right, we should go to the police. I have pictures they sent of me if the police want to look at them for evidence.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara yeah I'm not getting rid of any of these.
maybe they can trace the text back to the sender? is that a thing they can do?

[zerotohiro]

What would you even tell the police at this point? "Some weirdo with a drone is following me and taking pictures of me" actually that doesn't sound like such a bad story...when'd it start for you?

i'm assuming their tdm thread has happened already if thats ok?

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara maybe but I haven't seen any drones either...
I started getting pictures right after school, but a couple of them were taken when I was in class and there definitely weren't any drones in the classroom.

Ami Aihara also hi Hiro, fancy seeing you here :o

that's absolutely chill!

[zerotohiro]

Hey. Looks like they got both of us, huh? It's weird...I haven't been able to track anything down either but the pictures keep popping up.

I don't want to say the app really has something to do with it, but I WILL say that everything was normal before the app existed. So what does that even mean?

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara well is it that everything *was* normal, or did we just *think* everything was normal?
maybe someone pierced the veil and discovered that the world is actually super volatile and these changes are happening all the time
so they made the app to "wake up" everybody else
however that works

Ami Aihara (that's all just speculation of course)

[alienates]

I'm pretty sure it's meant to freak you out, dude.
It's a way for them to tell us that they're always watching our asses and that we aren't competent enough to catch them in the ass.
Which is also probably a way to get back at us for calling them a useless company run by idiots for several months now?
In the, "Haha, fuckers, who can't do shit NOW?"
The answer is us, apparently.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara they're just trolling us all, huh?
you know, at first I didn't really understand the level of disdain for Retrospec that I was hearing
but if this is the kind of stunt they like to pull, I think I'm starting to get it.

[alienates]

Did you just get the app then?
Because the only way you didn't understand it is if you didn't have it til just now.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara yeah, earlier today.
I keep going back and forth, though. because on the one hand there's this creepy stuff but
on the other hand I hear some people are developing actual superpowers??? and that part is awesome!
but I could do with less of the stalking

[parodeity]

Dave Strider like everything these people do is illegal
Dave Strider unfortunate but true

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara oh man
what if they retconned the law itself?
for all we know, this could be and have always been totally legal :(

[parodeity]

Dave Strider eh if they did wed be able to look it up
Dave Strider which sounds like effort i am just unwilling to put forth

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara welp :T I just tried to google it and now I am even more confused.
hopefully the web of legalese is so tangled that not even reality warpers can make meaningful changes to it
... actually that sounds surprisingly plausible

[b0mbshell]

Kazuhira Miller It doesn't seem like the police can help us, sorry.
Kazuhira Miller Seems like they're getting pictures taken of them, too.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara what do you mean?
that ought to make them even *more* interested in helping

[b0mbshell]

Kazuhira Miller I think they're interested in trying, don't get me wrong.
Kazuhira Miller But at this point I'm thinking they'd have much more luck catching Bigfoot in a Guy Fawkes mask.
Kazuhira Miller Here's hoping for some good luck.

[livingdeadgirl]

Ami Aihara haha what a mental image!
that's it, the real reason there are no pictures of bigfoot is because he's secretly the world's best hacker and deletes them all
mystery solved