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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. This post is an overflow from the original post here. Feel free to either carry over threads from there or create entirely new ones.

Comments

Shuji

[manufactured]

While I'd point out that it's only some of them, apparently they weren't always like that, and I fail to see a reason why something strange can't happen to the rest of them, either.

[thesettingsun]

By that logic, literally any food could start dancing someday.

We're doomed. I'm going to have to hook myself up to an IV if I want to be sure not to eat anything with a face.

[manufactured]

Or we could simply hope that we notice something is hideously wrong with it next time, assuming there is one.

[...HOPEFULLY THERE WILL NOT BE ONE.]

[thesettingsun]

I still can't believe I didn't realize it was awful until now

How many fruits have you eaten in your life?

[manufactured]

[...You know, that's a good question and all, but- ]

I'm fairly certain the actual number is irrelevant at this point - do you recall a time when they didn't have faces?

[thesettingsun]

No. I know they shouldn't, but I don't actually remember them not having faces.

[manufactured]

And I'm assuming this is fairly recent knowledge? Everything was fine before now?

[thesettingsun]

It didn't seem weird until today. Not that I remember the last time I actually had an apple was, but I know I didn't freak out about it.

[manufactured]

So it's another of those things that presumably coincided with being 'selected' for Retrospec's testing phase - I've heard several things regarding that so far, all of them odd.

[thesettingsun]

What's on the list so far? Horses are replaced by giant birds, fruits have faces, stalker photos?

[manufactured]

Unsettling messages from someone calling himself Jim Halloway, among all of the above.

[thesettingsun]

I've never wanted to punch somebody in the face within two paragraphs of talking to them before.

[manufactured]

...If that truly is the case, you're keeping better company than I am. But I digress.

[thesettingsun]

Not as much as I want to punch him, is probably more accurate...

[He's a weenie who doesn't like picking fights in person, but he would totally punch Jim.]

Have you had any of those hallucination things that people've mentioned?

[manufactured]

I haven't - I've been fortunate in that regard, it seems.

And yourself?

[thesettingsun]

[Lie, don't lie. Lie for the sake of sounding like a normal person, don't lie...]

Just one. It was weird.

[manufactured]

I'm not sure if it's better or worse that they're apparently so odd. Although I suppose that at least they're distinguishable from reality that way.

[...Wesker, that is not. particularly comforting.]

[thesettingsun]

It'd be pretty bad to hallucinate something and not be sure if it was real or not, so I guess that's good?

[Not comforting, but better than the alternative.]

[manufactured]

Well, it's possible that the content might change things, but overall? Most likely.

[thesettingsun]

If one of them is in English, maybe I'll get more confused. Not full Japanese. Also, probably not going to mistake a hallucination about being arrested for communism for a thing really happening.