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Maurice was going to do this, but Maurice sucks so I sent him home before he could. Anyway, some of you may have noticed our new poll feature! We just don't have the time and resources to cater to all your "where is x item, what the fuck" complaints, so we had to streamline. The polls were the result of that! Coded them myself. I mean, Maurice did some of it, but I did most of it.

So basically we're democratically crowd-sourcing what we're going to bother to fix for you! You can send thank you notes to the building, HR doesn't mind. So far it seems like you all care about the color blue most, so we fixed it!

A little, anyway. I suggest a bracing walk through the woods if you particularly missed the color and don't feel like gazing deeply into a hobo's eyes.

You've all been reading up on QR codes, right? You might also want to learn to start a fire. Just a tip.

Jim Halloway
Research & Development
Retr

spec Incorporated

As per the World Regains tracker, fruits and flowers that were once blue are once again blue. This includes the echo flowers in the Recollé woods! NPCs seem to be incapable of seeing this color still, however, and will not note any differences. The color does not seem capable of being transferred to anything else, either, and any attempts to do so will simply fade the color of the thing you were trying to use to do that. Furthermore, one thread of at least 10 comments from you from this post may be supplied for one untriggered memory by linking the thread and in explanation putting "June Freebie". This may only be claimed through the rest of June, and may not be claimed after the month ends.

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He's probably going to keep doing it, you know. Since we don't have a way to prove that Maurice ISN'T real, he can just keep making up people as he sees fit!

He can't do it if I do it first.

HEY JIM, MAURICE HAS A SECRETARY NAMED BARBARA, DOESN'T HE??

DOESN'T HE?

Well now he's just going to avoid the name Barbara! Actually if you just start listing off names he'll probably have to avoid all of them...

That might be kind of funny. Maybe I could start list off names from the phone book.

I wonder how long you could go before you lost interest or he responded...?

Has he ever responded before?

[zaveid would totally lose interest after about 15 minutes lbr]

Not as far as I know, though admittedly I haven't been keeping a close eye on everyone.

I haven't either, but then again, Jim DID say he was spying in on private conversations, or at least he seemed to indicate as much.

He might be taking suggestions from private discussions on Retrospec.

I certainly wouldn't be surprised! That's why I never talk about anything serious on Retrospec!

[...does he ever talk about anything serious??]

I don't think I've ever heard you have a serious conversation.

Oh come now, I've had plenty of serious conversations!

...Just not recently. Or with you!

Fair enough.

[Thankfully, this is Zaveid so he's not inclined to snoop.]

It's probably a bad idea in general. Especially since he apparently wanted people to speak in code about meeting up in person? What a weirdo.

He's probably bored. If we're speaking in code then he has to figure out the code! It'd give him something to do, anyway. Something besides spying on us like the creep he is.

Maybe we should start speaking in code about something completely mundane.

Because then, once he's decoded it, he'll be annoyed he just wasted his time and he'll stop spying on people.

Now that you've said it, I'm sure he'll be expecting it! With that said, it IS a fun idea but I'm not sure he'd stop spying on people. He'd probably just have another update for us at some point and take away something else important to us. Maybe next he'll take our pets or something!

Oh hell, don't even joke about that.

[HIS POOR CATS...]

I couldn't resist! You'll have to forgive me if he takes that idea and runs with it.

[He can only say this so easily because he doesn't have any pets.]

Right now, I'm pretty convinced he's going to start taking away more spectrus of light.

What will go next? Red? Ultraviolet light? X-rays?

It's certainly a possibility, but I think he'll go for something completely different just to keep us on our toes.

Maybe. It really wouldn't surprise me.

I don't know what the point of all of this is. It seems like a lot of work to make a very specific group of people think they're all going crazy, doesn't it?

That's what I've been trying to puzzle out. Why us? Why do any of this in the first place? This seems an awful lot just for someone to get his kicks. There has to be more to it, but I have no idea what it could possibly be.

As much as I'd want to say it's just a guy having fun fucking with people, you have a point.

It's a lot of work for it not to be affecting everyone in the city.

Well, it does seem to impact everyone, the others just aren't as aware of it. How are they keeping the others in the dark? None of it makes any sense to me.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

It seems like the people who don't have access to this app just go about their days acting like nothing is wrong.

Then again it's probably for the best people aren't all perpetually aware of how close certain death is when something bizarre happens.

I can't imagine how bizarre it is for people with close family who don't recognize the changes. I heard that people didn't react at all even when we were all shrunk! Retrospec really does have a lot of power if they can manage to keep people unaware of something like THAT.

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