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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
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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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They already did that once? So it's not outside of the realm of possibility. Definitely not outside of it. Maybe have a glow-stick handy just in case?

Did they? That would be pretty redundant if they did it again, then.

But since all my power is good for is pretending to be a flashlight, maybe I'll get some use out of it!

Your power? Oh, does that mean you have received some strange power from them? Is it only light, or is there more to it?

I can make light in my hands! I've been trying to do different things with it, like changing the color of the light, and I managed to make sparks a couple of times. Nothing else yet, but I'm still testing it out.

Sparks, though? Hmm, perhaps you have it at its lowest power? Maybe with practice you can bring more power to bear. Is the light similar to lightning?

It's not really like lightning, it's just a little ball of light I can move around in my hands. Kind of like... holding a light bulb, I guess? If it wouldn't really hurt to do that I mean! The light I make doesn't hurt.

Interesting. Nothing I have is quite so magical in nature, so I always find things like this a bit fascinating, no matter if they are small or large.

It's definitely small. But it's useful for seeing the lock so I can get into my apartment when it's dark and I've been drinking, so I guess there's that! (◠‿◠✿)

Hehe, see, now that's a good use of it. Make sure you can find your way home to bed even if you've been enjoying yourself. Nothing wrong with that use.

That was actually how I discovered it, funny enough! It was late and I accidentally got in the middle of a bar fight, and I couldn't see the lock to get into the building, and then suddenly there was light!

Now that's a bit of serendipity right there. I'm guessing you didn't get too badly beaten up in the fight if you were still able to try something lie that.

I didn't take you for the heavy drinking/bar fighting type.

Just a black eye, thankfully, and it's mostly healed by now.

Ah, I'm really not! The bar fighting type, at least. A friend of mine was getting hassled by some guys and decided to fight back. He was much better at it than I was (/ω＼)

Good.

Ahhh, I see. So you got dragged into your friend's foolishness? Well, that I can understand. It happens far too often in life, I think.

Well... those guys were being major creeps, so I don't know if I'd call it foolishness.... But I can't say my first reaction would have been to take them all on, either. I'm kind of a fraidy-cat when it comes to stuff like that.

Ah, well then. It sounds like a more noble endeavor than most bar fights I've ever heard of, so that's a positive at the very least.

Right! I wasn't mad at him at all or anything, and it's certainly not the first black eye I've ever had.

Besides, who knows if I would have discovered my little light trick if that hadn't happened!

Oh, probably, but it was a much better story this way, and that's a reason to experience something in the end. Having good drunken bar stories.

Ha! I knew I liked you for a reason ;)

...wait, you're not even old enough to drink in this country yet, are you?

I'm from France. The legal age there is quite a bit younger than here. So, I do have a few stories.

[And fake IDs, but she wasn't going to say that.]

I remember, even if I wasn't old enough to drink when I still lived there. But we were going to go out for margaritas and talk about romance novels and I forgot you're not old enough! (╥﹏╥)

Please, we'll just go somewhere that serves virgin daquiris. It's not a big deal.

[She could drink illegally with someone who wasn't worried about it. No worries, Fai.]

Ah, well if you don't mind...!

(I would offer to make you drinks at my place, but that would be Very Bad for my job if we were caught!)

I would not at all, and you shouldn't say such things openly you know. Virgin drinks for me!

Ahaha, hopefully nobody here on Retrospec would tattle on me! For A THING I AM TOTALLY NOT GOING TO DO ANYWAY OF COURSE!!

But yes, virgin drinks. Although at that point we might as well just get slushies! I do like slushies (=^ ◡ ^=)

Heh, well, we'd actually be getting slushies at that point, just fancy ones. Either way, we'll have fun and nobody will get in trouble. Everyone wins.

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