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[furtherforward]

LISTEN UP. Retrospec can read this all they like, I don't care. their cameras were trained on me the entire time I combed through their office anyway. they INVITED me there. so here I am, putting my findings out here so that all users can access it. you can respond helpfully, or cower behind your phones in silence, and to what end? Retrospec already knows about your precious secrets. or have you gnats forgotten that already??

Akira Midousuji shared a photo. 3/8 near Apprassage

respond if you know any of the following names:
Dante Sparda
Irene Greenland
Machi Tobaye
Jyushimatsu Ono
Matt Miller

give me evidence that you know them, and we can talk more. don't waste my time with "OOOH I MET THEM ONCE"s if there's no substance. a single detail about their history will suffice as proof.

and since I expect the lot of you to share any information you find in the future, in this fashion... what the REST of you need to know is that I found files on these people in an unlocked room in the Retrospec building. apparently some of these people were once Retrospec users, but for some reason they're not anymore. (you can extend your gratitude to Dave for sorting through all of your nonsense to locate posts by these people.) these files documented their personal histories. DETAILED, by the way. are they accurate? that's what I'm trying to figure out.

ohhh right: the note pictured was clipped only to that file. make of this what you will.

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[hjack69]

i mean the guy was
well
lets just go with " eccentric "
real space cadet
so i didnt get much out of him besides the fact that hes weird and i think has a freaky thing for clowns

idk i just came in here to say that if they friggin matrix me that i want my records burned

[furtherforward]

fortunately for me there's nothing in his file about a weird interest in clowns. maybe it was a fluke? did YOU bring up clowns, or did he?

if I find your files, I'll take pictures of them and then burn them. just for you. how's that?

[hjack69]

yknow i cant remember
it mighta been me actually
sorry i cant help ya more kid thats all i got
im 100% that he was ON retrospec at some point using it like everybody else

yknow i know youre missing the point on purpose but yeah ok ill meet you halfway here

[furtherforward]

oh, I know. I know he was. he lives in my apartment. he was yelling loudly about spiders and baseball when Retrospec first posted. he was using it, buut somehow he managed to get off this ride.

that's a nice compromise. glad to see you're being agreeable. appreciated. besides, it COULD happen... who's to say they don't have more files where these came from?
speaking of which.... about the note. what do YOU think it means?

[hjack69]

eh i try to keep civil when i can
rather one guy have my blackmail material than everybody and their friggin dog right

well for one i cant read her fucking handwriting that well
" we need to fjjfsjdffkf the following and start from a clean slate "
obv they DID something to those people
have you seen this kid around since?

[darkinferno]

"x.con't" maybe?

"we need to xcon't the following and start from a clean slate"

akira--was that file the one on top of the stack?

[hjack69]

" x.con't " huh
might be shorthand for discontinue
discontinue the retrospec participation and start again maybe?

[darkinferno]

that's sure what it sounds like

i want to know what this "clean slate" is talking about frankly

are they just talking about finding new users to replace them

or as much as i don't want to be the conspiracy theorist here, something else

[darkinferno]

well if it's "rewrite" then i guess pass the tin foil so i can start making hats

[Wow, was he way off the mark!]

[furtherforward]

no. Miller's file waaaaaas somewhere in the middle of the stack. Ono's file was on top. like I wrote in the body, this note was clipped ONLY to Miller's file.

[darkinferno]

that's why i asked

if it was on top of the pile it could apply to the whole stack

but since it was in the middle i think it's safe to say the note only applied to his

i've never met this matt person before--any idea who he is?

[furtherforward]

no idea. the only person I have ever met is Ono, myself. if anybody's met Matt before... I'd like to know. I'd like to know if the history matches up.

if not, my theory is that Retrospec is gathering info through some means, which WOULDN'T surprise me at all except the extent they're bothering to do this. in Miller's case, maybe their intel guy was a complete waste of space, and the worthless insect couldn't do his job. researched the wrong guy? something like that.

[darkinferno]

the extent--you mean compiling our life histories? or something else?

what does his file say, anyways? anything that might be out of the ordinary?

[furtherforward]

wellll... they don't read like background checks. more like outlines for biographies. detailing motivations sometimes, and all that.

I shared Miller's file with Dave already, so I guess there's no harm in sharing again. my abridged version of it. the original is paragraphs long, so: he was adopted and attended private school until he was thrust into public school by his parents, who figured the public experience might do him well (the document says this, I inferred nothing). disagreed with his strict parents and had a bit of an attitude as a teen. had an interest in tech, so his parents put him in online classes until he moved here and enrolled in RU. that's where they say he SHOULD be, so that's where I'd look for him. it says he's studying video production/graphic design. he has a hand in a paranormal show called "Poulterguys", which I could care less about.

nothing abnormal to me.

[darkinferno]

now that i'd call strange

if they were collecting info on us you'd expect it to be facts, things that can be observed and verified. there are only two ways for them to be able to say that his parents "figured the public experience might do him well"

either they're really bad at their jobs, which would definitely fit in with what you said about having this employee rewrite it, or if we wanna pull the tinfoil back out again, they've been watching us for a lot longer than any of us would have figured

personally i'd hope it's the former but i'm suspicious enough of this company that i'm not willing to write anything off as impossible yet

i know a guy studying photography at ru, i'll ask him if he's heard of this matt guy

[furtherforward]

you're not the only one hoping it's the former, buuuuuuut... I don't think it's quite the latter, either.

did your phone spew your secrets this past week, too? like it did for plenty of others? what about secrets involving FEELINGS you have? tell me: if you're somebody who never tells a SOUL about your secrets, not even to your own mother, who do you suppose collected THAT data? and how?

would it be so far-fetched to link the understanding of more than just observable facts about a person's history, to the fact that our secrets are known by somebody out there that publicized it over our devices? surely you see this connection.

[darkinferno]

yeah, my phone was giving away one of my secrets, but it didn't have anything to do with my feelings. they could've found out about it if they'd been observing me for the past five or six years

but if what you're saying is true and they were spewing stuff about people's feelings...

i can't say i like where you're going with this

[furtherforward]

I've met people who had their feelings or attitudes focused on and exposed. it's true. I'm one of them.... not that I'll be regurgitating any of those secrets for anybody who didn't get to see it any time soon. that's stupid.

the point is, whether we're being watched or having our histories thoroughly checked.. it's too much to be just observations.

[furtherforward]

ah, that. while this is in part due to Janet's HORRIBLE handwriting, some of it's the dingy lighting. I took it while I was in the building. I kind of like the way it looks, so I kept it.

since I have the note in front of me, it says "we need to rewrite the following and start form a clean slate. - Janet"

the word you're looking for is rewrite.

re: Ono, yesss I have but he won't tell me anything useful.

[hjack69]

yeah that lighting is total crap
but wow ok thats even MORE disturbing! awesome this is literally the most balls thing ever
super great way to spend my weekend
abt ono, does he even remember retrospec?
yknow a lot of those crap announcements have that particular word in em
and were seeing stuff that never happened

just sayin

[furtherforward]

surprise! I haven't been able to ask him without having to storm his apartment, which would not go over well with our landlord. but my theory is, if he's not a Retrospec user, and non-users don't recognize Retrospec..... NO.

[hjack69]

wow ok now were doing the brainwashing thing how totally surprising
xtra balls
you gotten anything personal from retrospec yet?

[furtherforward]

brainwashing is a way to put it, but I'm shelving that until I can say for certain that Ono does not know what Retrospec is.

by personal... do you mean some kind of personal effect? I haven't received a pretty rock or anything like that. but I got a letter from them inviting me to their HQ. that's how I found this stuff in the first place.

[hjack69]

at this point im willing to go with pretty much ANY bs scientific theory?
like
bring on the virtual reality bring on the brainwashing bring on the clones im goddamn ready for it lets do this

and seriously what the shit
why do YOU people get cool shit like this and i get jack fuckin diddly
obv they wanted you to find it and prob knew youd share it with us if they know ALL ABOUT YOU right?
its information they wanted public
why? theories?

[furtherforward]

they chose me because I'm a natural-born leader. everybody knows THAT. of COURSE I'd take this step! it's a given for me to take command and make sure this isn't lost data, and the best way to do that is to make it public and well-known by many. set-up or not, that's why thinking further ahead than your opponent is crucial.

we'll learn the reason behind inviting me to share it in due time. or maybe, they're totally unprepared for this possibility! their last post was a total flop in presentation. they must be completely falling apart, locked away in their highest room in their tallest tower where we can't find them.