retrospec | LOADING...

[ At 9PM on the 1st, all phones or Retrospec-enabled devices will show flickering screens, until a static-filled image appears. It seems to be a security camera shot, in black and white from a high angle, of a simple computer room. Inside is Joanne Wiseman who many of the users may recognize - she looks young, blonde curls loose around her shoulders, and she also looks tired still.

A young man who looks only slightly older than her comes in. He's dark-haired with a sweater and glasses, but a white labcoat that matches hers as well. Maurice comes over to stand nearby, watching the screen Joanne is looking at.

Neither of them seem to realize they're being recorded. Joanne looks up, and speaks first. ]

Did R and D know anything?

[ Maurice shakes his head, says: ] No. They can't track them down either - it's almost as if...

[ Joanne: ] They have to be somewhere.

[ Maurice: ] Jim's trying to figure it out. You know we don't have anyone better at...ah, "creative" solutions?

[ Joanne: ] No, I know, just...what if their souls are just, just -

[ Maurice: ] I don't think they're gone. I mean - well, they're gone, but I don't think they're gone? You remember August, the one before last. They're, uh, pretty tough?

[ Joanne: ] We're usually able to at least try to help them when we can, though!

[ Maurice: ] Jo - look, we're doing everything we can. We'll find them.

[ Joanne: ] Before they do?

[ Maurice: ] Right. I mean...we have to, don't we?

[ They both look worried. Before they do was said with a certain inflection - and hey, Retrospec. It looks like the employees have lost track of you for the month. How do you feel about that one? ]

As of this post, character usernames are back to being their own names - or rather, characters will be prompted to put in their name as a boot screen loads. Now's your chance to change your preferred name, Retrospecters - but it appears whatever you put in will be locked in as your choice. Hope you didn't put in something ridiculous!

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.

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is that supposed to mean they usually do

...nah i take it back
stalking us is definitely a thing they'd do
how can they not know where we are though
is everyone's gps suddenly malfunctioning

they can find our ~~souls~~ or whatever its probably just stalking

then how did they lose them
it's not like we lost our souls
....i hope

mayb how do u know u have your soul??

well i feel the same as i did before
so either i still have my soul or i never had one at all

mayb we shouldve gone 2 church more

Edited 2018-11-02 02:10 (UTC)

oh so you believe in god now all of a sudden huh

i believe in doin stuff grownups tell u 2 do 2 get out of trouble does that count

if you're 5 maybe

9s close enough

[ oh god he remembers this now. He remembers talking to an 8 year old on the app months ago. Christ. ]

oh
then uh
yeah
just do that
i guess

[ he feels like he is already tainting this kid just by virtue of talking to him at all. ]

[On this specific post, May is worse than him about corrupting Shinji, so at least there's that.]

its a joke im pretty sure grownups dont decide if you get a soul or not

[ ....nah fuck it let's taint him ]

you don't know that

do u rly??

[He doesn't believe this... probably...]

what makes you think i know
i'm not an adult either
i'm just old enough to know that plenty of adults keep secrets and aren't trustworthy

how old r u ur pic looks like an adult 2 me??

pfft no
i'm only an adult as far as the justice system is concerned
i'm 17

thats p old

[It seems old to a 9-year-old, at least.]

youd kno if adults were messing around w/ souls cuz youd be supposed 2 mess w/ souls in like a year

no way
like they'd just give you full soul-messing control as soon as you turn 18
they probably do it gradually or smth
like making you take classes
and i probably forfeited my rights to it anyway
so i guess i'll never know if they do for real

youd b supposed to take classes in a year, close enough anyway if they had secret soul stuff somebody wouldve made a conspiracy theory page about it by now

what makes you think they haven't

[ He can't go searching for one on the shitty Internet connection he has here, but he figures there's a website out there peddling this theory. There's a website for literally everything, and this doesn't even seem that far fetched of a conspiracy. ]

cuz i cant find 1 on google

[Obviously a small child is the most qualified to find a particular website on the vast reaches of the internet with a five second search.]

that's because it's on the dark web

[ does james even understand what the dark web is? absolutely not. but he knows it exists. ]

Edited (hey, grammar) 2018-11-10 04:44 (UTC)

thats just for selling drugs & hitmen & stuff

[On the other end of the spectrum, Shinji has a decent understanding of what the dark web is but believes very little is actually on it, so...]

yeah and the internet is just a military communications tool
there's plenty more on the dark web than that

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