recollecters: (Default)
Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-11-01 05:26 pm

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.

As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.
floret: (but i'll push myself up through the dirt)

Jamie Doh

[personal profile] floret 2018-11-03 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, your username looks really cool! How'd you get it to do that?

Also, are they stabbing themselves in the femoral artery?
clothes: <lj user=lagiacrus> (5)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-11-03 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ pretend there's a link to the site he used unless you actually want the link in which case i can hook u up ]

Yes. The goal *is* to die, after all.
floret: (i was thinking about the easy courage)

[personal profile] floret 2018-11-06 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ lmao ]

I'm pretty sure it would work. In the afterlife I used to be from, dead people could 100% get hurt and die. It feels like it kind of defeats the purpose, but I guess the principles of the universe are what they are whether or not they make sense or are dumb.
clothes: <lj user=lagiacrus> (26)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-11-11 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
...What. That only begs more questions, such as *where* do people go when they die in the afterlife, but I imagine the explanation would be overwrought and make no sense to me. That isn't how it is at all where I'm from. This is the first time I have ever heard of a world like yours.

[ it's not that he thinks jamie is a freak, he just thinks jamie is a freak. ]
floret: (and the new dead leaves—)

[personal profile] floret 2018-11-11 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, had you been to the afterlife in your world, too? What was it like?
clothes: pixiv id: 61801066 (10)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-11-16 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not. There's no way my past self was so careless that he would die.

[ he was mixed up in a gang or something though...so it's not impossible... fuq ]
floret: (we burned them in the parking lot)

[personal profile] floret 2018-11-16 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
If you'd never been, how do you know that's not how it was?