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[recollecters]

What's up, users! We've mostly fixed the technical problems we were having earlier (unless Danny missed something again) but you might want to wear green. Also, I'm supposed to make a vague and mysterious informational post here but that sounded boring so I made a video presentation instead! Watch on YouTube Cheers! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As of this post all apples, oranges, lemons, and limes have been replaced in-universe as the silly dancing fruits shown above. This means that as with Chocobos all NPCs will insist this is how things have always been and history/movies/etc will back them up. In honor of St. Patrick's Day characters will find a request from Retrospec to upload a picture of themselves to the network in which they are wearing something green. They will find themselves shocked lightly by their device if they try to use it without complying. Rude? A non-triggered memory regain can be earned through participation in this post in honor of Lucy's birthday the holiday with proof of a single thread with at least five comments from your character. If you plan to redeem this, please submit it to our regains page with the explanation of "March freebie". This must be submitted before April to be valid! Regardless of whether or not a character earns the freebie, all characters will find a gold coin with the Retrospec logo on one side and a Chocobo on the other. On the outside edge of the coin they will find "Jim, put a meaningful quote here. - Janet" engraved in a beautiful font. The Chocobo will morph into a horse should your character obtain the memory regain from the event; it will stay a Chocobo if your character does not obtain the memory regain. Please see our OOC information post HERE for some information and reminders - you can direct any questions about this post there! 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. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[parodeity]

yeah hes basically a robotics genius
and also uh
really into horses
tbh i cant save that part

[spes_phthisica]

Soujirou Katsuki okay i'm sorry
Soujirou Katsuki but try to calm down
Soujirou Katsuki seriously we're all going to look really weird if we let people know how freaky this seems
Soujirou Katsuki i don't think we want to draw attention to ourselves too much

[spes_phthisica]

Soujirou Katsuki i don't think they are really alive no
Soujirou Katsuki i mean they don't even react when you're cutting them
Soujirou Katsuki but just in case i think i can just stick to eating other stuff personally

[aegist]

it would be a light punch. no broken skin or bones at all. but it is your choice, of course.

[covenantal]

Hallucinomemories... that's an interesting term for it. Accurate, though. They do sort of feel like hallucinations, don't they? Especially when you see fruit start to sing and dance, and no one in the city but us thinks it's unusual.

That makes it sound like something we should look for.

I guess I'll keep that in mind in case I ever find out anyone wants to marry you. I'll know what to tell them to do.

[aegist]

maybe we should try to summon something with it. but yeah, yay?

it *did* seem to change when i remembered something stupid, but.

[aegist]

i'm considering not buying any more apples after we finish the ones in the fridge, honestly.

[aegist]

so you mean you're wondering if they belong to someone here in particular?

[aegist]

i'm coming, i'm coming.

hold your chocobos.

[aegist]

let me know how it goes? we only had apples and limes.

[covenantal]

What word would you use after vegan? I guess it would depend on what was still left that was safe to eat. I don't think it'd be much.

[covenantal]

... shocked?

I suppose that's true. It's weird sympathizing with fruit. Experimenting with them to find out if they actually can feel pain sounds cruel.

[trivialization]

How do you Americans say it? They're 'missing the forest for the trees'? The details are absurd but it's the notion of an unreliable reality that's horrifying.

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard Impossible to say for now.
Chloe Bouchard Which do you find more likely, though, if I may ask?

[madcuriosity]

People tend to let children get away with what they think of as nonsense things until the nonsense lasts more than a few days.

[trivialization]

Catherine Durand Setting out to prove things like that is pointless. It matters if it comes up on its own. Otherwise it's just vain.

[Which isn't to say she's without her vanity.]

Catherine Durand It would be more consistent if they did. Apples and citrus aren't closely related. But they don't seem to put much stock in consistency so I think you're safe.

[madcuriosity]

Lemonade, which is what that actually is, does not belong in tea.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Actual ineptitude. As you said, they may be meddling with things without realizing what will happen until it occurs.
Hitori Togusa We are the test case, this is still in the experimental stage. And either their effects are rippling out to the entire world. Or they're changing our perspective of that world.

[madcuriosity]

Oh yes, I wouldn't want it to have a sour disposition, after all!

Well, if it can smile and shake, than surely it can frown and cry! And it didn't... so... it must be alright then?

[Action]

[madcuriosity]

[Alice scrunched up her nose at the smell of vodka, having not smelled it before.]

What is that dreadful smell? Has the fruit spoiled on top of its smiling?

[wordcarvings]

One thing I was wondering about is why it only happened to some of the fruits, and not all of them. Perhaps that is the answer.

Lemon juice is often used in cooking too, to a bigger extent than apples and oranges.

[madcuriosity]

There you have it, then. Pure spite.

How terribly rude of them!

[spes_phthisica]

everything is changed
and apart from a few of us everyone else thinks it's always been that way
add that to remembering things that have never happened
and it definitely sounds like it's us that are going crazy (ノ′Дヾ)

i almost wish i was in the habit of drinking at this point
or maybe not a lot of drinks have fruit juice in them :/

[openhanded]

there are some sacred things you just don't mess with
Memory is one of them

[wordcarvings]

Yes, it is.