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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.

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[daemonized]

[Ardyn can certainly tell you about it someday. First impressions are lingering things, you know.]

It may seem that way to the innocent bystander, but I assure you that it is indeed a betrayal most unfortunate.

[An over-exaggeration, partly for the sake of being ridiculous, but it also reveals a bit of his, ah, opinion of the man.]

Though if you're sincere about your heart being so thoroughly wounded, I'll say no more and retract all of my previous statements.

[daemonized]

[Ardyn's response is rather concise in return.]

Is it still singing? And the experiment isn't thoroughly complete unless you eat it.

[openhanded]

I honestly have no idea

the world of manly men is unfortunately a mystery to me

[goen]

Hey don't ignore my pun
That one was a once in a lifetime moment

[openhanded]

wow okay I think opera is going a little TOO far
I know better than to attempt to sing but thank you for cementing that firmly in the no category.
I don't want to be graded on my performance in the shower

anyway it couldn't have been worse than what they did to queen

[appraiser]

i want to say yes, but it's hard to tell what sort of luck can be attributed to the sigils
on one hand, i was clearing my winter coats out of the closet today and found 20 dollars in one of the pockets
on the other hand, i've been getting nightmares recently and now fruit have mouths

[erythristic]

you're almost thee. just bite it.

[appraiser]

oh, that's good
i know it's supposed to be "normal" but i can't help but be in awe of your flatmate for being able to find it so

[erythristic]

i am wounded, if only because i never intended a betrayal, and now, such words! but do not hold back the tide of your opinion for my sake - if i am to wound you, wear it openly so we might know, that the proper guilt be assigned.

[judicatus]

[ ugh. uuUUUUUuugh grell why

another not-insignificant amound of time passes before he sends another photo: much the same as before, but this time one of the halves has a distinct bite taken out of it. whether or not it's the singing half remains unseen. ]

Is that enough of a bite for you?

[judicatus]

[ this time — though it's not until after yet another lengthy pause — gabranth doesn't hesitate to share the same result he's just sent to grell. ]

Still tastes like fruit.

[daemonized]

You'd have me speak openly, throwing courtesy to the wind? I'm only leashing my tongue for the sake of propriety.

[As paper thin as it is. If she asks again, he'll gladly share.]

[daemonized]

[Well. He can hardly argue against the result of that. (Annoyingly enough.) Though that doesn't mean Ardyn won't wheedle where he deems it necessary.]

A rather long time to come to that conclusion. Having difficulties, Detective?

[thirtybits]

I don't know, she might go with another classic rock group, it doesn't have to be Queen.

Like maybe she's more of an Ace of Base lady.

[judicatus]

No difficulties at all professor. It's a delicious apple, singing aside.

[ never mind the subtle trauma involved in biting into that smiling, singing face. nobody needs to know about that. nobody at all. ]

[daemonized]

[In which you mean that, yes, we all need to know about this. Thus-]

Did you bite into its face?

[These are the important questions that Ardyn Izunia asks.]

[judicatus]

[ why, ardyn. why. ]

I hardly see how it matters but yes, I did, and no, it doesn't taste any different.

[ the taste of his revulsion and regret, though... now that's a different taste entirely. ]

I apologize for Lucy

[long_live_the_queen]

Lucy Takada minako's different
Lucy Takada and not you

[sharplydressed]

hopefully we won't have to start relying on them to catch our produce now

[appraiser]

i suppose they shouldn't be able to feel pain, but i sure do when i think about having to cut or bite into one

i don't know
they gave me the same sort of disbelieving look whenever i bring up horses
it's easier to dismiss something they've never known of, i guess, than faceless fruit which are obviously and completely wrong now

[long_live_the_queen]

Lucy Takada thanks

[And no one had to twist her arm to get her to say that, holy shit.]

Lucy Takada where would fruit even go in an incident report

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki unintentionally!
Ryoji Mochizuki lol that's quite the reaction though
Ryoji Mochizuki maybe fruit isn't special to your heart as it is (maybe...) for Janet?
Ryoji Mochizuki i know somebody who would love to get proposed to with a cat video, for example
Ryoji Mochizuki what would the content of your proposal video be?

[obscultator]

Karl Bergfried Honestly, between a mass shared hallucination or a mass conspiracy to alter all of the city's fruits, I am not sure which requires fewer implausible assumptions.

[obscultator]

Karl Bergfried I have not explicitly, but certainly no one outside of this application's user base has felt the need to comment on it thus far.
Karl Bergfried I suppose it is too much to hope that your parents are given to practical jokes?

[counteracts]

as in, a trick?

that'd be great, but I've got some physical evidence to the contrary dancing in a bowl in my kitchen

[He'd checked as soon as he'd seen the video.]