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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

[ghostories]

oh that?
i don't know about waiting it out, but i wore this, auntie!

[ Insert selfie here. She could have gone for a dress or a parka, but no, she dug around for an ugly Christmas sweater. ]

[curseoclock]

well i get the first part. as for the second part... heh

and you call ME weird

[curseoclock]

well ideally just getting used to it won't be what this all leads to. i mean, gosh, there's only so much change we all can take, right?
...not that i know if there's really a fix for something like this, but. here's hoping.

yeaaaah that'd suck! i like the normal fruit we have left, i don't want it messed with

[doublesmall]

yeah you and me both

alright well plan A is to just remove the faces, if they do have a second face under there we just use the slices without any face on there and I guess you can do whatever with the face parts

[darkinferno]

[How is she so whimsical and innocent?]

well if you've never heard it before it just means it's up to you to make it the new trend, right? sayings have to start somewhere

i gotta say though i don't think the fruit will care if you talk about it

but maybe that just makes you better than the rest of us for considering it?

[doublesmall]

fine I'll bite how dignified would they be exactly

choose your answer carefully (¬､¬)

and yeah I guess that might help, maybe there's something that'd make it click better? if I can be reminded of other stuff it makes sense that I might be reminded of how it's supposed to work

[darkinferno]

opera is NEVER too far

better check the floor plans to make sure your shower's on the opposite wall then

but yeah using bohemian rhapsody for this bullshit is a travesty

[counteracts]

[... A POINTED PAUSE

...]

fruit are smiling at me, micah, don't bring logic into this

[jeez.]

[notyourutopian]

Have you tried petting one?

Wow.
They should at least have the common decency to follow a pattern if they're going to smile like that.

[sparsity]

[ you cannot imagine the stainlessness of his smile right now ]

i know
it's not your fault

[notyourutopian]

...it surprised you?

[notyourutopian]

Right?
And it's not like we can stop eating apples.

[notyourutopian]

Video editing like that takes forever.
Which makes it even sadder when this was his result, I guess...

[fashionable_yapping]

Yeah now every time I leave my room I have to look at those smiling faces. And I already asked my parents to replace it with something else, but they said they'd do it sometime soon.

[notyourutopian]

I've heard of worse marriage proposals.

Wish they'd leave us out of it though.

As explanation she was on the first test drive but only recently got into the game.

[fashionable_yapping]

Nina Écarlate I've no idea, but it probably's got something to do with how I suddenly noticed the Retrospec app bugging me about the same time. I then remembered the damn app. For some reason I'd forgotten about it for more than a month.

[katsudonfatale]

Yuuri Katsuki IT'S NOTHING SCANDALOUS
Yuuri Katsuki Wait are people actually eating them and everything?

[spes_phthisica]

Soujirou Katsuki oh you shouldn't sell yourself short ;)
Soujirou Katsuki yes they do
Soujirou Katsuki i had to make apple slices at work

[katsudonfatale]

Yuuri Katsuki How did you...?
Yuuri Katsuki Wait maybe don't answer that

[rosettareflected]

[There is a long moment where Alicia attempts to parse the first half of this. Apparently this fruit is... demonic in origin? Hard to tell. It's almost a relief when the rest turns out to be somehow easier to work with.]

Alicia Clover I am not certain as yet that their crimes are quite so damning. Still, it is at least a little discomforting.
Alicia Clover Ah, are you all right? Did the shocks stop, at least?

[Alicia didn't think much of the demand to start with; she's already wearing green clover hair clips, so...]

[spes_phthisica]

Soujirou Katsuki you can still cut them
Soujirou Katsuki its weird how they keep moving but you can :(
Soujirou Katsuki but i figured freaking out about cutting apples would really not look good at work
Soujirou Katsuki and might scare the kids

[counteracts]

[he's seen fruit smiling and dancing in his kitchen, don't bring logic into this]

considering all of the other weird shit people have been talking about on this app lately?
I'd actually go with the former

[He'd talked about it with a few other people, actually. But it made sense to him. It actually did seem more believable and more simple that one thing—whatever universal fabric made up their universe—was changed, rather than the innumerable factors that would go into a hoax like this.

That's just his opinion, though.]

[counteracts]

[no, you see, the problem is, he can imagine it, and it's even worse]

right
no, we have jim to thank for that, assuming

[Assuming an app company had any kind of hand in something like this, but, well, it was a little too conspicuous of a coincidence otherwise.]

[counteracts]

yeah... you're right
if we just keep accepting all the changes as-is, a lot of this world might not even resemble the one we remember

[Like the Ship of Theseus conundrum.]

I can barely think of a way to accomplish something like this, let alone fix it
unfortunately I don't think submitting a request to this app is going to do much of anything

yeah, i'd prefer to have to avoid getting vitamin supplements to avoid scurvy, thanks

[esperimental]

As my guardian said, it seems a very pointless change. Some of the people are more sensitive about it than we are, I'm more bothered by the fact they might knock things over.