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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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[sharplydressed]

[WHAT THE HECK... But also like, fair, since he's basically wondering the same thing.]

don't they kind of look like they can?

[tosa]

HA HA HA
that means their juice is like blood or something?
thats so gross!

( He's a lot more disturbed than he's letting on. )

but for real though
mom keeps asking me why I'm being weird like i'm the weird one and these guys aren't????

[sharplydressed]

omg i was just joking about all that vampire stuff, i don't actually want to become a blood drinking fruit cannibal or something

[How is a human even a fruit cannibal, real questions. BUT-- He'd talked to someone about this somewhat recently, actually.]

i'm pretty sure it's the app

people who have it i mean. we remember the old stuff, or maybe we're the ones who're being tricked into thinking things used to be different?? depends on who you ask

they're the ones who don't remember

or something like that?

[tosa]

There's no way an app can do something like this.
You're talking about this thing changing the whole world or something.
Theres gota be another erason.

[sharplydressed]

it's not the app itself that's doing it

probably

but retrospec? what about them?

[tosa]

Like some sort of conspiracy?

[sharplydressed]

or something

i mean, they're always around when these weird things happen and only the people they "choose" to be testers of their app or whatever are the ones who notice

so it has to mean something right? there's no way all of it is just a coincidence

just look at that tacky proposal video!

[tosa]

( Man, this sure makes his phone and computer and everything else really weird... )

You're talking abotu a company that can control the entire world. That's stuff you see in movies.




But i guess you got a point.

[sharplydressed]

trust me, i thought the first guy who brought it up to me was nuts, too

[HE KNOWS IT SOUNDS LIKE THE MOST TINHATTY THING TO EVER TINFOIL HAT, but... well. At least some measure of correlation is pretty undeniable now. Thanks, Jim.]

[tosa]

What kind of tinheads are you hanging with since you got back????

If they control everything and we're talking over RS and everything then doesn't that mean they know we're onto them? idk who's worse at this secret conspiracy thing us or them.

[sharplydressed]

don't ask

[NOT YAMATO, FOR ONCE... Even he thought the tinhatting was a little too much but who's laughing now. ...None of them. None of them are because their fruit is dancing.]

anyway they clearly don't care about whether or not their name is plastered on the side of all this weird stuff, so i think they'd be more surprised if it seemed like we didn't tie the two of them together right?

[tosa]

Man...

Ever read those comics growing up about ordinary guys finding out things and getting caught up in trouble?
This is starting to sound like that.

( Because this sure is starting to sound manga-esque to him. )

The least we could get is some super powers or something.







Maybe that can be a suggestion.

[sharplydressed]

[HONESTLY HE CANNOT DISAGREE.]

yeah and it almost always ends badly or stupidly, so i'd like to opt out of that, thanks

[But more importantly--]

(´-ω-`;)
it's better not to ask for super powers too
real life super powers aren't as great as the ones in comics

[Like who even needs the power to summon flower petals when they're extremely happy?? NO ONE. Where's his invisibility or flying or super strength, damn.]

[tosa]

Come on you've never thought about having powers before? Ever? Maybe you need to think aout better powers! I dont remember you being b o r i n g.

[sharplydressed]

i don't want to hear any insults like that from you, one. (`A´)
two, pick up the hint i'm putting down here.

[tosa]

( WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN... but not that he can see but Ryu's absolutely sighing on his end, )

You're Doraemon.

( Sent from the future by future Kiyomitsu to look out for poor past Kiyomitsu. )





You're not serious though, right?

( For all of his joking around, that's exactly what it was-- joking around. No one gets super powers. Those aren't real. )

[sharplydressed]

[PUNKS GONNA BE PUNKS even if Ryu's not actually boring at all but look--]

that'd make as much sense as anything else tbh
anyway are you free rn
because if you are, do i ever have something to show you

[WELCOME TO THE NEW HELL where vampire eyeballs are real and so is sakura fubuki.]

[tosa]

( Does it show when you're typing a message because Ryu spends what feels like forever trying to respond.
He wanted to joke about things but this sounds serious at the same time? )

Yeah. You wanna meet?

[sharplydressed]

[He plays the ghosting game for a while, watching Ryu type... It basically is a big joke anyway honestly like?! His life currently as it stands is just A Joke, set him free.]

yeah
by the park in like 10 minutes?
it's better for me to be outside