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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

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Yup!

[Anyone asks, Togusa's best friend ended up in the Crossdressing Pageant as a glitch, he didn't do it.]

Hitori Togusa It's curious because a lot of people have mentioned remembering things that have never happened to them.
Hitori Togusa It's not something I've experienced personally, though. But some things have been troubling my best friend.

Hitori Togusa Why, have you?

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard I have experienced it myself, three times, and it is very disorienting.
Chloe Bouchard And if it is being offered as a prize, it means that they are clearly involved.
Chloe Bouchard What has been troubling them? Their visions?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa As if they have control over it...but over what?
Hitori Togusa Not only am I not one for pageants, I think I'll pass on this 'opportunity,' if it's so troubling to everyone else.

[What can and can't he say about what Koutarou has seen?]

Hitori Togusa He's posted about his experiences, looking for advice, but I think it troubles him because what he is seeing is impossible. But he remembers it as if it really happened. Not just a dream.

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard Over our memories, or the hallucinations they cause us.
Chloe Bouchard I am tempted, but I am also not sure I want to dance their dance, or intentionally get more of these visions.
Chloe Bouchard Some days I want to, but sometimes I am afraid of them.
Chloe Bouchard Your friend's experiences, though, are not unique.
Chloe Bouchard Some of the stories I've heard are quite impossible.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa It's troubling that there could be an objective truth out there that we're missing. It's right back to the things with reality shifting. Horses, and now fruit.
Hitori Togusa Like we're all trying to get at some truth that none of us can see clearly.

Hitori Togusa But what if Retrospec can't see that truth, for themselves, either?

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard If even they cannot see the truth, we may be looking at a very trying time.
Chloe Bouchard The very thought of their toying with reality, not knowing the result...
Chloe Bouchard It's a little terrifying.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Just. Dear Jim's announcement that kicked this whole thing off.
Hitori Togusa "You might want to wear green."
Hitori Togusa It makes it sound like it's a bug, something accidental, rather than them trying to force us all into the festive spirit.

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard I am not inclined to actually believe anything he says.
Chloe Bouchard But if he is being honest, then yes that is what it sounds like.
Chloe Bouchard They should not have beta tested something like this in the way they have.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Is it actual ineptitude on Retrospec's part, or the appearance of ineptitude to keep us from taking them seriously?
Hitori Togusa I know which idea I find more frightening. But it's also the one I find more likely. Very unfortunately.

[true_noir]

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

[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.

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard I hate to say that I agree, but this feels more inept than fake at this point.
Chloe Bouchard And they seem not to be worried about the potential repurcussions of what it is that they are doing right now.