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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

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb I guess mine noticed I was already wearing green, it didn't do that to me.
Eleanor Lamb Hm.
Eleanor Lamb They had to have some forewarning.
Eleanor Lamb I had the program on my phone for several weeks before the chocobos and the beads.

[standalonehuman]

[Pardon Togusa while he gawks at his phone, dumbfounded for a second.]

Hitori Togusa You're right, it didn't all actually start at the same time.
Hitori Togusa Their infrastructure was in place by the time the first change happened.
Hitori Togusa That does not look good for Retrospec, if they want to say they're not behind these changes, then.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb Right?
Eleanor Lamb Even if the app didn't do anything, it was there.
Eleanor Lamb But how do you accuse a social media company of rewriting reality?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa From a legal standpoint? We can't.
Hitori Togusa But one possible plan is to put the pressure back on them, legally, as soon as we can get any concrete information on them.
Hitori Togusa They'be broken privacy laws, telecommunications regulations, and we might even have a weapons trafficking case against them.
Hitori Togusa Leverage that into getting them to tell us what's really going on.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb ...Weapons trafficking?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa A few people have been getting items in the mail, delivered from Retrospec. Ordinarily, I would have ignored this, but then a few people indicated they had gotten bladed weapons. At least one firearm floating around.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb This would be like arresting al capone for tax evasion...

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I wouldn't know about that. While the telecommunications breach is affecting a lot more people, weapons trafficking is the more serious charge.
Hitori Togusa I wish I better understood how it all fits together, though.

Hitori Togusa Some people have been getting odd memories, things that have been really disturbing them. And it's hard not to think that Retrospec is to blame.
Hitori Togusa Have you been okay?

[notyourutopian]

It was because they couldn't actually pin anything bigger on him.

I...

I've 'remembered' a few things, yes.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I'm sorry. It's stupid, and I don't see the point of why this is happening to everybody. I wish there was more I could do to help.
Hitori Togusa Everyone is referring to them as memories. Does it resonate so well, that you're sure it's a memory and not just a dream?

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb I thought the first one was a dream.
Eleanor Lamb Now...I don't know.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa My friend saw himself at the rim of an inactive volcano. Another gentleman I met was describing a scene of a feudal-era samurai battle.
Hitori Togusa I don't think everybody's seeing the same thing. Like different perspectives of the same event. It's all different.
Hitori Togusa If it's too personal, feel free to tell me to shove off. But what did you see?

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb It's just...complicated.
Eleanor Lamb Nothing I've seen makes much sense.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Nonsensical. Impossible. But it still feels like a memory?
Hitori Togusa If it doesn't mesh with what I've already described, then I think that's all I need to know. Sorry to pry. Just because I'm curious doesn't mean you have to explain any more.
Hitori Togusa It's different for everybody.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb It doesn't fit with what you've mentioned.
Eleanor Lamb Or what anyone I've spoken with has mentioned.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Thank you. That's something to go off of at least.
Hitori Togusa I don't know if I'm more regretful that I haven't seen what everyone else is talking about, or grateful that it hasn't affected me yet.

[notyourutopian]

You haven't remembered anything odd?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Nothing.
Hitori Togusa I was speaking to a friend of mine about triggers, things that remind you of those memories. It seems to just work like regular memory, something just brings up your recall, but of something impossible.
Hitori Togusa Maybe I just haven't been doing the right things.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb You haven't remembered anything but you know something is wrong.
Eleanor Lamb Maybe.
Eleanor Lamb Or there's something that makes you different.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa is typing...

[Stops.]

Hitori Togusa is typing...

[Stops again.]

[Give him a minute here to try to stomp on his paranoia.]

Hitori Togusa Statistically. I can't be the only one.
Hitori Togusa So let me find the others and find a pattern.

[Because otherwise then Togusa is the outlier and NOPE NOPE, cannot process the implications of that right now.]

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb First one I've talked to.
Eleanor Lamb Good luck though.