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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

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki This witchery! This apocalypse for apples! I cannot conceivably name all these fruits!! Jim and Janet, twin purveyors of peculiar pomes, have brought an apple-related apocalypse to our fair and groaning city!!! They have summoned forth leviathans of lemons and limes straight from the bowels of the Lesser Key of Solomon itself!!!!
Ranko Kanzaki Your marriage, dear demons, will be forged in the fires of hell!!!!! And
Ranko Kanzaki and
Ranko Kanzaki and please stop shocking me please it hurts

[ Later, she uploads a photo of herself wearing this.

She has no green clothes. And very few non-black and white ones.

Nice dad shirt, Ranko. ]

Ranko Kanzaki is this okay

[beastenderblood]

Velouria Tartine Well I wasn't sure before but now I'm positive you're a cool dad

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki i'm not...a cool dad......
Ranko Kanzaki No! Rather, I prefer to think of myself as a midnight maiden, whose dark wings fly free of any parental constraints!

[ pause for emphasis... ]

Ranko Kanzaki I very much hope I do not have to wear this garment for all eternity to avoid that...cursed lightning.

[beastenderblood]

[Oh my god]

Velouria Tartine But Cool Dad, you're really pulling it off
Velouria Tartine I'm feeling inspired just looking at it

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki Well, if you really are feeling so intensely moved by my viridian robes... [ The shirt is kind of comfy... ]
Ranko Kanzaki Wait, I must not fall for your whispered lies! I refuse to ever accept the blighted title of 'Cool Dad'!!

[beastenderblood]

Velouria Tartine Hey Cool Dad how can I grow cool dark wings free of parental restraint like you
Velouria Tartine Will I ever be as gnarly as you, Cool Dad

[fashionable_yapping]

Nina Écarlate What is this? Why are you such a weirdo?
Nina Écarlate Actually, nevermind that. You still aren't as weird as the fruit crap. Even my parents seem to think this is normal!

[She's already started wearing a green blouse after being shocked by her phone.]

[legne]

[ Poor old Ranko, merely trying to deal with this fruity mess in her own...very special...way. And now this. Will her humiliation ever end? ]

Ranko Kanzaki 'Weirdo'? Such a base and tawdry term...
Ranko Kanzaki Although I will have to agree with your second point - my progenitors also find this whole affair to be completely ordinary. Their eyes have been closed to the toothless smiles of the truth.

[fashionable_yapping]

Nina Écarlate Well, whatever.
[She could pick on Ranko for her manner of speech. She kinda feels like doing that. But she decides it probably isn't worth it this time.]
Nina Écarlate If this's like the horse thing, there isn't much we can do about this.

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki The horse crisis befuddles me still. Such a fine and noble animal, banished forever - replaced by gaudy yellow avian atrocities!
Ranko Kanzaki One day, my equine allies will see justice done. [ Possibly in a horse/chocobo showdown. ]

[fashionable_yapping]

Nina Écarlate ...Chocobos're pretty cute. Though I kinda miss my horse being a horse.
Nina Écarlate You know what I'd like? Both a horse and a chocobo. They didn't have to go replacing horses.

[trueend]

Frisk E. Business i like your shirt
Frisk E. Business are you ok

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki n
Ranko Kanzaki no
Ranko Kanzaki my hair is standing on end

[ From the static electricity. Paired with the shirt, it's...quite a sight. ]

Ranko Kanzaki I require...potions. To tame the vipers of my Medusian barnet.

[trueend]

Frisk E. Business ???????
Frisk E. Business whats a barnet
Frisk E. Business maybe tying your hair into a bun will help :?

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki In common parlance, a hairstyle.
Ranko Kanzaki However, that just might work. Thank you for your suggestion, kind stranger!

[ Several minutes later: ]

Ranko Kanzaki i shocked myself with my own hair
Ranko Kanzaki curses!!!!

[trueend]

Frisk E. Business isnt it easier to write hair then

[BUT ALSO. YIKES.]

Frisk E. Business oh no
Frisk E. Business im sorry!!!!
Frisk E. Business didnt know thatd zap you too (T___T)

[loudmouths]

Keigo Higashino are you a theater major
Keigo Higashino 'cause you sound like a theater major

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki Alas, I am more a student of ancient scrolls and portraiture than one of fairy theater. Although I continue to have an interest in amateur productions!
Ranko Kanzaki Why do you ask, curious stranger?

[loudmouths]

Keigo Higashino ...
Keigo Higashino You just sound like one. All dramatic and verbose and whatnot...

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki Ah, but that is merely one piece of the puzzle.
Ranko Kanzaki For centuries, I have studied dead languages and forgotten folktales - all the better to elucidate my grim history upon an unsuspecting mortal populace!

[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...]

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki i think so

[ Ranko's still a little...charred. ]

Ranko Kanzaki please don't look at that infernal photograph any more than is necessary

[rosettareflected]

Alicia Clover Of course, that would be kind of rude if it's only there in the first place because of, well... Retrospec doing what it does.
Alicia Clover I feel like things escalate every time there's a new post from the administrators.

[legne]

Ranko Kanzaki Yes, it escalates...now causing us physical harm if we do not cloak our trembling figures in an arbitrary color.
Ranko Kanzaki When will it end? Oh, the shame of it! One such as I was never meant to be clad in a so-called 't-shirt'!

[rosettareflected]

Alicia Clover It IS disconcerting, yes. And I feel you on T-shirts, although they have some utility on occasion.
Alicia Clover It just goes to show that one should be prepared for any situation! Especially lately. What next, raining... something-or-other from the sky?