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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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[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki did you eat the face first
Ryoji Mochizuki or did you save it for last?

GOD

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Akira Midousuji naturally, last.
Akira Midousuji how else could I tell you that it smiled the entire time? I wanted to see if I could make that smile disappear, and... I did!

AKIRA N O

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki oh no...
Ryoji Mochizuki Jade says they're supposed to stop moving after they're cut or peeled
Ryoji Mochizuki i asked her if she would zest one for me
Ryoji Mochizuki compared to eating, zesting would be an even slower and more painful death...

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Akira Midousuji it stopped moving once I bit into it, but it kept smiling. but in the end, you're just concerned about its pain levels?? it's a LEMON, Ryojiiiii

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki it might have feelings!
Ryoji Mochizuki if it can stop smiling, that means it *knows* it's dying!

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Akira Midousuji "[LEMONS] might have feelings!" —Ryoji Mochizuki
Akira Midousuji it only stopped smiling because it lost its face to smile with! aaand it stopped wiggling once I sank my teeth into its flesh.

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki you can't know for sure! it might!
Ryoji Mochizuki maybe they're just putting on a brave front with their smiling and dancing
Ryoji Mochizuki i would stop smiling immediately if i lost my face and somebody tried to eat me (ノД`)

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Akira Midousuji you WOULD stop smiling, you're right. you, too, wouldn't be able to smile if you had no FACE
Akira Midousuji no muscles left to muster even a grimace, in fact

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki i guess without skin or muscles, my face would just be a skull...
Ryoji Mochizuki you've seen skulls before:
Ryoji Mochizuki they always look like they're smiling

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Akira Midousuji a bit different.. but I see it. instead of a skull this lemon has nothing but seeds to speak of now.
Akira Midousuji but this lemon isn't alive and if you were like the lemon, you wouldn't feel anything either, would you?

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki lemons are alive!
Ryoji Mochizuki technically speaking!
Ryoji Mochizuki but yes, you could say that
Ryoji Mochizuki since lemons don't have nerves or a brain to feel pain or sadness
Ryoji Mochizuki if the ability to feel is more a mark of being alive than dividing cells

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Akira Midousuji it's dead now. otherwise, your words are my thoughts: no brain, no nerves, no pain. you get it! it's a lemon through and through.

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki but is it really a lemon...?
Ryoji Mochizuki you're sure enough to eat a nonliving Retrospec lemon?

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Akira Midousuji it TASTES like a lemon. as unsettling as the change is.
Akira Midousuji the orange on the cover of an old clinical nutrition textbook I have has a face now.

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki yes, well, we've also come a long way with artificial flavoring
Ryoji Mochizuki i don't know how to explain fruit faces appearing like they've always existed though...
Ryoji Mochizuki unless they *have* always existed
Ryoji Mochizuki and our brains refused to acknowledge the faces, as a self-defense mechanism, and so they appeared without
Ryoji Mochizuki ?

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Akira Midousuji is that your explanation for chocobos replacing horses, too? a self-defense mechanism to refuse the existence of giant birds? why?
Akira Midousuji the video makes it clear that it's Retrospec's design. why else would they make a video to draw our attention to this alteration?

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki the chocobos are a bit frightening!
Ryoji Mochizuki it might be Retrospec, but
Ryoji Mochizuki the video isn't really for us, it was for Janet
Ryoji Mochizuki it's kind of sweet?

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Akira Midousuji SWEET?? GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS
Akira Midousuji is this how YOU'D like to be proposed to, Ryoji??
Akira Midousuji reread Halloway's stupid post again. he was supposed to convey something but he took the opportunity to make it into a mind-numbing 6 minute 2 second video set to Bohemian Rhapsody so that he could force a creepy public proposal into it.

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki lol maybe not proposal
Ryoji Mochizuki but i can appreciate the time and effort that went into something like this
Ryoji Mochizuki if somebody put together a six minute montage of fruit for me, i think i would be very flattered!
Ryoji Mochizuki as for the post...
Ryoji Mochizuki it's sort of vague
Ryoji Mochizuki and very mysterious
Ryoji Mochizuki but doesn't have much in the way of information. i'm sure he tried

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Akira Midousuji but you learned something from this nonsense post anyway: that your fruit are not how they once were. every instance of an apple is now with a face. so on
Akira Midousuji I can't believe you'd feel flattered at a montage of dancing fruit being dedicated to you........ that's desperate!

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki i guess learning about it via the video was better than some other people's experiences
Ryoji Mochizuki such as finding out about faces in mid-bite
Ryoji Mochizuki also it's not desperate!
Ryoji Mochizuki it's appreciation!
Ryoji Mochizuki however silly it is, i can't overlook somebody putting in time and effort for my sake

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Akira Midousuji does that video really look like it took any time and effort? at all? it looks like a slideshow of clips and pictures strung together by stock video editing transitions. if anything, it's an insulting way to propose!

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki lol it's better than what i can make
Ryoji Mochizuki so yes!
Ryoji Mochizuki i support amateur artists trying their best!

[furtherforward]

Akira Midousuji grooooss
Akira Midousuji gross
Akira Midousuji are you sure that's not just having low standards??

[appraiser]

Ryoji Mochizuki i guess my standards *are* pretty low...
Ryoji Mochizuki how would you like to be proposed to?