loading...

[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

[frostythehitman]

[ This post is coming to you all about 30 minutes after James had a run-in with a stray chattering orange in his kitchen, shrieked and stabbed it through the face, then slowly watched it die as his dad and sister ran in to ask what was wrong.

James is a changed man, now. ]

James Barnes Jesus Christ, what the hell. I killed a fruit today. I killed a fruit!
James Barnes This is some serious "cries of the carrots" crap.
James Barnes I'm not a vegetarian but I'm seriously considering it now. But with fruit. A fruitarian.
James Barnes No wait, that would be if you only ate fruit. Anything-but-fruitarian.
James Barnes I need to get out of this house.

[ In fact, he's probably going to go to the park, away from any fruit, and write a song about killing an orange. ]

[tokencanadian]

I think there's still some fruit that doesn't have faces!
Plus that sounds like a good way to get scurvy

[frostythehitman]

Name a fruit without a face on it. I need to start buying fruits that won't give me a crisis of conscience every time I want some vitamin C.

[tokencanadian]

bananas, apparently?
And....



do peaches have faces?

[frostythehitman]

I don't know about peaches, I don't have any at home, but hold up

Bananas are face-free? Do you mean like just the peel, or the peel and the fruit inside?

[tokencanadian]

I believe I mean, no faces? At all?
Unless these fruits have faces... under their faces?

[frostythehitman]

So long as I don't have to see it, I don't care.

Let's see how long I can last eating bananas as my only fruit.

[tokencanadian]

There must be others. even a few!

[frostythehitman]

Are you willing to eat every fruit face out there to find the ones that are normal?

[tokencanadian]

Maybe??
Because I really loved apples before this tbh.
But now things are different

[frostythehitman]

Well, bananas are kind of a weird fruit.

Maybe it doesn't affect weird fruit? Like weird shaped stuff with strange peels. Starfruit and dragonfruit, maybe lychee? They're hard to get, but who knows, they may be the only safe fruits left.

[tokencanadian]

So you think it affects only the popular fruits?

[frostythehitman]

Wow, I didn't realize that 'popular' and 'weird' were listed as synonyms in the dictionary now.

I said "weird shaped". As in, not some normal smooth and round thing. Like stuff that's got spikes and is shaped like a tube or something. Hell, maybe even raspberries count.

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto This seems like a good time to consider an all-meat diet...
Maya Aimoto At least my steak isn't looking at me as I try to eat it.

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes That's just what I was thinking.
James Barnes I can't believe eating meat is more ethical than eating fruit now.


James Barnes Not that I cared either way, but still. I might start caring now, on the fruit side of things, if they don't stop grinning at me like that.

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto I mean. I guess you could just... slice the.. faces off...












[.........]






Maya Aimoto nope, that's
Maya Aimoto that's not happening either

[frostythehitman]

[ FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER... ]

James Barnes Yeah so
James Barnes I basically just did exactly that

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto ...does it make it LESS freaky?

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes Well it made it a lot easier to eat the fruit, there's that at least.
James Barnes It also put some weird images in my head though, I think. Like memories? I don't know if that's supposed to happen if you murder a fruit, or if that's unrelated Retrospec weirdness.

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto I've had those!

[...............]

Maya Aimoto But not from ... slicing the faces off of things...

[Um.]

Maya Aimoto Do I even want to ask...?

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes Look, it made sense in context.
James Barnes As much as random vision-image-memories out of nowhere can make sense at all, anyway.

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto I mean. Yeah.
Maya Aimoto I'm still not sure why I ever saw magical flying animals, after all...

[It's probably something perfectly benign, then. Yeah. She'll go with that.]

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes Magical flying animals?

[ Well. It's certainly weirder than what he saw. ]

[strongestheart]

Maya Aimoto Yeah, uh. That's... about the size of it.
Maya Aimoto Still not sure on the context.
Maya Aimoto Or what it MEANS.

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes That's it?
James Barnes What were the flying animals doing? What did they look like?
James Barnes Are magical flying animals normal to you? Because no one just says "magical flying animals" and leaves it at that.