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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

[truedetective]

I'm not very well versed on hypnotism; scientific literature is skeptical of it so I've heretofore not paid it any mind.

But as you said, we eat and drink the same things as those not affected (or, affected, depending on your view). The difference must be something else.

And we all use Retrospec, do we not?

[admiringly]

you think it's the app?
but how could an app cause hallucinations? does it have brainwashing capabilities?
or is it the app that's freeing us from hallucinations?
i wish the people at retrospec were more transparent

[truedetective]

I'm afraid I couldn't tell you which it is doing, if it is in fact doing anything at all. Either it is causing us to hallucinate, and horses and non-faced fruit never existed, or it is preventing us from the hallucinations that others are experiencing.

Their lack of transparency is the least of our concerns, given that.

[admiringly]

i don't want to believe an app can cause everything that's been happening but if they were more willing to tell us about what they're doing
why they forced their app on our phones and why it's been invading our privacy and other things or why more weird things happened after we got the app
wouldn't that help in solving this mystery?
and once that mystery is solved it could help with the larger problem about horses and fruit and whatever might happen next?
maybe?

[truedetective]

There's a great deal I'd rather not believe, either. But what we want to believe and what is reality may not coincide. Everything strange that has been happening roughly coincides with the existence of Retrospec. Nothing happened before it. There may not be causation involved, but there is certainly a correlation. I believe the two mysteries are deeply interrelated.

[admiringly]

when you're right you're right
we sort of know a who a what and a where
not a how and not a why
which i feel is the most important?

[truedetective]

They're equally important to learning the truth.

More to the point, finding out the former may lead us to the latter.

[admiringly]

i believe in you naoto!
i'm sure you and everyone else together can crack this case

I totally assumed Sakura was her first name oops

[truedetective]

Thank you, Chiyo.

I'll certainly try my best to live up to the faith you seem to have in me.

[Misplaced or not.]

no worries! i actually thought similarly when i first watched gsnk

[admiringly]

if there is one thing that retrospec is good for
it's that we're not alone in this!
karkat pointed that out

[truedetective]

While true, I would caution against potentially developing a hive-mind mentality.

But having other people in our same situation is comforting.