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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

[daemonized]

Ah. So in the short time between when these fruit became musically inclined and now, you've managed to carefully study their fundamental structure? You've become an expert?

Then do forgive me for speaking out of line.

[judicatus]

One hardly needs to be an expert to discern that fruit is fruit is fruit, but if you should still require proof then I can happily provide

[ he might already be headed for the kitchen as he's furiously typing away. gabranth, no. ]

[daemonized]

[gabranth, yes]

Proof is king in the world of law. Provide the irrefutable sort and I'll have no choice but to accept that fruit hasn't fundamentally changed. Singing and dancing notwithstanding.

[Is he about to commit fruit murder?]

[judicatus]

[ he takes his time. he takes several lengthy minutes before he responds, with a picture attached: a well-lit photo of a perfectly-halved apple, innards up (and presumably-still-singing face down). ]

See, still fruit on the inside.

[daemonized]

[Ardyn's response is rather concise in return.]

Is it still singing? And the experiment isn't thoroughly complete unless you eat it.

[judicatus]

[ this time — though it's not until after yet another lengthy pause — gabranth doesn't hesitate to share the same result he's just sent to grell. ]

Still tastes like fruit.

[daemonized]

[Well. He can hardly argue against the result of that. (Annoyingly enough.) Though that doesn't mean Ardyn won't wheedle where he deems it necessary.]

A rather long time to come to that conclusion. Having difficulties, Detective?

[judicatus]

No difficulties at all professor. It's a delicious apple, singing aside.

[ never mind the subtle trauma involved in biting into that smiling, singing face. nobody needs to know about that. nobody at all. ]

[daemonized]

[In which you mean that, yes, we all need to know about this. Thus-]

Did you bite into its face?

[These are the important questions that Ardyn Izunia asks.]

[judicatus]

[ why, ardyn. why. ]

I hardly see how it matters but yes, I did, and no, it doesn't taste any different.

[ the taste of his revulsion and regret, though... now that's a different taste entirely. ]

[daemonized]

[Because. Ardyn.]

Of course it matters. We must become more familiar with its emotional state, if it even has such a thing. It's an important question to answer, as the core of our discussion revolves around this idea. [The one Gab barged into!!]

So tell me, did it continue to sing, even as your teeth pierced its flesh? Or did it halt in prolonged terror, its life flashing before its eyes? Certainly it didn't /scream/ out?