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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-03-17 06:02 pm
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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!



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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[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-23 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
i am
but i don't know that i'd understand even if someone could explain it
don't you feel the same way?


[ Unless there's some REALITY-WARPING FOR DUMMIES series he's missing out on. ]
counteracts: (on their shoulders)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-23 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
hmmm

[No... quantum physics wasn't really his strong suit.]

alright, no, probably not
but I think I'd still want the benefit of the doubt up until that point


[There's always a chance.]
sparsity: (104.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
if we had any of that to start with
we probably wouldn't have fruit with faces so suddenly


[ JUST SAYIN ]
counteracts: (held by the strongest arms)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-24 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[... A POINTED PAUSE

...]


fruit are smiling at me, micah, don't bring logic into this

[jeez.]
sparsity: (190.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-24 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ you cannot imagine the stainlessness of his smile right now ]

i know
it's not your fault
counteracts: (surrendering so that my evils will amend)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-24 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[no, you see, the problem is, he can imagine it, and it's even worse]

right
no, we have jim to thank for that, assuming


[Assuming an app company had any kind of hand in something like this, but, well, it was a little too conspicuous of a coincidence otherwise.]
sparsity: (072.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-24 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONAL PROBLEM ]

he does seem really proud of them
counteracts: (of burdens gone)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-24 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[you're his personal problem, micah]

I don't know why
they barely look like they have any work put into them. might as well actually made them look higher quality


[. . . wait]

wait, no, nevermind, fuck, I take it back

[NOW HE'S HAUNTED WITH VISIONS OF APPLES WITH PHOTOREALISTIC FACES]
sparsity: (200.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-24 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ that's sweet ]

maybe it's because it was all of them at once
you're responsible for thinking of them that way now though


[ ALL YOU BUDDY ]
counteracts: (we are all of the beauty)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-24 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[something like that]

are you really suggesting it was time limitations that made all of them look like they were made by a sugar-hyped kid loosed into MS paint

[Because that actually might be feasible, even though he doesn't want to believe it.]

nah, I'm just going to keep on blaming jim

[The epicenter of this mess.]
sparsity: (053.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-27 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
i guess so
i'm hearing that peeling them works


[ JUST AS AN FYI ]

do you think jim knew that?
counteracts: (everybody there ain't no great harm)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-27 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[if only you could see his look of abject horror

A moment later:]


how in the hell do you think skinning them alive is any better

["Alive" is a relative term, but it's that eerie facsimile which is causing the problems in the first place.]

knew what exactly

[They've got fruit-flaying, blame-throwing, and poor artistic quality on the table here so he wants to make sure he's thinking of the right thing.]
sparsity: (012.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ hey don't shoot the messenger it's not like he's gone on a skinning spree

yet
]

that there aren't any faces underneath

[ LUCKILY HE IS A WEIRD LITTLE WELL OF PLANT KNOWLEDGE ]

anyway we don't know if they're alive
flowers move because of hormones
counteracts: (painted with passion)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-29 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a horror movie script buried in here, somewhere.]

well, yeah, that's... the same for humans, too

[Unnecessarily macabre, but there isn't; not what a person would usually describe as one, anyway.]

I feel like it's more... the principle of the thing, not the semantics
if a flower had a face and started dancing I wouldn't want to rip it apart either
sparsity: (113.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-29 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ he actually hums out loud (thinking at least humans would still have mouths and eyes —) ]

you're a really kind person aren't you
counteracts: (six men strong)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-29 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[people wouldn't really think of a head with those and sans skin as having a face but perhaps this is yet another grappling point of semantics

He's stayed for a moment, a little surprised at the sudden acuity of the statement. He isn't really sure how to respond tone-wise, let alone if he actually agreed or not.]


if not wanting to tear apart things that have faces and move qualifies me, yeah, I guess so

[His feelings on the matter are far more complicated than that. But this is a public network.]
sparsity: (228.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ A minute or so later, Micah sends a single picture of his kitchen's countertop. There are three apples, two oranges, a lemon, and a handful of limes all laid out, faces forward. Smiling and wiggling like a little conga line.

Safe and sound.
]
counteracts: (carry me softly)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-29 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He assumes the line of conversation was over, with the delay, so the picture surprises him. Pleasantly so, though. He laughs.

It takes a few more minutes for construction, but he replies with an image of his own: six apples, arrayed on one another like they were making a human pyramid. With the limbs and the wide smiles, they looked like they were having a great time.

A few more moments.]


but seriously
if you want to eat them, go for it


[He'll find ways to deal if need be.]
sparsity: (220.)

[personal profile] sparsity 2017-03-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
i told you
i'll wait


[ So sue him, he likes playing devil's advocate in the meantime a little bit. ]
counteracts: (i always wondered how far we could go)

[personal profile] counteracts 2017-03-29 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Boorish, yet honorable.]

alright then