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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

[esperimental]

As my guardian said, it seems a very pointless change. Some of the people are more sensitive about it than we are, I'm more bothered by the fact they might knock things over.

[sparsity]

eating things with faces isn't for me
so i understand a little bit

do you have a really deep bowl
that did the trick

[esperimental]

It might be because I've already seen so many cute advertised food where I'm from, that these aren't as cute as those ones... maybe it's more on the movement and immediate assumption that it meant they'd feel pain from being eaten.

As far as I can tell they don't really care. We'll try that next time.

[sparsity]

yeah? what kinds
if they're still fruit i wonder what makes them move
it can't be like other plants right...with hormones and ions

[ Micah may not be the most logical of people but he does Know a thing or two about his plants. ]

they don't jump so
they just wiggle a lot

[esperimental]

What come to mind are the decorated parfaits you're supposed to share with a date or something? And other cream or foam shiba and cats usually.
For the most part, the only movement fruits need to do is fall and get eaten to spread their own seeds, and that's by the grace of gravity, not their own manipulation. Maybe someone should test if they do something like sunflowers do, with audiences being their "sun".

[sparsity]

oh i know those



like this right
i guess it'd be weird if these started moving too...

sunflowers
so you mean to see if they have something like phototropism

[esperimental]

Retrospec better not take that as an idea, these ones are more legitimately art you don't want to ruin.

Yeah, pretty much. Except we're not emitting anything they need? Once they're formed that's already their purpose; really can't tell to what extent how conscious they are. Unless dinner and a show is the new mission.

[sparsity]

right
i still drink them but that would throw a wrench in it, probably

that's true
unless something about us is different too
but that's a lot harder to figure out

[esperimental]

Well there are the strangely vivid but not real(?) memories, hair and eye color changes and whatnot. One thing's for certain things will continue to change. I just hope now and then they'll decide to be better instead of

pointless.

[sparsity]

i haven't had anything weird like that happen yet
some people call them hallucinations
others go with memories

how do you think they could be better?

[esperimental]

I heard someone just go "hallucinomemories" too. It's legitimately hard to tell which it is between the legitimate words, it's troubling.

Well, I wouldn't complain if crops got bigger, or fishes to eat, easier sustenance for everyone. But on second thought, that might be harder toil for the ones who have to get them to begin with? Even if they wouldn't notice.

[sparsity]

that's true
even if it happened that way and it improved everyone's lives
the balance seems like it'd be really unnatural

[esperimental]

Maybe projected futuristic things? Teleportation devices? Flying cars? Ahh, people might look at us funny for not knowing how to use them right away, but it would be fascinating to literally go ahead of our times. But even then, it wouldn't be "ahead" anymore, everyone would think it's always been that way.

Hmm.

[sparsity]

it's weird being the only ones experiencing the differences
we didn't do this to ourselves, so
i wonder who wants us to remember

[esperimental]

Retrospec is no normal force to be reckoned with; I'd really like to avoid using it and get on with my life but it just won't leave us alone.

[sparsity]

[ heh ]

it's really bossy isn't it

[esperimental]

Being toyed around with like this really sucks. Makes me envy the blissful ignorance of everyone else.

[sparsity]

i guess so. i don't envy anyone
even if i could make it go away
i doubt i'd be able to just forget about it now

[esperimental]

Well, who knows. If new things can happen maybe new things can go away too.

[sparsity]

probably
either way it's still messing with our brains