[2] joint post!

[covenantal]

Hi, everyone. Shirogane-san and I had an idea we wanted to approach the rest of you with. We were discussing the impact Retrospec seems to have on its users, and what we might be able to find out about that connection.

Thank you, Narukami.

Through all of the memory issues facing us, there seems to be one constant: the presence or absence of the Retrospec app. Those with the app on their phones have a certain memory, those without it have another. Logically, only one group can be right. Either horses and faceless fruit once existed, or they never have. One group has had its memories tampered with. Either Retrospec is the cause of this tampering, or it is inoculating us to it.

With that in mind, we’d like to ask for volunteers to cease all usage of Retrospec for one week. We know it’s a lot to ask, but no other normal activities should be restricted.

Indeed. And as a further control group, we’d like some other volunteers to refrain from using their phone at all during this time period-- this way, we can isolate if it is Retrospec, something else on our technology, or this hypothesis is completely false.

We don’t have any compensation that we can offer you for this experiment other than the possibility of answers. We hope this is compelling enough on its own, though if you insist on some kind of payment, we’ll try to think of something.

Knowledge is, ideally, its own reward. But yes. Something.

Let us know if you have any questions, and, of course, if you’d like to volunteer. Thanks for your time.

( ooc: you can check out ooc information about this post right on over here! in short, nothing will actually happen as a result of staying off the network. anyway, both yu and naoto will be responding to replies here! )

Comments

[tokencanadian]

As much as I'd like to be a part of this little experiment, I'm one of those people that needs their phone.
and my laptop.
and the app is on both.
And school is just finishng up

[truedetective]

Yes. There are quite a few people in your boat. Understandable, if unfortunate.

[tokencanadian]

Sorry!

That really is unfortunate. Then again, I would expect it.
But maybe the Retrospect people would expect that too.

[truedetective]

If they're intentionally doing this, I can't imagine they don't.

[tokencanadian]

If they're intentionally doing ANYTHING this would be a good place to start considering the idea.
Then again, our world's about as connected as it's ever been. That could be taken advantage of.

[truedetective]

True. We walk around with computers in our pockets and feed all of our information to them.

It's a very obvious vector of attack.

[tokencanadian]

isn't technology great?
It lets your life be ruined so much more efficiently now.

[covenantal]

We know it's hard for students. Thank you for considering it. If you know of anyone else who might be able to volunteer, we'd appreciate it.

[tokencanadian]

I would definitely pass this along... if any of my friends from home were a part of this network.
Or knew it existed. Makes talking about it pretty difficult.

[covenantal]

It's strange who knows and who doesn't, isn't it? I spoke to someone who knows of the network, but his twin sister doesn't. Sometimes I wonder how we're chosen, if we were specifically chosen at all.

[tokencanadian]

They said we were the "lucky chosen" to test out this app for the first time.
Who knows how "lucky" we could be.

[covenantal]

Right. What makes us lucky? Is there some kind of criteria for that or is it random? ┐(´ｰ｀)┌ That's what I'd really like to find out at some point.

[tokencanadian]

It might not be lucky in the popular sense.
sarcasm doesn't translate well over text

[covenantal]

I get what you meant. ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ I still wonder what defines lucky - or unlucky, as the case may be.

[tokencanadian]

How else can you describe suddenly changing eye color, or getting weird memories?

Remembering things about horses doesn't exactly sound like a normal chosen one's start though.