backdated to 4/12, welcome to ultimate nerd hell

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes shared a photo. April 12 near Recolle

There's got to be at least one comics nerd on here. Someone explain to me what all these old comics are supposed to be, and why they all have me in them. And before you say "just google it," I did and I couldn't find anything. I have no idea where Retrospec dug these up from. Also, I've got one free ticket to the shooting range I'm willing to share. The only catch is you have to be 18+ and willing to take me too. Let me know if you're interested.

((To view the comics in larger size/more detail, click here. There was no way i was gonna manage to embed that in a DW post. EDIT: also i added a bit to this post at 4/17 11:38 EST because I was a dumbass who forgot to include it originally, sorry for any possible confusion! ))

Comments

[true_noir]

I don't know. I am watching for signs of it disappearing, but it hasn't quite yet and I've been dealing with it for a few weeks now.

We will see.

[frostythehitman]

I figured all the changes were permanent--fruit, hallucinomemories, and parkour included. You think it could all be temporary?

[true_noir]

For the moment, everything seems permanent, but at the same time I don't know whether to trust them about that, or to trust the situation. People have disappeared off the app and returned to normal, remembering nothing of horses, and without strange powers.

Who is to say what is possible here?

[frostythehitman]

I didn't know people could leave this app. I thought it was like a Hotel California type situation, but with social media.

And let me guess: we don't have a choice in whether we disappear off the app or not.

[true_noir]

I didn't until relatively recently, and to this day none of us that I've spoken to know how it happened. But, since we didn't control how we got onto it, why should we control our departure?

[frostythehitman]

Makes about as much sense as anything else on this app. You don't get to do or decide anything, Retrospec does it all for you, including giving you powers or kicking you out.

[true_noir]

And for that reason, the urge to investigate them and find out what they are really after just mounts that much more, but in the end it is very easy for us to run in circles. Almost like that's their intention, isn't it?

[frostythehitman]

You say it like it's a question.

They're obviously messing with us just for fun. It just makes me want to find them that much more and make them answer for all the crap they put us through.

[ He originally typed 'and punch them' but then decided he probably shouldn't make possible-threats to them over their own network. ]

[true_noir]

I'll agree it's the most likely reason, and personally I really want to punch Jim in the nose.

Hard.

[frostythehitman]

If you find him, tell me. I gotta be there to punch him in the nose too.

[true_noir]

I do believe that a great many people are now waiting in line to break his nose. They will never be able to set it right at this rate, no doubt.

[frostythehitman]

Good. Let him have a crooked nose, he deserves it. Him and Janet both, and whoever else works there.

[true_noir]

I will forgive their janitor. Janitors have terrible jobs anyway, and are usually not responsible for higher up decisions. But that is all I feel forgiving of.

[frostythehitman]

Okay, fine: anyone who works there and actually does stuff relating to the app and messing with us. Janitors are okay.

Not the electricians or building maintenance people, though--they're probably the ones changing the building around all the time and hooking up the door buzzers and that junk.

[true_noir]

Oh yes, that is an entirely different matter. After what happened with those colored stones, I have no sympathy for whoever put them out there. Broken noses are in their future as well.

[frostythehitman]

You're not the first person to mention those stones. What happened with them?

[true_noir]

When you touched them, they made you insanely homesick and you fled the building. They were in these glass tubes, and were the only things in the office the last I visited. We had to write a "Mad Lib" to get into the building, and when we left, reporters accosted us about what we'd written.

Surreal doesn't begin to describe that day.

[frostythehitman]

I heard about wanting to leave the building, I didn't realize that's what the rocks were doing. And reporters? Jeez, why didn't more people mention this?

All I heard about was wanting to leave the building and something about mad libs.

[true_noir]

I don't think most of them actually broke the glass to touch the rocks, and really, most of us tried very hard to forget the reporters. I think a lot of us don't really like getting into the details of Retrospec's building because none of it actually makes sense.

[frostythehitman]

Yeah, I get it. I was in that building earlier this month too, and it was totally different then too.

But we're not gonna figure out what's going on unless we do get into the details. I bet Retrospec is banking on us not noticing the little things to sneak crap past us.

[true_noir]

One must assume that they have to be sloppy somewhere, given how they behave. It is probably our only real chance at learning something legitimately worth learning, isn't it?

[frostythehitman]

We just have to keep doing all this until they finally slip up.
Even if it means failing a thousand times over first, which is bullcrap.

[true_noir]

It takes a certain amount of time to really get your head around failing repeatedly as one step closer to the final victory. But, yes. They have to beat us down every time they play their games with us, but in the end we only really need to beat them once to finish the job, don't we?

[frostythehitman]

Like a game of rock paper scissors.

[true_noir]

Hmmm, I've never played, but I think I know enough. Something like that.