loading...

[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting! You guys might like this wikihow. Later! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated 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. Characters who have been in game for more than one month will find they can change their profile pictures; newcomers are locked into their first choice. At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

Comments

[notyourutopian]

Trust me.
I know how you feel.
I was in bed in my pajamas when I got a picture of me.

This is a new level of creepy even for them.

[skald]

So this is exceedingly creepy, but what sort of things did they do before?

[notyourutopian]

Weird things, mostly.
Turned the horses into chocobos.
Made the fruit dance.
They were leaking 'secrets' from people at one point.
That one was pretty messed up too.

[skald]

So I noticed the fruit and the chocobos!

I mean, not before, but right now I definitely notice the fruit and the chocobos.

What happened with the secrets?

[notyourutopian]

So, were they normal for you until yesterday?
Or whenever you got the app?
CHocobos weren't weird, then suddenly, horses?

People received videos of themselves saying deep dark secrets.

[skald]

Honestly... yes? It's so strange to think about it because they're clearly wrong now, but I don't think I even spared them much thought until someone mentioned them today.

Thaaat's creepy. Like I'd get a video of me saying a secret?

[notyourutopian]

Huh. So it's like a switch went off in your head.

Yup.
It was pretty awful.

[skald]

I think so! Except it's hard to look back on how I was thinking at the time now that I know how wrong it is, you know? I think I want to start a diary in case something like this happens again-- like if I suddenly realize that... the sky is supposed to be yellow, or something. So there's something I can refer back to.

It sounds awful. Were they all real?

[notyourutopian]

I never thought I'd say I was lucky for having been in when everything started going odd but.
I suppose I was, in a way.
I keep a notebook of things that change and what I've investigated about retrospec.
Regular paper notebook so they can't just hack it somehow.
And please don't suggest that I do not want to live under a pee colored sky.

Mine was.
I didn't pry into other people's.

[skald]

Yeah, I want to do a paper notebook. And in my native language (Finnish) because I think the chances of someone trying to mess with it (or being able to mess with it) are lower.

Do you remember the actual point of time when everything changed? Or did you just wake up one day and realize it was wrong, you just realized it before I did?

Ahh yes that makes sense, sorry.

[notyourutopian]

Oh you're from Finland?
I always wanted to go there.

The language thing is a good idea.
It's a shame my French is still mostly oral...

For me.
Mm.
It was a little different because it happened to us.
Instead of you guys realizing it.
Like, the day before the parade, horses were horses.
And then at the parade, they were chocobos.
I think.

[skald]

[continued here!]