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[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.

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[daemonized]

Perhaps it is unrelated. But maybe it isn't. Some items are related to the memories. It's another level of worrying when the notion has been given physical form -- through the post, moreover.

[roseblooms]

Related to the memories? What do you mean by that, exactly?

[daemonized]

A friend of mine received items through the mail recently, all from Retrospec. One of them aligned with what he had experienced in one of his memories. A weapon of sort.

[He ignores the fact that the item in question was... sci-fi wrist blasters. A frivolous detail for now.]

[roseblooms]

...I hope you're not suggesting that this app is reading our thoughts.

[daemonized]

There are more fantastic theories floating around, you know. Mind-reading is tame in comparison. Alternate universes, past lives, et cetera. I feel as if anything is fair game at this point.

[roseblooms]

Plenty of cultures have subscribed to reincarnation beliefs over the years, but I think alternate universes are still fairly recent in comparison, and mostly the product of science fiction.

What basis have people found for a theory of alternate universes?

[daemonized]

Oh, certainly. But many here were not so willing to subscribe to this idea, at least not until Retrospec appeared and became keen on giving us existential crises.

[Is he exaggerating on the existential crisis part? Maybe. Is it something that might actually come to a head in the future if all of this keeps up? Probably.]

There is no basis, only speculation. The idea that some have been seeing impossible things -- magic and monsters, what-have-you -- is more easily rationalized when you discard the fact that it happened to them specifically. A glimpse into another person's life is easier to parse, even if one has to rely on the notion of getting a glimpse into an alternate universe.