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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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[injectors]

Dear Jim,

I've found a wikihow entry that you may find quite useful, as well. I would suggest you read over it while on surveillance duty.

Sincerely,
- Angel Dawes

[AND LATER:]

Why can't I get rid of this application? The mishmash of different social media is somewhat... over the top.

[notyourutopian]

Hah. If only he'd listen.

Can't get rid of it. Can't uninstall it. It'll show up on every electronic you own capable of having an app.

[injectors]

That doesn't make sense. It's one thing to design an application that tailors itself to suit to your tastes. But to have it install itself on all your devices is unheard of.

[notyourutopian]

And yet.
There it is.

It installed itself on my smarttv.

[biellmann]

You can't get rid of it. We're stuck like this for now.

[injectors]

So I've been told. This makes me wonder - why such an aggressive closed beta?

[biellmann]

[ she's going to pretend she's sure of what a closed beta is, but she isn't ]

Obviously whatever they're doing is something they shouldn't. So they need to force it on people. If it's not that it's really fishy anyway.

[originallutece]

Frankly, I'd prefer a chatty stalker over a silent one. At least we're aware of his attentions now.

[injectors]

There is an idiom, isn't there? Better the devil you know. Though I don't believe this is the use they originally had in mind.

[originallutece]

Oh, it's an adaptable little idiom.

You're Jack Dawes' daughter, aren't you?

[daemonized]

Now then, let's not give Jim more credit than he deserves. Too little too late where silence is concerned; let us allow him to make a fool of himself.

(And this application cannot be deleted from one's phone, I'm sorry to say. You're stuck with the lot of us now.)

[injectors]

I would prefer he doesn't make a fool of himself where we're all forced to watch. [Fudge you, Jim, is what she's saying.]

I'm sorry. It's not that I mind the company, but for how long has this situation been on-going?

[daemonized]

Subtlety is lost on poor Jim. You should have seen his marriage proposal video.

It started appearing on everyone's phones in February. Since then, all manner of ridiculousness has plagued us.

[flyguy]

Giving you an heads up: don't tell your grandparents about this.

[Cause raisins. May or may not be told to lay off the drugs for bringing this up to his lawyer. NO NEED TO KNOW WHAT ANGEL'S GRANDPARENTS MIGHT SAY.]

Been to your [house/apartment/dorm/IDK WHERE ANGEL LIVES] today?

[injectors]

Is there a particular reason I shouldn't, Uncle Tony?

[Besides......... the tech gap between one generation to the other. She also lives in an apartment, so.]

No. Not since I left earlier this morning, I'm afraid.

[flyguy]

To spare me your grandfather calling me up and chewing me out for turning your head with my sinner books for one. Two, I think your dad has the emotionally beside himself with worry aspect covered. No need to rope them into it till we have an idea of what we're dealing with.

[He's got a pretty good poker persona. Somehow "I don't want them to call you crazy" just seems less fit for sharing. Cause, you know, that's something that'd actually make him angry and not this other stuff.]

If I send someone over to your place to sweep for hidden cameras on a scale of 1-10 how big do you consider that a breach of personal autonomy? You know. Wondering for a novel I'm writing.

[hjack69]

hey sweetie quick question
do you remember horses
you know the four leggy running things

[injectors]

Yes. Of course I

[An abrupt break in the text, like she hit send too early. A few seconds later—]

Wait.

Dad, what happened to horses?

[OF ALL THE TIMES TO CALL HIM DAD.]

[hjack69]

[ IT STILL TOUCHES HIS HEART TBH?? 1 dad point obtained. score. ]

they turned into giant chickens honey
i mean its actually kinda funny if you think abt it?
like go look at that portrait of napoleon on his horse bc hes on a chocobo now
or every still life painting of fruit ever having faces

its been weird