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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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[rosettareflected]

I admit I am horribly concerned by the prospect of a local and dubious company spying on my daily life. It's one thing for it to be digital data collection, it's quite another to have my picture taken at random moments! This isn't surveillance duty, it's borderline stalking. And why is that the job of the R&D department, anyway? Don't you have better things to do than apparently stand on the corner and peer into tinted windows?

[Attached: a picture of a barely-visible silhouette of Alicia through a dark window of a black luxury car, plates blacked out.]

I have no desire to change my life for your amusement, Mr. Halloway. Leave me and mine alone. I don't appreciate being watched, and my patience with your shenanigans grows thin. I'm certain I'm not alone in that sentiment.

[strongestheart]

That's kind of the thing, I'm

I'm pretty sure

They DON'T have anything better to do.

[rosettareflected]

Maya, we just dumped a whole suggestion box on them the other day so they'd stop breaking our phones. One would think they'd be hard at work having something to show for it.

[strongestheart]

Counterpoint: My suggestion here makes sleeping at night much easier.

[rosettareflected]

Which suggestion? The sock thing? Because I feel like they'd just be watching your socks at that point.

[strongestheart]

No, that they don't have anything better to do.

I don't have to imagine that they're, like.

Monitoring our patterns and likenesses to create a mass of killer androids bent on wiping out humanity in our image

oh no

now i've done it

i thought about it

[rosettareflected]

Maya? They already know how to shock us through our phones. They can just kill humanity that way.

...uh, I'm sorry, that probably wasn't very reassuring.

[strongestheart]

Continued here!

[clear_eyes]

Not pulling punches today, are we Alicia?

[rosettareflected]

Not in the slightest. There are limits, and this rather markedly crosses them. It's one thing to do things that can be passed off as phone glitches. It's quite another to invade our privacy this brazenly.

[clear_eyes]

It's just so weird seeing this more openly hostile side of you. Not saying it's bad, mind you.

[rosettareflected]

It's disturbing. It makes me uncomfortable to have something like this happening I can't stop. It's always something, isn't it? We can't just have quiet, simple lives.

[clear_eyes]

Yeah. It's one thing if it were the consequence of being a public figure, but Retrospec doesn't seem to care about that.

[rosettareflected]

When was the last time Retrospec cared about anything that negatively impacts us, realistically?

[clear_eyes]

I think it cares, Alicia, just not about in ways that benefit us. More like in the same way a scientist cares about what happens to the rats in its maze.

[rosettareflected]

So we're just research materials, then? To be used and then discarded? I don't appreciate being used as someone's toy, and I appreciate it even less when there are stakes like this.

[clear_eyes]

[ooc - Continued here.]