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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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[originallutece]

Dare I ask why on earth you were outside without a shirt?

[flyguy]

I have a perfectly rational explanation, but first you didn't say if you like what you see.

Feeling a bit left in the cold here.

[originallutece]

If I say I do, you're going to get insufferable, and if I say I don't, you'll still be insufferable, albeit in an entirely different way. I'd hoped to bypass the issue entirely.

Rosalind plz stop him

[flyguy]

I'm being stalked by a guy named Jim. The last one at least called himself Alphonse. That wasn't his name, but it lent a certain

That's not the point. What I'm saying is I think I have the right to be insufferable today. Maybe tomorrow. Who knows, I'm kind of put out by this collection of dangerously hot pictures of myself I'm accumulating unasked for.

alas she doesn't have that power

[originallutece]

You're hardly the only one.

[Which is comforting, actually. It's nice to see someone else she knows on here, because at least they're in this together.]

How many have they taken so far?

I hear a bat does the trick... no I'm kidding laughs

[flyguy]

Looking like, hold on. Thirty-one and counting. Not sure if I should be making the Coppertone baby pose or something.

Have you ever even heard of this company before? I've got a few other questions for your simmering intelligence, but I'm figuring we can start with the basics and work our way up.

[originallutece]

I have, but not in any particular detail. I know there's a building downtown with the same general name, but beyond that, I don't know much about them. Have you?

[flyguy]

Never heard of them before today. Usually let my agent handle which social pitfalls I should be on. Remind me to tell you about the time I had an AMA on reddit.

[Spoiler: he was drunk and several memes may have spawned.]

So, since I haven't heard of them, and you've just seen the building, we can assume these are some small fry noobs trying to step into the field. Or, you know, 4chan as Fox news so helpfully tells me. Jim if you're watching this is the part where I suggest you work for Anonymous and we should be contacting Interpol.

That out of the way: anything else seem off to you today besides being stalked by Revenge of the Nerds?

[originallutece]

Not particularly, but I'll admit I've been in the lab and the classroom most of the day. Why?

[flyguy]

TONY CARTER shared a photo. 5/1 near CABIN ELEVEN

Not to be alarmist, but the pet walkers today are putting me off my drink.

[originallutece]

Bloody hell, where the hell have you been that you've been seeing such things?

[flyguy]

Tisse. But I'm going to take a guess and say they're all over the city.

I feel like I'm in an horror movie. Now I just need an extraterrestrial super predator to show up and start hunting us down one by one.

[originallutece]

As if I didn't have enough to worry about . . . how big, precisely, was that thing?

[flyguy]

Let's just say if a pomeranian and the beetle got in a fight the pomeranian would be punching above its weight class.

So we've established shady company we're not familiar with. Weird unexplained events. My question to you is: drugs or did we wake up from the Matrix?

[Yes. He is going to be a nerd about this. But hit him with the science Rosalind. You know that smart people stuff he never went to college for.]

[originallutece]

I'd prefer the former, but unless you've slipped Ecstasy into everyone's drink . . .

Truthfully, Tony, I don't know. I don't understand why this is the first time I'm hearing about it, nobody on the news seems to have reported anything, and I can't find anything online about it. It'd have to be some kind of mutation, and perhaps accelerated breeding, but I don't

And it's on a leash. Even assuming insects are being bred at 100x their size/sold as pets, surely that's something that someone would be talking about.

And now this. An app that installs itself, and takes pictures of us without anyone knowing. They've got to be connected somehow.

[flyguy]

Continuation!