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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
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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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What's happened?

Well, where do I even start? Do you remember what horses are, and that chocobos replaced them?

I know what a horse is. Is this like the fruits with faces?

[Why are there a bunch of weird birds in their place?]

It's exactly like that.

Let me guess, you didn't realize things had changed until you got access to this app?

[There's a pause.]

How did you know that?

It's been pretty consistent when it comes to new arrivals.

People with the app realize things are weird.
Correct?

Yeah. It's how we're sure the changes have something to do with the company behind Retrospec.

That's the same company with the empty building?
None of this makes sense.

There's a lot of mysteries, but once you think about it, connections start to form. It gives some semblance of structure to this madness if you think about it that way.

Have you figured anything out?

Their technology is pretty advanced, they have an unprecedented amount of power to observe us and monitor this app, and announcements like this one seem to happen every month.

Also, we get memories of other people's lives.

Some of that makes sense but it's still invasive.

Memories of other people's lives? What's that supposed to mean?

It's invasive even if it makes sense, really.

I mean, I remember things that never happened to me, but involve a girl who looks like me, and has her with different versions of people I know.

I haven't had anything like that happen.

It didn't happen for me at first,
either. It comes eventually though.

I don't need other people's memories.

I can relate to that feeling.
But they're unfortunately happening whether we want them to or not.

Then there's no way to avoid those either.

Not that I've been able to determine.

Though sometimes you get things that belonged to them too. Like an item.
The fruit with faces showed up like that first, in fact.

Something to prepare for.

Somebody owned a fruit with a face?
And then they inflicted it on everyone else?

Not by choice, I think. They got the fruit, and then suddenly it started to affect everything.

Is it like that for most things this company sends?

I think but I might have just not noticed anything else. We've had other changes though, I'm just not sure if they started that way.

The fruit and the chocobos are changes. But I've just noticed them.
So this app is how we realize?

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