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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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[complementing]

I know it doesn't make any sense at all but try it and you'll see show this app to anyone on the street and explain to them what it is and they won't even blink in your direction

[matchbreaker]

Very well, I will.

[ . . . . Eight minutes later: ]

That *still* does not make sense! And you've been experiencing this for longer than this, with *myself* ignorant?

[complementing]

don't feel too bad about it worse that you get brought into the beta test and then go back to being a normal citizen, imo anyways we still don't know how it's possible and I kind of doubt we ever will the best we can do is collaborate now that everyone is in this together!

[matchbreaker]

Wait, that's possible? People simply forget this?

[complementing]

it happened with one of my best friends yeah

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Oh. That's. Rough.

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Alright, and so we are then a community who suffers under Mr. Halloway's tests and absurdities?

[complementing]

something like that, yup! so we might as well get to know each other and all that stuff, right? Friendship in solidarity!

[matchbreaker]

[ Wow, upbeat. ]

What other absurdities have you had to endure before now, then? I suppose I needn't introduce myself, given the username.

[complementing]

[Run now.] hmm let's see, there was that time the app broadcasted a lot of our secrets in public the time fruit got faces and started dancing on their own not to mention the visions we get! aw you don't HAVE to but I'd still like you to, makes it seem like a normal conversation instead of the app forcing our hand, you know? I'll go first! Nice to meet you, I'm Minako Arisato!

[matchbreaker]

And I am Elda Marker, charmed.

[ . . . Man, all of those-

Dancing fruit.

She frowns. ]

What visions are these?

[complementing]

it depends from person to person some people think we're seeing past or future lives other people think we're just seeing hallucinations or subconscious dreams

[matchbreaker]

[ Past or... future lives... What the fuck. ]

And an app is somehow the cause of this.

What do you make of them, Minako?

[complementing]

at first I thought they were just hallucinations, but after seeing more and more visions, I'm starting to lean towards the idea that another Minako exists I dunno if that's the idea they want to plant in our heads, or if another Minako actually exists, or if it's just another way to mess with us, but either way the visions are pretty intense they're not something you can easily ignore

[matchbreaker]

[ Another Minako? Huh. ]

Why would they want to bother with that, it seems so absurd. But if I can't ignore them, I suppose I soon shall see.

[complementing]

your guess is as good as mine Elda! honestly I don't know if it can be avoided but I hope you don't get hit with anything terrible right off the bat and if you do, well! You know where to come and vent (◡‿◡✿)

[matchbreaker]

[ She almost, almost corrects her to "Ms. Marker" - based on the girl's profile picture she's closer to her son's age than her age. But then, if they're all comrades in this, it's not the hugest deal ever. ]

How soon do they start showing up? Are they more like dreams or actually hallucinations?

[complementing]

[into the overflow we go~]