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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. This post is an overflow from the original post here. Feel free to either carry over threads from there or create entirely new ones.

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[cattack]

What is this?

I did not sign up for this, nor do I wish to be a part of it. Furthermore, these photographs are at best stalking and criminal harrassment. I will be taking evidence of this to the police to demonstrate the criminal activity of this bizarre 'social media'.

((New and continuations okay!))

john becket

[cattack]

((from here))

Are you not bothered by such things? Stalking and harassment, as well as illegally placing this program on our possessions?

overflow + still ota!

[ceded]

Aster Alyson Castle ummmm ok this is kind of creeping me out
Aster Alyson Castle who's taking pictures of us??? Thats weird
Aster Alyson Castle get a life???
Aster Alyson Castle why would there be secret meetings anyway thats even weirder and implies we have something to hide and i dont get why we would want to
Aster Alyson Castle this is creepy :(
Aster Alyson Castle i guess i just really want to know... whats the big deal about spying on us anyway? I mean, why does a social media app need to keep track of us in the first place?
Aster Alyson Castle even if we're super special beta users that seems like overkill

elda

[ceded]

( from here )

Aster Alyson Castle mhm
Aster Alyson Castle at least now i do
Aster Alyson Castle which is just.... MORE weird stuff, happening all at the same time
Aster Alyson Castle :/
Aster Alyson Castle i guess weird is probably an understatement

OVERFLOW FOR SOUJI SETA (AU ➟ SOUJI NARUKAMI)

[tarotcards]

Jim is absolutely right. We need to employ secret handshakes immediately along with code names. Please inform me of your handshake and name.

I will be Sir Purrsalot. My handshake will involve refusing to acknowledge you but then paw you for attention when you look away.

[ Souji absolutely knows that they're saying their code names online over the app, but he's just doing this for fun. ]

Also, can someone come over and help me tape a picture of a cat on my back? So at least when I'm receiving these images that I'm looking at something cute.

( Original comment! Still accepting new threads so hmu if you want some sweet sooj tags! )

➟ zoro

[tarotcards]

( original thread )

Too late. I've already turned it back on you.

OVERFLOW FOR FRANK CASTLE

[batches]

Yeah. That's real nice. Classy.

So if anyone doesn't feel safe or wants to be around other people and wants company, then my place is free. Or I'll be at the park. Jellybean needs a walk anyway.

PS: tell me that I didn't hallucinate the giant bugs last month because it's like no one seems to remembers they're around.

( Original comment! Still accepting threads for Frank as well so come at meeee )

➟ mohammed

[batches]

( original thread )

Think about taking him to a vet. Check if he's really all right.

Can't say that I'm surprised. Not after what happened that day. Now we got this app to deal with like the fun never ends.

new challengers welcome etc etc + continuations

[flyguy]

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

Glad to know I still look good from behind, but can't say the twenty other pictures were required, Clarence. So I'm assuming this is MKUltra's little brother for the modern individual. What's our code name? Something cool or are we the lame duck acronym of the illegal human experimentation family? By the way you will be hearing from my lawyer. I pay him a lot of money to be very intimidating. Have fun with that.

ELEANOR THE ODDLY ADORABLE

[flyguy]

(Previous thread)

You want an answer or do you want me to just link you a youtube clip?

And lobby's a start. Not an amazing start. But hey you got in the building. Every dream's gotta start somewhere. I'm guessing they threw the shock troops out for trespassing or some bunk?

[frilly]

Not that I'm not super freaked out about all this........ (I really am!!! Okay!! 😰😰)

but do you think I can use these pictures on social media? Some of them are kind of cute?? my hair looked really nice from behind today

((ooc: srry if this... multi-posts?? internet plz. ))

[obscultator]

Given that they're pictures of your own person taken entirely without your permission, I'd say you have the right to do whatever you please with them.

It's not as though our good friend Jim has room to object.

overflow for Karl come at him bro

[obscultator]

Karl Bergfried shared a photo. 5/1 near The Towers

Perhaps if you find your surveillance work to be too boring, you should hire better photographers. I would ask that those members of the Recollé Police Department who have been afflicted with this application look into how these photos are being taken, but I expect you already are. Is it too much to hope that these reprobates have left behind any evidence for once?

tony

[obscultator]

(from here)

Karl Bergfried At this point, between the mass hallucinations, overnight physical alterations, and inexplicably motile fruit, I don't even feel qualified to guess.
Karl Bergfried Small drones do seem like the most "plausible" explanation, for all that that's worth.

overflow + still ota!!

[covenantal]

I can't decide if I'm more annoyed with Jim for spying on everything we do, or more annoyed with myself for not coming up with elaborate secret codewords and handshakes sooner. I should get on that.

For those of you new to the app, feel free to ask those of us who have been using it from the start any questions you might have. Actually, I can answer one for you: it's always this weird.

Does anyone want to take bets on what it would take to get a personal response from Jim, or Janet?

tatsuma

[covenantal]

( from here )

Complicated.

Overflow, still OTA, etc

[long_live_the_queen]

Lucy Takada shared a photo. 5/1 near Birch Hills

You cut my head off you dumb fuck. Can't you do anything right?

Minako

[long_live_the_queen]

(Previous thread.)

overflow for toushiro hitsugaya (still ota)

[toushiro]

If you've installed the app into our phones with no way of deleting it, and you've installed security cameras watching our every move, perhaps you also have an ulterior motive other than just "testing out a new platform".

zaveid

[toushiro]

Of course it is. Nobody said it would be easy.

I'm going to see if getting a new phone will get rid of it.

[testgasm]

Right so

(and forgive me if someone’s brought this up before, just trying to get my bearings here)

Are we absolutely sure this is not some kind of incredibly sophisticated government surveillance mechanism? Because, honestly, this screams ‘incredibly sophisticated government surveillance mechanism'. I could run some diagnostics, maybe? If no one’s done that already? Because I'd rather not be spied on by the government, thanks.

I mean, I'm well aware that we are being spied on by the government and also various corporations, generally speaking, but if this is a new and improved way for them to go about it, I don’t really want it on my phone, you know? Downloads automatically, can’t get rid of it, no terms of service or anything. Is this a secret club, or something? Because I didn't consent to this. Are you selling my data?

It is pretty smart, though, all this. In a vaguely infuriating sort of way. Wish I’d thought of it.

(original post here. opens arms for new threads. continuations coming once the other post reaches captcha.)

[covenantal]

Would the government really want us to see their fruit-based marriage proposals?

Still, I don't see why you shouldn't run diagnostics. If you think it might be helpful, maybe we'll learn something.

[rosettareflected]

(« previous thread )

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.

(New threads are fine; I'll continue threads here once the other post fills up.)

[beastenderblood]

So like real talk guys

The bird thing was cool and while the fruit thing is terrible and I hate them its mostly harmless? The secret thing (which I assume was these guys???) was kind of freaky but mostly whatever

This picture taking thing is like

Legit terrifying and Im losing my mind????

[ Original post for posterity]

Wheatley

[beastenderblood]

Who'd want to keep boring old horses when we get feathered-horse friends

[strongestheart]

You know, after the secret blabbing on my phone and being chased several city blocks by reporters, I'm not surprised.

If us being boring gets you taken off surveillance duty, then you should know today is laundry day and I'm spending an hour folding socks soon.

[In her "memories" she'd recalled the other girl she was seeing the life of stating she wanted to protect everyone's smiles.

But you, Jim?

She'll make an exception for yours.]

Also, I'm 17. Stop it. That's creepy.

[OOC: Previous thread! New threads welcome, will be adding in overflow from the previous post here a little later on.]

Levy

[strongestheart]

[From here!]

Oh, sure! [She just hopes that not as many people got tangled up as many times as her.] It just doesn't help that resounding feeling that someone's out to get us.

...which might be the last thing you wanna hear first coming in here,
but, uh. Forewarned is forearmed...? (/^▽^)/

overflow + ota

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Look, if you want to follow me around town taking pictures of me from behind, that's your prerogative. But following me into the bathroom? That breaks the bro code, Jim.

[original post - new threads welcome! Will add overflows from original post as needed.]

[rollin]

you too?
I swear to god this guy's asking for it

[true_noir]

I'm terribly sorry, Jim, that we are not gifted at conspiracies to overthrow horrible people who seem to be changing our reality around our heads. By all means, keep taunting us about how boring we are. We may not be fast learners, but we are definitely learning.

Really, could someone please find this Jim person? I want to break his nose.

(OOC: New or continued, go for it!)

Malik

[true_noir]

(OOC: From here)

I sincerely hope he gets bored, but he's not exactly predictable. But, as you said, one way or another, I intend to find the silver lining. It would be a shame to waste the opportunity if I did not search for them.

minako arisato | ota post & overflow

[complementing]

so on a scale of quadruple layer that stuff to get the tin foil hat Minako

how much of a good idea would it be to tape over the camera on my phone and laptop

I'm sure Jim would find a way around it, perverts ALWAYS find a way

but anything to deter him, right?? (￣□￣;) even though I'll miss taking snapchats

also hi to all our newbies, I'm sure you have a lot of questions, so feel free to ask anything (￣^￣)ゞ

[Original post here.]

takumi

[complementing]

[continued from here]

just a little bit

anyways, first Terra and now you...at the rate we're going, pretty soon we might have the whole ReVA squad on here!

overflow

[impulsives]

Shin Asuka: I am all up for trying out new stuff in terms of social network, but fucking installing yourself into my phone with no way of removing it? This is sketchy af and I ain't having any of this.

Also, get your own secret meetings, Jim.

Tuuri

[impulsives]

[Continued from here! ]

Maybe because he's desperate. Desperation always causes people to do the dumbest shit after all.

(overflow, still OTA!)

[crushcard]

is anyone else receiving pictures of themselves from behind because I'm fairly certain there isn't a camera in my office

also I'm rather bothered by the fact that the coding for this app can't be altered no matter what I throw at it.

[ BONUS! feel free to ask about his display name, guys. He may be cagey about answering about why his name on Retrospec is displayed as Yamashiro Seto . ]

FAI

[crushcard]

I intend on working late tonight, actually

[ is that supposed to be an invitation? yes, no, maybe? ]

[voideity]

[ overflow from here, always open for more! ]

[ pasted in is a picture of a blonde girl with upswept hair above the shoulders aka obviously roxy if you know her, in one of her college classes. ]

ok there are important things to go hmm at here
like wtf jim did janet say yes are you just gonna leave us hangin you shitposting son of a gun
and i hate to be a cliche of some sort
but
first
is that really what my hair looks like from behind
like on a daily basis

yosuke

[voideity]

[ continued from here. ]

ok that was a rhetorical q lmao im a computer science major i know like
a thing or three
bout computer stuff
what is it youre lookin for
making a website or somethin??

Rosalind Lutece | Overflow!

[originallutece]

If you're so set on people being mysterious, you might let them change their real names. It rather loses the allure when everyone can see that the secret correspondence they're having is with their student.

[Continuation from here!]

for Jake English;

[originallutece]

You do know there's a backspace key, don't you, Mr. English?

Yosuke Hanamura

[youraffection]

[ Original Top-Level ]

> Yukiko

[youraffection]

oh hey that is pretty cool!
and i have a bass guitar!
maybe its a premonition?

oh well mine was just with souji i havent seen yu
but we were just talking yeah at this train station back in japan

overflow + still ota

[elevelvetor]

[ well this is. new. it's not as if she's against new apps or anything like that, and scrolling through the newest posts—it seems as if there's enough people wondering what's going on. or they seem to have an idea of it.

she makes a mental note to reply to them in a bit. for now though: ]

my, how fun.
i hope you are having a good time watching me roleplay! please don't tell anyone about the faces i make when i'm trying to figure out how to describe an expression my character wears.
oh, but since your pictures are from behind, i suppose you aren't paying attention to that.
never mind.

regardless. fellow retrospec users! hello. if you are having secret meetings, would it be possible to join a mailing list for it or something, to keep updated on what goes on there? i am a little interested in attending now that i am aware you all are having them, however i am
occupied
so to speak.

finally, thank you "jim" for the invitation. i would have liked to be notified beforehand, as well as pick out a name for myself--i believe "halloway legrande" would be a wonderful character to play on this thing--but i will take what i will get, i suppose.
perhaps you could install a paid feature for those of us that would like to change our usernames?
given your customer service nature, i doubt you will get back to me on this in any timely manner.

i suppose that is all i wanted to post. thank you for your time, everyone.
parting is such sweet sorrow!

[ original for posterity ]

NAOTO

[elevelvetor]

[ from here ]

the invasion of privacy to begin with, i suppose.
i admit i am leery of these people possibly stealing my character ideas, but it's hard to lay claim to one without a proper canon to patent.
but otherwise, it is the principle of the matter.

...though even if i did have something to conceal, speaking about it here would ruin the point of concealing it, wouldn't it?

overflow + one new prompt ota

[vendettastool]

[ Original one here. Also new prompt = Yoon-sung hacked the CCTV. ]

Yoon-sung Lee YAH! If you want a date just ask!
Yoon-sung Lee Just stop following mine!
Yoon-sung Lee Better yet, go find your long-lost love Steve and make beautiful meme babies together.
Yoon-sung Lee Also give me back my bodyguard this one is scary. He's smiling!

[ TWO HOURS LATER]
Yoon-sung Lee Thanks Jim. It's been two weeks since I had a date but you ruined it.
Yoon-sung Lee Let's see how you like being followed.

overflow + still ota!

[fittedgloves]

Exclusive or not, I'm not interested in this application.

That aside, I'm concerned about the surveillance. What's the purpose if it's just a social media network?

[ and a little later: ]

Is there some way to disable this? I'm not fond of receiving pictures of myself. I'd like no part in this.

wheatley

[fittedgloves]

Warping reality? That would explain some things but I don't know if I'm ready to believe that just yet.