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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.

Comments

[rosettareflected]

Ah, but just because they can, doesn't mean they will? Maybe killing all humans isn't actually their goal? Perhaps it's just that they want to be the dominant social media app and will do anything to achieve that goal?

[Even if this topic isn't much better, Alicia recognizes she started on a terrible one.]

[strongestheart]

Toppling Facebook and Twitter doesn't seem worth this much effort! If they have enough money to do all this crazy stuff they could just buy them!

[rosettareflected]

Facebook is worth quite a bit. So is Twitter. These kinds of PR stunts might help with such a thing, assuming we survive them, but I'm not sure where they fit in.

[strongestheart]

I'm just trying to think of easier ways of doing things besides making our lives a living nightmare.

Maybe if I suggest something good Jim will pass it along.

Probably not, because Jim is a creepy stalker.

[rosettareflected]

If you never explore the horrible things your network can get away with, how will you ever know how far your users can and will go?

I wouldn't trust Jim to notice any particularly good ideas. I expect he has other priorities.

[strongestheart]

Yeah, that seems just about in line with them so far.
Just. Taken to the extreme.

Those other priorities apparently being a super creep.

[rosettareflected]

Everything involving Retrospec has been taken to the extreme. The beads, the fears, the animal names, the fruit, nothing has made sense and everything has been weird.

Jim being a creep is almost refreshingly normal in comparison!

[strongestheart]

If that's normal, maybe I do want weird.

[rosettareflected]

I concur. For our own safety, I'm going to encourage things be unusual across the board. There are limits, but the mundane carries its own risks.

[strongestheart]

As always, I suppose it COULD be worse.

[dammit, Maya]

[rosettareflected]

Please don't tempt fate, Maya. I like all of my limbs where they are.

[strongestheart]

...I don't suppose it's too late for me to take that one back.

[rosettareflected]

Just a touch, yes. It's okay, we'll work off the negative karma somehow.

[strongestheart]

With my luck I'll have to work double time.

[rosettareflected]

It could be worse. You could be working alone. Together, it'll be fine, and we can stand against whatever comes. Whether that's creepy Retrospec employees or weird goings-on.