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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. 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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[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara True, humans are the ultimate unknown factor.
Tatsuo Kihara The more people they add, the more resources we have. Sooner or later, they'll make a mistake.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I'd say they've already made a mistake.
Hitori Togusa They've dragged half of Officer Izunia's family into this; they're lucky he hasn't blown the front door off their precious headquarters yet.
Hitori Togusa Some of us understand restraint. Others... Well. Don't.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara That would be rather fun to watch, Officer Izunia storming the building.
Tatsuo Kihara Who convinced him to keep his sidearm holstered? You?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Me? Ahaha no. He respects me, but I dont think I'd make a blip on his radar when he's pissed.
Hitori Togusa I'd look to the elder Izunia on that one. Have you ever met Professor Ardyn?

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Not personally, but Ardyn rings a bell.
Tatsuo Kihara I think I had a friend doing law who had him. They seemed a touch scared of him.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Yeah, Professor Izunia talks a hell of a talk, but, well, if he pays attention to you, it means he sees something.
Hitori Togusa I took classes with him for two years, and then I met Fynn after the Academy? That took some getting used to.

Hitori Togusa Point being that we've got plenty of resources both inside and outside of the Department to tackle this now.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Ah, one of those professors. We had a couple of those in the science department.
Tatsuo Kihara Right. Should be an interesting challenge.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa That's certainly one way to look at it.
Hitori Togusa Remind me, what's your specialty? There is certainly a lot of information that can be passed around.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Latent prints, but I also some trace and ballistics.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Oh hey!
Hitori Togusa Did I mention the strange packages? Maybe I forgot the strange packages. Retrospec has been sending us stuff in the mail. Ranging from books and clothing to weaponry.
Hitori Togusa Next time something shows up, you mind if I send it by you to try to get prints off it?

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara No, no you did not. That is almost as weird as the whole memories thing.
Tatsuo Kihara Sure, send it my way. I might just make myself available if others want their 'packages' looked at.

[standalonehuman]

[On his end, Togusa bursts out laughing.]

Hitori Togusa See, you say it like that and now I start wondering if you're the one that nailed Sergeant Furugawa.
Hitori Togusa Gotta critique your taste in men if so.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Oh hell no. Interoffice relationships are a nightmare.
Tatsuo Kihara Besides, Furugawa is definitely not my type.

[mostly because he likes girls, but he knows protesting too much just makes you look more suspicious]

[standalonehuman]

[See, he gets how this works. Togusa would completely stop accusing officer Izunia if his reactions weren't so completely over-the-top every time he did it.]

Hitori Togusa So. Rumor has it that somebody in the Department did. And it's not actually any of my business. And given the gender ratio of the Department? I don't want to be the one to out the guy.
Hitori Togusa Except that he was a complete jackass to a friend of mine. And I'm pretty sure Furugawa leveraged his position here to get more information to make the guy's life hell.

Hitori Togusa Maybe I should just add my name to the "wasn't me" list and let it go. But I dont want to.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Wow, that would have been extremely unprofessional of him. Unethical too, probably.
Tatsuo Kihara You're a good man Togusa. I'd feel the way you do, if someone messed with a friend of mine.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I appreciate you saying so.

[But how come he doesn't feel like he's a good man right now? Ugh, maybe he does have to be a grownup about this. Things sound far more reasonable when he's not talking to Dante.]

Hitori Togusa But there's that loyalty to the badge thing mixed in with it. I'd be a lot quicker to call this out if it weren't another one of 'us,' you know?

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara I suppose there are those of us in law enforcement who want to believe we're all inherently honest. So when something comes up that might prove otherwise, we pause because we want to be 100% absolutely sure before ruining the camaraderie of the group with accusations.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Yeah. And I'm definitely in that group. I trust everybody in the Department. Izunia or Juzo can be hot-heads, but they'll knuckle down when things are actually serious. The examples go on and on.
Hitori Togusa I don't want to make it seem like I'm singling the guy out because he's not in the field with us, either. But, no, I can't just let this stand.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara That's how I feel about the people in the lab. I'd be pretty mad if I found out one of them was doing something to tarnish the integrity of the lab.
Tatsuo Kihara Hey, if he was abusing his position, that's not something you can just let slide.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa ......Damn it all.
Hitori Togusa Yeah, I'll talk to him. Like an adult, no sniping at him from afar or trying to get back at him.
Hitori Togusa If this starts a shitstorm, I deserve it, but I should only ask him about what is actually my business, abuse of power, instead of fraternization, even though I am dying to know who it is.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Heh, this is one of those things about being an adult that never gets easier. Being professional when it would be much more fun to be petty.
Tatsuo Kihara I think everyone is dying to know, but are too well mannered to come out and say it.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Thanks. I really mean it.
Hitori Togusa I might try to keep the results quiet, but who knows?

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara It depends on how severe the infraction was.
Tatsuo Kihara But if you happen to be muttering to yourself as you walk through the lab, I won't tell anyone.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa If I start coughing and it sounds suspiciously like 'Izunia,' it's just allergies, I swear.

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Hah! Just don't go sneezing on the evidence.