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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.

Comments

[sotenbori]

That's why I said the thing about the code! If we could just come up with a way that we knew, and then even if it got caught in a picture they wouldn't be able to know right away.

[true_noir]

I've read about something called the Caesar cipher. It's a simple substitution cipher, the sort of thing that children use nowadays. It isn't especially hard to crack if you know it's being done, but it could confuse someone not really paying attention.

I was thinking of putting in an order with oriental trading for some decoder rings to pass around. You know, so people could do that.

[sotenbori]

[ majima nods. there's no way to stop anyone from figuring out a cipher if they really wanted to, he figures, but that's a good start.]

That's not a bad idea.

[true_noir]

It might do very little, but if it helps us for even a moment, it's something. [She shrugged.] At the very least, it will feel as if I am doing something, and sometimes what we really need is the feeling that we aren't just sitting idly by, at least until we actually find a way to oppose them.

[sotenbori]

Right, it'd only get frustratin', otherwise.

[and with how long chloe said the retrospecters been noticing this stuff, majima can imagine it's getting to be that way.]

[true_noir]

Believe me. It gets frustrating even still, and it's easy for us to get a little pessimistic about our odds. But we do what we can. I'm kind of on the stubborn side when it comes to this. I refuse to give up.

[sotenbori]

I like that attitude!

[ they're going to need people like that, that's for sure. ]

Besides, Jim can't even read a map he's got nothin' against all of us with our heads combined.

[true_noir]

Let us hope that Janet isn't much more skilled. [She let herself laugh a little.] After all, she's the one who seemed to assign him to handle PR. How could she possibly think that was a good idea?

[sotenbori]

Maybe Janet is workin' with us, but from the inside.

[ he feels an affinity for her after roleplaying with ardyn, whoops. ]

[true_noir]

Oh, I think you're being far far too hopeful there. [She laughed.] But maybe we will find an inside person one day? Who knows? I think it would be too easy to hope for already.

[sotenbori]

Janet's a strong girl.

[you dont know anything about her majima]

[true_noir]

[She chuckled.] She is something certainly. But, I think I need to be going to get back to work. Perhaps we will speak again soon? You should have my contact information, yes?

[sotenbori]

Yeah -- thanks for meetin' up with me.

[ especially since she took time out of work, whoops ]

Let me know if there's anythin' I can do.