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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

[true_noir]

No, they really are not going to be making it any easier, but by now I think we are all starting to get prepared for that fact. Whether or not they look stupid on the surface, they've proven to be very difficult to find secrets of. That does not mean we intend to give up, I don't think.

Good luck to you too, though, however you choose to respond to them.

[commandertoolbelt]

there’s no way i’m giving up now that they’ve dragged my brother into this

let me know if you find anything helpful?

[true_noir]

I understand completely. It may take some time, but I think you already know it. If you happen to learn anything, I would appreciate knowing as well.

[commandertoolbelt]

i’ll be sure to tell you if i find anything
but maybe we should look into encrypting this stuff anyway
god forbid jim get bored with us

[true_noir]

Perhaps we should consider something like that. I'm loathe to speak of such things on the app, though. For I think obvious reasons.

(OOC: But if you want to assume Leo picks up a decoder ring off of her, she'll be happily giving them out in a few days. Encryption on the cheap!)

[commandertoolbelt]

yeah, i get it
might be time to go back to snail mail until we figure something out

(ooc: you betcha he’ll be nabbing one!)

[true_noir]

Or notes left on doors. There is certainly some validity to using it. This is convenient, but it's also being watched. The only real downside is that you have to plan, assuming it will take time.

[commandertoolbelt]

well if you take those creepshots into account, we’re being watched, too
don’t ask me how they got those but we should probably keep it in mind
cause, like, if they can stalk us, wouldn’t they be able to read a note on someone’s door?

[true_noir]

In theory yes, though how often they're watching us, or if they need the phone to do it isn't clear. They're not exactly forthcoming about what they're really able to do.

In theory, though, yes.

[Admittedly, they could also read their mail, and she was thinking of some pretty aggressive ways to avoid their notes being seen if at all possible.

God, she was even considering invisible ink.]

[commandertoolbelt]

so it’s probably better to assume they can watch us whenever they want
fan-freaking-tastic
remember when scam emails were our biggest problems with the internet
we didn’t know how good we had it

it would be nearly impossible for all of us to coordinate on coding this stuff though, especially if we do it the old-fashioned way
and then if new people get the app we’d have to tell them about it too?
it’s going to be hard to pull off, but that’s probably what they want

[true_noir]

I was barely on the internet in those days, but I am aware they happened. I used to be pretty dark about all this, before I came to this country. It would be nice to just deal with spam, wouldn't it?

Probably, but it also isn't impossible. It's really more of a question of getting organized, more than anything. That, and being patient with the new ones. They're not always ready to listen.

[commandertoolbelt]

well neither was i but i've heard the stories and honestly i'd prefer that to what we've got now

yeah i get it, i wasn't exactly the first person to get suspicious of these guys
it's not really the easiest thing to convince people of without evidence, y'know?
and we don't have a lot of that

[true_noir]

And those not on the app may not even see that evidence. So it's tricky to plan, but we'll figure something out eventually. Unfortunately, talking in circles is a bit common, I've found. It is what it is.