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[recollecters]

Hey, Users! This month's wikihow is right over here. In other news, don't you just love our logo colors? Such a nice shade of blue. I'm pretty fond of it myself! You know, Janet has blue eyes. But then, I guess you guys don't know anyone with eyes that color anymore, right? Whoops. Anyway, see you next month! Well, some of you anyway. :) Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As discussed on the monthly plot post the colors blue and green are now gray - except for the blue on the retrospec application logo and their building sign, although no NPC will be capable of seeing the color in these places. As stated in the plot post, NPCs will also seem to be completely unaware that the colors blue and green ever existed. Oops. 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. Last's month's application round characters are now capable of changing their profile pictures.

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[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Oh. There ARE two of you [DELEEEETE delete delete delete]
Hitori Togusa Hi, there. You're Dave's brother? Officer Hitori Togusa, good to meet you.
Hitori Togusa I'm not sure what people have and haven't been able to do with them, but here you go if you want to try.

[splinten]

Yes, that's me. Nice to meet you too, dude.

[why does Dirk avoid him IT'S BECAUSE HE AVOIDS COPS]

I'll give it a go, anyway.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I'll add you to the list of tech people, then.

[A private message comes in shortly thereafter with the contact information of Yoon-sung Lee and Tim Drake.]

They don't mind putting other people in touch with them, but they don't want their information passed around publicly.

private i guess

[splinten]

I don't exactly disagree with the sentiment. What work have they done so far?

[standalonehuman]

Tim would be the one to talk to about a semi-successful hack into Retrospec's app. He found a cloud server, but didn't get very far. He would be able to explain his process better than I'd be able to.

Yoon-sung. He successfully hacked the city's CCTV, traffic cameras. I would really recommend talking to him about what he found, because I am trying to verify it now.

If it's true, we are COMPLETELY SCREWED.

[splinten]

That is exactly the kind of thing you have to drop details on. Tenterhooks, dude.

[standalonehuman]

Don't take this as truth, as I said, I need to verify it.

But anyone not on the app might not be able to see the Retrospec building, entirely.

[splinten]

It sounds exactly stupid enough, and as stupidly consistent with the rest of this crap, to be true.

[standalonehuman]

And it would explain a hell of a lot. Except that rumor has it somebody found a partial blueprint of the place. So it exists. But they can't see it.

[splinten]

I've noticed they tend to notice weird things in appearance for maybe a month before they start overlookin' it.

[don't ask why Dirk is typing his accent it's a terrible compulsion he has sometimes now AT LEAST HE ISN'T TYPING IN ORANGE]

[standalonehuman]

Well. That might depend on the scale of the weirdness, wouldn't it?

Any hypothetical example I could use here, I would get worried would happen to someone next. But a major change is harder to overlook than an eye color change?

[OOC: Is there an opt-in for Homestuck typing because I don't mind it?]

[splinten]

[ooc: you can opt in/out here! Dirk will normally only use it with people who indicate they don't mind it ICly, or if he stupidly slips up, because he still Cannot Believe his instincts demand he types like a mid-2000s AOL user]

A fair enough point. Do we know anyone who has had a large-scale bizarro feature alteration? Aside from, you know, the entire goddamned planet.
Chococorns, for fuck's sake.

[standalonehuman]

[Oh right, Dave said his brother really liked horses. And Dave wasn't just messing with you, you are talking to his brother. Which probably means Dave is real, by the way.]

Um. Yes.

You promise you won't just go by to see the 'bizarro' change? He's kind of a private guy already.

[splinten]

I am a curious person, and by nature I'm pro-scientific inquiry.
But I'm not a Victorian. Gawkin' at people for unusual features for a low pence is exactly the kind of fucked up practice I'd be against. I won't bother him.

[standalonehuman]

Dr. Lucian Trevelyan. He's been helping people cover for some of the traits they've experienced so far. So maybe it was inevitable that he'd be the one to get a large change.

A pair of wings. Almost like angel wings. But he can't fly.

[splinten]

Damn. The Irony Gods live to have another laugh.
Have people been persistent in noticing that?

[standalonehuman]

Your theory is a month? Give him another week, and I'll check in with him. If Lucian can walk down the street with wings and nobody notices?

Wait, if that is true, then what does that mean?

[splinten]

We can't be certain. There's some kind of principle operating here that I can't seem to work out a pattern on.

[standalonehuman]

It's nuts. I just keep thinking that Retrospec can change some things but not others, but all the changes keep feeling cosmetic, like they aren't actually changing up the world or how it runs that much. Slotting something into place where you took something out.

[splinten]

Copy and paste. Minimize. Selective color remove.

[standalonehuman]

Altering reality just like it's a computer program.

...

Is now a good time to remind everyone that these codes were just what I found on one line of the subway? Enprise to Tisse. We still have a lot more track to look through.

[splinten]

We should make a systematic search, then.

[standalonehuman]

Let me see if I can scan in a copy of the Subway map that I found. If we share it around, we should be able to see what ground people have covered.

[splinten]

Good idea. An open access document for sharing relevant information on Retrospec may help.
Sure, Retrospec will probably be witness to it, but it ain't like we've managed to dodge that through other means. At least we can collate all our data and share it readily like that.

[standalonehuman]

After some follow-up, it looks like we've lost someone who was helping us. So, consider this a vote in favor of that idea. Because I'm tired of losing info every time Retrospec decides, for whatever reason, to axe someone.

I have no idea how he did it, but Tim Drake, he found that there was a cloud server that the information pulled off the app is being stored, but he couldn't get in.

He sends a screenshot of this message. So, it's doable, but difficult.