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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
Retr

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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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If it's the former, it's a perception that's citywide. Further, it's not just a mass colorblindness: what few non-Retrospect users I've talked to can't even remember the colors.

That being said: my guess would be on perceptions. If I were challenged with removing a color from the world, I'd find it vastly easier to concoct some kind of pill or gas that would change people's perceptions, rather than meticulously going through each and every thing in this city and erasing the color from them.

About as difficult, perhaps, as meticulously going through each and every person in this city and shrinking them down to an eighth of their size?

Don't remind me. I still haven't solved that, and it's wearing on my nerves today of all days.

I'm only pointing out that what ordinarily seems to be beyond the realm of possibility...frequently isn't, so it seems.

[She's really quite waspish today, which is why she pauses before answering.]

Yes. And yet there must be some kind of explanation, even if it breaks the laws of what we know. I suppose it's simply frustrating that even the things that they break aren't consistent.

At least not on the surface. But perhaps that only means you haven't found the common theme yet.

I'm certain that you will.

With you at my side, I have no doubt.

I've need of your assistance later today, if you're still willing to come out.

But of course. Aren't I always?

I don't want to assume, just in case.

I'm home today. I've something to show you, actually, and I think it'd be best to do it in person.

Oh.

Then I should come by, you mean?

If it's not too much trouble, yes. You hardly have to do it right now, but I'll be home for the rest of the day.

In a few hours, then, I'll be glad to swing by.

[Which for ease of threadtracking I will probably go dump in Ros's inbox once this thread wraps.]

A few hours, then. I'd promise you a meal, but I don't think that would end well for either of us.

[DUMP AWAY DUDE]

Oh? What fare did you have in mind — grayberry muffins, collard grays, gray beans, chicken cordon gray?

Now you're not getting anything to eat.

At least give me credit for chicken cordon gray.

That one was inspired.

I will not. You're awful enough with puns as it is. Rewarding you will only make things worse.

Operant conditioning would indicate as much, yes.

Which is the entire point of this relationship, naturally. By the time I'm done with you you'll be entirely reconditioned to my liking.

...Are you suggesting you're the Henry Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle?

No, he was an arrogant little twit, and you already speak perfectly. No, I'm simply suggesting that you're going to emerge from my care a little different than when you entered it.

Very well, I'll accept that.

But I'm still going to start dropping the occasional "not bloody likely" into my commentary from here on out, for Eliza's sake.

By all means. I'll feel far more at home, though be warned, if you try to do it in a Cockney accent I'll be judging you very harshly.

Judging for authenticity, or judging because you hate Cockney accents?

Both, frankly. Although I'll be a bit lenient, because it's you, and you're not trying to mock the accent..

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