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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.

Comments

[darkinferno]

why wouldn't they be? it makes sense that they're just sitting over there laughing at us

[This is the network, so he's going to carefully not mention that he and Kiyomitsu tried breaking in to the Retrospec building to find Jim and stab him in the back of the leg...]

he's wrong anyways, my eyes are still blue

at least, that weird brighter color they turned a couple months ago

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa It seems blindingly obvious now, you know?
Hitori Tougsa But you're also immune, what? How can that be?

[darkinferno]

not immune

jim's a fuck-up, that's all

he got my hair instead

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Your hair's gray? Like the Narukamis?

[darkinferno]

a lot lighter than theirs, but yeah, take a look

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Wow. That just makes you look punk or goth, not old.
Hitori Togusa Scary, but you can rock it.
Hitori Togusa Back on your original point, though, of course they need to know what came before and after every change.

[darkinferno]

glad it meets your approval

[By now, Togusa's probably had enough interactions with Dante that he can imagine the dry tone and smirk.]

you're giving them more credit than i was, i just think they're laughing at our frustration

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa But we're only funny if they can still see the before and after.
Hitori Togusa But also nobody's going in or out of that building. The price they pay for their detachment is literal detachment. They're all staying in there playing god.

[darkinferno]

good point

and you mean nobody's going in and out of that building that we KNOW of yet

[This is why he was asking questions about those blueprints last month! But Dante's not going to elaborate here; after his attempt to call out the network last month it seems he's back to being at least a little bit cagey about putting information out where they can read it so easily.]

i've been in their building a few times now and there's never been any indication of food or running water. so unless they're not human they've got to leave SOMETIME

[standalonehuman]

Oh, right.

[Right, Dante had been trying to get beneath the building when they went through the subway. It's probably a good idea.]

Either it's 100% self-sustaining, which is weird in and of itself. Or, someone else pointed out, that building is just the server housing and the actual employees could be working remotely.

[darkinferno]

i hadn't thought of that

if that's the case, it's really weird though

another person from the network and i spent the night in the retrospec building in april to see if we could catch any employees coming or going and it was like they were TRYING to convince us that people were there

the elevator was lighting up like it was going to different floors, even if it wouldn't ever come down to the ground floor, and we heard muffled voices talking

i'm pretty sure that was some sort of loop though, there was a loud yell that was a part of it that we'd hear every once in a while

[standalonehuman]

Well, for one, that's not creepy at all.

That's. You ever seen one of those shell games? The balls and the cups, the guy switches them around, you guess which cup the ball is under? Surprise, the ball will be under none of them. The game is in getting you to assume the game as presented is valid and getting you to pick one of the cups at all.

So why give us any options to be right when they can give us none?

[darkinferno]

yeah, the ball gets swept of the table down his sleeve

i figured they were screwing with us again

but they messed up. they gave me a little bit of information they probably weren't thinking about

[It's tiny. Minuscule, really. But in his eyes, it's also a victory.]

they proved that they care about what we think is going on in there AND they proved that they've been keeping tabs on who's gone into the building and who hasn't

apparently those of us choosing to question them too often are on some sort of blacklist

[standalonehuman]

That's new. How'd you figure it out? Just during your time in there, or did you get some blowback from getting caught in there?

Also, how can I get at the top of that list?

[darkinferno]

throwing someone out of a building tends to send a message

and i do mean THROWING

you said it yourself, i've got a gift

[standalonehuman]

[Give Togusa a minute, he's laughing his ass off on his end.]

WOW, Dante. You got a BUILDING so mad at you it took a swing at you.

On one hand, good job getting us some information. On the other, you might be the reason they beefed up security. So, call it a tie?

[darkinferno]

[It's okay, it's funny. It's annoying, especially considering that Dante wasn't able to see what moved in the dark to throw him out, whether it was person or thing, but there's no denying it's hilarious too.]

hey that wasn't the first time it tried, i could show you a video of a few of us getting ejected from a stairwell as they got increasingly pissed off

besides, i'm not the only one that's been going in, i could probably come up with ten people off the top of my head that's been in and out too

call it a 68% win, weight it my way at least

[standalonehuman]

Odds tilt towards the champion, after all. If there was a title belt for pissing people off, you'd have it.

Even though Jim is trying to hard to go for your championship. Any idea what your next bout is going to be, then?

[Because TRY to tell Togusa that you're not going to try this shit again.]

[darkinferno]

[You know, people tell him he shouldn't be proud of how much of a douche he can be, but then Togusa comes at him with stuff like this, sounding like he's amused by it or finds it an otherwise good quality...]

i don't know, their doors were shut tight last month to keep people like me out on the street

i just might have to throw in the towel, they've taken away my only trick

[standalonehuman]

Oh, come now, Dante. Surely an enterprising young man like yourself can find a way around whatever they throw at you.

But seriously don't go in there alone again, okay? I know better than to think any of us are going to stop beating our heads against this wall, but so long as you let someone else know what you're doing in case you don't come back?

[darkinferno]

yeah but any time i tell someone what i'm thinking about doing i get told not to, so you'll just have to wait and see

[A pause.]

yeah, i can do that

i've already done it a couple times for other stuff, i can do it for anything retrospec-related too i guess

[standalonehuman]

Honestly, that's all I ask.

I look forward to see the results.