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[recollecters]

Maurice was going to do this, but Maurice sucks so I sent him home before he could. Anyway, some of you may have noticed our new poll feature! We just don't have the time and resources to cater to all your "where is x item, what the fuck" complaints, so we had to streamline. The polls were the result of that! Coded them myself. I mean, Maurice did some of it, but I did most of it. So basically we're democratically crowd-sourcing what we're going to bother to fix for you! You can send thank you notes to the building, HR doesn't mind. So far it seems like you all care about the color blue most, so we fixed it! A little, anyway. I suggest a bracing walk through the woods if you particularly missed the color and don't feel like gazing deeply into a hobo's eyes. You've all been reading up on QR codes, right? You might also want to learn to start a fire. Just a tip. Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As per the World Regains tracker, fruits and flowers that were once blue are once again blue. This includes the echo flowers in the Recollé woods! NPCs seem to be incapable of seeing this color still, however, and will not note any differences. The color does not seem capable of being transferred to anything else, either, and any attempts to do so will simply fade the color of the thing you were trying to use to do that. Furthermore, one thread of at least 10 comments from you from this post may be supplied for one untriggered memory by linking the thread and in explanation putting "June Freebie". This may only be claimed through the rest of June, and may not be claimed after the month ends. 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.

Comments

[originallutece]

If this ends with all the lighters and matches disappearing from the world I'm going to be quite cross. Related: ethanol still burns grey, not blue, if anyone was curious.

[caelestialis]

So they didn't even really fix the issue of blue being missing.

Charming. Good to see they're going the extra mile just for us.

[originallutece]

Naturally. I suppose if you're a florist you might be pleased, but honestly, I'd almost rather they hadn't done anything instead of such a pathetic half-effort.

[caelestialis]

I can get behind that sentiment. It feels so frustrating that they're trying and it's clear they're not giving their all. What is even the point if this is how they respond?

And the mention of sending thank you notes! The utter cheek in that line.

[originallutece]

Then again, perhaps that's simply the point: to be irritating, and drive us slowly but surely mad.

[sivard]

So only certain things have gone back to being blue?

That's some freaky magic bullshit if I've ever heard it.

[originallutece]

It's certainly irritatingly unspecific. I don't see the point of giving us back only flowers and a few other things.

[sivard]

Maybe the flowers are because they're easy to miss, and thus even more annoying than they could be otherwise?

[originallutece]

Not fond of nature walks, are we?

[crushcard]

That's disappointing

[originallutece]

On the other hand, if you've ever wanted to see grey fire, now's the time.

[doublesmall]

god don't give them any ideas, if they come for the bar's mood lighting I'm going to be pissed.

what if you burn something blue though

[originallutece]

I'd say that's far too specific a target, but given we've lost colors, they just might. At least it would affect all bars, though.

And what do you mean? Like a blueberry or something?

[doublesmall]

they'll take the candles from my cold dead hands, swear to god.

and I don't know, can you even set a blueberry on fire? maybe just a flower or something.

[originallutece]

You can set almost anything on fire, frankly. I'll report back to you, but I suspect the result will be that it turns grey.

[wordcarvings]

If it does happen, there are other ways to light fires from times before they used matches that could be used, isn't there? I'm sure you could find a solution.

[doublesmall]

sure, there are ways, but you've seen how many candles are in there

it'd be a pain in the ass.

[wordcarvings]

Yeah, I have.

But at least it’s nothing on the amount there must be in a cathedral, or something like that, right?

[frostythehitman]

So? It's not like you can't start a fire without a lighter or a match.

[originallutece]

I don't want to have to resort to all that. It's 2017, and I'm a scientist, not a boy scout.

[frostythehitman]

What, you're too good to start a fire on your own?

Let's see how far you manage to make it into whatever woods apocalypse BS Jim throws at us. The rest of us will be taming all of nature and harnessing power with our firestarting skills.

[originallutece]

Yes. I am.

[splasher]

as long as there's flammable material around, fire could still potentially be done. like... ethanol would be a good fuel, right?
we'd just have to be a little more creative in how to spark it.

(that's really cool, about the ethanol colour though!)

[originallutece]

Yes, but I don't want to. I could, but it seems a massive waste of time to have to figure out a new method simply because Jim felt like being irritating.

[A little pause, and then:]

But thank you. I've been meaning to go over a few more experiments with colored fire anyway, to see how the sudden absence of green and blue effect them.

[splasher]

yeah, it seems like jim isn't really winning any favours from anyone at this rate.

you're welcome! i'm not really good at science but i've always found it super fascinating. i wish i had the brains for it? i didn't do too well in chemistry back in school, but doing the labs was one of my favourite things back in high school.