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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

[notyourutopian]

Maurice.
So there are at least two of you.
Plus Janet the Body Pillow.
(No I don't believe she's real, Sorry Jimbo.)

Hm.
Why make a change only to let us change it back, though.
What's the point.

What are they trying to accomplish?
Building up good will with us would only work if they weren't the ones taking things away in the first place.
Ugh.

[true_noir]

Perhaps to make us feel that we're dependent upon them. In fact, I'm almost certain that's what it's really about. I suppose that this means the polls actually do 'matter' in the smallest degree.

[notyourutopian]

It's possible.
The polls I mean.
I don't think the dependency thing works if they're the ones taking stuff away first.
That's just bullying

[true_noir]

It's like they're saying 'You're sick now, and only we have your medicine to make you better,' but they're the ones who made us sick in the first place, and the cure is what caused the sickness.

[notyourutopian]

Essentially.
Albeit slightly less blatantly cruel as that would be.
I don't think people are foolish enough to fall for it

[true_noir]

he's doing it very poorly if he thinks that we will fall for it, but the tactic has worked before with others, Eleanor. It is alarmingly close to how drug dealers work.

[She really didn't like that she knew that.]

[notyourutopian]

Mm.
See, if it were me.
I would've never made any announcements at first.
Just done the changes and let people wonder right?
Then turn up now, and say, something akin to...

'Hello! We're trying to fix whatever is happening do you see blue anywhere?'

Play up the 'trapped in here together' thing.

[true_noir]

You would make a much better Jim than Jim does, Eleanor. Please don't take that as an insult, though. I just mean that by saying that, you're already leaps and bounds smarter than he is.

Someone might have actually believed that.

[eyestitch]

oh! i didn't even think of a body pillow. i figured she was a robot or a computer program or maybe a "doll"...

but you know what they say! the simplest solution is almost always the correct one!

annnnyway, in that vein it's probably some kind of lab rat tactic, right? they wanted to see how fast we'd rally. and which color is out favorite! it's the sophie's choice thing.

*sigh* [yeah, she typed that] poor green......

[notyourutopian]

Both of those give him way too much credit.
Body pillow seems just pathetic enough

Ugh.
Maybe.
But we're somewhat smarter than rats so I'm not sure 'I took your cheese away but I gave it back' will work on us

Or i hope not

[eyestitch]

at least some of us are smarter than rats! [She's have a hoot and a half with the half dozen people who think her proposal to burn down the forest as the solution to Jim's "riddle" is in earnest. Though, the more she thinks about it, the more it might be interesting to see what would happen--if it wouldn't just kill everyone, anyway.]

we've both got the same kind of mental picture of jim in our heads, right? like he's definitely eating lunch at his desk EVERY day.

[notyourutopian]

Oh yeah. Every day.
And slightly greasy hair.
And one of those goatees where you know they have it because they think it makes them look cool but it just makes them look like they don't know how to take care of a goatee

[eyestitch]

oh my GOD, he totally has a patchy uneven lil boybeard. he can't even grow it in all the way!

and he uses too much wax...or it's just grease.

god, what disgusting little ape lol

[notyourutopian]

Now now.
That's an unfair assumption.
It could be both wax and grease.

[eyestitch]

mustache? no mustache?

i'm gonna need to go look at pictures of smoldering heartthrobs after this

[commandertoolbelt]

the idea of him proposing to a body pillow is even worse than anyone dating him at all

i'm telling you, though, he's using us to find the best way to troll the highest number of people he can all at once
you'd think comment sections on the internet would be good enough for that but maybe jim has higher aspirations

[notyourutopian]

Is it?
Is it really?

You know
If I had omnipotent cosmic power
I guess 'fuck with people' would be on my list too

[commandertoolbelt]

well it’s creepier for one
what if he put janet’s face on it??

...okay yeah you’re right
what’s the point of being omnipotent if you can’t screw with people
as long as it’s funny but jim can’t even do that

[notyourutopian]

I maintain Janet isn't real.
So any face he puts on it is Janet's face.

Right?
There are some people that deserve a bit of a cosmic pantsing.

[matchbreaker]

Holy Moley I'd never even considered the body pillow idea! That's a right good one!

Could be some sort of test thing, right?

Like if things are taken and then there's polls, then they can figure what people value the most.

[notyourutopian]

Maybe.
I haven't gotten one of those polls yet.
A friend mentioned the though
Do you know what the questions were?

[matchbreaker]

Nope, not a clue!

Did you pal get an email or what?

[notyourutopian]

Yes but she didn't tell me much about it.

[matchbreaker]

Well get on that, quiz're down. I know I want the fruits to stop dancing.

[notyourutopian]

Can't.
She doesn't remember now.