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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
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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.

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I think I'm more worried about weird hobo's that shouldn't be there jumping out from bushes honestly.

What, you don't want to gaze deeply into their eyes...?

[ No, only- ]

Do you want to gaze that deeply into some stranger's eyes?

Depends on the stranger.
See, there was this one girl last month when we were little, right? We talked here on the network before, and oh, Dave, you could stare into those eyes for hours.

[ Oh. ]

I'm sure her eyes are much nicer than a forest man.

Oh, for sure. And they were brown, if I remember right, so none of this gray stuff going on.

And she had this sarcastic streak a mile wide, you'd love her.

[ wait. ]

...You gotten any of those flashes, though? 'Cause I'm pretty sure she was in one of mine.

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I'm sure I would.

[ Ha. ]

I- no? The same girl?

With the way she talked to me? There ain't a doubt in the world.

Sure seemed like her? It was something she said that I could swear I've heard before, even though that was the first time we'd met in person. Same voice, same attitude... I guess it could have been someone else, but something about it felt right.

Like you and those goddamn tarantulas.

These not-memories sure are something [ Weird is more like it. ]

[...wait ]

Like me and what?

Just wait 'til you start getting them, you're going to love it.

Hey, don't ask me. It was definitely you saying it, though, like I'm supposed to know what that means.

[ WHEN YOU SAY IT LIKE THAT THOUGH, HE'D RATHER NOT ]

It's your memory, I'd think you know better than I would.

All you said was "tarantulas." What am I supposed to get from that, huh? That this other you was a fan of spiders?

'Cause you and I both know that ain't true.

I ain't a fan of crawlies in general.

Why were you headed to Santa Fe anyway?!

Exactly.

And what the hell're you talking about with- Santa Fe? What's that got to do with anything?

Whaddya mean, "What's it got to do with Santa Fe?" It has everything to do with Santa Fe.

I've never been to Santa Fe in my life, Dave.

[ ??????? ]

But then why-? [ -OH. Oh. ....Huh]

Well that's interesting.

You going to start making sense anytime soon?

Jackie, I remember the first half to your memory.

[ It hits Jack like a ton of bricks. Those other flashes... they weren't so bad - harmless memories of flirting with someone sweet passing by. This one? Not so much. ]

And what if I don't want to remember?

[ ???? is quickly becoming his default state ]

I don't think you could stop the memories from happening.

Oh, yeah?

Well, where's it say they're even real, huh? Why should we believe any of that ever really happened?

[ It can't be real. Why would he do that? ]

[ ????'s EVEN HARDER ]

It felt real. Like a conversation we coulda had yesterday. And if I can't trust my own instincts, what can I believe?

[ It takes a minute for this next message to come through... ]

Do you really think I'd just up and leave for Santa Fe?

[ Stares at his phone. Makes a face. SIGHS. ]

No. Not unless you had a damn good reason.

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