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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

[crushcard]

... I feel like I'm in the very minuscule minority that actually bothers to read them.

... You have a point. But with Retrospec being Retrospec and how strange things have been since... well, everything, I'm not surprised if they were just being terrible people and just withheld the fine print in general.

[insantafe]

I won't lie, the only time I ever really read it is when it's for the job.

[ Which is better than some people?? But otherwise he doesn't bother. ]

If the people who run this app cared about something like fine print, they wouldn't be forcing this thing on us in the first place. I'd count on them not having anything like that at all.

[crushcard]

I mean, that would be a reasonable thing to do, at the very least.

[ he reads everything rip even the things on itunes that no one reads. ]

I'm not surprised, but it's annoying. Whoever is in their legal department is just. Shady.

Or better yet, this whole company is entirely too fucking shady.

[ HI, SOMEONE SOUNDS BITTER. ]

[insantafe]

No need to tell me twice.

Though you have to wonder if they even have a legal department. All they ever talk about is HR, and look how good a job they've been doing.

[crushcard]

Ha. I'll bet you anything that my HR department is smaller than theirs and does a much better job.

Hell, even my R&D team does better than Jim and his lackeys.

[insantafe]

Even with no clue how big their team is, I'd believe it.

...So can your R&D team give us the colors back? For everything, not just a bunch of flowers.

[crushcard]

... Ha. I meant we're working on more useful things than deleting colours from existence.

But unfortunately, no. Somehow even in our research into virtual reality simulations, colours seem to have been wiped out.

[insantafe]

Fair enough. You might find some folks who disagree about it not being useful here, though.

[ See also: Jack's concern about Jim potentially threatening them in his last post?? That very few other people seem to have paid any attention to?? Retrospec users have priorities, apparently. ]

I’ve never been much of a scientist, but something about that sounds wrong even to me. And Jimmy here wants us to thank him for all the hard work fixing things for us? The guy’s delusional.

[crushcard]

[ to be fair, when retrospec hasn't acted on their threats yet, most people seem to be fine with ignoring??? what's going on??? for now at least. ]

I was discussing with Professor Lutece the other day - perhaps we're already trapped in some kind of virtual world and the erasure of colour is a technical glitch that they're...
fixing.

A plausible idea but this would be giving them too much credit, and the fact that if this was a virtual world would be... well. Alarming to say the least.

[ Let's not talk about identity crises????? ]

[insantafe]

[ well this is just a headache waiting to happen, isn't it. ]

Virtual world? That might explain the colors, but what about those memories we've all been getting?

And for that matter, why would they make an app to talk to us if we're all trapped in some computer?

[ Suffice it to say, Jack isn't buying that theory. Maybe the details are just going over his head, but there's a lot that doesn't seem to add up? Then again it doesn't add up if they're in the real world and not some fake one, either...

Yeah no this is not something Jack Kelly is prepared to discuss at length. What the hell. ]

[crushcard]

[ guess who's not fucking ready for that conversation either, points at this guy, because he hasn't even regained memories of his past life yet, ha ha. ]

I haven't put in enough research into it yet to actually figure out how it works, but suffice to say that the closest working theory that I have off the top of my head is that everything that the hallucinomemories are something like cognitive shadows - something that our minds have recreated because our own minds know that they exist. And for the Retrospec app, it's probably something like the colours - if they can take things away, what's to say they can't add things to it either?

[ i'm so sorry jack. ]