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[recollecters]

Hello Users, For those of you who are new: Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. For all, new and old: Please be advised that should you go above and beyond the call of duty for Mr. Halloway's little game in the coming days, there may be a reward granted or information given. 100% completion would be the goal for that, should you have an interest. If you have no interest in the matter, please feel free to carry on as usual. R&D will not be handling further communiques for this month, or possibly the next few months. This should not, of course, have any impact on your usage of Retrospec™. The first milestone for the second of the colors lost has been met, and accordingly we have diverted resources to fix what could be fixed. R&D has alerted me that a bigger loss may occur in the near future, and I would advise you to be careful, though I am afraid neither they nor I can be much more detailed than that. Finally, I would like to extend congratulations to those of you who have now reached your sixth month. We hope you will continue to accept our assistance in these trying times. Thank you for your patience, Janet Wiseman Human Resources Retrspec Incorporated As of this post green fruits and flowers of this color regain their pigment. (Note: this is not all plants. This is just for flowers and fruits!) 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. Any new characters will find that the first photo they upload is locked as their profile picture for the rest of the month. Characters who have been in game since February will find their profiles now have a 6 months badge. It does absolutely nothing of note.

Comments

[erythristic]

to everyone that's saying "what's next, red?", i advise you to hush yourselves before jim gets any ideas. some of us need red in order to live.

that said, i see we've gotten a collection of new faces on this application, and i'd like to take the moment to introduce myself. my name is grell sutcliffe, and along with lucian trevelyan, i offer medical assistance and advice to those changed by retrospec to deal with things you can't tell a doctor who doesn't understand. yes, you can be physically changed via this company and application, no, it most likely won't be painful, and most importantly, you're not alone in it happening.

both dr. trevelyan and myself promise discretion and aid to the best of our abilities - ms. arisato's directory has the best way to get in contact with us as well as a few more details. i've been on this application for six months, and i can say confidently that if you have a question, ask - another of this userbase likely has an answer for you.

now we can go back to the marvel that ms. wiseman is a real person answering us and not simply the idol of jim's dreams.

[darkinferno]

you won't die if we lose red

if it works the same way blue and green did, your hair will stay just as red as it is now

everyone will be able to pick you out in a crowd even easier

[erythristic]

but only my hair. everything else red that i take joy in left lifeless and gray. is that any way to live?

[darkinferno]

[[overflow here c:]]

[originallutece]

I'm going to be furious if we lose our hair thanks to everyone tempting fate.

[erythristic]

i'll keep my hair. retrospec saw fit to give me another present last month. or well, they chose to move their hand.

[originallutece]

What do you mean?

[daemonized]

[All the gingers crying foul at the idea of losing red.]

I am terrified to think of what might happen to us if we lose red. My hair, Grell. Can you even imagine?

[erythristic]

a tragedy. we'd have to come together to mourn. it'd be far too soon for you to go gray.

[daemonized]

Going prematurely grey has always been a deathly fear of mine. [That's an exaggeration, but who's surprised at them being dramatic at this point.]

Would you even be able to look at me the same way?

[godcards]

Are you licensed or have you spent too much time on wikihow?

[erythristic]

wikihow didn't write my thesis.

[oh, she's a doctor. just not exactly one for living people, Retrospec users excepted.]

do you usually come across pretenders to such things?

[godcards]

Considering this app and what people claim to have seen in their 'memories,' it seemed a better idea to ask than assume.

[toobigtohandle]

... What do you mean, 'physically change'? It's an app on a phone.

[erythristic]

it's a broad category, but in essence i mean exactly what is stated. physical characteristics of one's body have been reported as altered in the time since this application's appearance.

in my own case, both my hair and eye color have changed, with seemingly no explanation nor side effects. others are free to disclose their own changes if they would - i advertise discretion, though, and so will not speak on anyone's case but my own.

[toobigtohandle]

That doesn't make any kind of logical or biological sense, you realize.

[eyestitch]

that's the kind of passion for color i like to see! and it's not even about blue! you'd think it was the only color around the way people have been talking about it 😖 and people, my eyes are grey now!

hey...

has anyone ever died from one of those alterations? have you ever not been able to help people?

[erythristic]

i can confidently say no one has died from their changes.

[the bodies would pass through her office, after all, and she's seen nothing out of the ordinary.]

it's strange and frightening, the process, but it's not fatal.

[eyestitch]

that's a relief i guess.

still, if no one's really in danger from it that makes it seem a little less intimidating, right? way less spooky if you're virtually guaranteed to die because no one else has. shouldn't people just get over it?

[accordance]

Thank you for doing a civil service.

[erythristic]

i figured it was time to remind everyone of our presence.

[accordance]

It seems like we only started offering our services yesterday. Time sure does fly.

[livingdeadgirl]

yesss another one for the Red Is The Best Color club

[erythristic]

i've been a member since i was born. it's the color i'd surround myself with if i had a choice in the matter, so to see people so easily speculating on its future is a grave matter indeed.

[livingdeadgirl]

maybe we should all paint our words red for red awareness