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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

[surprising]

maybe they love keeping us in suspense
after all, they probably liked watching us freak out about the loss of blue and green

[storytelleroftime]

Maybe. But who doesn't like watching people freak out?

[surprising]

true... i guess that's why certain tv shows are so popular
strange things like "may" or "may not" keep people eagerly waiting for the next episode

[ god, maybe recolle was a tv show all along ]

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah. I mean I enjoy fucking with people, but not on the level of removing colors. That's just excessive.

[surprising]

same. messing around with people is fine, but that's on a whole new level
at least they put the colors back in some places
nice to know they can put back what they stole from us in the first place

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah. Maybe they'll fix all the images they've ruined to. And my eyes. Those, matter.

[surprising]

are your eyes....
oh no
i'm so sorry for your loss

[ the grey eyes tragedy, rip... ]

[storytelleroftime]

Green. Well, it's not that big a deal. Apparently not big enough that I didn't notice it for a month.

[In remembrance of the grey eyes tragedy. Rip all blue/green eyes.]

[surprising]

that's pretty odd... people were definitely complaining about it last month
if you don't mind, how did you notice? did someone tell you
or did you look at your own reflection and suddenly realize

[ may they rest in peace... ]

[storytelleroftime]

I was putting on makeup. It was after this app appeared. I looked and the mirror, and I noticed it. That they weren't supposed to be this way. It was, surreal, but I didn't feel much over it.

[A lie, and one she's more telling herself than she's telling Rindou. She didn't feel anything actively but a lingering sense of loss is still there.]

[surprising]

if it's after the app appeared, then that makes more sense.
one of my friends mentioned that retrospec can select people that they've unselected, and vice versa
so i was wondering if that's what happened to you

[storytelleroftime]

Nah I was never selected in the first place. So I'm completely new to this! Doesn't stop me from having apparently hallucinated conversations already but from what I can tell that's normal.

[surprising]

yep, completely normal. we can all be crazy together, i guess
some people think those hallucinated conversations are our past lives or something
once you've been here long enough, weird conspiracy theories sound a lot more plausible

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah, the past life thing is what I got told. I was told that, then we talked about reincarnation, then I hallucinated myself talking about reincarnation. If life could be meta, then life just got super meta on me.

[surprising]

woah, that's pretty rad. it's like a conversation within your conversation
maybe it's a sign that the reincarnation theory might not be entirely wrong
especially if the conversation you remembered was important

[storytelleroftime]

Exactly. It's weird. I expected something way less... I suppose relevant would be the word. But it does lend credence to the theory, in a weird way.

[surprising]

remembering things by doing those same things here... is pretty much a hit-or-miss
and it is pretty weird when it's a hit, i guess. especially about something so specific
but if those memories really are from our past lives, then why do those guys have all of ours on file
isn't that kind of creepy

[storytelleroftime]

...That's assuming Retrospec is the one causing it to happen.

Sure, it only starts after the app is installed, so it's obvious is connected, but I'm not sure the people at retrospec are necessarily causing them to happen. They might just be some sort of reaction that triggers inside of us, and all the Retrospec people did was enable it.

But it's most likely that they are. I wouldn't be surprised at that.

[surprising]

hmm... having a reaction trigger inside of us in the first place sounds pretty suspicious.
and if they're just enabling it, then does that mean they're working together with another group that we haven't heard of?
maybe "retrospec" is a decoy for us to dislike, while the real group pulls the strings from behind the scenes.
but whether they enabled it or caused it, they seem guilty either way

[storytelleroftime]

It does, doesn't it? But it's more a hypothetical than anything.

Still, there being a shadow organization? That's... actually more plausible, all things considered. Retrospec being there to distract us from whoever is really causing the changes. That's a lot more sensible than them being the main Big Bad. That's so... obvious.And a good conspiracy is always interesting.

But yes, they are guilty. Of what, well, we don't know the full extent of that list yet.