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[recollecters]

hey, for the record we aren't keeping records on you through your electronics. they're useful tools sometimes but they're not required. mr. halloway wanted you (the people meeting at the utsuki dojos at 8pm on sundays) to know it's a nice effort but he still doesn't see any secret codes or handshakes so the meetings aren't spy-level enough to keep him happy yet. also he made me take notes on all of them. i don't really care about how spy-level they are, though. also the technicians managed to fix some things. Maurice Fitzwilliam Intern Retrspec Incorporated As of this post, the following changes have been made to the world: • Normal limes are available alongside the dancing variety. • Horse-related items such as horseshoes, bridles, and feeding bags. These items will still be regarded as unusual or fake by NPCs but will be available in various locations. • Visual media regains the color blue. This applies to all forms of film whether watching on-screen, online, or reviewing videos PCs recorded prior to the loss of color. Please note this is only videos, not pictures. 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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[darkinferno]

you might not have caught this at the last meeting maurice but we've made a couple important decisions you might want to update jim on:

1) no secret codes until he gets bent
2) no secret handshakes until he has the balls to meet us in person

after that we'll talk

dante rantanen
founder of the "fuck jim" society
8pm sundays, utsuki dojo

[Internally: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HOW DID THEY FIND THIS OUT

Also he likes you, Maurice. You can stay.]

[secare]

there's a fuck jim society???

i wanna join

[darkinferno]

8pm every sunday at the utsuki dojo

since jim decided to try and throw maurice under the bus by calling us out here it's open membership. before it was only limited by showing up at the weapons training practices anyways so it was pretty open then too

[secare]

wow
weapons training practice
there's so much going on

if it's really ok
i'd like to show up?

[darkinferno]

yeah that's fine

we started them for anybody on the network anyways

i don't know how long you've been here but with everything that's been happening it's probably better if everybody learns at least the BASICS so that they can protect themselves

and you can find out if your other self has any memories of using weapons, too

[[With a link to the 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, and 7/23 training log! Since there won't be another one posted until next month 8Db]]

[secare]

thanks!!

i'll come swing by.

[darkinferno]

all right, see you then

[me_matey]

dude


this is bait.

[darkinferno]

yeah, and so's mine

[me_matey]

idk man u sound like u gotta blow off steam

[darkinferno]

that's been pretty common lately, things are just getting dumber around here

[me_matey]

anyone found something i can punch at retroHQ thatll actually break?

[darkinferno]

did you go in when they had the tubes full of glowing stones? apparently those could be broken

a couple of us managed to get into the broom closet that's probably maurice's office. you probably could've broken some stuff in there

maurice doesn't seem too bad so far though so maybe it's for the best we didn't bust up his stuff

[sharplydressed]

well
this answers a lot of questions i had

but also like +1 to all of this

[darkinferno]

what questions did you have?

[Off the top of his head he can't remember; Kiyo's been to the training sessions, but has he come to any of the info-sharing sessions at the same time...? Or has he just been wondering why a bunch of people disappeared every week around 8pm?]

[sharplydressed]

[Fortunately, he's been in the know even if he doesn't always go to the info sessions. Small miracles... That said:]

how advanced their stalking is tbh
if they're really using our phones to listen in or if it's other stuff
like how did they take pics of people from behind a few months ago?

[darkinferno]

pinhead cameras? little creatures that meld into the darkness and spring back up with a hivemind

omnipotence

they've probably got the whole town bugged honestly, they start out by monitoring us and where we go and set up their network, then add us to the network. then they take the next month or two to decide and rig for the next batch, and so on

tatsuo already worked at the dojo so they had it bugged already

it'd also explain why going certain places gets weird--like when we went into the tunnels last month. once you reached a certain point in the tunnel you started feeling on edge and it just got worse until we finally turned back. i read an article about how noises at specific frequencies can trigger reactions like that

so if we try to go somewhere they wouldn't be able to watch us from maybe they trigger something like that

[He's 100% spitballing here.]

[sharplydressed]

[HE BELIEVES IT, seems legit enough to him.]

so basically
if you're right about that what you're saying is, we can't go anywhere that they can't watch us anyway?
like even if we find a place where they can't keep an eye on us, we'd feel sick or whatever?

[darkinferno]

who knows? it's as good a guess as anything else we've got

but you've gotta admit, it would make sense

[livingdeadgirl]

man I'm sorry Dante
for what it's worth I think you were doing a good job keeping it secret

[darkinferno]

uh

thanks?

[What does he say to that????]

[livingdeadgirl]

["uh thanks?" apparently ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

I wonder how they found out though
it sounds like they were watching the whole thing so I don't think it was a mole...

[darkinferno]

[r u d e]

i don't think so either. i think most of us are in the same boat so far

like i was saying to kiyo up there though, if they bug us and our usual haunts before they install the app to our phones, they would've already had the dojo bugged since tatsuo teaches there

[livingdeadgirl]

well, if that's true, we should be able to find bugs, right?
maybe not all of them but at least enough to prove they are there
or conversely we should be able to meet someplace none of us has been before, and they wouldn't know to bug it
they can't have the whole *city* under 24/7 surveillance

[darkinferno]

not if they're tiny enough. things like pinhole cameras can be pretty tough to spot

it's worth a try though

the only problem with trying to meet somewhere none of us have been before is that we'd have to discuss it to figure out someplace none of us have been which gives them advance warning to bug it