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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.

Comments

[originallutece]

Are you really so surprised?

[rygdea]

Well yes?!

I mean if they're not even paying this clown, then why would he even be here?! This isn't like some nonprofit art gallery or some fortune 400 company, this is Retrospec!

They're screwin around with people's lives here! I wouldn't want to be interning for some crap like this!

[originallutece]

Simply because you wouldn't doesn't mean someone else shares that feeling. And I should think interning for a social experiment on this scale to be an utterly fascinating process. Nothing like this has ever been done before (that we know of); who wouldn't want to intern with it?

[rygdea]

Did you completely miss the part where I said they're "fuckin' with people's lives" here?

This isn't just some quirky or fun little social experiment. They uprooting our sense of self! They're attacking our identities with their clever little mind games. This is not just some experiment.

This is downright amoral! We are people, not lab rats!

[originallutece]

Yes, I'm well aware, thank you.

But you asked why on earth someone would intern for them, and I gave you an answer. It might not be a particularly pretty one, but there it is nonetheless.

And frankly, people are used as lab rats all the time. The Stanford Prison Experiment comes to mind for a situation like this.