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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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[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

[sharplydressed]

it's as good a theory as any yeah
i'd believe it
but that also causes us even more problems...

[darkinferno]

because there's nowhere we can consider outside of their influence? or something else

[sharplydressed]

mostly yeah
i mean almost all of our plans to avoid them have been things like making codes or w/e
but if they can listen to us anywhere in the city, that makes things extra complicated

[darkinferno]

from here on out we should probably assume we're being monitored at all times

which means that personally i think we're back to shouting retrospec's secrets from the mountaintops

[sharplydressed]

makes sense to me tbh
there's no point in trying to be secret and giving jim something funny to watch or w/e if they all know what we're doing anyway

[darkinferno]

that's right, make everybody's lives easier

i guess that means we should do some sort of update to everybody else about what we've been discussing at the past few meetings, huh?

[sharplydressed]

might as well tbh
i'd rather see jim get frustrated about people not trying to be sneaky AND keep the info spreading, anyway

[darkinferno]

it IS pretty funny

so new plan: once we get a chance, those of us who have been attending sunday night meetings will make a joint post to share all the info we've shared with the class

[Sorry, Chloe. He knows she was working on keeping everything under wraps as best as possible, but... his response to their hand being forced is to play with his cards up. Fight him, Jim!]

[sharplydressed]

i'd volunteer but i've probably missed some important stuff since i didn't always go
i'll def cheer on whoever does though
tbh i'll always be on the side of anyone who's here to kick jim either literally or metaphorically

[darkinferno]

you can hold the camera then

[Yes, he's joking! But if Kiyo agrees he won't say no]

i think it'd be hard to find someone who ISN'T on that side. have you actually seen anybody trying to claim he's still a decent guy?

[sharplydressed]

count me in

[JOKINGLY?? MAYBE...]

not jim specifically
but like retrospec on a whole?
just a couple posts ago i swear i saw someone saying that they're really working hard to get our stuff back in working order again
you know
almost as if they believed those guys aren't the reason everything went to shit in the first place

[darkinferno]

yeah okay i've seen that argument too

that maybe they're trying to undo the damage that someone ELSE did first

but if that's the case that means there's another force ta work that we haven't heard anything about yet

you'd think they'd want to tell us about something like that

[sharplydressed]

you'd also think the retrospec stuff would be affected too if it was someone else pulling this garbage
and that jim wouldn't be such an asshole about how their eyes were still blue or whatever

[darkinferno]

it's the part about jim being a tool that really makes me think the theory's wrong

i could buy that they're using themselves as guinea pigs, they test out these potential fixes before they say anything about it to us

but with jim practically FLAUNTING the fact that they still had blue things that pretty much throws that theory right out the window

[sharplydressed]

mte
that's definitely a bragging move that's so bold you can't even blame it on just regular shitty pr


lmao
i wonder if that's why he hasn't been talking to us directly lately

[darkinferno]

i wouldn't be surprised, he's pretty much been goading us on lately to try and amp up our game

whatever they've got planned, it doesn't work if their userbase hates them so much they'd cut off their nose to spite their face

[sharplydressed]

i almost hope he comes back just so we can keep the torch of jim hate burning brightly tbh
like what if some newcomers show up and they don't ever get to learn about how much of a dick he was??
tragic

[darkinferno]

we've got records

that proposal video will live on in infamy forever

they'll know the truth of the matter

[sharplydressed]

someone better make some backups in case they ever try to erase it from existence