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[recollecters]

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. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and 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. 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. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. 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. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one.

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[furtherforward]

[Ohhh this last name is familiar. As is the possibility of a dog in an apartment complex that forbids pets. Akira had his suspicions.]

your dog? do you have a dog?

[the spy.. is akira midousuji.....]

[jyushi]

YES! HIS NAME IS HIJIRI. HE IS A PUG. ISN'T HE CUTE??

[Oh, Jyushimatsu. Foolish, foolish Jyushimatsu. He digs himself in deeper by attaching a picture of the Pug - the background is clearly their apartment complex's hallway... Also, for some reason, the dog is wearing a little giraffe costume.]

[furtherforward]

[AMAZING. AMAZING. Akira saves this picture for posterity's sake, and cackles to himself from the confines of his shitty apartment.]

woooow it would be a REAL SHAME if your landlord had an account on Retrospec, huh?? spies don't have to try very hard with you, do they?

[jyushi]

HAHAHA HOW SPECIFIC! HOW DID YOU KNOW I LIVE IN AN APARTMENT? PSYCHOLOGISTS? MIND READER?
SAY SAY WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?!?

[Through the paper-thin walls of the apartment building, a muffled shout of "THEY'LL NEVER GUESS THAT THE ANSWER IS BASEBALL!" can be heard...]

[furtherforward]

[Why does this apartment have to suck. This is the first time this quality has ever come in handy. And even then, it's merely a convenience... he doesn't need to pretend to be a mind reader, but why miss out on the perfect setup?]

baseball. do you think I'm just guessing now??

[jyushi]

NO! YOU MUST BE A JYUSHIMATSU!
I TOO AM A JYUSHIMATSU!
THAT MUST BE HOW YOU KNOW SO MUCH
LIKE ABOUT THE DOG THAT I'M HIDING FROM MY LANDLORD

[furtherforward]

what a realistic possibility! think a little harder. more importantly, you know the penalty if I tell the landlord about you breaking the terms of your agreement, right?

[jyushi]

EH?
ER
AH
I'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED

[furtherforward]

yes, you get it now! keep that in mind for the future. we'll be in touch, Jyushimatsu Ono.

[jyushi]

[HOW

WHEN

WHa


***WHO***]

FIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[furtherforward]

oh, one last thing.

quit shouting. if you continue to be this noisy,

I'll have you evictedddddD.

[jyushi]

[Instantly dropping the phone, Jyushimatsu clasps one hand over his mouth and the other over Hijiri's. Between clamby fingers, he whispers the quietest apology he can manage:]

Sorry! Mega king-sized hail mary pass sorry homerun...!

[It's only a few hours later, after finally getting the hang of Retrospec, that he notices the name besides the mystery spy's comments. Akira Midousuji? ...Doesn't he know that from somewhere?]