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[recollecters]

Hi, everyone! There's a fairly high level anomaly coming up which we did our best to damp down, but please be careful! It should be safe as long as you're cautious and don't take any unnecessary risks. Also, R&D gave us more of those poll results (I'm not sure why we're doing this by poll? I'd rather just spend all our resources on blue) so we fixed a few things! Also also, Maurice and I programmed a really fun game!! You don't have to play if you don't want to but Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday sooooooo! Please take care and try to stay safe, okay? Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post characters will find their application decked out in cheerful Halloween colors, and their userpics in a randomized (work safe) costume. Since this is Joanne's work, however, there is a very visible and easy option to turn off Halloween Mode if characters would prefer to use the usual application. She's helpful like that. The biggest feature of Halloween Mode is the Trick or Treat function. When speaking to others, users who are asked "Trick or treat?" will have the option to give a treat. If they do, a virtual candy will be gifted to the other user. If they do not, the user who asked the question will have the option to play a "trick". Tricks are fairly harmless and include: vandalizing a userpic with animal ears or noses, choosing a new color/design scheme for the other user's application, making the other user play a round of a cutesy halloween maze game to get back on the application, playing a song of the user's choice at the nefarious non-candy-giver, or similar very easy things. None of these effects last over ten minutes. This is one of the methods to earn a freebie memory for the month. You must have 5 threads with at least 5 comments each (25 comments total) playing the trick or treat game! This can be done on this post or in inboxes or wherever there is a network. Also as of this post: -Normal oranges exist alongside the dancing variety! -For the color BLUE: Media as a whole and NPCs begin using the names for the color again. Songs and books regain the ability to say the words appropriately, and NPCs acknowledge the color as real. -For the color GREEN: Photographs begin to regain this color. Text of this color also becomes visible again in books and online. 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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[glaciers]

That's what his research and lab implied. That was also what his resume had on it. Making people remember things but not suffering any shock from it, if I remember right.

I don't think there was anything specific tying them together.

[standalonehuman]

Then where was his lab located? I know, in one of the unreality twists, but what was around it?

I also thought one of the founding families was interested in him? Vanderweele?

[This is Togusa scrambling through his notes.]

[glaciers]

It was in unreality. I think we were in his office? And then we went into one of those doctor waiting lounges. And then there was a big lab, but I'm not sure if it was his? Another docter was splicing people together with animals. There was a human-llama splice and a harpy.

The harpy lady had a file and she'd been there for almost a century.

[standalonehuman]

Fuck.

Wait. A century? Does Recolle go back that far? Does Retrospec go back that far?

[glaciers]

I thought Retrospec started last year?
I don't know that much about Recolle's history now that you mention it.

[standalonehuman]

We became aware of Retrospec in February. It's clear that they've been operating in the city for far longer than that, though. I'm even wondering if they've tried this before, implanting memories into people, but they failed and had to start over.

Thus the questions about Dr. Halliday. His research sounds like exactly what Retrospec is trying to do. But, I did get my own brain scanned, looking at function in the parts of the brain Dr. Halliday was focused on, and there's no change.

[glaciers]

That seems like a possibility. We don't know a whole lot about Retrospec as on organization.

I don't know a lot about neurological functions or brain chemistry. I'm in high school.
You might want to talk to Penelope about this.

[standalonehuman]

Oh. Well, I don't really get it, either, but I sat in a few machines for a while, and the docs told me my brain doesn't seem to be getting tampered with.

[Okay, aside from the way that Retrospec TOTALLY DID tamper with his brain, but that's a Togusa-only thing.]

Penelope?

[glaciers]

That must have been weird though.

She's here. I was with her while we were in unreality.

[standalonehuman]

Oh! I think she knows Detective Gabranth.

...for some reason.

It was strange, but all I had to do was take the research papers to Drs. Trevelyan and Sutcliffe and they knew what he was talking about and where to look when they scanned my brain. Just an MRI, like you would for a pulled muscle, too.

[glaciers]

People seem to know each other here. It's not that weird, is it?

They do that for pulled muscles? I didn't know we had two doctors on the app.

[standalonehuman]

No, sorry, it's not weird that people know each other, just weird that people...know...Detective Gabranth.

Great cop, but he's not the most personable. Which, given the other people in the Department, is saying something.

But yeah! Dr. Lucian Trevelyan is a general practitioner, has his own practice, he's a really nice guy. Dr. Grell Sutcliffe, she's actually our medical examiner, but she has made exceptions to work with people on Retrospec. They've been great at helping people, coming up with excuses for injuries or eye color changes, it's been amazing.

[glaciers]

I figured police have to talk to a lot of people to do their jobs. Maybe that's not entirely true.

I'll have to see somebody for my eye after what Retrospec gave me back. My eyesight's a lot worse in that eye, but I don't know how bad it is.

[standalonehuman]

It's hard to explain. He does talk to people. But, you know that big cliche that is the detective that throws himself completely into his job and doesn't have a life outside of it? He is that.

Damn. That's where I saw your name before on the network. Right. I'm sorry. If it's been enough time, the regular doctors might not see any kind of a difference, or at least won't notice that it's weird, but they can help you out.

[glaciers]

Ah. I know some people like that. I guess there had to be more than one.

Probably. It's still pretty new, so it scared my mom, especially since she didn't know where it came from.
I had to tell her it was a really bad accident.

[standalonehuman]

I'm sorry. The doctors would be able to write some kind of a note, if you need it. I'm not sure if Lucian and Grell can test your eyesight, but they'd be able to give a good reason to somebody who could.

I guess I have to ask, did you get any memory of where it came from, for the other person you're seeing?

[glaciers]

I'll try to talk to them this week.

I do know how my double got it.
I got that memory a few months ago.

[standalonehuman]

I'm sorry to bring it up, then.

There are a lot of people with the opposite problem, a random injury or scar with no memory of how it happened. It's like a clock ticking down to go off at any time. But I don't see how the alternative is any better.

[glaciers]

Either way, we're stuck with a scar we didn't get.
It's just hard.
Not knowing what might happen next.

[standalonehuman]

The best advice I keep giving people is to keep letting people know what's going on. Not a one of us is in this alone. And sometimes somebody else's perspective can give you a glimpse into a memory. It might not be what you initially thought it was.