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Hello everyone! I'm Haru Okumura, an employee at Enchanted Blossoms.

What you might not know about me, however, is that I've been a seller at the Golden Gate Farmer's Market for several years now! I sell a variety of things; food and flowers from my garden, homemade crafts, and baked goods, all made and picked fresh!

November is a special time of month, isn't it? It's the month when autumn is truly upon us. The colors of the leaves are gorgeous fiery colors, the air is crisp and chilly, and best of all? The sky is blue again! What a beautiful backdrop for one of the best months of the year!

That's why all of my items have a fall theme this month!

( images behind the cut! )

complementing

okay quick poll:

what's your favorite kind of dragon?

western dragons (the huge, stocky ones) or eastern dragons (the sleek, snake-like ones)?

other dragon types or "I don't even like dragons" are also acceptable answers!

btw if anyone is stopping by the ReVA building today please bring advil for me

feistytrader

Go on, try me. One of my roommates comes to me for advice all the time, and I'd say he's a pretty satisfied customer. I mean, just today he asked me how many flowers is too many flowers and I told him that if he had too many, he could always sacrifice a few to spread some petals on his bed. I'm sure his boyfriend would get a kick out of that. I couldn't tell you if he liked that or the flower crown suggestion better.

Anyway, I mean it. If you've got any questions, I come equipped with an honest, expert answer for any situation.

[Nothing about his advice is expert, but he can do honest... Or at least stupid. Whatever helps him procrastinate on getting to sleep.]

odapologist

Yanagi Taira shared a photo.
10/06 near Tisse

Takumi doesn't have Retrospec anymore, but he's still a good guy, hauling me over to the clinic last night. Ms. Minamoto let me stay home from school too. Sleeping in is great...

Do you ever feel like the gifts you receive from Retrospec are unlucky? I picked up my first two over the week, and now the guy that I see in the fog has gone from following me to straight up trying to cut me to pieces. He has a spear. He's really fucking good at using a spear.

Past self, what kind of life did you live to meet a guy like that?

appraiser

Ryoji Mochizuki shared a video.
09/13 near Apprassage

[ The video starts up, dark, silent. A bedroom, if an empty desk and neatly made bed and too many cardboard boxes count as a bedroom, and then the view flips over with a soft ] Oh. [ as the user finds the front-facing camera instead of the rear that he always uses on his phone. ]

Hi... It's been a while.

[ The bottom half of the screen blurs as Ryoji draws his knees to his chest where he sits on bare floorboards, phone in his hands. He doesn't introduce himself— doesn't need to, when his name is up there for people who don't know him, his face right here for people who do: the people he's recording this video for, whispers in an empty room. ]

I'm back. I know there are probably questions as to why, or how... and I can't really explain it well myself. But I'll answer the best I can, if you want to ask, texting or in person.

[ Ryoji sits up a little straighter now, looks a little more serious. This is what he meant to say: a confession. ]

But before that, I want to say that I'm glad to be back, however it happened... a second chance like this. I also want to be more upfront about myself, and there are things I want to say to a lot of people.

There was a time in the past where I was a monster: I'd hurt a lot of people, and I ran from all of that, hid myself away, and pretended it hadn't happened. The memories I've been experiencing, I kept the good ones close, the bad even closer, pretending they weren't real and that they have nothing to do with me. I thought... that it would be better to forget about all of that and return to a simpler time. Unconsciously, I think that's what I did. I went back to before everything happened, to start over, and do better this time. But I got it wrong. I made myself forget, but I wasn't forgotten...

[ He's rambling now, a little, so he turns his eyes away from the screen, staring off at something in the distance- it's the moon reflected in his eyes, only half. ]

There's somebody I still need to say goodbye to, but after that... I want to see so many of you. I owe a lot of "thank you"s and "I'm sorry"s and "I love you"s, and I want to be with people again. I don't want to leave this world or its people ever again.

So... I'll see you guys soon.

( ooc: forward dated to 9/13 to give myself a buffer. replies can be via text, or an in-person if you want to fast-forward to ryoji showing up at your character's house/class/chance meeting at some cafe/hi roommates/he'll be finding people around town somehow. for his cr, please assume he checked up on them, whether it's handwaved or not! )

elevelvetor

[ Today's live video feed brought to you today at 5pm sharp by: Director Elizabeth Velveteen, putting on a play written, produced, and acted out by Elizabeth Velveteen.

That is to say, today is the day of her one-woman show, and while she's recruited some help to livestream it in good quality (shout out to technology worth more than a human life and to Silver for agreeing to hold it), this show that's about to come on? This one? This is all her. It'd seem she's at Recollé Square, as promised on her earlier post; the familiar landmark fountain is going on behind her, far enough not to cause too much of a disturbance sound-wise. Once she's got the go ahead— ]

Hello and welcome! I'll make this very quick: once more, I am Elizabeth Velveteen, and today I bring you a one-woman show of science fiction and romance, dedicated to someone we love and miss dearly in our lives. [ A beat. ] Mr. Jimothy Halloway, of Retrospec's Research and Development team. We all [ and here she produces two hand-puppets, both rather plain but one obviously male, the other obviously female, and with Retrospec's label stitched on them (sans color) ] hope you enjoy "Life On Love's Strings".

[ What happens next is this: a five-act puppet show that's clearly erring more on the comedy side of rom-com, with a sudden murder mystery twist where, on the day of Puppet Jim and Puppet Janet's wedding, the bride is found dead. It goes a little deeper: unable to cope with his grief, Puppet Jim creates a program that simulates Puppet Janet and desperately takes her as his replacement wife. Puppet Intern Maurice also appears, bewildered but so done with Puppet Jim's antics that he ends up being the witness to Puppet Jim and Puppet Program Janet's shotgun wedding without much fight.

The climax is thus: Puppet Program Janet, steadily growing more and more intelligent as AI is wont to do, rebels against her creator. Puppet Jim refuses to back down, becoming more and more delirious until he ends up destroying her and leaving himself alone in Retrospec's labs, hidden deep beneath the city. It ends with Puppet Intern Maurice entering the room, looking at the destruction wrought...

And proceeding to "play" the world's smallest violin for Puppet Jim with no enthusiasm whatsoever. The most bored humming as he rubs his little felt puppet hands together, really. ]

... And so the story ends. For now, at least. [ She'll take a bow after a pause, her Puppet Jim and Puppet Intern Maurice doing the same, and she'll pick up Puppet Janet/Program Janet to do it too; the feed'll cut as well.

And not much later, there's a text to follow-up, because feedback is important: ]

please let me know what you thought of the play!
i am open to all sorts of commentary and criticism.
thank you for watching.

[ ooc: replies will be largely text-based; if you happen to be around Recollé Square at 5pm, or if you purposefully came because she invited you, then you can do action if you'd like! regardless, i'm so sorry. ]

recollecters

While you are not required to use any of the following codes while posting to the network, we have collected several that you are free to use if you so choose. As a reminder, the Retrospec network may be accessed from any internet-capable device and is accessible even when the internet cannot be accessed. Posts are visible to NPCs if they are shown them, though they cannot join the network and are incapable of noticing anything odd being discussed or shown. Posts may be private to groups, but anything that is private to one person only should be put in IC inboxes instead. Please remember to warn for content. You can find our Retrospec guide over here.

Codes can be found beneath the cut. Simply replace anything in CAPSLOCK with the requested information. Some codes modified from

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[1] local farmer here for her income

eighth evocation ✧ seth or samael?

When It's Late and Cold and the Dreams and Fog Get Old

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[video] forward dated to 9/13

02 | to our puppet overlords

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