erythristic: (anonymous.)
grell sutcliffe. ([personal profile] erythristic) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-04-01 09:01 pm

(4/2, morning.)

To the users of Retrospec:

This message comes from both Grell Sutcliffe and Lucian Trevelyan. There’s been discussion recently of certain changes coming over our userbase. Changes that come in different forms, from certain unexplained moments that feel like dreams or perhaps memories, items showing up without cause, or certain physical attributes undergoing shifts in inexplicable ways. It’s to the latter that we address ourselves.

We are both medical professionals, and as such we’d like to say that if you undergo such changes and would like someone to take a look at what’s happened to you, for any reason, we’re capable of doing so and willing to provide you with what information and care you need. Anyone that comes to see us will be treated with the same standards as we’d give any patient - your information will remain confidential, and your visits will be at your discretion.


[ Here is the address to an establishment in Chata, along with the phone number. ]

If you’d like to make an appointment for your visit, contact Dr. Trevelyan, and standard clinic hours will apply. Weekend morning appointments can also be arranged. If you require care outside of office hours or need things to be looked at immediately, contact Dr. Sutcliffe.

We are here to help you. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us should you have any sort of question or concerns. Feel free to comment to this post as well if you see fit.


[[ooc: since they co-wrote the post, either or both Grell ([personal profile] erythristic) and Lucian ([personal profile] accordance) will reply to threads - if you want one in particular, just say so in your thread header!]]
standalonehuman: (TogusaCoffeeWork)

Since this happens the day BEFORE Togusa gets a regain...

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-07 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you both for doing this. I was already speaking with Dr. Trevelyan, but, Dr. Sutcliffe, I guess I had missed you on the network. I've seen your name around the Department, I'm Officer Hitori Togusa. If you're willing to help out, I'm glad.

Honestly, one reason I had been leaning towards Dr. Trevelyan is his willingness to include the Department in the doctor-patient confidentiality agreement. If anything does happen to me, or somebody like Detectives Gabranth or Wolf, it's not immediately going to go in our files. Can I assume that you're willing to make a similar agreement? So long as any changes aren't actually jeopardizing our ability to do our jobs?
standalonehuman: (TogusaConcerned)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-08 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. I still don't feel comfortable hiding things from the Department, truth be told. But, if it doesn't interfere with my job, but we can't explain how it's happening? Like Jinjing's eyes?

I don't like this dilemma.

But, free time and energy? Can't exactly bill us through our insurance for 'reality-warping consult' but there's got to be a way we can pay you back for your help?
standalonehuman: (TogusaSmile)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-10 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll find a way to pay you back, then. If something comes up in the future, know that you can call on me.

Do you think there would be a common thread, then? Between the physical changes and the mental ones, the memories?
standalonehuman: (TogusaPhone)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-13 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, let's take this to the phones, then. Togusa waits until he's off-shift to call Dr. Sutcliffe, even though he really wouldn't have to worry about anyone knowing he's calling her. It's still just a friendly chat; it's not until later that Togusa will suddenly need the doctors' services.

"Dr. Sutcliffe? It's Officer Togusa, how are you doing?"
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalk)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-15 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I'm eager to know what other people think about this whole mess. I have to thank you again for offering your services in the first place. Overall, it's been very refreshing to see people coming together in the face of what Retrospec is throwing at us."

"I'll leave it open," Togusa suggests, "where would you like to start?"
standalonehuman: (TogusaHunh)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-17 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
She has an interesting perspective, one that is not too far off of the role of Detective. Maybe there are a lot of the same skill sets required between her job and Gabranth's. "Your eyes?" A note of surprised that he can't hide. "Just a color change like-" Oh, and he almost just blurts out her name and then has to stop himself because confidentiality. "Like, ah, some other people have been reporting? Or, did your eyesight suddenly get worse or better?" He has to clarify.
standalonehuman: (TogusaRealization)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-18 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Togusa makes a hum of understanding. "That's why you reacted to the idea that there might be a relationship between the physical and mental changes. I didn't realize my question was quite that important."

"What does that mean, then, the physical changes are supposed to be helping jog our- 'memory' if we even agree that the visions people are having are truly memories? Enough people are corroborating the idea, but how can we prove that they're right?"
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalk)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-04-19 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've heard the same thing," Togusa affirms. "I suppose I wouldn't know for sure until I experience one."

But he continues to listen, even though the theory that Dr. Sutcliffe puts forth is frightening. "Like it's been in front of us the entire time, and we're only now seeing it. The changes with us would fit in with the changes to the world, then, as if we've been seeing horses where there were really chocobos the entire time. That is- not comforting. But it makes sense."

"Overall, though, the changes have been mostly cosmetic," Togusa insists. "The horses didn't get replaced with tiny flying birds, or machines, but with other animals that still fulfill all the basic functions of horses, from our narrow human perspective. Who can tell how those changes are altering the rest of the world, though."

"But, even to us, how much are we getting changed from our original selves?"