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[recollecters]

Hello Users, Please be advised that the temporal-spatial storm has now passed. Temporary access levels have been revoked. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please also be advised that as the storm has passed, work has resumed on certain other issues. You have my sincere thanks for your assistance. Thank you, Janet Halloway Human Resources Retrspec Incorporated As of this post, the city has completely returned to normal; damage has been fixed, monsters are gone, and NPCs now believe that monsters are definitely not normal but don't seem to remember them having been a thing. Oops? All weapons and powers gained in their various locations / as QR codes are now gone, additionally. Group 1 locations can no longer be accessed. Retrospec NPCs will not be reachable past this point! As mentioned to various members of group one, the Director does not approve of Retrospec's team speaking with its users, so NPC interaction will drop back down to what it originally was at this time. Doing research for these people will also net zero results. City-based NPCs will now remember members of group two! They will simply be under the belief that group two members were on vacation/had a family emergency/etc. No consequences will come from them being away at their jobs or school or anything else! Furthermore: -Horses are now regarded as valid mythological creatures! So you get mildly less strange looks for talking about them. -Photographs and text, online and off, now have the color blue again! -Visual video media (online, in theaters, etc) now has the color green once again! This does not include text yet. -There has been a new list of karaoke songs added to the city of Recollé! These songs can now be found in karaoke bars and machines all across the city and even can be sold on CDs for your own karaoke parties. -The Crow's Nest now has locations across the world, including a brand new location right in the heart of Recollé! After August's plot wraps up, be sure to grab a bite to eat and say hi to Kenny Crow. -Finally, the ocean has been restored! It's still gray, however. Keep working together to buy back world changes. 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.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

Glad you're back. You okay?

Even though our team kept getting called to Retrospec's own basement, we didn't learn as much as I would have liked. A few things, but they feel incomplete.

Except for Maurice. Their Intern? Turns out he's their mail room intern. And he's actually a decent person. But he has the nightmarish job of trying to send us all the stuff we keep getting in the mail. Even though nobody explained how he's getting his hands on the stuff, himself.

[notyourutopian]

You met retrospecs mailman.

...

That's just weird.

[standalonehuman]

What's weirder is that he has to live on site. Finally explains why we never saw anybody go in or out of that building? Pretty sure the same is going to turn out to be true for all the other Retrospec employees people were rescuing.

They said some of them had been picked up in the storm? Did you bring anyone back with you?

[notyourutopian]

We brought back ghosts.
And a frogdog.
And some stone dogs.

But they all disappeared.

[standalonehuman]

Ghosts? Like, not alive any more spirits not at rest ghosts? That's

[Give Togusa a minute to figure out what he even wants to say here.]

How?

[notyourutopian]

We caged them in magic thermoses while we were fighting their queen in a haunted house.
And when we let them out they were on our side.

[standalonehuman]

Okay, back up a step, I guess my full question was 'how were there ghosts in the first place?'

...Magic thermoses. Okay.

[notyourutopian]

No idea.

I don't even believe in ghosts.

[standalonehuman]

Despite having just seen them. Or things claiming to be them. Okay, sticking to your guns, I can really respect that.

But you were in a swamp in a haunted house, that's where this storm took you all?

[notyourutopian]

We don't really know what we saw
Everything vanished, including real, physical things
So who knows what it all was?

But yeah
First a mine
then a swamp
then a haunted mansion in the swamp

[standalonehuman]

We got to talk briefly to some of Retrospec's staff. Didn't get much out of them, but they kept mentioning the word 'unreality.'

We did something much the same, but on a smaller scale. Entered a place, had to resolve a problem, and then that place vanished. Turned back into, I guess, the physical space we were standing?

But we got zero explanation on what any of that means.

[notyourutopian]

Unreality.

So

What does this mean for the retrospec people?
Were you working with them?

[standalonehuman]

Under EXTREME duress, I assure you. But yes. They said they could get you all back, stop the monsters, just fix it all at once. We had to try to help.

[notyourutopian]

Why would they want to fix this?
Aren't they the ones causing all this insanity in the first place?

[standalonehuman]

The monsters weren't part of the plan. Whatever that 'storm' was, most of Retrospec, I can definitely say, didn't plan for it. Their technician, the one who knew how to fix it, she had no idea this was coming. Maurice, same thing, he got caught by surprise. Their tech, it seems to be set up specifically to try to keep these storms from happening. Or protect the city when they do.

I'd bet you anything Jim knew this was going to happen, though.

[notyourutopian]

Hm.
Protect the city from these storms.

What about everywhere else?

[standalonehuman]

Fuck. I actually don't know.

Maybe a better question, though. Nothing else got picked up with all of you. This storm, it only grabbed Retrospec users and employees to take to the swamp and the other places you all ended up.

[notyourutopian]

That's...
I don't know what that is.
Ridiculous?

I'm tired of everything being ridiculous.

[standalonehuman]

Why wouldn't anyone else have gotten caught up?

Argh. There is no way we're figuring this out from here.

I might come back and ask a few more questions, once I figure out what gaps we've got in the situation. Ah, we being the cops. Did you have any of us on your group? Kihara or Sakakura? Or, Shirogane? I know he got taken.

[notyourutopian]

Right.
Or any where else.

No, I don't believe any police were with us.
No one said, at least.
And you all love to tell everyone you're cops so...

[standalonehuman]

I know I'm tired if that made me laugh.

I guess I should ask if it's okay to share what you told me with the others, then? If we can put everyone's experiences in the same place, that would help, but I won't do it without permission.

[notyourutopian]

Sure why not
It's not like we gain anything by hording information right?

[standalonehuman]

[There is a significant gap before Togusa messages Eleanor again.]

I am afraid that I am going to need anything you can tell me about that haunted house or what was inside.

My other source of information is really. REALLY drunk right now.

[notyourutopian]

It...was haunted?
There were ghost kids. And stone dogs.
And angry busts.
And a giant spider.
I know some of the others read some books before the library attacked them.

I didn't really learn much.

[standalonehuman]

What happened with Toushiro? If you're okay with explaining. I only heard that one person didn't make it. But I've got somebody telling me Toushiro got killed. But I see him, he's posting right there on the app.