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1) don't be dumb. my name isn't a pun on wendigo. i'm not a wendigo. i'm a humanoid from aht.
2) i can probably kill you more efficiently than a wendigo anyway? what the fuck do they even do?
3) i don't care about the other inane bullshit enough to comment.

ok, the number list thing is boring as fuck. moving on. the kids talked about grabbing souls and them being knocked out of alignment last time. i'm allowed to pick one damn thing to clarify here within a bullshit rulebook, so let's clear up this: it's not like anyone is picking and choosing which to grab. one soul looks pretty much like another, you know? i've been waiting a pretty long time to see if any will be from my homeworld.

none of you are.

not like they're trying to grab anyone in particular. but if you were wondering about "why" it's "because you were fucking there". think of it like a band of traveling hoarders. they see remnants of a world in a mess of shards and pick them up before the shards disappear. i was a shard, but i still had my body. i also happened to not be on aht when it met its end.

they don't stay put. pieces and bits of whatever. they travel, and some of them are already here, because you are. so i stick around because maybe eventually someone they pull out of the dark might be someone i knew.

but yeah, no one gives a single fuck about worth. that's the mystical how do you choose me or this other person i remember who deserves it more answer: you happened to be there, and they weren't. or they haven't been yet. you're welcome.

Wendy Guo
Security/Archivist
Retr

spec Incorporated

Hi! Just so you know, we've re-stabilized green! Although I see some alerts on my screen so that's not great, something else got knocked out? I have to go figure out what.

But as a tip, unreality functions on a lot of loopholes. Try carrying some words around or thinking outside of the box if you get into a pinch, okay?

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

spec Incorporated

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is it just me or does wendy sound sad???
i feel sort of bad for her

i dont get most of what she said but i guess it makes sense

I think it's a sad message, too. It's bitter but people become bitter because of experience.

i dont know about bitter
okay maybe a little bitter
but maybe more like
jaded???

like shes been hurt a lot

Maybe bitter more toward us. It is true that we as a broad group haven't been the friendliest.

i guess
to be fair we had to deal with jim at first
and jim sucks

but joanne and maurice are much nicer
and wendy seems okay

Jim was slightly before my time. But even without Jim, it's understandable for people to lash out after having this forced on them.

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It's natural she'd hope to see someone she recognizes again. It would be frustrating waiting a long time and having no luck.

yeah :(
i totally get how she feels
i hope she finds someone soon

I wonder how long she's been looking? If we knew something about the people she was looking for it's possible we could help her but with what we know now that would be difficult.

maybe she cant remember???

ive only remembered a few people
but i know there was probably more than like three people where i was from

maybe she remembers the people but not individual people???

I see. That is a possibility I hadn't considered. Even though they come from a position with more knowledge then we have, they may be going through something similar.

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Her attitude's still rotten.
But
I wonder how long she's been waiting to find someone she recognizes. She makes it sound like she's been alone for ages.

maybe shes been waiting her whole life???
maybe she always remembered this stuff instead of needing retrospec

like yeah shes not being nice
but it doesnt seem like shes being awful just because

No, I guess not.
I can't imagine how it must feel to see all of us get picked up at random while the people she knows are still gone.

i kind of get it
and i guess thats why i feel so bad for her

shes probably lonely

[here.]

You and me, both.
All I got from that cryptic poem was them feeling homesick.
Hopefully they'll be able to use their vacation time to go back home.
I'm rooting for it!

i mean
i think shes homesick for someplace she cant go back to

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Me too
Even if the first part is kind of mean
I think I'd be pretty mad too if I couldn't find my friends

yeah
like i said i feel bad for her

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Wendy does sound sad I wondered what happened
Most of that message is really confusing
The only thing I got is we lost something else, but we have green again

i think it might be taste???
which isnt as bad as the colors imo

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