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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-01-01 05:59 pm

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Hello and happy new year! A lot of poll results came in from R&D and we've almost fixed taste all the way. Horses are almost fixed, too. We've been working pretty much non-stop around the holidays to stabilize everything, so I hope this works!

Just so you guys know, while we were working on fixing the original problems we received some alerts of residual effects outside of our usual domain. Don't worry though! Remember what I said a while ago? We're still moving more resources around into better defenses to protect the city from huge storms like last summer. We'll be taking care of that really soon and isolating the unknown problem.

I wish I could tell you more, but we're all working overtime here to finish the final stages of a big project. No matter what happens you guys should be safe while we finish up, so just stay calm, okay? Don't get too reckless!

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retrspec Incorporated

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dulynoted: (pic#11944529)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Storms? Is this referring to actual weather or is this a metaphor for the city being attacked. I'm still a new as far as Retrospec goes and I'd be interested to hear theories from more experienced users, as I realize that these don't tend to get responses from moderators or tech support.

As well, does anyone have an idea of what this "big project" is?
matchbreaker: (the one below was the worse option)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2018-01-02 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
The storms refer to the events we experienced in August. Have you heard about them? If not, I'll go into it.
dulynoted: (pic#11897001)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I have, but the more accounts I can reference, the better. If you don't mind.
matchbreaker: (Degrassi)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2018-01-02 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Alright.

In August, starting after that convention at the end of July, monsters started appearing the city and a particularly large monster also devoured the ocean. Perhaps more importantly, over sixty people vanished, "offline" from this app. No one off the app even remembered they existed in the first place. A few dozen of us were deputized into teams to assist Retrospec in dealing with the aftermath of what they called a storm at the time. Likely of unreality - we were told the vanished people were "outside of reality" and we needed to perform out tasks in order to make sure they could make it back.


[ . . . Her account might be biased in favor of the vanished people as opposed to the danger to the city. But then, she was a mother who had both her sons vanish. ]
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[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
That lines up with what I've read thus far. Thank you. I take it you were one of the people who were working to bring people back?

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[personal profile] adoringpast 2018-01-02 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
you mean you didn't find the monster attacks from last summer annoying nor weird

there's a lot to unpack here just so you know
dulynoted: (pic#11896990)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Regrettable as it is to say, apparently I was unaware of them at the time.

[ Which really bothers him, for the record. ]
adoringpast: (papa paparazzi)

[personal profile] adoringpast 2018-01-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
either you're unaware or you unknowingly made friends with them

but whatever

did you know anything about the con that happened at the tail end of july? that's when it all started
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[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I heard about it. That comic convention that was organized.

That's a little ironic that a comic book convention brought in fantasy-style monsters.

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[personal profile] chessking 2018-01-02 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
nah I think they're just outright ignoring us since like half the time people are just complaining about them anyway

big project - something major? uh last time I heard a bunch of people disappeared and another bunch of people got superpowers so maybe something along those lines.

speaking of which uh. I need to talk to you about something.


[ THIS DOES NOT SOUND SHADY ]
dulynoted: (pic#11877521)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
So you think it's directly related to them preparing for a "storm"?

Ok. In person?
chessking: (pic#11622538)

[personal profile] chessking 2018-01-02 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, a couple of my friends were directly involved, actually, so I had a couple of first hand experiences to draw on. they called it an unreality storm or something like that? whatever the hell unreality is supposed to mean, I guess.

... I kind of vaguely remember being chased by monster things but it's honestly all a blur to me right now.

yeah that would. probably be better.


[ is akira home for the holidays can lelouch just pop into his room ]
dulynoted: (pic#11877966)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
My layman's understanding is that it's some sort of break in the reality that we're currently experiencing here, but whether it is supposed to be an alternate reality in and of itself, a combination of whatever supposed worlds and realities everyone came from, or something else entirely? I'm not sure.

Were you aware of Retrospec at the time?


[ Come on in, buddy. ]

I'm in my room.

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windeity: (THOUGHTFUL ♫ lines)

[personal profile] windeity 2018-01-02 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
i'm pretty sure somebody else can explain the storm thing better since i wasn't around for it, but it was bad all around.
if it's a big project that they're actually telling us about...you have to think it's going to be something that effects us, right?
dulynoted: (pic#11897009)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's my guess. If it is at all related to what happened in August, then it's possible that they're preparing for some other flux in reality. That would definitely be something we would be affected by.
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[personal profile] windeity 2018-01-02 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
it's better to be prepared than to get caught off guard like they did last time.
what have you heard about august so far anyway?
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[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose we should be thankful for that.

How much detail would you like?

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[personal profile] truedetective 2018-01-02 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
The latter.
Almost certainly.
dulynoted: (pic#11734141)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
So then we must be preparing for another attack.

[personal profile] truedetective 2018-01-02 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Must? I don't know about that.
They haven't done anything exactly the same twice yet.

It couldn't hurt to have a plan in place for the possibility though.
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[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
No, but without another "storm" to reference, it's the only basis most people could make preparation for.

[ Most people is the real important part, here. Akira doesn't think himself as most people. ]

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[personal profile] blondferret 2018-01-02 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Mate, we should meet up. I have a notebook on some of this crap.
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[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Do you? That would be helpful.
blondferret: (i got you)

[personal profile] blondferret 2018-01-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
When and where? I am fairly free. Except Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm. I have Kendo lessons.
dulynoted: (pic#11896991)

[personal profile] dulynoted 2018-01-02 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Derek? Kendo? ]

How long have you been hiding that?

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