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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
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Retrspec Incorporated

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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-01-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[... was that a typo]

... you mean you have a sword?
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[personal profile] surprising 2018-01-02 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ no, actually... ]

i have a sword too — but no, i meant it
i know it sounds strange, but it's from the memories that retrospec loves to give us

[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-01-02 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
But

If we're supposed to be the souls of people from another life, or whatever it is that they're saying we are

Swords aren't even living things.


[LOOK, he's been forced to come to terms with some pretty wild stuff, but there's NO WAY he's about to believe that someone used to be an inanimate object.]
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[personal profile] surprising 2018-01-02 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
have you heard of tsukumogami — spirits of objects?
i might have been one of those in my past life
so in a way, i was a living thing.... i think


[ LOOK... spirits have souls ]
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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-01-03 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't, no, but folklore's never interested me in the first place. It's mostly just stories fabricated by people in ancient times to explain what they didn't know about.

I'm not entirely sure how you can remember being a sword, though. Were you just... swung around a lot?
[He's not trying to be cheeky or cute about this, he's honestly trying to puzzle it out. What sort of memories could a sword have to begin with?]
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[personal profile] surprising 2018-01-03 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't mind explaining, since he's pretty conscious of how strange he probably sounds. ]

i'm not much of a folklore person, either. i just found out about the term around... a month ago? but i do remember things like being used in battle, being put on display in palaces, being forged in the 11th century, and some of the people that used to own my sword

but if all of this seems weird to you, i don't blame you at all. retrospec seems to like giving us memories that look impossible
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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-01-04 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
I did remember a stuffed animal biting me, so I suppose that's a fair statement to make... [Though the other memories he's had so far have been pretty normal? At least in terms of odd perspectives or weird creatures, anyway.]

Would a sword be able to wield... itself, though? And what sort of sword were you?
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[personal profile] surprising 2018-01-04 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
you're sure that was a stuffed animal... and not a real animal?

[ sure, he just told someone over the network that he was a sword, but that's odd. ]

i can wield myself in this era, but i couldn't in history
i don't know how that works, but that means i know all about swordfighting, too
as for what type of sword i am, i'm a japanese sword — a tachi!
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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-01-04 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
((Continued here!))