LOADING...OVERFLOW

[recollecters]

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 As of this post taste tier 4 has been icly regained; tier 5 will go into effect on Saturday, January 6th at 9pm EST and taste will be fully restored! Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. 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.

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Kara

[thebeastwithout]

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hey what's not to like
they're fluffy, they're giant birds, they give good hugs...

actually horses are ok too i just don't want them to take chocobos away

they're an important part of my fake childhood

[maidofmistakes]

I guess so, yeah. I do kind of want to see one -- somebody brought it up today.

[thebeastwithout]

oh you didn't check them out at the winter fair thing?

they had chocobo carriage rides!

it was pretty sweet

[maidofmistakes]

That sounds pretty nice. I was mostly indoors after I wiped out on the ice rink and took some poor guy down with me.

[thebeastwithout]

oh yeah i did that too

...to several people

it wasn't great

who knew keeping your balance on a completely slick surface would be so hard

but you should totally ask them where they got the chocobos from and see if you can get a ride

[maidofmistakes]

Some other guy asked if I wanted to see some at the petting zoo. That sounds fun, right?

[thebeastwithout]

we have a petting zoo??

yeah ok you should go check 'em out! i can't believe you haven't seen one yet

...wait are you going with the guy. ooooh is it a date?

[gar is both teasing and also incredibly interested in the answer]

[maidofmistakes]

Wait

Wait what???? I'm not going on a date with someone I barely know, that's weird!

[thebeastwithout]

hey maybe it's love at first sight!! i won't judge
and you could have a worse first date than chocobo petting

that's kinda weird they have 'em at a zoo though

are there usually horses at zoos?

[maidofmistakes]

I think petting zoos are different since it's mostly farm animals? Probably. I lived in a small town once and they had chickens and stuff.

[thebeastwithout]

oh ok i never really saw any

i wonder if they have bears in petting zoos

it'd be pretty badass to pet a bear

[maidofmistakes]

Sounds kind of... dangerous.

[thebeastwithout]

i saw this youtube video of these bears in a national park that learned to wave at tourists for food

it's totally cool

[maidofmistakes]

That is cool. I thought it was bad for them, though.

[thebeastwithout]

what, feeding bears?

i guess if they get too hungry they can always jump the fence for some nice lean protein

[maidofmistakes]

I'm pretty sure a bear can't jump a fence! ...Probably.

[thebeastwithout]

they can climb trees! i bet they'd jump fences if they wanted to

the only thing holding bears back from world domination is probably just their own self-restraint

we should be thanking them