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[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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[lastcomfort]

I'll admit that sometimes these announcements make me nervous, but after talking to some people I think that it's important that we do show support. If they really did save us from our dying planets and brought us here to start over, I think what they're trying to do is to help us more. That couldn't have been easy to do.

Please let us know if we can do anything to help, too!

EIJIROU

[lastcomfort]

They did! Wendy and Joanne. At least about taking souls, which I guess would normally come from being outside your body, right?

[explodosafe]

Right. It would also explain why some of us "turn back" in form of flashback waves while others don't, but I'd still not take anything the guys from Retrospec say at face value.

Like even if they aren't lying they already told me that there's things they cannot talk to us about.

[lastcomfort]

It's very interesting! That's how I got my hair, I think. I think it'd be much cooler to get like wings or missile launchers on my chest.

They told you?

[explodosafe]

Your hair?


Wings to fly with sound awesome, but they might be tricky to use when you want to wear normal clothes or sit in a chair. Like, they'd be in the way so you'd need holes and a specially styled or low backrest. But if you can retract them when they're not needed it'd be a really awesome power!

I'm not that sure missile launchers on your chest are a good idea, though - they're bound to give you some massive heartburn whenever they go off, right? And you'd have to be terribly cautious whenever you're playing with pets or kids so that they won't accidentally touch something that could trigger a blasting release. You'd also need to go either topless or wear some specially customized clothes if you want to go out and fight with them.

[Why is he even taking this serious? He is aware of how absurd missile launcher boobs sound like, but part of him is like "nope, that's actually worth considering the logistics of in a non-judging way."

....It's probably because his own power has turned out to become literally hard.]

[lastcomfort]

[ HE SHOULD DEFINITELY BE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. This is why they get along. ]

Yes! My hair was brown before, but one day I woke up and it was orange. My roommate's hair changed the same day, too. Now her hair is pink.

I think making clothes to accommodate wings might be fun! But you're right about chairs. You could really only ride bikes but not sit in cars or anything, could you? But if you had wings you could fly around instead!

Oh I definitely wouldn't want my missile launchers to go off accidentally! They should definitely have some sort of safety mechanism or at least a double approval key before the launch sequence begins. I think wearing button up tops would work because you can just unbutton them if you need to fire your missles.

ARION

[lastcomfort]

They should! Isn't how they got here from space?

[ Jim x Joanne, right? ]

[cornets]

What??
Space??
Don't you mean other worlds??

[lastcomfort]

Isn't that what it is? Space? Other worlds in space?

[cornets]

I thought it meant parallel worlds??
Like a version of the world where everything is the same but penguins come in all the colors of the rainbow

[lastcomfort]

Oh, I didn't think about that...I am pretty sure they mentioned destroyed worlds, but now I can't remember where. I would like to see rainbow penguins, though!

GARFIELD

[lastcomfort]

I didn't think the other memories were fake, I thought this is real and maybe that is too...but if this is fake and the other is real?? That's kind of sad.

I don't know. But Wendy was talking about taking pieces of them here! Which I think may be us.

[thebeastwithout]

i mean it's kinda fake even if it's real, isn't it?
they still kinda wiped our memories and made us think this was our life

like that movie where they put the guy on a movie set his whole life and he thinks everything is real when it's staged

if our worlds are destroyed maybe they're the ones who blew 'em up in the first place

[lastcomfort]

Do you think they took our memories away from us? Or did we lose our memories by being reborn here?

[ She's not sure... ]

I have heard people say that, but to me it sounded like they had lost homes too.

[thebeastwithout]

well

i dunno but i definitely don't trust these people

if they're trying to help us you'd think they'd be a little nicer about it

[lastcomfort]

Joanne seems pretty nice! I do wish that they would tell us more, but they must have a reason not to, right?

[me_matey]

no offense but thats naive as hell

[lastcomfort]

I'm not offended. You might be right, but I want to believe that what they're saying is true.

[me_matey]

ok ill bite

why?

[lastcomfort]

Because some of the things I've seen are a little scary, and I know things that other people have seen are scary or sad too. If we have a whole different life here that maybe isn't as dark, I want to believe that the reason people are seeing something that could make them afraid is for a good reason in the long run. Because if it was for something that was really meant to hurt them...

That would just be cruel.

I don't think most people are cruel.

[me_matey]

-...-

im not gonna tear that way of thinking down, because THAT would be cruel. but i dont think ur gonna be proven right either

[rebellions]

that's cute and all but they've already said they just picked us at random for their own purposes rather than to help us specifically, no?

[lastcomfort]

It may not be specifically to help us, but it might have helped us by accident, right?

[rebellions]

keyword being "by accident"
we don't owe them shit

[At least he likes to think they don't.]

[lastcomfort]

Even if it's by accident it would still be helpful! Like if someone was trying to stop a building from burning and you happened to be inside it!