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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.

Comments

[liberal_arts]

Some have been given physical aspects of their 'other selves', which that symbol may be evidence of. That being said, I'm not certain what that symbol means. It is an intricate design, but all of its action, so to speak, is drawn towards the center.

[nachetanya]

When you put it like that, it almost seems like it's either a target towards my heart or a flower blooming out of it.

Well, near my heart. It's a little too centered to be right over it

[liberal_arts]

It does seem symbolically centered, though. Perhaps it aligns with a chakra point? I'm not super familiar with those.

[nachetanya]

I think there might be one there? I'd need to think on it more, I'm not that familiar either.

[liberal_arts]

Either way, it must have *some* meaning. One doesn't just get a mark like that for nothing, right?

[nachetanya]

I hope so? I mean I could just have been drunk when it started and needed it otb e pretty.

I doubt that though

[liberal_arts]

I mean

do you have experience getting THAT drunk?

[nachetanya]

Not that I know of

[liberal_arts]

Oh good! I imagine the 'black out drunk tattoo' scenario was a bit troubling.

[nachetanya]

Of course it would be! Not that a mark without knowing what caused it is that much more normal!

[liberal_arts]

Actually, now that I think about it, that doesn't show any of the signs of being a fresh tattoo. If anything, it seems well healed, something that would have taken weeks, otherwise.

[nachetanya]

I know!

That's precisely one of the things which is weird to me! Does that mean that my skin is replaced too?

[liberal_arts]

That's

a weird way of saying it, but there ARE people here who've taken on physical characteristics of their other selves without having the corresponding memories to explain it, so there's that.

[nachetanya]

I assumed that had to be the case. There's no way this could be anything else, to still be there even when I'm scrubbing it. I *know* it wasn't there before I napped just now.

[liberal_arts]

I guess that's the case, then. How troublesome.

[nachetanya]

Honestly that feels like an understatement!

[liberal_arts]

Well at the very least it's aesthetically appealing. It'd be a much worse situation if it were tacky in some way.

[nachetanya]

You're a fan of these stylized flowers? Honestly, I think they look pretty good but it's nice to hear!

[liberal_arts]

Oh my tastes are rather broad, honestly. But it does have an elegance to it.

[nachetanya]

So do you want to join my cult and get it too?

[liberal_arts]

No thank you. As much as I believe in the human form's potential as a canvas, I don't really imagine it in a permanent way.

[nachetanya]

That seems a little half-hearted if you ask me.

[liberal_arts]

In that case, why not volunteer your own body as a canvas?

[nachetanya]

I'd have to charge you a fee, mysterious stranger who wants to see me naked and paint on me.

[ That wasn't what he said. ]

[liberal_arts]

-It wasn't, but-

I wouldn't dream of passing on compensation. Providing oneself as a canvas is a service, and services should be afforded proper pay. I can't very well advocate for the fair payment of artists and not offer the same towards this.