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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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[cardcaptured]

... no.

Everything I've remembered so far hasn't given me any context or clues to where I am, or where I might have been from. Some of my memories seem to be set in a school yard, and I was wearing a uniform in a lot of them, but... it could be in any school, in any country.

[kabloom]

I see...
Has any other person appeared in them?
Even if it's someone you don't actually recognize.

[cardcaptured]

[D...ebating on whether to tell Mimori or not, considering how people always jump to weird conclusions whenever he mentions sharing memories with Sakura, but--]

Two people, actually. One's a boy, with dark hair and glasses, who I've never met, and

... the other one's a girl from our school, named Sakura. I don't know if you two have any classes together, though, but she's hard to miss. [JUST LOOK FOR THE REALLY CUTE, PERKY RAY OF SUNSHINE WITH LEGS......]

[kabloom]

I know her. Not very well, but I'm pretty sure I know who you're talking about.
I'm assuming she doesn't remember anything about princesses either?

[cardcaptured]

If she did, she hasn't told me yet. [Much like she did when Fai dropped that bomb on him back in November...]

She probably will eventually, though. It's who she was in that-- other life of ours. At least according to that man who adopted her.

[kabloom]

I see.
I'm glad that you have people you can talk about this with though.
You kind of seem like the type who would keep all of this to himself otherwise, Xiaolang.

[cardcaptured]

It's Li, not Xiaolang.

[Sorry, Mimori, you haven't crossed that level of aquaintanceship just yet. He occasionally let it slide on the network, but he still wasn't entirely comfortable with people outside family (or close friends) referring to him by his given name. Not to mention people got the pronunciation weird...

He flushes, despite himself, at the message though. She was more perceptive than he gave her credit for.]

Well

There's no point in keeping things to myself if someone else knows about-- the other boy in my memories. It's easier to figure out what was going on if someone else has a different perspective of it.

What about you? Do you have anyone you talk to about this sort of thing? [So they can move the subject from him before he says anything that might embarrass him.]

[kabloom]

Oh. Sorry.
I think I've gotten used to people here calling everyone their given names.

[ and that's... the end of that, really. mimori won't call him xiaolang again. ]

And no. As far as I'm aware, I'm the only person here who remembers the same things as I do.

[cardcaptured]

... it's fine. With the network displaying our names like this, it's easy to forget.

How do you manage that, though? Being the only one who... remembers what you do. It's hard enough figuring this out with two people, but on your own...

[kabloom]

I definitely wouldn't recommend the experience. Especially in regards to what I'm remembering, there are a couple of things that don't really line up.
At least, they don't line up in a way that doesn't imply something a little bad.
So having a second opinion would be nice for that. But I just do my best without one.