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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]

...ah. [Well, that's a little disappointing??] Maybe she was on a train before going to space? Or it was a train on another planet? I can't see where else you could have giant robots aside from there, though.

At least you have an idea of what this other girl's life was like. I still don't quite know anything about the boy in my memories.

[invocate]

Well, if I get a memory of her in space, I will be sure to tell you.

[such high hopes Xiaolang... though, once she starts getting Ark memories back :'D]

What kind of memories have you gotten of him?

[cardcaptured]

[Look, someone in this family has to have the cool past life, okay--]

Nothing concrete. I know he was younger than me, by a couple of years. He was also trying to find these specific cards, to prevent some sort of disaster from happening, and there was an ugly winged stuffed animal involved with some of it, too. [And, to clarify--] It wasn't the one I received from Retrospec, though. It was smaller, and had teeth.

A classmate of mine is involved in a lot of it as well, but... I'm not sure what their relationship was in that past life. [Because one memory points to them being enemies, while Fai's suggestion is that they wound up being closer-- but he couldn't tell for sure.]

[invocate]

[define 'cool'...]

Okay. Yes. Those are a little odd. Cards to prevent disasters and a stuffed animal with teeth?

[about as weird as a girl fighting monsters with armored boots]

Oh? Sakura is in some of the memories?

[Yes, Xiaolang. She has met your crush.]

[cardcaptured]

[STUFF THAT'S LESS BITING STUFFED ANIMALS AND MAGIC, AND MORE SCIENCE AND ACTION...]

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I didn't say--

You know who she is??

[Granted, there are like-- maybe three girls around his age, tops, on the network, so it wasn't all that hard to guess, but STILL?? HOW DID PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW]

[invocate]

[lol he has such high hopes...]

We met at the Winter Festival. I was admiring the gingerbread house you made.

[everything is public Xiaolang, everything]

[cardcaptured]

[OH, he knows that well enough, thanks to Mio. Why else would he be putting so much effort into making all of these conversations about swords private? Still, he wouldn't expect Li-Na of all people to snoop on his conversations, and he doesn't assume that's the case now.]

Oh, um. Yeah, I worked on it with her for the charity drive. It was tough to do without to do without tasting, but I think it turned out okay? [Or, at least, he thought so, anyway. He was a little proud of their project, actually--]

... Did she say anything about it? [OR ABOUT HIM.... although he's not even worried about Li-Na saying something incriminating, since she didn't seem like the type?? Or he hoped not, anyway.]

[invocate]

[ppppppffftttt she's at least not combing through posts looking for him, but if she's in the same post and happens to see his handle... well...]

It looked very cute at least! Maybe once taste is fixed the two of you could try the recipe again?

She did not say anything about the gingerbread, but we talked about the mural you painted together.

[cardcaptured]

She did all the design stuff. I just put it together, really...

[HE CAN'T TAKE CREDIT FOR IT BEING CUTE, OKAY...]

Wh

Why would we make gingerbread after the holidays are over?? There's no point in it after New Year's. [Xiaolang, are you seriously being tsun about this?? Oh my god--]

... what did she say about the mural, though?

[invocate]

[so tsun. sooooo tsun.]

She thought the mural was cute.