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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

[alitaba]

at least jojo is actively helping us from mission control
unlike some people i could mention

but she's still only one person in a group of many

[insantafe]

It's okay. You can say Jim.
Joanne here's the only helpful one so far.

[alitaba]

i was thinking of the wedigo tbh
who allowed that
jim too i guess
but he seems to have been eaten by a monster because when was the last time he showed up???

[insantafe]

Wendigo? Which one was that? There's too many of these people; I'm losing track.
The last time I remember seeing Jim was sometime around last August, I think. Didn't someone say he was banned from talking to us?

[alitaba]

that grumpy one
who got on everyone nerves a few months ago because she was awful?
she can get eaten by a shadow too

was he? i don't even remember
maybe janet just finally saw the light and took him out

[insantafe]

[ wow what'd she do to you ]

Well, it's not like any of the others have been all that helpful, even that Maurice guy. Maybe Joanne here's the exception. We won't know until they change it up again.

That's what I was told, but as far as I know he's still around. And if he isn't - good for Janet. She deserves better than that guy.

[alitaba]

[ someone never got the first impressions are the most important memo ]

maury can go too!!!
especially him!!

[ she doesn't have..... pent up feelings about him or anything.... ]

sounds doubtful but i hope he gets eaten by a monster anyway!!
janey needs someone way cooler than him

[insantafe]

Not that I disagree, but what'd he do to you?

And weren't they going on their honeymoon last time Janet showed up? I thought that was why the rest of them showed up in the first place. Monsters or no monsters, somebody's got to cover for the guy.
Personally, though, I'd vote in favor of the monsters.

[alitaba]

he was there with my august group and he was so!! grumpy!! and boring!! grumpy and boring!
ヽ( # 'Дﾟﾉ┌┛
thinking he's cool because he was an intern!!
who cares!!!
and who still listens to ABBA anyway???

[ so some of that might have to do with them you know, poking around his bedroom BUT Y'KNOW. semantics ]

but that sounds about right, who knows
maybe they just went on a six month cruise

[insantafe]

[ well jack still listens to abba sometimes but fuck if he's telling you that... ]

"Grumpy and boring" could describe most of them, from what I've heard. Jim and Joanne are the only ones who seem to have any kind of personality.

Hey, maybe they went and got lost in "unreality" or whatever like we did back in August. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

[alitaba]

[ That's because you're an old man, Jack ]

Wedigo is grumpy, Maury is boring, Jim is annoying, Jojo is the best. [ and andre is in tears ] They're like a team of anime villians.

I really hope that means we don't have to rescue them.
Maybe we can just leave them there......?

[insantafe]

[ then get the hell off his lawn ]

You missed Janet. Which one would she be?

They can't make us go along with it. I say we let him rot out there. Maybe he'll leave us alone once he knows how it feels.

[ no he won't but a guy can dream ]

[alitaba]

[ Too late she lives here now ]

Mission Control probably. She seems like she'd be the smart type. The Mercury!

Uuugh but what if they tie good things in with it? Like, I wanna blow things up again but not if I have to rescue him!!
I'd rather watch paint dry with Maury (；￣Д￣）

[insantafe]

[ he's going to play abba really loudly until she leaves ]

"The Mercury?" Is that supposed to be some kind of Greek mythology reference?

[ because he doesn't get it ]

Then I guess you'll just have to pick your poison. Blow things up at the cost of saving Jim, leaving Jim at the cost of not blowing anything up, or hang out with Maury for a while. Personally, I'd go with forgetting about Jim and having a normal day for once.

[ also something tells him that someone this passionate about some guy being kind of boring shouldn't be allowed near any explosives ]

[alitaba]

[ And she's just gonna wander back in the minute the music stops. You can't keep her out forever. ]

nooo, like the anime! or, I guess the American version would be Featherman Blue? The brains!!

[ Tell her you at least get that reference ]

ugh, can't I just blow Maury up instead?

[ you'd probably be right tho ]

[insantafe]

[ then he'll just have to leave it on forever ]

Oh, of course. The brains. Makes perfect sense now.

[ no it doesn't jack knows fuck all about anime why are you doing this to him ]

I'm pretty sure that would count as murder, which, as you may recall, is illegal in this town. I'm not saying a lot of folks with this app wouldn't be all for it, but no. You probably should not.

[alitaba]

[ now taking bets of when certain someones does the honors of taking him out instead ]

doesn't it?? they're like the A-Team but the D-team. F even.

[ CLEARLY everyone knows about these things. GOSH JACK. ]

i guess i'll just have to stick with destroying his credit score ヾ( ･`⌓´･)ﾉﾞ

[insantafe]

[ if davey can put on taylor swift then he can tolerate fucking abba ]

Or the J-Team, since so many of them have J names. Or R for Retrospec.

...No. Nope, identity theft is illegal, too. You do know there are police officers on this app, right?

[ who is this little felon and how is she running free ]

[alitaba]

[ rip in future pieces ig ]

ooh, the J-Team w sounds like it'd be a pretty good parody name!

and that's booooring. but it's not like i've been able to crack their security anyways. [ HUFF PUFF ]

[ you'll never catch her anywys ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ ]

[insantafe]

Maybe, but it doesn't cover Maury and the wendigo, does it?

That's probably for the best given there are, again, police here on Retrospec. And you just took away my plausible deniability.

[ he is not going to jail with you, you little nutcase ]