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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

[infreefall]

ahaha, you got me! daddy usually does that, so i can have some time to enjoy it! "like kids your age should," he says.

why do you think that? i thought they said it was all that unreality stuff making weird things happen.

[rebellions]

... what are you, five?

and we've only got their word for it
they barely explain shit too
and hell they got us in this mess in the first place no?

[infreefall]

no? he says it's something about enjoying the best years of my life or whatever. i never paid that much attention.

guess i can't argue with that... but even if we only have their word that they're trying to help, we don't really have any proof they aren't trying, either. all we know for sure is that they're connected to it somehow. so maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions yet?

[rebellions]

huh
must be nice

whatever floats your boat kiddo
but if that's how we're doing this then you can't assume they're good guys either

[infreefall]

well, no. we don't really know enough to assume either way.
but it sounds like we're stuck with it anyway. there's no way way to get rid of it without forgetting about all this weird stuff again, right? i don't know which option would be worse.

[rebellions]

fair point
guess forgetting might be easier
tho i'd be pretty pissed off to just forget it all after being put through so much shit
not that it's our choice to begin with
which sucks even more

[infreefall]

i don't think you can be mad about it if you forget everything. maybe if you remember sometime later? i've heard that can happen.

[rebellions]

don't sweat the small stuff
i can get mad about w/e i want kk

[There's some logic to it and don't you dare argue it.]

that so?
makes you wonder what's even the point then
or maybe it's just another glitch or unreality or whatever they're calling it

[infreefall]

lol sure, if it makes you feel better!

it does sound like a glitch. it's like they have a really bad internet connection. but there's some people that never seem to get it back, so maybe remembering doesn't happen as often?

[rebellions]

doesn't seem like it's a common thing
my asshole of a roommate still seems to believe i dye my hair for shit and giggles and thinks i'm crazy when i say the app did it

[infreefall]

is that something retrospec did? change your hair?

[ cutter told her about this!! it's still so weird, though - why would they care about someone's hair? ]

i always wondered if people without the app would notice things like that...

[rebellions]

yeah
i hear it can change people's eyes or give them animal ears or tattoos or whatnot

[... The tattoo thing has actually happened to him, but that's neither here or there. THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE.]

they sure do
but they seem to just shrug it off and accept it eventually?
ime at least

[infreefall]

that's so weird. i wonder how they do it? especially when it's something bigger than just your hair or tattoos or something...

[ she's still a little freaked out about cutter tbh. ]

huh... it's funny how they don't believe horses are real but they'll just come around for something like that.
i mean, it's probably a good thing because they won't keep bothering you about it, but still.

[rebellions]

wasn't there something about us slowly turning into those "past us" or w/e

[There's something unsettling about that, given what he's remembered of the "other him", but as long as it's just appearance and he doesn't start randomly murdering dozens of people it should be fine, right? Right.]

idk maybe they just think we're all some crazy cosplayers or some shit

[infreefall]

hm, i think so. that didn't make much sense to me at the time, but i've only had the app for a few months anyway. i haven't even remembered much yet.

haha we can use that as an explanation if anyone asks! we could just say there's a convention happening that they don't know about.