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Elda Marker ([personal profile] matchbreaker) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-01-03 11:11 pm

Attached: Guide to Retrospec and Related Issues

Hello everyone. If you know or don't know me my name is Elda Marker (as you can see from the username) and I've been on this app since May. It's been increasingly frustrating to me to have to disseminate large amounts of information to people who weren't here for August or just explaining the basics of the basics to new people who are added to the app every other month.

And so I've taken upon myself to make a guide for Retrospec and the related information that we've amassed.


[ Guide ]
[ ICly this guide would be linked to in a Google Doc or something and have a download link for a pdf ]


Obviously though, I don't know everything. If you have information that I don't, if some of the information is confusing to you, or if some of my information is incorrect, please feel free to step forward with that information. For the time being I'm going to keep editing it personally just so that the information remains controlled in one spot (so as to not make conflicting narratives) but I highly recommend that you download this guide so that if I am removed from the app you can continue to edit it after I don't remember making it.

I hope that this guide will be helpful for those of you who are currently confused or for better informing new people added to the app in future. Obviously, this can't be just a link and forget type thing, as there is a *lot* of information, but the hope would be it could a resource.

Thank you for your time.


[ OOC: So I'll keep updating this guide over time, feel free to submit IC corrections/additions here and if there's a want for it I'll make a (real) Google Doc version too? Feel free to contact me OOC if you have any concerns you'd like to work out that way. The guide was amassed based on stuff Elda knows from various IC avenues like network discussions and her own experiences ]
maidofmistakes: Unsure. (She just kept pointing at the cows)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-04 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone else... remember their world getting destroyed? Or are we just relying on Retrospec there?
maidofmistakes: Apologizing. (So I literally just wrote "sorry")

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-04 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Because I think

I think I just remembered it. Like, this morning.
maidofmistakes: Anguished with Wonder Woman. (i don't know where i am)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-04 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
If that's okay? I don't want to take over your post or anything. I just thought it might be helpful, and... It felt really real. I mean, all the memories do, that's obvious, but.
maidofmistakes: Sadly offering something. (My neck kind of hurts.)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-04 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. If you're sure. I don't want to impose, but if you want to, I can come talk about it. Maybe it'll help.

[Help Elda's guide, she means, but maybe something else.]
maidofmistakes: Looking up. (She's asleep in a Fisher-Price toy car.)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-04 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want to make you have to go out anywhere. We can take this to messages?
maidofmistakes: Studying. (Sorry. Not doing life today. Love to.)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2018-01-05 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
...Thanks. I'll talk to you, if you're sure it's okay.

[and so it goes]