retrospec | 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 ]

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yes dont call the police

[ She lets this sit for about four minutes intentionally.

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In any case, what sections specifically did you find hard to get through? Oh and you're a teenager I'm sure but you mean Maurice is young, yes?

no i mean theres a lot of words so i skimmed through and just read the stuff in bold
but yeah hes the intern and interns are supposed to be high schoolers and college students right? he sent us all sorts of weapons through the mailbox over the summer but said we had to give them back- you should include that too: hes helpful but no fun

Wait, that mailbox existed at the time? The same one we all use now?

[ But if she focused on the bolded things... good, that means those work. ]

no it was the one near the zoo, not the waffle house
i think its bc we were going to die wo him so he made it closer

Wow, you guys had it rough in August. I'm not sure we were ever in that dire of straights. But when we also didn't get supplied weapons.

wait what were you doing if you werent fighting giant 50ft tall monsters like we were doing all aug what the heck

There we monsters around (none of them that big that I personally saw) but the main goal was getting keys to unlock a library and free a man trapped within there.

I played a mimic game with skeletons.

wtf why couldnt you just kick down the door? the doors in the library arent that thick
also wtf

No not the main library it was a Retropsex exclusive one under the University with deep padlocks and scifi generators and such.

you couldve asked us for a bazooka and blast off those padlocks and generators and stuff

We barely knew what anyone else was doing.

Besides I think only our team was authorized to go in there, I know someone tried to bring a friend and couldn't manage it

oh yeah the subway was like that too but someone brought us rope so we could rescue one of our teammates
next time!!!! if you need a bazooka we can share!

I still don't know if that would be safe in the space but noted.

Honestly, I think coordination for "next time" ought to be better. I've been tapped to help with a Neighborhood Watch type group to that end.

its not up to us anyways huh. whats that group about? they can go too

What Retrospec assigns, no. But that doesn't leave us with no options.

The idea of the group would be to know who can do what, who's willing to come out and help with what, and get people to organize together in the event there's an obvious problem.

sounds complicated and like something peopled do wo a group but if its something like that then its fine! you guys can handle retrospec

Does that mean you know who you can count on in any given situation?

yep! me
if not me, then my cousin, or anybody in my group over the summer

Okay, if you're reliable.

What talents do you have. You can tell me, right?

im super reliable! im good at soccer and football and im the fastest coffee runner in the city and i can take on anybody in an ice cream eating contest!