Attached: Guide to Retrospec and Related Issues

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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 ]

Comments

[vitis]

yeah, because i saw
there are paragraphs, bolded words, bullet points and everything

[matchbreaker]

Well it is a guide.

It wouldn't be good if people couldn't pick up the key terms at a glance

[vitis]

see???
got step one down pat

[matchbreaker]

Good.

But when you are home be sure to see if there's something missing or wrong you can notice.

[vitis]

okok

[ and a few hours later, once he's had a proper chance to begin reading through- ]

honestly, impressed by this apparent objectivity thus far

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[ Honestly, she knows she's not fully objective. Even now she kind of wants to take the term sleepers out of the guide, having only used it once as a term people do use. She also said a lot of "facts" that they had from Retrospec or other sources might be dubious when there's basically no reason to think they are.

... But she did try and hearing someone thinks that does make her smile. ]

Well it is for everyone, not me

[vitis]

still
i wouldn't have been unable to end each sentence with an unsubtle suggestion of rebellion

[ but like. another text, moving past that: ]

not the best guy to ask about it,
but didn't see any glaring writing errors either, so

[matchbreaker]

Rebellion, Becket? How would you be doing it?

[vitis]

jumping right to that huh.
it's not something i'd say too much over the network, anyway, even if they've gone to lengths to explain they don't read crap on here despite that

for now i'm just saying
tick off enough people and eventually something's bound to break, you know?

[matchbreaker]

[ So either a good plan or no plan. Got it. ]

Oh no, I'm well certain of that.

[vitis]

[ STEP 1: FIND A WEAKNESS. ]



[ ... that's still pending. ]

they wronged you enough for that, yet?

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Yes, they have. I think that's true of everyone, even if the details might be more complicated.

[vitis]

details like
people actually realizing they've been?
because the amount of "oh it's okay retrospec!!" i've read can be off-putting some days

[matchbreaker]

It's unclear how much they're actually accountable for, and how much they've actually worked to mitigate. Put into that context, it's not surprising to me that people want to be cooperative.

Honestly, it's made me feel more even-keel too.

But Halloway at least committed malicious crimes. Even if some of their actions have been to mitigate things, they have done so from a position on high, keeping us purposefully ignorant. Even if some of these things are natural causes or for some high minded purpose, the fact does remain that they've upended hundreds of lives.

It's complicated, and making this guide made me even more aware of that.

But I do want to see them brought to some sort of justice. Many things must be accounted for.

[vitis]

[ ah. ]

[ john definitely feels something less - considerate, but. ]

"the fact does remain that they've upended hundreds of lives."
see, at least you've got it.
which, especially something as reasoned as that, it's good to hear

[matchbreaker]

Would you have doubted me?

[vitis]

can't say you've given me some huge reason to, no

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See? Of course!