Attached: Guide to Retrospec and Related Issues

[matchbreaker]

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

[maidofmistakes]

Whoa... This must've been a lot of work. Thanks. I have a question?

[matchbreaker]

It ended up taking most of December, yeah.

But sure, shoot!

[maidofmistakes]

Does anyone else... remember their world getting destroyed? Or are we just relying on Retrospec there?

[matchbreaker]

I don't remember it, no. I've not met anyone else who has personally, so I've been relying on Retrospec for that information.

[maidofmistakes]

Okay. Because I think

I think I just remembered it. Like, this morning.

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . . Damn, what a thing to- ]

You did? Do you want to talk about it at all?

[maidofmistakes]

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.

[matchbreaker]

Of course it's okay. I was going to offer you a private venue to talk about it if you wanted it is all.

[ And she might not... want to... so. ]

[maidofmistakes]

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.]

[matchbreaker]

It's alright, of course. No need to bare it all for the world unless you want to have it open for others to see.

Want me to message you, or we can meet up somewhere. I'll drive wherever in the city.

[maidofmistakes]

I don't want to make you have to go out anywhere. We can take this to messages?

[matchbreaker]

Whatever seems best to you, honestly. It's not an imposition to me either way.

[ She won't let. Some young girl. Deal with that alone??? But she... mm. It would be a bit much to demand it. Not like they're that close. ]

[buncho]

most of that is confusing and theres too many words but ive got deets on the employees you dont have yet!

ive talked w maurice and hes a little older than me maybe and he says er a lot
ronnies the conductor down in the subway! hes alive and says maurice is alive too. his strawberry cakes are delish
nigel eats a lot of microwave meals from the convenience store

[ are these useful at all though ]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Well, okay then. ]

Does that mean you've met Ronnie and/or Maurice personally? Or Nigel, for that matter.

Obviously some of the latter sections are confusing the hope would be the earlier ones follow easily enough.

[buncho]

not nigel but i videochatted w maurice a lot and had a tea party w ronnie!

[windeity]

you actually did it.
this looks great. there's some stuff in there i didn't even know so this is actually pretty helpful. nice job.

[matchbreaker]

So what would you peg as Ronnie's age?

Human, not?

[matchbreaker]

I said I was going to and so I did

[buncho]

uhh old. grampa aged? hes human and he had a cane

[matchbreaker]

So do you know his official position?

[buncho]

idk what title it is, but he was in charge of the subways. subway master? he had the hat and we talked about underground paths connecting space or something

[matchbreaker]

Connecting space?

[buncho]

i dont really remember what his exact words were but he called the tracks twists and one of the places the tracks led to got closed off later bc we fixed it and he said if i wanted to go back then i had to master space travel or something

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Now that's interesting. ]

Huh! Guess it'll be worth it for more people to look into the subway area sometime soon, then.

[buncho]

yeah if you can sneak in, bring a sword and some food!