retrospec | so, about that death business

Hey, Retrospec.

I'll get right to the point here: as a few of you know, I died near the end of last year. Obviously it didn't stick, but I've been trying to figure out why-- and I think we've finally gotten somewhere on that point.

Full disclosure, some of this is edited, but you can't blame me for not wanting to plaster personal info all over this app, all right? I'm still giving you guys the important parts here. Skip the rest of this if you don't want to know.

So, first off- yeah, you can come back if you die, but try not to play too fast and loose with your life here. I didn't remember a damn thing about my memories or other life or whatever-it-is when I woke up again. They've been coming back, too, so if you want to get rid of your memories you're probably still out of luck.

[the first file chuuya attaches is an image of a computer screen, with a database displaying retrospec users and whether they're alive or dead. he's blurred individual names except his own, which has a 'restored' status; there's another blurred name with the same status in there too.]

After I died, apparently my body vanished, and the records of my death have been gone too; they turned back up in my file in this database, though.

[the second file uploaded is the coroner report from his death. this has parts blacked out to obscure personal details and basically just shows what kind of report it is, and that chuuya was in fact declared dead.

the third is a list that, again, has been edited to obscure information, so it's not immediately apparent what it's a list of. there's a percentage visible there, though, showing that chuuya was roughly 30% restored as of the time he saved this file.]

This is a list of all the shit I've remembered again since coming back-- and I guess everything that I haven't, I can't read the whole thing. Looks like they've been keeping track of how much I've gotten back, and how much I haven't; it's been kind of slow going, but I don't know if it's always that way or if it just varies.

The biggest thing, though, was this:

[there's one more file attached to the post, a report with the following information (copy-pasting from what I was given here)--

There's a separate report from the restoration department of Recollé that talks about the energy needed and precautions taken to balance the city and not cause an unnecessary temporal storm by restoring Chuuya. This report talks about how they lifted the body and virtually went in to stabilize/alter reality a little solely to slip Chuuya and his soul back into place before delivering him to the hospital. This is why people wake up after a few days from the dead and are not reported as dead after this point.

The report also talks about how revival includes short-term amnesia that directly effects the brain so that the newly revived remember people and the events by being on-network (world changes, etc.), but not previous restoration attempts (memories/powers/etc.) The brain is delicate, after all. It cites some of the work of Dr. J. Halliday who had done research on memory restoration and loss of memories. (Information that was found by team Yzma in August's plot.)]

There were a couple brain scans in there too, but I'm not posting that in public. If you're a doctor and you want to study them, though, I'll send you the files privately.

...so, there you go. That's everything we've managed to dig up. Do what you want with it, maybe it'll help figure some more shit out.