retrospec | [Text]

Good morning everyone!

I have a couple questions, if people are willing to answer.

The first one is somewhat personal I suppose, so please don't feel obligatedif you don't want to.

Have you, or do you know anyone, who was on the Retrospec network, forgot about it, and then remembered again?
Would you be willing to talk about what it was like? Do you remember the first time you were connected?
Do you feel any different from the first time?

Okay.

My other question is about technology. Many people have received technology from the retrospec people. A lot of it works in ways we're not really used to, or is much more advanced than anything we have here. Or is magic.

(It's not really magic.)

If you have received something like that, would you be willing to allow some of us to examine them? If we can start to figure out how they work, maybe we can start reverse engineering them, or adding them to other things we already have.

On a related note, if you are an engineer or mechanic or anything along those lines and would like to be involved in examining these things, let me know! Maybe we can organize something big here.

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Working on it.

Off the top of my head?
Hard light holograms.
Rapid matter duplication.

...Probably other things I'm not smart enough to have heard about.

But I was doing that myself without any aides as far as I could tell?

And you could have been generating it somehow we couldn't see.
If you have the tech to make hard light holograms, nanotechnology is probably a thing too

If I had that tech why would everyone be using swords and not like ray guns?

Honestly?
I have no idea.
Personal taste?

I'm not even sure that they *had* guns.

No wait, Adlet used smoke bombs.

Are smoke bombs before or after guns?

It depends on what you mean by smoke bombs.
But mostly before.

Hm.

Wrapped up balls which then let out smoke? He used them to blind a lot of people.

Oh, it wasn't flammable if that helps

I don't know much about the history of smoke bombs, honestly.
But they are pretty simple to make.
So I imagine they could've come first

But how technology evolved on one world doesn't necessarily mean that's how it evolved on another.

Yeah that's true, it's not as if social developments happen linearly either, it's more complex. And the needs of a given place will dictate those groupings and what technology they develop too.

the only magic thing I have is my tattoo for examining

Plus we don't know what kind of resources your world has.
Things that we might not have ever heard of.

Wait is your tattoo magical?

I think?

There are six people with identical ones on other parts of their body, and it marks them as chosen heroes called Braves.

Huh. That could be interesting. Maybe something in the ink...

I do have to admit...

I was expecting you to make a joke about looking at your chest.

This is a serious moment, Eleanor!

[ She considered it. ]

Uh huh.

Really! Besides, you've resisted my advances before now.

Oh.

...I hadn't realized you'd made any of those.

rip my game i am dead

No, no, your...game...is probably fine.
I've never been the most aware when it came to things like that.

And my last few months have been rather confusing.
Romantically.