notyourutopian: (Hmm.)
Eleanor Lamb ([personal profile] notyourutopian) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-01-24 09:17 am

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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.
commandertoolbelt: (900% done)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-01-25 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
right okay
you explain magic by saying it's magic and i'm the one not making sense
look we just wanted to check out some of the advanced tech retrospec's been handing out what's so wrong with that
lalliho: (jenny's the worst)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-25 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I never said there was anything wrong with that but NOW what's wrong is that such a big idiot like you shouldn't be helping with something like that
commandertoolbelt: (welp)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-01-25 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm a mechanic
that is literally my job
lalliho: (no wait i don't like that)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-25 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
well other me was a mage so fuck off
commandertoolbelt: (hanging out)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-01-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
and other me was a demigod but that doesn't mean magic can't be explained somehow

[ actually it does but he doesn't know that yet ]
lalliho: (loud exasperated sighing)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-25 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[lmao well fuck, he ain't touching that pantheon with a ten foot pole, no matter what powers his magic.]

just because a person you're talking to can't doesn't mean it can't ever

stop putting things in little boxes that can never be moved because you said so
commandertoolbelt: (lounging)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2018-01-25 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
and that is exactly why we say magic is science we can't explain yet
lalliho: (still green around them)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-25 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[aaaand mysteriously Lalli doesn’t have any more arguments to make. Spoilers: he’s not out of fight, he just broke his hand in a fit of frustration]