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[recollecters]

Hello, everyone! As you've probably noticed, we've been having a few problems - I mentioned earlier that something got knocked out of balance, and we had to recalibrate, but in a few days we should be able to drop the emergency measures. Please be aware that there is an incoming storm, class four. General orders for that kind of thing are to report to management for any known threats and follow instructions, but so far what's known is "that might be a little annoying" and "hope it isn't". Theoretically it'll probably be related to the holiday, I think, because a large group of souls focused through the needle of a pin on one thing can sort of shape a thing around them. That's sort of a really inaccurate way to put it on the technical side of things, but I think it's the easiest way to understand it! At any rate, we'll know more once we're in the thick of things. Please take care as usual; resources aren't exactly what some of you seem to think they are, and we had to expend rather more than usual in the past month or so to keep things with a few of you steady. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain one of this month's freebies! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 5 or more consecutive comments from you with someone new. We define someone new as someone new to the game, or simply someone your character has never tagged before. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[compendiem]

Category 1: some damange
Category 2: extensive damage
Category 3: devastating damage
Category 4: catastrophic damage
Category 5: catastrophic damage with increased severity

What was August's like and how did people prepare? Or hope they had.

[ladytakamaki]

Hey, aren't you...
Arisato? From the shrine?

As for August, I don't really think we had time to "prepare". Everything just kind of happened. Did anyone talk to you about the monsters yet?

[compendiem]

Yeah, that's me. Hello.
I haven't heard about storm monsters. Are they much worse than the rats taking shelter down in the subway?

[hauhra]

Are you seriously asking if Retrospec gave us enough information to prepare for last August's storm? You must be joking.

[compendiem]

Wouldn't they have? They gave a head's up this time. Something to do with a February holiday.

[alitaba]

2...? 3 I guess.
but it was without warning though and everything's fixed so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[compendiem]

Not as bad and everything turned out. So there's no reason to worry this time either. Alright.

[servileness]

Thank you for saying what we're all thinking. Will you let me know what the more... veteran, for the lack of a better word, app users say, on average?

I'm also curious.

[compendiem]

They say it's fine, don't worry.

[ This is the info he collected from... all of one person. ]

[floret]

Do you think they're using the same ranking system that weather storms do?? I was really hoping they had some kind of proprietary categories that meant it won't actually be particularly terrible.

[compendiem]

Oh. Like from a scale of 1 to 100. 4 might not be too bad.

[roseblooms]

Did you come up with that particular ranking system yourself, or is that actually one of Retrospec's?

[compendiem]

It's the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes. Since they used the term "storm."

[evidentiary]

Somehow I think their damage scale is a little different from ours.

[compendiem]

How high do you think the scale goes? We ran into that problem last time too, didn't we?

[ascatic]

Catastrophic damage...

There's a pun in there, somewhere.

We would be lucky if the spirits were cats, yes?

[youraffection]

wait is this like a legit index or something

[maskreant]

solid rubric. no one prepared and we got some weird message in code.

if i think about, this is a lot better to start with. it's almost pitiful.

[spirithacker]

this sucks
at least its ONLY catastrophic damage
not catastrophic damage but worse somehow

[destiny_key]

august was probably like
cat 3-ish???

also there was no preparing it just suddenly happened
which is why jim got put on probation i think lmao

[complementing]

August was a category 3

that went down to category 1...?

[missingache]

Monsters.
That's what August was.
And a mess.

[Boy, you were only there for the TDM in August.]

[imaginex]

... Wait, are those the actual categories?

[embearass]

Borrowing the system for tropical storms, that's... somewhat genius, I must admit.

[akatatai]

...
Your secret is out Minato