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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-02-01 05:23 pm

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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

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selfloving: (VIII.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
An observation. This may be worth keeping track of.

I believe Joanne is becoming frustrated with the current situation.

Here's the evidence: Her last two sentences. The quotation. The terseness of the message. Doubtless we're not helping her in this, but I don't think it's just on our end, either.

I'd hope that if pushed to far she'd snap and be more forthcoming with her information, but I'm afraid that if she snapped, the only end result would be the snapping itself.
standalonehuman: (TogusaRealization)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-02-02 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa I would agree.
Hitori Togusa I met Joanne, back in August, and I don't think people realize how young she is. I don't even think she's eighteen. She is still doing a great job. She was the one that helped us out for the last push on the city back in August.
Hitori Togusa But it's really not fair how much pressure is on her right now.
selfloving: (XVIII.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Jasmine Geteilt Is she that young? That's surprising. She handles herself just fine, for all that.
Jasmine Geteilt Isn't the boy young as well? The intern we've occasionally heard from.
Jasmine Geteilt I don't know about the security staff member.
standalonehuman: (TogusaPonder2)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-02-02 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa Maurice, he's a little older. College-age. The two of them both made a comment, as if they had grown up with Retrospec.
Hitori Togusa Joanne's sister, Janet, before she became Halloway, she was Wiseman. And she's research and development. Makes you think that Retrospec getting them was some kind of a package deal.
Hitori Togusa One Wendy Guo, yeah. She's still a mystery.
selfloving: (XVI.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Jasmine Geteilt Still young to be handling the wellbeing of some hundreds of people.
Jasmine Geteilt A package deal? Something like that sounds likely. Or Janet helped her get the position.
Jasmine Geteilt Unless their situation is not unlike ours. Though it seems, for them, at least, to be a little different.
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalkDown)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-02-02 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa They give up their lives to work for Retrospec. They never leave the complex, the world outside forgets about them. If they ever were a part of this world, which is starting to sound less likely.
Hitori Togusa I'm angry at Retrospec, as a whole. But it's hard to be angry at the individuals, Joanne, Maurice, even Janet, really.
selfloving: (III.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Jasmine Geteilt That's almost not living at all.
Jasmine Geteilt There aren't many reasons I can think of that someone would benefit from being completely erased.
Jasmine Geteilt I agree. They aren't the dictators. Raging against them wastes energy.
standalonehuman: (TogusaPonder2)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-02-02 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hitori Togusa Between that, falling entirely off the grid, and the lengths that they've been willing to go to to do their jobs? I am coming to the conclusion that Retrospec is scared of whatever this thing is they're trying to save us from.
Hitori Togusa At least, from their perspective, that's what they believe they're doing..
hauntedsavior: (turned your back on affinity)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2018-02-02 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Cool, that's what we need, the person apparently feeding us any info we can get about all this losing it and/or quitting.

Don't tell me all of you are here.
selfloving: (XI.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
From everything I've seen, I still think she's got the steadiest hand. She appears to be handling more than she should already.

Heh. It's been awhile since I was part of an "all of you." I assume you mean all of my sisters. There are three of us.
hauntedsavior: (count the years of isolation)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2018-02-02 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Just means when she burns out it's gonna be an even bigger fire.

You could've gotten another, I don't know. I've run into you and Clover. Gonna guess this lucky streak is about to continue.
selfloving: (X.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hence why we should keep an eye on it. I'd rather we're the ones to douse the flame...or just prevent it.

Your odds are good. Rose is almost certain to have something to complain about.

The others haven't said anything about it and they seem oblivious. I do check, from time to time.
hauntedsavior: (turned your back on affinity)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2018-02-02 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Joanne's probably in the same position as anybody who's ever done customer service now that I think about it. That's all this whole thing is. All right, fine, I won't smash Retrospec's window with a year-old can of Spaghetti-Os if it keeps her on our side.

Geteilt und zusammengebracht. Toll. Love it. Love this luck I have.
selfloving: (LXXI.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-02 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking the same. She doesn't have the control or even the jargon that the science staff or even research and development do.

[She thinks about asking after the German for a second; it's a sore, awkward spot, sharing a name that meant nothing to her culturally but somehow made them a family. Instead, she moves on.]

Your luck can't be that exceptional, at least. Look just how many of us there are already.
hauntedsavior: (count the years of isolation)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2018-02-02 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone only tells everyone else exactly enough shit they need to do their jobs. I know how it goes.

[Anna's not gonna give anybody crap for their names, least of all these sisters from what she does know about their whole family situation. she's just being a nerd. probably the right move there.]

Yeah, there's a fucking ton of us on this thing and I know way more of you than I thought I would. Might as well just assume the whole city is logged on.
judgementkazzy: (切り裂けTenderness)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2018-02-02 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope she's alright.
She's been the nicest and most helpful of Retrospec's employees...
I'll take her over Jim anyday.

Stay strong, Joanne.
selfloving: (Default)

[personal profile] selfloving 2018-02-03 04:46 am (UTC)(link)