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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.

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[angealwings]

Houseplants do well with an UV light.

Which does not make your question any less valid. Further question is, how will the dome not interfere with the storm itself?

Or is it there to keep the storm *in*?

I apologize, Zack, I know that you don't have the answers. But as it does not seem to be many answers from the source, these may be a little helpful to prepare.

[activatingcombatmode]

I don't know, man. Retrospec is a bunch of confusing bullshit.

They like to keep all their posts vague and secret too. As far as I can guess, the dome is to keep us in and the storm is gonna mess up a bunch of things to make the higher ups laugh their asses off.

Welcome to the app, Andrew...

[angealwings]

So it seems.

[ Somebody linked him to the guide. Andrew is taking it... oddly. ]

Thank you, Zack. How long have you been going through this?

[activatingcombatmode]

[Taking it better than Zack did at first, probably.]

About three months of crap for me.

You doing okay?

[angealwings]

[ That's because he internalizes and tries to think through stuff and you never know how he'll actually react? ]

It's mostly words for me this far. Difficult to think of all the implications but not directly upsetting.

Are you?

[activatingcombatmode]

[Zack screamed a lot.]

You get used to it if it makes you feel any better.

I'm fine, managed to find that subway station and some weird pamphlets on some towns called Gongaga and Nibelheim. Other than that, wishing the sun would come back.

[angealwings]

[ That sounds about... par for the course. Meanwhile, Andrew has not gotten anywhere near feeling like he can't live on this side and is wondering if it's some sort of virtual reality simulation.

Give him a little time. He'll either get more serious or stop wondering. ]

Those are definitely strange names for places. And I'm sure it will, Zack. This couldn't be a permanent solution to whatever may be the problem.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Yep. Welcome to hell, Andrew. Time is about what everyone needs until they start accepting how crazy this city really is.]

On the plus side, didn't get strangled by any more vines!

And yeah. It'll be real nice for things to go back to normal at least for a little while.

[ha ha ha ha]

[angealwings]

[ Okay but what if this is not hell but some virtual reality kind of ... thing? That would explain some things, wouldn't it? Like 'tweaks.' Just putting it out here. ]

That's good.

And perhaps gathering intel on what's fully going on will be the best past to that.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Zack would compare it to being a bunch of fish waiting to be shot in a barrel. But life goes on.]

Yeah, there's a lot more people here that have had the app a lot longer than me. Wish I could tell you more.

[angealwings]

[ That's... incredibly optimistic, Zack. Not. Plus, there is the bit about reviving the dead in the info doc. Who knows? ]

That's all right, thank you, my friend.

I can see that you have a lot of people close to you with whom you've probably talked about or who've helped, but now that I'm not ignorant and oblivious of this, if you need to talk about something or need help, let me know?

[activatingcombatmode]

[Yeah- He's not too happy about the app. But he deals well enough.]

Yeah, man... Of course. We're friends. I'm not gonna let you sit in the dark if something happens. Especially not now that you know about the app.

[angealwings]

Thank you, Zack. I won't be entirely useless, I hope.

[ L o o k, he's used to being the one others can rely on, rather than the other way around. ]