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[idealest]

My name is Sakichi Niijima. This message is addressed to those of us still in Recollé.

Valentine's Day is approaching. Many of you had plans with members of the expeditionary teams that are no longer feasible, but all is not lost. I and Chiyo Matsuoka intend to deliver any parcels addressed to those expeditionary members, provided they are entrusted to us by February 14th. The Post Office is continuing its hold on all out-of-town mail, so do not send any of your gifts through traditional mailing methods.

Please reply if you have a letter or parcel you would like delivered, and we will arrange for a pick-up.


p.s. hi this is chiyo matsuoka!
like sakichi said we're going to do our best so valentine's day will be a little bit happier for everyone!
you have our word that we'll try our best to get gifts to where you want them!
if you're in a group that's out of the city i'm happy to do the reverse too!
paypal me at [insert some cute flower email here] if you have anything specific in mind!

[ something like a few hour later, an edit: ]

JOANNE SAID SHE WOULD HELP❣❣❣❣❣


(( OOC: This is an IC sister post to Ara's OOC Valentine's Gift Meme! If you respond to the OOC post with a gift your character would not be able to personally deliver, it may be assumed that Sakichi/Chiyo/Joanne helped make the delivery happen. All entrusted gifts will find their way to their intended recipients on Valentine's.

Unless addressed directly, responses will come from either Sakichi or Chiyo. ))

Comments

[frostythehitman]

so was sending me my own arm three months before they chopped it right off my body
they're just lucky they moved their hq before i had a chance to do it
or i'd have set it on fire right in front of their stupid faces

[idealest]

[ So it was James's arm, sent before it was removed from his body? A time-traveling arm...? Either way, Sakichi is alarmed. ]

What do you mean "they chopped it right off your body"?

[frostythehitman]

i mean what i mean
i had two arms
then retrospec took one of them
now i only have one
then they sent it back in time or something so they could mail it to me three months in advance

[idealest]

[ Note to self: don't trash any of Retrospec's "gifts". ]

That does seem excessively cruel...
But you also seem excessively provocative.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had detractors among the Retrospec staff.
Have you tried asking Mr. Carlisle why such a measure was taken?

[frostythehitman]

[ wow. wow!!! James's hand is shaking with anger so severely right now that he can't even type, he has to resort to speech to text.

Unfortunately, speech to text does not transcribe the spitting anger in his tone. ]

So it's my own fault I got my arm chopped off then huh
I deserved it is that it
I'm the real bad guy here for provoking them and making them do all that
Here's a suggestion
Try eating your words before you say them out loud next time
That way you'll choke on your own shit before you get a chance to inflict it on the rest of us

[idealest]

[ Even if it's only text, that's... a lot of anger. Sakichi makes an assumption based on the fact that James receives packages at Fort McCoy, and it grants Sakichi some small measure of patience. His assumption is completely wrong, but look he's trying. ]

I never said you deserved it. Only that you're belligerent and likely the type to collect enemies, whether real or imagined.
But before we settle on the idea that the Retrospec staff has a personal vendetta against you, we should entertain other possibilities.
For instance, the idea that the arm they sent you was a warning.
It is difficult to decipher intent without speaking to the people responsible for the package.

[frostythehitman]

yeah no duh
a warning that they were gonna CHOP IT OFF 3 months later
and hey have you maybe considered that i wouldn't be so BELLIGERENT if i wasn't constantly getting sent weapons and body parts and getting shit amputated
or do you just not have enough brain cells to rub together to even consider that

[idealest]

Did a Retrospec employee personally come to your residence and remove your arm from your body? How can you be sure the loss of your arm was something they willed?

[frostythehitman]

they don't have to have sawed my arm off in person to be guilty
plus when i woke up the whole arm was gone and healed up like i had it taken off years ago
that's the kind of shady magical crap retrospec are pros at
that's enough proof for me
what the hell else could do that to me huh

[idealest]

Enough. I see now that this is a fruitless conversation.
Good afternoon, Mr. Barnes.

[ And as rudely and suddenly as that, Sakichi stops responding. ]