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[recollecters]

hey. looks like you're all busy right now and joanne is down with a cold, so this probably doesn't have to be fancy. r&d doesn't report anything major for the next month so don't be dumbasses and make a problem of your own. don't fuck with the liaison, we're not replacing him. looks like there's some weird fucking stone at city hall now. enjoy that, i guess. pretty sure zee warned you about the stones, but if you broke it, that sucks and we don't know how to fucking fix it yet so good job, idiot. you might need to be a little proactive. r&d probably has something in mind, but good fucking luck getting a straight answer out of any of them but the kid. maybe they'll at least tell zee what they need, though. or if you're chill with the loss, whatever. that's about it. wait, right. joanne wanted to thank two of you for letting her help with holiday shit last month. thanks for not being assholes. the kid likes having stuff to do, i guess. and that's really it. later. Wendy Guo Security/Archivist Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. 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. Additionally, the heart stones from February are still in effect! They will be in effect until 3/3 and will be addressed on the event log. Thanks!

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[hauntedsavior]

This, but unironically.

[judgementkazzy]

Oh, I'm not being ironic.
I like her no-bullshit attitude.

[hauntedsavior]

Hell yeah. Figured it was 50/50 with the tone everyone else was taking around here. I appreciate someone who's not trying to weigh us down with corporate trash and gets honest with us.

Wonder what she means about that weird stone.

[judgementkazzy]

Yeah, exactly.
This is much easier to understand than something that's more PR-based.

I haven't been to City Hall in a long time so I don't really know.
Maybe it's some kind of left over from the Unreality stuff?

[hauntedsavior]

You're the third person to tell me about this unreality thing. It's really messed up how I was obviously here in the city for it but it barely even registered as that weird.

Don't like that I have to keep thinking back to all this shit I lived through and figuring out if it was actually something I should've been worried about. But I have the feeling I should've been worried about all of it.

[judgementkazzy]

Yeah, it's not something you pick up on unless you're on the app.
It's kind of crazy what can pass for "normal" around here.

I mean as long as you weren't hurt or anything, it's not like you need to worry that much, right?
If you can't do anything about it, then worrying about it won't solve anything.

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, that's fair. I just don't like having... I don't know, this is some philosophical shit, but I don't like having to question my own reality.

If it's changing in front of me, yeah, I'm fine with that. There's a person responsible for it and I can see it happening. But if I have to go back and think about all this stuff that I just didn't notice? Not a great time.

[judgementkazzy]

I understand.
The lives we have now are real.
We lived them.
But the stuff before was real, too.
That's how I see it, anyway.

I can see how that would be weird.
We still don't really know how Retrospec manages to make people not notice stuff.

[hauntedsavior]

Fuck, dude, I just brought the mood down into a bottomless pit with my bullshit. You don't have to console me. I can handle all this existential garbage on my own. It's nothing everyone around here doesn't have to deal with anyway, sooner or later.

I appreciate it, though.

[judgementkazzy]

It's fine.
Some people handle it better than others.

If I can help someone to handle it a little better, then I don't mind.

[hauntedsavior]

You might not mind, but I sure as hell do. This ain't who I am normally.

I'll probably get used to it. Looking forward to the day when I'm just living with another person's memories in my head and it's totally normal again. Figure that's gotta happen eventually.

[judgementkazzy]

It helps if you think of them as your old memories.
Like a past life.
Or just a different one, I guess.

That helped me, anyway.

[hauntedsavior]

Or a future life, if half the shit I'm thinking about is right. I'm still trying to figure out if I should call her "she" or "me", like that even matters.

Thanks for the advice, though. You're a good dude.

[judgementkazzy]

It's up to you.
I always think of it as "me" but I've been on this thing for a while.

And it's no problem.
I'm just doing what little I can.