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You know, I think some April Fool's pranks are okay! Like the silly ones they do on websites or the really good natured kind. But I am LESS okay with someone changing the ENTIRE layout of our entire building and giving us treasure maps to go around it which for the record my brother-in-law did and it's a pain!!

There's some weird effects coming in from outside this planet at the moment, although they'll mostly miss the city itself. There'll be a localized temporal storm, but it shouldn't be more than a mild irritation. It looks like it's just going to yank some things around and send them on through. I think Maurice is going to call out sick that day, or if I were him I definitely would.

Hey, I kind of want a four-leaf clover. I know that's more last month than this month, but still. If you find one, pass it along.

Also, I want to do a cutesy April Fools thing, so don't get too mad!

Joanne Wiseman
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As a Catholic I find their talk about souls and all the resurrection troubling and I am far from the strictest member of the church. I try not to think about it too deeply since we have so little information but it looms in the background you could say.
Wouldn't that be something? It's worth a shot. I worry about their safety when they treat potentially dangerous effects as normal.

[ Next thing you know they'll be walking into dragon mouths without realizing it. Matt does not recommend this. ]

I don't think of the unknown as inherently bad or dangerous so it doesn't bother me in the general sense. It might help that I was forced to navigate a world without knowing what it looks like.
Sometimes knowledge is worse. Knowing something is bad and being unable to do anything about it. That is what gets under my skin.

you think? i'm not really big on religion so i do not know how it all works, but at the same time i guess that makes sense.
wouldn't it be up to us then to keep everybody else safe?

you're not missing much sometimes. on the other hand i like to think that some things are so vivid you don't need to even be able to see them to know how you feel about them. maybe that's insensitive.
sorry, anyway...
on that same note you're right. knowledge is worse. but i also like to think if we know about it, that means there's still a chance we can do something about it even if it seems impossible.

The Bible warns against playing God. Different people take it to mean different things of course. I think it's a warning about getting drunk with power and going too far against the laws of nature. Retrospec has the type of power that could very well destroy reality if the people behind the wheel lose their better judgement.
We definitely should be looking out for the sleepers. I'm sure they would do the same for us if our places were reversed.

It's fine. You're actually right. I've experienced it firsthand. [ Pre-super senses too. Now it's in HD. ] Sometimes vision is a distraction, really. Not to drag out the religious references but staying true to what you feel like that even without seeing everything is in a word, faith.
True. That's a nice positive spin on that. Circumstances can always change.

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what about...if you are a god, matt? i am not saying that retrospec is filled with them but they've brought back a handful of people who are. what do you make of that? is that still going too far against the laws of nature and stuff?
we will. we will do everything to keep them safe.

here's a weird, probably not entirely related question.
can you have faith in something and still not be religious?

I don't think it would be fair to judge someone for happening to possess extremely powerful abilities. It's the way they use their power that I'd be concerned about. World changing power means having the fate of an entire world in your hand. That demands some sort of responsibility.

Definitely. If you feel that type of devotion and belief in something it's still faith. Some people have faith in optimistic views like humanity or that everything happens for a reason. I'm sure you've met someone like that before.

right.
well.
i think i have those powers.
not here but i did back there.
and i think i made the right choice then maybe. it is complicated.

i might have known a few optimists, yeah. i just wasn't sure if that counted, so thanks. i do appreciate that.

That would explain the flying.

I get the distinct impression that you're an optimist yourself.

yeah, the flying is just what all of us can do as godtier. dave can fly, too.
but i guess. someone once said "optimism through stalwart skepticism is a defect not everyone is lucky enough to be cursed with." and i know she was talking about me but...maybe! i do not mind being an optimist if it will help everybody else.

Godtier. Is that another way of saying god-level power?

I wouldn't say being an optimist is an inherently bad thing. Most of the time it is helpful.

something like that. we were considered minor gods from what i understand.
as long as optimism is helpful rather than making things worse then maybe you're right.
but i think there is a difference between optimism and naivety.
it is the latter i do not want.

That doesn't sound too crazy now that I remember that Thor was real where I came from.

The fact you're concerned about naivety will help you avoid some of it. In my experience it sneaks up on you even as an adult. But that's life.

thor like. the god of thunder thor??? how does that one work?
and yeah, i noticed. but i also noticed sometimes life is bullshit matt. i haven't figured out how to avoid that part yet.

Yeah that Thor. He visited Earth and helped save New York from aliens.

That's another one I wish I had better luck with myself but my track record has been unimpressive in several areas.
Endurance builds character?

huh. ok then. i believe you given half the stuff i remember but thor.
i think maybe that is probably painted on the wall of my old high school somewhere, matt. but i get what you're saying.
we're doing our best and maybe that's all we can do anymore.

Yeah it's weird. Supposedly he had his magic hammer and could fly. Not that I saw him do it with my own two eyes.

I'm starting to sound like a motivational poster.
I wonder if they hang any of those on the walls at Retrospec HQ?

you do know i also have a magic hammer and can fly.
now i kind of want to meet thor...
but i bet they do. it'd explain why they are so blase about everything that happens here.
but oh well.

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