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hey! a while back at the beginning of the month i talked about getting people together to start forming a training coalition/volunteer crisis response team or whatever (this thing) and then this whole month went completely stupid as usual.
so anyway i still want to do that! i know everybody who replied thought it was a good idea and i am hoping to do the first meeting maybe in the first or second week of may and we just hope that the city is a lot less annoying next month.

maybe may 6th or something?

until then if you did not talk to me about this already and you're interested in training and organizing and being part of a crisis response team let me know.

if you already did, do me a favor and fill out the following so i can sort everybody? that would be helpful.

name:
age:
date you received the retrospec app:
abilities:
other skills/strengths:
do you work well with big groups or small groups:
other notes:

…anyway yeah! any other questions i guess you can ask them here.

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you've been here for a while. that alone is pretty valuable, i think!
i was talking to matt about that, sort of. figuring out how to work with people off the app and everything. that would be a huge help since our priority is to also keep non-app people safe, too.
thank you. i'm hoping it turns into something good and not just something that falls apart later.

I think this is a much better idea, I had thought to organize something at some point, but people are reluctant to work with the police, so let's do it the other way around, so we're working for you.
I like it better.

i'm not sure if i am supposed to agree with that but i do agree with that.
with everything the way it is, we really need to start trusting each other and i think a lot of people think of police as people who are going to stop us from using our powers and weapons.
especially since some of them are pretty unconventional.

It is what it is, and I get it.
And, frankly, yeah. My job is to keep people from needing to use their powers and weapons. But I can only do so much to stop that.

On the topic of unconventionality, though? No matter how ridiculous it is, I keep trying to encourage people to register their weapons with the city anyway. They'll do it, it's ridiculous, but they will.

with the way that things are going now though, i think we are getting to a point we need to use weapons and powers just to stay on top of things. it sucks, but things are getting weirder. we ran into a lot of monsters in february.

what's the point of registration? just to make sure we aren't charged with illegal contraband?

Other than the fact that registration is following the law?

If you need a different reason, it does make it easier to get back property if it's stolen. And we've found it's possible for these items to be separated from their owners.

does that happen often? i keep all of my weapons on me because i have the space, but mine aren't like guns or anything so maybe they aren't that dangerous.

...I have many follow-up questions.

Let's start with 'what weapons did Retrospec send you, then?'

a lot of hammers. it does not surprise me that much since those were my main weapons in my old life.

[Crap, a more important question comes up.]

You're one of the people that thinks the person you're seeing is really you, then? That you two are one and the same?

given the fact that i know there have been multiple versions of me and my friends in the past that were all the same person in different circumstances and that this is the third (third?) universe i now have memories of? yes.

............

Hunh?

Your...other self? Was already reincarnating?

soooort of.
versions of me died, but i remember those versions dying? and then my other body woke up inside the medium and stuff and that is how i became a god. it happened to all of us.
and then we learned that the universe was sick and we had to bail, so we headed for a new one and it took three years, but eventually we figured it out.
more or less.

[It takes quite some time for Togusa to formulate any kind of response to this.]

Let me say that I dont doubt that this is intensely personal and traumatic for you, and I don't mean to belittle the impact of what you're remembering.

But what the fuck

How do you even...cope with that?

you just do.
i think if i spent too much time dwelling on how horrible everything was back then i would not be able to move forward and grow from it.
but i also know that it was me because it's believable. i recognize myself in everything that i remember as a thing i would have done in a different lifetime.

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