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[meowchanics]

Finally got official hardass confirmàt̸i̵ǫn ͏from the university that exams are going ahead, for the most part. So, a few things:

1) Any affected students on this app: If it's unsafe or difficult for you to get here - hell, if it's giving you trouble unrelated to that - let me know. If need be, we can figure out how best to explain it. Everything is going to be fine, I͠ ̢promise!

2) Even if you intend to be here, check in with your professors. The comments here should be good enough, provided they're on the app too. It'll be useful to know for the bigger picture.

3) Anyone else: Little help with the buildings, desks, halls, computers for some students, other equipme͠nt? Would͞ b̧e real welcome right about now.

4) Take care out there.

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her text is a blood red I might edit in eventually

[matchbreaker]

[ Now recovering as best she can from the whole... you know... sun thing. She blinks at that name and she types in ]

Sigmund Klim, is that your actual name?

[meowchanics]

Yes? Need to get in touch?
Things are hectic over here, but I can listen.

[He types that, but he spends the next half minute or so squinting at the name. "Elda"... Elda... rings a bell, but - ah!]

Wait scratch that!
Holy shit
You were that little girl with the big house! on the street with the dogs!
How long has it been?!

[...That must be right, surely? Don't fail him now, memory, you're the one thing he can rely on... up until a month ago...]

[matchbreaker]

That's me! Golly, I thought the name sounded familiar! I still live in that same house, actually.

[ Still, someone from that long ago...? It's been years. ]

It's been forever!

[meowchanics]

Talk about a crazy coincidence. Makes me feel old...
Recolle's changed a lot huh? Back then, everything was so much more visible. 😹

[matchbreaker]

You said it! Why, I remember being able to step out my door and not trip over every little thing.

[meowchanics]

Well, I tripped over things anyway, but at least I could see why...
Oh, if you need any help painting in that neighbourhood, lemme know, ok? I can probably make time.

[matchbreaker]

Oh no I couldn't impose like that when we've just run into each other again by chance! I'll be able to work things out one way or another.

[meowchanics]

Welp, offer's there, take it or leave it. Good luck in the meantime!

[matchbreaker]

Thank you!

But seriously, you've got your hands full being a good professor, by the sound of it. If anything, I've probably got more free time to come and assess with that.

[meowchanics]

Wouldn't say no. [To the assistance or to the flattery? Yes.] Tenacity is a good thing, but I worry that sooner or later the students who insist on fumbling around here are going to damage something expensive. Such as themselves.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah, about the last thing anyone needs is something big and heavy falling on someone because of a little bungling around.

[meowchanics]

For real. Heck, we already had a couple near misses in one of the computer labs.
I've heard that a lot of the more drastic stuff this app gets up to is the temporary kind... Sure wish we could count on that.

[matchbreaker]

Count on it might be a little bit strong but yeah, this does stand a good chance of being cleared up within a month. There's often lingering effects, but the big-big things they can parse through.

[meowchanics]

I'll take your word for it. Either way, a month is a long time in academia... Even when half the school isn't missing...

[matchbreaker]

It's a long time for anyone, particularly to deal with something patently difficult like this or like the everything in October.

[meowchanics]

I... have no idea what happened in October, but that sounds about right. Shrug.

[matchbreaker]

Nightmares and nightmare fog.

So how long have you been on the app?

[meowchanics]

Not long... a little over a month.
Which is kinda unsettling in itself.

[matchbreaker]

That it's gone this badly so quickly, or?

[meowchanics]

Yeah basically. Amazed any of my students on this app managed to show up to class at all.

[matchbreaker]

Life continues, for better or worse. We're both old enough to know that!