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Don't bother the techs.

Seriously, don't. I'm not entirely sure what's going on but all I'm getting is that it's the equivalent of being hacked and someone who knows layer theory better than we do is out there screwing things up and tampering with the project.

I don't have a really good update for you guys, but bear with us. Please?

Zee Carlisle
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Oh yeah? What kind of stuff does it seem like? Magic or stupid fancy tech?

honestly? i can't tell
probably magic, but i don't know the process in how it was created

Cool, mystery magic. Totally the best thing for any person to deal with.

It seem dangerous? For you, I mean.

Not for me, no. I don't think so?

Maybe.

I really only remember one thing about it.

And let me guess, it's the least useful thing you could possibly know about it. I have an idea of how this whole thing works by now.

pretty much
I know what the thing is, but not what it's called
I have an idea what it's used for
and I know what I did with it

and it's pretty much universally terrible

Yeah, all of that tracks. Nobody has good powers. They're all total bullshit garbage and nobody wants them.

You need the standard reassurance that you aren't them, or you good?

Nah, I'm good.

I thankfully don't remember anything about the guy I'm supposed to be.

Gratz. You been on the app long, or do you just have the weirdest combination of good and bad luck I've ever heard of?

since december
so I guess it's good luck?

Better luck than some of the other people I know who showed up in December. I've only been here since February myself. Heard we both missed some serious shit, but I guess they're making up for lost time now.

yeah, I've heard that too
something about a bunch of people going missing last august
I sure as hell hope that doesn't happen again

Yeah, they called it unreality or something. I heard somebody died on top of it all.

Really hoping we get to avoid that happening again for however long we're all still on this app.

somebody died? this is the first I'm hearing about it, holy shit

and oh hell, I just remembered something
I'm definitely not human, but hell if I know what I could be

Yeah. I don't know many details. People don't like talking about it. Who knew.

Join the club. I don't think half of us were human, and that's a pretty conservative guess. Got a friend who's an alien and another who's a robot.

I can't imagine that would make retrospec popular if it was more talked about

I wonder why there are so many of us?

Yeah, and the company's approval rating is just through the roof right now.

No idea. Makes sense to me that there's way more non-humans than humans in the whole universe, but I don't even know if that's part of it or if we're all just drowning in that same kind of luck.

maybe it's both
at least there's a bunch of us to commiserate together, I guess

Yeah. Whole bunch of weirdos and freaks getting in one place together to be sad about it.

Fuck, we're in a John Hughes movie, aren't we.

damn
here I was thinking it was probably some kind of horror film, but that sounds like a possibility, too

Could be one that turns into the other. I've seen some of the shit in the woods and it's definitely horror out there.

in the woods?
I'm not much of an outdoorsy person but now I'm curious
and a little afraid

Dragons -- little high fantasy, sure. Giant frogs that hide underground and try to eat you. Cows that steal your wallet. Big-ass elephants. It's surrealist horror, maybe.

man
I think it's gotten worse since the time these weird monkey things attacked me and this girl with rocks

Oh, wild, haven't run into those yet. Maybe I'm getting lucky.

Things are definitely getting more dangerous out there one way or another. Guess it's a good thing some of us are getting more dangerous, too, since I haven't met anyone who actually wants to fuck with all of us yet.