text | with regards to the lie of yuri's angels (dated morning march 10th)

[catsudon]

Two questions for Beta Squad.

1. Have you had Retrospec deliver anything to you that didn't feel like it was yours?
   
   
2. Has anyone tried returning things to Retrospec?

For the record, if you received anything that had a tag of Yuri's Angels attached, no, I didn't send it, no, I don't want it, no, I'm not a spy, no, I don't have a fanclub, no, it isn't a freaking religious affiliation and no, I don't have a secret admirer at Retrospec anymore than I have an explanation for why this happened.

Anyone who feels like trying a return lmk.

Edit: Anyone else named Yuri please contact me ASAP, tyvm.

Comments

[true_noir]

Wait, you have a fan-club? I wish to join these Yuri's Angels, immediately. [Because she was in the mood to torture someone mildly just to feel better.]

And yes, I did receive something in the mail. I did not think it was mine, but there may be a connection. I am not sure. It depends on if this vision is real or not.

[catsudon]

Ha-ha, really funny. Denied.

( there is no yuri's angels in recolle; he doesn't even remember there's ever been one, though at this rate... )

Okay, but you're saying whatever it was, it might relate to one of the hallucinomemories people have been having? Not a dream or anything.

[true_noir]

I am afraid, Yuri, that it is far too late. If there was no Yuri's Angels before, there is now. You have the fan-club. We simply need to find each other and organize.

[Nope, he wasn't getting out of this. This was far too much fun, and she was all too happy to make his life miserable with fan-club shenanigans. Ok, she wouldn't try that hard. That would be silly, but she could tease.]

A curious word, but I think I know your intent. The items I have found, or that were mailed to me recently, both related to a vision I had, either before I found them, or after it was mailed to me. I received a fork, that I remembered finding when I met with a new friend during the blackout. The cloak, I remember from all of those visions.

I appear to have no fashion sense in my hallucinations, and adore this cloak. I am always wearing it.

[catsudon]

I refuse to believe anyone is ridiculous enough to do something that stupid outside of Dave and Anya and they're mostly doing it to troll me

wait

( shit. probably they could enable a bunch of trollers. GREAT. )

Wait, wait, so things from your visions came through. But only the stuff you had, right? The cloak was something you were in and then it was delivered to you.

[true_noir]

You say this as if I were not attempting to learn how to do this "Trolling" thing I have heard so much about. See, it is already too late. The trolls have you.

[Sorry, Yuri, she's laughing way too hard about this and glad this was a texting based medium. Still, there were important things to discuss too, so he got a second message a little later.]

Actually, the fork came to me, and then I had a vision about the time that I found it before. But they all seemed to be interrelated. It first arrived, and I had no idea why.

A fork out of the blue, as you might say.

[catsudon]

I'm shoving all of you under a bridge to rot there thanks

( Where trolls deserve to LIVE. For a certain understanding of what it means to live. )

It prompted you into remembering? These stupid cats haven't done that for me. This is even stupider than I realised.

At least no one tried sticking said fork in you to see if you were done.

[true_noir]

This simply means that I will charge you a toll to escape my bridge, you realize. You will be trapped like the billy goats, mister gruff.

And heaven forbid someone would attempt to use it that way, though I do recall that the girl I took it from had kept it as a makeshift weapon. In case something happened, I guess?

[You mean in case you attacked her, Chloe. It's not nice to omit that very important detail, about how you stole someone's hold-out weapon because they were nervous you were about to attack.]

[catsudon]

There's more than one bridge, I'll find a way around, Ms. Troll.

A fork? She couldn't find a steak knife or something?

[true_noir]

I'll just destroy the other bridges so you have to come. I am a stubborn one, Yuri. You will find that out soon.

I am not sure what she was thinking. Perhaps it was near at hand?

[catsudon]

Please don't go burning bridges just to bring around a travel monopoly that's a terrible thing to do to everyone, myself included.

I... okay, that makes sense, actually.

[true_noir]

If you don't want bridges burned, don't stick the troll under a bridge. Simple as that.

In truth, what I saw was a little alarming in many ways. It felt like watching a spy thriller a little, only I was one of the actors. Everyone felt 'ready for anything.'

[catsudon]

I'm not the troll housing authority you can move whenever you want.

A spy thriller sounds way cooler than anything I've remembered. Way more dangerous, too.

[true_noir]

We have a troll housing authority? Very well, I will move underneath your house and proceed to pester you incessantly.

And yes, there was a very real feel of danger. One of them pulled a gun on me, after all. They did not fire, but they were certainly pointing it at my head.

[catsudon]

Now you do. Besides, I live in an apartment, have fun in the basement on your own with the roaches and the laundry.

Wait, what the hell?! You're serious? That's way worse than potential fork stabbing stuff!

[true_noir]

How cruel! I detest roaches!

Hmmm, but enough of the humor, I think. Yes. It was quite a frightening part, for me, but during the vision I seemed unafraid of anything that was going on. It was as if it were all so very normal. I think that was what was the most frightening afterwards.

How could I have felt this was normal?

[catsudon]

I don't know. Dream-you might be used to it. We don't know how these work... if they're really memories, then you might have felt it was normal 'cause it was?

[true_noir]

It seemed fairly clearly that my vision self was very much used to it. I vaguely recall remembering where every weapon in the room was. I even remember the model of her gun somehow, though I have never held a gun in my life. There was a familiarity to it all, as if I were used to it.

It is very strange compared to myself.

[catsudon]

Retrospec, if you're paying attention, what's with the second hidden life thing you're playing out for everyone?

That's what it's been sounding like.

[true_noir]

It is very much like it is a second life we are forced to see, isn't it? But I don't expect them to be clearer. If anything they seem to like leaving us in suspense.

[catsudon]

Alternate universe weirdo life like some stupid sci fi film? Idk but it seems like this could be.

[true_noir]

Mine simply seems like fiction, not science fiction, but yes. It does feel a bit like watching... and experiencing a movie from the inside. I would never have thought of my life as being like this, after all.

[catsudon]

Because your life isn't like that. The memories are, but that's not this life or anything.

[true_noir]

No, I certainly hope it is not. But that does not explain the presence of the cloak, or the strange things I have seen others do, does it?

[catsudon]

The strange things I don't know, but I think it's pretty damn strange chocobos replaced horses overnight. So "explain" is a really difficult concept here.

[true_noir]

Explain starts to fall into the category of science fiction, very quickly, does it not? It is like watching a fantasy film, only we cannot see the wizard waving their wand.