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[recollecters]

It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm afraid things are really quite busy here, and unfortunately our liaison has been compromised. Well...so have a lot of people, actually. Are you still yourself if you're not the self you were? It's the kind of conversation we've had a lot of times, around here. I've always only been myself, but if I woke up tomorrow as someone else, would I still be me even if I wasn't? I think rather than worrying about that the best thing I can do is focus on trying to sort things out as best I can. I'm a little worried, actually, but I think I can manage to give everyone a shot even if I can't fix things on my own or even with everyone's help. But you can help! Or at least I think it will help if you think about what it means to be "you". It's okay if that answer changes or doesn't. Just hold onto that concept and don't let it go. And maybe tell other people what you think it means? Not like I'm saying you have to talk about that. I think usually you all just talk about anything, and I think that is also a good way to hold onto who you are and who you want to be. Sometimes I think it'd be fun, all those parties or little plans. I've never spent much time outside of these walls, did you know? I don't have time to really ramble, though. Those of you who know what I mean, we're doing our best. Those of you who don't, you do your best too. Pay attention to the things you tell yourself, and I'll try to fix what I can fix. Please take care. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain one of this month's freebies! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Additionally per the mod plotting post, new AUs are now considered live and operational, though the dreamshares are not yet! Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

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[frostythehitman]

[ Well, isn't this just the most useless bit of philosophical rambling. But he's been reading through old posts the past few days, trying to figure out what the hell this app is and what's going on, and this type of pointless non-post doesn't seem to be all that unusual. ]

so usually any time these retrospec employees post it means that something with the app is about to get messed up
or something in the world is about to go wrong
anyone have any ideas what it's going to be?
because if joanne here is trying to tell us what it is then she's being very cryptic about it

[mincingminuet]

Yeah. Cryptic is the word for it, for sure.

But you're right about Joanne.

[frostythehitman]

right about what
that her talking to us means something is about to go wrong?

[mincingminuet]

Bingo.

[frostythehitman]

well yes
but that much was obvious already
what i want to figure out is WHAT'S going to go wrong

[dornen_kiste]

Oh no, I totally forgot about that... I wonder what's going to happen next. Stuff with the memories maybe since they're kind of talking about it?

[frostythehitman]

what do you mean
haven't we already been getting odd memories

[dornen_kiste]

Well yeah, that's true. Not.. sure what else they could do with those. But there's been a lot of crazier stuff! So... I dunno. I just know it always seems like it's out of left field!

[frostythehitman]

if it's always out of left field then there's no reason for it to be related to what joanne was talking about just now

[liberal_arts]

While the timing is always suspect, it could just be the nature of their work making her this way, too.

To which I say; serves you right.

[frostythehitman]

what's that supposed to mean

[liberal_arts]

Oh that "serves you right" was meant to be directed at Ms. Wismane, not you.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[frostythehitman]

why her specifically though
ALL the employees who ever post anything are always really cryptic

[matchbreaker]

I do hope it's nothing too terrible. Maybe it'll have to do with people hallucinating, like in October?

[frostythehitman]

[ ??? what the hell happened in October? He hasn't read that far back yet. Good to know Retrospec's been around at least since October though. ]

maybe
as if all the weird memories aren't hallucination enough

[matchbreaker]

[ Too true. Bucky had been through way too much from his, for howevermuch the boy wanted to talk to him. ]

That's never stopped them before now, though. Or the storms or whoever else.

[frostythehitman]

yeah
did we ever figure out what caused the hallucinations in october in the first place

[blondferret]

Mate, when is Retrospec not cryptic? But yeah, I wonder what's going to happen on the 3rd.

[frostythehitman]

why the 3rd?

[blondferret]

Because that is when weird shit always happens. Did you forget or something?

[frostythehitman]

[ YES. ]

no
i knew it was always around the beginning of the month
i didn't realize it was always the 3rd

[ people don't always post about weird shit on Retrospec on the 3rd, and that's his only frame of reference!!! ]

[commandertoolbelt]

all of us on the network's been stuck in this ongoing identity crisis for this long already
it's probably more of the same
this time it's just hidden in the middle of a philosophical labyrinth
but if the minotaur shows up i'm out

[frostythehitman]

philosophical minotaur or real minotaur?

[commandertoolbelt]

both
then again if we can take down a bear we can probably handle the real minotaur

[frostythehitman]

[ they fOUGHT A BEAR TOGETHER???? who the HELL is this kid supposed to be!!! ]

how are you so sure
what do you know about the 'real' minotaur anyway