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[ For the past few days, Retrospec users may have noticed that Zee has been unresponsive. On the 29th, a message from Delta#68422 appears - for once a network connection in video form. The girl on the screen is recognizable to some as Joanne Wiseman: a blonde teenager with blue eyes and curls tied back, in a Retrospec technician's white labcoat. Far from her usual bubbly appearance, she looks upset and stressed out, her eyes red-rimmed. ]

Hi... [ She scrubs at her eyes for a second, then tries to smile. ] Um. So! The thing is - the thing is, I can't tell you exactly, but one of you - someone got something back, and it's...

[ Joanne pauses. There are voices in the background, and she glances off-screen to her right, lips thinning before she turns back. ]

We can't take it back, you know, we reroute items - Maurice does, I mean - but it's not like we're giving things on purpose. I mean, those we are. He takes them back now if you don't want them but it's not like you can take back things you can do, and - and. Someone did something, but I can't say who, or how, 'cause of restrictions. But I can tell you something happened, and - with all those deaths recently.

[ She takes another breath, deep and slow. ]

And. Our liaison, Zee, he - he wasn't on the same level, you know? Mid-level management. Like - so he didn't have the... [ another pause as she scrubs at her eyes again. ] So - the news, the normal news, it probably said already but you might not have known if it was real but he's. He's dead, and it's the permanent kind, and we can't fix it. I'm so sorry, he already - he'd already, we'd already done it before, and he ran out of - he ran out. My Aunt doesn't want to send anyone else in until - the, the issue. With one of you. Until something's done, but even then...

[ A helpless little shrug. ]

I never got to clear up the mess last month, the message. I'm sorry, we've been a little - it's been hectic. I'm not sure this won't get messed up before I send, but I think I can route it around - well, anyway. Jim said it would work, he helped me with it, and...that's. That's it for now? We're trying to - this is bad, but we're trying to avoid something else right now, so. I can't - we can't - focus on this. I'm sorry. I'll try to contact you next month as soon as I can - we're trying to avoid a repeat of August. I mean, last August. God. Stay safe, and -

[ And with that, the message ends in static. ]

As of this post, Zee is no longer in play until further notice due to player plot and game plot reasons! He may make a reappearance in the later months and player action can change this outcome if characters come up with a solution. Anyone who goes to look for information about this death will find out that Zee has been killed and his body was found staged in front of the Wiffle-Waffle waffle house. What a bad break.

We are now entering the final phase of the summer event; please be on the look-out for September's plotting post with details for the next month!

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. Characters IDs will be comprised of the following: The date your character first appeared on Retrospec (so in Zee's case, that was 02/01/18) and the last four digits of your character's IC inbox as found in the HTML (in Zee's case, 8329.), 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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[ And guess who is angry, because Mio is totally angry and it shows in her reply with her ID displaying as Beta#11011441. ]

Seriously?!

She did say deaths, plural, right?

Edited 2018-08-30 00:18 (UTC)

So it is the start of the end of the world after all.

[ Kiyoshi edits a few moments later because he realizes that it's a little insensitive to only write that, but he's been slowly starting to take those sort of things a bit more calmly. Death happens, that's just how it is. ]

But, RIP Zee.

What exactly caused it, anyway?

[Elliot's ID appears as Beta#9011008]

Oh no, Zee's....?
Are you saying someone on the app killed him?
Why would they do such a thing?

[A murder. Byakuya might not have known the man, though he had intended to arrange a meeting, but feels for this loss either way. Murder is despicable. And his regained memories have only reinforced his feelings on the matter.

His user ID is beta#09010512.]

A senseless tragedy. May he rest peacefully.

It seems that even that company has their limits when it comes to bringing back the dead.

This is admittedly a long shot, but does anyone have any idea what sort of item she is referring to?

Edited 2018-08-30 03:25 (UTC)

Alpha#02010681 It wasn't..
Alpha#02010681 I was wrong. I didn't figure it out in time. I'm sorry.

[ Beta#12012336 here. ]

That it's an item is odd, isn't it?

But I guess he was a normal looking guy, so maybe not?

Yeah. So someone's killed Zee, and other people, too, and it was one of us?

[My.

How coincidental, with the idea he and his brother had for just offing The Collective following just behind this. Goro will absolutely stand silent on the matter as he's loyal to kin (as far as his older brother is concerned, anyway, Dad sucked a dick), but he's having a hard time trying to figure out the emotion he should be feeling right now.]

Well, isn't that depressing news... My sincere condolences to what family Zee-san may have had, as well as to those in his work place; the loss of a charming man like that will be felt for a long time.

Of other importance: Please do take care of yourselves as well as one another. With such a sudden rise in deaths, now more than ever we should be open with one another, to lean on the other's shoulder, and to keep aware of ourselves. I wouldn't like to see another name I knew in the newspaper for anything less than the front page.

[Nevermind that he recognizes the names of those reported in about a certain organization. It's fine. This is all just... pleasantries, the kind of thing anyone'd say after a tragedy, but whatever.]

[ Beta#12011334

Permanent.

As it should be. ]

How horrible. After everything that's happened...

But how do you know it's one of us?

What
Why -

[He types something out, deletes it, types out something else, deletes that too. With everything else that's been going on this month...]

I'm so sorry, Zee.

I don't even know where to start.

So we have a killer among us that won’t come out.

Zee didn’t deserve that.

That's what it seems to be implying.

[ Thanks, she hates this. ]

Is there a line for punching the idiot that did this? Because I want to be one of the first people in that line.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that they couldn’t bring him back?

Unfortunate as it is, the depths of mankind can never truly be seen no matter how far one's light may reach.

Metaphorically speaking, of course.

There may even be more than one at work, or gaining confidence from things such as this and those on the news and planning to make their own move, and we would never know.

[... If he deserved it or not is to be known.]

Alpha#02014597 If it was one of us, then we... have to be the ones to take responsibility, right?
Alpha#02014597 We're all in danger if this continues.

I'd be more scared about what happens next. What if they keep going after more people?

[ see sena's been. lowkey avoiding people ever since some of them barged into his dream that one night - but he certainly can't ignore this.

he's alpha05014435 btw. ]

there has been a rise of deaths these past few days... you should take care of yourself too, most especially
what with your career and all

[ There's a moment where James's blood runs cold because--he knows Zee was a potential target to his fucked-up amnesiac-assassin brain for the last two months, and he thinks maybe he did it. But no, he's pretty sure he didn't. He remembers everything now, including the past two months, and none of it involved killing Zee. He's pretty sure this is just a sick coincidence.

When he replies, his ID is Alpha#03011183. ]

shit
i'm sorry
rest in peace i guess
zee was the best employee retrospec had

it sounds like joanne knows who did it though
i wonder if they're planning to do anything about them themselves

Edited 2018-08-30 01:08 (UTC)

Alpha#02010681 Do we?
Alpha#02010681 This name thing is annoying. It's Hitori Togusa.
Alpha#02010681 I'm going to draw the line here, nobody, not even me has the authority or responsibility to start turning on other Retrospec users.
Alpha#02010681 There's no justice outside the system.

I've heard that they can bring people back, but never spoken to someone who was. Would that mean that we have a different affect on non-users?

Alpha#02010681 They've said before they aren't supposed to interfere with our lives.
Alpha#02010681 And since it turns out they don't have any Retrospec ties in the legal system? It would fall to the rest of the city.

Edited (edit chain I see what we're doing here) 2018-08-30 01:16 (UTC)

Yeah. I guess you’re right.

But if he’s gaining confidence then... maybe we’re next?

Then we'll just have to find them and stop them before it gets to that point.

[good lord i don't want to look at numbers to know what he is. i'll do it later.]

Of course, Micchan. ♪
I always take care of myself.
And even if I slip up, there's people like you, Ren, and Niisan to catch me when I fall.

[Goro is the safest person on Earth in this instance.]

so
what
we can't do anything then?
this murderer is just supposed to run free?

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