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[recollecters]

Safe mode is now offline. Please be aware the infectant is still live. Manual debugging required. 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. 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. Alphas, Betas, and Epsilons will notice that network posts will continue to be tagged without names attached but rather their newly issued IDs. OOCly, IDs are comprised of their title, the date they showed up on the app, and the digits on your character's inbox post. So for example, the Recollé NPC who was on the app would have an ID of Beta#0201188329. While user pictures can be displayed, Retrospec users will also experience broken pixels on occasion that obscure the face of whoever they're speaking to. (i.e. we will allow for players to play with an anonymous option if they wish.)

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Beta#06010602

[burndownforwhat]

I'll admit, I laughed.
If it's anything like the viruses last month, we're going to need something a lot stronger.

[interlucere]

thanks for the confidence boost! I was worried the people here might not get my unique sense of humor

viruses? like those glitch bugs that were running around a few days ago?

[burndownforwhat]

Yeah I can't think of a better name for them.

And it's good to be able to keep a level head about all this. That's not easy every day in the city.

[interlucere]

I definitely got that impression. the first day here was a killer. I think I've officially sworn off going to amusement parks for the next lifetime.

maybe two lifetimes.

[burndownforwhat]

Huh, so that's what Epsilon means. I should have guessed.

And I know it's a little late, but welcome to the "fun" I guess.

[interlucere]

yep we're the new kids. "reboots" before this I think, but I haven't gotten a chance to ask around.

anything I should know? what's something you wish somebody told you when you first joined?

[burndownforwhat]

Got it. I'll remember it.

Oh, wow, that's a really good question.

I think anything I say at this point would just freak you out.

[interlucere]

it's fine. I'm tough I can take it. and if I can't at least I'll be well prepared.

[burndownforwhat]

Well, okay.

If someone could go back to warn me, I would have liked some idea of the kind of ways the app would mess with the way I see myself as a person. Or, three people, at the extreme.

Yes I realize that makes me sound crazy but in my defense I'm not the only one who's had these issues.

[interlucere]

[ That's... not what she expected. ]

do people really change that much because of all of this? I mean even if we lived an entirely different life before this one, we're still who we are in this life, right? that doesn't change.

[burndownforwhat]

I told you it sounds crazy.

But I have very distinct memories of living my own life in Seattle before coming here. Yet also being a native to Recollé, growing up and going to school here instead, having a completely different life path and trauma and everything. And that's before taking memories of the other world and throwing them in the mix.

It's impossible to have that kind of knowledge and it *not* change you. That's my take on it. Your results could vary.

[interlucere]

it does. I won't say you're wrong but I can't believe it's like that for everybody.

yeah I don't know what it's like. I don't know who I was, but I'm pretty confident I know who I am now. that isn't going to change. but I appreciate you being honest. this gives me something to think about.

but I don't want this to be a complete downer. what are some good things that have come from all of this? there has to be something.

[burndownforwhat]

Believe me, if this can be any simpler for everyone else I'm all for it. In fact, I'm hoping for it.

Oh, there have been some good things for sure. The arm I recovered from the other "me" has made everyday life a lot easier. There's also been some people I met that I don't think I ever would have gotten close to if we didn't have a look into each others other lives the way we did. There's no real telling where I'd be right now and I wouldn't trade any of them for a chance at the world being normal again for me. It wouldn't feel right.

[interlucere]

I would have never thought of that. I wonder if there's anyone the other me knew here. that would be kind of weird but kind of cool too! I bet it's nice having people who know what you're going through

also: your arm? was there something wrong with it?

[ Her cousin has a prosthetic, so ]

[burndownforwhat]

I've only met one person I recognized from the other world and only some of our memories have overlapped so far.

Two others, technically, but the other has been taken off the app and left the city last year. Haven't heard from her since.

Oh, I was born without full use of my right arm so it's amputated above the elbow. Just so happens to be the exact place and fit for the other me, who also happened to have an extremely advanced prosthetic arm that fit me.

Didn't even see the joke until I finished this tag orz

[interlucere]

oh that's handy!

do people disappear from the app often? what happens to them when they do?

hahaha

[burndownforwhat]

Handy, hah! That's right.

It happens from time to time. It's happened to me a couple of times, too. Both times I just hung around the city and acted like all the other sleepers you talk to. Friends, family, citizens, tourists. Some go on to lives outside the city, and others? I just don't know. As far as I can tell nothing really bad happens to them. They're just... not involved anymore.

[interlucere]

so the people who are invited to join the app were sleepers before this? I guess that explains why I wasn't aware of anything weird happening before a few days ago. that's kind of creepy.

[burndownforwhat]

Yeah, that's the gist of it. I bet if you thought hard enough back to things that shouldn't be something normal people deal with, you can blame whatever happened on the app or someone who's on it.

[interlucere]

the only things that don't seem normal to me are that weird lab, some of the stuff in Rainbow Land, and those glitch bugs.

and I mean some of the things all of you can do but that goes without saying.

[burndownforwhat]

I mean, things that may have happened before last month. Like ghosts, floating paintbrushes, being transported to an RPG dungeon. Anything like that ring any bells?

[interlucere]

that sounds really interesting but no. I don't remember any of that.

did all of that happen or did you make some of those up?

[burndownforwhat]

Trust me, things are so wild around here some months you'd wish I had made some of that up.

[interlucere]

that's reassuring. at least we've all got each other when things get bad

[burndownforwhat]

We all need to stick together. It's the only way to get by.