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[recollecters]

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beta#11011141

[promisedyou]

My guess is parasites, mostly because 1) those can totally be used as a virus to make someone sick and 2) it fits in a horror movie.

[servileness]

If it's going to be like a horror movie, I hope it can be solved like one. Parasites are disgusting.

[promisedyou]

Honestly I hope so. They're truly disgusting and I'd like to get rid of them ASAP. I hope that whatever this is just doesn't last the entire month.

[servileness]

We have two hopes: 1) It's not actually a parasite. 2) It's easily taken care of.

The possibility it won't last the entire month is not zero, so that's some optimism.

[promisedyou]

That might be true, but I honestly don't have too much faith? Like, the things that happened the last few months were at least things that lasted a whole month, some even two.

[servileness]

I don't have much face either, but it would be nice if something we did could end one of these situations that get thrown at us before a month is over. It would make it feel like we could have some semblance of control over our lives.

[promisedyou]

It honestly would be nice, wouldn't it?

[servileness]

It would be. A little respite from this madness would be beneficial.

[promisedyou]

It certainly would be nice, instead of just following the 'same old, same old' all the goddamn time. Maybe we just have to get ahead of them, somehow.

[servileness]

That'd be ideal. The question is how?

I don't know nearly enough about their "industry standards" to take a stab at it.

[promisedyou]

I don't really know an exact answer, but I think we could always try preparing for the worst, since there's always some sort of pattern between the Retrospec posts and what happens for the month, right?

[servileness]

That basically means preparing for computer viruses or virions of all kinds, which is easier said than done, considering how fast viruses can mutate.

It's not my field of study, and I'm already getting a headache thinking about it.

[promisedyou]

I don't think it's a bad thing to prepare for. But that also means we'll have to figure out where it started from, too. So that we can cut it straight from the source. And honestly, it's not the type of thing I study, either. But I might end up doing more research on this type of thing so that I have a better handle on it...

[servileness]

What is it you study? I don't think I've asked you before.

It's hard to find the source if it's something that spreads like an epidemic. I don't know the protocol for finding a patient zero.

[promisedyou]

Well, I'm actually taking a year off of school due to personal circumstances, but I was planning on studying a little more about languages and history. Well, specifically Chinese history. I don't know the protocol either, but a part of me doubts that finding it would be the same as how you'd normally find it.

[servileness]

Chinese history. I see.

It depends on the type of illness, if it is an illness. Either way, even if it won't be the same, it'd give us some kind of starting point, which is what we need.

[promisedyou]

Yeah. It's pretty interesting if you ask me? Especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms era. Although it's honestly anything but actually romantic for a good amount of it. I mean... if it is an illness, at the very least we can get a head start in learning about stuff. Although the idea kind of worries me. Like, are we going to have to quarantine people?

[servileness]

Literature likes to romanticize history, but as I'm nothing of a history expert, I'll take your word for it.

I hope it doesn't become something like an epidemic. Do we have the resources to quarantine with the people who are aware of Retrospec? If it's something that won't touch those off the network, it'd be both a boon and a detriment.

[promisedyou]

It sure does, but that's why I always get a lot of sources. And I honestly have no idea. Guess I'll have to find out, huh?

[servileness]

If worse comes to worst, we'll all find out.

[promisedyou]

Guess that's true, but let's just hope we won't have to.

[servileness]

Hope is all we have at the moment.

[promisedyou]

Kind of sucks, though.

[servileness]

Indubitably so.