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[recollecters]

[ At 9PM on the 1st, all phones or Retrospec-enabled devices will show flickering screens, until a static-filled image appears. It seems to be a security camera shot, in black and white from a high angle, of a simple computer room. Inside is Joanne Wiseman who many of the users may recognize - she looks young, blonde curls loose around her shoulders, and she also looks tired still. A young man who looks only slightly older than her comes in. He's dark-haired with a sweater and glasses, but a white labcoat that matches hers as well. Maurice comes over to stand nearby, watching the screen Joanne is looking at. Neither of them seem to realize they're being recorded. Joanne looks up, and speaks first. ] Did R and D know anything? [ Maurice shakes his head, says: ] No. They can't track them down either - it's almost as if... [ Joanne: ] They have to be somewhere. [ Maurice: ] Jim's trying to figure it out. You know we don't have anyone better at...ah, "creative" solutions? [ Joanne: ] No, I know, just...what if their souls are just, just - [ Maurice: ] I don't think they're gone. I mean - well, they're gone, but I don't think they're gone? You remember August, the one before last. They're, uh, pretty tough? [ Joanne: ] We're usually able to at least try to help them when we can, though! [ Maurice: ] Jo - look, we're doing everything we can. We'll find them. [ Joanne: ] Before they do? [ Maurice: ] Right. I mean...we have to, don't we? [ They both look worried. Before they do was said with a certain inflection - and hey, Retrospec. It looks like the employees have lost track of you for the month. How do you feel about that one? ] As of this post, character usernames are back to being their own names - or rather, characters will be prompted to put in their name as a boot screen loads. Now's your chance to change your preferred name, Retrospecters - but it appears whatever you put in will be locked in as your choice. Hope you didn't put in something ridiculous! 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. As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.

Comments

[scythegun]

[Finally he can change his name from his real one... He's free... All of his posts will have the name Jaeger, because who needs a last name.]

It's a little too early to say whether this is an improvement on last month or not, but let's see how things go. This is better than being threatened with certain doom again though, so I'd say things are looking up!

Speaking of last month, has everyone gone back to normal or are we still dealing with monsters out there?

[thesettingsun]

Nice display name.

[He's happy for you, Jaeger.]

I'm no more monstrous than I normally am, which is nice.

[scythegun]

Isn't it? ☆ I'm so glad I can finally use my real name~!

[i mean it was just a throwaway name to avoid getting caught but it's his now.]

That's good to hear! Sorry you were dealing with all of that.

[...he was holed up in the manor and did not leave. At all.]

[thesettingsun]

Thank you, but I really don't feel comfortable accepting sympathy considering the number of people I seriously injured last month.

[scythegun]

Oh dear. If you ever want to talk about it sometime, I'll listen. Though I can imagine it's not something you really want to talk about where everyone can see...

tw: limb loss

[thesettingsun]

It's fine. Who hasn't attempted to murder a few people over minor insults and sliced off a total stranger's arm, right?

[scythegun]

Ah. That certainly sounds like an experience.

I'm sorry to hear that things got so bad. Are you going to be okay?

[thisloveisjustice]

I'm back to normal. Thankfully. I haven't seen any monsters since yesterday. So tentatively hopeful that whole thing is over.

[scythegun]

Oh, that's wonderful news! I've been stuck in the house for a long time and the boredom's been slowly killing me.

Hopefully things weren't too bad for you as a monster?

[thisloveisjustice]

It wasn't bad in and of itself. I was able to fly. But my feet turned into talons, so I couldn't wear shoes, which was an interesting challenge.

I just take issue with some things I did.

[scythegun]

Flying does sound like fun, even if the rest of it sounds annoying at best.

It sounds like things were really bad for most of the people dealing with all of that. I do hope things get better for you. Though I suppose no longer being part-bird is a good start!

[thisloveisjustice]

I'd very much like to just take a break, but from the looks of things, that's not going to be an option.

[scythegun]

Same... I really need to get things in order with my business and I can't really afford to keep taking breaks whenever something dangerous happens. Could they just give us one month of peace? That's all I'm asking for.

[drydrown]

[Same name as usual, because...it's his name? So eh.]

Naturally, they shove my soul back into alignment and immediately misplace it.

Why am I not surprised.

[scythegun]

I would say that maybe you're the problem, but you were dealing with Retrospec perfectly fine for quite some time before they just apparently lost their ability to deal with you!

[drydrown]

Judging by that logic, they've tried to get rid of you multiple times by now.

[scythegun]

They nearly succeeded with the jungle! Thankfully they haven't tried that one again.

[drydrown]

Oh, that's a shame. They missed.

[scythegun]

They did! They're going to have to try harder than that if they really want me gone.

kii-chan

[yakan]

[ this is an hours late reply, because what is waking up bright and early and then finding out retrospec fucked you over (even if it's definitely kiyoshi's fault this time) ]

you really woke up on the right side of the bed today yeah i guess lets hope nothing too bad happens

the last month stuff are gone but new stuff popped up so i dunno if that counts as still dealing with monsters or not

[scythegun]

[oh no... don't worry, he's still around to complain about retrospec, it's what he lives for.]

Oh dear. What sort of new stuff happened to you? I haven't noticed any changes yet.

[yakan]

retrospec gave me what im pretty sure are premanent appearance changes including a full set of new and very pointy teeth
its just wonderful constantly biting youself in the mouth and tongue

[scythegun]

Right after dealing with the monsters? That is cruel. I'm not surprised they'd do something like that, unfortunately.

[yakan]

its really different from being a slime ghost with vine tentacles ill say but its inconvenient in different ways
yeah its not at all surprising but its so annoying i want to tell them to at least not do the appearance things if they have to do something or put a warning on there

[scythegun]

Honestly I don't see why the appearance thing is necessary. I've received some changes I really didn't need and even months later I'm still not fully used to them. I don't understand what the point of it is.