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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.

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[godcards]

It's mine now. Get your own.

[hauhra]

Is that a challenge?

[godcards]

Yes, I was here first.

[hauhra]

Oh, I don't think so, Malik. Because you see, my other self died three millennia before your other self was even born, and seeing as how he was actually a demon, I do believe that means that the line was mine first by proxy.

I'm also two months older than you.

[ and still five years old, evidently. neener neener. ]

[godcards]

As we've previously established, Bakhura, you are no longer that person... So that point is moot. As is the one that you were born first, because I still POSTED first.

So I was first. It is mine. I win!

[hauhra]

[ did u know that i hate them ]

You aren't even interested in any of that "occult stuff", though... you even told me so yourself.

Besides, even if you were first, you're still wrong, in the end, because to be here at all, you have to have a soul.

[godcards]

Talking about souls sounds a lot like occult nonsense to me. I'd ask when you became an expert in such things, but that'll only get you talking about souls... And I can't say I really care, I still don't have one.

[hauhra]

All right, Malik... whatever helps you sleep at night... that isn't me.

And if you really want to go there, the occult has been my specialty for a very long time now... for years, even. I'd say it's been at least a decade.

[ he's not going to go into how he gravitated towards the occult because of the deaths of his parents on a public post, and least of all with Malik, because he knows Malik only cares about being right, as does he, even if Malik were to do the math and realize precisely what period of Bakhura's life that would have been. ]

Why, I even sold an Ouija board to another Retrospec user and gave him advice about how to use it only two months ago.

[godcards]

I don't
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE

[hauhra]

What's that? You don't have anything else to say to that?

I guess that means I win.

[godcards]

NO, I was simply not reading your replies because I DON'T CARE.

See? I even have to emphasize it for you, since you clearly are having trouble comprehending my texts.

I don't care about the occult, Bakhura. Souls are occult. It's that simple.

And I'm still the winner here, I said so quite a while ago, didn't I?

[hauhra]

You obviously do care or you would have just stopped replying after your previous comment.

[godcards]

Shut up.

[hauhra]

You first.

[godcards]

BAKHURA

KNOCK IT OFF

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING

[hauhra]

You know me so well.😚

[godcards]

🤬🤬🤬

[hauhra]

😘

[godcards]

🤮

[hauhra]

😢