retrospec | LOADING...

[ 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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ye i sure did

what did u think i meant?

You're not turning this around on me.

u did a pretty good job of turnin' it urself buddy

Uh huh. Anything else?

hey whatchu know bout airships?

and reactor-based engines.

Depends. Who's asking? (But probably more than you'd think.)

sum1 with an airship that needs to live up to the air part of its name.

and i need ppl smarter than me to help. word on the streets, mister ech-square, is that ur pretty smart.

I think I can agree with that. So you've been grounded. How big of an airship are we talking? Have you had any other work done on it already?

[ she just posts a picture ]

havent touched it. didnt wanna accidentally break anything. some folks took a look, but the reactor that runs the engine was a mystery. it takes no fuel, so no one knew how it worked.

but now i do. but i need help.

That...is a big airship.
If you know how it works, I can probably give you the manpower to fix it. It shouldn't be that hard to get it started.
I'll take a look and we'll see what we can do.

now, before u do, i gotta tell u, ur steppin on hallowed ground. the other me never let a single man step foot on her ship, much less into engineering.

Why not?
I mean. It's your ship so that's fine, whatever, but who did you get to fix the ship for maintenance back then?

her crew had an engineer. a plucky kid not much older than u named Novel

But a girl engineer. What was her crew like? Do you remember that much?

well there's Janus the cat, Febby the cartographer, baby March, other me's BFF and pilot April, June the navigator, July and Augus the primary fighters, Sephy the swabby, Octy the lookout, Novel the engineer, and Miss Leap, the cook

[ he might notice... a pattern. In their names. ]

[HM. NOPE, NO PATTERN HERE.]

Please tell me that was all a coincidence. That's a lot of people though on one ship. Anyway, I'm honored and whatever, and I promise I won't damage the ship.

i mean

u can say it

we're all named after months.

Yeah. That.
Was the ship called the Calendar?

the mayship

look i know the naming sense is off. dont blame me for it.

You're the one sharing a name with it. Why wouldn't I?

i didnt name it

do u wanna look at a cool as hell reactor engine or not?

The answer is obviously yes. Just tell me where and I'll be there to check it out.

its docked at the pier at peach beach

u aint gonna miss it i promise

Sweet. I'll be there as soon as possible then.

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