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[fiddlestick]

Well, this is pretty nerve-wracking, but I finally uploaded some music I composed. It's just four songs, between college and everything happening in Retrospec, I've been, well, pretty busy this year. But I hope to compose more soon!

Anyway... you can listen to them here. Please enjoy them.

And in less good news ... I had a rather troubling conversation with a ghost...

According to him, our Earth isn't what it seems. Apparently, while Recolle's real and stable, the rest of the world is actually a recreation of other Earths. It was made to be a centralized hub for planets across the galaxy that were destroyed, and Recolle's essentially the capital. It was all formed and balanced from the soul energy being generated by this city and the people here, and it's not exactly stable.

Good news, all the people outside of Recolle in this world are real, so it's not like our lives were fake. But bad news, if anything should happen to Recolle, the rest of the world would disintegrate. So...no pressure?

Oh, and has anyone heard anything about a river of souls beneath Recolle? A friend heard about it from another ghost, but we don't know much.

Sorry for all the troubling news. This isn't how I expected this post to go.

Comments

[fabrefactions]

I don't think you needed much persuasion to offer it.

Otherwise I will submit all of them and some of you will probably shout at me.

[fiddlestick]

Haha, got it.

Don't worry. We won't let you down.
Actually, would it be okay to invite a friend of mine that's good at critiques?

[...]

It's not Dave, promise.

[Him and his odd comics are probably not what Yusuke needs for his art....]

[fiddlestick]

Seems like a lot of things ... I'm not sure we WANT to know it all.

[Since yeah. it's creepy. And that's before you get into the metaverse stuff...]

Okay, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks Tatsuo.

[echoing_sutras]

well

forget it. im going to focus on the music.

u have a real talent for creating worlds with sound. i especially like the second track.

i'm so glad that you understand, yuff. you and souji are on the same wavelength

[tarotcards]

Anything is possible if you just believe, Elliot.

idk how to feel about that.

[fiddlestick]

[...]

Well, in that case...

I usually charge $1 to play a cover song. But those are 1-2 minutes max, so I'll round it to $2 per minute/$30 an hour, plus an extra 8 hours paid time for the editing and processing all those recordings. So that'd be...

$960 in total.

[jurai]

No one would contest him on that either. The guy bleeds passion

[See, Eren? HE TALKS GOOD ABOUT YOU.

But Elliot's reaction catches him off guard, his eyes blinking at the screen owlishly, rereading it...]

What, talk about your music?

[He had to admit, there was something kinda deja vu about it...]

[hauhra]

Given that Retrospec has shown that they can modify the very fabric of reality itself even before this reveal, the virus that was infecting the network until recently would have had to have been coded by someone with an extremely powerful computer... however, even with all of the top-notch programmers we currently have on the network, no one we know has been able to hack Retrospec's systems, leaving us with only one other realistic option: programmers from other worlds, with systems that are beyond our comprehension in advancement.

And the possibility is two-fold if we're talking about the destruction of multiple planets on a galactic scale.

[ it just sounds a little too much like something he's seen in recolle's knockoff star wars for him to think anything else, really!! ]

[fiddlestick]

Hehe, he does. Eren always gives 150%.

[GOOD JOB CROW WE'RE PROUD OF YOU.]

Well, yeah but- I meant planning an event together!
I just got a memory of our past selves doing the same.

[fiddlestick]

Yeah, when you put it that way...it is a little disappointing and worrying.

And also, a little pressuring. Knowing that if we mess up, it could mean the end of the entire world.

[fabrefactions]

[ Hello ]

That is far too cheap for putting yourself and us through such torture.

[usurpers]

Don’t need to thank me for something like that.

And that was a shitty ass joke!

[fiddlestick]

Oh...

Then what would you suggest Yusuke?

[usurpers]

[ in a much more gentler way, eren shakes his head. he does hand gesture for his cute ass bf to come over and sit with him. on him. his lap is a spot who is free now. ]

You don’t need to thank me for that. [ there’s no place he’d rather be right now. ] I want to see you get closer to that dream.

[jurai]

No sense of humor, I swear

Keep that up all your life and you'll go gray before I do

[About that.]

[fiddlestick]

....About that.

I don't think that was dye.

[fiddlestick]

Haha, I'm fine with that

Thank you! That's really nice to hear.
That song I wrote not long after I moved to Recolle, actually.

[usurpers]

I have a sense of humor, that was just messed up.
And it’s no use patting my ass up there.

[ BAH HUMBUG!!! ]

[jurai]

[Nan desu ka.]








Elliot

[/cue backstreet boys QUIT PLAYIN' GAMES WITH MY HEARRTTTTTTT]

[fiddlestick]

Sorry...
Maybe it won't change right away?

[jurai]

Hey, I know YOU find compliments hard to give, but I meant every word

Also please tell me where this sense of humor is, because it sure isn't whenever I'm around

[fiddlestick]

Oh, so it's like that computer simulation theory but with aliens?

[That's the best he can understand it as. He's a musician ok]

[fabrefactions]

[ Immediate response. ]

$9,600,000.

[fabrefactions]

I have no problem with you bringing along a friend. Even if it were Dave.

[ RIP Dave. They love you. ]

Do you mind if I ask who is it?

[fiddlestick]

Haha, well it would be entertaining to bring Dave, but it's probably not what you need.

Crow! He helps me with my music sometimes.