fiddlestick: (elliot168)
Elliot "actual disney princess" Craig ([personal profile] fiddlestick) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-11-14 02:47 pm

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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.
hauhra: (and that's everything) (one trick ahead of disaster)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-23 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
What? No, that's not what I'm saying at all, especially not when what you just posted has made it apparent that what's been happening in this city is anything but a simulation... all I'm saying is that the "they" that Retrospec was talking about earlier this month, and the "they" that infected the app, are more likely to be extraterrestrial than human.
hauhra: (and that's everything) (one jump ahead of the slowpokes)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-25 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
What's to say that that Vanderweele guy isn't an alien?

[ He's onto you, Retrospec.

It's always aliens.
]
hauhra: (and that's everything) (show some respect down on one knee)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-28 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ i'm sorry he's like this ]

This is Retrospec we're talking about, after all... anything is a possibility at this rate.
hauhra: (gotta steal to eat)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-29 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ gasp ]

To them, yes... however, that would also all depend on what worlds the employees of Retrospec are originally from. Since this hub is supposed to be a recreation of Earth in particular, then surely that must be where at least some of those employees are from.

[ not Vanderweele though. Fuck that guy. ]

Why base it on Earth otherwise?
hauhra: (and that's everything) (he's become a one-man rise in crime)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-29 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh?

What makes you think that? Does the world in your memories not resemble this one in the slightest?


[ He's pretty sure that his does. From what he's seen, the geography, at least, seems to be the same, even if the technology and the magic weren't. ]
hauhra: (gotta eat to live)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-29 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Monsters and magic existed in my world as well alongside countries like Egypt and Japan, and from the sounds of it, they were both very probably present in other Retrospec users' worlds, too, so by themselves, they could still be indicative of a kind of Earth, but Erebonia and killer tomatoes are certainly unique.

[ He's sure there's probably a Duel Monsters card like that somewhere, but out in the wild, in the modern age? No way. ]

I guess that means you're an alien after all.
hauhra: (and that's everything) (rifraff street rat i don't buy that)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-30 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Is that right?

I'm a little surprised. I would have expected greater genetic variation on other planets than what we have here on Earth, especially with all of the different kinds of atmospheres there are out there... not more humanoids.

Or tomatoes, for that matter.

Did your people ever try to reach out to the human beings on Earth since there were so many similarities? You probably already know this since you've lived this life on Recolle's Earth, but there's all sorts of rumors about aliens having contacted Earth's ancient peoples, including my own despite the utter lack of records on the matter.
hauhra: (and that's everything) (better throw my hand in)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-11-30 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Evolution is certainly a possibility.

However, in order for that to happen, at least in connection to human beings as we know them, the world you came from would either have to have an Earth similar to this one, or another planet that was populated by humans, and for all we know, it could be that nobody talked about them because neither such thing existed at all... this is a different universe we're talking about, after all.

That being said, what kind of technology did exist, if it wasn't terribly advanced?
hauhra: (and that's everything) (he's become a one-man rise in crime)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-12-02 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
You actually bring up a very good point.

If all aliens are advanced as they're always shown in the movies, then why is it that people seem to think that the onus should fall on a species that's lucky to be able to reach the Moon to prove their existence when they're supposed to be the ones with a greater capability for space travel?

Surely civilizations on other planets must differ in their stages of development just as ours do.
hauhra: (all i gotta do is jump)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-12-05 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's entirely possible.

Knowing that there are 7 billion people on this planet and almost none of them want to be involved with you is already a weight too heavy for one person to bear, but knowing that there are even more stars in the sky and not a single one of them is being orbited by a populated planet like ours is that much harder to come to grips with.


[ He might be projecting his own anxieties and insecurities a little. Unintentional, but there it is. ]
hauhra: (these guys don't appreciate i'm broke)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-12-09 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
But what will that mean for our lives in this world if Retrospec succeeds?

[ Even for as lonely as he is in this life, he still recognizes that he's a lot better off than he was in his original world. ]
hauhra: (and that's everything) (he's become a one-man rise in crime)

[personal profile] hauhra 2018-12-10 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Feel free to hit me up if you end up leading some kind of call to arms, because neither am I.