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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

[fiddlestick]

Oh, I guess....? Sorry, I really don't remember anything about a connection. My other self was just a student though, so there could always be stuff I didn't know.

[Though he doubts it...]

There was a lot of things similar to stuff you see on Earth, but it was powered by magical energy - or "Orbal Energy" as they called it for some reason. Though there were different things too... like devices that helped you with casting magic, my staff that that can turn into a violin, giant mechas, gun knives....

But really from the sound of it they only had recently started to modernize, so it's very unlikely Erebonians were the advanced alien race you see in those those theories.

[hauhra]

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.

[fiddlestick]

Oh, I never really thought about it like that but it's a good point....

Maybe if anything, the movies just reflect our anxieties about being alone in the universe than any reality. When I'm lonely, I usually try to seek out other people so I feel less alone. Maybe the big search for aliens is being fueled by that same feeling. And we assume them to always be more advanced because well... it's easier to think someone else knows what's going on better than yourself?

But yeah, I haven't heard of anyone from a super advanced civilization either.

[hauhra]

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. ]

[fiddlestick]

[...Oh, oh yeah that does sound some anxieties and insecurities]

Yeah...that does sound really lonely.

But hey, if the events of this app does prove anything, it's that there's plenty of other worlds out there. And if we pull off restoring the worlds like Retrospec hopes, that'll be even more worlds.

You aren't alone, in other words.

[hauhra]

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. ]

[fiddlestick]

...I don't know yet.

Though I'm not giving up my life here without a fight, I know that much.

[hauhra]

Feel free to hit me up if you end up leading some kind of call to arms, because neither am I.

[fiddlestick]

Oh...okay!

Though I'm not exactly leader material...I'll keep you in the know!