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[recollecters]

Welcome back, users. Looks like we were able to bring you back online and tracked again...here's hoping the layers are settled now, but the readings are off the chart. We're doing our best to stabilize the city for December while we track some of the magical sources we're picking up. It may take us some time though, so please bear with us! We may be working through the holidays, too, if this keeps up. But it's okay. You opened the doors and new routes for us to check. Stay positive, users. December is a special time of the year. What's your favorite holiday tradition? You'd be surprised how thoughts shape things here. Please take care. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever they chose last month and are permanently locked in! Newbies may pick a new name for their first use on Retrospec, but whatever they pick will also become permanent. 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.

Comments

un: malik

[godcards]

Holidays? I don't care about those. The only tradition I have is my birthday...But as usual I'm expecting everything to be screwed up by then. I suppose that's almost a tradition too! Thanks for nothing, Retrospec.

un: lucille

[interlucere]

when is your birthday? :o

[ She's back. ]

[godcards]

The 23rd.

[ oh yes HE REMEMBERS HER... and he's not feeling as aggressive as last month, so, lucky lucille! ]

[interlucere]

oh an early Christmas baby! I bet that made the holiday even more enjoyable growing up

how old are you going to be?

[godcards]

I don't think I can be a "Christmas baby" if I don't celebrate it. But to answer your other question, I will be 18.

un: BIG DECK ENERGY

[jurai]

Whoa someone better call Dr. Seuss

His Grinch is running around Recolle 24 days too early

[godcards]

I'm sure this is a scathing insult to anyone else, but I don't really care.

[jurai]

C'mon, it's the holidays! And your birthday to boot

You're not even gonna make plans for it?

[Says Crow, a man who is also not making plans for his birthday.]

[godcards]

No. I don't intend to waste my time planning something only to have Retrospec intervene. I also fail to see how the holidays are even relevant to this..?

[jurai]

Well, I was gonna say it's a time for you to reflect on the good things in life or spread good cheer but

Probably wasting my time on that one

So I'll go with the more realistic response: Free food and no school!

[godcards]

I dropped out of school.

[jurai]

You're still not in school~

[He won't judge, he skips half his classes.]

C'mon spill, when's your birthday?

[godcards]

It's the 23rd.

I would have told you that earlier if you had asked.

[jurai]

Heh, well you can't blame me for assuming you're the type of guy to hide it

Either way, I'll make sure you get a little somethin' from ol' Crow

[godcards]

I really hope you don't.

[jurai]

Hey, can't trust Retrospec not to fuck up, but everyone deserves a little somethin

[godcards]

Unless it's a driver's license, you're wasting your time. I don't want some bauble I don't know what to do with.

[jurai]

Oh

Are you learning or somethin

[Then again, he's never asked Malik his age. 'Young enough' to want to learn to drive is good enough for him, though.]

[godcards]

No. I don't have anything.

un: Rean Schwarzer

[motiv8]

Hey, no need to be so pessimistic. I mean, if it turns out you're right, you're welcome to gloat that you were to the rest of us, but I don't think it's so bad to keep the glass half-full.

[godcards]

How long have you been on this app? I don't recognize your name... Are you trying to tell me to put aside everything Retrospec has done to me, simply because it's... what? Inconvenient for you?

[motiv8]

Just got here, so that would be why.

No, I just think it doesn't help much of anything to lose yourself to despair. What does that accomplish other than letting them win?

[godcards]

Typically I would be in agreement, but Retrospec isn't a normal entity. Anything else I would be able to best them, but this company has been directly inferring with my life, and not for the better.

[motiv8]

Yours and everyone else's, seems to me.

The way I see it, we can either accept that this is happening to us and work together to overcome what we can, even if it's screwing with us directly, or we can push everyone and everything away and fall apart.

But that's just me. If you're adamant, I suppose there's nothing I can really do to change your mind.

[godcards]

You are rather adamant yourself, coming up to a stranger to preach your ideals.

I suppose you're the kind of person who believes that if you try hard enough, you can make a change... force others to see it your way, so long as you're righteous. Well, others might appreciate your noble attempts, but all I want is to have a not entirely shitty birthday this year. Yet even small requests like that go unheard by Retrospec as some stupid magical disaster invades town and we're all left picking up the pieces. They're the ones that need to make a change. Once they start putting more good into the world, then maybe I'll be able to trust them at all.