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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

[frostythehitman]

[ posted as James Barnes ]

i thought zee was a delta
but yeah i did hear some stuff from a ghost last month about retrospec stuff
he said that the founders chose to put vanderweele in prison instead of kill him because they needed to keep him around to figure out what parts of the city he magic'd up and how to undo it
apparently they've been doing it for decades now and i don't think it's over yet either
he made it sound like the magic is still around and that vanderweele is still alive somewhere

[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo just STARES at that username. Because what.]

Not to be rude. But the hell is with your username?

[no, he means to be rude]

[frostythehitman]

what about it
it's my name

[thisloveisjustice]

that is a hell of coincidence

see, i used to know someone with that name. only he died last month.

so pardon my skepticism when when people are able to alter their usernames.

[frostythehitman]

[ somehow, in his mind, James thought that a couple of people finding out he was no longer dead was equivalent to everyone finding it out. He is just now realizing that that is not the case, and that he is probably going to have to explain this a thousand times over. ]

okay 1 we could only change it once and that was before i even died in the first place
and 2

[ ....what's the best way to explain this ]

i got better

[thisloveisjustice]

[no james, it is not the case]

you mean retrospec revived you.

[he's still not completely buying it. but is currently using a hotline]

[frostythehitman]

i don't know if retrospec had anything to do with it
all i know is i woke up a few days later in the hospital with the doctors telling me they managed to fix me up
and then they just sent me on my way

[thisloveisjustice]

[having confirmed james is, in fact, really alive, and therefore really james...]

And where did 'your way' lead to? You have somewhere to stay, right?

[clearly he didn't go back to the prison, because surely he would have heard that through the work grapevine by now]

[frostythehitman]

right now i'm crashing on someone's couch
but i'm gonna start working on finding an actual real place to stay

[ he's been a little bit preoccupied with generally coping with coming back from the dead and growing twice as old overnight, but now he needs to actually work on actually getting all the major necessities of life and whatnot. ]

[thisloveisjustice]

if you need any help job hunting or apartment hunting, lmk. there are some cheaper places to live in tisse, but there's also some real firetraps. speaking from experience.

['working' being the operative word. welcome to adulthood james]

[frostythehitman]

not literally though
right

[ THAT CAN'T BE LEGAL....RIGHT???? ]

[thisloveisjustice]

my last apartment building caught fire. my apartment only received water and smoke damage, but honestly it's a miracle it didn't happen sooner.

[it wasn't legal. that place is hopefully shut down, but that doesn't mean there aren't others like it~]

[frostythehitman]

jeez
okay
i'll keep an eye out for death traps then

[thisloveisjustice]

yeah, considering what happens to us, where you live doesn't need to be one.

[frostythehitman]

you're right
i'm enough of a death trap as it is
stick a death trap in a death trap and that whole building will probably come down

[thisloveisjustice]

i wouldn't say you're a death trap. but yeah, let's not have any unauthorized demolitions.

[but he's definitely a trouble magnet]

[frostythehitman]

what you don't have confidence in me?
rude
but don't worry i'll minimize the demolitions

[thisloveisjustice]

I don't know you quite well enough to say whether I have confidence in you or not, but it's definitely something we can work on

[let's look at some of your past decisions that Tatsuo is aware of James]

Thanks, I appreciate it

[frostythehitman]

[ He meant confidence in what a disaster he is, because he's well aware of what he's like himself, thank you very much!!!!! ]

trust me i know i have a record
i'm trying to break it

[thisloveisjustice]

[well, okay, yes, Tatsuo does have confidence that James is a disaster]

and that's all that matters

[frostythehitman]

[ It takes him some time to work up enough sincerity to be able to say this genuinely and frankly: ]

thanks