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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

[flametheif40]

Magic? I remember my physcis teacher was saying something around the lines that the reindeer should burn to a crisp if they were real.

But since magic is legit....why not? Maybe he makes two runs? One to drop all the presents, then carries the cookies after?

[thesettingsun]

Okay, more important question: why was your physics teacher like this.

[flametheif40]

I think it was something to do with "Physics in every day life"...

I had an assignment to watch a movie and point out what was wrong with it from a physics point of view.

No idea what was his deal.

[thesettingsun]

Maybe teaching sucks all of the joy and wonder of life out of you.

[flametheif40]

Not all of them, one teacher REALLY had a thing going for conspiracy theories.

Teaching his normal stuff was borning, but gosh he was entertaining when he tried coming up with conspiracy theories, he sort of got me into them for a bit.

[thesettingsun]

Were any of them as weird as what's actually going on now?

[flametheif40]

Oh gosh...nothing he said preped me for this

He did once say that we were all some sort of alien experiment or something around those lines...So, I guess close enough?

[thesettingsun]

That was definitely a theory going about Retrospec a while back, close enough.

[flametheif40]

Next thing we know...Retrospec was a company founded by aliens that went to Los Vegas, got drunk and created the city and put like, random genetic science crap around the world...in the water, cause why not, to trigger if they would come to this city and even then it's random.

Then after a hangover, they didn't remember exactly how they science the shit out of everything and Retrospec is trying to work with the alien version of "Hang over 3"

I am almost genuinely wondering if THAT would make more sense than what we actually got right now.

[thesettingsun]

Maybe not more sense, but it'd definitely be easier to figure out.

[flametheif40]

Would you pick hung over/drunk aliens or Retrospec?

[thesettingsun]

Drunk aliens, because presumably they've learned not to go on a huge bender more than once.

[flametheif40]

That's alot of faith in the aliens.

Or is it more little faith in humans?

I personally don't know, I think I would go with drunk aliens because...well if they can do what they did drunk, they can make sense of it eventually sober, right?

[thesettingsun]

Aren't aliens just people who live somewhere else?

[flametheif40]

I guess? Didn't think of it that way, like, if there is an inter steller community yeah.

So you seriously mistrust Retrospec I take it? (Not that I blame you, they haven't exactly done much to earn our trust)

[thesettingsun]

I trust them, at least the lower level employees who aren't Jim. I think they're trying to do the right thing.

I just think they're in way over their heads.

[flametheif40]

Jim?

I don't know, feels like they could be a lot more straightforward with what is going on. But then I haven't been here for everything so, meh.

[thesettingsun]

Fuck Jim with a rusty sledgehammer.

[flametheif40]

as opposed to a shiny one?

Do I want to know what Jim did? Or, do we literally put him under fire?

[thesettingsun]

Rusty means it's more likely he'll get a horrible disease, I think.

He's a dick. And he gave me a panic attack on my first day on the network.

[flametheif40]

Okay that sounds pretty bad...like seriously, the app is a stressful enough thing, no need to make it worse.

I could heat up said rusty hammer for you, if the rust doesn't get him, heated metal will....

[thesettingsun]

If I ever get an appropriate sledgehammer, I'll let you know.