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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

[cardcaptured]

I've seen him on the app before... I didn't realize he was with the police, though.

[Which... would have been really good to know when all the Mio shit was going down, but that's very much irrelevant now--]

I'll see if I can reach out to him and find out. I wouldn't be surprised if Zee somehow took it for his files, too.

[spirithacker]

gl
he talked 2 zee a lot so maybe he would know if zee did stuff like that

[cardcaptured]

He did seem interested in people gathering information for him. There was that thing in February, with the regions, and he did send me and a couple others to bring back something from Bosuma for him, too.

[Although they didn't exactly succeed in that latter bit.]

If Zee has it, though, it's not likely we'll be able to find it.

[spirithacker]

mayb we can get the other retrospec people to actually talk 2 us for 1nce??
theyre worried about the 'they' 2

[cardcaptured]

I doubt it. After all the time we've been on here, the only person to ever really talk to us directly and answer any questions was Zee.

And he

[... well, no. He doesn't want to write that down, even if Shinji already knew with the rest of the network. It was too much of a sore point, even if Xiaolang himself wasn't all that close to Zee.]

He can't help us anymore, so we're going to have to just see what other people on the network know.

[spirithacker]

[Shinji knows. He'd only spoken to Zee at length once, but that was enough for his death to hurt something raw and unhealing inside him.]

ok
it sux but we gotta start somewhere

[cardcaptured]

[Shinji you're nine years old and you deserve none of this :(]

... it does suck. But we can't let it hold us back.

Whatever we do, we need to do it soon. Everything's unsteady as it is, and we don't know what might happen in the city during the month. Retrospec said they're going to be working overtime, but we know that doesn't really mean anything when it comes to them.

[spirithacker]

they kinda suck
so we gotta fix everything ourselves
again

we should get paid for this
or time off from school??

[cardcaptured]

I think we get enough time off whenever something weird happens around here, to be honest.

It's not like we could really go to classes when the city was in it's safe-mode... or all that stuff in October happened.

[Although on his end, going to school looking like a pre-teen werewolf wasn't exactly something he wanted to do.]

[spirithacker]

that doesnt count
its not fun when we dont have school bcuz we cant
its only fun when we COULD but we DONT

[The basic principle of snow days: because a child isn't responsible for clearing roads and driveways, they seem like a day you got off for basically no reason.]

[cardcaptured]

[As a kid who grew up in a tropical climate, snow days are such a foreign concept to him. Typhoon days, on the other hand...]

That sounds a lot like skipping, you know.

It's not fun missing classes and having to catch up on everything you didn't learn while you were gone.

[spirithacker]

thats not what i meant!!
i meant like snow days

[cardcaptured]

Even so, we still have to make up whatever we had off at the end of the year, anyway. Isn't it better to have more days of actual vacation instead?

[spirithacker]

no
nobody has snowball fights in summer