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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.

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[burndownforwhat]

I guess the post office would tell you if they had problems making deliveries.

I mean. Realistically, if we were completely cut off then stores couldn't restock. The city would run out of food. Pretty sure everyone would be panicking whether they were on the app or not.

So, it's probably fine? If nothing else you could order things online and they would ship from outside the city to other areas.

[nachetanya]

Oh I will, I just wish I had another cate package. This time of year I'd normally be getting some squash and I'm genuinely not sure how much is what we're cut off and what distance I've made between me and home.

But I'm whining that's boring.

So!

You like winter sports?

[burndownforwhat]

Hopefully it'll work out in the end. Or if it arrives late, it won't be spoiled? I have no idea about shelf life of anything. If it wasn't for Lina I'm pretty sure all the veggies I don't eat right away would just rot in the fridge.

[ anyway. ]

Yes, I do! I haven't indulged a lot since coming to Recollé so it could be nice to get into it this year.

[nachetanya]

I can't say I was ever the most athletic of kids (well, I ran a little and I forced myself back to swimming as best I could, but you know!) for obvious reasons but I *can* ski. Probably! It's been a few years so maybe not.

But oh no! Those poor vegetables!

[burndownforwhat]

I'm sure it'd come back to you quick. What better excuse to try it than now, right?

[nachetanya]

Hahah, you got me there!

Plus who knows, maybe there's a Saint of Snow or something

[burndownforwhat]

Saint of snow?

[nachetanya]

It's a thing in my memories, these 78 women with superpowers based on concepts. Blades, Fire, Salt, Mountains, Swamp, Gunpowder...

Sun, I think?
Oh, there was Ice now I think on it more!

[burndownforwhat]

Oh! That sounds pretty cool. If a lot to remember.

Did you meet any of them or was it just, like, mythology?

[nachetanya]

Well I *am* the Saint of Blades!

And I've worked closer with the Mountain, Gunopowder, and Swamp saints! Or well, old-me did, no one who shares memories of that world is in the city.

[burndownforwhat]

I had no idea! That sounds really cool.

Was it, like, a super important position? Did you have your own church or anything?

[nachetanya]

I did train at a big temple but... I'm not sure about a church! Borrowing some sort of divine power, though

[burndownforwhat]

Whoa. And here I thought the idea of training at a "combat school" was cool.
Well, okay, it still is. But that's got nothing on what you're telling me.

[nachetanya]

Haha!

No that is actually still cool honestly and you've got me way beat with that prosthetic! But I do like my ability these days.

[burndownforwhat]

[ Jen (and Yang) have beaten a lot of people with this prosthetic. ]

I kind of remember you showing us at the campout but I'm. Kind of fuzzy on the details from that night.

Did you learn any new stuff since then?

[nachetanya]

Well! Not so much but more refining it.

It's pretty broad.

[burndownforwhat]

That still counts for self-improvement. Can you give me some examples?

[nachetanya]

I've been able to manually control a bigger number of blades in the air at one time is the big thing. In ideal conditions my record's now 58, or 27 if there's wildly different sizes around too. I've also worked out that I can actually make them appear without anything in my hand to conduct them it just feels a lot less natural.

[burndownforwhat]

That's

That's a lot of sharp things.

I was going to say to be careful while practicing, but I don't think there's enough safety gear in the world for that.

[nachetanya]

Oh don't worry, I am!

Besides for me, blades and rabbits seem to be the core of my old identity.

[burndownforwhat]

That's an interesting combination.

Hopefully the rabbits stay far away from the blades...

[nachetanya]

One's right in the center of them

[burndownforwhat]

Please clarify that in a way that erases the mental image of a blender. PLEASE.

[nachetanya]

[ And she uploads an old selfie she took. Unlike the image there because she's Natalia and not Nachetanya her left arm is a prosthetic from the elbow down and thus she didn't put on the armored part on for that side. ]

[burndownforwhat]

Oh!

Oh, whew. That's much better than what I was picturing.

[ and now she has a cute selfie of Natalia. bonus? ]

Wait, are those real?

[ Jen. be clear. ]