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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

[manufactured]

I can't say I'd mind either way; I think it would be worth the experience regardless.

[thesettingsun]

Then it's decided! I'm sure I'll track down some shrine or temple somewhere in this city that we can go to.

[manufactured]

I would like that.

Either way, I certainly won't say no to passing time in a manner that's not inherently traumatizing for at least one party involved. Wedding aside, of course.

[thesettingsun]

I was going to say your wedding cake wasn't that bad-

But no, I'd like that too.

[manufactured]

I do appreciate you being present for the wedding and all.

[thesettingsun]

There's no way I could have missed the wedding of two of my dearest friends.

[manufactured]

We wanted to have you there.

[He is really terrible at expressing this whole Friendship thing but. he's trying.]

[thesettingsun]

[He's trying and Shuji loves him the way he is.]

I'm glad.

So yes, we can definitely hang out. That's the shorter way to say 'pass time together that isn't inherently traumatizing to anyone involved'.

[manufactured]

...Well, yes, I imagine it is.

[thesettingsun]

[Assuming Wesker isn't getting paid by the word, because if he is absolutely stretch that as long as possible, Shuji supports you.]

When are you free?

[manufactured]

I'll be sure to let you know; I'm hoping that my employers have mercy on me this holiday season. There's nothing quite like overseeing a laboratory full of techs that don't want to be there, all of them handling dangerous substances of one sort or another.

[thesettingsun]

I can imagine. Is there mandatory Christmas music in the lab too?

[manufactured]

Oh, naturally. In just enough areas that we start feeling mildly insane.

[thesettingsun]

And here I thought that was just a curse of retail.

[manufactured]

Outside of retail, it really just depends on who you're working for.

[thesettingsun]

At least tell me that your Christmas music started after Thanksgiving?

[manufactured]

Thankfully, my employers know better than to fundamentally upset a lab full of those techs that don't necessarily want to be there, all of them handling dangerous substances.

[thesettingsun]

That's what we needed at GrubMart for the minimum-wage employees to be treated better. Dangerous chemicals. I'll pass the solution along to the employees still suck there.