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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.

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[psykick]

[she went in twice. why? who knows. but she's not about to admit that on a public forum]

Yeah, people seem to be indicating that level of weird is pretty common. Someone send me a couple documents about all of it and I feel like my eyes are about to pop out of my head.

I can at least try.

[motiv8]

[Listen, at this point, he's not really sure what he has to lose. Even the one time he didn't nearly die, the castle robbed him of his dignity, so, y'know.]

You got documents? More than me, at this point, I've just gotten the layman's version from a couple of people. I don't know if I'd know what I was reading even if I got them, though.

Still, I've heard about the same. That that was common, and there can be worse. Not sure I'm looking forward to finding out how much worse firsthand...

I wish you all the best.

[psykick]

Someone linked me to this which then lead me to this. I'm only partway through the 'guide' and my head already hurts. But the thoroughness kind of lends it some credence?

I feel the same. I'm not sure I want to know what 'worse' is. Though if i keep reading the guide, I'll probably find out.

[motiv8]

Wow. These are... pretty intense, yeah. But still, thanks for the links, it probably is a good idea to sit down and read these through.

Well, I don't know too many details, but I know people were apparently turning into monsters back in October? Straight out of some kind of horror movie.

[psykick]

That sounds like a horror movie alright!

[motiv8]

Yeah. Really glad I missed that, or at least I don't remember any of that going down

[psykick]

Wait. I think I remember there being a corn maze in the city back in October. And now that I think about it... that is really weird!!! Why didn't I think it was weird that I'd get lost every day going to school?

[motiv8]

...Wait a second. You're right, there was!

Well... I've heard that people who aren't on the app just... don't notice all the weird stuff. Or they do, but they forget all about it. And it's not until we get the app that any of this actually registers to us.

Don't ask me how any of that works, though. I don't have much of a choice but to take everything at face value right now.

[psykick]

Yeah I tried showing it to Julia and she didn't see it. It was weird.

I hate just... going along with things. But yeah, it kind of seems like we don't really have a choice.

[motiv8]

I got lucky, in that sense. I noticed things on my own, and when I actually looked into things I got educated on the basics pretty fast from there. Didn't have to worry about weirding anyone else out, at least

Yeah. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is for now. We'll just have to find another way to make our own impact, is all.

[psykick]

That's an interesting phrase. "Make our own impract." What do you mean by that?

[motiv8]

Well, no matter how we look at this, it's our lives that are being affected here. We might not have much of a choice but to accept that this is what's happening, but that doesn't mean we can't do anything at all.

Who knows how much we might be able to change, but we can still make some impact. These are our lives, after all.

[psykick]

And if we don't try to change anything at all, for sure nothing will change.

[motiv8]

Right, exactly.