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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

[cardcaptured]

[There's way too much magic being mentioned in those sentences than he's comfortable with, but he's just going to have to suck it up and bear it because what's going on is much more important.]

More or less, yeah. Although it's not so much the item itself being magic so much as it's... a conduit for someone who has magic to channel it into to produce effects.

I mean... you use a wand, right? Sakura had a staff she used, to activate her cards... and my sword seems to amplify whatever power I use to make my talismans work. But I guess if we're talking about what it draws from, a 'source'... then an actual person wouldn't be far off the mark.

[blondferret]

I wonder if anyone is keeping track of all the magic users on the app. I mean, should we be worried if one of them goes missing suddenly? Would Retrospec have kidnapped them? This could be a huge safety concern.

[cardcaptured]

I don't think Retrospec would ever go that far... at least, I don't think they would. The only time they ever took people was that time everything went digital in September, and they weren't even on the app anymore.

[Not that it made things any better, of course, but it's safe to say they weren't taken for their powers.]

Do you think one of us should make a list of all the people on the app with those sort of abilities? That way we have some sort of reference in case something like that does wind up happening to one of us.

[blondferret]

It might be a good idea. We might even want to determine what we would feel the definition of "magic" is.

[cardcaptured]

Phenomena that hasn't been explained by science yet? That's all "magic" really is, anyway. Though that is a pretty broad definition...

[blondferret]

Exactly, such a broad term can make it confusing. I personally wonder what kind of magic Retrospec is after. I've seen so many different types of magic, that it becomes someone undefinable.