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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

[frostythehitman]

he's definitely the guy behind it
word through the ghost grapevine is that he used a ton of illusion magic to mess with all sorts of crap
and after he got kicked out the other founders still needed him around to make him undo whatever he messed up in the first place
which is apparently what retrospec's been trying to do the whole time we've been here

where were you thinking of investigating?

[cardcaptured]

But... wait. If he had all of that power, even without his staff, wouldn't keeping him around be even more dangerous? Even if he was the only one who knew how to fix things? What if he was deliberately making things worse under the guise of setting things right? Or laying groundwork for things he can take advantage of at a later time? I mean, I realize Retrospec hasn't been the best at making good decisions, but that just... doesn't seem smart.

You said you and Li-Na thought it could be in Magatus, so that could be a place to start. I'm not sure where Vanderweele's place could be, but I remember a little about how that staff... felt. [Which is really weird to say, but hey, magic sensing is a thing] I can ask Li-Na if she's run into anything else in regards to him last month, too.

[frostythehitman]

look man i don't know, i'm not cavendish or mahoney
i don't know why they chose to just keep him around
maybe they had a good enough way of restraining him, something did mention vanderweele being in jail
or some other good reason
or maybe they were just stupid
what does it even matter? why they did that doesn't matter, just that they did and now we're dealing with the fallout of it

we got to vanderweele's place through those weird doors before, but i don't know how to get there without them
maybe it's in magatus since that's supposed to be his region i guess
but maybe that's too easy