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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

[thesettingsun]

Thank you for the kimono. I know you don't actually choose when these things get sent out, but it's well-timed. Maybe we'll get a random temple showing up in the city and I can visit for New Year's.

My favorite holiday tradition's still good old KFC.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa We opened the doors? Retrospec didn't have access to those places before? Interesting. I was running on a theory that those places were a higher layer of the four regions. Guess not.
Hitori Togusa Uh, well, happy upcoming holidays. What does everybody want for your holiday of choice?

[strawberrypunch]

My grandma used to make these amazing strawberry pies for us

Does anyone else have favorites?

[spirithacker]

itll be easier to have holiday cheer & stuff if you dont let our families forget who we r
just saying

[burndownforwhat]

Always glad to throw down with talking animals and have a ghost almost take over what little of my life I still have under control. So no, please, take all the time you need!

Speaking of traditions: if anything keeps me from seeing my mom marry her girlfriend next year, I'm going to get real mad.

un: lucille

[interlucere]

do you think Retrospec employees get holiday pay? I hope they're able to take some time out to see their families. sounds like they're working a lot of ot right now

anyway!! what does everyone want for Christmas? maybe we can do a big Retrospec gift exchange! let's make some holiday wishes come true!! :D

[drydrown]

Oh, that's wonderful! ♡ Absolutely spectacular that now we're back to knowing who's going to meddle with our lives next.

I don't really follow any proper traditions, though I'm still appreciating yours regarding not informing us exactly how you screwed up so badly. But you know what, "maybe it's just magic" is better than the usual.

Happy holidays, honey, don't work too hard. ♡

[...Cumore hates the holidays so much and damn if he's not dragging you all into hell with him.]

un: lucille

[interlucere]

linzer cookies! they're really cute and really tasty!!

I've never heard of strawberry pie. I guess you can really make a pie out of anything huh

un: BIG DECK ENERGY

[jurai]

The best holiday tradition is watching Die Hard, the one true Christmas movie

Oh

Looks like my name's stuck for good


All hail Big Deck Energy Crow Armbrust

[spirithacker]

new games!
ive been hyped 4 the new pogglemon 4 ages

[fiddlestick]

Oh, strawberry pies sound delicious!

If we're talking desserts, my favorites are always fruit things like parfaits and fruit cake. Though I'm pretty good at custard pudding too!

un: lucille

[interlucere]

is that kind of like the people who get Chinese takeout on Christmas?

un: lucille

[interlucere]

I'll tell you if you tell me what you want

un: malik

[godcards]

Holidays? I don't care about those. The only tradition I have is my birthday...But as usual I'm expecting everything to be screwed up by then. I suppose that's almost a tradition too! Thanks for nothing, Retrospec.

[scythegun]

I suppose I probably should care more about the content of this post, but I only have one thing on my mind:

Are we getting those mistletoe bats again this year?

[thesettingsun]

KFC on Christmas is a proud Japanese tradition dating all the way back to the 1970s.

[yakan]

so i am a bit not following since i was mostly not really present last month what did i miss exactly???

also as long as theres good food and not annoying people all holidays are equally good
but what places do you think has the best christmas food???

un: lucille

[interlucere]

Die Hard? that movie with a skyscraper and a bald guy in it?

[thesettingsun]

Can I get 'nothing bad happening this month' as a holiday present?

[thesettingsun]

I have a weakness for gingerbread.

un: lucille

[interlucere]

when is your birthday? :o

[ She's back. ]

[thesettingsun]

Please don't let us have mistletoe bats again, I will actually die.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa More than fair! I like it! Of course they put it out right before Christmas, right?

[cardcaptured]

[Posting as Li Xiaolang!]

These magical sources... it doesn't have anything to do with the staff we all saw last month, was it?

There was a similar staff some of us saw in Respatrum, back in February, a replica of something that was said to have split apart the regions and end reality itself. We destroyed it, and the person responsible for building it is now imprisoned, but... there had to have been a reason we saw it. It couldn't have been a coincidence.

[Although this isn't very positive, and considering all the strange stuff that's gone down in the past few months, he can't exactly take Retrospec's words with a grain of salt anymore.]

Um... I guess for holiday traditions, though, the Christmas dinners are always good. Baking the special cookies and treats aren't that bad either, and the decorating can be nice, too.

[Please don't ruin their Christmas by taking their sense of taste again Retrospec, he can't spend another holiday not being able to enjoy food!!!]

un: Lucille

[interlucere]

mistletoe

what

like bats carrying mistletoe or???