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Happy New Years, users.

I'll cut to the chase; the barrier we instilled a few months ago is decaying quickly and we're sorting through the new data as fast as we can. This barrier was originally designed to contain a rogue error. There are several of you who have taken care of this issue and from here we will handle the rest...thank you. The influx of data will help us decode our next steps.

As mentioned, we've spent December tracing several magical sources that are coming up in our readings. We're doing the best we can to trace Clarence--Mr. Vanderweele, and corral the effects he's altering in the city. I believe we're ready to tear down the firewall and begin exploring further. If our information is correct, we're really breaking the boundaries of the layers we've discovered lately! It's exciting, don't you think?

The only information I can offer is that we will need you to be strong no matter what happens. We believe things have changed outside of security measures we've set in place, though we will need more data to understand the best way to stabilize the city from his control. We understand if you cannot and do not wish to help, but please know we're doing everything we can.

Please take care.

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

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You might be one of the few people genuinely excited.

No, see, apparently I'm not good enough to e a princess, judging by Crow's standards here...

You never stole Elliot's that either of us know of. We could just not remember yet. I wouldn't put it past you.

Ugh...right.

Still seems a little absurd though!

I think most of our past selves had a better span of our abilities than what we have now. It's probably a matter of time getting it all back.

What sort of magic do you have?

How do the Japanese come up with this stuff? I've never really tried this whole fortune telling thing in any culture. Though I'm more use to the idea of palm reading and crystal balls... not slips of paper.

It does seem a little redundant, doesn't it? You don't make errors intentionally.

You're damn right I am! Jeez, don't make fun of me in public when I'm not even around...

Hitori Togusa New boss, same as the old boss, really. He wants to do just what Retrospec is doing, but if he had his say, he would have been more selective about who was on the app.
Hitori Togusa That much, I'll trust. Anything else Retrospec says about him, I'll take with a lot of salt.

At this point, I'd be more surprised if something they put into place actually worked. That's the impression I get, anyway.

No kidding...

We think he was trying to get this legendary staff remade too.
A staff that broke apart the four regions before.

A group stopped the plan, but...I'm still worried what else he might be planning.

Not sure what else you were expecting, all things considered... But oh well! This is why I can't say I like following traditions, unless they're the ones involving food. There's hardly any bad luck that comes from that.

Absurd compared to what? The rest of our past lives' everything?

Hitori Togusa It's okay, you don't have to do that, I can ask!

[Oh no, one of the things Shuji is actually insecure about.]

Hitori Togusa I meant a dog, but it's not like you can also ask about their robot policies?

[It takes a minute for this reply to come.]

but if we kill people were the bad guys

Well, maybe he is trying to complete what he didn't finish last time... what ever that was. I mean, he was killing children.

It seems rather occult-related. I don't want to disclose the details publicly, but all the same... It doesn't exactly look like the kind of thing you see on TV, with slight of hand or elemental control or anything like that.

Hitori Togusa Really? But food is okay. Do you have a favorite New Year's meal, then?

[...]

Alright, alright, it was uncalled for Sorry ... Add ten bucks to my debt for it? And...I don't know, you get one jab at Crow free of charge

Aw, I think you'd be good enough to be one!

I don't think he took any of my money. Then again, I'd probably just give him some if he asked...within reason.

Does anything faze you?

[Wesker, why are you like this? Derek wonders what is up with your brain.]

[Tsugaru-ben is hard to shake even when you do magically gain fluency in Tokyo-ben. He doesn't even use it in front of other Japanese speakers.]

They might be more willing to have a robot than a dog, actually. Nobody's allergic to robots and they don't shed. Plus yours is very well-trained.

Hitori Togusa The wisdom and experience of our living elders is already respected, and considered sacred.
Hitori Togusa Asking the spirits of the ancestors for advice just takes it a step further.
Hitori Togusa It also acknowledges that you are more like the people who have come before you than you are different from them. Their fates, or, the actions they have taken, and the mistakes they have made, can be repeated in your life if you didn't learn from their stories.

Hitori Togusa When you talk to a crystal ball, where do the answers come from but spirits? When someone is reading your palm, doesn't what they are seeing have to do with your genetics, your link to the people who have come before you?

Honestly, I think most of us don't know half of what any of their posts mean. They're not good at communicating.

But I do know that things almost never go as smoothly as they make it sound like it will.

See? I was a well behaved boy ...Did you want to be a princess, Rean?

I vote you play Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Handel and see what happens./span>

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