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[recollecters]

Status report from the field teams? Same for the rescue teams. We have people out in both locations and from where I'm sitting you guys are moving pretty fast. The layer itself isn't at a risk of collapsing just yet, but I don't really want to take a bunch of chances. Also my office has since been taken over by Whistler's Mother and I can't get her to leave, so it looks like I'm temporarily moving. Again. Anybody else having this problem? Report to me with anything you need. The map on my system's filling out as much as it can, but I feel like I'm missing pieces. Keep each other posted. Oh, and heads up? Looks like tech had one more batch of testers they were going to bring in, so...if you see anybody new? Try and get them up to speed. Zee Carlisle Hiring Manager Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever has been previously chosen and are permanently locked in! 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, though you're free to hit up his individual inbox later. 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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[godcards]

YES I AM

[sleepingknight]

Denied!

Sorry friend, but you have to keep earning your title of good advice giver over and over and over again or you lose it.

[godcards]

I give advice all the time. It's not my fault if others choose to ignore it.

[sleepingknight]

Is your usual advice more like the threatening one, or are you nicer about those?

[godcards]

It depends.

[sleepingknight]

That's ominous...

[godcards]

:)

[sleepingknight]

Do you just like giving troll advice?

[godcards]

It depends.

[ yeah he's giggling on the other end here ]

[sleepingknight]

Please get off the internet and make some friends

There's better hobbies out there!

[godcards]

Friends leave. Friends are disappointing. Self-sufficiency is much more desirable! You don't even know how to make friends with people you were supposedly friends with, though... I doubt you can understand where I'm coming from.

[sleepingknight]

[...]

Did someone ditch you in the past?

[godcards]

Everyone has at some point.

[sleepingknight]

If you have crappy family and friends, I guess

It's not always like that, though. Especially if you get to know people better than just trolling them online

[godcards]

Why would I bother with such things when it's been repeatedly proven that it isn't worth it? I'm not going to waste my time trying to win the approval of someone who is just going to up and leave again.

[sleepingknight]

Because when you have someone who has your back, you can afford to chill sometimes

It's nice

[And clearly something Malik needs in spades.]

But friendship is a two way street. If you're giving, your friend should be giving back too, you know?

[godcards]

Yeah, like that'll happen. Real life isn't like how it is in the movies.

[sleepingknight]

I'm lucky enough to know it firsthand!

But it sounds like you weren't.

I'd offer to prove it to you, but you'd have to accept it

[godcards]

If you want to negotiate, you have to make me a worthwhile offer. So far you just sound like everyone else who wants to proved to themselves that they're "good people" without caring about my end of it.

[sleepingknight]

My offer is to stick by you and call you out when you're making bad choices and idk help protect you in a fight? I'm good at fighting now

I can also be around if you need to rant or vent or whatever. I'm no therapist, but I can at least do that.

I don't know, do you play games at all? I'm always up for more people to game with

What would you offer back for that?

[godcards]

I have charisma and good looks.

I'm good at... acquiring things, I'm bilingual, and excel at multiple levels of math. I have street smarts and survival skills.

I don't really play games, but I played cards in my past life.

[ and few social skills, which is why this is like a personal ad instead of an articulate response on how he'd be a good friend. ]

[sleepingknight]

Acquiring things like stealing or

[THAT. THAT SOUNDS KIND OF SHADY??]

Also, which languages! I know Japanese and English.

[godcards]

It's better if you don't know the details.

[ HE'S SHADY... ]

As for languages... I know Arabic and English. I also can read Ancient Egyptian and got up to year 3 of French before I left school... but the latter two don't really count. One is a dead language and I'm not fluent in the other.

[sleepingknight]

As your new awesome BEST BUD

I'm calling you out. Don't do that. Bad.

The languages are cool though. Do you like studying them or did you have to?

[godcards]

It's harmless. I'm opting to ignore your call out.

Arabic is my first language, so I didn't have a choice in that regard... Same with speaking English, in that no one could communicate with me outside of my parents.

I took French as an elective and I was good at it, so I stuck with it for the easy A. Retrospec gave me the ability to read Ancient Egyptian, though...