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I'll keep this short and to the point to give you guys time to strategize, catch up, all of that.

Congrats on your Magatus missions. Looks like everything's been cleared out as best as we can, but the region's been evacuated thanks to a couple of factors.

The new problem is we just added a bunch of people to city limits.

I've got some good news and some bad news.

Bad news: need some people out in Pesgare to do some deepdiving and recovery. It doesn't look like there's anything out there that'll kill you, but I need something from down there to stabilize Recollé itself.

Good news: got the subway working. Did you know it was just about coding? That's a little crazy to me and okay, I might have found out on accident, but…whatever was blocking exits from the city was just a false creation.

It means getting out of here and checking out the progress outside. The trains will be ready for departure in about a week, I'll get some maps drawn up and everything. I could really use some of you on location scouting.

Finally…who knows about machinery? We've got a problem we should probably look into, but keeping track of that eye's a huge pain in the ass.

Discuss, get in touch with me, prepare. You know the drill.

Zee Carlisle
Hiring Manager
Retr

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lol

You know
Medically speaking is one thing. But there's a lot of metaphysical stuff at play with everyone here, right? And with everyone's past lives, and past afterlives. So in reality, it probably has as much to do with the state of of your soul as the state of your body.

Death changes a lot of things. But it's not the end.

All the stuff with souls... I kind of wonder what it was about me and the other people with powers that made us different. Not everyone could see the glowing fish. Did it have something to do with our souls, or something else?

Death definitely wasn't the end in my case. I mean, I got revived. But damn, I'm not really sure how to even deal with remembering this kind of thing.

It's hard to say. In my world, having powers or not definitely had to do with the soul, and it ran in families to an extent, but even there it seemed... kind of random. Just coincidence, or random chance, but far enough in the past that it had settled into the foundations of society. If that makes any sense.

Dealing with it is probably a process, too. I don't think you need to rush through your feelings about it, or try to figure out how to be comfortable with it right away.

Yeah, that does make sense. It's kind of like a talent. In some families the talent happens at a higher percentage than the rest of the population, but not everyone in the family will have it. And at the same time it's still possible for someone in the general population to have that talent even if no one else in their family has it. The whole power thing still seems like way too recent an event in my past life's world.

I'm not trying to rush exactly... I just want to make sense of things.

[yes she is]

I think I understand. Which part doesn't make sense? (if you don't mind my asking)

Oh, no, I think I've got a better idea about my initial question. And then there's something that might be connected to it. but until I somehow manage to confirm it... I don't really want to bring it up.

Oh yeah, of course!
Well...
I hope you get the answers you're looking for soon. And jsyk, if you ever need a sounding board or w/e, I don't mind talking about morbid stuff (lol)

Well, it's not morbid really. It's just a bit... complicated. Like most things in life.

oh for sure
And life's complicated enough without the whole thing about this universe being artificial and all of us having extra pasts to worry about...