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Three options for you.

1.) We test the timelines based on the ideas of people who went backwards and checked into things. You know who you are. Like I said before, we have three tries to check to try and improve the situation.

2.) We just charge straight ahead and hope for the best.

3.) We actually come up with a plan with volunteer basis, split you guys into groups, and proceed from there.

As I've mentioned, Mr. Murdock raised a proposition of having volunteers for the Retrospec project to prove themselves to Vanderweele and get him to back off the project. Mr. Togusa changed the contract in the past that Retrospec will go public, more or less, when the first world has reached full completion. Ms...Anna (Anna it's too weird to call you by something proper) has volunteered herself to jump forward to a degree where she's regained her abilities, powers, and strength.

So if you see double, don't be alarmed.

Here's the thing. No matter what path we take, it's always been the same. The end has always been about stopping Vanderweele's influence over the city and shutting down his power. While there are a lot of ways we can do that, it's always been that ultimate goal to get the city back to what it was. Release people memories. Adjust everything. All that. The pieces of the puzzle finally fell into place to give us a clue of what we're supposed to do here.

Under the ocean there's a base in a trench hidden away. The further you go, the less the water appears. It's displaced, but the pressure of the ocean itself might kill you before you get down there unless we loosen the binds.

We have two objectives here: destroy the eye that's feeding his defenses in the city, and destroy the base in the ocean to siphon his power out and stop what's been started.

Pick a side. Once you know your strengths and weaknesses, we'll have a better sense of how to attack and take him by surprise.

Got it?

Fixing the city? That's "finishing" its regrowth. And taking away his power means sending memories and energy back to where it belongs.

This is going to be the last thing I'll ask of you guys. So...think on that.

Zee Carlisle
Hiring Manager
Retr

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Do you mean that if we complete the world in our memories, we might get idk pulled back there?

I mean, I think there's still a lot of stuff I haven't remembered yet, but my old world was pretty neat. Sure, I've remembered some gnarly stuff, like someone dropping a tanker ship in the middle of Shinjuku and taking over the Diet building. But if I got pulled back into that life, I think I'd be okay.

Not that I really want to go there. But I'd be okay.

I will be 100% honest. This has only been a working assumption that a lot of us have been going off of. It has NEVER actually been said what happens when a world completes.

Given how expendable that Retrospec treats us in Recolle? We've always assumed that the other life would overtake this one, and we would get sent back there, yes.

But no, I need to emphasize that I don't know that for sure.

But you also can't say for sure that it WON'T. So it's something we should still bear in mind.

I almost didn't think of it both ways. If your heart is set on going to the world that you're seeing in the memories? I'm almost sure there'll still be a way.

But no, I don't know for sure, whether it will or won't.

Well, I'm not, myself. But I know some people are. Or were. I don't know if anyone still on the network feels that way. But someone might.

I don't want to sound like I'm unhappy with my life here. It's fine. But my old life wasn't bad. Dangerous, but not bad.

I understand. I know there are still some people that vastly prefer the other life. And some that vastly prefer this life to the point they think the other one shouldn't exist.

And then there's me. I want the other world to be restored, there are things there that are too important. But I can't follow through on bringing Retrospec to justice from there.

Yeah, those are some pretty extreme opposites.

Soooo if it weren't for the fact you want to bring Retrospec to justice, you'd go back to the other world?

Honestly?

No.

I. It's easier to blame it all on the upcoming case, but this runs a lot deeper than that.

My life is mine, and his life is his. We are two separate and unique existences. And no matter how much on paper it looks like I should want everything in his life? It isn't right to take it.

It needs to exist, but it also needs to be HIS.

I get what you're saying. I don't think I'd
like it if she decided she wants to pop into my life and live it after all.

We're only human though. Sometimes it's hard to not want what we perceive as greener grass.