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Cleo Ritter
5/24 near Recolle University
Good afternoon. For those who don't know me, my name is Cleo Ritter, and I am a rather recent addition to this Retrospec community. I have some questions, to those of you who have received the strange visions after being made a part of this. Specifically, if you're willing, I'd like to hear about those visions. I thought if we collaborate and make a list of what kinds of visions each person receives, we might be able to find a pattern as to who gets what, and perhaps piece together a more complete understanding of what is going on here. Thank you in advance for being willing to share this, and I hope this will prove useful.

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"Hallucinomemories" seems like an apt description. Could you be more specific?

It's a strange, silly word that one of the others came up with. It took months for me to embrace it, and I still don't like using it when speaking.

Hmmm, about what exactly? About "Myself" in these?

... Yes, I could not see myself saying it out loud. About what you mean by 'spy novel'. I must confess, I've never read any.

I have tried. It sounds as ridiculous as it looks, but it still captures the concept better than "Visions," sadly.

Ah. Have you ever watched the films about the daring spy who goes on secret missions into enemy territory, gets into duels with guns or knives against other spies, steals documents and assassinates some foreign dictator before 'getting the girl?'

If so, it is like those. If not, I am remedying this one day.

I think I will stick to 'visions' when I speak out loud, regardless. ... Regrettably, I have not. I do not have much time to sit and watch a movie.

Hmmm, in that case, the short version is that the person I see through the eyes of looks just like me and seems to be a spy of some sort, who favors knives. She's fought with groups like the triads, so I would like to think she is a good person in some way.

[But after the other night? After she'd heard the music play from her watch and seen her latest 'hallucinomemory?' That was getting a lot harder to believe.]

That is good to hear. It sounds like your visions come from someone with a sense of justice, to be fighting those. My own hallucinomemories seem to involve combat in some form- Fighting a monster, and training in swordsmanship with an elderly man.

I'm not sure I'd go that far. She was following orders, so better to think of her like you would a soldier.

I see. So a bit more fanciful in that case. A few people I know have had more fanciful ones like that. There were definitely no monsters in mine.

She was one doing good regardless, then. It was quite fanciful, like you said... Though it's still rather vague. The man in my memory was apparently the grandfather of the person the memory belonged to, which is quite strange.

Curious. But, it may not become clearer until you've seen more. Unfortunately, there always seems to be holes in them for me, ones that make it hard to be sure what is really going on.

Mine have holes as well. I know I fought a monster, but I would be hard-pressed to give any details but 'it had scales'. It's quite frustrating.

Frustrating or distressing. It can be very unpleasant to not know the full details. I can say that some of it improves with time, but some of those holes are still there for me.

I am unfortunately unsurprised. I am beginning to understand Retrospec's MO in these things. Giving us halves of answers to frustrate us endlessly over the missing half.

It does seem to be a very common way that they treat us. I am not sure it is the fullness of their methods, but I think that we're starting to see that they intend to do whatever they can to keep us busy.

Frustrating us appears to work.

Frustrating us and leaving us malnourished, judging from the fruit.

[she hates this so much.]

But I suppose even half an answer is better than none.

I suggest bananas. Good for potassium, and they don't smile at you. And yes, usually, though sometimes it can cause more confusion than it does anything else.

[it's a good thing this is text so you can't see the face she made.]

I suppose it's better than any fruit with a face. It does raise more questions, but hopefully, we will gain some answers to those as well.

[She'd made the same face a few times.]

I would settle in for a battle of patience and endurance. Getting the answers isn't impossible, but it's taking time and it isn't easy. So, it won't be as fast as you'd want. I will guarantee that much.

If it was as fast as I'd want, we'd already have the answers. I can bear with waiting.

True.

Are there any other matters that you think I could help you with? Or did you have other questions?

Ah.. Yes, for clarification. You said yours are on Earth? Do you know where?

Europe mostly. Oddly enough, some of it was where I was born and raised, near the Pyrenees. Switzerland, France in a large part, though one was in China or Taiwan. I'm not sure which.

It seems odd to me that yours were so identifiable. I'm not certain where mine took place, but I am sure it wasn't Earth.

Well, I remember the Pyrenees from my youth, and the view was almost identical. Altena must have lived close to where I lived.

[More like exactly where she lived.]

The other places, identifying them were easy because I saw street signs, heard languages, people welcomed me. I was expressly going to certain places, on missions.

That makes sense. I was more surprised that the visions would allow you to remember such things. There are holes in the memories, after all, and knowing where these visions are taking place may be important. Altena?