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Penelope Raban 6/24 near Apprassage

Hello everyone, I've got a question for everyone. This is something I've been thinking about for a few weeks now, and I'd like to get your opinions on it, as well as possibly some advice. I know a lot of us have been having those wild hallucinomemories lately, and whoever came up with that word is brilliant. And I know a lot of us have been struggling with them because some of them are outright terrifying. What I want to know is if you saw someone that you knew in your hallucinomemories doing something that scared you, or made you afraid, would that affect how you view them here in Recolle? Is this who they were, who they are, or who they will be again, basically. I know that's a pretty weird question, but I'm not really sure how I feel and it got pretty real for me recently. Any thoughts are appreciated, seriously. Cheers, Pen.

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[mincingminuet]

Oh, I get that. There's a real dissonance between the place I'm seeing, and the place I'm living. I don't tend to go around picking fights with monsters and hanging around with knights.

I'm not saying that it changes who you are now, but my concern is that might change in the future. This feels just like the beginning.

[manufactured]

I suppose that it has potential to, but assuming that it will seems a bit much for the time being. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be concerned about whatever it is you saw recently, but if we're receiving things in bits and pieces like this, I'd imagine that we'll have more time to process everything from a third-party perspective - we're less likely to react in the same way as we did before, simply because the circumstances are so far removed.

[mincingminuet]

Probably but with everything going on? Getting shrunk, the flowers, ghosts in the forest? It's maybe just me being jumpy, but I can't say I'd rule out something really insane happening.

[manufactured]

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Actually, that much is entirely fair.

[mincingminuet]

Hence my concern about dramatic personality shifts. Knowing the person is...or was...capable of these things? Time to process these things or not, they could just make us into them, in theory.

[manufactured]

...In theory, though that would be obscenely hard to pull off in practice.

It also assumes that all of this is some sort of social experiment on Retrospec's part, which... While I wouldn't put it past them, I'm going to be deeply annoyed if that's the case.

[mincingminuet]

Any harder than shrinking the population of an entire town, or two colors completely disappearing?

And it does assume that. Though, it's not a hard leap of logic to make. Retrospec shows up, things start going haywire and disappearing, Retrospec makes an announcement teasing us, the offer no answers. Occam's Razor, you know.

[manufactured]

Of course. Though I do have to question how difficult such a thing would be, yes, despite all that - as of yet, they've done nothing to completely revoke our agency, and assuming a social experiment, doing so would defeat the point.

They can control our situation but not how we choose to process it, at least as of what we've seen so far.

[mincingminuet]

Well, that's not entirely true. The people who don't have this app don't think there's anything out of the ordinary going on.

Why is that? An entire town can't be in on something. There's something there altering their perception, or the singing fruit would've gotten widespread news coverage.

[manufactured]

As someone who only received the app within the past two months, I can assure you those that don't have it aren't in on anything.

Everything seemed perfectly normal, or at least not worth questioning, up until the app itself was received.

[mincingminuet]

Then either the app is altering our perceptions, or protecting us from a perception alteration.

[manufactured]

That would make the most sense, yes, though I can't be certain which way it's going. I just know that everything seemed...more or less fine, and anything that was pointed out to be out of the ordinary wasn't anything to be concerned about.

All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, if you will.

[mincingminuet]

Best of all possible worlds, you think?

Where we all had these happy, safe little lives. That's actually kind of nice.

I want to believe in that, sir. I really do.