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[digthefuzz]

we just don't know

or actually maybe we know a little
as far as i know everyone who doesn't have the app doesn't notice these weird things going on in the world
so
it's kinda all in our hands?

[doitrockapella]

What DO we know, all told? Ms. Wiseman mentioned something about six months; surely in that time someone's been able to come up with SOME variety of answer for what's going on here?

[digthefuzz]

you'd think that, wouldn't you!
sorry, we've only been able to find out so much
well, i'm not completely on the loop on all the findings out there
but mostly we keep hitting walls trying to look into retrospec
and weird things keep happening
and a bunch of people using the app experience these memories/hallucinations/hallucinomemories
it's like remembering doing stuff that you never actually did?

[doitrockapella]

Or things that you did in another universe, so I've heard.

What sort of things are people remembering?

[digthefuzz]

right, like that too! total twilight zone

um, one of my friends remembered building a robot??
lots of weird stuff like that
oh, and sometimes people even get items or even weird creatures sent to them by retrospec

[doitrockapella]

Robotics isn't such an outlandish pursuit to remember. Are they not scientifically inclined, normally, or...?

[digthefuzz]

okay so he's a bit of a tinkerer
but i should have mentioned that it was specifically a giant robot

[doitrockapella]

...How giant, precisely?

[digthefuzz]

well, he said it was a whole lot bigger than anything he's ever worked on before
including cars
so, kinda sounds like it might be the kind you only see in scifi!

[doitrockapella]

That's impressive, to say the least. What did he do with it, once it was built?

[digthefuzz]

no clue!
the only memory he got was while it was still being built

[doitrockapella]

I see. And that memory didn't come with any indication of what it was ultimately intended for, then? Curious.

[digthefuzz]

yeah I think that's what he said
memory's a tricky thing!

[doitrockapella]

Evidently so. I wonder — if he remembered it well enough to draw it, do you suppose an engineer or someone similar could work out its purpose just from the rough schematic?

[digthefuzz]

no clue
anything's possible?