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[recollecters]

Hello Users, Please be advised that the temporal-spatial storm has now passed. Temporary access levels have been revoked. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please also be advised that as the storm has passed, work has resumed on certain other issues. You have my sincere thanks for your assistance. Thank you, Janet Halloway Human Resources Retrspec Incorporated As of this post, the city has completely returned to normal; damage has been fixed, monsters are gone, and NPCs now believe that monsters are definitely not normal but don't seem to remember them having been a thing. Oops? All weapons and powers gained in their various locations / as QR codes are now gone, additionally. Group 1 locations can no longer be accessed. Retrospec NPCs will not be reachable past this point! As mentioned to various members of group one, the Director does not approve of Retrospec's team speaking with its users, so NPC interaction will drop back down to what it originally was at this time. Doing research for these people will also net zero results. City-based NPCs will now remember members of group two! They will simply be under the belief that group two members were on vacation/had a family emergency/etc. No consequences will come from them being away at their jobs or school or anything else! Furthermore: -Horses are now regarded as valid mythological creatures! So you get mildly less strange looks for talking about them. -Photographs and text, online and off, now have the color blue again! -Visual video media (online, in theaters, etc) now has the color green once again! This does not include text yet. -There has been a new list of karaoke songs added to the city of Recollé! These songs can now be found in karaoke bars and machines all across the city and even can be sold on CDs for your own karaoke parties. -The Crow's Nest now has locations across the world, including a brand new location right in the heart of Recollé! After August's plot wraps up, be sure to grab a bite to eat and say hi to Kenny Crow. -Finally, the ocean has been restored! It's still gray, however. Keep working together to buy back world changes. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[prometheanflame]

Mohamemd Hefaz Finally
Mohamemd Hefaz I hope everyone is safe and well, and I'll be around to help with answering questions, but I think all of us have stories to share.
Mohamemd Hefaz I suggest that sometime next week that we find someplace to consolidate what we learned about Retrospec and...wherever half of us disappeared to, whether online or in real life.
Mohamemd Hefaz They spy on our every move, I'm not all that worried about Jim and Janet knowing about us.

[thesettingsun]

Question: when can I expect you to pick up Iggy?

[stopbleeding]

thanks for the ocean
where's my fucking house

[HE WENT THROUGH ALL THIS BULLSHIT FOR 2 THINGS JANET: THE OCEAN AND HIS FUCKING HOUSE]

[glaciers]

What happened to your house?

[cattack]

Thanks are all well and good, but what about explanation?
Do you intend to leave us in the dark for the next time this happens?

[rebellions]

don't they always?
it's a miracle they even bothered with this half-assed thank you post

[judgementkazzy]

Glad that's over.
And buying stuff from Jim's registry suddenly makes sense...
Was there a wedding?
Congratulations.

[loudmouths]

i hope that was sarcastic

[parodeity]

ignoring the vague bullshit up top as usual:
hey some of my photographs are less grayscale
i approve
anyway more important i missed you social media
guys do you know how much it sucks to not have 24/7 access to twitter
it sucks a lot

also where did everyone go what did you do
tell me your wildest story stat
i ripped off emils arm and used it to get a key out of a cabinet
also i was a cat for a bit
also we found a mecha i think some of you saw that part
also i guess souji and i cheated at cards in order to get home
that kinda thing

ps i guess we got confirmation the memories are ours or w/e but like
i already figured that part was true
i think probably we can still argue about it if we want

more importantly i give up not writing in this obnoxious red unless you tell me not to
the heart wants what the heart wants

[notyourutopian]

What confirmation?
Some of us just spent three weeks in a swamp
What are you talking about?

[digthefuzz]

oh no janet you actually married that madman??

um okay that aside
it's me, kurt!
fuzzy's back, tell a friend

so, um, believe it or not i was whisked away on a magical adventure for the past month
a bunch of stuff happened
i got chased by a boulder, i rode a unicorn...

and now i'm back! but i have no idea what's been going on here while i've been gone
anyone have a refresher course??

[prometheanflame]

I demand context.

[frisyr]

kinda rude to not invite us to the wedding when you had us buy you gifts

[roseblooms]

Maybe all this WAS the wedding. Isn't that a revolting development?

(Also, welcome back.)

[storytelleroftime]

Janet!

I just want to thank you for banning Jim from talking to us, we all appreciate the lack of condescending posts in our life.

[explodosafe]

Seconded!

[crushcard]

"work has resumed on several other issues"
are you going to tell us what these issues are, or not

[storytelleroftime]

Probably fixing the horses and colors and stuff. Those are the issues they've been dealing with in the past.

[mercurio]

okay but a question to teachers ig are classes starting in september as always
no cute dog pics this time i'm going to sleep we did it guys now go rest up

[daemonized]

Yes.

[daemonized]

Congratulations everyone. The city is back to normal, or whatever passes for normal these days.

Who else plans on sleeping for a week straight now?

[Ardyn considering sleep THE WORLD MAY STILL NOT BE RIGHT. ]

[standalonehuman]

Would if I could afford it. Gotta thank Retrospec for the cleanup, though, makes my paperwork pile smaller.

I need to talk, specifically, to you. When you have the time.

[eyestitch]

halloway...she actually went through with it. that absolute madwoman.

i'd say i don't believe it but at this point i'd put nothing past any of them!!

nooooooot really digging the business as usual tone (but it's better than the alternatives...........what should i do???) which, considering there are entire universes just 'twinkle, twinkle, little bat'-ing out of existence with no real record whatsoever, maybe not unexpected?

we wanna talk about that? at all? anyone?

addendum

[eyestitch]

ALSO:

i know you have the least effective c.s. management system in history but that's ACTUALLY what i wanted to complain about so BLEEH!

where am i supposed to file a complaint about this 'director won't let us talk to people' clause? it's b.s.!! who's with me?

[sivard]

So the world went insane, monsters attacked us, I nearly got killed by a giant with its own personal forest growing on its back, and now the two biggest jerks in Retrospec are married.

What else could go wrong?

[storytelleroftime]

...I dunno about Janet being a jerk. But Jim is and I think everyone can agree on that.

And oh, a lot can. Like the city being wiped out or something.

[adoringpast]

a fucking wedding in the middle of all this mess
are you kidding me right now

and apparently this isn't the only instance of marriage that's been happening while we're all fighting tooth and nail these past few weeks so like ???

i still have the photos of my horse friend though so at least i know that they DO exist
wonder what happened to it though
but it's not like im gonna miss it or anything

[ he already misses marvelous tbh ]

[strayknight]

Good to see you're alive.

...you don't have your horse now too?

[strayknight]

A bunch of us just vanished to a weird place and that is what you say?

Are you all high?

[adoringpast]

huh
well where the fuck have you been

thought you actually died or something

[bitemefightme]

You all better be damn prepared to pay medical bills. I am not impressed with your shit.

[loudmouths]

why stop there? why not sue for pain and suffering on top of that?

[rygdea]

Well, isn't that just all fine and dandy.

Still doesn't really explain what's really going on in this batshit town, now does it? Monsters, magic and the lack of blue in the ocean...

Is this all just a game?

[standalonehuman]

They want to have it both ways. We got enough of a confirmation that I was half-right, Retrospec is trying to prevent something out there even worse than what they're doing to us.

But then they won't explain what it is.

Damn it all, I am as pissed off as I have ever been, and I can't walk away from this. I'm still automatically trying to figure it out.

[esperimental]

Why do we have to keep pretending things are back to normal. Stop that.

I know you're not listening but none of this is ok.

[rygdea]

It's downright insulting when they demand for us to adhere by their standards of normalcy.

Pathetic even. This damn company still think they have the wool pulled over our eyes.

[complementing]

to anyone who was friends with Ryoji Mochizuki, even if you knew him in passing






he passed away. As did his mother

I'll be holding a ceremonial cremation at Peach Beach next Wednesday to say good bye. If you knew Mrs. Mochizuki, I'll let you know about the funeral later




please come

[ooc: no replies from her unless there are questions about the cremation and the like]

[thesettingsun]

[...oh. He doesn't know what to say to that to make that okay.]

I'm sorry. I'll be there.

[admiringly]

i'm done!!!
I'M DONE!!!
this isn't a good ending
i can't take this anymore
goodnight!!!

[ ROMANCE IS DEAD TONIGHT ]

[thesettingsun]

I can only hope they'll be happy together. Somehow.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa The power's gone. It's quiet again. I don't know if I could take much more of that.

[matchbreaker]

Elda Marker Wait, which power?
Elda Marker The one you got out of box?

[notyourutopian]

I suppose she really did marry him.
Huh.

Suddenly three weeks in a swamp doesn't seem as awful as other things I can come up with.

Anyway
Someone fill me in on what you learned while we were off on our backwoods haunted swamp adventure please?

[standalonehuman]

Glad you're back. You okay?

Even though our team kept getting called to Retrospec's own basement, we didn't learn as much as I would have liked. A few things, but they feel incomplete.

Except for Maurice. Their Intern? Turns out he's their mail room intern. And he's actually a decent person. But he has the nightmarish job of trying to send us all the stuff we keep getting in the mail. Even though nobody explained how he's getting his hands on the stuff, himself.

[vendettastool]

If anyone needs help with some bills from this disaster, let me know. I got some stashed to help out fellow PCs from coding disasters.

And in other news, anyone get the feeling that this was all caused by them getting married?

[rygdea]

I wish I had crashed the wedding guns blazing!

[manufactured]

Well, it's good to see that at least they're acknowledging this as an "inconvenience" while they continue to try to fix our horrifically broken fruit. That's surprisingly better than I thought they would manage.

[Yes, yes, hello, he's had some time to charge his battery and he's about as pleased with everything as he usually is.]

[prometheanflame]

Its god to see you've made it back.

At least the mass kidnapping was fixed, which honestly is a very low bar.

[elevelvetor]

.......... Thank you for the notice, Mrs. Halloway. Congratulations on your marriage. I hope you enjoyed Souji and I's gifts. We put plenty of thought into them.

[ she's. a little mad. that that's all they have to say. all of this happened and all they get is a non-apology? not even a thank you for helping at all?

anyway. janet's not gonna reply, so... ]

it would seem we have blue back, at least as far as visual media goes.
so, in celebration:
i believe i shall be utilizing it for the moment.
moving onto the important things, as i don't believe it matters whether i speak of it in person or not. Dave mentioned it, but i'll be more thorough.

with the help of ms. sphinx, we discovered research about the rebirth of worlds.
evidently, if life is preserved from these worlds, the worlds themselves may be regrown, as long as the specimen (or specimens, i suppose, if they are lucky to get more than one) regains ties to that world.
(she was very brief on this part. actually, she was rather brief on everything.)
there was also something called "The Recollé Project" which, as Dave said, confirms the memories are... ours. as are the items and abilities we receive.
that includes the physical changes i assume, for those unlucky enough to have those.
it isn't reincarnation, but reconstruction of some kind.

you may draw your own conclusions from it; i already have.

[storytelleroftime]

...That lines up with something Zaveid said, if you look above. He says that Retrospec has a woman who is from a "world that couldn't be saved" working for them. So... that should add more fuel to the fire.