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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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

[rygdea]

...Wait, you gained the ability to read minds?

[standalonehuman]

Sort of. I was only using it to talk to people. I could only specifically read them back if they were focusing on me.

If nobody was focusing on me, it was like this general background static off of everyone at once. A hundred little whispers. You can't pick out anything individual. Because I didn't want to. You know?

[rygdea]

That's just creepy! This whole notion of powers and magic is just wrong!

This inhuman, even! Just the hell?! I'm tired of all this fantasy mumbo jumbo bullshit happening here.

Just what the hell is really going on? How did you even get such an ability?

[standalonehuman]

The "weapons protocol" they were talking about. Only, that's apparently what the Bingo game was. They set things up, they knew. Jim knew. At least. That an attack was coming.

"See you next month, or well, some of you." The game, the timing on it, he knew when something was going to erupt and gave us the powers and weapons ready to go for when that 'storm' whatever it was, was going to hit.

They may not have had control of it, but they damn sure knew it was going to happen.

[rygdea]

You got to be shitting me! You mean the whole "Bingo" game was them setting this garbage up?!

These rat bastards knew the entire time?!! What the hell--

People lost their lives be cause of this, Togusa! A kid and his mother both died as a result. How does anyone explain this to their grieving family and friends?

[standalonehuman]

It's the only conclusion I can come to.

...Who was it?

[There is so much typing and deleting happening here because Togusa feels that more needs to be said but what the hell do you even say at a time like this?]

We're not letting this go.

[Maybe the best he can offer.]

[rygdea]

Ryoji Mochizuki. Freya told me the news. The boys body should already be at the morgue along with his mother's.

Real sad. I think the mother died of grief, not certain on the details.

[That's the problem there's not much that can be said now. The forty-five missing just became forty-four.]

Damn right we're not!

[standalonehuman]

Wait. I remember him.

He was trying to draw some of the things he'd seen in his memories.

Most of it was really mundane, just a wish that he'd grown up in Japan, gone to school there with friends. Rather than being home-schooled here.

Shit.

[rygdea]

So you knew him? Well, this just makes everything hit even closer to home.

I don't even know what to write here. That poor kid shouldn't have ever died.

[standalonehuman]

Met him. Wouldn't say I knew him well. But, he just stuck out to me. Never managed to run into him again.

I don't know either. I don't think he has any other family over here.

[rygdea]

So this it how it all ends for him? A funeral alongside his mother and that's it?

I know life isn't fair and all but something could've been done.

Us 'civil servants' still have our hands tied here, even with full knowledge of Retrospec's involvement in this mess.

[standalonehuman]

I know, god damn it! Why I was trying to do something about these weapons, and to figure out what Retrospec was up to before this happened!

He's not going to be the last. I fucking know it.

Maybe find his father, contact him before Retrospec does a coverup job. I don't know. I know we have to do something, but I don't know if it will do any good.

[rygdea]

That's the main problem, isn't it?

We don't know how far Retrospec will go to keep this all a secret. We don't know the full scope of their sphere of influence. That's why we keep failing each and every time.

Togusa, if we don't figure out how far their influences goes---then we're fighting a losing battle.

[standalonehuman]

We say this right as I'm looking over at my desk and that damn book of woodblock paintings with chocobos in them again.

Okay, let me be the one to finally put out the Worst Case Scenario. What if they really are actually affecting everything outside of us 160 or so people? I mean place and time and everything. If they could snap this city back to normal, what will it take to snap everything else back to reality?