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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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.

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[elevelvetor]

[ ...so he did. a woman that couldn't be saved... ]

unfortunately.
i wonder if she's the one who started it? or perhaps she was how they discovered such a thing could be accomplished.
the body we recovered the information from was...
well, i declined to look too closely, but i heard it seemed like he was hardly freshly dead.
i don't know if we have an exact number for it, and ms. sphinx didn't say, either.

[storytelleroftime]

No clue. But still, that means our memories are real. I guess it's like Mahoney said. That things are real, but they're real elsewhere.

But wait, what body?

[elevelvetor]

to make a long story short, after defeating an alien, we found a small ship. on it was a man none of us could identify, and he was very, very dead.
he had flashdrives on him though, and we took them back to our mecha. ms. sphinx instructed us on how to plug them in, and...
well. that research and the notes about the project were on them.
they were not in a language any of us could read, but ms. sphinx was able to, so she simply summarized their important points.

[storytelleroftime]

Huh. That's... interesting.

Well, want me to tell you what our group learned? I think it's only fair I tell you something useful after you've just given us this.

[elevelvetor]

[ ...you know what?? ]

by all means. i would appreciate it greatly.

[ now she's gonna blue text forever. or as long as she remembers to. ]

[storytelleroftime]

Well, actually, rather than explaining it myself...

I'll just link to this thing one of our teammates composed! It covers the info we've obtained well enough.'

Praise be to Minako on this, she's totally saved us.

[elevelvetor]

[ ...wow. ]

this is quite a lot.
i'll have to give it a thorough read through when i'm able to.
as it turns out, being the bearer of this sort of news means i've suddenly become rather popular to talk to.

[ HAHA... HA... though one part's already sticking out to her, because the same seems familiar...? she's gonna have to think about it. ]

nevertheless, thank you for sharing. i'll thank Minako myself as well.

[ when she's not, um... dealing with death-related topics. poor minako. ]

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah... I probably should talk to her, like, in person. To tell her what she needs to hear.

[elevelvetor]

i'm certain she'll appreciate it.
as long as you're tactful, that is.

[storytelleroftime]

I'll try to be. Or at least, I'll try to ease her into it.

Often times though, you have to approach things harshly in order to effect a person. But, I just hope Minako isn't at that point.

[elevelvetor]

i feel the same way.

[ .......oh! oh, she's got it, she finally realized what's so familiar about that name. ]

by the way, about Vanderweele on this write-up.
while we were in a lab, a pair of my teammates found security badges for an R. Vanderweele, as well as someone named Dew. they were evidently located in scrubs, so i assume they're both doctors, or one of them is an assistant.
do you suppose they're connected somehow?

[storytelleroftime]

I wouldn't doubt it.

But, a lab, you say? A lab with a Vanderweele... it's probably connected to Retrospec in some way. They do have an interest in the Founders, after all.

[elevelvetor]

on a scale from "they did a project on the Founders once and like to look up trivia sometimes" to "they would like to be the Founders," how big of an interest are we speaking of?

[storytelleroftime]

They have their descendants working for them, and there is an entire dungeon with one of their terminals in it related to them.

So, leaning more towards the latter of that.

[elevelvetor]

oh my.
it sounds like cult activity out of a video game or something.

[storytelleroftime]

Retrospec itself operates like a cult out of a video game, is that really surprising?

[elevelvetor]

..........
well, you do have a point there.
though cults usually have voluntary membership.

[storytelleroftime]

Well, plenty of people are born into cults. It's not uncommon.

[elevelvetor]

they at least know they have been though, don't they?
...or perhaps it's so normalized that they don't consider they may have.
hm.
"Retrospec" is a very lame name for a cult. they should rethink it.

[storytelleroftime]

They probably think that their actions are somehow justified. Maybe due to information we're not privy to.

Or perhaps they are aware of this Recolle Project stuff. Perhaps all their cult is doing is facilitating that.

[doublesmall]

[and he's just popping in here since he was part of the group getting that info-]

our group was in the crypts, and she said the books some of us found down there were books of the dead. from other worlds that couldn't be saved.

I asked about their hiring process once and she told me having nothing to lose helps, so- I don't think she's the only one.

[elevelvetor]

[ ooh, hello. ]

what are the chances that everyone who works there is from a destroyed world as well?

[doublesmall]

probably 50/50, considering they're not gonna confirm either way

but yeah, I had the same thought. maybe not all, but I'm guessing at *least* some. didn't really want to push the issue and ask a bunch of shit after she dropped that on us.

[elevelvetor]

i almost wish you had, but then again, i suppose there's no guarantee she would have told you what you wanted to know.