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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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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[explodosafe]

Trick question: do we get any lost body parts and pieces of our sanity refunded?

You guys had me sweet-talking a mop and a broom.

[glaciers]

Are you okay?

[explodosafe]

Yep. Thank god it weren't mine that got lost underway.

How're you?

[glaciers]

I'm glad you have all your limbs.

Very tired.

[explodosafe]

That doesn't surprise me at all. I saw some people just drop where they were standing from all the fighting.

...How's your home? Did you go to see your family already?

[glaciers]

[Shouto, internally, god I wish that were me. He feels like he wants to sleep for a thousand years.]

I'm going home now.

[explodosafe]

[Cutter grimaces at the message, but he can't backtrack now that he's already went there.]

Alright. Want me to come over and have your back? I can wait outside again.

[A pause. He remembers way too clearly what he has written Shouto while he couldn't be reached.]

Hey, man... My couch's always open for you if you need a place to crash.

[glaciers]

[...

That's right his family might not remember him...]

I think I want to be alone for this.

But thank you for the offer.

[explodosafe]

Alright.

You can do this. Let me know how it went, ok?

[Okay, now he feels really bad.]

[glaciers]

I'll let you know.

I'm hoping everything is back to normal.

[explodosafe]

It should be.

You owe me a story of what you were up to while you were gone, too.

[glaciers]

Do you want it now or later?

[explodosafe]

Whichever way you prefer. I don't wanna keep you if you're going to meet your family.

[starfruitfrog]

You lost a body part sweet-talking a map and broom

[explodosafe]

I didn't. Maggie cut off one of her fingers because she got one of the challenges wrong.

[starfruitfrog]

diod she keep the finger? apparently you can attach it back on if you kept it

[explodosafe]

We MEANT to, but-

She dropped it.

And I didn't notice even though I was carrying her through the portal, and then it was closed and no way getting back to pick it up. It's my fault. So much to my potential as a good guy or a hero.

[starfruitfrog]

It's not your fault!
Heroes don't have to be omnipotent or omniscient and it's not like you can pay attention to everything all at once. Everyone makes mistakes.

And I've heard that they do 3D printed replacements now. Maybe she could get one of those? They're much cheaper than traditional prosthetics! Anyway a traditional prosthetic shouldn't cost as much either if its just a finger

It's going to be okay, here I found some links so

[He proceeds to link as many sites as he can find about 3D printed prosthetic limbs, ways to cope, training exercises for strengthening hand muscles and the costs of traditional prosthetic limbs. Sorry for the spam, Kirishima...]

[explodosafe]

Yeah, but not everybody leaves the ones they're trying to help crippled while messing up. That's more than just "a little".

[He is very bitter over the whole incident, can you tell? He wants to brush Keroro's idea off as another one of his typical nonsense, but the more he allows himself to think about it, the more hopeful Cutter gets.

After a pause where he is looking through the links - he'll do it more later on - he answers way more honestly than he has in a long time.]

I don't know whether to love or to hate you right now.

[starfruitfrog]

What matters is what she thinks. Does she thinks she's crippled? Did she ever blame you?

You can decide after we help her

[explodosafe]

Yes. No.

She pretends it's all some big joke but I can see that she's forcing it.

Besides, losing your little finger isn't a small thing. It messes up the function of your hand as a whole.

[starfruitfrog]

I've never met her so I can't say for sure but I don't think you blaming yourself will make her feel any better about it

Then let's get her a prosthetic finger. Losing her finger doesn't mean the end of her life. Things can be just as good, even better than that. It's a matter of perspective, right?

[explodosafe]

I'm not blaming myself to make her feel better!

I

I just feel really bad whenever I think of it, okay? I talked big that I would look out for her!

[starfruitfrog]

What did you think would happen if you weren't there, then?

[explodosafe]

Exactly the same. I made no difference at all.