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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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

[standalonehuman]

Lucian!

Are you all right, first off?

[accordance]

I am. Others, less so.

[standalonehuman]

I've heard. Or, at least, some of it. I know there's more I'm missing.

I'm all right. Me and Koutarou both. We got lucky that we ended up together.

Where did you go?

[accordance]

We were taken to some sort of ship, which culminated in an underwater adventure and then a classic pirate hunt.

I think this all but confirms that all of this is some sort of simulation.

[ It's not real. ]

[standalonehuman]

I can accept that everything else we experienced, the 'unreality twists' as the Retrospec employees were calling them, were a simulation.

But there has to be something about this world that's real. Why would Retrospec be spending so much effort on keeping it in one piece if it weren't?

[accordance]

It might be simply an attempt at restoring the simulation to its original state.

I would rather believe making a simulation costs less energy than actually physically transporting us here from other worlds.

[standalonehuman]

We're here, we belong to this world. What just happened to everybody was an accidental transportation to a different world, then?

Or an intentional one. We were entering smaller versions of those twists, places where Retrospec said they had concentrated the 'unreality.'

The weird part is that they kept needing items, things from outside of those spaces. Might have been using them for power.

[accordance]

I am not so sure if we belong to this world. It was more that we were taken here, put into a simulation, and then the simulation glitched out.

Unreality could be their term for glitches.

[standalonehuman]

Where else could we be from, then? No. This is our world, we have the memories of this place. Retrospec might be showing us things of other people, other places, but those aren't us.

[accordance]

That too could be possible.

I would suppose the meaning of identity differs from person to person. I only hope that we can obtain answers soon.

[standalonehuman]

That one, I'll agree on. Both identity and the hope for answers.

I suspect you're about to get another round of customers in the wake of this. Lot of injuries going around. Is there anything any of us can do to help you?

[accordance]

You have been a steady presence here, perhaps by talking to others you will be able to calm them as well.

My concern is more on the health and well-being of those here.