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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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]

We are the real people. I'm gonna stay firm on that one. If it's the city that is simulated so it can shift and change at will, we have to be reality, because we can notice it.

Or at least partially reality. Why bother simulating this unless it's for our benefit?

[truedetective]

I don't know. I haven't been able to figure out a plausible motive for any of this in the slightest.

I agree that we are real, and judging that others have "woken" and subsequently gone back to unawareness, any number of the others may be, too.
Or they may be AI constructs. There's no way to tell.

[standalonehuman]

That

[There is a very long delay, with Togusa typing and retyping what he wants to say here.]

That was the one thing that Maurice and Dr. Mahoney had something to say about. The people who have 'forgotten.' Gentiana and Tim and Luke and all the others.

"When people forget, their soul slips out of place. They become their own twist of unreality, and need to be rewritten in order not to unbalance everything."

I couldn't get them to explain more than that. And I still don't know what it means.

[truedetective]

If we assume that the talk about the "soul" is a metaphor for the computer program, then... some sort of corruption in our code? And we need to be 'reset.'

But it doesn't explain why people first wake up at different times. Unless we're being processed one by one somehow.

"Twist of unreality" sounds like a phrase out of science fiction.

[standalonehuman]

So now we're back to 'Retrospec can read and control the data ghost.' The piece of individuality but that might be read with technology instead of spiritually.

It feels like science fiction, but where you were all taken fully to a different place? These were localized shifts. I could walk into a room and oops, it's a series of caves made out of crystal. And when we resolved them, the physical space reverted back to what the room was supposed to be.

[truedetective]

Yes. Under the sea. I was actually given gills. And moonlight was visible underneath solid rock. "Science fiction" feels like it doesn't cover it anymore.