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retrospec2017-08-25 08:18 pm
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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 Temporary access levels have been revoked.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 Retr ![]() 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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But there are others here in Recolle who I remember, and they remember me as well.
The alternate life we were living remains remarkably consistent.
That isn't ironclad proof, mind you, but it's certainly a point in its favor.
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But on the other hand, I've recognized no one in what I've seen.
And the city in my hallucinations is barely even functionally possible.
Let alone probable.
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What's so impossible about a city?
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In the fifties.
And run by some kind of lunatic objectivist.
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Some sort of underwater installation, then? A space station for the sea?
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Like an actual city.
Skyscrapers.
Trains.
Parks.
But all airtight.
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Doing that with the technology we have now would be... dubious.
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Imagine it sixty years ago.
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One of us might remember a world of swords and sorcery, another the far future.
Perhaps wherever you originated had the technology to do this?
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I don't know. Maybe?
I know how to use some of it.
Build some of it.
When I...when she was little she took a lot of the machines there apart.
I know how it works
even if it doesn't completely make sense
And it doesn't explain how they deal with the pressure
Or were able to create that kind of construction down there
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I understand it seems odd, but my own memories have included things that by no means should be possible either, yet they seem internally consistent with one another.
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It was already a city when I was small.
But I used to take my mother's security systems apart.
And all the machines she had.
They were...
I almost want to say Networked but that's ridiculous.
But the other technology I've seen in the city seemed very similar to what I had taken apart.
[And a minute or so later.]
Pretend I said she instead of I for all of that, please.
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So your version of this mid-50s city had some sort of internet as well?
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At least, I don't think so
But things like, the security cameras and the the security drones could communicate with each other somehow
And had FOF recognition split between all of them
Which is hard to do with radio.
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Which, given that we're talking about an undersea city...
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True
So who even knows then
Maybe their technology does make sense somehow and I just haven't remembered that bit yet
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I'm not sure we should be assuming that the rules we believe hold true here, hold true in those other worlds.
I remember falling into a television.
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If the laws of physics are different, I suppose anything is possible, really.
Maybe they really did have some kind of 1950s internet.
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And then transported to varying fantastic locales.
So what I'm saying is, our standards for what is "possible" should be
modest.
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Okay, thinking about it, judging from the other things they're capable, I can't really discount the idea that there was some kind of internet
Or network
Or something
They reacted too quickly to be remote controlled I'm sure of that!
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So they were autonomous?
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I mean, they were capable of having their programming hacked really easily.
But also temporarily?
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How do you hack something temporarily?
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Eventually they'd revert back
I think it must've.
Hm.
[And no more messages for a minute from her as she processes something that just popped into her head.]
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[You don't type that unless you've realized something.]
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