TEXT ♞ INFO SHARING

[tarotcards]

Hey everyone, Souji (in blue) and Dave (in red) here. I know that some of us don't want to remember the events of last month, especially not so soon, but it's important for us to share what we found or did while it's still fresh in our minds. So, this is a general discussion post for everything that happened in August.

to that end theres gonna be an in person meeting later on possibly with refreshments
were not above bribery here even if i am personally above fancy capital letters
but info that maybe shouldnt wait for then is that team space jam found a dead dude who had a thing that said according to a sphinx
the recolle project is a thing that is like reconstruction rather than reincarnation bringing back stuff thats ours

Essentially, the Recollé Project outlines this stuff as memories, items, and abilities. Rather than regaining things from a past life like reincarnation as Dave said, it's more like regaining things that were buried - to bring them forth to us.

There wasn't much else in the report asides from a map of the city, but the sphinx (it’s a long story but it appeared to have knowledge about the project) confirmed that this was true.

so anyway bring yourselves and possibly snacks to the sandiego foundation on saturday
we will try to make sure at least one person from every team from last months little whatever is around
newbies and oldbies should both come to revel in the glory of information
and like seasonally themed snacks maybe we will have pumpkin pie because i want some
last but not least and speaking of newbies theres one more thing to go over here

It's clear that Retrospec is going to continue adding new users to their app so Dave and I thought it was best that we created a guide to Retrospec for all the future newcomers (and old users too). We're going to type something up really soon but we wanted to ask what you'd like to see in the guide. Frequently asked questions answered, what we know so far about the Retrospec team, how to change your font into a really cool colour like ours, stuff like that.

nearly as cool anyway
you have to do some serious training and animal spirit sensing to get a color as cool as this
but yeah talk at you all later
or like soonish when you reply

( ooc: this is an ic discussion and info gathering post that is open to everyone, so feel free to jump into other threads and whatnot! this takes place alongside the in-person ic info gathering post which can be found here )

Comments

[darkinferno]

wait what do you mean reconstruction

are you saying that we ARE the people in our memories

[tarotcards]

According to the report, yeah. The sphinx confirmed that the report was true. Of course, we don't know if we should trust her word on this but we can't ignore the possibility as well.

[darkinferno]

[he's so unhappy about this]

gotcha

thanks

[tarotcards]

Are you all right, Dante?

[darkinferno]

[Nope.]

come on, souji

in all the time we've known each other have you ever known me to NOT be all right

[tarotcards]

No, but it's okay if there are times when you're not all right.

[ this is a lesson that has been hammered into souji these past seven months, especially after the car crash... ]

[standalonehuman]

No.

We're still unique individuals. The people that we are getting the memories of are different unique individuals. Retrospec is trying to strengthen a connection between us and these people in an attempt to, whatever the fuck 'rebuild worlds' means.

But you're still you and that other guy is still him.

[darkinferno]

[how can you say that? Delete-delete-delete, not on the public network... Dante's definitely feeling lost at sea again though, the tenuous grip on "being okay" lost in the flood of all this information.]

i don't think we can say that for sure togusa

after all the shit we saw last month... there's been too much impossible already, what's one more thing

[standalonehuman]

Forget the science or a report, probably written by the same people fucking with us right now, by the way.

Even if Retrospec saddles you with all of some other Dante's memories and abilities and weird shit? You're still this Dante. There's the part of you that's only known to yourself. And that's what Retrospec is trying to mess with. And then there's the part of you that interacts with the world. You've got more control over that.

[darkinferno]

if i listen to my memories i don't have any control over that either nope

look i already knew someone that could rewrite memories i don't need retrospec to do it for me nuh-uh

is there a third option i can take

one where i don't have to deal with myself OR this other dante

why don't we just start from scratch

[daemonized]

Nothing is absolute. It is merely one possibility of many. Don't latch onto it just yet.

[darkinferno]

[How in the world has he lucked out enough to have both Togusa and Ardyn on his side? The both of them together give him something to hold onto.]

what makes you say that? this is the first explanation we've gotten for ANY of this stuff

retrospec isn't giving us any answers

[daemonized]

It may be the first explanation, but who is to say that we can trust all the information in front of us? It may be unreliable, it may not be whole. It might even be something that isn't worth trusting. Who is to say, until all the pieces fall into place?

Still, whatever the answer is, who I am now is not something I can discard so easily. And neither should you.

[darkinferno]

[...he'd forgotten that conversation, truth be told. It comes back to him now, everything Ardyn had told him after the last time he'd run away. (He's tempted now, but he won't; he knows that he'd worry too many people if he packed up and ran off now)]

you told me that before too

[Calm down, Dante, and breathe.]

i'm a little more willing to trust this information than you are though

if it's anything like what we found it's hard to argue

[daemonized]

Perhaps that's the case. But even in the worst case scenario, if we /are/ these people, by default... we also cannot be. We've another lifetime of experiences to pile onto the old. To smother it, if need be.

For now, I don't want you to dwell on it for too long. It is still, technically, all hypotheticals, and not something we can reconcile in one day.

[parodeity]

what the hell did you think was the case out of curiosity

[darkinferno]

i wasn't what's your next question

i mean i guess i didn't want to think about it but i just assumed it was reincarnation, not that we're actually them

how does that even work

[parodeity]

i never bothered to worry about the details
wasnt like anything in my life ever made sense

[darkinferno]

that's probably the best way to look at it

which life are you talking about, this one or the other one

[parodeity]

lmfao both

[me_matey]

u gonna be okay chief?

[darkinferno]

yeah, fine

what about you, you all right?

[me_matey]

survivin

got a lot on my plate tho

[darkinferno]

yeah i can understand that

what'd you do this past month

[me_matey]

beat up the ugliest mother fucker on the planet

played a live action vidya game

then got to be in goddamn STEAMPUNK world which was kinda the best even if we had a mission to do. did odd jobs to earn some pieces of eight, and got some info for the rest of the crew. they probably postin here what they managed to get.

the library's a trip, dawg, i oughta go more often