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

[notyourutopian]

It's still ridiculous.
I don't know why people are so willing to just accept it.
We aren't them.
We're us.

[burningblossoms]

right?
We have a whole set of experiences that these people don't have.
The idea that we'll simply become them is laughable.

[notyourutopian]

Exactly.
I could maybe accept the past life idea but.
Not this 'oh you are them.'

I'm nothing like her.

[burningblossoms]

Other Yukiko and I may be alike but we haven't experienced the same things.

So, no, I'm with you.

[notyourutopian]

Exactly.
Hell, I can't even understand half the things this other girl has seen.

...And I don't think she'd understand me, either.

[burningblossoms]

Well if she's from the fifties? No probably not.

[notyourutopian]

You know, I hadn't really thought of that.
She's so angry...

I guess having to live in a time like that didn't help.
Even in a underwater dystopia.

[standalonehuman]

That's way simpler than the way I've been putting it. Glad you feel that way.

I have a really stupid question to ask about what your team saw when you have a second.

[notyourutopian]

Sure, what's up?

[standalonehuman]

Was there some kind of creature or entity you guys ended up talking to that took credit for bringing you to that place? Like in the swamp or something?

The Kids up there aren't kidding about a sphinx.

.....I said it was stupid.

[notyourutopian]

Hm.
Not that I can remember?
We fought a yeti in the mines and some crocodiles in the swamp.
And then ghosts in the house.
But none of them said much, at least not to me.

[standalonehuman]

Okay. Thank you, that's good. I'm trying too hard to make a connection that isn't there.

It's too easy to think that there might just be someone else sitting with their hand on another button to pull you all where you went. So. Scratch that one.

[notyourutopian]

I suppose it's possible someone else heard something?
But I don't know

It felt random

[parodeity]

b/c some of us remember enough that its a given probably

[notyourutopian]

So?
If I read a book about a character just like me, and learn all about their life,
I 'remember' all about them.
But I don't somehow become them.

[parodeity]

el you and i both know the memories and reading about a book character arent the same thing
or
they never have been for me
maybe they are for you

i dont think its about becoming or not becoming

[notyourutopian]

Okay fine.
But given what they're capable of, whomever did this.
Why would we think they can't just make us see things that never happened?

[parodeity]

i mean those are the two options arent they
real or not real

[commandertoolbelt]

as far as we know it's just another theory, not a given
sounds kind of crazy if you ask me
there's too much that doesn't make sense

[notyourutopian]

Completely crazy, really.
I think people are just trying to find a way to make it make sense.

[commandertoolbelt]

maybe but they're not doing a good job of it
like what exactly are they supposed to be reconstructing?
are they trying to make us into the people in those memories?
and what's supposed to happen to us if they somehow manage to do it
people aren't machines
we can't just be rewritten like that

[mincingminuet]

Leo is right on the money.

I don't know about you but I'm not made of code.

[commandertoolbelt]

and even if we were, why would they bother going through all this when they could just rewrite the code and be done with it?
and why bother letting us know something’s happening at all
none of it makes sense on its own
we're still missing something

[notyourutopian]

If you believe Naoto, we're programs.
But that's just as ridiculous as this.

I don't care what they're trying to do, I'm not going to become her.
None of us will.
Brains don't work like that.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ now is not the time to play devil’s advocate, leo, no matter if the computer program theory is still a possibility. ]

dr mahoney said retrospec is just supposed to play an observational role with what’s happening to us
take that with a grain of salt since that comes from retrospec but
i’m just saying el
maybe we do get weird memories and powers
maybe our bodies change
but they don’t get to decide who we are

besides if it were that easy to overwrite people, they’d have done it already and nobody would be freaking out right now