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souji ❝useless bisexual grass eating furry❞ seta ([personal profile] tarotcards) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-09-06 11:15 am

TEXT ♞ INFO SHARING

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 )
browbeater: Ha ha? (Calc...you... later?)

[personal profile] browbeater 2017-09-06 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
that's a lot more intense than i heard. but i'll be there saturday.
darkinferno: (★ you are paranoid in every paragraph)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-09-06 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
wait what do you mean reconstruction

are you saying that we ARE the people in our memories
prometheanflame: (listening/neutral)

[personal profile] prometheanflame 2017-09-06 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for organazing this, Souji.

I know bits and pieces of the story behind this, but I'll just talk about what I know for certain.

* Last month, after clearing out the subway and before rushing off to fight more monsters, Ronnie (a Retrospec employee that works the current train lines), gave us a map of the subway system dated five years ago. If we are to explore the city for clues, I believe that following the lines will help

attached subway.png

* For those of us who just received the app, back in May I found a video playing in what I can only describe as a pocket dimension. I found a video of the first mayor - one of the First Founders - giving an acceptance speech nearly 100 years ago. For those new to the city, there were four original founders, but references to the other three were all but erased until recently. One of the other groups has found more detailed information about that. Other than that, I noticed that there are several people in the video's crowd that look unhappy. I wonder if they are upset about the other three founders or if there is something very wrong with the city's founding.

* Related to that, I have am completely certain that the government/founding of Recolle is related to Retrospec. A few months ago Chloe and Leo (with a bit of help from yours truly) found some photos in the history museum archives, some showing the construction of the Retrospec building. This was kept under high security.

The questions I have are these: What is the connection between the first founders and Retrospec, and what do they mean by "things buried within us?" I thought this was more of regaining things from an alternate version of ourselves, considering the topic of worlds was brought us as far as I recall.
darkinferno: (★ end of the night it's goin' down)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-09-06 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh wait, hold on, he had something important about this--

put the existential crisis on hold for a moment, Dante--]


i've been talking to a lot of different people and it sounds like almost everybody who wound up outside the city found information and those of you on teams in the city had contact with retrospec's employees, right?

we should make up a list of the retrospec employees, what they do, who they report to, all of that

figure out who's in charge of this company that doesn't want us talking to them

before this all started we only knew about

jim halloway (r&d)
janet wiseman (now halloway) (hr)
maurice fitzwilliam (intern, reports to jim)

now we've got

wendy guo (security)
baroque (he's a cyborg)
dr mahoney

those are the ones i remember, there's been a lot going on so i don't remember who else has been mentioned

we've also got people related to retrospec that aren't employees

p spinnato
c vanderweele (according to emil he's a mad scientist)

add to the list, we'll see if we can come up with a full one
darkinferno: (★ the final wall is breaking down)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-09-06 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[he's so unhappy about this]

gotcha

thanks
windeity: (THINKING ♫ thoughts)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-09-06 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
while i am not above believing a sphinx, did said-sphinx explain how they were getting stuff to reconstruct people...?
mincingminuet: (Disturbed)

[personal profile] mincingminuet 2017-09-06 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Quietly freaking out. Thanks Souji. She wasn't ready for this.]

I'm not willing or ready to accept that conclusion yet. That we are those people. Frankly that's not possible.
seeker: (04.)

[personal profile] seeker 2017-09-06 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
by reconstruction, are you implying that our current memories AREN'T our own?

or do we have two sets of memories, for some reason?
browbeater: Seriously, what's your name? (Hope? Stacy? ... Jane?)

[personal profile] browbeater 2017-09-06 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
i'd heard that they were doing reconstruction, but not that we were specifically involved with it. i'd thought it was weird when they said the memories were real "somewhere." but i guess this explains it.
commandertoolbelt: (stop talking already)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-09-06 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
okay cool what's a few existential crises after all of august

anyway i can be there on saturday so that's one for team absinthe
belligerentwarrior: (It hurts seein' Cie'th.)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-09-06 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
guess i'll add that before spinnato's library went on its little feeding frenzy, there were books lying open. big complicated psychology things about erasing wills and changing ones. i think. only got glance at them. take from that what you want.
Edited 2017-09-06 15:53 (UTC)
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalkDown)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-09-06 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
freeskies: Gauche, but fair. (Kill your heroes and let's fight.)

[personal profile] freeskies 2017-09-06 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be taking notes, if you don't mind. I can't relate to what you say about "memories," and I'm still quite inclined to believe there may be a more mundane explanation.

However, I can't deny that for a time, monsters seemed quite normal, despite my initial misgivings upon arrival.

Names of Retrospec employees should be shared immediately.
freeskies: (And the lies I weave are oh so intricate)

[personal profile] freeskies 2017-09-06 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My thanks for the list.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (If I could kill you with my mind...)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-09-06 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's still ridiculous.
I don't know why people are so willing to just accept it.
We aren't them.
We're us.
daemonized: (146)

[personal profile] daemonized 2017-09-06 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for this.

Though this information will settle uncomfortably with most. I, for one, am not sure how ready I am to accept that these memories /do/ belong to me, and not some version that existed once in the past.


[This is a topic that gnaws at his own uncertainties, dredged up quite recently by a number of things. But he'll not dwell on that for now. Information first.]

Our team did manage to gather information regarding the founders. Clarence Vanderweele, Philip Spinnato, Georgia Mahoney, and Myrtle Cavendish are their names, as evidenced by what we experienced in the forest. They had, apparently, fought the "unreality" in the past -- for whatever that implies for the state of things now.
commandertoolbelt: (thinking too much)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-09-06 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
nigel cavendish was the other guy we talked to
he was with research and development, but he said he wasn't involved in jim's projects
openhanded: (animated) (☆i won't let you go this way now)

[personal profile] openhanded 2017-09-06 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is the kind of thing he would've liked to find out firsthand rather than reading about it. He isn't sure how he feels at the moment.]

Brandywine couldn't get anyone to talk so we don't have much to contribute, but I'd like to go anyway if that's okay.

thank you for sharing.

if you'd like me to write up a proper report about the ghosts I've encountered, I can do that. I heard people ran into more of them in the woods during August. they're usually not much for conversation though
covenantal: (oo2.)

[personal profile] covenantal 2017-09-06 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
There's also Joanne, Ms. Wiseman's younger sister.
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[personal profile] daemonized 2017-09-06 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing is absolute. It is merely one possibility of many. Don't latch onto it just yet.
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[personal profile] burningblossoms 2017-09-06 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
right?
We have a whole set of experiences that these people don't have.
The idea that we'll simply become them is laughable.
redarm: (this is my path)

[personal profile] redarm 2017-09-06 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
tch.
way to drop an identity crisis on everyone with cheerful font colours.

reincarnation or reconstruction? whatever.
i don't give a fuck.
i'm still me.
and everyone's still themselves.
we're still the ones who create our own paths.
they might be trying to shove us to go a certain way
but we're the ones who decide what to do.


[That said-]

ill be working on saturday
so count me out from the meeting.

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