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[lostapprentice]

who else feels like their "past self" should have remained dead? i can't be the only one.

unrelated: has anyone had the misfortune of being granted injuries or scars from their past lives?

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[lostapprentice]

people do tend to make ridiculous assumptions, especially children, and there's no shortage of those on this application.

i'm certain it will be a while, but i wish you luck with it as well.

[manufactured]

How long have you been on the app, through curiosity?

[lostapprentice]

since may. it's hard to believe it's only been five months.

[manufactured]

The same length of time as I have, then. So much has happened since then, and half of it feeling like some sort of hideous hallucination besides... It's agitating, to not put too fine a point on it.

[lostapprentice]

for half of that month i certainly tried to convince myself it was a nightmare, but denial only worked so well. not that accepting it was a much easier process.

did you ever expect that things would end up as dire as they did last month?

[manufactured]

No. In fairness to both myself and everyone else on this app, however, I don't know that there's any way that we could have foreseen the extent of it.

[lostapprentice]

i didn't either, though i feel like someone must have, with how retrospec proved anything was possible.

either way, we'll be more prepared for anything from this point forward, at least mentally if not otherwise.

[He'd say there's not much worse than that but he's absolutely certain he'd be proven wrong almost immediately. He's not risking it.]

[manufactured]

[...Thank you for not jinxing it for everyone, yes.]

Perhaps. It does seem as though that particular incident was somewhat beyond Retrospec's control, however - so I don't know how much we can say that even they foresaw something quite like that.

[lostapprentice]

even if that is true, i wouldn't be surprised if they decided to inflict us with something similarly dangerous, even if it wasn't as outright destructive.

[Ren has absolutely no faith in their goodwill.]

[manufactured]

I'm inclined to agree, though I have to wonder if they'd attempt something half as dangerous to the civilian population as opposed to just us. That was the part that most agreed seemed a bit low, even for them.

[lostapprentice]

seeing how they freely manipulate those people with every change doesn't give me the best impression of their opinion of those "civilians."

i'll certainly hope that they have some sort of line they won't cross, but i can't expect it at this point.