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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-11-01 05:49 pm

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hey. first matter of business is that you won't be getting items in the mail any longer. i'll send you tickets if i get something and you can ignore it if you want or pick it up from the mailbox. it's your choice. if you ignore it whatever it is stays in storage. the original thought was that you would like your things back, but since that isn't always the case this seems like the easiest way to avoid problems.

i'll be upfront and say that you shouldn't try to put anything in the mailbox that doesn't go there. you can put in items registered in our system but anything else will trigger the failsafes. while these failsafes aren't lethal or anything, they're designed to be about as much of a pain as it would be for me to sort out that kind of thing. so that's your warning to maybe avoid triggering them?

please do not attempt to destroy the mailbox. it took me a while to set up. it's over by the building. you'll recognize it because it is blue. instructions on how to use it will come with any tickets i mail out. if you have an item you want stored which is in our systems, go over and put it in. if you want one unstored, it'll give it back. easy as pie. no one else can pull your stuff or store it; it's locked to specific users with specific items.

by the way, this isn't going to be working fully until the third. i'll be sending out tickets anyway though, so just keep tabs on them.

can't do anything about physical changes without knocking your souls out of alignment, which is technician work anyway, and also would kind of kill you. joanne will address that in a second.

Maurice Fitzwilliam
Mail Department
Retrspec Incorporated

Hello! Like Maurice said, the physical changes are a result of your souls being as they are! What the mind forgets, the soul remembers. As long as you're you, you will become more "you" physically. It's a little like an echo coming back? I'm trying to be understandable, but the actual explanation is way more technical, sorry! That said, the only way to "stop" that kind of thing would be to let your soul dissipate, which is possible but 1) would kill you! and 2) would definitely be a thing I don't want to do because of point 1 and 3) is entirely against the company directives anyway. Maurice doesn't think saying this will help much, but I don't see any reason to not! Well, actually what he said was that people always need a target and he doesn't mind us being one, but he's a gloomy dork so he doesn't get a say. My great-grandmother liked people who were honest, not people who sighed and didn't bother to say things!!

Also, I did try to explain unreality effects earlier when I spoke to some of you, but I don't think I was as clear as I could have been. At least, I'm not sure how to say things clearly and still be allowed to say them, but! There is something that causes unreality on the whole that I can't really say much about. But it was very connected to what destroyed all those poor worlds. We can't do much about that, but sometimes we can snag a few souls from those places, so we do, because we can. Not everyone liked that, you know, but what's the point of saving only yourself from the dark? Anyway, they had that argument way before I was ever born, but even if they'd had it when I was alive, this would definitely be my answer.

We do manage to stabilize things sometimes. I'm afraid I need to let you know that some of it we're going to have to let go. The changes might be a little confusing, but it shouldn't be dangerous. We're going to be moving some resources into better defenses against that kind of huge storm. Please don't worry too much if some things move around or shrink! It's a lot to maintain, you know?

I'm sorry that we can't be more exact. This month shouldn't be more than residual effects from what we're doing, though. So it won't be any uncontrolled unreality. Mostly! For the record, we don't really control what those effects are! I can't really address everyone but I know that came up a lot last time?

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retrspec Incorporated

As of this post, clothing and personal items have now regained the color blue! This includes all items your character had in their AU plus any regains your character has obtained. However, this does not include physical features.

As a reminder, this month's freebie regain can be earned with one thread on this post with five consecutive comments from you with a new character. We define "new character" as any of the incoming new characters from the application round regardless of TDM tags or any in-game character who your character has not threaded with. Once you have those five comments you may turn in the regain request as usual with "November Freebie" as the explanation (and the thread link).

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.
scythegun: (THOUGHTFUL ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-11-02 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I know we don't always get along, but if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here for you. I may not be able to say anything that will help, but I can at least listen.
matchbreaker: (Depression News)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-11-02 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, in a fight. I'm plenty capable, don't you worry.

But good, then come be the life of it! I'm sure that'll be appreciated.
belligerentwarrior: (Beautiful aren't they?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-11-02 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
i dunno. i could see you with a butterfly, in one of those painted styles. maybe on your shoulder blade.
youraffection: (pic#10015865)

[personal profile] youraffection 2017-11-02 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
dude im not gonna smell it
but theyre in the freezer anyway
tbh im actually surprised my mom hasnt done anything about it...
odapologist: (yagen18)

[personal profile] odapologist 2017-11-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. Like, you don't know the app exists until you actually have it. It the company ever takes it off your devices, then you go back to never knowing it existed, Trust me on that, it happened to my sister and host brother.

I really wish I could answer what is going on, but I'm honestly just paying attention to what older Retrospec users say. We really don't have a good answer because normally, posts from the employees aren't that helpful, unlike this one.
evidentiary: (EXPLAIN ► here's how you suck)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
In that case, I feel like I'm going to have to ask you to contact me with your immediate thoughts upon watching it.

...But I can admire a sense of thoroughness in investigation. After all, I did the same. :)
matchbreaker: (wait that's the wrong lyrics)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-11-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Your reputation is salvaged by attending the party of a middle aged woman? You must be in a strange business.

But no, don't worry, I don't need a gift.
blessmefather: Matt with a neutral expression. (about time I give my icons)

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-11-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well if you believe in the concept of the soul then you feel that it's a very personal part of you. You don't even have to be a religious person for the idea of people in lab coats poking at other people's souls to seem wrong. Violating something that wasn't supposed to be touched so to speak.
youraffection: (pic#10035413)

[personal profile] youraffection 2017-11-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
RIGHT
thats my point!
we cant trust them

oh u mean messing with our wellbeing and minds? yea all the time
evidentiary: (LEAN ► what's up buttercup)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's absolutely fascinating what the human mind can get used to...and perhaps a little worrying, yes.

Still, we haven't even had this application as long as some...I wonder what their views on the matter are?
blondferret: (why)

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
My younger sister Amanda, the one right after me. But also, I just found out my recently adopted younger brother, Noni is also on the app, and my younger cousin Natalie. I don't think you know Natalie, she just moved here from New York, she is living with her brother. Oh dear god, I hope he does't get on the app. He is the type of person who freaks out so bad you just kind of want to... ugh, I don't know how to describe him.
evidentiary: (SMILE ► a rarity)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't most worthwhile things?
youraffection: (counterattack)

[personal profile] youraffection 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
oh it wasnt me who got it
so yeah im sorry 2
and more glad it wasnt me

[personal profile] promisedyou 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Then maybe they're expecting some sort of 'thank you' from us... that is, if I even believed a word of it. They really should be more upfront with this sort of thing instead of just vaguely talking about it like this. Sure, it's more information than before, from what I've heard, but it still brings up a lot of unanswered questions.
feistytrader: (chillin like a. protag.)

[personal profile] feistytrader 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's like real life. Some are fun, some are terrible, and some are sort of boring. Except they don't really make sense until you get more of them.

You also get stuff back like items, hair and eye colors, superpowers...
evidentiary: (EXPLAIN ► here's how you suck)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you might be able to fix that if you play along with what you remember?
chessking: (pic#11622538)

i regret

[personal profile] chessking 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
they're about more than a month late kind of
Edited 2017-11-02 10:33 (UTC)

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
So this is a cyber sexting orgy... I didn't realize.
evidentiary: (WHATEVER ► don't care)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so.
thisloveisjustice: (clueless)

[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
wow. wooooooooooooooooow.

dude. that sucks man.
me_matey: (this one definitely goes out on a censor)

[personal profile] me_matey 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
tru tru and i cant say i wouldnt done u the same
foeyay: (woo blood bath in here)

[personal profile] foeyay 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
you ever seen one in action? a sharp enough blade can shut anybody up! and look super sweet while doing it.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Why are they still in the freezer...?
youraffection: (when to make yourself a hero)

[personal profile] youraffection 2017-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
isnt voodoo about stabbing dolls with needles?
chessking: (pic#11556984)

[personal profile] chessking 2017-11-02 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
hm, the founding families thing? what did the charter say?

you'll have to bring me up to speed on what you know, I've only gotten piecemeal information at best