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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.
lalliho: (peb peb good creb)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
you go over to the computer and the screen lights up. you see:
- an open order form for office supplies
- "MAZE"
- "ADJUST DOOR L"
- "ADJUST DOOR R"
- "RETROSPEC"
- "HOLOGRAM"
- recycling bin

which program would you like to interact with?

> change mind
> inventory
> enter own prompt
androidheart: (04)

[personal profile] androidheart 2017-11-02 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You need to learn to defend yourself, Minato. [A snerk as she retracts her arm.]

It's too bad. It would be pleasant to be able to see you so often...

You're always so busy, whereas I'm just drifting along. [She walks two fingers over her arm to illustrate.]

You have quite a relaxing aura, did you know that?

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
> Open Recycling bin
fiddlestick: (why is this)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-11-02 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
A heron?

[W h y. And yeah, no guesses needed to know which is which]
windeity: (GRIN ♫ to the side)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha.
i have plans saturday but would sunday work? part of sunday is probably going somewhere but the rest of sunday could be yours.
it is a long story i will explain what is going on on sunday on sunday.
blind_badass: (Default)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
So you were actually around for the...differentials in size that occurred? How did everyone cope?
windeity: (UNSURE ♫ about that...)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah. when everything happened in august and split people up, five (i think?) teams were working with members of retrospec to bring everybody back from that unreality place people sometimes talk about.
blind_badass: (amused)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well played.
embraves: (55)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-11-02 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
seriously?
that's messed up
i'm sorry haru
if it's any consolation i would've punched the guy right in the face for you, fog or not

so are you saying that what we saw in the fog is related to our memories?
why were you marrying the guy?


[Cloud saw something too, it just... hasn't triggered as a memory for him, not quite yet.]
lalliho: (flat earth theory)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
you open the recycling bin. you see:
- "EMPLOYEE LIST"
- "LAST FANTASY XIV"

as well as associated files. which program would you like to interact with?

> change mind
> inventory
> enter own prompt
windeity: (CALM ♫ a pleasant boy)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
rereading it i think the basics are there, but it's kind of funny how their priorities are different. on the other hand, joanne and maurice seem to have been the most helpful so far so i guess we should maybe be grateful? idk.
embraves: (17)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-11-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
what kind of things do you remember?
belligerentwarrior: (I'm great you're great everyone's great)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-11-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
awkwardly, poorly or not at all. well, i guess some people managed by hitching rides on their dogs or something.

you'd see a dozen people carrying pizza boxes around and teams of people driving. started really raining around that time and even the smallest flooding was an issue. we found out what its like being a prey species, that's for sure.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
> Restore Last Fantasy XIV
windeity: (GRIN ♫ to the side)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
don't apologize dude! nightmares suck no matter how dumb they are in retrospect.
on the other hand that was a pretty impressive jump so a+.
it looks like they have maybe calmed down on stuff chasing us though. i hope.
lalliho: (that is too close)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[His hackles aren't as up as they would be if this were anyone other than Prompto's brother, but...hrgh. Still up.]

lots of different stuff why
androidheart: (06)

[personal profile] androidheart 2017-11-02 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, would you rather I write you as a swan?
lalliho: (i don't have a gay cousin)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
you restore Last Fantasy XIV. because this is a game I won't make you sit through a long reinstall or patch update time. based on how things are going so far you probably want to play it?
kagepuro: Hey. I made this. (18)

[personal profile] kagepuro 2017-11-02 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
that's suspicious

Do you have a date, johnathan

Do you have a date and are not telling me about it

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.
fiddlestick: (mission begin)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-11-02 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather you didn't write about us at all.
I don't take material from your life.
windeity: (FLOAT ♫ whimsical asshole)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
might not be a bad idea.
and anyway thanksgiving is only on thursday.
maybe you can sneak out for a little while after that.
either that or we are due for another conveniently timed monster attack and that will take care of everything else, but i am hoping for a break to be honest.
blind_badass: (conjecture)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess it's so you don't "mostly" want to cause physical violence to someone.
lalliho: (i get no respect)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
you start playing LFXIV. you are prompted to log in

> log in with existing account filled in the field somehow
> log in using own account
> change mind
> inventory
> enter own prompt

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's something he probably should have learned after living on his own for so many years already, but what doesn't kill him... well, he's no stronger after that poke, but he can take it, watching Angela's fingers as they trek across her arm.

He can't say which is better: being stuck in place as he feels himself to be sometimes, or aimless and free and not knowing what to do with himself if he were in Angela's shoes. ]


Busy and relaxing at the same time is a feat. That's how it is at night, though. Things are quiet, and slower. It's nice.