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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.
embraves: (67)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-11-02 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
retrospec is actually giving information this time
some people are even calling this post helpful

basically, you're stuck with this app and you're going to get memories, weird items, and abilities in the future
notyourutopian: (Reaching Out)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-11-02 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Some.

Did I tell you about the lunatic that runs the place?
blind_badass: (Oh really now)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Can't even begin to describe how this is conveyed to him from text to voice, only that it's...very loud and noticeable.]

Your opinion has been duly noted.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
> Enter Code
blind_badass: (well crap)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
A fresh hell, from what I can tell.
lalliho: (huh that's weird)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
you go to enter the code. what code would you like to enter?

> change mind
> exit left
> exit right
> inventory
> enter own prompt
toobigtohandle: (judging you)

[personal profile] toobigtohandle 2017-11-02 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I fail to see how either could help.

Once more they manage to say confusing things while not really saying much at all and not answering any of the important questions.
notyourutopian: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-11-02 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[There's a delay of a couple minutes as Eleanor starts rummaging through her life before the network. Back when she'd had the time to be so much more political and locally involved and had remembered to do things like her blog and stuff.]

[Eventually a link pops up.]


Here. That's a list of local youth shelters.
The top two are the safer ones, avoid the bottom two they...really aren't.
They'll put you up for the night, assuming you don't show up drunk or high.
(Don't do that.)


[And then another link.]

In the morning, assuming you haven't made up with your parents, call the number on that page.
They can see about helping you in the short term till you can get on your feet.


[There's a pause.]

Oh and uh.
Hi.
I'm Eleanor.

Welcome to Retrospec?
fiddlestick: (FANBOYS)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-11-02 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Most people aren't fellow songwriters trying to make it in the music world!

But fine.
Can I hear the song?

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
> Enter "CODE"
toobigtohandle: (Default)

[personal profile] toobigtohandle 2017-11-02 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Being a sword isn't exactly that great, actually.
coinflipped: (52)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Right now I find you equally annoying on both counts.
coinflipped: (60)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well they're still working for you so they must like you for some reason.
blind_badass: (Oh really now)

[personal profile] blind_badass 2017-11-02 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That isn't science, Zack.

[Please don't make him smack you. He'll do it, too.]
lalliho: (make way for the childlike empress)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
you enter the code "CODE" and for some weird reason that doesn't work. the computer prompts you for another code and the door on the left opens with a scary space noise to reveal what seems to be a monster. it's like a minotaur but wears a shirt that says "RETROSPEC SECURITY" and it wears brass knuckles that probably hurt. exiting left is no longer an option with the monster in the way.

> try another code
> talk minotaur
> fight minotaur
> exit right
> inventory
> enter own prompt
scythegun: (INDIFFERENT ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-11-02 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I am a pretty good boss, if I do say so myself!
coinflipped: (26)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Given everyone is saying the same thing it's really hard to ignore as much as I want to.

[cont here]
Edited 2017-11-02 21:41 (UTC)

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
> Talk to Minotaur
toobigtohandle: (Default)

[personal profile] toobigtohandle 2017-11-02 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds completely unreal. And I would dismiss it except for the actual physical changes.

I've only changed eye color so far, and my... other 'me' had the other eye color from the start.
coinflipped: (7)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel you. It is all rather overwhelming right now.
notyourutopian: Do not take! (Just moving along.)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-11-02 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The more outlandish a lie is the fewer people will believe it so.

Hm. So save their souls and bring them back to life.
A jewel-evanescence team up.
glacian: by ponponpon (❄Better than the warmth of summer)

[personal profile] glacian 2017-11-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Worried? How come?
Did something in specific happen in regards to your memories?
notyourutopian: (Old School)

[personal profile] notyourutopian 2017-11-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't any idea, really.
I mean, maybe this was the best 'saving' they could do.
Though really

They probably should've asked us if we wanted other souls shoved inside us.

Except everyone would've probably said no.
coinflipped: (65)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Call it what you want, I'm just saying how I'm going to deal with it.
But yeah, it is really all a lot.


[cont here
Edited 2017-11-02 21:30 (UTC)
glacian: by ponponpon (❄Better than the warmth of summer)

[personal profile] glacian 2017-11-02 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Then a solemn realization?